Where's best? (1 Viewer)

starlitwonder

Member
Joined
May 24, 2005
Messages
39
Gender
Female
HSC
2006
I want to do an Arts/ Psychology degree at uni, with a minor in either french or italian. does anybody know/ reccomend the best university to do this at?
 

phrred

Member
Joined
Aug 1, 2004
Messages
556
Gender
Male
HSC
2004
Macq and UNSW have very good psych departments

Usyd has a very good arts dept but their psych is average
 

starlitwonder

Member
Joined
May 24, 2005
Messages
39
Gender
Female
HSC
2006
Thanks - I've been told that for psych at UNSW you need sciences. I don't particularly want to do a science based course. I probably should have clarified that. I hadn't thought of Macquarie though, thanks
 

kami

An iron homily
Joined
Nov 28, 2004
Messages
4,265
Gender
Male
HSC
N/A
From what I've heard MQ, UWS, and UNSW all have very good psych depts. Also, both MQ and UWS have B Arts(Psychology) which would be right up your alley and both MQ and UWS have NAADI accredited language subjects(apparently..)

However there is one other factor that must be remembered: if you wish to be a psychologist, and not just study it as part of your degree then you must do the 4 year BPsych or similar which involves science no matter where you study your degree.
 

Lundy

Banned
Joined
Sep 2, 2003
Messages
2,512
Location
pepperland
Gender
Female
HSC
2003
starlitwonder said:
Thanks - I've been told that for psych at UNSW you need sciences. I don't particularly want to do a science based course. I probably should have clarified that. I hadn't thought of Macquarie though, thanks
At UNSW psych is considered a science, hence it's part of the science faculty.
 

nemuca

Ultimate Bludger!!
Joined
Dec 2, 2003
Messages
56
Location
Sydney
Gender
Undisclosed
HSC
2005
You can do psychology as a second major in an arts degree at usyd

or you can do a liberal studies degree (which is what I'm doing), which combines an arts major with a science major, and if you take psychology as your science major, the only extra bit of science you need to do is one semester of maths (which is only the degree requirement and not a prerequisite of any of the psychology units)
 

AsyLum

Premium Member
Joined
Nov 13, 2002
Messages
15,899
Gender
Undisclosed
HSC
N/A
http://www.handbook.mq.edu.au/programofstudy.php?edition=2006&code=PSYC02

B Arts-Psychology. If you have specific questions on the actual psych component, do a search in the Macquarie forums.

As for the langauges, MQ lets you take any language in basically any degree, as long as you can handle it in your workload.

http://www.handbook.mq.edu.au/unitcodeprefix.php?edition=2006&ulevel=ug&unitCodePrefix=FRN

For French.

http://www.handbook.mq.edu.au/unitcodeprefix.php?edition=2006&ulevel=ug&unitCodePrefix=ITL

For Italian.
 

Skillo

is in a theatre near you
Joined
Dec 19, 2003
Messages
947
Location
In my blue-light backstage hovel, the theatre.
Gender
Female
HSC
2004
fleepbasding said:
haha, back to floggin' melbourne uni are we?

edit: you doing any language at melb uni?
I love my uni...hehehehe.

I am not doing any languages at Melb Uni, I can't (look at my degree in the sig), but my sister did languages there. Italian...and I think Russian...can't remember.
 

stine

New Member
Joined
Mar 3, 2005
Messages
22
Gender
Female
HSC
2005
Like nemuca, I'm doing liberal studies at USYD and I'm doing psychology as my science major. I'm not particularly maths/science oriented either and so I've chosen a general statistics unit of study as my compulsory semester of maths - it's designed for arts students!

Also, liberal studies requires you to study a language for two years and so that fits perfectly with your choice to study french or italian. I'm doing advanced italian as my language, but you could do both french and italian if you wish because one of them could be your arts major and the other your "compulsory" language unit of study.

Lastly, if you choose to do two majors (you can do three) there will be spare units here and there in 2nd year and onwards for you to pursue any other interests you wish to dabble in..e.g begin another language, history, philosophy etc.

PM me if you're interested in hearing how the course is once I've started on monday :)
 

marchetta

shut up and do me
Joined
Feb 5, 2004
Messages
664
Location
Somewhere over the rainbow
Gender
Female
HSC
2004
I just looked in the good universities guide, and according to graduates, Macquarie is the best uni to do psyche/arts degree. I actually heard most of the tutors at mq are quite good too, so yeh, i would recommend u to study there...
 
Last edited:

ManlyChief

Member
Joined
Aug 23, 2005
Messages
438
Location
Manly: 7 miles from Sydney, 1000 miles from care
Gender
Male
HSC
2002
I think you should do psychology at USyd because the student population affords such a plethora of potential subjects for analysis. You never know, in converstion with a USyd student when I WANT TO SLEEP WITH MY MOTHER he will make a tell-tale Freudian slip ... Analyse that.

Hugs and a little pat on the bum from the Northern Beaches,
- Manly Chief :)
 

ahen

Sexy Member
Joined
May 28, 2006
Messages
590
Location
Australia
Gender
Female
HSC
2007
i want to do arts/psych too, i'm surprised that USYD apparently doesn't have very good psych facilities i mean, the UAI is so bloody high you'd think you were getting some sort of grand education or something *grumbles about extremely high UAIs*
 

Users Who Are Viewing This Thread (Users: 0, Guests: 1)

Top