Bachelor of Science (Honours) - Psychology and Language Sciences (C820)

Discover the inner workings of the human mind, how language develops and the disorders that can arise, all through this exciting and challenging BSc Psychology and Language Sciences degree.

This course is accredited by the British Psychological Society and enables graduates to move on to further training as a professional psychologist. Reading's staff are actively engaged in world-class research in psychology and language sciences, and students will benefit directly from discoveries made in areas such as linguistics, language development, language pathology, and bilingualism.

The first two years will give students a grounding in psychology and linguistics. This enables them to analyse and understand typical speech and language, together with a range of disorders. During the final year students will be able to choose from a wide variety of optional modules, allowing them to tailor the degree to their specific interests.

Throughout the course applicants will be able to learn a modern language, such as French, German, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic or Russian. No prior language knowledge is required in order to do this. In addition, students can further their professional experience by undertaking a work placement.

During the course, students will gain practical experience, and learn how to devise and run their own experiments. During the final year, they will carry out an original piece of research on a topic of their choice. Past examples have included the effects of emotion on cognition, the effects of Huntingdon's Disease on quality of life, and projects examining bilingual and multilingual language comprehension. Students may even have the opportunity to present their work at conferences, and a number of past projects have won awards from the British Psychological Society.