Warsaw, Poland

Global-MINDS: Psychology of Global Mobility
(field of studies: Psychology)

Master's
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⇑Global-MINDS: Psychology of Global Mobility at SWPS

Field of studies: Psychology
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: social
Kind of studies: full-time studies
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University website: english.swps.pl

⇑Why choose the Global-MINDS: Psychology of Global Mobility specialisation (Master's) at SWPS University?

Dlaczego warto studiować na Uniwersytecie SWPS
Why study it:

Global-MINDS: Psychology of Global Mobility is a specialisation on the Psychology programme at SWPS University, run as a Joint Master's Degree in Psychology of Global Mobility, Inclusion and Diversity in Society. This two-year, full-time programme in English offers international training in social and cultural psychology for people who want to work across cultures.

Programme: a joint international degree

The programme combines scientific knowledge with practical skills in social and cultural psychology. It covers culture, organisations, diversity and inclusion, global mobility and cultural adaptation, themes that matter in today's social and business environment. You gain first-hand intercultural experience by studying at a minimum of two partner universities, completing an internship and writing a research-based Master's thesis.

Specialisation: what you study

The study path moves through several stages:

  • first semester: Social and Cultural Psychology courses
  • second semester: a choice between Mobility and Society, or Inclusion and Health, plus Culture and Diversity
  • a summer school on Cross-Cultural Methods and Interventions
  • third and fourth semesters: the internship and the Master's thesis

Placements: internship with associate partners

The internship is supported by a network of associate partners, including companies, civil society organisations, public service providers and governmental organisations, who also help graduates find employment.

Exchanges: study in two countries

The consortium includes the University of Limerick, which coordinates it, ISCTE – Lisbon University Institute, the University of Oslo and SWPS University in Warsaw.

One mobile path starts in Warsaw and continues in Oslo or Limerick. The other starts in Lisbon and continues in Limerick or Oslo. In the fourth semester you return to the university of your first or second semester.

After graduation: work wherever culture matters

Employers value cultural competence and social psychology expertise. Graduates can look for work in:

  • business, from human resources to international marketing and management
  • the health sector, dealing with health disparities and communication barriers for migrants
  • NGOs, development and international agencies, and intergovernmental organisations
  • government and local authorities, including migration policy
  • diplomacy, cultural consultancy, mediation and research

Based on the programme pages at swps.pl.

⇑Test: Is Global-MINDS: Psychology of Global Mobility the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. A family has just relocated abroad, and their teenage son is withdrawn and struggling at school. How would you approach the case?

2. How do you feel about designing a study on how students who move abroad cope with homesickness and loneliness?

3. A company sends staff on long assignments abroad, and many of them return early. What would you suggest?

4. You read a paper claiming that migrants are less happy than people who stay at home. How do you react?

5. How do you feel about interviewing refugees about difficult experiences?

6. The programme is taught in English, in an international group whose members are often mobile themselves. How do you see that?

7. You have survey data from participants in many cultures. Would you test whether your questionnaire measures the same thing in each group?

8. A local authority wants to help newcomers settle in. Which role appeals to you?

9. How do you feel about examining your own cultural assumptions and biases?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Global-MINDS: Psychology of Global Mobility?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Psychology
Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought. It is an academic discipline of immense scope and diverse interests that, when taken together, seek an understanding of the emergent properties of brains, and all the variety of epiphenomena they manifest. As a social science it aims to understand individuals and groups by establishing general principles and researching specific cases.
Psychology
[Modern psychology] appears as the sickly offspring of average common sense when it is taken as what it professes to be—a science of the inner life. The entire achievements of the so-called science in this respect is outweighed by a single page of Goethe’s or of Jean Paul’s psychology; and it is impossible to evade the bitter truth which Novalis already has summed up, when he says that so-called psychology is one of those idols which have usurped the place in the sanctuary where true images of the gods should stand.
Ludwig Klages, The Science of Character, W. Johnston, trans., p. 16
Psychology
The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?"
"You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons–that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to.
"But all the same," insisted the Savage, "it is natural to believe in God when you're alone–quite alone, in the night, thinking about death …"
"But people never are alone now," said Mustapha Mond. "We make them hate solitude; and we arrange their lives so that it's almost impossible for them ever to have it."
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, chapter 17
Psychology
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell in: The Conquest of Happiness, Routledge, 12 October 2012, p. 48

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