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STRUCTURE OF FORMAL EDUCATION - NORWAY
The full psychology degree is offered at the universities of
Oslo, Bergen, Tromsø, Trondheim
Entry requirements
The degree structure. The structure of the education is
according to the standards for the Norwegian Cand. Psychol.
degree which is agreed upon by the university training
programmes and the board (Psykologrådet) advising the
government and the Norwegian Psychological Association. The
general outline is that it takes one and a half years for an
introductory programme. Then two and a half years for topics on
science, methods of psychology and related fields like
sociology, physiology and psychiatry and then the last two and
a half years with practice oriented education and supervised
practice in various fields of applied psychology.
The Norwegian psychology degree is generic, which means that
there is little specialist education and training inside the
university programmes. Since early 1960 there has been a
specialization programme taking at least five years of
practice, supervision and courses and a written paper to become
a specialist in the various fields of applied psychology.
There are several types of examinations used for the formal
education. These are written exams taking several hours, papers
to be produced during a couple of weeks and a dissertation. In
addition to this there is oral discussion by the examination
panel at main points during the total programme. The practice
periods during the formal education training programmes have to
be accepted by the supervisors.
All of the four universities follow the same general
outline, while there are some differences among the four
universities as to how their programmes are structured. For
instance, the University of Tromsø has built the
structure so that the main fields of psychology (like
perception and learning and personality and the biological
bases of psychology) are given both as a science, results,
methods and practice oriented approach every year for one year
each. How much focus there will be on the practice of
psychologists during the total programmes differ somewhat from
one university to the other. All the universities have
mandatory practice during the last two and a half year of the
total programme.
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