C81F Applied Psychology with Foundation Year BSc (Hons) 5 years

Skills and experience gained The aims of the programme are: To provide an understanding and critical awareness of a range of issues, theories and empirical methods across the core areas of psychology, to demonstrate how the application of psychological knowledge can help inform and explain human behaviour - most notably by providing the opportunity for practical experience in relevant professional contexts, to enable you to gain and fully develop a broad range of research skills and methods, including quantitative and qualitative methods, throughout your degree, resulting in an ability to design and conduct a small-scale research project in psychology. It aims to promote a culture of learning in which you are encouraged to contribute towards your own learning outcomes through reflection on your own performance and by developing your autonomy, to encourage you to reach your personal potential by enhancing your knowledge, skills and self awareness through the development of critical enquiry, analysis, evaluation, reflection and synthesis, to emphasise the applied nature of psychology and the employability skills that a psychology degree confers by building employability into the curriculum. After the course On completing this course students are likely to progress into the following areas: Public services (such as, the health service, education, the Civil Service), assistant psychologist, research, market research, personnel management, Police force, postgraduate study leading towards working as a professional psychologist, for example working as a clinical or educational psychologist. You will develop a sound training in...