Nutrition and Psychology BSc Honours
UCAS Code: BC48
(3 or 4 Years)
Our degrees are divided into Stages. Each Stage lasts for an academic year and you need to complete modules totalling 120 credits by the end of each Stage.
Please be aware that programme modules do change and therefore may differ for your year of entry.
Stage 1
Compulsory modules
- ACE1013 Introduction to Genetics
- ACE1018 Introduction to Nutrition and Food Science
- ACE1050 Developing Skills to Make Sense of Global Challenges - Sustainable Development
- BIO1019 Introductory Biochemistry for Biologists
- MAS1401 Statistical Methods
- PSY1002 Developmental and Social Psychology
- PSY1004 Cognitive Psychology
- PSY1005 Sensation and Perception
- PSY1006 Instinct, Learning and Motivation
- PSY1008 Personality and Abnormal Psychology
Stage 2
Compulsory modules
- ACE2037 Experimental Human Nutrition
- ACE2038 Nutrition in the Lifecycle
- ACE2048 Communicating about Food and Nutrition
- ACE2058 Research Methods for Food and Human Nutrition
- ACE2059 Nutrition and Metabolism
- PSY2001 Developmental Psychology
- PSY2003 Social Psychology
- PSY2004 Individual Differences
- PSY2007 Biological Psychology: Sex, Drugs, Rhythms and Blues
- PSY2014 Cognitive Neuroscience
- PSY2016 Abnormal Psychology and Psychiatry
Work placement (optional)
You may choose to spend a year between Stages 2 and 3 on an approved work placement in the UK or abroad. During this year, you will complete a report about the work undertaken during your placement. If you do, you will take the following compulsory module:
Stage 3
Compulsory modules
Optional modules
You take 90 credits from the following list:
- ACE2053 Developing Graduate Skills for Professional Practice
- ACE3053 Nutrition and Disease
- ACE3054 Plants as Foods
- ACE3062 Sports and Exercise Nutrition
- ACE3901 Joint Honours Project
- PSY3009 Cooperation
- PSY3013 Eating Disorders: Diagnosis, Assessment and Treatment
- PSY3020 Face Perception
- PSY3025 Forensic Psychology
- PSY3027 Disorders of Development: A Psychological Perspective
Please note: This degree is not currently accredited by the Association for Nutrition or the British Psychological Society
