FndCert International Foundation Programme (Psychology) full time

Modules

Modules listed below are a mixture of compulsory and optional. You may not have the opportunity to study all the modules as part of the course.

• The Individual and Society
• Research Methods in Social Science
• Perspectives in Psychology
• Key Studies in Psychology
• Stage C for IFP and Pre-Masters
• Stage D for IFP and Pre-Masters

Teaching, Learning And Assessment

You’ll get to experience a range of teaching approaches on this course, and we’ll work to help you develop the study and learning strategies that best support you as you acquire and develop your psychology knowledge, language and academic skills. Each module you study will have a practical focus, and timetabled sessions will allocate time to tuition, group work and assignment/IT workshops. Each week, we offer 20 hours of tuition, including workshops or seminars, plus an hour’s academic tutorial to support you with assignments. Our teaching approach places emphasis on facilitation, whereby your tutor will guide and support you as you complete a variety of tasks.

In tutorial sessions, we’ll also give you detailed and constructive feedback on your progress, and help you find your own strategies for successfully completing the course. In addition, you’ll have access to our Virtual Learning Environment – a website with a wide range of additional learning materials, interactive content and support resources.

Our assessments are formative and summative. Formative assessment involves one-to-one discussions about your work, presentations and some group work, and while it doesn’t contribute directly to your marks for each module or overall qualification, it’s designed to guide and support you towards successful learning outcomes. Summative assessments are written assignments including reports, portfolios and case studies, plus presentations and in-class assessments, for which you’ll accumulate marks towards your final qualification.

Disclaimer

The university will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver your course as described in its published material and the programme specification for the academic year in which you begin your course. Please be aware that our courses are subject to review on an ongoing basis. The content of course modules and mode of associated assessments may be updated on an annual basis. This is to ensure that all modules are up to date and responsive to employment and sector needs. The published course material and the programme specification contain indicative ‘optional modules’ that may be subject to change due to circumstances outside of our control. For this reason we cannot guarantee to run any specific optional module.