Graduate Diploma in Psychology (Advanced) (GDA-PSYCH) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

Intended learning outcomes

The objective of the fourth year program is to help students to acquire the knowledge, skills, and scholarship necessary for achieving excellence in psychology. More specifically, the fourth year program is designed to provide students with the opportunities to learn the intellectual background, ethical principles, and content areas of psychology as a scientific discipline.

• Critically analysing the existing knowledge about a research topic prior to one's own research (e.g. conceptual analysis of relevant content/area/literature/intervention program etc., critical appraisal of one's own and others's research, generation of productive research questions).
• Constructing research plan (e.g. research design, methods of observation) to address one's research question.
• Executing one's research plan adequately to obtain data.
• Analysing the data to address the research question appropriately.
• Discussing the implications of the results coherently within the context of the existing knowledge relevant to the research topic.

Graduate attributes