Portsmouth Applicants 2012

Offers for Spanish Studies and Spanish and Latin American Studies.

I am predicted BBB, I got BBC at AS I am applying for Architecture and have had an conditional offer of BBC

I've applied to do forensic psychology there but I havn't had an offer yet. Got an offer through from bedfordshire today so I'm hoping to get one from portsmouth before christmas. Does anyone know what the facilities in the psychology department are like? and how close is the campus and the halls to shops and nightlife? Are things in walking distance?

The psychology department's really big! It's based in King Henry building (a map can be found here) which is just off Guildhall walk (although i've had lectures all over the university) and close to Portsmouth and Southsea station. The staff in the department are really nice (the department picked up 2 or 3 teaching awards from the Students Union, voted by students) and i'm not sure how good the facilities are relative to other unis but they seem really good - we have access to an eye tracker (which will be more relevant for forensic psych) and various other equipment such as cameras, dictaphones, etc for other studies we may do.

One thing that does annoy me is that we don't have any seminars. We have tutorials where we can discuss papers but we don't have many of them and seminars strike me as a better way to learn so i was a bit disappointed (though i've heard that this isn't different to other psychology degrees).

I'm not sure what else to say to be honest, do you have any specific questions?

Good luck in getting an offer! Throughout my psych degree i've seen some of the forensic psych modules and wished i'd taken that, though still been satisfied with straight psychology.

Thanks that's all really helpful! I need to do really well on the course I'm doing to get into portsmouth though.

DDM which is equivalent to 2 As and a C at A-level and that would have been very doable only last year we didn't have ANY long-term proper teachers and the college had to sack loads of idiot 'teachers'. So I'm having to do over a year and a halfs work in one year and the course is 100% coursework and fairly academic (forensic science). I've had to self-teach most of it to be honest.

So if I get DDM then that would be AMAZING.

Still havn't had an offer from portsmouth yet though... :/

Ah that's a well rubbish situation to be in! All the best of luck to you! Did whoever wrote your reference include that information with your application? (I don't know if there's any formal way to do this but you never know)

Also, i forgot to say, you'll be in excellent hands doing Forensic Psych here, your social psych lecture will be Aldert Vrij who wrote this textbook about lying/lie detection (i did one of my essays from it, it's quite well written), he'll be your social psych lecturer (in second year, along with Dr. Sonnenberg IIRC) and he's really good at explaining things.

Heh, when you said forensic science i got an image of CSI in me head

I hope you get your offer.

EDIT: Oh and just to be clear, i'm doing BSc Psychology, not forensic psych so your situation regarding seminars and stuff might be different, but the major modules are the same (social, cognitive, developmental and bio psych, along with a few others)

They can't say too much about it in my reference without exposing the course for what it's really been and if they do that then It'll probably just look bad on me because obviously there are no exams so there's no actual proof that I've learnt anything as in like actually absorbed it and remembered it. Just proof that I've written (literally) hundreds of essays and lab reports etc.

Oh right cool.. to be honest portsmouth does seem to tick all the boxes. It's just about whether I'd get in or not! Thanks, I hope so too! lol

I'm going for Pharmacology too, got an offer yesterday. Might see you in October!

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Hi, assuming you're already a student? Was just wondering if you could tell me what the university gym is like... if you know of course! Cheers

Aye, i am currently a student. Though i wouldn't be able to tell you what the gym is like unfortunately, i'm far too lazy for that I could tell you what the SU's like

Ahaha, love this

What's it like then? Peered inside when I went to see my mates there but felt too intimidated to go in :')

I applied for architecture and got a conditional offer as well

Hi, assuming you're already a student? Was just wondering if you could tell me what the university gym is like... if you know of course! Cheers