This program is for those who are interested in using science to understand people. Be inspired to build new knowledge and discover new things using a variety of scientific methods.

Cover a broad range of areas such as mental illness, interventions, the biology of the brain, child development and aging, memory, and decision making. Undertake pre-professional courses each year, preparing you for professional practice. They include guest lectures from practicing psychologists, problem-based workshops and video material to provide an accurate picture of the range of areas within psychology.

This fascinating and evolving field will prepare you to work in a broad range of industries where you can positively impact the lives of others.

This includes a variety of courses covering a wide range of subject areas. Throughout your psychology degree you will learn about:

• psychological research methodology
• statistics
• cognition and information processing
• social psychology and personality
• clinical and abnormal behaviour
• neuroscience
• psychopharmacology
• perceptual processes and learning theory
• developmental psychology

Core

Complete the following core courses to fulfil the requirements of this program.

• Advanced Developmental Psychology and Developmental Psychopathology
• Advanced Perception and Learning in Psychology
• Advanced Research Methods and Statistics in Psychology
• Biological Psychology
• Cognitive Psychology
• Foundations of Applied Psychological Science
• Foundations of Psychological Interventions
• Foundations of Psychological Practice
• Individual Differences and Assessment
• Introduction to Mental Health and Mental Disorders
• Introductory Research Methods in Psychology
• Psychology Introduction 1
• Psychology Introduction 2
• Social Psychology
• Statistics for the Sciences
• Work Integrated Learning in Psychology

These are courses currently available in "Core", for full requirements and availability always refer to the handbook.

Science Course List

Psychology Course List

2024 Program Handbook

The courses shown above are a guide, and don't reflect the exact year-by-year structure of the program, you should always refer to the program handbook for details of the complete program structure, course requirements and availability.

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This degree can be applied in a broad range of industry sectors, enabling you to choose the career path that’s right for you.

Psychology graduates work in research, human resources and leadership, management, intelligence agencies, advertising, marketing and sales, health support services, counselling, law and correctional services.

Postgraduate pathways available for graduates who also complete the Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours) degree include the research and Clinical PhD, Master of Clinical Psychology, Master of Professional Psychology, Master of Business Psychology, Master of Workplace Mental Health and Wellbeing and other psychology-related programs.

To practice as a psychologist, you must complete additional postgraduate studies.

Professional outcomes:

• careers counsellor
• caseworker
• juvenile justice officer
• market researcher
• mediator
• practising psychologist (with further study)

Admission to our undergraduate degree programs usually requires successful completion of a senior secondary school qualification similar to the Higher School Certificate (HSC).

TOEFL paper-based test score of 589; TOEFL internet based score of 94; IELTS (Academic) score of 7.0; PTE GSE score of 65; Cambridge English: Advanced score of 67.