Psychology Intercalated BSc

Course detail Description

You will study three seminar and lecture-based modules: Abnormal Psychology; Cognitive Neuropsychology; and Health & Illness across the Lifespan. You will also complete the Research Methods & Statistics module, where you’ll learn how to conduct a piece of research from initial question to final report. This module prepares you for, and helps you with, designing, conducting, analysing and reporting your individual research projects. You will learn transferable skills, such as critical evaluation and verbal and written presentation of research. Such skills are essential, particularly if you want to conduct research in your future career, whichever area of medicine you go into.

Teaching

For most modules, we will give you 60 hours of teaching through lectures and seminars, and we will expect you to undertake 240 hours of independent study. For your research project, we will give you 16 hours of lectures and seminars and 20 hours of data handling workshops. We will sometimes make use of outside expertise by inviting eminent scientists.

Module

Lectures

Seminars & tutorials

Data handling workshops

Private study

Other

Abnormal Psychology

60 hours

-

240 hours

-

Cognitive Neuropsychology

60 hours

-

240 hours

Research Methods & Statistics

14 hours

6 hours

14 hours

120 hours

150 hours

Health & Illness across the Lifespan

60 hours

-

240 hours

-

Assessment

For most modules, you will be assessed mostly through written exams, with some coursework and occasionally oral presentations. For your research project, you will mostly be assessed through your dissertation.

Module

Examinations

Essays/Reports/

Dissertations

Presentations/

Orals/ Vivas

Other types of In Course Assessment

Abnormal Psychology

70%

30%

-

Cognitive Neuropsychology

70%

20%

10%

-

Research Methods & Statistics Project

-

70%

20%

10%

Health & Illness across the Lifespan

70%

30%

-

-

Location

This course is taught at our Guy’s Campus on the South Bank of the Thames, putting you at the heart of everything London has to offer in terms of academic resources and also close to its social and entertainment attractions.

Regulating body

King’s College London is regulated by the Higher Education Funding Council for England

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Structure

Year 1

Required modules

• Abnormal Psychology (30 credits)

• Cognitive Neuropsychology (30 credits)

• Research Methods & Statistics (including Research Project) (30 credits)

• Health & Illness across the Lifespan (30 credits)

We also offer a joint programme with the Neuroscience Department. For more information, please see:

We regularly review our modules to make sure our programmes are as up-to-date, innovative and relevant as possible. The modules we offer may therefore change. We suggest that you check the course finder for updates: Required Modules Optional Modules