C8FY Health Psychology with Foundation Year BSc (Hons)

Skills and experience gained The curriculum is largely dictated by the requirements of the British Psychological Society with the overall ethos of the award to provide you with an appreciation and recognition of the discipline of Health Psychology through the study of the main BPS topic areas in Psychology of, social psychology, cognitive psychology, individual differences, problem solving and reasoning, developmental psychology, and biological psychology. You will also be introduced to the study of Human Anatomy and Physiology, Psychology of Mental Health, Counselling and Coaching Psychology and Applied Health Psychology. Emphasis is additionally placed on the acquisition of core skills and personalized learner development, and the fostering of a wide range of research skills and methods relevant to Psychology and Health Psychology. 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, 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, 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, and to emphasise the applied nature of psychology and the employability skills that a psychology degree confers by building...