BSc (Hons) Psychology with Child Development 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.

Psychological thinking requires a blend of analytical and practical skills. This module guides you through a year-long project where you'll explore research methods, communication, and applied psychological inquiry.

The module aims to support you in your transition to degree-level study of psychology, introducing you to new ways of thinking that have psychology at the core. You will learn about psychological principles that have value in everyday life and learning.

In this cognitive and developmental psychology module, we explore the mechanisms that process information about the world (such as perception, memory, and attention) and by which we develop our responses to it (e.g., by thinking, communicating, and shaping behaviour by our learning).

The aim of this Psychology in Applied Contexts module is to introduce you to the ways in which psychology is used in professional roles and graduate-level employment.

This module aims to introduce you to key approaches to research in psychology, including research design, data analysis, evaluating and writing up research. This module will focus on research methods appropriate to questions relating to smaller sample sizes.

This module aims to introduce you to key approaches to research in psychology, including research design, data analysis, evaluating and writing up research. This module will focus on research methods appropriate to questions relating to larger sample sizes.

This module has three principal aims: (i) to develop a critical and historical awareness of theories of, and issues relating to, individual differences (ii) to instil an understanding of, and foster respect for, diversity; (iii) to encourage you to be insightful and reflective about your own and others' behaviour and mental processes.

This module is an essential component of any comprehensive psychology degree programme. The module aims to build on material delivered in the level 4 research method modules and provide preparation for the independent research project at level 6 of your psychology programme.

The module builds on your learning at level 4 and explores a range of current issues and topics in cognitive and developmental psychology in greater depth. You will learn about appropriate ways to analyse and interpret findings in these core areas of psychology.

The module will build upon knowledge of the psychobiology and social psychological approaches that were introduced at Level 4. The aim of the module is to develop your knowledge and critical awareness of these major theoretical perspectives for understanding human behaviour.

The module is designed to further develop your awareness of the range of careers, work and volunteering opportunities open to psychology graduates and to support your engagement with personal and professional development strategies.

This optional psychology module introduces you to the theoretical underpinnings of cognitive neuroscience and to the practical skills necessary to conduct research in cognitive neuroscience.

The main aims of this forensic psychology module are: To introduce concepts and issues in forensic and criminological psychology. To provide an overview of the historical, current and potential future relationships between psychology and the criminal justice system.

You will be introduced to the range of debates that have led to a move away from 'positivistic' psychology and towards what is now known as critical social psychology or, 'societal' psychology.

In this module, we will explore the variations and obstacles that arise during different stages of development: infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Our goal is to deepen your understanding of theoretical explanations and important research findings related to developmental challenges and differences.