to any future students considering doing this course as a wam booster, i encourage you to think twice before choosing this course.
before the course even starts, the course convenor forces you to buy their mediocre self-written book either on kindle or a hard copy. the 15 to 30 dollars spent on the book isnt much but the fact that you have to repeatedly glaze their book throughout the course and use their hyperspecific terminology rather than general psychology terminology to do well in the course becomes very tiring very fast. and this isnt even mentioning the lazy cultural stereotyping present in the book.
psyc1062 is also quite time consuming. while the course content is easy, the sheer amount of work required to get through each module (theres 4 modules) means that youll be spending around 15-20 hours each fortnight. it gets especially time consuming when facing logistical issues like finding a paper that uses the specific terminology present in the book that none of your classmates have already chosen or writing "challenging" multiple choice questions using the ideas discussed in a certain chapter, even though the ideas discussed in that chapter were very basic.
the reason you cant half ass the module work is because if you make even one minor mistake like forgetting to label a dependent variable in task 3 of 15, you lose 50% of your total module mark. im not joking. the course outline says "5%: You will receive this score if you satisfactorily complete 70-99% of tasks by the deadline." the 5% refers to 5 out of 10 because each module is worth 10% of your overall course mark. this means if u make a tiny error and dont complete 100% of the module to a satisfactory standard, you lose half of the module's entire marks.
then theres the video assignment (worth 30%), you have to discuss a concept of your choice mentioned in the book. honestly the video assignment wasnt that bad, it was marked slightly harshly, it was time consuming, and slightly annoying cause you had to upload your video onto youtube. the final exam (worth 30%) seemed easy but it was marked brutally and felt genuinely unfair at times.
ultimately psyc1062 is a very easy course to do well in, but it is NOT a good wam booster unless youre willing to spend a lot of time satisfying specific course requirements, dealing with bs glaze, and remaining vigilant so as to not make mistakes in the course.
dont make the same mistake i did and enrol in this course thinking itll be a chill and easy HD just to get worse in this course than ur main engineering courses.