Dr Broadbent: The School of Psychology at
Deakin is one of the largest in Australia.
So this means that we have a range of expertise,
and it's actually a real benefit to you because
it means that we can cater to just about everybody's
personal interests surrounding their psychology
degree. So we have people who are experts
in addiction, in forensic psychology, in child
development, in reproductive health, in eating
disorders, in body image, in cog neuro. I
don't know if you've been on the lab tour,
but we have one of the best cog neuro labs
in Australia, so if you are interested in
neuro psychology, it's definitely the place
to be.
Dr Hyde: And if you feel like you need a little
bit of extra assistance outside of the resources
you are getting within your unit, I have a
number of programs available. We've got the
peer assisted study programs, so for most
of the units that we run, we have ex-students
that will come in and meet with current students
in the sort of group format and discuss unit
content, practise exam questions, study techniques,
these sort of things. These assistance programs
don't just stop in first year, they're there
in first, second and third years. So they're
there throughout your undergraduate degree.
And indeed, if you go on and do your honours
and post-grad, all these systems are still
there for you.
Dr Broadbent: And the one thing that I really
love about our program is we've spend a lot
of time thinking about, "Okay, how do we get
students when they exit at three or four years
to make sure that they are work ready? That
actually they're going to be okay with their
psych degree." And we have built in to our
course two really important, I think important,
units that specifically target those skills.
So these two units are in second, and then
you do another one in third year. And the
units are actually all about, "Okay, how does
psychology apply in the workplace? How are
the skills that I've learnt in my undergraduate
degree going to be applicable, and what jobs
can I get?" So you do really practical skills
like learning how to actually identify a job
that would fit with the content, and information,
and the skill set that you have developed
over the last years.
Dr Hyde: We're now able to make our university
learning resources available to a much wider
variety of individuals, to the extent that
we can now tailor your learning experiences
to your strengths, your weaknesses, and your
preferences.
Dr Broadbent: And Deakin five years in a row
has been number one in terms of students'
satisfaction, in terms of the learning experience
that they have had at our university. So this
means that for five years in a row, we have
had higher students' satisfaction than Monash,
or Melbourne, or La Trobe, or any of the other
universities.
