The compulsory subject is Introduction to Psychology: Physiological & Cognitive Psychology. The only real stress I have about it the cost of the text book, and whether or not I should buy 'just' the text, or what appears to be some kind of pack. I do think it's the same book, but I'm not quite sure what the deal is with it.
For my electives I'd decided to sneak in a little non-Psychology Department psychology on the side, Minds and Machines: Introduction to Cognitive Science. It apparently covers a little cognitive psych., computational theory, AI, linguistics and more. It's based in the History, Philosophy, Religion & Classics Department and has no "technical or mathematical background assumed." This is good, as I'm all for avoiding things with numbers.
The other two subjects I'm taking are purely for interest, as I've really no other idea what to take.
The first is what I suspect a relatively popular subject, The History of the Supernatural: Angels, Ghosts & Demons. The assessment tasks, or rather the number of them (three essays and more in only one semester), is possibly designed to ward of those trying for an easy grade.
The second is a little more 'on task', Psychology of Religion. Unfortunately it is a subject that may not be taught if there are less than 20 enrolments - I'm hoping hard! I loved the semesters I did at Sydney Uni on the History and Philosophy of Science, especially the time we spent of medicine and subjects such as Phrenology (and our little project). University of Queensland's Psychology of Religion promises to look at current trends and history of psychoanalysis, cognitive psychology, neurotheology and self-actualization.
I'm hoping that the two religion subjects have no particular text, rather a set of handouts, it's cheaper that way! The Cognitive Science subject could either be a set text or handouts - either could be useful in the long run.
For all four of the subjects my major worry at this point is getting the timetable I prefer; my application for Austudy hasn't yet been approved (possibly not even considered) and as such I may have to work as many days as I'm not studying. If the fates are kind I should have a three day timetable on campus - this not only means a lower weekly public transport bill (as there are no longer weekly tickets) and the possibility of a full four days a week of paying work. I'd rather Austudy and one or two days of work, but only time will tell.
