BSc (Hons) Psychology (Clinical & Forensic) with Foundation Year

Program Overview

This three-year program in Clinical and Forensic Psychology at Canterbury Christ Church University provides a comprehensive understanding of human behavior and mental health. Students explore social, developmental, and clinical psychology, with a focus on forensic applications. The program emphasizes research methods and practical skills, preparing graduates for careers in mental health and forensic settings.

Program Outline

However, based on my understanding, it seems like the course focuses on clinical and forensic psychology.

Outline:

Year 1:

• Semester 1:
• Academic Skills 1
• Contemporary Issues in Politics and International Relations
• Contemporary Issues in Sociology
• Semester 2:
• Academic Skills 2
• [Optional modules]:
The availability of these modules will vary depending on the current year. These may include: Psychology of Human Difference: Individual and Cultural, Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology, Psychology in Everyday Life.

Year 2:

• Semester 1:
• Social Psychology
• Developmental Psychology
• Clinical and Forensic Psychology
• Semester 2:
• Individual Differences
• Lifespan Psychology
• Offending Behaviour
• Independent Research Methods.

Year 3:

• Semester 1:
• Counselling for Mental Health and Forensic Services
• Advanced Issues in Clinical or Forensic Psychology
• [Optional modules]:
Specific options are subject to change, but examples such as: Cognitive Neuropsychology, Forensic Mental Health, Advanced Research Methods are possible.
• Semester 2:
• Research Project in Clinical or Forensic Psychology

Assessment:

• Each year in the program culminates with a summer examination period.
• Students complete 6 modules per academic year, three per semester, each worth 20 credits.
Typically a 20-credit module involves:
• 50 hours of contact with academic staff: A blend of face-to-face lectures and seminars, workshops, or group discussions.
• 150 hours of independent study: Students engage in independent learning activities like independent research, reading materials like articles and textbooks for the course, researching for assignments, projects and preparations for written examinations.
• All modules are assessed except 2: "Academic Skills 1" and "Research Project In Clinical or Forensic Psychology."
Each of the assessed modules has 70% weightage given to written examinations and 30% allocated to coursework such as:
• Essays - These are often longer pieces of writing that explore in-depth a set of arguments relating to a specific topic from a given module.
• Reports - Often based on independent empirical research projects on specific topics under staff/faculty supervision.
In the Psychology program, an example from 'Developmental Psychology' would likely involve conducting primary/secondary research on children's language use and development within the context of play activity.
• Presentations - Involving preparation and giving group or sometimes individual orations related to specified subject areas from the current year's topics, such as a student or pair giving an address on social cognition from the Social Psychology class to their own group and possibly guest students from another group and staff present.
• Case studies - Focused discussion on given, real-world psychological examples for the purpose of analysis through a particular psychological theoretical and or theoretical lens in writing or an examination format.
An instance within the 'Offending Behaviour' module in Year 2 might require students to examine a criminal case through either a biological, developmental or social psychological theory framework.

The 2024/25 annual tuition fees for this course are:

UK

Overseas

Full-time - Foundation Year 0 £9,250 £15,500 Full-time - years 1-3 £9,250 £15,500

• The tuition fees of £9,250 / £15,500 relate to 2024/25 only.

The fees above are for the 2024/25 academic year but may be subject to change following any announcements by the UK Government (approved by Parliament) regarding maximum Undergraduate tuition fee caps for 2024/25. In addition, the University reserves the right to increase all full-time and part-time Undergraduate tuition fees mid-course, in line with any further inflationary increase in the Government tuition fee cap which is approved by Parliament. Students with an Overseas fee status will be eligible for an International student Scholarship fee discount of £1,500, which will be applied to all Full-time Undergraduate courses with a tuition fee of £15,500.