At the Department of Psychology at NTNU, research and education in this subject are built up with emphasis on five different perspectives:

• biological psychology
• cognitive psychology
• social psychology
• personality psychology
• developmental psychology

In the vocational programme we emphasize the application aspect of these fields by using skill training and practice.

Various phenomena and situations can often be described, explained and interpreted in different ways. This fact causes great demands regarding the students' ability to think independently and critically. For this reason, the syllabus emphasizes a programme that will provide the students with comprehensive, thematic, theoretical and methodological training in this subject through reading, teaching and research experience.

The programme qualifies you to become a psychologist in Norway.

Programme structure
The programme is a five-year programme on full-time basis. Most of the courses are taught in Norwegian, but consult the course list for courses offered in English.

Each semester in the programme includes one or more main topics that are supported by theoretical and practical training. The teaching gives you as a student the opportunity to process and integrate central topics in psychology. In the first part of the programme, we emphasize basal areas such as cognitive psychology, biological psychology, social psychology, development psychology and personality psychology.

The applicable aspects of the fields are increasingly emphasized with growing elements of skill training and practice. The students' theoretical and practical skills are developed through training in the main area clinical psychology, but the programme also includes courses such as social psychology, school and learning psychology, work and organizational psychology and neuropsychology. In addition, we offer teaching in the associated disciplines Statistics and EDP, Philosophy of Science, Human Physiology, Cultural Understanding, and Psychiatry/Psycho Pharmacology.

During your studies, you will have practical training at the department's clinics for children, youth and adults. In the programme's final part, the students will have 24 weeks of continuous supervised professional training at health institutions. This training takes place under guidance of a licensed psychologist, and the students are regarded as the psychologist's assistant. The professional training period will provide the students with an introduction to and personal experience with the working situation for psychologists.