How your course will be delivered
Year 1
In Semester 1 you will take the following six units:
- Research Methods and Statistics
- Introduction to Developmental Psychology
- Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
- Introduction to Social Psychology
- Professional Development
- Lifespan and Ageing
In Semester 2, you will continue to take the Research Methods and Statistics and Professional Development units. You will also take five new units in:
- Brain and Behaviour
- Foundations of Mental Health
- Sensation and Perception
- Foundations of Health Psychology
- Group Dynamics and Team Building
Teaching and learning delivery
You will hear about the latest developments in psychological theory, research and practice from leading psychological scientists and clinicians in your lectures.
Lectures are supported by smaller group teaching sessions such as tutorials, seminars and lab classes, enabling you to actively engage with the course materials and the concepts introduced in lectures.
In some units, recorded explanatory material will be made available to you on a structured and timetabled basis, which you can review and then ask questions about in regular live teaching sessions hosted by your lecturer and teaching staff.
Each unit will have an online discussion board where you can get answers to any questions about the unit content from lecturers and teaching staff. You're also encouraged to answer each other's questions.
Discussion boards will also be used to generate conversations and discuss unit content, allowing you to interact with both your peers and staff around the topics covered, and to get your opinions across.
You will gain hands-on experience of statistical analyses through practical classes. In addition to training in quantitative and qualitative research methods and statistics, you will attend empirical work (lab) classes, embedded into core units.
You will learn how to accumulate knowledge via research while developing critical evaluation skills and designing, conducting and evaluating research studies. From your first semester, you will learn how to collect, organise, describe and analyse data and present your findings in a variety of formats to different audiences.
You will be allocated to a tutor group with a member of staff and a group of your peers. Tutorial sessions will develop your study skills and support your professional development.
All students are assigned an Academic Advisor when they arrive in Manchester. Your academic advisor is a member of staff who you will meet with regularly over your time as a student to provide you with individual support around academic, pastoral and employability matters.
You will meet with this person at least twice a semester, although you can contact them as often as you like. You can also contact your year leads at any point if you need support.
Year Lead contact details
Year 1
Matthew Checketts
Email: matthew.checketts@manchester.ac.uk
Elizabeth Mcmanus
Email: elizabeth.mcmanus@manchester.ac.uk
Year 2
Ruth Ingram and Amber Ruigrok
Email: psychyear2tutor@manchester.ac.uk
Year 3
Lee Wickham
Email: lee.wickham@manchester.ac.uk