BSc (Hons) Psychology at Teesside University

A BPS-accredited psychology degree that builds theory, knowledge and research skills for academic or practitioner psychology and other careers. Students tackle local community issues such as wellbeing, gambling-related harms and the impact of poverty on mental health.

Duration: 3 years full-time (4 years with foundation year); part-time up to 5 years  |  Intake: September  |  Study mode: full-time, part-time  |  Location: Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Year 1 includes Bias-Busters, Introduction to Mental Health and Psychopathologies and The Psychology of (Almost) Everything. Year 2 covers Biological Psychology, Cognition, Developmental Psychology, Individual Differences and Applying Social Psychology to a Complex World. The final year has a Psychology Dissertation, Change Makers and three options such as Cyberpsychology, Clinical Psychopathologies and Sex, Crime and Behaviour.

Career pathways

Graduates who achieve a 2.2 or above can apply for Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership of the British Psychological Society and are suited to postgraduate training as a Chartered Psychologist; they can also enter health and social welfare, the probation and prison services, the police, voluntary organisations and the public sector.

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