Social and Occupational Psychology

We specialize in applied psychology, i.e. psychology focused on solving practical problems. Most of our graduates work in areas such as personnel management, human resources, marketing or management. However, many also work in research or other areas. All lecturers also have other activities and try to provide students a contact with practice. We invite experts from practice to our classes and send students to practice where they can learn something useful. Our approach is successful: HR managers from large companies repeatedly tell us that they prefer our graduates over graduates from other schools. They know that they graduated from a field that really gave them something.


Prospects of graduates
The graduate of the study program Social and Work Psychology within the field of Psychology has knowledge in general orientation that focuses on the history, current developments in the field, and an overview of psychological specializations. The core of knowledge is focused on basic knowledge of theoretical and applied psychological disciplines, which primarily lead to knowledge of the individual and psychological aspects of behaviour and experience within groups and group dynamics (general psychology, developmental psychology, history of psychology, introduction to neuropsychology and neurophysiology, social psychology, personality psychology, cognitive psychology, socio-psychological skills training, organizational and work psychology, educational and school psychology, counselling psychology, methodology and methods in psychology, quantitative methods, qualitative methods, health psychology, psychology of marketing communication, statistics, clinical psychology, professional stage, psychology of minority groups, school psychology interventions, evolutionary psychology, bachelor thesis seminar, social cognition). The student also gains knowledge of the field of psychological assessment, including psychometry and methodology. In addition, the graduate has basic knowledge of other selected areas of humanities, social and behavioural sciences, and knowledge of ethical principles in the performance of psychological and research activities, and the ability to apply these principles.

The graduate has skills in using the psychological methodology, especially interviewing, focus groups, and observation, has mastered the basic principles of assessment and evaluation in basic specializations (clinical psychology, educational psychology, school psychology, counselling psychology, work & organizational psychology). The graduate can design a simple research plan (including an experiment) and implement it, including mainly data collection and subsequent quantitative or qualitative analysis. The graduate can also orient themself in current scientific resources and search for relevant literature in the field, interpret the results of studies, write professional texts and present the assigned tasks, goals, and results/products to the working team.

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