Psychology BSc Honours
UCAS Code: C800
(3 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
- PSY1001 Psychological Enquiry 1
- PSY1002 Developmental and Social Psychology
- PSY1003 Evolution and Genetics for Psychologists
- PSY1004 Cognitive Psychology
- PSY1005 Sensation and Perception
- PSY1006 Instinct, Learning and Motivation
- PSY1007 History of Psychology
- PSY1008 Personality and Abnormal Psychology
- PSY1010 Research Methods and Skills 1
- PSY1011 Research Methods and Skills 2
Stage 2
Compulsory modules
- PSY2001 Developmental Psychology
- PSY2002 Visual Perception
- PSY2003 Social Psychology
- PSY2004 Individual Differences
- PSY2006 Comparative Cognition
- PSY2007 Biological Psychology: Sex, Drugs, Rhythms and Blues
- PSY2008 Psychological Enquiry 2: Principles of Psychology
- PSY2009 Methods in Psychology 2A
- PSY2010 Statistics for Experimental Psychology
- PSY2011 Methods in Psychology 2B
- PSY2014 Cognitive Neuroscience
- PSY2016 Abnormal Psychology & Psychiatry
- PSY2015 Introduction to Professional Skills
Stage 3
Compulsory modules
Optional modules
You choose 80 credits of optional modules from the following list with no more than 50 credits to be taken in any semester:
- PSY3001 Evolution of Behaviour
- PSY3002 Evolutionary Psychology
- PSY3006 Consumer Psychology
- PSY3008 Art, Mind and Brain
- PSY3009 Co-operation
- PSY3013 Eating Disorders
- PSY3016 Sex and Human Nature
- PSY3018 The Damaged Brain: Case Studies in Neuropsychology
- PSY3020 Face Perception
- PSY3022 The Psychology of Financial Decision Making
- PSY3023 Health Psychology and Principles of Behaviour Change
- PSY3024 Personality Disorders
- PSY3025 Forensic Psychology
- PSY3026 Psychology of Religion
- PSY3027 Disorders of Development
- PSY3028 Work Psychology
You may replace 20 credits of the above modules with 20 credits of modules from Stage 2 or Stage 3 offered by another unit.
