Hi! Perhaps it’s my yearly january career crisis?! But thinking of doing a conversion course in psychology, I currently work as a music teacher and love it but have always been interested in psychology, did A level, then 2 psych modules at uni including research based one and my final major dissertation was very psychology based as it was about autism and music, so I read a lot of psychology articles! Also did maths a level with statistics module although I can’t remember anything about that! I was thinking of then applying for clinical psychology doctorate at Newcastle (I know extremely competitive!!). I just bought a house in Newcastle so I’m pretty tied to the area, so was looking into Northumbria uni for the course. Was thinking it looked really good , BPS credited, can do it part time with just one lectured day per week while still working, and obviously very handy geographically for me but then reading some places it keeps getting put down! Im not really bothered about the prestige as long as the course is well taught and it won’t put me at a disadvantage when applying for doctorates. (Also read somewhere that for conversion courses it doesn’t matter too much about reputation? But obviously it matters that the course is well organised and well taught!) My first degree was a 1st from Durham in music.
If anyone has done this course I’d be really grateful for any advice, or if anyone has any useful info about Northumbria.
I also really want to get some books to start reading to check I’m actually interested before paying ££££s course fees :’( so if anyone has recommendations/ reading lists I’d be super grateful!! Thanks in advance!!
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Christmascookiesmmmm · 12/01/2020 19:53
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