Bachelor in Psychology (class 2006 - 09)

The first academic year consists of the courses Examen Philosophicum (10 credits), Introduction to general psychology and the history of psychology (20 credits), Examen Facultatum (10 credits), The methodology of psychology (10 credits) and Social psychology (10 credits).

In the autumn semester of the second academic year, the students must choose one of three specialisations of 15 credits (see details below). In addition, the students should choose a minor subject (15 credits). In the spring semester, the students must take the course Method II (15 credits) and a minor subject (15 credits). LillehammerUniversityCollege currently offers minor subjects within sociology and organisation and management. It is also possible to choose an alternative specialisation course 1 as minor subject (see the table).

In the autumn semester of the third academic year, the students can choose to take a so-called “psychology package”. This consists of the courses Biological psychology (10 credits), Cognitive psychology (10 credits) and Personality psychology (10 credits). It is also possible to take optional courses this semester. In the spring semester, the students must take the course Abnormal psychology. In addition, the students must continue with one of the specialisation courses (10 credits). Furthermore, the students must hand in a Bachelor’s thesis (10 credits) during the spring semester.

Higher Education Entrance Qualification or prior learning and work experience. Students who have taken Examen Philosophicum (Ex.Phil.) and/or Examen Facultatum (Ex.Fac.) may be approved.

Lillehammer University College offers two specialisations in the Bachelor’s degree programme.

• Family and developmental psychology
• Work and organisation psychology

Lectures: Oral presentation of the course material by the teacher in plenary. The lectures may be concentrated to a few days or be distributed on several weeks. There may be exercises, group discussions etc. in relation to the lectures.

Group teaching: This may be in the form of seminars, a dialogical review of the course material where both the teacher and the group are partly responsible for the learning process, or presentations and group discussions of the students’ written work where the teacher has a particular responsibility as supervisor. The group teaching may be distributed on the whole semester or concentrated to periods.

Project work: Minor written work based on self-elected topic within each module. The students work on this during the whole semester and hand it in at fixed deadlines. The course teacher will specify more closely the formal composition and structure of the work. Approved project work is an examination requirement (portfolio; see form of examination).

Supervision from course teacher: The teacher will supervise students individually or in groups. This will primarily be on written work and exercises.

Supervision from students: Students supervise fellow students. This is part of the project work process.

Web-based teaching: Teaching provided via the Internet. The Classfronter system has been introduced as a teaching platform at LillehammerUniversityCollege, and each semester all students will be offered training in the use of it. There will also be individual supervision/training upon request. The web-based teaching will comprise lectures (notes, pictures, illustrations etc.), supervision from teacher individually and in groups (electronic classroom), discussion forums, knowledge tests that are available on the Internet and several other course-related material available in Classfronter.

Written day examination with objective tests, written day examination with multiple choice test, project work.

The written day examination, objective or multiple choice test, will be graded. Project assignments, essays (home examination; portfolio) will be evaluated as passed/failed. The evaluation methods may vary from one course to another.

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