Psychology BSc Honours (C800)

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.

• 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

• PSY2001 Developmental Psychology
• 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
• PSY2015 Introduction to Professional Skills

You also take two modules from the list below:

• PSY2002 Visual Perception
• PSY2006 Animal Cognition
• PSY2014 Cognitive Neuroscience
• PSY2016 Abnormal Psychology and Psychiatry
• PSY2017 Clinical Psychology

After Stage 2 and before Stage 3, you may have the opportunity to spend one academic year on a professional placement approved by the Degree Programme Director. During your placement year, you complete the following compulsory module:

• PSY3000 Psychology Professional Placement Year

• PSY3097 Empirical Project
• PSY3029 Professional Skills Module

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 and Medicine
• PSY3006 Consumer Psychology
• PSY3008 Art, Mind and Brain
• PSY3009 Co-operation
• PSY3016 Sex and Human Nature
• PSY3018 The Damaged Brain: Case Studies in Neuropsychology
• PSY3020 Face Perception
• PSY3022 The Psychology of Financial Decision Making
• PSY3026 Psychology of Religion
• PSY3027 Disorders of Development
• PSY3028 Work Psychology
• PSY3030 Forensic Psychology
• PSY3031 The Psychology of Teaching and Learning
• PSY3032 Dementia: Causes and Treatment
• PSY3033 Eating Disorders

You may replace 20 credits of the above modules with 20 credits of modules from Stage 2 or Stage 3 offered by another unit.

Psychology has an impact on all areas of life and this means that there are lots of different career paths. Use the interactive tool on the British Psychological Society (BPS) website to learn more about different types of psychology and to decide what type of psychologist you want to be.

For some careers you may need to undertake further study.

• If you wish to become a practising psychologist, you will need a combination of practical experience and further specialist training after you graduate.
  
  
• If you want to become a clinical or an educational psychologist you would also need to complete the appropriate three-year doctorate programme.
  
  
• Career paths in other areas of psychology usually require a related one-year MSc programme, for example an MSc in forensic psychology or an MSc in occupational psychology.

Many psychology graduates choose not to enter the psychological professions. Their degrees take them into a wide range of careers where they can apply their skills of report writing, data analysis, computing and communication skills. An understanding of the behaviour of groups and individuals is particularly valuable.

Possible careers include: management and administration; human resources; banking and finance; social work; teaching; the media; librarianship; and marketing.

Find out further information about the career options for Psychology from Prospects: The UK's Official Careers Website.

Gaining an honours degree in psychology at Newcastle gives you the Graduate Basis for Registration with the British Psychological Society (BPS) providing you achieve lower second class honours or above. This means you can join the BPS and will be eligible to go on to further training and, if successful, to practice as a professional psychologist.

For information on joining the BPS when you graduate, and for joining the BPS student group for the time you are here, see http://