PSYI 403 (INDEPENDENT STUDY)
HOUR/PER WEEK:1
CREDIT: 1 ECTS: 5
LEVEL /YEAR/SEMESTER: UNDERGRADUATE /3RD OR 4 TH /FALL OR SPRING
PREREQUISITE:COMPLETION PSYC II COURSES & DEPARTMENT APPROVAL
CONTENT
This course is worth 5 ECTS (each credit is equivalent to about three hours of work per week) and
requires a mentor from AGU. The course will be graded with a letter. The following are the expectations
for each of these options: 1 credit (letter D), 2 hours per week commitment, 5-10 page "Study Report" at
the end of the term; 2 credits, 3 hours per week commitment, 5-10 page "Study Report" at the end of the
term; 3 credits, 4 hours per week commitment, 15-20 page "Study Report" at the end of the term; 4
credits, 5 hours per week commitment, 10-15 page "Study Report" at the end of the term; 4 credits, 5
hours per week commitment, 10-15 page "Study Report" 5 credits, 6 hours per week commitment, 15-20
page "Study Report" at the end of the term. The term "Study Report" refers to a document submitted to
the person grading the student, the instructor of record for the section in which the student has
enrolled. If a student is working off-site, the off-site research mentor's input will be used to inform the
grading. The "Study Report" can take several forms, depending on the maturity of the project: progress
reports on data collected, training received, papers read, skills learned, and so on; or organized notes for
lab notebooks, lab meetings, and so on; or manuscript-like papers with Intro, Methods, Results, and
Discussion; or some combination thereof. Ultimately, this will take different forms for different
students/labs.
OBJECTIVE
Participants who complete this course successfully will be able to gain the following learning outcomes,
corresponding to the AGU Psychology Program aims:
- Apply general and specific psychological and basic research knowledge in psychology into various life and research settings independently,
- Acquire basic skills regarding conducting research and on the applications in the lab or everyday life,
- Devising technologies for human well-being, and following global and psychology-specific ethical codes and values in psychological applications and research on the psychology.