Our integrated foundation year offers an alternative route onto our psychology degrees, designed to build confidence and develop the academic and study skills to put you in the best position to progress and succeed. Our foundation year is also wholly taught within the School of Psychology, ensuring that it is our content and study skills are specifically tailored to your needs as you take the first steps along your path towards a career in professional psychology and beyond. After completion of this foundation year, you will then progress onto our Psychology honours degree course, or you can choose to study Psychology with Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies, or Psychology with Sociology. Why study a BSc Psychology with Integrated Foundation year at the University of Plymouth? • You will benefit from the full University experience from day one – taught by the same world-leading psychologists that support our other courses providing seamless progression from the foundation year to subsequent years of our degree course. • Hands-on learning in our psychology experiential learning lab. We embedded practical activities throughout the course, so you can put new knowledge into practice and build practical skills for future careers. • Shape the psychologist you want to be. Course choices and our option-based final year give the freedom to explore the areas of psychology that interest and benefit you the most. • As a successful graduate, you are eligible for Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership with the British Psychological Society. • Gain valuable real-world experience by putting your skills and knowledge into practice with an optional placement year, or take part in an international exchange year by studying abroad.

This year has been designed to provide the theoretical knowledge, study skills and support to provide a foundation for further undergraduate study in psychology, providing instruction on a wide variety of psychological approaches. You will gain an understanding of how psychological theories are evaluated using empirical data, and how they can be applied to everyday experience, with a specific focus on health-related issues. This year will also introduce some of the most common careers in psychology, providing early direction along potential career paths. PSYC301: Foundations of Psychology An introduction to the foundational theories and approaches to psychology as a discipline. Psychodynamic, behaviourist, cognitive, humanistic, and systemic approaches are discussed, alongside their associated methodologies. Consideration is also given to how an understanding of these theories and approaches can contribute to other modules studied by the students enrolled in this programme year. PSYC302: The Psychology of Everyday Experience This module introduces psychological research related to various aspects of everyday experience. You will gain an appreciation of how everyday phenomena are related to psychological knowledge and research, allowing you to understand how to apply psychological theory to general life experiences and world events. PSYC303: Psychological Influences on Health and Behaviour Introducing the psychology of choices and behaviour, this module has an emphasis on health. Here you will examine health behaviours, choices, and risks with a particular consideration of how these are influenced by biological and social factors. You will have the opportunity to design and conduct a small research project in groups, with presentation of this project forming the assessment for the module. PSYC304: Career Directions in Psychology Here you will engage with some of the most common career directions taken by psychology from different perspectives, including self-reflections, discussions, and inputs by experts. This module provides an exploration of the skills, experience, and motivations to put you on an early pathway to a successful career in psychology and allied professions. Here you will engage with some of the most common career directions taken by psychology from different perspectives, including self-reflections, discussions, and inputs by experts. This module provides an exploration of the skills, experience, and motivations to put you on an early pathway to a successful career in psychology and allied professions.

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26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Course code: C818

Institution code: P60

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Foundation

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Test	Grade	AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)	6.0	With 5.5 in all elements.

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Student satisfaction : 55%

Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs): 74%

Go onto work and study: 89%

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