Bachelors in Psychology in Australia

Gain a comprehensive education in oral health and healthcare in Australia and train to meet the need for highly-skilled dentists in rural, remote and Indigenous communities.

Build on your successes in the Bachelor of Psychological Science by completing Honours to enhance essential employability skills or take your first step to a career in research, academia and beyond.

You'll gain a deeper understanding of research theory, design and practice principles introduced in your undergraduate degree. You'll study advanced theory in psychology and take part in a tailored psychology research methodology seminar. To apply your research knowledge and skills, you'll undertake an original research project under the supervision of expert staff from La Trobe's School of Psychology and Public Health to produce evidence-based solutions to current issues in psychology.

By graduating with Honours, you'll not only gain an edge in an increasingly competitive job market, you'll also have the opportunity to advance to further coursework or research at Master's level or, for high achievers, direct entry into a PhD.

The qualification awarded on graduation is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) as Level 8.

The honours program builds on an Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC)-accredited undergraduate psychology degree and provides an opportunity for advanced study and research.

This unique double degree provides students with the broad knowledge, skills and flexibility offered by a liberal arts program, but enhanced by a specialised focus on theology and philosophy. Studying theology and philosophy will equip students with an understanding of the foundations of the modern world and Western civilisation, enhancing their ability to critically engage with and respond to the key challenges faced by today's societies, governments and organisations.

Global experience is strongly encouraged, with study abroad opportunities available at the ACU Rome Centre, with one of our partner institutions in Europe or the United States, or in Israel with a study tour.

Students develop the skills necessary to become attentive and careful interpreters of historical and contemporary texts and contexts, and to critically examine complex and confronting issues. Students also enhance their capacity to evaluate and discriminate between multiple viewpoints, and to develop and articulate compelling arguments – both orally and in writing.

Psychology is the scientific study of human behaviour – our individual characteristics and abilities, how we act in social situations, how our brain works, and how our experiences and biology interact to produce normal and abnormal behaviour. UNE's Bachelor of Psychological Science provides you with a thorough grounding in the core areas of psychology and emphasises the development of transferrable skills, ensuring you're able to change and adapt to challenges and opportunities in the workplace.

Explore a wide range of subjects, studying more focused psychology units as you progress through each year of the degree. Our Bachelor of Psychological Science includes the study of the history and philosophy of psychology, motivation, emotion, social psychology, the biological bases of behaviour, cognition, language and more.

Our course provides you with an accredited undergraduate psychology sequence so that you can continue on to a fourth-year psychology program such as the Bachelor of Psychology with Honours should you wish to pursue provisional registration as a practising psychologist.*

Flexibility is key to our Bachelor of Psychological Science, and we offer blended delivery of the course to suit your needs. By choosing UNE, you are choosing an industry leader in the provision of online learning. In fact, UNE is Australia's longest continuous provider of distance (now online) education. Our course gives you opportunities to:

• Balance study with your existing commitments. We have course intakes in all three trimesters, and options to study online and on campus, meaning you can study at a time and place that suits you. Some units include intensive schools, giving you the opportunity to interact and engage with your peers and academic staff face-to-face at our vibrant Armidale campus.
• Pursue a career in counselling by completing a major in Counselling — a direct pathway to UNE's accredited postgraduate counselling courses. Choose this major and you will complete two fieldwork placement units involving working with clients.
• Add value to roles in health and social care, community services and youth work with an understanding of the social factors that underpin crime. Our Criminology minor provides you with knowledge and understanding of the criminal justice system, and and the choice to focus on issues such as working with offenders, and drugs, alcohol and crime in Australia.
• Complement your knowledge with our Psychological Health and Wellbeing minor, which includes units exploring motivation and emotion, health and sports psychology, and learning principles and behaviours change.
• Follow the study pathway that is most relevant to you, with the freedom to choose electives (up to 48 credit points) from any units offered by UNE, as long as you meet the individual requirements and timetabling constraints for the unit.
• Our mission in the School of Psychology is to provide you with an excellent learning experience, with innovative teaching from friendly, experience staff. We give you the support you need in order to thrive.

As Australia's oldest regional university and a pioneer in the delivery of distance education, UNE is a proven expert online. Students consistently award UNE the maximum 5-star ratings for Overall Experience and Student Support in The Good Universities Guide.

*Progression to a fourth-year psychology program, such as UNE's Bachelor of Psychology with Honours, for the purposes of obtaining provisional registration with the Psychology Board of Australia, requires you to have sufficient grades for entry. Places are competitive, and quotas apply.