Study programme

Programme outline 

 Period 1Period 2Period 3 and 4

Courses for all tracks

  • From Theory to Intervention 5 EC
  • Academic Professional
    (incl. internship and thesis preparation, Period 1-4) 5 EC
  • Two elective courses, 5 EC each
  • Academic Professional
  • Internship & Thesis 30 EC
  • Academic Professional

Courses per track:

  • Social Influence
  • Health Promotion
  • Work and Organisation
  • Communication and Leadership 5 EC
  • Health Promotion 5 EC
  • Work and Performance 5 EC
  • Social Influence, Public Communication and Advertising 5 EC
  • Nudging 5 EC
  • Organisational Development
    5 EC
  • Internship & Thesis 30 EC
  • Academic Professional


Below, you will find an overview of courses from the current academic year of this Master's. This overview is meant to give you an idea of what to expect. The course offer may change in the coming academic year.

Academic Professional

Throughout the entire year, the Academic Professional course will let you focus on the development of your professional identity. This course addresses themes such as:

  • scientific and professional integrity
  • ethics
  • cooperation with other professionals/disciplines
  • job-market orientation

Internship

During your internship, you will get to work as a junior psychologist in one of the practical or research fields of social, health and organisational psychology.

Examples of organizations where our students have done their internship;

For more information, please check our students website on internship.

Thesis

During your thesis, you will learn to function independently as a researcher in the field of social, health and organisational psychology.

Examples of theses from the Work & Organisation track:

  • Managing your heart: A diary study on the antecedents and consequences of Emotional Labor among health care professionals.  Leeuw, Aafke C. de (2020).

  • Leadership in the Low Lands: Relating leader's sex, communal gender role identity, LMX and OCB's of employees to transformational leadership within the Dutch culture – from a leaders' perspective.  Trollmann, N. (2020).

I had a lot of fun doing this Master's programme. I found the degree programme to be interesting and challenging. I learned a lot about the fascinating aspects of behaviour and social influence. We spent attention on both theory and practice while doing that.

Aukje, alumna specialised in social psychology