Psychology BSc

Programme structure

The modules we outline here provide examples of what you can expect to learn on this degree course based on recent academic teaching. The precise modules available to you in future years may vary depending on staff availability and research interests, new topics of study, timetabling and student demand.

The following tables describe the programme and constituent modules. Constituent modules may be updated, deleted or replaced as a consequence of the annual programme review of this programme.

You may take optional modules as long as any necessary prerequisites have been satisfied, where the timetable allows and if you have not already taken the module in question or an equivalent module.

You may take elective modules up to 30 credits outside of the programme in stage 1 as long as any necessary prerequisites have been satisfied, where the timetable allows and if you have not already taken the module in question or an equivalent module.

Year 1

90 credits of compulsory modules, 30 credits of optional modules

Compulsory modules

* The Statistics examination component of PSY1205 must also be passed at 40%.

CodeModuleCredits PSY1202Introduction to Biological Psychology 15 PSY1203Introduction to Social Psychology 15 PSY1204Introduction to Clinical Psychology 15 PSY1205Introduction to Statistics [* see note above]15 PSY1206Introduction to Research Methods 15 PSY1207Cognition, Emotion and Development 15 Optional modules CodeModuleCredits PSY1105Introduction to Behaviour and Evolution 15 PSY1126Classic Studies in Psychology 15 Year 2

90 credits of compulsory modules, 30 credits of optional modules

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits PSY2203Social Psychology II 15 PSY2205Personality and Individual Differences 15 PSY2206Methods and Statistics in Psychology II 15 PSY2303Cognition and Emotion 15 PSY2304Biological Basis of Behaviour 15 PSY2306Development Psychology and Psychopathology 15 Optional modules CodeModuleCredits PSY2209Cognition Practical I 15 PSY2210Social Practical I 15 PSY2212Cognition Practical II 15 PSY2213Social Practical II 15 PSY2214Observations and Experiments in Animal Behaviour 15 PSY2216Qualitative Methods and Interview Skills 15 PSY2217Wild Behaviour 15 Year 3

75 credits of compulsory modules, 45 credits of optional modules

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits PSY3401Psychology Research Project 45 PSY3402Methods and Statistics in Psychology III 15 PSY3403Contemporary Issues in Psychology 15 Optional modules

* You must choose three 15 credit seminar modules in the series starting PSY3410. Seminars are arranged into three groups: Group 1, Group 2, and Group 3.

You must take one seminar from each group and the three seminars cannot all be taken in the same term.

You are also permitted to take the five credit module PSY3906 Psychology Research Internship in the second or final years. Registration on this module is subject to a competitive application process. If taken, this module will not count towards progression or award calculation.

CodeModuleCredits Psychology final year - Group 1 - 2015/6 PSY3410Stereotypes and Stereotyping15 PSY3411Psychology and Law15 PSY3412The Psychology of Gender15 PSY3413Communication and Social Groups15 PSY3415Social Psychology of Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviour15 PSY3416Work and Organisational Psychology15 PSY3424Applied Social Psychology: Health, Environment and Society15 Psychology final year - Group 2 - 2015/6 PSY3417The Associative Mind15 PSY3418Processes of Human Memory15 PSY3419Studying Cognition and Emotion with Brain Imaging15 PSY3420Brain Plasticity and Language Learning Across the Lifespan15 PSY3421Neuroethology15 PSY3422Comparative Cognition15 PSY3423The Evolution of Social Behaviour and Social Organisation15 PSY3429Associative Basis of Addictive Behaviour15 Psychology final year - Group 3 - 2015/6 PSY3411Psychology and Law15 PSY3425Cognitive Behavioural Approaches to Mood Disorders15 PSY3426Parental Psychiatric Disorders and Children's Development15 PSY3427Compulsive Behaviour15 PSY3430Women's Mental Health15 PSY3433Clinical Perspectives on Altered States of Consciousness15 PSY3435Transdiagnostic Approaches to Psychological Disorders15

I would recommend Psychology at the University of Exeter to my friends. The variety of work we cover in the course is so broad that there is always something to interest you.

Joe Coley, Psychology student.