Motor Behaviour exam today! Holy crap

depends, sorta.. Bachelor is 3 years, in a bachelor you've got the room for 2.. er, what to call it.. subjects or whatever, for example now I'm on sports and human movement science, that's for 1.5 years (3 semesters) then I need to take something else for 1.5 more, or just fill up with random classes for the remaining credits. I'm just now finishing my first semester.

However, I do have a 1 year course of English which I can intergrate in my bachelor, which would mean that I'd just have half a year more once I'm finished with this 1.5 years of human movement. But then I sorta want to study chemestry for the last 1.5 years, we'll see.

I dunno what the system is here compared to Canada, so I just included a brief explanation.
 
It depends on the University. Most undergrad degrees take 4 years (you need 20 full courses or 40 half courses).

Masters degrees take about 2 years, and depending on the discipline, PhD's can take anywhere from 3-10 years.

I really liked chemistry, so one of my degrees was in Organic Chem. I loved stoichiometry and stereochemistry.
 
Ok I think the systems are quite different then. I really want to take biochem, which is not one of those subject thingies I explained in it's own, it's just a direction withing the chemistry thingy :p I just love to know what's going on in the body.

I also can't wait for next semester, biomechanics of the movement apparatus, anatomy of the movement apparatus, neurophysiology and sports psychology (not looking that much forward to that one)
 
Those courses sound really interesting! Biomechanics rocks!!!!

You can always make your sports psychology course a little more interesting by tossing some of the concepts around on here.

I'd appreciate it if you tossed around the concepts in any of your courses. We could all stand to learn something here :)

Plus I love to search for academic info :D
 
Maybe I will! I'm excited about biomechanics. I wonder if we will learn why your knees will break if you go below parallel
 
Hearing the way your classes are set up sound strange. But I guess it sounds that way since in The US it's way different. A typical bachelors will take you 120-131 credit hours. This is about 3-5 years depending on how many extra courses you take or what minors you have. However, I have seen some students from my school that take AP (honors) classes and co-op with a university so that they have some university classes out of the way and they can clep out of some other classes and they end up going into college with up to 2 years already under their belt.

How awesome would that be...to graduate with a bachelors at 20 and a masters at 22.

Most of your classes will be 3 credit hours. Math classes in the higher range (calc and above) are typically 4 hour credits and science classes with labs are 5 credits. A semester runs right about 16 weeks unless you're taking fast track classes and then they can be 4-8 weeks long, you just double up on the time you're in class.
 
Europe has a much better system.

One half of the courses we take to get a Bachelor's Degree are unrelated to our major. We have to have so many "Humanities", "Social Sciences", "Arts", etc. A total waste of time in my opinion.
 
but that's how it is here too! 3 year bachelor, you have room for two "things" so if you start a bachelor in human movement science, like me, you got 1.5 years of human movement science (not necessarily in a row, you can space it out if you want to) then 1.5 years of something else. Now of course, if there are more classes avalable inside the program (program! that's what it's called!) you can chose them, but you don't have to.
 
yeah, but I'm hoping to take something else that will benifit me in the human movement and sports domain. Chemistry would do that. Possibly some psychology aswell.
 
No idea :p I want to do something cool that pays well :p

Sports psychologists, eh? You don't need like an uber degree in psychology for that? I know that to become a shrink here you need to take a 6 year course.. "profession course" would be the direct translation. My sister is in it, but she's crazy :p
 
To make money as a sports psychologist you'd have to have a Masters in Sports Psychology. You don't necessarily need a PhD (doctorate degree).
 
I don't think we have a masters in sports psychology here, just masters in psychology. But of course, you could just say what you want to research (ie, write your master thesis about) is sports psychology, and then that would be cool :p
 
I think that's what the Masters students do as well: a thesis in sports psychology. They take the courses they need to get a masters, and do a thesis-driven masters degree.
 
what do you do then? I mean, I doubt a lot of private people get a sports psychologist :p you probably work for clubs and stuff to fix the moral, create team spirit, etc? or what? do you have any idea?
 
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