Bachelor of Science - Psychology (C800)

The BSc (Hons) Psychology programme has been designed to meet the accreditation criteria of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and has received BPS accreditation of the programme. This course will enable students to gain a scientific understanding of the mind, brain, behaviour and experience, as well as the complex interplay between them. Psychological studies have gained increasing importance across a wide range of activities, including human resources, education, sport, social care and the creative industries.

This three year, full-time programme gives students the opportunity to examine the biological, cognitive, developmental, individual difference and social psychological principles underlying everyday experience and behaviour, and then investigating those psychological principles in contexts related to those in which professional psychologists work.

Areas that we explore include at BSc/MSci level include: Is the internet making us miserable? Why is obesity so much higher in Western countries? Can we minimise the effects of dementia? Can men and women be friends? Are people born evil? Is love all we need? How can we eat ourselves healthy? Do we all have criminal intent? What is complete well-being? Can we remember what really happened? Can we define complete wellbeing?

The programme is designed to take students from an analysis of everyday functions and attendant important behaviours, through core discipline knowledge of theory and empirical findings relevant to those behaviours and others, to an appreciation and understanding of contexts in which psychology can be applied. The BSc (Hons) Psychology programme sets psychological investigation and knowledge into everyday functions, and encourages students to ask what behaviours are involved in those functions, and how may those behaviours be explained using psychological constructs and methods of investigation. A questioning approach to behaviour is thus encouraged from year one.