Meet the Committee

PsychSoc’s Camp is a welcome into university life and a chance to meet your psychology cohort!

As a first-year, it is an amazing opportunity to meet new friends and find the people you will traverse university with! You will get to know each other through team activities, challenges and socialising packed into 3 days of fun! This year’s camp will be from March 4th to March 6th (Week 3).

First-year exclusive tickets will be on sale during O-Week! You can either grab them at the PsychSoc O-Week stall or head online to the PsychSoc Camp Facebook event page.

If you miss out on the first round, do not worry! More sales will also be open on the PsychSoc Camp Facebook event page so make sure to click ‘interested’ or ‘going’ to get updates on when those get released.

Source: Jun Nguyen

“As a first year, I went to the PsychSoc Camp 2021 by myself without knowing anyone. Being someone who is quite awkward most of the time, I have actually never felt more comfortable in such foreign territory. The people I have met in the camp have become some of my greatest uni friends now and I couldn’t have asked for a better kickstart to my university experience. Even if it’s a bit scary, take the leap of faith and come out of your comfort zone because it will be 100% worth it!”

Source: in haa lg oa ls. n l

“Attending PsychSoc Camp in my first term on a whim ended up being one of my favourite experiences in first year. Though I was incredibly intimidated at first since I didn’t have a group of friends to go with and didn’t know what to expect, I ended up having so much fun and meeting friends that I’ve kept to this day. If you’re unsure how to meet new people in your first term, I would highly recommend coming to camp!”

Core courses are compulsory courses within a program that all students completing a psychology major must enrol in and satisfactorily complete to meet the requirements of their program.

The core courses at Level 1 are considered prerequisite knowledge for courses at Level 2.

PSYC1001: Psychology 1A PSYC1011: Psychology 1B PSYC1111: Measuring Mind & Behaviour

Source: Jun Ng u y en

PSYC2001: Research Methods 2 PSYC2061: Social & Developmental Psychology PSYC2071: Perception & Cognition PSYC2081: Learning & Physiological Psychology PSYC2101: Assessment, Personality & Psychopathology 03 03 *Please refer to the handbook for your specific program.

PSYC3001: Research Methods 3 PSYC3011: Research & Applications of Psychology

PSYC3051, PSYC3211, PSYC3221, PSYC3241, PSYC3311, PSYC3371

PSYC3121, PSYC3202, PSYC3301, PSYC3331, PSYC3341, PSYC3361

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There are additional courses from the School of Psychology that you may wish to enrol in to further gauge your interest. These can be taken as free electives.

The following elective course reviews have been written by psychology students who have completed the respective elective.

Unincluded course review:

Psychology of Human-Centred Design

“This course is for those who are interested in clinical psychology. You’ll learn a range of mental disorders alongside a textbook to further enhance your understanding. The lectures are very creative and relaxing to watch.”

“This is a brilliant course for a neuropsych enthusiast! The lectures could be a bit content-heavy, and I would say it required moderate effort, but overall, it’s a great course to take if you are interested in learning about various drugs and neural mechanisms.”

Source: Quinn KK

“This was a pretty chill and enjoyable course. It’s designed for non-psychology students so the content is less complex. When I did it, there weren’t long ‘lectures’ with slides, the course convenor would upload ~15 minute videos discussing the content.”

Source : Q ui nn KK

Source: ÜNIQE

“This couse is similar to human resource management courses taken at UNSW Business School. The lectures in this course are the length of core course lectures and there are a lot of notes to be taken. In terms of assessments, the final exam was based directly off the lecture content and the portfolio was relatively easy to complete.”

Source: Antonay

“This course covers a broad range of interesting topics ranging from the evolution of reproduction to the neurochemistry of love. The content is definitely very interesting, so be ready to learn a few ‘fun’ facts to tell your friends!”

Source: inhaalgoals.nl

“I loved it! The content was super interesting and delivered in a variety of ways (lectures, readings, audio clips, etc.). The assessments were also really fun and allowed a lot of freedom; you could choose your own topic, case studies, trials to observe etc.”

Sou rce : Antonay

S ource: Antonay

This course has two names but the content is exactly the same. You are only required to do one or the other if you wish to take this course.

Source: ÜNIQE

“This course was very interesting but similar to PSYC1021. It is one of the most practical and useful courses I have taken, and the workload is not too heavy! Dr. Sue Morris really cares about education and making a true impact on wellbeing.”

Source: Antonay

SONA is an integral part of the first year experience, where you will be offered a range of experiments to participate in.

It functions as a web-based facility for students to earn mandatory (and bonus!) research participation course marks.

Experiments are typically run by 4th year Psychology Honours students and School of Psychology researchers.

Your login information will be emailed to you through your UNSW student email early in T1 with the link to the SONA website.

Most courses require 4 hours of SONA participation for the mandatory marks and an additional 8 hours for bonus course marks. For further details, consult the 2022 Course Outlines for each core psychology course (see the course Moodle page).

It is a good idea to complete your research hours earlier in the term when there are more studies available there may be fewer studies available at the end of term, especially if people are scrambling to finish their compulsory hours.

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