BSc (Hons) Psychology (with Foundation year)

• A Level: Must include passes at A2 in at least one subject.
• BTEC: Extended Diploma (QCF) or Diploma (QCF)
• International Baccalaureate: Diploma with 24 points including a minimum of 15 points at Higher Level.
• Other equivalent qualifications accepted by the university.

Note: We would normally expect you to have Grade C in GCSE English and Maths (See below for accepted equivalences)

English Language Requirements:

• Overall IELTS 5.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in Writing and Speaking; minimum 5.5 in Reading and Listening (or recognised equivalent).

You’ll spend around 60 per cent of the Psychology BSc course at the University of East London studying compulsory modules. This will give you a thorough grounding in many different aspects of psychology. Key subjects include forensic psychology, developmental psychology, psychology with sociology, child psychology and clinical and community psychology.

You can choose to stay within the broad area of the Psychology BSc or to specialise in some other areas you have studied – for instance, forensic psychology. There’s plenty of flexibility.

Whatever subjects you study within our huge and broad School, we’ll encourage you to examine them in a sharply critical way. We’ve developed that particular focus over more than 50 years of teaching.

In your final year, you’ll undertake a project on a subject area of your choice for which you’ll design and carry out original research, and analyse and interpret the resulting data.

You’ll have the chance to choose from as many as 19 optional modules – one of the widest ranges of modules on offer in any psychology department in the UK.

Foundation Year
If you don’t meet the entry requirements for a bachelor’s degree, you can study this course as an ‘extended’ four-year programme. You’ll begin with a foundation year, which will prepare you for a successful transition to the degree course a year later.
By the end of the degree you’ll gain the same qualification as those obtaining direct entry to the course but you’ll take one year longer to complete your studies.

• Skills for Success in Psychology
• Debates in Psychology
• Topics in Psychology 
• Psychology in Practice 

Year 1

• Researching Psychological Worlds 
• Perspectives on Behaviour: Biological, Social and Differential 
• Introduction to Cognitive and Developmental Psychology 
• Thinking like a psychologist 

Year 2

• Researching Psychological Worlds 2 
• Applications of psychobiology, individual differences and social psychology
• Topics in Cognitive and Developmental Psychology 

Optional:

• Forensic Psychology: The Justice System
• Cognitive Neuropsychology 
• Psychology of Mental Health 
• The Psychology of Ageing 
• Counselling Psychology 
• Psychological Perspectives on Work Experience 

Year 3

• Psychological Research Project 
• Employability and developing your graduate career pathway 

Optional:

• Forensic Psychology: Criminal Conduct 
• Occupational Psychology 
• Psychology of Choice: Decision Making and Risk Perception 
• Applied Child Psychology 
• Applied Child Psychology with Placement 
• Drugs and Addictive Behaviours 
• Wellbeing and Resilience in the face of conflict and disaster
• Anomalistic Psychology