Bachelor of Health Sciences
Psychology (Unit Set Code MJ-H000008)
(Melbourne Burwood Campus, Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus and Warrnambool Campus.
Individual units may not be available on every campus. Also available by off campus study.)
This sequence develops students′ understanding of a range of topics in psychology, which is the science concerned with unravelling questions about human behaviour and mental processes. This six unit major is not intended for the purpose of registration as a psychologist.
To obtain the six unit major students must complete HPS111 and HPS121 plus
Any two level 2 units from the list below.
Any two level 3 units (for which the prerequisite units have been completed) from the list below.
Students intending to become psychologists must complete four years of academic study (three years of undergraduate study, including ten units of psychology, plus either an Honours year or the Graduate Diploma of Psychology).
To obtain the ten unit undergraduate psychology sequence students must complete all the units listed below.
| HPS111 | Fundamentals of Human Behaviour (B, G, W, X) |
| HPS121 | Psychology B: Individual and Social Development (B, G, W, X) |
| HPS201 | Research Methods in Psychology A (B, G, W, X) |
| HPS202 | Child and Adolescent Development (B, G, W, X) |
| HPS203 | Understanding the Mind (B, G, W, X) |
| HPS204 | Introduction to Social Psychology (B, G, W, X) |
| HPS205 | Behavioural Neuroscience (B, G, X) |
| HPS301 | Research Methods in Psychology B (B, G, W, X) |
| HPS307 | Personality (B, G, X) |
| HPS308 | Psychopathology (B, G, W, X) |