Examination arrangement

Course content

Students can choose to gather experience in working life during the third semester. The internship can be anything that is considered a relevant place of work as a person educated in psychology (internship can be in a research institute, school, municipality, company, public sector, NGO, etc.), but must be limited to specific tasks or outcomes. The students themselves are responsible for getting internships. Practical training periods last eight weeks (two months) and the students themselves agree on how many weekdays are spent at the research institute, company, or enterprise during the internship. Internships and assignments must be approved by academic personnel at the department.

The students will participate in a start-up meeting where information is provided about the arrangements for the practical training period and possible assignments and internship places. The students will participate in an experience exchange seminar during the semester where the learning process, goals, and achievements will be discussed.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

The students have knowledge of how to apply theory and empirical research from different fields in psychology to working life.

Skills:

Students can critically analyze practical problems in work environments and apply psychological knowledge to solve them.

Competence:

Students can analyze practical challenges and handle them with input from a psychological perspective. Students can take responsibility for creating their own internship and communicating psychological knowledge with colleagues outside the subject. Students can systematize and reflect critically on their internship experience and highlight both their achievements and further areas of development.

Learning methods and activities

Seminars and information meeting.

Compulsory assignments

• Participation in the information meeting
• Mandatory attendance at the institution for an agreed period
• Mandatory attendance at seminar

Further on evaluation

Students will write a reflection report at the end of the practical training period. The reflection report should describe the problem or subject that the student has worked on,and should be linked to relevant psychological theories and empirical examples. The obligatory activities must be approved before the assignment. The reflection report is finally exam paper.

Specific conditions

Required previous knowledge

Følgende emner må være bestått:

• PSY3120 - Central perspectives within modern psychology
• PSY3121 - Research and project development
• PSY3122 - Individual and Society
• PSY3123 - Brain and cognition