BA Honours Organisational Psychology at University of the Witwatersrand

Programme overview

The Honours in Organisational Psychology degree is an academically-based programme aimed at providing students with a range of knowledge and skills within the field of industrial-organisational psychology, including employee well-being, training and development, and research. Students are required to complete five compulsory modules including a research report on an approved topic. The five modules are: Research Methods in Psychology Individual Well-being and Effectiveness at Work Theoretical Foundations of Organisational Psychology Group Processes in Organisations Research Essay For more information on applications: Click Here

Faculty: Humanities | Department: Human and Community Development | Duration: 1 year | Study mode: full-time | Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

What you will study

Research Essay (Psyc4044A); Research Methods in Psychology (Psyc4045A); Individual Well-being and Effectiveness at Work (Psyc4019A); Group Processes in Organisations (Psyc4016A); Theoretical Foundations of Organisational Psychology (Psyc4053A)

Career pathways

Industrial relations Human resources Organisational design and development Organisational research

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Application information

Entry requirements

Completion of an undergraduate degree with Industrial-organisational Psychology as a major, or a minimum of half of your Psychology major consisting of Organisational Psychology modules; Good marks achieved at third year Organisational/Industrial Psychology module level. Please note that while University rules do not allow acceptance of students into the programme whose third year average falls below 65%, attainment of a 65% average is often insufficient to be offered a place due to a high demand for places in the course; Principles of diversity. Places on the full-time organisational psychology honours programme are limited. An intake of approximately 25 students is taken in each year. Thus, acceptance into the programme is competitive and is provisional upon the following criteria: Completion of an undergraduate degree with Industrial-organisational Psychology as a major, or a minimum

Tuition is charged per module, so the total depends on the modules you register for each year. Current fees are listed in the official fee schedule.

Postgraduate applications are made online at www.wits.ac.za/applications; the closing date for each programme is listed in its course finder entry. The application fee is R200 (not payable by current Wits students applying online), paid via the Self-Service Portal or by EFT to the Wits University Application Fees account at FNB.

Apply through the official page: https://www.wits.ac.za/applications

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