Year Three Modules
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In Year Three, you take EIGHT modules – four in Semester One and four in Semester Two. THREE of these modules (PSYC3003 and PSYC3005 that make your Empirical Project), as well as PSYC3002 Current Issues in Clinical Psychology are “CORE”: you MUST take all three of them. The remaining FIVE are “OPTION” modules: you can choose them from an available list.
To graduate, you must get a pass mark (that being, at least 40%) in each of your CORE MODULES, at least a qualifying mark (that being, at least 25%) in each individual OPTION MODULES, and achieve an average mark of 40% or more across all eight modules. In each semester, three of the units will be seminar-based (the option units), and one research-based (the core units).
It is important to note that the marks you obtain in Year Three DO COUNT towards your degree. Your aggregate Year Three marks contribute towards two-thirds of your degree (with your Year Two marks accounting for the remaining third). For further details on how marks in Year Two and Three are awarded are combined, and how your degree classification is awarded, please click here.
Please click on the ‘Module Names’ listed below for an outline of the module(s) and assessment procedures. Specific details will be provided by individual Module Leads in Module Handbooks or handouts.
Guidelines on signing up to option modules can be found here.
Semester One
Other external options are available
Semester Two
Other external options are available
Credit Accumulation and Transfer Scheme (CATS) suggests that a 15 credit course equates to 150 study hours (including both contact time and self-study). If you are an Erasmus student, please click here for information on European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) points and CATS points.
Further information on Year Three option module choices
You must choose to take five option modules in Year Three. In Semester Two, Year Two, a Third Year Options booklet, tutorial session and student-to-student Module Fair are designed to give you helpful information so you can make the best possible choice of option modules in Year Three. For each semester, a number of Psychology options are available (see above), and you can also choose from a options available across the university (e.g. UOSM20XX options). Your list of option modules can be accessed on the Student Record Self Service System, under the BSc Psychology programme criteria. More information about which option modules are available to you can be accessed on Flexible Learning’s BSc Psychology webpage (in case of doubts please talk with the School Office).
If you choose the Psychology options, you will get these (unless an option has to be cancelled due to staff illness, fewer than 12 students enrolled, or some other unavoidable complication). If you choose a UOSM20XX option, or PSYC3052 Undergraduate Ambassador Scheme, you should be aware that places may be limited and your place is not guaranteed. In these cases, we ask you to select a reserve option just in case you don’t get assigned to your first choice. The reserve option should be a Psychology option.
Benefits and risks associated with taking external option modules
In choosing your options for next year, you might also want to consider the benefits and risks of choosing an option outside of Psychology. Enabling students to take external modules in their third and final year was a new introduction in 2012. Engagement offers an exciting opportunity to broaden your horizon and to reflect your own personal interests in your learning. Taking an external module may allow you to apply your psychological knowledge and skills in an interdisciplinary context, it may give you an opportunity to learn different skills and gain new experiences, and it may provide you with an insight into how other disciplines think and approach global issues. As such, the introduction of the curriculum innovation programme has a lot of potential.
However, it is important to be aware that if you choose to take an external module, the assessment for your performance is likely to be conducted by module leads outside of Psychology. It may be important to clarify from the outset with the respective module leads what the expectations for assessments are and how these map to what you are used to from your psychology degree. In this sense it is important that you are aware that this is your final year, which counts the most towards your final degree mark.