Psychology including Foundation Year

Reasons to choose Kingston

• The course is accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS).

• You'll use purpose-built laboratories with high-specification equipment (EEG, eye-tracking, a driving simulator, an observation lab for interviews and behavioural recordings and specialised cognitive and physiological testing).

• Kingston has close links with schools, hospitals, and clinics, offering real-life environments to learn in and adding valuable work experience to your CV.

• Employability is embedded throughout the course to ensure you have with the skills needed to succeed after graduating.

• You will have a personal tutor and a small tutor group of peers that you meet with regularly to support your transition to university and your academic success.

• Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the framework's two new student experience and student outcomes categories.

This course is offered with a Foundation Year in Social Sciences
This foundation year is taught at the University giving you a taste of academic life in a supportive environment. The year gives you the academic and technical preparation for undergraduate study in a wide range of social sciences subjects. Lectures, labs and tutorials will give you a broad understanding across subjects including economics, criminology, sociology and psychology.

About this course
This degree has your future career in mind. It enables you to take the first steps to becoming a chartered psychologist. Your studies will be supported by purpose-built research laboratories and psychological analysis equipment, including eye trackers, EEG (recording brain activity) and specialist neuropsychological and survey software.

You can choose to study a range of topics such as schizophrenia, health and positive psychology, autism, cyberbullying and prejudice. There are also advanced modules on atypical development, neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, occupational psychology, critical social psychology, forensic psychology, psychotherapeutic psychology and the psychology of art.

You'll be able to tailor your studies to suit your interests and ambitions. All students participate in original research projects and you'll be supported by research-active academics. Specialised work placements will give you direct work experience – much sought-after by graduate employers.

Future Skills
Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability.

As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge.

At Kingston University, we're not just keeping up with change, we're creating it.

Career opportunities
Graduates work in many settings and many continue training to become chartered psychologists. Careers include clinical, forensic, educational and occupational psychology, social work, counselling and teaching.

Example modules:

• Psychotherapeutic Psychology and Mental Health
• The Psychology of Health and Wellbeing
• Social and Developmental Psychology

For a full list of modules please visit the Kingston University course webpage.

Assessment typically comprises exams (e.g. test or exam), practical (e.g. presentations, performance) and coursework (e.g. essays, reports, self-assessment, portfolios, dissertation).