Course Overview
Educational psychology explores how people learn and facilitates the development of children and young people experiencing problems that impact how they learn. These problems hinder their educational attainment and their experience in educational contexts. This BSc (Hons) Educational Psychology degree is ideal if you want to become an educational psychologist and will develop your knowledge and understanding of psychology and explore how to best apply your knowledge in an educational context. Educational psychologists address learning difficulties, social and emotional problems, issues around disability, and complex developmental disorders in children and young people. They also research ways to improve the development of teacher training and explore parenting and family contexts to discover how parents can help facilitate their children’s learning.
Key Facts
- Full-time- 3 years
- Start Date- September
Entry requirements
- UCAS – 104-120 tariff points
- A-Levels- BBB-BCC
- BTEC/Cambridge Technical – DDM-DMM
- GCSEs C/4 or higher English, mathematics, and a science
- IB- 26- 28 points
- Access to HE Diploma- Pass including 12 science credits at Merit
- IELTS- 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5.
Careers
This BSc (Hons) Educational Psychology degree will prepare you for a range of careers in education and psychology and you will graduate with transferable skills in many more fields. You may work with children, young people, families, teachers, carers, schools, and the wider community. You may work in a local educational authority, schools, colleges, nurseries, or special units. You could work as a psychology assistant, in education settings, or with young people and children outside of education. Educational Psychologists can work in local education authorities, nurseries, colleges, and special units. You will need to continue your studies to become an educational psychologist.
Course Content
Year 1
- Everyday Experience and Psychological Methods: Understanding Relationships
- Education, Philosophy and Thinking
- Everyday Experience and Psychological Methods: Analysing Attitudes
- Everyday Experience and Psychological Methods: Usability and Cognition
- Learning Communities: Children Learning, Children Thinking
- Perspectives on Psychology
- Study and Research Skills for Social Scientists
- Equality of Opportunity and Diversity
Year 2
- Cognitive Psychology
- Biological Psychology
- Individual Differences
- Global Citizenship
- Developmental Psychology
- Forest School
- Research Methods I: Experimental Designs and Analysis
- Research Methods II: Survey and Qualitative Designs and Analysis
Year 3
- Independent Project (Psychology)
- Project Management Skills (Criminology/Psychology)
- Mathematical Thinking
- Work-based Placement
- Creativity, Technology and Learning
- Comparative Education
- Engaging All Learners
- Professionalism and Pedagogy
