BSc (Hons) Psychology and Counselling modules
Psychological Research Design and Analysis 1
Year 1 core modules
- Counselling 1: Introduction to Counselling and Counselling Theories
- Critical Thinking about Psychology
- Introduction to Core Areas in Psychology
- Introduction to Social Theory 2
- Psychological Research Design and Analysis 1
Year 2 core modules
- Biological and Social Psychology
- Cognitive Psychology
- Counselling 2: Basic Counselling Skills and Theory across Individual and Group Situations
- Psychological Research Design and Analysis 2
and one optional module
- Complementary Medicine and Health Psychology
- Health Psychology and Complementary Medicine
- Positive Psychology: Wellbeing and Happiness
- Psychological Research Skills
- Psychology of Communication
- Theoretical Approaches to Forensic Psychology
- Theoretical Approaches to Psychology and Education
Final-year core modules
- Counselling 3: Contemporary Issues, Contexts and Problems
- Dissertation
- The Psychology of Development and Individual Differences
and two optional modules (one must be a psychology module)
- Applied Forensic Psychology
- Issues in Psychology
- Psychology of Learning Disabilities
- The Psychology of Criminal and Sexual Offending
- The Psychology of Sex and Intimate Relationships
Modules across the school also available
Modules offered may vary.
The module aims to provide a foundation in psychological research methods and analysis. A range of experimental and non-experimental methodological approaches will be considered. The SPSS package for Windows will be introduced and used for purposes of statistical analysis and graph drawing techniques. It also introduces students to simple qualitative research and data collection methods.
Module content includes ethics in research, qualitative and quantitative methods, survey design, simple non-experimental and experimental designs, reliability and validity, probability, hypothesis testing, descriptive data analysis, simple non-parametric and parametric statistical analysis and research report writing. By the end of this module students should be able to identify the appropriate method needed to tackle a range of research questions, analyse the resulting data and draw appropriate conclusions.