Module: Pre-Professional 1 Training & Skills

Latest Module Specifications

Current Academic Year 2025 - 2026

Module Title	Pre-Professional 1 Training & Skills
Module Code	PSY1021 (ITS: PSYC120)
Faculty	Psychology	School	Science & Health
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5

Description

This dynamic first-year module equips psychology students with essential skills for academic success and future career readiness. Through online activities and interactive workshops students will develop academic and life skills, take their first steps in career visionning, practise intercultural competence and learn how to prepare for assignments and exams.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify and reflect upon one's personal attributes
2. Demonstrate knowledge of strategies that support resilience and adaptability
3. Understand and demonstrate a growth mindset when engaging with challenges and opportunities
4. Demonstrate the ability to make informed decisions to facilitate adapting to change
5. Reflect on past experiences, both successes and failures, and extract useful insights
6. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of one’s own and others’ cultural values
7. Demonstrate understanding of diverse cultural practices
8. Recognise the value of and engage with cultural diversity
9. Demonstrate awareness of the causes and possible solutions to conflicts that arise in cross-cultural interactions
10. Demonstrate how to adapt communication styles in order to effectively interact with people from different cultures
11. Develop self-awareness of values, interests, knowledge, skills and strengths in the context of one’s career choices.
12. Understand the labour market and the evolving nature of work in areas of interest and reflect upon one’s own career goals.
13. Effectively identify, access, and engage with external resources as required.

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full time hours per semester
Workshop	12	Workshop participation
Online activity	113	Completion of online activities, quizzes and tasks contained within each of the 4 sets of online modules.
Total Workload: 125

Section Breakdown
CRN	11470	Part of Term	Semester 1 & 2
Coursework	0%	Examination Weight	0%
Grade Scale	PASS/FAIL	Pass Both Elements	Y
Resit Category	RC1	Best Mark	N
Module Co-ordinator	Louise Hopper	Module Teacher

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Assessment Breakdown
Completion of online activity	Completion of online Academic Skills module, includes online activities, quiz and participation in an in-person academic skills workshop.	25%	n/a
Completion of online activity	DISCOVER Life Skills	15%	n/a
Participation	Participation in writing and exam skills clinic	10%	n/a
Completion of online activity	Online activity related to intercultural competence transversal skill	25%	n/a
Completion of online activity	Completion of online content relating to Career Visionning; includes attendance at a career visionning workshop and completion of a final Loop Quiz	25%	n/a

Reassessment Requirement Type
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories; RC1: A resit is available for both^* components of the module. RC2: No resit is available for a 100% coursework module. RC3: No resit is available for the coursework component where there is a coursework and summative examination element. ^* ‘Both’ is used in the context of the module having a coursework/summative examination split; where the module is 100% coursework, there will also be a resit of the assessment

Pre-requisite	None
Co-requisite	None
Compatibles	None
Incompatibles	None

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Academic Skills
What we mean by academic skills; Fundamentals of academic writing; Citing, referencing and using quotes correctly; Effective literature searching; Critcal reading and writing; Reflective and Reflexive writing.

Life Skills
Discover Self-management; Digital skills; Self-efficacy; Active Learning; Critical Self-reflection; Mindset

Assessment / Exam preparation
Setting (SMART) goals; Time management; Quality of studying; Note taking; Revision and Exam prep; Getting it right on the day; Upon receiving your results; Resits

Career Visionning
Your world of work; Personal Agency; Career Research Skills; Career Action Planning; CV: Find your Future

Intercultural Competence
What does Cultural Competence mean? Who are you culturally? Who are your cultural others?

Indicative Reading List

Books:
None

Articles:
None

Other Resources

None