Course Overview
The BSc (Hons) Psychology undergraduate course is a distinctive and unique course which utilises a broad range of teaching and learning strategies to provide students with an opportunity to advance their knowledge and skills in a popular area for undergraduate study. The course utilises internationally relevant ‘real-life’ themes and students will have the opportunity to learn about the applicability of Psychology in a global context, whilst also ensuring that students study the required level of subject content to meet the standards and subject benchmarks of the UK Quality Assurance Agency (QAA).
Main Study Themes
Biological Psychology
How our thoughts, feelings and behaviours are underpinned by biological processes occurring in the brain, such as neurotransmission, the passing of messages between neurons and the functions of neurons, such the functions of neurotransmitters, such as serotonin or dopamine.
Developmental Psychology
How abilities and behaviours emerge, develop and change over the lifespan.
Social Psychology
How humans interact and seek to influence and understand one another’s behaviour
Cognitive Psychology
The mental processes and representations that underpin perception, memory and complex thought.
Individual Differences
How key psychological traits, like extraversion and introversion, neuroticism or conscientiousness, skills and abilities vary from person to person, and how different traits combine to shape our personalities.
Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology
How psychology emerged and developed as a field of scientific inquiry.
Course Information
The general ethos of BSc (Hons) Psychology is to explore human behaviour in a global context and engages with both the theories and application of psychological perspectives and methods/techniques. The course aims to develop a professional level of transferable, practical and
cognitive skills which give graduates the necessary qualities to confidently embark on graduate employment and/or postgraduate study in a global arena.
Course Specification
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- Perspectives in Psychology
- Psychology of Culture, Gender and Sexuality
- Cyberpsychology
- Applying Psychological Perspectives
- The Darker Side of Psychology
- Research Methods and Project Planning
- Professional Enhancement Year
- International Enhancement Year
Students can choose 3 modules from the below (two in semester 1 and one in semester 2):
- Addictive Behaviours
- Child and Educational Psychology
- Criminal Behaviour and its contexts
- Aggression and Violent Behaviour
- Counselling Psychology
- Clinical Neuroscience
- A credit/notional hour is the formal name for the estimated hours that are expected that a student would need to complete a module
- 1 credit is equal to 10 notional hours, so 20 credits are equal to 200 notional hours, The 200 hours includes time in lectures, tutorials, preparing for your lectures, assessments as well as your own personal revision and studying that you would do
- In reality, you might actually go above and beyond the expected notional hours, in particular if your degree requires a lot of independent learning you would most likely exceed the predicted hours
- In the UK system each semester is 60 credits worth which is equivalent to at least 600 hours of study in one term. This is approximately equivalent to 8 hours of study a day
