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Focuses on important academic and professional skills to help students transition to higher education studies and beyond

Provides a concise overview of the core paradigms in psychology, namely biological, cognitive and developmental psychology, while embedding quantitative research methods.

Introduces students t.o the main areas of applied psychology from UK, European and international perspectives

Provides a concise overview of the core paradigms in psychology, namely social, personality and intelligence, and international perspectives, while embedding qualitative research methods.

Builds on the core areas of the BPS guidelines to give students in-depth coverage of topics in biological and cognitive psychology. Practical sessions will enable students to develop their knowledge of more advanced research designs and quantitative research skills.

Explores how we define, classify and explain psychological problems.

Applies the lifespan perspective to studying human development, emphasising the importance of all developmental stages and the interconnectivity between domains of change.

Applies psychological theory and research to topics that cover current important debates and issues, directly informed by local, national and global priorities such as DMU’s commitment to decolonization and net zero, and the United Nations’ Sustainable Developmental Goals.

Builds on the core areas of the BPS guidelines to give students in-depth coverage of topics in social psychology and personality and intelligence, and developing a research project on one of these topics.

Gives you the opportunity to design and conduct an empirical study showing originality and expertise in methodological and data handling techniques

Students will learn to contrast perspectives within significant conceptual debates in psychology, which are placed within their historical context.

You will undertake a period of work experience and consider how psychological theory can be applied in a work environment.

Explores approaches to defining and measuring crime and how psychological theories can be applied to criminal behaviour.

Introduces the basic principles of counselling psychology and practice.

Provides an overview of modern cognitive neuropsychological approaches to dysfunction following head injury and how theory is applied to case histories.

Helps students to gain a broad knowledge base in work psychology.

Build on prior knowledge of social, differential and developmental psychology and applies this to the area of chronic illness.

Introduces the scientific study of optimal human functioning within areas such as happiness, wellbeing, personal strengths, positive emotions, optimism, hope and flow.

Develops an understanding of human appetite and eating behaviours from a variety of biological and psychological perspectives

Gives an overview of various aspects of psychology as applied to education.

Covers all aspects of human interaction with technology, with a focus on the impact of cyberspace and the Internet on individual and group behaviour.

Provides an overview of vision research and develops skills to critically evaluate current vision science literature

Introduces the theory and practice of clinical psychology.

Introduces basic skills in computer programming and computational data processing, which are essential employability skills in data science and related fields.

Introduces basic skills in computer programming and computational data processing using R, which are essential employability skills in data science and related fields.

Provides students with an evidence base to understand certain sexual and reproductive health choices and how to reduce the harms associated with any high-risk behaviours.

Enables students to develop understanding of loss, grief and bereavement from theoretical, cultural, social and therapeutic perspectives.

Provides students an opportunity aims to critically explore addiction to licit and illicit substances and is theoretically grounded within a neuropsychosocial approach.

Provides students an opportunity to explore perspectives  on  local,  regional,  national,  and  transnational  activism  and  protest  and resistance; together with related issues such as prejudice, discrimination and  stigma.

Provides students with up-to-date knowledge about cross-cultural theories and models as they relate to the study of human behaviour to consider how and why behaviour differs across cultures.