Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours)

What can you do with your degree?

The fourth year program is a steppingstone to further studies leading to registration as a practising psychologist. 

Broadly speaking, qualifications in psychology can be applied to a wide range of careers that call for exceptional critical thinking, communication, and analytical skills.  These can be in private enterprise, government, and community settings, in fields such as:  

  • Education – counselling, behaviour management 
  • Business – change management, organisational psychology 
  • Human resources and career guidance 
  • Policy making 
  • Criminal justice
  • Sport, exercise and athlete performance 
  • Rehabilitation – counselling 
  • Not-for-profit organisations 
  • Community action 
  • Marketing / Advertising / Communications 
  • NDIS services including mental health support 
  • Research

Areas of practice

Once fully registered as a practicing Psychologist, graduates can specialise and be endorsed in nine areas of practice, including:

  • Clinical neuropsychology   
  • Clinical psychology 
  • Community psychology   
  • Counselling psychology   
  • Educational and developmental psychology   
  • Forensic psychology  
  • Health psychology 
  • Organisational psychology 
  • Sport and exercise psychology

Graduate accreditation

Graduates will be eligible to apply for provisional registration as a Psychologist, in preparation for the practicum placements required in the final two years (Years 5 and 6) of the training pathway.

After completing this Fourth-Year program, the options for the final two years of psychology studies are:

  • Master of Psychology (Clinical) – a two-year program (Years 5 and 6) for graduates with a Distinction average GPA; 
  • Master of Professional Psychology – a one-year program (Year 5) for graduates with a Credit average GPA. Graduates will need to complete a further 12 months of self-sourced supervised practice (Year 6) to be eligible for registration as a general Psychologist.

Entry to these programs will also be based on an interview process and successful offer.

Program learning outcomes

Program Learning Outcomes provide a broad and measurable set of standards that incorporate a range of knowledge, skills and abilities that will be achieved on completion of the program. These outcomes will help you determine whether this program aligns with your professional pathway, career and learning goals.

View Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours) learning outcomes
  1. Apply advanced and specialised psychological knowledge in core research areas of the discipline, including the theoretical and empirical bases of psychological assessment and intervention.
  2. Apply culturally responsive and culturally safe approaches in pre-professional assessment, research and practice, including with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
  3. Critically evaluate psychological theory and research to inform pre-professional practice and an independent research project.
  4. Communicate psychological knowledge in written formats appropriate to pre-professional and scholarly audiences, including a research thesis.
  5. Communicate psychological knowledge orally in pre-professional contexts, applying appropriate interpersonal and interview skills.
  6. Apply ethical principles and professional standards to pre-professional practice and research, including the critically appraised use of digital technologies.
  7. Apply principles of interprofessional collaborative practice, establishing respectful and culturally responsive working relationships.
  8. Plan and execute a substantial independent research project that investigates a research question relevant to the discipline of psychology.
  9. Examine how personal values, assumptions and biases shape psychological practice and explain the importance of self-care for safe and sustainable practice, identifying personal strategies to manage its psychosocial demands.
  10. Apply basic psychological assessment strategies, including the psychometric theory, cultural considerations and principles underpinning the construction, implementation and interpretation of standardised instruments.
  11. Explain how basic psychological intervention strategies can be applied across a range of contexts, with consideration of cultural responsiveness.

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