My sister studies BSc Psychology at an ‘ok’ London uni, 2nd year. It is a BPS accredited course.
She says that she’s starting to feel like psychology is a pointless degree, and she regrets her course choice. She wanted to study it as she sat A level psychology and loved it, and it’s a broad field that she could go from marketing to HR to counselling in as she didn’t have a career field in mind.
She hates it because her tutors have chosen all mental health disorder optional modules: with psychology you need to sit specific modules for BPS accreditation, and the few others are the university’s choice. Her uni has chosen ALL mental health optional modules rather than other fields of psychology eg social, cognitive, forensic etc. She isn’t enjoying this as a lot of the content is included in the BPS modules, it’s overbearing. Her university has a massive emphasis on group work and video submissions rather than essays/literature reviews too, which she isn’t enjoying as her group peers don’t take assignments seriously. Her HOD is very informal and spends a lot of time in lectures discussing her children/personal life so again, she feels like lectures are pointless
Her uni isn’t great (it’s more of a party/social/‘bants’ university) so she feels like future employers will judge her both on having a ‘shit degree, from a shit uni’. I don’t know what to suggest - do you think Psychology is a pointless degree? Not sure whether to tell her to stick it out and do a masters in a different field, transfer universities or to change her degree.