This degree program is typically delivered over 3 years at full time.

Initially, you’ll be ‘learning how to learn’ by gaining a solid foundation in the principles and applications of psychology. In your second year you’ll learn more advanced concepts, as well as undertaking a work placement module. Your final year will see you specialising your learning to suit your chosen career pathway, as well as undertaking a dissertation.

Year 1 Modules Include:

• Classic Studies and Contemporary Issues in Psychology
• Foundations of Psychology
• Global Perspectives and Contexts in Psychology
• Introduction to Work Related Learning
• Principles and Applications of Psychology
• Research Design and Analysis 1
• The Reflective Learner in Psychology and Counselling

Year 2 Modules Include:

• Cognition and the Brain
• Human Development: an Ethological Approach
• Research Design and Analysis 2
• The Individual in Society
• Therapeutic Approaches in Psychology
• Work Placement

Year 3 Modules Include:

• Applications of Psychology to the Criminal Justice System
• Educational Psychology
• Health Psychology
• Neuropsychology
• Psychological Distress and Mental Well-Being
• Psychology Dissertation
• Psychology in Question
• Quantitative Research Methods
• Work Psychology

What you learn in this degree program will be relevant in many business and research roles throughout the public, private and not for profit sectors. Because all of Newman University’s undergraduate degree courses include working placements, Newman graduates stand out from the crowd.

Many recent graduates of Newman University’s Mathematics BSc program have gone on to study for their professional qualifications, becoming clinical, educational, occupational, forensic, counselling or health and sport psychologists