Year 1 Modules:

• Applied Psychology
• Distress and Mental Health
• Introduction to Biological & Cognitive Psychology
• Introduction to Research Design
• Introduction to Social and Developmental Psychology
• Introduction to Statistics for Psychology
• Natural, unnatural, supernatural: the psychology of unusual phenomena
• Understanding self and others better: an introduction to counselling theories

Year 2 Compulsory Modules:

• Biological and Cognitive Psychology
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Developmental & Social Psychology
• Issues and perspectives in counselling
• Person-centred counselling theory
• Qualitative and Survey Research Design
• Statistics for Psychology

Year 2 Optional Modules:

• Cognitive Development
• Psychopathology
• The Psychology of Advertising

Year Abroad (optional):

This will be an excellent opportunity to learn the differences between the way Psychology is approached and studied in different countries.  

Year 3 Compulsory Modules:

• Counselling skills and perspectives
• Culture and Psychology
• Final Year Project
• Individual Differences and Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology
• Key Readings in Cognitive Psychology
• Personal and professional development in person-centred counselling

Year 3 Optional Modules:

• Faces, Forgetting and Forensic Psychology
• Groups, Crowds and Conflict
• Health Psychology
• Making a Difference with Psychology
• Psychology in Education
• The Psychology of Deviance

This degree is accredited by the British Psychology Society, and fulfils some of the requirements for becoming either a Chartered Psychologist or a Counselling Psychologist. The next step for either career path is an MSc such as Keele’s Counselling and Psychotherapy degree. With a bit more study, they can set out on career paths such as Clinical, Counselling, Educational, Occupational, Sports or Forensic Psychologist, or work towards a career as a Counsellor.