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| Application Deadline: | as early as possible | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 5,256 - ≈ € 13,116 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Canterbury / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 12 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Credits (ECTS): | 60 | ||
| Languages: | English | ||
Location of University of Kent, Canterbury Campus
The MSc in Research Methods in Psychology is a generic research methods programme which, like all our Masters programmes, offers advanced and broad based training in the major methods and statistical techniques in use in Psychology.
The major difference between this and the other programmes is that it offers a wider range of optional modules to allow students to tailor their studies to suit their own particular interests. Thus, modules may be chosen from those on offer in the more specialised programmes and a project undertaken in one of the major research areas of the Department.
The programme offers specific training in statistics and methodology, and you can complement this with a series of optional modules on current issues in theory and research in different areas of psychology, particularly cognitive and social psychology. You also select from optional modules on advanced research in psychology, covering a wide range of topics inclusing cognitive, social and forensic areas of psychology. The training is recognised by the Economic and Social Research Council as a basis for PhD research.
Aims and objectives
* To foster the intellectual development of postgraduate students by providing them with specialised knowledge in order that they should be better equipped to make their own original contribution to psychological knowledge.
* To provide postgraduate students with the statistical and methodological expertise required by research psychologists.
* To develop general research skills and transferable skills as preparation for postgraduate students to enter academic or other careers as research
Contents
These programmes run for one year full-time or two years part-time. They involve lecture-, workshopand seminar-based teaching, as well as an individually supervised empirical research project. The option modules listed are not exhaustive, as new modules may be approved or opened to students by the start of the academic year.
Course content
* Advanced Statistics and Methodology (40 credits)
* Two 20-credit modules from Current Issues in Theory and Research: eg, Current Issues in Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology (two modules); Psychology of Criminal Conduct; Psychology of Law and Justice; Current Issues in Social and Applied Psychology I: Theory; Current Issues in Social and Applied Psychology II: Applications.
* Two 20-credit modules from Advanced Research in Psychology: eg, Advanced Topics in Cognition in Action; Advanced Topics in Intergroup Relations; Advanced Developmental Social Psychology; Forensic Cognition: Theory, Research and Practice.
* Research project (60 credits)
Assessment
Assessment is mainly by coursework assignment (4-6,000-word essays), the project (8-10,000 words) and examination (for the Advanced Statistics and Methodology module only).
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
1. Degree requirement:
You are required to hold a Bachelor´s or Master´s degree with:
a. Adequate level of academic achievement
This is defined as a final degree classification (grade average) with at least a 2.1 or Merit in the UK system, the second highest classification after First/Distinction.
Academic results from institutions in other countries will be assessed individually according to this standard, as institutional practices and marking systems vary.
b. Statistics and research methods training in the social sciences
You must have taken a minimum of one term each in statistics and social science research methods courses (or two terms of a joint statistics and research methods course), and passed these courses, as noted on your degree.
Our Masters´ courses involve a rigorous one-year statistics sequence which you must normally pass in order to receive a degree. The teaching assumes that you are familiar with the following topics before arriving:
1. Means and standard deviations
2. Distributions, hypothesis testing and statistical significance
3. t-tests
4. Correlation coefficients
5. Variables and measurement
2. English language
For students whose degree is from a non-English-speaking institution, you must meet at least one of the following University English language test requirements for postgraduate study:
* 6.5 in the International English Language Test (IELTS) with a minimum of 6.0 in each of the reading and writing categories
* 600 in the paper-based Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)
* 250 in the computer-based TOEFL and a TWE of 4.0
* 90 in the internet-based TOEFL (TOEFL iBT) with a minimum of 20 in writing and reading
* 'C' in the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English
* 'B' in the Cambridge Advanced Certificate in English.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
| TOEFL Paper-based: | 600 |
| TOEFL Computer-based: | 250 |
| TOEFL Internet-based: | 90 |
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