Programme Specification for the 2024/5 academic year
BSc (Hons) Intercalated Psychological Studies
1. Programme Details
| Programme name | BSc (Hons) Intercalated Psychological Studies | Programme code | UFS1PSYPSY01 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Study mode(s) | Full Time |
Academic year | 2024/5 |
| Campus(es) | Streatham (Exeter) |
NQF Level of the Final Award | 6 (Honours) |
2. Description of the Programme
The one year BSc (Hons) Intercalated Psychological Studies programme is only available to selected students who are undertaking a medical degree at the University of Exeter or another appropriate medical institution, and have completed at least the first two years (240 credits) of their medical school programme (see University Regulations Governing Honours Degrees: Regulation 1.2, Section 5).
Psychologists are interested in why we do things, how we do them and how we relate to others as well as to the world at large. As a result, Psychology plays an important role in drawing together techniques, theories, findings and professional practice from several areas of expertise to address complex and socially and economically important questions about behaviour. Psychologists study people at all stages in their lives from birth to old-age, assessing how people perceive the physical and social world around them, how they think and use ideas, how they vary in intelligence and personality and how they are influenced by particular environments such as work, school and family. Psychology is the systematic and scientific study of behaviour and experience. As such it has a wide range of applications, such as in industry and commerce, in education and in health and social services.
Based in the Washington-Singer Laboratories on Exeter’s Streatham campus, The School of Psychology is an expanding centre for academic teaching and research, committed to providing its staff and students with a friendly and stimulating intellectual environment. We are one of the UK's top Psychology departments, providing high-quality undergraduate programmes for intelligent and highly-motivated people, whatever their background. Our teaching staff are recognised internationally for their academic excellence and world-leading research investigating mood disorders, human cognition, animal behaviour, and social, environmental and organisational psychology.
The programme provides access to our specialist seminar modules delivered to students in the final year of our three year undergraduate programmes. Many of these seminar modules provide valuable new perspectives to those modules you may already have completed as part of your main programme of study, allowing medical students to explore complementary topics.
3. Educational Aims of the Programme
We aim to promote the values described by McGovern et al (2010), providing an intellectual environment that allows you to develop into, ‘critical scientific thinkers and ethical and socially responsible participants in their communities’ (p.10).
Specifically, the aims of the undergraduate Psychology programme are:
- To provide an education of high quality in a stimulating and supportive environment that is enriched by research and/or current practice in the discipline;
- To provide training in scientific skills of problem analysis, research design, evaluation of empirical evidence and dissemination;
- To provide a range of academic and key skills that will prepare you confidently for employment, future study, or training for professional practice;
In doing so, we aim to encourage you to develop into individuals who, on graduation, will:
- Have a well-defined vocabulary and basic knowledge of the critical subject matter of Psychology
- Value the intellectual challenges required to use scientific thinking and the disciplined analysis of information to evaluate alternative courses of action
- Take a creative and amiable sceptic approach to problem solving
- Apply psychological principles to personal, social and organisational issues in work, relationships and the broader community
- Act ethically
- Be competent in using and evaluating information technology
- Communicate effectively in different modes and with many different audiences
- Recognise, understand and foster respect for diversity
- Be insightful and reflective about your own and other’s behaviour and mental processes
4. Programme Structure
5. Programme Modules
www.exeter.ac.uk/psychology/currentstudents/modules/
You may take optional modules as long as any necessary prerequisites have been satisfied, where the timetable allows and if you have not already taken the module in question or an equivalent module.
You are also permitted to take the five credit module PSY3910 Professional Development Experience. Registration on this module is subject to a competitive application process. If taken, this module will not count towards progression or award calculation.
Stage 1
75 credits of compulsory modules, 45 credits of optional modules
a You must choose three 15-credit seminar modules in the series starting PSY3410. Seminars are arranged into three groups: Group 1, Group 2 and Group 3. The groupings may vary slightly from one year to the next and so prospective students should contact Psychology before making any firm decisions. You must take one seminar from each group and the three seminars cannot all be taken in the same term.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSY3401 | Psychology Research Project | 45 | Yes |
| PSY3402 | Methods and Statistics in Psychology III | 15 | Yes |
| PSY3403 | Contemporary Issues in Psychology | 15 | No |
Optional Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| PSY SF BSc-BA Psy S3 MSci Psy App - Group 1 2021/2 [See note a above] | |||
| PSY3411 | Psychology and Law | 15 | No |
| PSY3412 | The Psychology of Gender | 15 | No |
| PSY3416 | Work and Organisational Psychology | 15 | No |
| PSY3432 | The Moral Mind | 15 | No |
| PSY3443 | The Social Psychology of Ageing and Ageism | 15 | No |
| PSY3424 | Applied Social Psychology: Health, Environment and Society | 15 | No |
| PSY3439 | Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Childhood and Adolescence | 15 | No |
| PSY3447 | Solitude and Social Withdrawal across the Lifespan | 15 | No |
| PSY3452 | Social and Affective Neuroscience | 15 | No |
| PSY3458 | The Psychology of Inequality, Conflict and Social Change | 15 | No |
| LAW3169 | Equality and Diversity at Work | 15 | No |
| PSY3464 | The Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations | 15 | No |
| PSY3463 | Violence against Women and Girls: Causes, Consequences and Interventions | 15 | No |
| PSY SF BSc-BA Psy S3 MSci App Psy - Group 2 2021/2 [See note a above] | |||
| PSY3417 | The Associative Mind | 15 | No |
| PSY3418 | Processes of Human Memory | 15 | No |
| PSY3419 | Studying Cognition and Emotion with Brain Imaging | 15 | No |
| PSY3420 | Brain Plasticity and Language Learning across the Lifespan | 15 | No |
| PSY3427 | Compulsive Behaviour | 15 | No |
| PSY3431 | Comparative Approaches in the Study of Brain and Behaviour | 15 | No |
| PSY3437 | The Psychology of Addiction | 15 | No |
| PSY3444 | Foundations of Human Behaviour | 15 | No |
| PSY3445 | Mechanisms of Face Recognition | 15 | No |
| PSY3436 | Neuropsychology of Ageing and Dementia | 15 | No |
| PSY3449 | The Evolution of Social Behaviour | 15 | No |
| PSY3450 | Philosophy of Mind | 15 | No |
| PSY3461 | Neuroscience of Cognition and Behaviour | 15 | No |
| PSY SF BSc-BA Psy S3 MSci App Psy - Group 3 2021/2 [See note a above] | |||
| PSY3411 | Psychology and Law | 15 | No |
| PSY3425 | Cognitive Behavioural Approaches to Mood Disorders | 15 | No |
| PSY3426 | Parental Psychiatric Disorders and Children's Development | 15 | No |
| PSY3446 | Prevention Science in Developmental Psychopathology | 15 | No |
| PSY3448 | Sleep and Psychology | 15 | No |
| PSY3451 | Clinical Neuroscience: Brains, Drugs and Psychiatry | 15 | No |
| PSY3454 | Lifecourse Influences on Behaviour and Cognition | 15 | No |
| PSY3455 | Environmental Psychology | 15 | No |
| PSY3456 | Cognitive Biases in Emotion and Psychopathology | 15 | No |
| PSY3457 | The Psychology of Play | 15 | No |
| PSY3460 | Health Neuroscience | 15 | No |
| PSY3462 | Women's Reproductive Mental Health | 15 | No |
| NEU3003 | Psychology Applied to Health | 15 | No |
6. Programme Outcomes Linked to Teaching, Learning and Assessment Methods
Intended Learning Outcomes
A: Specialised Subject Skills and Knowledge
| Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
|---|---|---|
| ...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
1. Display knowledge about a range of core subject areas. | Learning and teaching methods include seminars, essays, project proposals, group work, final year supervised research project, student oral presentations and small group discussions, poster presentations, and independent study. | Summative module assessment is through examinations, essays, final year supervised research project, poster presentation. Final year seminar modules are assessed by a combination of examination and coursework, and the final year research project is assessed by coursework and by a poster presentation. |
Intended Learning Outcomes
B: Academic Discipline Core Skills and Knowledge
| Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
|---|---|---|
| ...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
4. Apply skills of scientific writing and presenting results. | Learning and teaching methods include seminars, essays, project proposals, group work, final year supervised research project, student oral presentations and small group discussions, poster presentations, and independent study. | Summative module assessment is through examinations, essays, final year supervised research project, poster presentation. Final year seminar modules are assessed by a combination of examination and coursework, and the final year research project is assessed by coursework and by a poster presentation. |
Intended Learning Outcomes
C: Personal/Transferable/Employment Skills and Knowledge
| Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
|---|---|---|
| ...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
9. Think independently, critically and creatively. | Learning and teaching methods include seminars, essays, project proposals, group work, final year supervised research project, student oral presentations and small group discussions, poster presentations, and independent study. | Summative module assessment is through examinations, essays, final year supervised research project, poster presentation. Final year seminar modules are assessed by a combination of examination and coursework, and the final year research project is assessed by coursework and by a poster presentation. |
7. Programme Regulations
Classification
8. College Support for Students and Students' Learning
In the final year of the programme each student will be allocated a Research project supervisor, who will also act as personal tutor, providing guidance and feedback on assessment performance, generic academic skills and pastoral support. They are also able to refer students to more specialist support services, both within the College and elsewhere across the University.
You will have access to the computer cluster in the Washington-Singer Laboratories, when not in use for teaching or assessment purposes, along with the pay-per-print laser printer installed there. University IT Services provide a range of central services, including open and training clusters of PCs - available on a 24/7 basis. Network access is available from all rooms in the hall of residence on site.
9. University Support for Students and Students' Learning
10. Admissions Criteria
11. Regulation of Assessment and Academic Standards
12. Indicators of Quality and Standards
The programme is not subject to accreditation and/ or review by professional and statutory regulatory bodies (PSRBs).
13. Methods for Evaluating and Improving Quality and Standards
14. Awarding Institution
University of Exeter
15. Lead College / Teaching Institution
College of Life and Environmental Sciences (CLES)
16. Partner College / Institution
Partner College(s)
Not applicable to this programme
Partner Institution
Not applicable to this programme.
17. Programme Accredited / Validated by
0
18. Final Award
BSc (Hons) Intercalated Psychological Studies
19. UCAS Code
N/A
20. NQF Level of Final Award
6 (Honours)
21. Credit
| CATS credits | ECTS credits |
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22. QAA Subject Benchmarking Group
23. Dates
| Origin Date | 22/07/2013 |
Date of last revision | 06/02/2024 |
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