BA (Hons) Psychosocial Studies Bachelor's degree at East London

Gain essential skills to boost your career prospects, particularly for roles connected to health and wellbeing fields. You'll engage with digital platforms, industry-led workshops, and real-world tasks to build confidence in communication, research, and digital professionalism.

Prepare for success in higher education by developing the academic, personal, and professional skills needed for your studies and beyond. You'll learn effective time management, research strategies, digital proficiency, and academic writing techniques, with a strong focus on reflective learning and goal setting.

Practical maths skills are essential across health and education careers. You'll explore statistics, probability, and basic financial numeracy, learning how to apply them to real workplace scenarios.

Essential communication skills underpin success at university and beyond. This module focuses on developing your oral, written, and interpersonal abilities, preparing you to adapt your communication style to different academic and professional contexts.

Future educators need strong project management and reflective skills, and this module sets you on that path. Through a year-long educational project, you'll develop leadership abilities, professional communication, and practical knowledge of teaching and learning processes.

The module aims to ground and complement other shared or common level 4 programme modules by providing an introduction to the key Vision 2028 'UEL Graduate Attributes'. The module takes a psychosocial approach to exploring 'the self' in both personal and professional contemporary contexts.

This module offers an introduction to the different aspects of identity and invites you to appreciate the historical, ideological, sociological and psychic coordinates of aspects of identity such as race, gender, class, religion, etc.

This module introduces you to a range of psychological theories relevant for psychosocial studies. The emphasis is on psychological and emotional wellbeing. Topics include: Freudian psychoanalysis; Behaviourism; Humanistic Psychology; Mindfulness; Community and Group Psychology; Theories of Social Learning; Emotion Psychology, etc.

This module focuses on how we develop a caring capacity for ourselves and others, our communities and the natural environment, in the contemporary, digitised world.

The aim of the module is to introduce students to key debates in contemporary Sociology, including discussions of political ideologies and their impact on lives; social change and inequalities; gender and sexualities; feminism and bodies; coloniality and decoloniality; race and racism, environmental crisis; religion and more.

The aim of this module is to support you in relationship-based and relational practice in a range of community settings, including education, health, social care, youth and community work.

This module aims to introduce you to a range of planning and fundraising models and techniques used in the third sector. It will build your competence and confidence in designing and presenting your own projects and fundraising ideas.

This module examines different approaches to 'mental illnesses' and their treatment. The module examines the emergence of the category of psychological illness as a particular area of knowledge from the 18th century onward.

This module builds on the work undertaken in SY4015 and aims to develop your knowledge, understanding and capacity for relational and reflexive practice. It supports you to develop relevant knowledge, skills and experience for post-graduate study, training and work in health, social care, education or youth and community work settings.

This module familiarises you with the principles of helping and counselling, and provides some important practical skills that are useful to any professional working in frontline services or, more generally, with clients.