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Bachelor of Psychology
Bachelor of Psychology

Bachelor of Psychology

  • ID:CU610004
  • Level:4-Year Bachelor's Degree
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Admission Requirements

Entry Requirements

  • GCE/STPM/HKALE (A-levels - best of three): 5

  • HKDSE: 15

  • IB: 24

  • Ontario Gr 12 (best of 6): 60

  • ATAR (including WACE/SACE/HCE/VCE): 70

  • WAUFP (CPS): 53

English Requirement

IELTS Academic (International English Language Testing System)

Overall band score: 6.5, Writing: 6.0, Speaking: 6.0, Reading: 6.0, Listening: 6.0

Course Information

Learn about perception, cognition, emotion, personality, behaviour and interpersonal relationships, and how psychologists examine, explain and predict what people do as individuals and in groups.

Your first year is interprofessional and taken with other health sciences students. In your second year you will gain greater knowledge in learning, motivation, perception, child development and social psychology.

You will prepare a research proposal in your third year and develop advanced knowledge in abnormal psychology, adult development, community psychology, cognition, cross- cultural psychology, Indigenous psychology and individual differences.

Your fourth year includes a year- long research project and you will develop skills in areas such as program evaluation, psychological assessment and professional practice.

Enrolment may be on a part-time basis depending on unit availability, which could extend the course duration. Please contact the Course Coordinator.

CRICOS Code: 041070B

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Course structure

Year 1

Semester 1

Complete the below

  • Title

  • Foundations for Professional Health Practice

  • Human Structure and Function

  • Introduction to Psychology

  • Science and Professional Practice in Psychology

Semester 2

Complete the below

  • Title

  • Brain and Behaviour

  • Foundations of Biostatistics and Epidemiology

  • Indigenous Cultures and Health Behaviours

  • Foundations of Psychology

Year 2

Semester 1

Complete the below

  • Title

  • Psychological Science Experimental Methods

  • Psychology of Learning

  • Social Psychology

Select electives to the value of 25

Semester 2

Complete the below

  • Title

  • Perception

  • Psychological Science Correlational Methods

  • Child Developmental Psychology

Select electives to the value of 25

Year 3

Semester 1

Complete the below

  • Title

  • Cognition

  • Individual Differences

  • Advanced Psychological Science Qualitative Methods

  • Abnormal Psychology

Semester 2

Complete the below

  • Title

  • Indigenous and Cross Cultural Psychology

  • Work, Family and Community

  • Adult Developmental Psychology

  • Mixed Methods Research in Health Psychology

Year 4

Options

Complete 200 credit points from the following options

  • Title

  • Honours Psychology Stream

  • Psychology Fourth Year Stream

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Pre Courses

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Pathway Courses

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Career Opportunity

Career Opportunity

  •  Psychology Intern

With further study:

  • Counselling Psychologist

  • Clinical Psychologist.

  • Psychologists nec

  • Drug and Alcohol Counsellor

Ability to settle

Overseas Student Health Cover

OSHC: 530 $ per year

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