Why study Psychology transcript

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Psychology as a subject area is fascinating and has many applications to everyday life. If you're interested in learning more about the thoughts the motivations and the processes behind human behaviour, then studying psychology will allow you to delve into deeper this relationship of behaviour and the mind.

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I love my lecturers quite for some really you know, a lot of reasons - they are really genuinely lovely people, they're all really friendly and you build such a great relationship with them across the three years. You don't feel like you're chatting to a teacher like you do in school, it's very much that you're you're chatting to a professional but you're sort of chatting to someone that's very easy to talk to and is very friendly and will do their utmost to help you out.

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So studying psychology will equip you with key transferable skills which are highly sought after in the world of work. So for example, the ability to reflect on your own development, the ability to communicate a wide range of audiences, critical thinking and be confident in data analysis.

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I think that's the one thing that's perfect about the psychology course here is you're completely prepared for your future.

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Our students are given many opportunities to network and also to have a work-based placement in the final year.

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I've managed to gain three different work experience placements that I'm hoping to be able to use in my future, I've gained experience, I'm working at Southampton general hospital as an ward compassion volunteer on their cancer ward, which has been so rewarding and has been amazing. I'm also a crisis text volunteer, through the crisis service, which has been the most rewarding job I could ever have wished for it's been amazing and I've also worked with the cancer charity.

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So there are five courses you can study here at Solent. All five are accredited with our professional standard body which is the British Psychological Society. The first degree is a core psychology degree, the second is counselling with mental health then we've got three, what we call, joint honours degrees with criminology, sociology and sports and exercise.

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The whole course is designed to apply your degree to real life situations. For every single piece of work we do, we learn the knowledge and we use that knowledge to apply it.

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We have a great range of specialist facilities solely for the use of our students. So we have research areas, research rooms where our undergraduate students can carry out their research projects, interviews and so forth. We have an experimental laboratory, we have an observational suite.

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Being a Solent student means that you're listened to. The university feels like it's directly aimed at what students need out of their degree.

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