BSc (Hons) Psychology

A Foundation Year is available on this course. See page 64 for more information

Key Information

Accreditations: British Psychological Society (BPS)

Duration and delivery: 3 years full-time with optional 4-week placement, or 4 years full-time with a minimum 30-week placement

Entry requirements: 112 - 128 tariff points

Required subjects: None

If English is not your first language: IELTS (Academic) 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component or equivalent

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Entry requirements, contact hours and course costs

This course is accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS), and covers the core areas of the BPS syllabus. The accreditation means when you graduate, you are eligible for Graduate Basis for Chartership of the BPS, provided you gain at least a second class Honours degree. Having Graduate Basis for Chartership of the BPS is the first step towards becoming a chartered psychologist.

Core areas

In your first two years you will study the core subject areas of psychology. These include personality, social psychology, cognitive psychology, biological psychology, developmental psychology, and research methods. In your final year you will choose specialist subjects inspired by the research expertise of your lecturers, such as forensic psychology, clinical psychology, educational psychology, counselling psychology and cyberpsychology.

Practical classes

You’ll regularly participate in practical classes that will equip you with the necessary skills to conduct your own empirical investigations of psychological phenomena. What’s more, in your final year, you will work closely with a lecturer to carry out your own research project, from which you’ll write your final-year project dissertation.

Research experience

So that you graduate primed for a career in industry, there’s the opportunity to gain invaluable work experience by choosing to undertake a 30-week work placement in the third year of the course. Alternatively, you can choose to undertake a four-week work placement between the second and third years of the course. In addition, you’ll have the chance to gain valuable research experience by working on staff research projects during the second year and final year of the course.

The course places considerable emphasis on how the academic subjects our students study can be applied beyond the classroom to real-world settings including career planning.

Dr Sarah Hodge, Course Leader