Course details

Summary

Extend your knowledge in your specialist area at postgraduate level with our honours programme.

The Bachelor of Science (Honours) programme involves one year of full-time study, or two years of part-time study, after you have completed the requirements for the Bachelor of Science.

Psychology

Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. It is a wide subject that ranges from, on the one hand, a strictly quantitative and scientific approach to, on the other, a more qualitative and personal approach. It also ranges from the strongly theoretical to the eminently practical.

Modern psychologists base their theories on observable and repeatable behavioral data, ranging from counts of simple behavior in animals to verbal reports of emotions and feelings in humans. Thus, practical work in the laboratory or field is an essential part of an education in psychology.

At postgraduate level, the School of Psychology offers the following majors and specialization areas:

• Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA): ABA is a scientific approach to understanding and changing human behaviour and has applications with a wide variety of client groups including those with intellectual and other disabilities, autism spectrum, and childhood-onset behavioral disorders.
• Industrial, Work & Organisational (IWO) Psychology: This area is concerned with the discovery and application of psychological principles to the workplace in order to maximize performance, productivity and wellbeing of workers and organizations.
• Clinical Psychology: Clinical Psychology is a broad field of clinical practice and research within the discipline of psychology. The application of Clinical Psychology is aimed at preventing, treating, and reducing emotional and psychological problems, personality issues, and psychopathology and skill deficits underlying distress or psychological problems.
• Health Psychology: Health Psychology covers areas such as how individuals cope with illness and chronic disease, understanding and promoting healthy behaviours, psychological influences on the development of disease states, understanding and improving adjustment in health-care settings, patient-practitioner communication, adherence to treatment, determinants of health-related behaviours (diet, exercise etc), and understanding how individuals make sense of and react to health screening, symptoms and illness.
• Speech Science: Speech Science is intended for graduates with an interest in speech related areas.

Career opportunities

Many avenues open up to graduates with training in psychology. Registered psychologists work in many aspects of mental health care, and clinical psychology. Jobs are available in the business environment involving the use of psychological tests, statistical analyses, or survey and questionnaire development. Staff recruitment, personnel training and evaluation are also areas which employ a lot of psychology graduates. Research careers can be developed in neural function and cognitive science.

Further study options

• Master of Information Technology
• Master of Energy
• Master of Science
• Master of Speech Language Therapy Practice
• Doctor of Philosophy
• Doctor of Clinical Psychology

Bachelor of Science (Honours) other subjects: Applied Mathematics, Bioinformatics, Biological Sciences, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Sciences, Exercise Sciences, Food Science, Geography, Geology, Geophysics, Logic and Computation, Mathematics, Medical Physics and Image Technology, Medical Statistics, Medicinal Chemistry, Pharmacology, Photonics, Physics, Physiology, Statistics.

Entry criteria

The prerequisite is a major in Psychology and at least 90 points at Stage III including PSYCH 306.

English language requirements:IELTS 6.5; TOEFL (iBT) 90; TOEFL (paper-based) 575; CAE or CPE 176; PTE 58; MELAB 85.