3.5-Term Pathway - International Year One in Psychology - Continue to Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Psychology (Year Abroad)

Program Description For students that completed high school with good grades but don’t qualify for entry to an undergraduate degree, they could study an International Year One, which combines university preparation with degree 1st year. After completing this pathway option students qualify for progression to the 2nd year of an undergraduate degree at the University of Essex.

Students’ course length is determined mainly by their English language level (UKVI IELTS score). Students on all course lengths take a set of common or similar modules to gain a solid base of skills for university. If the course is longer than 2 terms, they’ll take additional modules designed to improve one or more of their English language level, academic skills, and basic knowledge of particular subjects.

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Psychology (Including Year Abroad)

Psychologists undertake scientific study to try to explain and predict how people work. It is the study of our mind and body, our thoughts and behaviour, feelings and perceptions. We conduct experiments in order to investigate how people develop throughout childhood, the way in which they acquire language, and the behavioural changes that can occur as a result of brain injury, disease, or life experience.

On this course students will experiment, explore and research why we think, feel and act the way we do. They will cover core areas of psychology including:

• Sensation and perception • Learning and memory • Clinical psychology • Personality and individual differences • Social and health psychology

At Essex they provide one of the most immersive and exciting experience of studying the human mind in the UK. Students will learn from researchers and can work together in the same space via the Research Experience Scheme (RES) which gives them the opportunity to work one-on-one with a psychologist as their research assistant.

Professional accreditation Accredited against the requirements for the Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC) of the British Psychological Society (BPS).