Confessions of a creative turned psychology student

Antony Giorgione is a creative with *cough* eight plus years’ experience, who last year completed a graduate diploma in psychology. During his time there, he discovered that behavioural economics is a much smaller subset of psychology than is generally assumed.

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I enrolled at Swinburne University, where I had previously earned a degree in graphic design. The grad dip entailed 12 units, the same that comprise the undergraduate major in psychology. There’s an endless amount of options for further learning online, but I opted to take the course on campus.

There were a lot more overseas students than the last time I studied, and the worry of telling your parents you flunked appears to have been replaced by a more extreme anxiety of losing your visa because you flunked.

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