During your Master’s in Psychology, you will collect a total of 60 EC within one year. The curriculum consists of four compulsory courses for the specialisation in Educational Psychology, one elective course, a master’s thesis, and an internship.
Student workload at Dutch universities is expressed in EC, also named ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System), which is widely used throughout the European Union. In the Netherlands, each credit represents 28 hours of work.
Educational Psychology
Specialisation coursesCompulsory for the specialisation in EP.
20 EC
Elective courseYou can choose one of the following four elective courses
5 EC
Internship
10 EC
An internal or external internship of 10 EC is part of your study programme.
Master’s thesis
25 EC
You will finish your Master’s in Psychology with your master’s thesis. The choice of your graduation subject is largely up to you.
Total EC first year
60 EC
Within your Master’s you will go on an internship. This is a great way to familiarise yourself with the work field and practise professional skills, as well as an excellent opportunity to increase your network!
Within the specialisation in Educational Psychology, you can go on interesting internships. You might, for example, design and test learning materials to enhance and promote technical education within the Netherlands, or develop an educational programme for teaching Dutch to non-native children. Or you could write an advisory report on how to integrate embodied play (environments) in educational settings.
Companies you could complete your internship in, include educational publishers, (educational) software developers, consultancy agencies or research institutes, but also corporate companies, in which you could focus on employee training programmes.
You will complete your Master’s in Psychology by writing your master’s thesis. The choice of your thesis topic is largely up to you. You could come up with your own proposal, or you could connect with ongoing research in areas such as game-based learning, giftedness and differentiation, artificial intelligence in education, collaborative learning, etc. You could complete (part of) your graduation project at an external organisation as well. This is a great way for you to combine your academic skills with hands-on experience.