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社会与心理调查研究生证书

Knowledge and understanding

On completion of this qualification, you will have knowledge and understanding of:

• 与心理学和社会科学研究相关的关键概念、理论和方法，展示对它们的批判性和先进的理解
• The complex interrelationships between theory and research, and related policy and practice in the field of psychology and social science. These include everyday applications, socio-economic and professional contexts
• The role of power, cultural values, and ethics for practices, concepts and assumptions that influence research and professional practice in psychology and social science.

Cognitive skills

On completion of this qualification, you will be able to:

• Define, critically examine and construct arguments about concepts, theories and evidence in Psychology and Social Science.
• Independently select, interpret, evaluate and use different forms of evidence and methods, with a clear awareness of the strengths and weaknesses of different data
• Interrogate Psychology and Social Science at an advanced level, to enable independent evaluation of evidence, method, research and policy
• Construct sophisticated, and explicitly reasoned arguments about complex real-life scenarios using appropriate concepts, theories and evidence
• Critically and independently review the existing research-policy evidence base in a specific subject area.

Practical and/or professional skills

On completion of this qualification, you will be able to:

• Independently plan, conduct and manage a sequence of work to meet agreed deadlines
• Make effective contributions to group work facilitating the collaborative completion of tasks to solve problems
• Recognize the relevance of reflective, analytic and evaluative skills developed through learning, applying these to other contexts such as the workplace
• Use and reflect on one’s learning to further develop knowledge and understanding, cognitive skills and other key transferable skills to achieve personal and/or career goals.

Key skills

On completion of this qualification, you will be able to:

• Apply self-direction to identify and generate key questions and issues in the field of psychology and social science.
• Develop writing skills appropriate to postgraduate work, including the use and citation of sources, appropriate referencing and the use of different forms of presentation
• Effectively use data of various sorts (numerical, textual), from diverse sources (academic, policy-research, secondary material), and from different media (print, electronic, verbal) in a sophisticated and critical manner
• Develop and display an advanced ability to learn through reflection, feedback and peer-to-peer review, using appropriate scholarly language and applying these to various situations.

To gain this qualification, you need 60 credits from the following:

• Principles of social and psychological inquiry (DD801)

You should note that the University’s unique study rule applies to this qualification. This means that you must include at least 20 credits from OU modules that have not been counted in any other OU qualification that has previously been awarded to you.

Teaching, Learning and Assessment Methods

该模块的教学和学习以应用为重点，面向来自不同本科背景的学生，培养一系列关于犯罪学、社会和法医心理学以及与现实世界相关的案例研究等主题的批判性评价技能。

学习和教学将仅通过虚拟学习环境 (VLE) 在线进行，并通过评分反馈、模块网站和论坛以及导师的直接电子邮件支持（如适用）提供导师和同学支持。论坛将由导师主持。

评估策略旨在提高学生的独立性，从第一次导师评分的作业，到独立案例研究的开展，再到最后的双组分模块末评估。

完成资格认证后，学生将能够管理社会和心理证据。特别是，学生将能够独立获取、选择和审查社会和心理研究，评估其与复杂的现实问题/案例的相关性，评估其有效性，并以有说服力的方式向学术和非学术受众传达他们的研究结果。

研究生证书将直接吸引那些希望提升职业生涯或希望在公共政策、社会公正、管理、广告和营销等所有领域发展事业的现有专业人士。它为所有从事重视研究素养、分析和沟通技巧的职业的人们提供职业发展。