Year 1
Your first year will give you a firm grounding in both basic and applied psychology alongside practical research experience, including the use of computers for data collection and analysis. This year is common to the degrees in Psychology, Applied Psychology and Psychology with Cognitive Neuroscience.
Modules
- Historical Perspectives in Psychology
- Introduction to Brain and Behaviour
- Introduction to Sensation, Perception and Cognition
- Introduction to Developmental, Social and Applied Psychology
- Psychological Research Skills 1
- Psychological Research Skills 2
- Thinking and Communicating Like a Psychologist 1
- Thinking and Communicating Like a Psychologist 2
Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.
Year 2
Core modules
- Psychopathology: an integrated approach to disorders of the mind
- Social and Developmental Psychology
- Practical Research Skills in Psychology
- Information Processing and Cognition
- Applied Psychology Research Project
- Topics in Professional Psychology
Option modules
Choose two option modules from
- Topics in Health and Wellbeing
- Topics in Clinical Neuroscience
- Topics in Social and Developmental Psychology
- Introduction to Programming for Psychology
Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.
Year in Industry or Abroad (optional)
If you want to, you can spend your third year studying abroad at one of our partner institutions or working in an industrial placement. Alternatively, you can opt to continue studying at the University and complete your degree in three years.
Year Abroad
We’ll make sure you have everything you need for your future career: not just by awarding you a high quality degree, but also by helping you to develop the skills, knowledge and confidence you need to make your mark in the world as a Citizen of Change. One way you can do this is by opting to take a Year Abroad between Years 2 and 3 of your degree.
Studying abroad is not just for people who are interested in travelling and meeting new people. It is about acquiring life skills that are becoming increasingly significant for a wide range of jobs in our modern globalised society. Whether you go on to a career in the private, public or third sector - or plough your own furrow as an entrepreneur – you will find the experience invaluable.
Year in Industry
An industrial placement is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience of a professional working environment, between your second and third years of study. By enhancing your degree with an industrial placement, you can make yourself a more attractive proposition to employers after you graduate.
You'll benefit from real-world experience in a commercial setting, enabling you to make an easier transition from studying to working after you finish your degree. You'll gain invaluable insight into a potential career path, as well as strengthening your CV significantly in preparation for entering the graduate labour market. On top of all this, you'll be paid a salary for your placement, which gives you greater financial flexibility as well as offsetting the cost of the extra year.
A year in industry still incurs a tuition fee, but this is much lower than for a normal year at Leicester. See the Fees and Funding tab of this page for details.
Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.
Final year
Core modules
- Advanced Applied Psychology
- Advanced Social and Developmental Psychology
- Brain and Cognition
Plus
- Applied Psychology Dissertation (double module)
Recent dissertation topics have included:
- Does media reporting influence fear of crime?
- Predicting self-leadership from trait emotional intelligence
- The effect of resilience on career aspirations in 16-18 year-olds
- Mental health and attachment problems as predictors of service activity patterns among vulnerable children
Option modules
Choose two option modules from:
- Clinical Psychology
- Forensic Psychology
- Individual and Interactive Decision Making
- Psychology Across the Lifespan
- Visual Cognition: From the laboratory to the real world
Plus one option module from:
- Clinical and Cognitive Neuropsychology
- Evolution, Cognition and Behaviour
- Individual Differences and Wellbeing
- Neuroscience of mental health
- Occupational Psychology
- Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity
- Psychology in the Educational Context
Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.
