BSc Psychology (Hons)

Course Overview:

This Psychology course allows you to consider ‘big issues’ in contemporary psychology as well as studying pioneering approaches and major thinkers. Choose modules in your final year that suit your particular interests, including mental health and illness, addiction and clinical neuropsychology.

Career:

Graduates from this course can move into a broad range of careers spanning management, personnel, social work, public services, counselling and advertising, or alternatively, pursue postgraduate qualifications in specific fields of psychological practice such as clinical or forensic psychology.

Assessment:

Teaching methods include, lectures, seminars, group work and e-learning. We encourage you to develop independent study skills. You will also have opportunities to present ideas to other students and develop concepts within groups. Teaching takes advantage of the University’s specialist psychological and computer laboratories. As well as assessments that count towards your degree, there are also on-going assessments for feedback and consolidating your learning. Assessment methods include written coursework, projects, presentations and exams.

Entry requirements:

• High School Leaving Certificate or
• 4 IGCSEs and relative foundation year or
• 3 “A” Levels in relative subjects
• IELTS certificate or relative - 6.0 for degree entry
• Students with no English certificates can join our EAP (English for academic purposes) courses prior to joining the course
• Personal Statement
• Academic Reference
• ID / Passport

Year 1

• Being a Psychologist (40 credits)
• Genes to Mind (20 credits)
• Mind to World (20 credits)
• Introduction to Mental Health (20 credits)
• Psychology in the Media (20 credits)

Year 2

Core Modules

• Future Selves (20 credits)
• Cradle to Grave: Integrated Perspectives on Development (20 credits)
• Twenty-Four, Seven: Everyday Motivations and Biases (20 credits)

Optional Modules (choose two)

• Anomalous Psychology: A Critical Introduction (20 credits)
• Meet the Relatives: Evolutionary Psychology and Animal Behaviour (20 credits)
• Investigating Complex Issues in Psychology (20 credits)
• Assessment, Formulation and Evidence Based Practice (20 credits)
• The Psychology of Detection, Interviewing and the Criminal Trial (20 credits)

Final Year

Core Modules

• Empirical Project (40 credits)
• From Research to Reality (20 credits)
• Optional Modules (choose three)

Please note, the full list of optional modules may change from year to year.

• Occupational Psychology (20 credits)
• Development and Neurodiversity (10 credits)
• Environmental Psychology (20 credits)
• Psychology of Addiction (20 credits)
• Clinical Neuropsychology (20 credits)
• Health Psychology and Behaviour Change (20 credits)
• The Psychology of Serious and Violent Offending (20 credits)
• Digital Humans: The Psychology of Online Behaviour (20 credits)
• Advanced Quantitative Methods (10 credits)
• Professional Placement (10 credits)
• Male Psychology (10 credits)
• Dark Personalities (10 credits)
• Memory and Life (10 credits)

Final Year

• Core modules:
• Computing Project (40 credits)
• Artificial Intelligence (20 credits)
• Advanced Cyber Security (20 credits)
• Optional modules (choose two):
• Android Mobile Development (20 credits)
• Advanced Data Technologies (20 credits)
• Software Enterprise (20 credits)
• Students into Schools (20 credits) (This is an Institute of Coding supported module)
• User Experience Design (20 credits)