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Program Code

BPSYC

Academic Year

2023

Program Faculty

Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Special Notes

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These Program Rules should be read in conjunction with the University's policies (http://www.adelaide.edu.au/policies).

Overview

The Bachelor of Psychological Science is designed for students who seek to undertake a comprehensive program of study in psychology and related areas of learning. The early part of the program seeks to provide an overview of psychology as a discipline and as a profession.
The psychology courses undertaken in later years enable students to study the biological bases of behaviour; sensory perception; cognition and language; learning and memory; motivation and emotion; social psychology; developmental psychology; personality and individual differences; and mental health. In addition to completing the major sequence in psychology, students complete 3 compulsory psychology courses covering research methodology, psychological skills and applications, and psychological perspectives on global issues. Bachelor of Psychological Science students may also choose to complete a psychology internship as an elective course.
In order to gain provisional registration with the Psychology Board of Australia, students must undertake the fourth year Honours program.
The Bachelor of Psychological Science is an AQF Level 7 qualification with a standard full-time duration of 3 years.

Conditions

Interruption of program: Students must apply for permission from the Program Coordinator or Delegate before taking a Leave of Absence. Any extension of the leave without approval will result in the loss of place in the program but an application may be made to be re-admitted to the program subject to the admission procedures in place at the time.

Academic Program Rules for Bachelor of Psychological Science

There shall be a Bachelor of Psychological Science.

Qualification Requirements

Academic Program:

To qualify for the degree of Bachelor of Psychological Science, the student must complete satisfactorily a program of study consisting of the following requirements with a combined total of not less than 72 units, comprising:

Core courses to the value of 39 units
Elective courses to the value of 24 units, which may include a second major to the value of 24 units from the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science; or a second major in Addiction Science, Human Neurosciences, Population Health, Management, Marketing or Computer Science
Broadening Electives to the value of 9 units
Level I courses to the value of no more than 24 units, of which 12 units are Psychology courses
Level II courses to the value of no more than 24 units, of which 15 units are Psychology courses
Level III courses to the value of 24 units, of which 12 units are Psychology courses

Second Major from Degree Program
To satisfy the requirements for Second Major from Degree Program, students must complete a Major to the value of 24 units from either the Bachelor of Arts, or Bachelor of Science or the Second Majors listed.

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Core Courses

To satisfy the requirements for Core Courses students must complete courses to the value of 39 units.

Level I

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
PSYCHOL 1000	Psychology IA	3
PSYCHOL 1001	Psychology IB	3
PSYCHOL 1005	Research Methods in Psychology (BPsycSc)	3
PSYCHOL 1006	Psychology Skills and Applications	3

Note: Students in the graduate entry stream that have not completed Level I Psychology studies in the last 10 years must complete this course.

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
PSYCHOL 1100	Introductory Psychology	3

Level II

Note: Students in the graduate entry stream are not required to complete PSYCHOL 2008 Big Picture Psychology: Psychological Perspectives on Global Challenges (3 units)

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
PSYCHOL 2004	Doing Research in Psychology	3
PSYCHOL 2005	Foundations Health & Lifespan Development	3
PSYCHOL 2006	Foundations of Perception & Cognition	3
PSYCHOL 2007	Psychology in Society	3
PSYCHOL 2008	Big Picture Psychology: Global Challenges, Psychological Perspectives	3

Level III

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
PSYCHOL 3020	Doing Research in Psychology: Advanced	3

and

Courses to the value of 9 units from the following:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
PSYCHOL 3021	Health & Lifespan Development Psychology	3
PSYCHOL 3022	Individual Differences, Personality & Assessment	3
PSYCHOL 3023	Perception & Cognition	3
PSYCHOL 3026	Learning and Behaviour	3
PSYCHOL 3027	Psychology, Science & Society	3

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Second Majors from the Bachelor of Arts

A second major from one of the following majors from the Bachelor of Arts may be selected in addition to psychology:

Anthropology
Art History and Visual Culture
Australian Studies
Chinese Studies
Classics
Creative Writing
Criminology
Cultural Studies
Digital Humanities
English
Film Studies
French Studies
Gender Studies
Geography, Environment and Population
German Studies
History
Indigenous Knowledges and Society
Indonesian Studies
International Development
Italian Studies
Japanese Studies
Linguistics
Media
Modern Greek Studies
Music
Philosophy
Politics and International Relations
Sociology
Spanish Studies

Second Majors from the Bachelor of Science

A second major from one of the following majors from the Bachelor of Science may be selected in addition to psychology:

Genetics
Microbiology

Addiction Science Second Major

To satisfy the requirements for Addiction Science Second Major students must complete courses to the value of 24 units.

Level I

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
ANAT SC 1102	Human Anatomy and Physiology IA	3
PUB HLTH 1001	Health and Illness in Populations	3

Level II

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
HLTH SC 2104	Essential Understanding of Disease and Treatment	3
HLTH SC 2108	Precision Medicine: Disease, Treatment & Prevention	3

Level III

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
PHARM 3012	Assessment and Treatment of Addiction	3
PHARM 3101	Biological and Psychosocial Factors in Addictions	3
PHARM 3103	Drug Action and Therapeutics	3
PSYCHIAT 3200	Fundamentals of Biological Psychiatry	3

Computer Science Second Major

To satisfy the requirements for Computer Science Second Major students must complete courses to the value of 24 units.

Level I

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
COMP SCI 1102	Object Oriented Programming	3

Level II

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
COMP SCI 2000	Computer Systems	3
COMP SCI 2103	Algorithm Design & Data Structures	3
COMP SCI 2201	Algorithm & Data Structure Analysis	3

Level III

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
COMP SCI 3006	Software Engineering & Project	3

and

Courses to the value of 9 units from the following:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
COMP SCI 3001	Computer Networks & Applications	3
COMP SCI 3004	Operating Systems	3
COMP SCI 3007	Artificial Intelligence	3
COMP SCI 3012	Distributed Systems	3
COMP SCI 3305	Parallel and Distributed Computing	3
COMP SCI 3307	Secure Programming	3
COMP SCI 3314	Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning	3
COMP SCI 3315	Computer Vision	3

Human Neurosciences Second Major

To satisfy the requirements for Human Neurosciences Second Major students must complete courses to the value of 24 units.

Level I

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
ANAT SC 1102	Human Anatomy and Physiology IA	3
HLTH SC 1001	Essentials of Neuroscience	3

Level II

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
PHYSIOL 2510	Physiology IIA: Heart, Lung & Neuromuscular Systems	3

and

Courses to the value of 3 units from the following:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
HLTH SC 2104	Essential Understanding of Disease and Treatment	3
ANAT SC 2006	Foundations of Human Neuroanatomy	3

Level III

Courses to the value of 12 units from the following:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
HLTH SC 3201	Human Motor Behaviour and Learning	3
PATHOL 3200	Neurological Diseases	3
PHYSIOL 3104	Cellular & Systems Neurobiology	3
PHYSIOL 3120	Neuromotor Control of Human Movement	3
PSYCHIAT 3200	Fundamentals of Biological Psychiatry	3

Management Second Major

To satisfy the requirements for Management Second Major students must complete courses to the value of 24 units.

Level I

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
COMMGMT 1001	Managing Organisations and People	3

Level II

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
COMMGMT 2500	Organisational Behaviour	3
COMMGMT 2511	Business Operations Management	3
COMMGMT 2512	Business Information Systems and Management	3

Level III

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
COMMGMT 3501	Strategic Management	3
COMMGMT 3502	Human Resource Management	3

and

Courses to the value of 6 units from the following:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
COMMGMT 3500	Managing Across Cultures	3
COMMGMT 3506	Managing Conflict and Change	3
COMMGMT 3508	Systems Thinking for a Complex World	3

Marketing Second Major

To satisfy the requirements for Marketing Second Major students must complete courses to the value of 24 units.

Level I

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
MARKETNG 1001	Introduction to Marketing	3

Level II

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
MARKETNG 2010	Marketing Strategy	3
MARKETNG 2501	Consumer Behaviour	3

and

Courses to the value of 3 units from the following:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
MARKETNG 2001	Digital Media in Business	3
MARKETNG 2002	Marketing Analytics	3
MARKETNG 2506	Building & Managing Brands	3

Level III

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
MARKETNG 3004	Marketing Planning Project	3

and

Courses to the value of 9 units from the following:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
MARKETNG 3005	Marketing Communications in a Digital World	3
MARKETNG 3006	Delivering Customer Insights	3
MARKETNG 3501	Marketing to the World	3
MARKETNG 3504	Service Design and Marketing	3
MARKETNG 3510	Contemporary Issues in Marketing	3

Population Health Second Major

To satisfy the requirements for Population Health Second Major students must complete courses to the value of 24 units.

Level I

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
PUB HLTH 1001	Health and Illness in Populations	3

and

Courses to the value of 3 units from the following:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
PUB HLTH 1004	21st c. Infectious disease epidemiology & control	3
PUB HLTH 1006	Saving lives or respecting rights? An introduction to health ethics	3

Level II

All of the following courses must be completed:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
PUB HLTH 2007	Epidemiology for Health and Medical Sciences	3
PUB HLTH 2200	Social Foundations of Health II	3

Level III

Courses to the value of 12 units from the following:

Subject / Catalogue	Course Title	Unit Value
PUB HLTH 3008	Health care systems: structure, policy and people	3
PUB HLTH 3009	Experiments with Humans	3
PUB HLTH 3010	Practical Epidemiology in Health Sciences	3
PUB HLTH 3124	Health Promotion III	3
HLTH SC 3014	Work Integrated Learning (Public Health)	6

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Elective Courses

To satisfy the requirements for Elective Courses students must complete courses to the value of 24 units.

Students may take Elective courses offered by the University that are available to them, including the closed elective PSYCHOL 3028 Psychology Internship and may include an option of a second major to the value of 24 units as specified.

Broadening Electives

To satisfy the requirements for Broadening Electives students must complete courses to the value of 9 units.

Students must complete Broadening electives to the value of 9 units taken outside the subject area: PSYCHOL. Broadening electives can be taken at any level.

Published on: 30 November, 2022 | 10:08:46