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Course Overview

The highlight

  • Take a route that is ideal if you are looking to change your career or exploring areas that are new to you: the foundation year gives you a strong platform for success. It is also a great route into the degree if you don't meet the requirements for the 3-year course. 
  • Learn from lecturers at the forefront of psychological research – you’ll have opportunities to contribute to their projects and to conduct your own research
  • Use specialist facilities, including our psychological observation suite and eye tracker equipment, EEG for recording brain activity, and a Babylab for ethical research with babies and young children
  • Take the opportunity to go on an optional work placement and add substance to your CV
  • Psychological studies can help shape healthier societies across the world. Our course content links to global initiatives including the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals where 'Good Health and Wellbeing' is prioritized
  • Gain the undergraduate qualification you need to enter postgraduate training to become a professional psychologist.

Expert teaching

As a student at the University of Derby, you'll be working with lecturers and tutors who have a wealth of knowledge and experience and are carrying out research designed to offer fresh perspectives on issues that are significant at every stage of life, from birth to old age. Their wide-ranging work includes research into:

  • Maternal health and the cognitive, motor and social development of new-borns, to help improve health care during childhood
  • Different aspects of mental health and wellbeing on themes such as maths-induced anxiety, eating disorders, addiction and irrational thinking
  • Compassion and mindfulness, delivering findings that can help tackle issues of self-esteem and foster sensitive support for others
  • The psychological aspects of pain, anxiety and addiction, and the effects each can have on identity and relationships
  • Emotional processing in relation to well-being, compassion and attentional biases and visual attention
  • The positive benefits that can be derived from engagement with the natural environment

You’ll benefit from this research as your lecturers bring the latest thinking to your studies, and in some cases, you will have opportunities to get involved in research projects yourself. 

Entry Requirement 

Academic Requirements:

Requirement What we're looking for
UCAS points 72
Specific requirements at A-level

No specific subject requirements

Specific requirements at GCSE

GCSE Maths and English are preferred, however if you don't have these qualifications you will be able to undertake Maths and English at Level 2 as part of your course of study.

IELTS 6.5 (with at least 6.0 in each skills area)
Interview / Audition N/A
Portfolio N/A

Alternative entry qualifications:

  • BTEC - MPP
  • Pass Access to HE Diploma with 60 credits: 45 at Level 3 and 15 at Level 2

English language Requirements

IELTS: 6.5 (with at least 6.0 in each skills area)

Fees

Type Full-time Part-time
UK

£9250 per year

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International/EU

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This information was accurate on : 26/04/2021
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