This course is accredited as conferring eligibility for the Graduate Basis for Chartership, provided the minimum standard of a Second Class Honours is achieved. This is the first step towards becoming a Chartered Psychologist.

While you are with us you will acquire a range of transferable skills valued by employers, and the graduate employment rate among psychology graduates is excellent. While the course provides a basis for postgraduate studies for professional or academic careers in Psychology (e.g. sports psychologist, forensic psychologist, health psychologist), it will also equip you for a range of others including teaching, management consultancy, advertising, health promotion, personnel work, and creative design. The course covers the core British Psychological Society syllabus. Practical classes will equip you with the skills necessary to conduct your own empirical investigations of psychological phenomena.

As a department we can offer you:

• A dedicated academic team offer individual contact and support - you are a name, not a number !
• We regularly participate in BPS Student Conferences and our undergraduates have frequently presented papers at these.
• You will learn in small groups as we believe in the importance of a customised learning experience.
• Our graduates engage in a range of interesting careers from PhDs in Forensic Psychology to computer graphics animators.

Degree Structure

First Year

• Applications of Psychology
• Biological and Cognitive Psychology
• Experimental Methods and Statistical Analysis 1
• Social Psychology & Individual Differences
• Development & Conceptual Ideas

Second Year

• Biological Psychology and Intelligence
• Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology
• Developmental Psychology and Language
• Experimental Methods and Statistical Analysis 2
• Personality and Social Psychology

Third Year

Psychology Project

By doing the project you will gain a systematic  understanding of key aspects of the fields of psychology, including acquisition of coherent and detailed knowledge, and understanding of current developments in applied psychology. You will also develop an appreciation of the uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge and methodology

Options:

(choose four units from the following)

• Ecopsychology & Environmental Psychology
• Forensic Psychology
• Clinical Psychology
• Imagery
• Occupational Psychology
• Reading Acquisition and Autism
• Social Psychology & the Internet
• Psychology of Human Computer Interaction
• Face Recognition & its Disorders
• Visual & Spatial Cognition
• Health, Wellbeing & Older People

Building on our research strengths and research potential, we have several Centres of Research, focused on specific areas of interest, already gaining national and international recognition. These centres are multi-disciplinary, professionally-related areas embodying the BU spirit of cross-school colloboration and support. For more information on our research centres click below:

http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/centres/our_research_centres.html