Understanding Personality and Intelligence
Classes
Thursday 01 May - Thursday 10 July 2025, 6pm-9pm
11 sessions - Check class timetable
Thursday 01 May - Thursday 10 July 2025, 6pm-9pm
11 sessions - Check class timetable
Thursday 01 May - Thursday 10 July 2025, 2pm-5pm
11 sessions - Check class timetable
Thursday 01 May - Thursday 10 July 2025, 2pm-5pm
11 sessions - Check class timetable
Overview
This Understanding Personality and Intelligence short course will introduce you to those aspects of individual differences that tend to be of interest to psychology students: intelligence, motivation, personality and models of psychopathology. You will explore the degree to which these matter to an individual's life, opportunities and successes. You will be encouraged to question the impact culture might have in shaping concepts of mental health.
The course will also encourage you to explore the relevance of each of the topics to your studying practices.
We will cover the following:
- Does intelligence matter at university?
- How much does motivation affect learning at university?
- What is personality and how does it affect your learning?
- Anxiety, the role of the environment and its impact on learning
- Depression, the role of the environment and its impact on learning
- What is 'normal'?
- Models of psychopathology
- Critical issues in diagnoses, classification and treatment
- What impact does culture have on the way in which we understand individual differences?
- Critiquing theories of learning styles
There may be multiple instances of the class starting on the same date and at the same time. This allows us to offer additional places and you can enrol on any that have availability.
Assessment is via a 10-minute presentation (40%) and in-class written essay (60%).
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Entry requirements
Entry requirements
Most of our short courses have no formal entry requirements and are open to all students.
This short course has no prerequisites.
As part of the enrolment process, you may be required to submit a copy of a suitable form of ID.
International students who wish to come to the UK to study a short course can apply for a Visitor visa. Please note that it is not possible to obtain a Student visa to study a short course.
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How to apply
How to apply
You register directly onto the classes you would like to take. Classes are filled on a first-come, first-served basis - so apply early. If you wish to take more than one short course, you can select each one separately and then register onto them together via our online application portal. There is usually no formal selection process, although some modules may have prerequisites and/or other requirements, which will be specified where relevant.