Psychology

Study mode:On campus Study type:Full-time Languages: English
Local:$ 9 k / Year(s) Foreign:$ 12 k / Year(s) Deadline: Jan 15, 2025
301–350 place StudyQA ranking:3483 Duration:36 months

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Description

Our BA Psychology is fully accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS). This is required for graduate psychology courses and allows you to obtain graduate membership of the BPS. We cover core areas in psychology, including: developmental psychology; intelligence; language; memory; perception; social psychology; health psychology; and research methods and statistics.

Why study BA Psychology at Essex?

Our Department of Psychology has a strong reputation for research and teaching, with over half of our research defined as either ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ in the last Research Assessment Exercise (RAE, December 2008) and a ranking of thirteenth in the UK in the 2010 National Student Survey.
We provide excellent state-of-the-art facilities for study, with extensive laboratory space for experimental psychology and special facilities for visual and auditory perception, developmental psychology and social psychology, with our Hearing Research Laboratory and our Visual Perception Unit. We also have our Centre for Brain Sciences (CBS), a state-of-the-art research facility dedicated to the study of brain activity in relation to psychological processes. This provides a dynamic resource for psychology and neuroscience, with specialised laboratories for investigating brain activity.

Why study this subject?

Psychology impacts on every aspect of human behaviour. What drives people to act, respond, remember and recognise things in the way they do? How do we understand relationships and interpret the behaviour of others? Psychology attempts to answer these questions in a systematic way.
Psychologists conduct experiments to study our perceptions, decisions, prejudices, motivations, friendships and memory. Developmental researchers investigate how people develop over childhood and change into old age. Psychology also addresses how the brain and body affects all of these processes. Where in the brain do they occur? How are they represented?
Other psychologists examine disordered behaviour. This may occur as a result of brain injury, disease or life experience. Studying these disorders will improve our understanding of them, and can often teach us about healthy mental processes too. Psychology now influences an increasing range of fields, from working with clinical disorders, to managing education and training. Today, it is widely used in industry, sport and employment to improve performance, as well as affecting legal and health matters.

Detailed Course Facts

Application deadline January 15 Tuition fee
  • GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
  • GBP 11950 Year (Non-EEA)
Start date October 2015 Duration full-time 36 months Languages Take an IELTS test
  • English
Delivery mode On Campus Educational variant Full-time

Course Content

The special characteristics of our courses are flexibility and choice. In your first year, you usually take four or five modules that include pre-requisite(s) for your course but, in many cases, mean you can try subjects you have not come across before. If you are taking a humanities or social science, then you have the greatest choice, as most of our first-year modules do not assume any specialist knowledge.
With a small number of exceptions, if you successfully complete the first year of your BA, then you are qualified to enter the second year of that course and a range of other courses: for example, if you take economics, politics, philosophy and sociology, then you have a choice of at least nine possible single or joint honours courses at the end of your first year. This means you can change your course, providing you have taken the appropriate pre-requisites and places are available. We offer a range of optional modules in your second- and final-years and most courses allow you to undertake a final-year project, an individual piece of research on a topic that interests you.
We operate a credit framework for our awards, which is based on principles widely used across the UK university sector. Each module has a credit rating attached and our standard three-year course consists of 360 credits (120 credits in your first year, and 240 credits across your second and final years).
Please note that module information on our course finder provides a guide to course content and may be subject to review on an annual basis.

Year 1

Discovering Psychology;
Research Methods in Psychology;
Statistics for Psychologists; and
one outside option (which includes options in politics, sociology, philosophy and linguistics)

Year 2

Psychology Research;
Brain and Behaviour;
Cognitive Psychology I;
Cognitive Psychology II;
Developmental Psychology;
Social Psychology; and
Personality and Individual Differences

Year 3

Research project; and
six psychology options (with the possibility of taking up to two outside options from another department)

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6

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Requirements

A-levels: AAB-ABB
GCSE Mathematics: C
GCSE English: C
IB: 33-32 points, including Standard Mathematics grade 4, if not taken at Higher Level (We consider IB certificates at the Higher Level on a case-by-case basis).
Achievement of the Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 6 level three credits at distinction and the remainder at merit (or above).
English language requirements for applicants whose first language is not English: IELTS 6.0 overall with minimum 5.5 in each component (or equivalent). Different requirements apply for second year entry.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

  • Academic Excellence Scholarship

    "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

  • Access Bursary

    Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

  • Alumni Bursary

    Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than University of Essex.

Funding

For up-to-date information on funding opportunities at Essex, please visit: www.essex.ac.uk/studentfinance.

Accreditation

Our BA Psychology is fully accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS). This is required for graduate psychology courses and allows you to obtain graduate membership of the BPS. We cover core areas in psychology, including: developmental psychology; intelligence; language; memory; perception; social psychology; health psychology; and research methods and statistics.

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