| BSc (Hons) ICT with Psychology |
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LEARNING OUTCOMES
Learning outcomes indicate what you should know and understand, and be able to do on successful completion of the course. These have been developed with reference to the Computing subject benchmarks. As such, you will develop the following:
- Knowledge and Understanding of information and communications technologies and the scientific principles that underpin them, the principles of underlying hardware and software; knowledge of and competence in a range of programming and scripting languages and software applications packages, databases, networking, and systems administration; the main stages of psychological development; theories of human socialisation; mass media messages and their psychological aspects; the nature and value of systematic enquiry in psychology; concepts in social psychology; theories of the mind and the relationship between language and thought; theoretical perspectives in social psychology.
- Discipline Specific Skills in developing well-structured information resources across the range of digital delivery systems; competence across the range of ICTs to ECDL level; fundamentals of video and audio production and their technical underpinnings; relational database design; programming in a major object-oriented language; scripting languages; virtual environments; multimedia and web interface and application development; computer networking and systems administration; ability to compare and contrast theoretical frameworks for psychology, social development, psychology and mass media; application of method in psychology; appraisal of evidence and theory in social psychology; ability to read and assess contemporary analytic philosophy; evaluation and appraisal of epistemological issues in social psychology.
- Personal and Transferable Skills in data management & presentation; interpretation of information; IT and communication skills; creative and systematic problem solving; reflective and enquiring learning; teamwork & leadership; effective project management; and personal management.
An optional placement year, normally taken between Stages Two and Three, will enable you to extend and apply your learning in an appropriate industrial context, and gain first-hand experience of how your skills might be applied in the workplace.