Program Overview

Our integrated foundation year offers an alternative route onto our psychology degrees, designed to build confidence and develop the academic and study skills to put you in the best position to progress and succeed. Our foundation year is also wholly taught within the School of Psychology, ensuring that it is our content and study skills are specifically tailored to your needs as you take the first steps along your path towards a career in professional psychology and beyond. After completion of this foundation year, you will then progress onto our Psychology honours degree course, or you can choose to study Psychology with Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies, or Psychology with Sociology.Why study a BSc Psychology with Integrated Foundation year at the University of Plymouth?• You will benefit from the full University experience from day one – taught by the same world-leading psychologists that support our other coursesproviding seamless progression from the foundation year to subsequent years of our degree course.• Hands-on learning in our psychology experiential learning lab. We embedded practical activities throughout the course, so you can put new knowledge intopractice and build practical skills for future careers.• Shape the psychologist you want to be. Course choices and our option-based final year give the freedom to explore the areas of psychology that interestand benefit you the most.• As a successful graduate, you are eligible for Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership with the British Psychological Society.• Gain valuable real-world experience by putting your skills and knowledge into practice with an optional placement year, or take part in an internationalexchange year by studying abroad.