BSc Applied Psychology
Course Overview
This BPS-accredited Applied Psychology degree provides a scientific understanding of the mind and behavior, taught by leading academics within the university's cutting-edge research environment. You will learn to apply psychological principles to real-world challenges in health, justice, and the workplace, developing the rigorous analytical skills essential for a professional career. The flexible course structure includes unique opportunities for a year abroad or an industry placement to further enhance your employability.
Key Program Highlights
- Accredited by the British Psychological Society, providing eligibility for Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership
- Option to study abroad for a year or undertake a valuable industry placement
- Conduct your own research projects in state-of-the-art facilities, including the £42 million George Davies Centre
- Learn to apply psychological science to real-world contexts like healthcare, criminology, and organizational behavior
- Flexible pathway to transfer to BSc Psychology, Psychology with Cognitive Neuroscience, or Medicine after the first year
Course Overview
This BPS-accredited Applied Psychology degree provides a scientific understanding of the mind and behavior, taught by leading academics within the university's cutting-edge research environment. You will learn to apply psychological principles to real-world challenges in health, justice, and the workplace, developing the rigorous analytical skills essential for a professional career. The flexible course structure includes unique opportunities for a year abroad or an industry placement to further enhance your employability.
Key Program Highlights
- Accredited by the British Psychological Society, providing eligibility for Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership
- Option to study abroad for a year or undertake a valuable industry placement
- Conduct your own research projects in state-of-the-art facilities, including the £42 million George Davies Centre
- Learn to apply psychological science to real-world contexts like healthcare, criminology, and organizational behavior
- Flexible pathway to transfer to BSc Psychology, Psychology with Cognitive Neuroscience, or Medicine after the first year
Requirements
Modules
- Foundations of Psychology
- Introduction to Sensation, Perception and Cognition
- Psychological Research Skills 1
- Thinking and Communicating Like a Psychologist 1
- Introduction to Social, Developmental and Applied Psychology
- Introduction to Brain and Behaviour
- Psychological Research Skills 2
- Thinking and Communicating Like a Psychologist 2
- Psychopathology: an integrated approach to disorders of the mind
- Social and Developmental Psychology
- Practical Research Skills in Psychology
- Topics in Professional Psychology
- Information Processing and Cognition
- Applied Psychology Research Project
- Topics in Health and Wellbeing
- Topics in Clinical Neuroscience
- Topics in Social and Developmental Psychology
- Introduction to Programming for Psychology
- Sustainability Enterprise Partnership Project
- Cognitive Horizons: Exploring brain and cognition
- Advanced Social and Developmental Psychology
- Advanced Applied Psychology
- Applied Psychology Dissertation (double module)
- Judgement and Decision Making
- Visual Cognition: From the laboratory to the real world
- Psychology Across the Lifespan
- Clinical Psychology
- Forensic Psychology
- Data Science Methods for Psychology
- Coaching Psychology
- Occupational Psychology
- Neuroscience of mental health
- Individual Differences and Wellbeing
- Evolution, Cognition and Behaviour
- Clinical and Cognitive Neuropsychology
- Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity
- Psychology in the Educational Context
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