Psychology
Study at a university ranked 8th in the UK for psychology. Browse our psychology modules below, and if you’re unsure what to study, follow our top tips for how to choose a module.
Browse our modules
You can see our full list of psychology modules below.
Level 3 (sub-degree)
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
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Autumn Semester
- Attention: Distraction, Daydreaming and Diversity
- Biological Psychology of Mental Health
- Child Language: Development, Disorders and Individual Differences
- Children's Peer Relationships
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Communicating Climate Crisis
- Educational Psychology
- Forensic Psychology
- Health Psychology
- Nature and Nurture of Mental Health
- Psychology of Appetite
- Psychology of Collective Action
- Psychology of Sleep
- Self Regulation: The Science of Achieving Your Goals
- Selves and Identities
- Social Connection and Disconnection
- Understanding Clinical Psychology
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Spring Semester
- Advanced Topics in Psychology
- Autism Across the Lifespan
- Clinical Psychology in Practice
- Conscious and Unconscious Mental Processes
- Contemporary Topics in Child Development and Wellbeing
- Drugs, Brain and Behaviour
- Intimate Relationships
- Manipulating Minds
- Organisational Psychology
- Positive Psychology
- Prejudice, Discrimination and Intergroup Relations
- Psychology of the Family: Beyond Attachment
- Psychology and Culture
- Science of Memory
Not sure how to choose?
Follow our top tips for choosing your modules. You can also find out about our teaching structure, assessment process and how your credits transfer back to your home institution.
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Which school will I study in?
You'll study in the School of Psychology.
We're one of the UK’s largest schools of psychology and our academics are world-leaders in the areas that they teach.
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Our psychology research
Our researchers have been pushing the boundaries of biological, developmental, clinical, cognitive and social psychology since the 1960s. With a team of more than 70 academics, we are one of the largest research-intensive psychology schools in the UK.
Our research influences the way we teach, and you learn from academics at the forefront of their fields.
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Contact us
If you are studying at Sussex for a semester or year and have questions, email sussexabroad@sussex.ac.uk.
*Times Higher Education World University Rankings by Subject 2021 **Based on a full Psychology BSc undergraduate degree. ***Access to facilities dependent on modules studied. Rankings based on full undergraduate degree at Sussex.