My name's Chris Hand and I'm the program
leader for the BSc honours Applied
Psychology programs
So our BSC applied psychology is a
British Psychological Society
accredited degree, it covers a huge range
of topics choices from interpersonal
behaviors, interpersonal relationships, health
behaviors mental health and wellbeing , cyber
psychology, group dynamics, Sport and
Exercise psychology, forensic criminal
psychology it's all about understanding
why people behave the way they behave
why people behave one way in some situations
or differently in another it's all about
understanding the relationship between
what happens internally in our brains and in our
bodies and how we behave externally.
it's about learning, and all aspects of human life and human interaction.
The course is
open to all students we have a really
diverse cohort of students from traditional
students younger adults mature
students people who have had background
in the industry or the voluntary or
health services education services it's
particularly suitable for people who
have an interest in understanding
people's behavior, people's lifestyle choices
and indeed understanding ourselves. We have a really rich diverse group of students from a
variety of backgrounds socially
culturally it's quite an exciting place
to be, its open to anyone who wants to learn more about themselves and society in general.
Graduates from our BSc course
go on to a very wide range of environments
a number of students do go on to be
professional psychologists working with
vulnerable individuals and health
counseling well-being prison service
educational psychologists. After doing a
chartership route postgraduate many of
our students go in and work in marketing
in hospitality and sports and events and
management in the Armed Forces the
police forces in education. Psychology isn't
traditional in that sense people
don't tend to go into one particular
line of work and that actually makes it
quite an exciting subject to study
because you get the you know the
skills and the experiences that will
prepare you for all of those kind of
destinations but at the same time not
pidgeon holing you into one particular
route. It's quite exciting to see where
people go at six months one year five
years after the degree
people travel internationally some stay in the UK, voluntary sector work care
work is really really rich
and varied it's a very very sought after degree by empolyers.
Students in our BSC
program can tailor their options in third and fourth year so
they can graduate with a bracketed title
we are unique in offering students the
opportunity to graduate whith the BSc in
applied psychology armed with the bracketed
titles of BSC applied with forensic
psychology with counselling psychology
with health psychology and with Sport and
Exercise psychology which may smooth
transition into those specialists
chartered areas of postgraduate study. In
the third year of study in the first
trimester psychology students have the
opportunity to go an international
exchange anywhere in the world whether
suitable the psychology Partnership
Program. Our students have the
opportunity to study modules outside of
psychology including Social Sciences
like economics and politics and history or
Modern Languages to again support
students who maybe want to live or work
abroad or for those students who simply
want to learn a language.
So our BSc applied psychology is unique
and we offer students alternative routes
into the program. There's the traditional
route for school leavers and there's an
opportunity to join us at level 2 after
completing an HNC in social sciences
or an opportunity to join us at level 3
with an HND in social sciences we
also have a recognition of prior
learning policy for people who maybe
studied elsewhere other disciplines had
work and life experiences we are not
closed off to people who have a variety
of educational and lifestyle backgrounds.
Our undergraduate pathways align very
closely with masters and doctoral level
programs such as our taught doctorates
in Sport and Exercise psychology health
psychology and counseling psychology as
well as our MSc in Forensic psychology
