Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) | 2018

Overview

Psychologists help us to understand who we are and how we think, feel and act. They aim to help people function better and to prevent ill-health and other problems developing. Clients include children, adults, couples, families and organisations.

A three-year degree in Psychology provides comprehensive training in the processes basic to human psychological functioning required for qualification as a professional psychologist. These include biological and social bases of behaviour, cognition, learning, perception, social and organisational behaviour, personality, abnormality and research and assessment tools.

Psychology can be usefully combined with most disciplines available in the Bachelor of Arts degree. The Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts offers a range of other subjects that you may wish to take as complementary to the study of Psychology. Arts allows for an integration of a wider range of methods for understanding the human experience.

Students with an excellent academic record may apply to transfer to the four-year Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) degree, or apply for entry to the Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours) at the end of Year 3.

Entry Requirements and Credit Arrangements

Information on academic and English language requirements, as well as eligibility for credit for prior learning, is available from the Course Finder.

Course Learning Outcomes

Course Learning Outcomes are statements of learning achievement that are expressed in terms of what the learner is expected to know, understand and be able to do upon completion of a course. Students graduating from this course will be able to:

Course Structure

The Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) requires the successful completion of 144 credit points as specified in the table below, comprising:

1. 78 credit points of core Psychology subjects; and
2. 6 credit points selected from the approved list of 100-level subjects from the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts; and
3. At least one of either:

a) an additional 24 credit points of Psychology subjects for Honours eligibility; and/or

b) remaining elective credit points from the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, Faculty of Social Sciences, or the General Schedule; and

4. No more than 60 credit points will be at 100-level.

Students are encouraged to use their electives to complete either a minor from the list of recommended minors, the General Schedule of Minors, or a second major, from either the Bachelor of Arts or the Bachelor of Social Science. 

For information regarding timetables, tutorials, and classes please the visit the Timetables and Classes page.  

Psychology extension for Honours eligibility

If you intend to apply for the honours year (a requirement for registration as a professional psychologist) you must complete the 100 level core, the 200 level core and the following 200 level subject, and take 300 level subjects as specified below. 

Students who complete the extended requirements in psychology are eligible to apply for the one year honours program to confer the Bachelor of Psychological Science with Honours.   

Minors

The following minors are recommended for inclusion in this course. You may complete more than one minor, as space permits in your program:

• Criminology
• Human Resource Management
• Indigenous Studies
• Management
• Marketing
• Philosophy
• Philosophy of Psychology
• Introduction to Public Health
• Public Relations
• Social Marketing
• Social Policy
• Sociology
• Work Health and Safety

Other minors from the General Schedule of Minors are also available.

Professional Recognition/Accreditation

The three year Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) and the additional honours year are accredited by the Australian Psychology Accreditation Council as a four year sequence for the purposes of provisional registration with the Psychology Board of Australia. An additional two years of supervised practice is necessary to apply for general registration. This can be through two years supervised practice in the community or a fifth year at University plus one year of supervised practice in the community or an approved Masters degree. 

Other Information

For further information email: ssc@uow.edu.au