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You’ll gain knowledge and understanding of different areas of psychology; develop valuable analytical and communication skills; and enhance your ability to work both independently and collaboratively. This will put you in a strong position when it comes to employment opportunities.
Key features of the Psychology (Honours) course at The Open University
– Build your knowledge and understanding of a broad range of core topics in psychology
– Options allow you to focus on child psychology, counselling, forensic psychology, mental health, or sports psychology
– Gain valuable analytical and communication skills that will enhance your employability
Skills for career development
As well as the specific knowledge gained from studying an OU degree, you’ll develop many transferable and work-related skills that are highly valued by employers. These include skills in:
– communication
– numeracy
– effective team-working
– independent and critical thinking
– IT and data handling
– analysing and evaluating diverse sources of information, including qualitative and quantitative data
– designing and carrying out research projects, and presenting their findings
– problem-solving and reasoning
– application of learning to real world problems and situations
– independent learning.
Career relevance
The psychology degree is designed to deliver the requirements for the Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC) of the British Psychological Society (BPS), and has been accredited by the BPS for over 20 years. Careers as a professional psychologist in the applied areas of psychology will require further study, training and/or work experience beyond your degree – for which this degree course provides ideal preparation.
The Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) regulated titles include:
– clinical psychologist
– counselling psychologist
– educational psychologist
– forensic psychologist
– health psychologist
– occupational psychologist
– sports and exercise psychologist.
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