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theladyroseTchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty ballet is my aural version of crack.
the Man from UNCLE has become my audiovisual version of crack. Must find a way to hold out until 2007 DVD release.
Must go off and prepare some more for the high school reunion taking place in our house tomorrow.
This entry is pretty much gibberish. I have become incapable of writing real entries as of post-graduation. The rest of it us personal gibberish but as there's nothing confidential I'm not bothering to lock any of it.
This so makes up for my probable lack of ability to study abroad at USC. Vague future plans of pursuing a master's degree in the UK, but who knows what will happen. Yay for the UK actually having I/O psych programs!
From the USC Alumni Club of London's Relocating to the UK site
BENEFITS TO STUDYING IN THE UK
* British law now allows those on student visas to live and work in the UK (US student visas do not allow employment of any kind). You can work while going to school.
* British master's degrees are, in most cases, only one year in length (bachelor's degrees are only three years; PhDs have no coursework, just a dissertation).
* You will have access to the University's career centre, which will have options of employment not open to members of the general public.
* When you graduate, you will have your pick of top London jobs and a master's degree in the process. Subsequently, you will be able to work anywhere in Europe with relative ease.
* Having one degree from a top American university and another from a top British university will benefit you for a lifetime throughout the world, especially in Europe.
* Generally speaking, the top British universities require American applicants for graduate degrees to have a minimum GPA of 3.0 from an accredited American university and a GRE score of 1,000 (on a 1,600 scale) and likewise for other standardized test scores (GMAT, MCAT, etc.). Some schools do not even require standardized test scores; they just want your transcript, application, essay, résumé (CV) and two letters of recommendation.
* American citizens are eligible to receive full US financial aid and scholarships at the University of London.
* Since there are no private universities in the UK, the cost of attendance is usually less than half that of USC (sometimes even one-fifth the cost).
If you apply to any of the colleges or schools of the University of London, you usually get a response within six weeks and, upon acceptance, you get all the paperwork for a UK visa. Again, British law allows those on student visas to live and work in the UK, and a British master's degree is, in almost all cases, only one year in length (September to September).
Programs of Personal Interest
King's College London MSc Organization Psychology (Mental Health Studies)
Also: Courses/Programme Curriculum
Programme description:
In recent years there has been national and international recognition of the significant increase in stress-related occupational ill health and mental health problems in the workplace and their detrimental effects on organisational functioning and productivity and on individual health and well-being. Students on this course typically include occupational health professionals, human resources managers, organisational consultants and psychology graduates wishing to enter these occupations. The course draws on psychological, psychiatric and organisational theory and evidence bases to examine the causes, effects and consequences of mental ill health in the workplace and to consider strategies and interventions to improve organisational and individual mental health. Students are encouraged to develop a critical awareness of contemporary issues and problems in relation to mental health at work at individual, interpersonal, organisational and policy levels.
Units:
* Basic Mental Health Unit
* Research: Principles & Methods
* Mental Health in the Workplace Unit I
* Mental Health in the Workplace Unit II
* Dissertation
The core OPP units (I and II) cover the following areas:
* Overview of mental health and health problems in the workplace: history, trends & prevalence
* Their effects on individuals, organisations & public health
* National and international policy responses
* Psychology, Psychiatry and the workplace
* Occupational ill health, including the interface between physical and mental health problems
* Common mental health problems in the workplace
* The psychology and physiology of stress
* Models of stress & coping
* Stress-related ill health
* Occupational stress & its manifestations
* Individual factors of risk and resilience, including motivation, personality & emotional intelligence; coping skills.
* Interpersonal factors, including group processes; leadership; conflict.
* Organisational factors which exacerbate & buffer the effects of stress, including organisational structure, change & culture; managerial style
* Contemporary policy in relation to mental health in the workplace
* Mental health & employability
* Individual and organisational interventions to improve mental health in the workplace
Duration of program: 1 year full time, 2 years part time
Cost of attendance:
PT Overseas: £6750 (2006 provisional); FT Overseas: £13500 (2006 provisional)
Programme format and assessment:
Teaching Methods: Lectures, group work, discussions, videos, case analyses.
Assessment: Essays, written and oral examinations, research dissertation.
London School of Economics MSc Organisational and Social Psychology
Program Qualifications: We will consider applicants with a good first degree in any discipline and a considered interest in the area covered by the MScs.
No application deadline! Submist at earliest opportunity: Applications open on 17 October 2005. Departments will begin to consider these applications from 14 November.
Applying: http://lse.ac.uk/resources/graduateProspectus2006/entryRequirementsAndApplicationProcess/howToApply.htm
General graduate programmes admission info: http://lse.ac.uk/resources/graduateProspectus2006/
Studying at LSE:
* A high quality academic training addressing the social psychology of organisations and providing multidisciplinary coverage of organisational contexts, processes and cases.
* A unique approach emphasising the development of analytical skills and the integration of theory and practice for creative and transformative work in organisations.
* The opportunity to study in an internationally renowned centre for the subject, situated in the only UK institution solely devoted to the social sciences, in a thriving research community which was (together with the Department of Sociology) awarded a 5 in the last national Research Assessment Exercise.
* An exciting group of international students with a diversity of academic, professional and cultural backgrounds. Recent graduates have gained employment worldwide in consultancy, international enterprises and firms, banks, government, NGOs, or have gone on to obtain PhDs and pursue an academic career.
* A wide range of choice in optional courses within the Institute and the School so that you can deepen or widen your expertise, and take up the advanced study of particular aspects of organisations.
Courses:
Compulsory courses:
(* half unit)
* Organisational Social Psychology
* Methods of Research and Quantitative Analysis (half unit for Standard, one unit for Research)
* Modern Social Psychology* +
* Research report of between 10,000 and 15,000 words on a topic approved by your supervisor.
+ Students who have graduated from a degree programme with a substantial social psychology component may be exempt from taking Modern Social Psychology, substituting a half unit course from the list of options below.
Electives:
Choose to the value of one unit:
* Organisational and Social Decision Making*
* Social Representations*
* The Social Psychology of Economic Life*
* Psychology of Gender*
* Social Psychology of Health*
* Issues in Social Psychology: Evolutionary Social Psychology*
* Knowledge Processes in Organisations*
* Science, Technology and Resistance*
* Corporate Communications*
* Representations, Institutions and Communities*
* The Social Psychology of the Media*
* Issues in Organisational and Social Psychology: Organisational Life*
* Cognition and Culture*
* Social Psychology of Racism, Multiculture and Resistance*
Duration of program: 1 year full time, 2 years part time
Estimated tuition cost: £12,438 (More info here)
Living Cost: £1,000 per month (More Living Cost info)
Pros and Cons:
KCL:
Pros: curriculum=exactly what I'm looking for, feels more personal? less competitive
Cons: more expensive, less flexibility, less recognition in the US
LSE:
Pros: Greater name recognition/prestige, greater chance of carry over into the US, less expensive, more elective flexibility, greater career networking
Cons: More difficult to get into, social psych core may repeat material I already cover at USC
the Man from UNCLE has become my audiovisual version of crack. Must find a way to hold out until 2007 DVD release.
Must go off and prepare some more for the high school reunion taking place in our house tomorrow.
This entry is pretty much gibberish. I have become incapable of writing real entries as of post-graduation. The rest of it us personal gibberish but as there's nothing confidential I'm not bothering to lock any of it.
This so makes up for my probable lack of ability to study abroad at USC. Vague future plans of pursuing a master's degree in the UK, but who knows what will happen. Yay for the UK actually having I/O psych programs!
From the USC Alumni Club of London's Relocating to the UK site
BENEFITS TO STUDYING IN THE UK
* British law now allows those on student visas to live and work in the UK (US student visas do not allow employment of any kind). You can work while going to school.
* British master's degrees are, in most cases, only one year in length (bachelor's degrees are only three years; PhDs have no coursework, just a dissertation).
* You will have access to the University's career centre, which will have options of employment not open to members of the general public.
* When you graduate, you will have your pick of top London jobs and a master's degree in the process. Subsequently, you will be able to work anywhere in Europe with relative ease.
* Having one degree from a top American university and another from a top British university will benefit you for a lifetime throughout the world, especially in Europe.
* Generally speaking, the top British universities require American applicants for graduate degrees to have a minimum GPA of 3.0 from an accredited American university and a GRE score of 1,000 (on a 1,600 scale) and likewise for other standardized test scores (GMAT, MCAT, etc.). Some schools do not even require standardized test scores; they just want your transcript, application, essay, résumé (CV) and two letters of recommendation.
* American citizens are eligible to receive full US financial aid and scholarships at the University of London.
* Since there are no private universities in the UK, the cost of attendance is usually less than half that of USC (sometimes even one-fifth the cost).
If you apply to any of the colleges or schools of the University of London, you usually get a response within six weeks and, upon acceptance, you get all the paperwork for a UK visa. Again, British law allows those on student visas to live and work in the UK, and a British master's degree is, in almost all cases, only one year in length (September to September).
King's College London MSc Organization Psychology (Mental Health Studies)
Also: Courses/Programme Curriculum
Programme description:
In recent years there has been national and international recognition of the significant increase in stress-related occupational ill health and mental health problems in the workplace and their detrimental effects on organisational functioning and productivity and on individual health and well-being. Students on this course typically include occupational health professionals, human resources managers, organisational consultants and psychology graduates wishing to enter these occupations. The course draws on psychological, psychiatric and organisational theory and evidence bases to examine the causes, effects and consequences of mental ill health in the workplace and to consider strategies and interventions to improve organisational and individual mental health. Students are encouraged to develop a critical awareness of contemporary issues and problems in relation to mental health at work at individual, interpersonal, organisational and policy levels.
Units:
* Basic Mental Health Unit
* Research: Principles & Methods
* Mental Health in the Workplace Unit I
* Mental Health in the Workplace Unit II
* Dissertation
The core OPP units (I and II) cover the following areas:
* Overview of mental health and health problems in the workplace: history, trends & prevalence
* Their effects on individuals, organisations & public health
* National and international policy responses
* Psychology, Psychiatry and the workplace
* Occupational ill health, including the interface between physical and mental health problems
* Common mental health problems in the workplace
* The psychology and physiology of stress
* Models of stress & coping
* Stress-related ill health
* Occupational stress & its manifestations
* Individual factors of risk and resilience, including motivation, personality & emotional intelligence; coping skills.
* Interpersonal factors, including group processes; leadership; conflict.
* Organisational factors which exacerbate & buffer the effects of stress, including organisational structure, change & culture; managerial style
* Contemporary policy in relation to mental health in the workplace
* Mental health & employability
* Individual and organisational interventions to improve mental health in the workplace
Duration of program: 1 year full time, 2 years part time
Cost of attendance:
PT Overseas: £6750 (2006 provisional); FT Overseas: £13500 (2006 provisional)
Programme format and assessment:
Teaching Methods: Lectures, group work, discussions, videos, case analyses.
Assessment: Essays, written and oral examinations, research dissertation.
London School of Economics MSc Organisational and Social Psychology
Program Qualifications: We will consider applicants with a good first degree in any discipline and a considered interest in the area covered by the MScs.
No application deadline! Submist at earliest opportunity: Applications open on 17 October 2005. Departments will begin to consider these applications from 14 November.
Applying: http://lse.ac.uk/resources/graduateProspectus2006/entryRequirementsAndApplicationProcess/howToApply.htm
General graduate programmes admission info: http://lse.ac.uk/resources/graduateProspectus2006/
Studying at LSE:
* A high quality academic training addressing the social psychology of organisations and providing multidisciplinary coverage of organisational contexts, processes and cases.
* A unique approach emphasising the development of analytical skills and the integration of theory and practice for creative and transformative work in organisations.
* The opportunity to study in an internationally renowned centre for the subject, situated in the only UK institution solely devoted to the social sciences, in a thriving research community which was (together with the Department of Sociology) awarded a 5 in the last national Research Assessment Exercise.
* An exciting group of international students with a diversity of academic, professional and cultural backgrounds. Recent graduates have gained employment worldwide in consultancy, international enterprises and firms, banks, government, NGOs, or have gone on to obtain PhDs and pursue an academic career.
* A wide range of choice in optional courses within the Institute and the School so that you can deepen or widen your expertise, and take up the advanced study of particular aspects of organisations.
Courses:
Compulsory courses:
(* half unit)
* Organisational Social Psychology
* Methods of Research and Quantitative Analysis (half unit for Standard, one unit for Research)
* Modern Social Psychology* +
* Research report of between 10,000 and 15,000 words on a topic approved by your supervisor.
+ Students who have graduated from a degree programme with a substantial social psychology component may be exempt from taking Modern Social Psychology, substituting a half unit course from the list of options below.
Electives:
Choose to the value of one unit:
* Organisational and Social Decision Making*
* Social Representations*
* The Social Psychology of Economic Life*
* Psychology of Gender*
* Social Psychology of Health*
* Issues in Social Psychology: Evolutionary Social Psychology*
* Knowledge Processes in Organisations*
* Science, Technology and Resistance*
* Corporate Communications*
* Representations, Institutions and Communities*
* The Social Psychology of the Media*
* Issues in Organisational and Social Psychology: Organisational Life*
* Cognition and Culture*
* Social Psychology of Racism, Multiculture and Resistance*
Duration of program: 1 year full time, 2 years part time
Estimated tuition cost: £12,438 (More info here)
Living Cost: £1,000 per month (More Living Cost info)
Pros and Cons:
KCL:
Pros: curriculum=exactly what I'm looking for, feels more personal? less competitive
Cons: more expensive, less flexibility, less recognition in the US
LSE:
Pros: Greater name recognition/prestige, greater chance of carry over into the US, less expensive, more elective flexibility, greater career networking
Cons: More difficult to get into, social psych core may repeat material I already cover at USC
