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 Sensation, Perception and Cognition
• Psychological Research Skills 1
• Thinking and Communicating Like a Psychologist 1
• Introduction to Social, Developmental and Applied Psychology
• Introduction to Brain and Behaviour
• Psychological Research Skills 2
• 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
• Psychology Research Project

Option modules

Choose one option module from:

• Topics in Cognitive Neuroscience
• Topics in Professional Psychology
• Sustainability Enterprise Partnership Project

Plus two option modules from:

• Topics in Health and Wellbeing
• Topics in Clinical Neuroscience
• Topics in Social and Developmental Psychology
• Introduction to Programming for Psychology
• Sustainability Enterprise Partnership Project

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.

For more information, including a list of destinations, please visit our Study Abroad website.

Please note

• A year spent abroad 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.
• You may be eligible for a travel grant from Student Finance England.
• Places are offered on a competitive basis, and eligibility is dependent on your academic performance in Years 1 and 2.
• Language courses, at beginners or advanced level, are available through our Languages at Leicester scheme.

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

• Brain and Cognition
• Advanced Social and Developmental Psychology

Plus

• Psychology Dissertation (double module)

Recent dissertation topics have included:

• Minimising witness suggestibility in forensic interrogations
• Attentional biases in depression: development and diagnosis in non-clinical samples
• The effect of stress on decision making
• The persuasive influence of sources in scientific journalism
• Do sibling relationships predict perfectionism?

Option modules

Choose two option modules from:

• Individual Differences and Interactive Decision Making
• Visual Cognition: From the laboratory to the real world
• Psychology Across the Lifespan
• Clinical Psychology
• Forensic Psychology

Plus two option modules from:

• Occupational Psychology
• Neuroscience of mental health
• Individual Differences and Wellbeing
• Evolution, Cognition and Behaviour
• Clinical and Cognitive Neuropsychology
• Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity
• Psychology in the Educational Context
• Data Science Methods 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.