Psychological Science

Overview

Delivered flexibly online or on campus, the accredited three-year undergraduate degree in Psychological Science is designed to give you a balanced education with a psychology focus. Along with completing a mandatory minor in Psychological Health and Wellbeing, you will have the freedom to choose electives from any unit offered by University of New England. 

With opportunities to focus your study with a Counselling major or Criminology minor, our course allows you to future proof your career by developing transferable skills that are highly valued in the workplace and opens doors to further advanced study in psychology.

Why study the Bachelor of Psychological Science with UNE? 

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.

Career outcomes

The Graduate Careers Council of Australia reports a strong demand in Australia for people with psychology qualifications. Many careers are enhanced by a knowledge of psychological principles, for example those that require you to interact with other people or provide services and care for others.  

The research and data analysis skills that you will develop as part of the course are also highly valued in the workplace. You will graduate with a strong foundation for further postgraduate study in psychology, and in many other fields, including counselling and education.  

Some of the career opportunities that you could consider include: 

• personnel management  
• learning support worker 
• market research 
• community services or youth work.