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BSc Psychology (with Foundation Year)
About this course
Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behaviour, asking how people think, feel, and act, and why individual and group behaviour takes the forms it does. It is one of the most popular degree subjects in UK higher education, combining rigorous experimental method and statistical analysis with a rich body of theory about everything from perception and memory to personality, social influence, and mental health. Studying psychology develops analytical thinking, research skills, and an evidence-based understanding of human behaviour that is valuable across many professional fields. At the University of Winchester, this four-year full-time programme includes an integrated foundation year at the start, offering an extra year of study at the beginning of the degree that leads directly into the full three-year programme. The foundation year is designed to boost your academic skills, build confidence, and develop subject knowledge so you can succeed at degree level, making the programme suitable for students who wish to develop their scientific and academic foundations before engaging with degree-level psychology. You will study the core areas of the discipline, including cognitive, social, developmental, and biological psychology, research methods, and statistics. Entry typically requires around 72 UCAS tariff points. Psychology graduates pursue a wide range of careers. Those who wish to become professional psychologists continue to postgraduate training in clinical, educational, forensic, occupational, health, or sport psychology. Others work in human resources, social work, marketing and consumer research, counselling, teaching, healthcare, and research. The combination of scientific rigour and understanding of human behaviour that a psychology degree develops is transferable across virtually every professional sector.
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