Where to begin?

So I started my research looking at the UNI's that offer the qualification - which scared me a little bit.

UTAS state that if you are not academically good enough in the first year you will not even progress to the second year in the course...ouch!

Deakin was a lot leaner stating that if you weren't good enough after the first three years, then you wouldn't go on the do the final year, instead opting to give you a degree in Science Psychology or something like that, as apposed to the bachelor of Psychology.

What I did find particularly useful was the Deakin handbook which summarised the year one, first and second semester units.(If you use the previous link, scroll halfway down to see Psych information)

In a nut shell what will start my research begins here:

different aspects of the discipline of psychology

• psychology as a behavioural science
• history of the evolution of psychology
• psychology as a discipline
• fundamental questions that motivate the field
• the major milestones in the development of psychology
• overview of the scientific method and its relevance to psychological research
• ethics and other key issues that arise in the process of acquiring and applying knowledge in this way
• overview of the central mechanisms of human evolution
• overview of behavioural genetics and evolutionary psychology
• the biological bases of behaviour
• the fundamental processes that underlie human experience and behaviour
• introduction to the application of psychology across different fields.

Information taken from Deakin University Handbook 2009