Psychology with Counselling, BSc (Hons), with industry placement

This course offers a comprehensive study of psychology combined with counselling, providing a broad foundation in core areas such as biological, social, developmental, and cognitive psychology, alongside specialized counselling techniques. Ideal for aspiring psychologists or counsellors, it includes opportunities for a year-long work placement, access to innovative laboratories, and modules tailored to staff research expertise. Accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS), graduates achieving at least a 2.2 honours degree gain eligibility for Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership, supporting further professional training.In the first two years, core modules cover introductory psychology, research methods, statistics, and counselling tools. The final year features a research project, advanced psychology, and optional modules from sets including topics like psychiatric disorders, addictive behaviours, and social development. Assessment includes coursework, exams, presentations, and tests, with additional options for international experiences and employability-focused activities.

In the first two years of your degree, you'll complete an introduction to psychology and counselling with core modules in biological, social, developmental and cognitive psychology, counselling techniques and tools, and you'll undertake training in research methods and statistics. In your final year, you'll sit a further core module in psychology and counselling, and can select specialist final year modules linked to the areas of staff research expertise within Psychology. In your final year you'll also complete a research project in psychology, focused on a topic of your choosing under the supervision of a research-active member of staff. Year One Core modules are: Introduction to Psychology, Research Methods (One), Statistics (One), Approaches to Counselling, Counselling Toolbox, and Counselling in Context. Year Two core modules are: Research Methods and Statistics (Two), Cognitive and Biological Psychology, Social and Developmental Psychology, Analytical Thinking in Counselling, and Personal and Professional Development in Counselling and Interpersonal Skills. Year Three core modules are: Psychology Research Project, Client Issues in Counselling, and Advanced Psychology. You also have the choice of optional modules where you will pick two optional modules one from Set One and one from Set Two. Set One modules include: Biological Perspectives on Psychiatric Disorders Community, Health and Applied Social Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology, Infant Development, Person Perception, Psychology, Educational Needs and Inclusion, Psychology of the Paranormal, Psychology of the Family Statistics III: Advanced Statistics for Research, The Psychology of Sleep, The Psychology of Aging and Neurodegenerative disease, Black and Cultural Psychology. Set Two modules include: Addictive Behaviours, Clinical Neuropsychology Language and Literacy, Development in Children, Psychology of Trauma, Psychopathology and Offending Behaviour, Social Development in Children and Adolescents, The Psychology of Sex Offending, The Science of False Memory.