Bachelor of Psychology (Honours)

The Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) requires four years of full-time study (or the equivalent part-time), including the compulsory honours program. The course is offered by the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences.

• Admission requirements
• Course aims
• Learning outcomes
• Program of study
  
  

Admission requirements

The minimum requirements for consideration for entry to all undergraduate courses are specified in detail in the University Entry Requirements. 

Program of study

To qualify for the Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) a student must complete 144 units with a grade of P or NGP or better in each topic. This must include:

• 63 units of Psychology topics
• 9 units of First Year topics taken from the major sequence options in the Bachelor of Behavioural Science (Psychology) topics, as set out below
• 36 units of electives, which may be selected from any topics offered by the University provided entry and course requirements are met
• the 36-unit Fourth Year program.

All other components (a total of 108 units) must be completed before undertaking the Fourth Year program.

Not all topics are necessarily available in a given year.

The following may constitute prima facie evidence of unsatisfactory progress for the purposes of the University&##39;s Policy on Student Progress:

• the award of a grade of Fail (F) in the same topic on more than one occasion; or
• failure to achieve a GPA of 5 (an average grade of CR) in all Second Year Psychology topics attempted; or
• failure to achieve a GPA of 5.25 in all Third Year Psychology topics attempted.

Core - Year 1 topics

Select 13.5 units of core topics:

 PSYC1101  Psychology 1A  (4.5 units)
 PSYC1102  Psychology 1B  (4.5 units)
 PSYC1106  Research Methods 1  (4.5 units)

plus 9 units from the following:

Option - Year 1 topics

 BIOL1101  Evolution of Biological Diversity  (4.5 units)
 BIOL1102  Molecular Basis of Life  (4.5 units)
 BUSN1011  Accounting For Managers  (4.5 units)
 BUSN1012  Business Communication  (4.5 units)
 COMP1001  Fundamentals of Computing  (4.5 units)
 COMP1101  Information and Communications Technology 1A  (4.5 units)
 COMP1102  Computer Programming 1  (4.5 units)
 CRIM1101  Crime and Criminology  (4.5 units)
 CRIM1102  Criminal Justice System  (4.5 units)
 DSRS1201  Perspectives of Disability and Rehabilitation  (4.5 units)
 DSRS1209  Human Diversity  (4.5 units)
 HLTH1101  Health Promotion for Health Professionals  (4.5 units)
 HLTH1305  Health Practitioner Practice 1  (4.5 units)
 HLTH1306  Health Practitioner Practice 2  (4.5 units)
 LEGL1101  Australian Justice System  (4.5 units)
 LEGL1102  Contentious Justice Issues  (4.5 units)
 PHIL1010  Mind and World  (4.5 units)
 PHIL1030  The Individual and Society  (4.5 units)
 PHIL1060  Critical Reasoning  (4.5 units)
 POLI1003  Australian Politics: A Comparative Study  (4.5 units)
 POLI1011  Introduction to Australian Public Policy  (4.5 units)
 SOCI1004  Youth, Consumerism and Social Identity: An Introduction to Sociology  (4.5 units)
 SOCI1007  Crime, Deviance and Social Control: Introduction to Sociological Ideas  (4.5 units)
 WMST1001  Sex, Gender and Identities in Australia  (4.5 units)
 WMST1002  Gender, Power and Change: Introducing Feminist Debates  (4.5 units)

plus 13.5 units from:

Elective - Year 1 topics

Any year 1 topics from across the University where the entry requirements are met.

Core - Year 2 topics

Select 22.5 units of core topics:

 PSYC2018  Research Methods 2  (4.5 units)
 PSYC2019  Personality and Social Psychology  (4.5 units)
 PSYC2020  Cognition and Learning  (4.5 units)
 PSYC2021  Human Development  (4.5 units)
 PSYC2022  Psychological Assessment and Measurement  (4.5 units)

plus 13.5 units from:

Elective - Year 1, 2 & 3 topics

Any year 1, 2 or 3 topics from across the University where the entry requirements are met.

Core - Year 3 topics

Select 13.5 units of core topics:

 PSYC3007  Research Methods 3  (4.5 units)
 PSYC3011  Ethics and Professional Practice in Psychology  (4.5 units)
 PSYC3012  Interviewing and Counselling  (4.5 units)

and at least 13.5 units of other third year Psychology topics from the following list:

Option - Year 3 Psychology topics

 PSYC3003  Introduction to Clinical Psychology  (4.5 units)
 PSYC3004  Advanced Social Psychology  (4.5 units)
 PSYC3005  Applications to Clinical and Health Psychology  (4.5 units)
 PSYC3008  Applied Cognitive Psychology  (4.5 units)
 PSYC3009  Lifespan Development in Cultural Perspective  (4.5 units)
 PSYC3010  Psychobiology of Sleep and Cognition  (4.5 units)

and up to 9 units from:

Elective - Year 1, 2 & 3 topics

Any year 1, 2 or 3 topics from across the University where the entry requirements are met.

Core - Year 4 topics

Select 36 units of core topics:

 PSYC7002A  Psychology Honours Thesis (9/18 units)
 PSYC7002B  Psychology Honours Thesis (9/18 units)
 PSYC7006  Contemporary Issues in Psychology  (4.5 units)
 PSYC7007  Applications of Psychology  (4.5 units)
 PSYC7056A  Research and Practice in Psychology: Part 1  (4.5 units)
 PSYC7056B  Research and Practice in Psychology: Part 2  (4.5 units)