Foreign Perspectives

After much debate last year I finally signed up for the psychology course which I’ve just started looking at.

So far, the biggest difference is in the organisation of the materials. Whereas the language courses were essentially organised around a fairly large workbook with, for the English, an accompanying textbook, the Child Development course comes with a fairly small course guide (essentially the workbook equivalent) for each of the textbooks. There’s the usual DVDs of course though slightly more up to date in operation which is a nuisance as they automatically select the DVD drive and it doesn’t seem possible to just run them from the hard disc.

Overall, it seems a much more professionally produced education package. Of course, you would expect that in many ways as clearly some of the psychologists involved are in the education area thus you get all the appropriate comments through the course as to how to study it. The downside of that is that it’s a course that seems to take itself very seriously.

It’s supposed to take something like 12 hours a week to do but with just starting it this morning I’m getting on for half way through the first weeks worth of work which implies that it could work out similar to the English course I was doing last year although ’tis early days yet.