BSc (Hons) Psychology

On our three year psychology programme, we get to do a range of different topics. So you look at things like child development, adolescence, but then also look at things like biological psychology. So looking at the internal workings of the brain and how that helps us processing things like Problem-Solving, your attention, your perception, But then we also look at how people are in themselves. So we look at topics like the self personality identity, but also how people kind of work in groups where people are particular leaders or they're perhaps more followers in groups. And what you'll find by doing our degree is we take you through the theory, but we have a real strong focus on how that then how we can interpret that and work with people. And so it's all about this kind of continual application when we're doing things like research methods We will often practise those skills you need. So we might do some interview skills, for instance, or like I've been working with the students this morning, we've been looking about how we sample for research, how do we identify the people that we want to interview? How do we kind of look and pull a focus group together, which pulls in all sorts of theories. So thinking about a focus group, we're using our social psychology theory example in how people, working groups, we're using our research skills for and asking those questions and making sure the quiet people have their space to talk. But also all those management skills around kind of coordination, your leadership skills. So it's kind of building give you a future workplace.

What made you choose it was that it was small university in the Southwest. And of course the course modules with the degree look really interesting. That's what mainly drove me and really was the fact that I was a small university and being some one that left home for the first time going somewhere big was quite daunting so I chose Marjon, one, because I wanted to go into the future and become a psychologist and two because it's a very friendly community. university for undergraduate psychology, we have like 50 hours a placement and we mainly had to look for a placement in second year where we could like choose the place ourselves. It was very useful though, because we could kind of like see the outside world really from, from, you know, being an assistant or just being working there alongside the person So it was it was really useful because we could pick up all those skills and we could use the skills that we learnt in class and to modules to, you know, to kind of put it into the placement world.

It was completely different to anything that I've done before. I was at that stage of my career, I was in property and I thought I need to do something else now, but it's going to be too late. Otherwise, when I look to the descriptions and when I went on the website for Marjon and everything and it was just that exploration really of why we're here. And that just drew me in. I love the idea, the fact that it's really small and that it is friendly, and you do get to know people in that respect. It's just been great. I find it it's very welcoming and again, it sounds trite, but all the lecturers and the tutors are so helpful. You know, you never feel that if you go to them with a problem or you just don't understand something, you don't think you're bothering them, you know, they really do want you to come to them. So I would always say, come here because I've been to two other universities and they were great, but you don't get that one to one that you do here.