BSc (Hons) Psychology (Distance Learning)

• 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).

As a distance learner you’ll cover the same material, and the same amount of material, as if you were doing the Psychology BSc (Hons) on campus.

You’ll spend around 60 per cent of the course studying compulsory modules. We’ll give you a thorough grounding in different aspects of psychology.

Core topics are developmental, social, cognitive, biological and individual difference psychology, as well as research methods and critical thinking.  

Optional modules include forensic psychology, health psychology and mental health.

Whatever you study within this huge and broad School, we’ll encourage you to view it in a sharply critical way. It’s an approach we’ve developed over more than 50 years of teaching.

In your final year you’ll undertake a project on a subject area of your choice, in the course of which you’ll be designing and carrying out original research, as well as analysing and interpreting data. You’ll also have the choice of 11 optional modules – a reflection of the extraordinary breadth of knowledge within our School.

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