Psychology (Conversion) Dublin City University

Overview

During Dublin City University 's Psychology (Conversion) course, you’ll delve deeper into the six pillars of psychology: biological bases of behaviour, developmental and lifespan psychology, cognitive psychology, social psychology, personality and individual difference, and research design and methods. You’ll also work on a supervised research project across all three trimesters.

Key Facts

Benefit from individual supportWith just 20 places available, the small class size offers more tailored learning and access to individual support. This extremely popular programme is open to graduates with 60 European Credit Transfer System credits in psychology and research, which is equivalent to about one-year full-time related study.

Most students on this course aim to pursue a career as a psychologist, and you'll graduate with the knowledge and skill set for roles like counselling psychologist or assistant psychologist. .  assistant psychologist, and gain the qualification necessary to pursue further professional study in psychology (e.g. in clinical, counselling or other applied areas). Once you graduate, however, you’ll have a wide range of transferable skills you could use in  research, data analysis, health promotion or academia. 

Careers

This course has been designed to enable graduates to seek membership of the Psychological Society of Ireland upon completion. Such membership is a prerequisite or further study in psychology, including clinical and applied areas. Graduates from this course who wish to pursue further study in psychology as a discipline can go on to specialise with either Master’s and Doctorate qualifications in counselling, clinical psychology, forensic psychology, educational psychology, research and a range of other specialist areas in psychology.Most students study psychology because they aim to pursue a career as a psychologist. However, others choose to study psychology because it offers a broad training in a behavioural science, it develops a wide range of valued transferable skills and it can be used as a stepping-stone into several other careers.