Psychology (Including Foundation Year)

Our BSc Psychology (including foundation Year) will be suitable for you if your academic qualifications do not yet meet our entrance requirements for the three-year version of this course and you want a programme that increases your subject knowledge as well as improves your academic skills to support your academic performance.

This four-year course includes a foundation year (Year Zero), followed by a further three years of study. During your Year Zero, you study three academic subjects relevant to your chosen course as well as a compulsory academic skills module, with additional English language for non-English speakers.

After successful completion of Year Zero in our Essex Pathways Department, you progress to complete your course with our Department of Psychology. At Essex, our BSc Psychology explores how our mind works and what drives human behaviour. Psychologists undertake scientific study to try to explain and predict how people work. We conduct experiments in order to investigate how people develop throughout childhood, the way in which they acquire language, and the behavioural changes that can occur as a result of brain injury, disease or life experience.

We provide one of the most immersive and exciting experiences of studying the human mind in the UK. You learn from our researchers and can work together in the same space via our Research Experience Scheme (RES), which gives you the opportunity to work one-on-one with a psychologist as their research assistant.