Psychology courses for foreign visiting students and enrolment

Steve Draper s.draper@psy.gla.ac.uk ext.4961
How to find my office can be found via the above web page. (Room 524, 58 Hillhead Street)

The enrolment procedure

Further points

• All courses in level 3 and level 4 (except for critical reviews) are now 10 credits each. Level 3 courses generally run for one semester; but level 4 courses run for half a semester only. Bear that in mind when looking at the times/days they run.
• Course descriptions/catalogue The catalogues give only very brief descriptions of courses. Full details, with aims and objectives for each lecture, are in the course handbooks. These are also available as PDF files on the web (see the web address above).
• Room/time changes It is best to check the times and especially the places (rooms) of lectures online just before the first lecture of the course: http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/students/index.php. The handbook goes to press before courses start, and room changes do sometimes occur.
• Two warnings about our course timetables.
  • Level 3 timetable: may be hard for you to understand: lectures do not follow a regular weekly pattern, unlike other courses. The printed timetable shows calendar weeks vs. day/time slots: and to follow a course, you need to scan to find all 13 slots (e.g. "COG1 .. COG13") for a course, spread across 11 weeks or so. However the online timetable has a format available that can show you how the lectures for a given module fall in terms of the normal pattern of weekdays vs. time of day.
  • Level 4 timetable: our level 4 courses run for only half a semester each (5 weeks of 2 hour sessions); so that each course runs either in the first or second half of the semester.
• Psychology portal (VLE) You are likely to find useful downloads such as slides from lectures, and other material, on the department/school "portal" (effectively, a Virtual Learning Environment). This is at: portal.psy.gla.ac.uk. You will need a password that works on it, and this will be emailed to you. (Your login name on the portal is your student ID number with an appended letter from your name?) I hope this will be arranged automatically for you, but if not don't hesitate to follow the instructions on its home page to send an email to get someone to fix it for you.
• Emails and other announcements to the class e.g. about the reading party, registration classes, etc., frequently do not apply to visiting students, only to those majoring exclusively in psychology. Staff making such announcements do not remember that there are a few other students to consider.
• Email list for visiting students You should be entered (automatically, perhaps after a delay) on an email list for visiting students doing one or more courses in psychology. If you want to contact other students like this you could email directly to these lists:
  "foreignL3 AT psy.gla.ac.uk" for those doing at least one level 3 course.
  "foreignL4 AT psy.gla.ac.uk" for those doing at least one level 4 course.
  More information on these lists