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FHEQ level

This course is set at Level 6 in the national Framework for Higher Education Qualifications.

Course learning outcomes

Be able to demonstrate a good knowledge and critical understanding of the core area of biological psychology

Be able to demonstrate a good knowledge and critical understanding of the core area of cognitive psychology

Be able to demonstrate a good knowledge and critical understanding of the core area of developmental psychology

Be able to demonstrate a good knowledge and critical understanding of the core area of social psychology

Be able to demonstrate a good knowledge and critical understanding of the core area of individual differences

Be able demonstrate knowledge of a range of research measurement techniques including statistical analysis

Be able to demonstrate competence in research skills through practical activities

Be able to demonstrate computer literacy, especially with statistical software and word processing

Be able to carry out data entry and manipulation and conduct inferential tests for simple and complex factorial designs

Be able to use multivariate methods and qualitative analysis

Be able to demonstrate an understanding of the scientific underpinnings of psychology and what it means to be a science

Be able to demonstrate knowledge of a number of specialised areas and or applications of psychology

Be able to analyse data to answer a coherent set of original questions

Be able to make independent decisions about data presentation and analysis, and to expand independently ones knowledge of statistics beyond what one has been taught

Be able to show understanding of ethical issues relating to research in psychology

Be able to reason scientifically and statistically, appreciating the relationship between theory and evidence

Be able to initiate, design, conduct, and report on an empirically-based research project under appropriate supervision

Recognise the need to assess ones own skills and to harness them for future learning

Be able to demonstrate awareness of contextual and interpersonal factors in groups and teams, and to develop the interpersonal skills that will allow effective participation in co-operative group planning and decision making

Be able to critically assess ones own and others work so as to improve it

Be able to approach problem solving in a systematic way

Be able to communicate ideas and research findings by written, oral, and visual means

Engage critically with major thinkers, debates and intellectual traditions in criminology

Analyse and critqiue the relationship between theories of criminology, the criminal justice system, law and society

Full-time course composition