Level 3 Psychology (PSY303)

This Social Science course offers a mixture of three internally and one externally assessed standards from the psychology and legal studies domains.   Psychology is the scientific study of human cognition, emotion, and action.

This course has a human rights focus where students will explore ideologies – what people believe and why and how these shape current events, issues and actions in our world. Students will examine what drives people to take action in response to big issues impact our world.

Themes include:

Crime and Cognition - looking at why people behave the way they do, investigating gun culture.

Research in Psychology - investigating famous cases and looking at how this research has impacted society.

Psychology in the Real World - investigating careers in pschychology and how people's beliefs and bias impact women and minority groups.

This is a University Entrance approved course and there is an opportunity to gain up to 19 credits.  Students can gain up to 15 credits from the psychology domain (two internal assessments and one external assessment) to use this course for University Entrance.  They can also gain 4 credits from a legal studies unit standard.