Keele University Prospectus Undergraduate | 2016 | Page 207

Course type

• Social Psychology of Groups, Games and Gangs
• Gender and Psychology

Dual honours

• Disclosure Processes

Entry
requirements

• Social Development in Children

BBB/ABC

• Happiness and Wellbeing
• Clinical Psychology

(For exclusions and other
qualifications please see
the entry requirements
table on page 230 to 239)

• Domestic Violence
• Everyday Memory and Amnesia
• Eyewitness Testimony

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Key Information

Approximate
intake

• Educational Psychology
The Final Year Project involves students in independent study, supervised
by a member of the teaching staff. You research an area of interest to
you, plan and carry out an investigation, and write it up as a research
report, utilising the methods and procedures taught in the earlier
research methods modules. This is a double module that runs over both
semesters of the final year.

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Study abroad
Yes

Membership of professional institutions

The dual honours programme is accredited as conferring eligibility for
the Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC) by the British
Psychological Society, which is the first step towards becoming a
chartered psychologist. Students should note that to be awarded GBC
by the British Psychological Society they must pass their Final Year
Project and achieve a minimum standard of qualification of second
class honours. Keele students who elect to take part in the study abroad
programme must take a supplementary module in the first semester of
their final year to ensure their eligibility for GBC.

Teaching and assessment

Teaching is by a combination of lectures, practical classes, and seminars,
supplemented by individual meetings and supervision with students and
the services of a learning support tutor. Seminar teaching includes tutor
led meetings, workshops and discussion groups. Some modules include
visits and placements as an element of the teaching.
Assessment is done principally through assignments, examinations,
presentations and a requirement to attend seminars and practical
classes. Other forms of assessment include blogs, reflective diaries,
placement reports and group project reports. Feedback is given in the
form of numerical marks and detailed comments on written coursework,
and verbally in individual and group meetings.

Skills and careers

This programme will prepare you to study psychology or neuroscience
at postgraduate level and to pursue further research opportunities via
a career in the private sector. You will also develop skills applicable to
a wide range of careers: you will learn to take a scientific and analytical
approach to problem solving, to organise and plan, to analyse data,
to use recognised research methodologies and to present clearly and
concisely in both oral and written communication. Achieving GBC
enables psychology graduates to continue to study at postgraduate level
and to pursue professional training courses in an applied setting
for entry into the psychological professions.

UCAS Dual honours programmes
BC18 Psychology and Neuroscience

www.keele.ac.uk/ugcourses

For other Psychology
dual honours programmes
see page 204
For other Neuroscience
dual honours programmes
see page 178

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