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MSc - Master of Science
City Centre Campus
Full Time
SEP-25
1 Year
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MSc - Master of Science
City Centre Campus
Full Time
SEP-25
1 Year
MSc - Master of Science
City Centre Campus
Part Time
SEP-25
2 Years
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Our MSc Applied Child Psychology is a postgraduate degree course offering specific, in-depth study of child psychology across a range of contexts and settings.The MSc Applied Child Psychology aims to enhance your knowledge and experience in applied areas of child psychology and equip you with the expertise and academic skills necessary to support graduate employment. The course aims are:To equip you with a range of specific applied and transferable skills, enhancing your opportunities for professional and career development in a variety of disciplines within the field of child psychology.To allow you to develop specialist theoretical and practical knowledge that will underpin your work with children and consider applications of this knowledge to professional contexts and situations, e.g., supporting children with diverse developmental, neurological, and psychological needs.To allow you to develop your critical thinking, problem solving and reasoning skills, and the ability to plan and conduct high-quality research with applications to applied settings and professional practice.
Applicants must have a minimum of a 2:2 honours degree in Psychology or another relevant discipline (Education, Health and Social Care, Sociology, Childcare, etc.), in addition to the level 2 requirements stated below.
As this course is not a BPS accredited route into chartered psychology, this course does not require applicants to have a BPS accredited undergraduate degree or to have completed a Psychology conversion course.
Applicants with undergraduate degrees in less relevant disciplines or alternative level 6 qualifications will be considered on a case-by-case basis if they are able to demonstrate a substantial amount of relevant work-based experience.
GCSE and other level 2 requirements
GCSE Mathematics (or equivalent) at Grade C or above. If you do not have GCSE Mathematics at the required level, we accept other Level 2 equivalents, or we may ask you to pass BCU's GCSE equivalency tests.
Students living in
Domestic
£10,000 per year
Students from Domestic
This is the fee you pay if the University is in the same country that you live in (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland)
£18,600 per year
Students from EU
The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from somewhere in the EU.
£18,600 per year
Students from International
The amount you'll pay if you come to study here from a country outside the EU.
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