Department of Psychology

Hello friends, my name is Hazal Yumuş and I am a first-year student in the Psychology Department of Erzurum Technical University. The Department of Psychology at the University accepted its first students in 2018. The aim of our department is to produce psychologists who are aware of themselves and their environment, who have professional ethics and excellent communication skills. The department offers courses such as Introduction to Philosophy, Social Anthropology, Academic Presentation Skills, Academic Writing in Psychology, History of Psychology, Introduction to Psychology and Statistics. Internship is compulsory in the third and fourth year at the university and these internships are arranged by the school. The university offers us internships in hospitals, nurseries and many other institutions. After graduating from the Department of Psychology, we can work in academia and in the fields of health, justice, media and sports. We can give hospitals, nursing homes, nurseries and the Ministry of Health as examples of the type of organisations in which we may work. The main reasons I chose the psychology department was that I wanted to understand human behavior and myself more effectively, more consciously, and my curiosity in the problems that underlie human behavior. The reason I chose Erzurum Technical University was that as a young and dynamic university it would offer me many opportunities to improve myself. We can apply the theoretical ideas that we have learned in the statistics course as practical knowledge using the Computer Labs in the school. In addition, the Erzurum Technical University Psychology Research Center (ETÜPAM) Laboratories are located in our school. We can work together with our instructors in the fields of experimental psychology and clinical psychology and produce projects together. In our school, there is one large library on the campus and libraries in each of our faculties. The social environment and the libraries in the school really motivate us in the exam periods, encouraging us to work. The Department of Psychology is really one that helps one to discover oneself and requires curiosity and full attention. This is why I suggest to those friends considering here not to see exams as a grind, but as a step towards their dreams and to choose the department in which they will be happy in the future. I wish success to those candidates taking the entrance exam. We await them at Erzurum Technical University.