BSc (Hons) Psychology Bachelor's degree at University College Birmingham

You will learn about the role of psychology across diverse cultural, ethnic, and social communities. Here, you will explore contemporary topics within social psychology such as cultural influences on mental health, the impact of marginalisation, the dynamics of intergroup relations, societal attitudes and bias, and social influence.

This module allows the application of your developing psychological knowledge, both to yourself and to others. You will gain opportunities to apply psychology to your own thinking and behaviour, enhancing your reflective skills, which are key to working in the wider psychological workforce and can also assist in your own wellbeing.

This module explores the diverse ways in which individuals vary in their thoughts, feelings and behaviours. You will explore the intricacies of human nature and how and why individual's psychological traits differ.

Research is a core component across psychology, with this module essential to strengthening your understanding of the importance of scientific research across all related topics. Here, you will learn about the importance of evidence-based practice and how research contributes to advancing our understanding of psychological theories and approaches.

This introductory module considers contemporary psychology in the modern world and looks at the evolvement of the discipline. You will be introduced to the historical origins and explore the contextual influences in psychology to explore how thinking and viewpoints have changed.

This module provides you with an overview of key topics in mental health and wellbeing, which connects key ideas from a range of socio-cultural, biological, and clinical perspectives. Here, you will cover a range of factors that contribute to mental health and wellbeing and the techniques and interventions used to manage and treat these.

This module introduces you to key developmental psychology approaches to understanding people from birth through to older adults, with a wide range of developmental stages inbetween. You will learn about typical development and what that may look like, but psychologists are often concerned more with atypical development.

This module focuses on one of the two main approaches to undertaking psychological research. Here, you will develop a richer understanding of research questions that may be best answered by taking a qualitative approach, and from there, grasp the different methodological options to answering such questions.

While studying this module, you will be exposed to a wide range of exciting topics, which will allow you to gain an insight into the inner workings of the human mind. You will study topics such as memory, attention, problem-solving, language and decision-making.

This module will focus on the biological basis of human behaviour, and you will explore the role of genetics and the environment and how the two operate to affect behaviour. You will explore the role of neuroscience and the relationship between the brain and our behaviour.

This module explores the other main approach to undertaking psychological research, which takes a numerical approach to working with data. You will have a fundamental understanding of quantitative research from your first-year research module, and this will help you further explore the importance of identifying and evaluating patterns in behaviour, psychological functioning and experience.

Psychology as a discipline has often been seen to focus on the negatives and problems that exist, with a view to offering solutions and support to overcome them. Positive psychology takes a