First year of Psychology divided in Colleges

Utrecht College-teaching offers first-year students the benefits of personal attention and intensive guidance. This type of small-scale teaching has been named after the way in which renowned universities like Oxford and Cambridge have organised their teaching.

Within the context of a College, one hundred students, divided in four tutor groups, are taught by a fixed team of teachers and tutors. Coordinator Susan te Pas: “Every year, some five hundred students enrol in Psychology studies. This is quite a large group, and during regular lectures all five hundred students are packed in one single lecture hall. However, now that we work with five fixed groups of one hundred students, each having their own team of teachers, we are able to pay much more attention to our teaching and to the needs of individual students and we need not spend so much time on organisational aspects.”

Susan te Pas is coordinator of two of the five 'Freshmen Colleges' within the Psychology programme.