You'll chart the timeline of an employee from career counselling to retirement.

You'll consider the influence psychology has in areas including career counselling, job design, recruitment, motivation, teamwork, leadership, disability, unemployment and retirement.

You'll look at the relevant history, seminal and contemporary theories, practical applications and future issues.

Get an introduction to psychotherapy and counselling psychology.

You'll explore various psychotherapy and counselling schools and theories.

You'll consider the challenges faced by psychotherapists and counselling psychologists working in a variety of contexts with different populations.

We'll look at counselling perspectives such as eclectic, integrative and time-limited, and explore the influence of positive psychology.

You'll get an introduction to the skills used by psychotherapists and counsellors.

You'll also consider health economics and broader modes of delivery such as group and internet counselling.

You'll get an introduction to psychopathology, diagnostic systems and psychological approaches to distress.

You'll consider potential causes of mental ill-health and their prevalence among varying populations, for example, age, race, and culture.

You'll look at mental health conditions and their proposed psychological treatments.

You'll critically evaluate interventions in terms of cost, outcomes and service user experience, and look at potential barriers to treatments and ways to overcome them.

You'll also cover the British Psychological Society's (BPS) Code of Ethics and Conduct and BPS activities related to mental health and the principles of social justice - access, equity, diversity, participation and human rights.

You'll critically examine cognitive-experimental psychology.

Influences include Marxism, postmodernism, feminism, psychoanalysis, social constructionism and discursive psychology.

You'll apply and analyse these influences on areas of difference and inequality such as gender, sexuality, race, social class, health, mental health, criminality and work.

Get an introduction to cyberpsychology, looking at psychological phenomena related to technology.

Investigate how digital technologies have influenced individuals and groups in society.

You may cover topics including relationships online, computer games, addiction, cybercrime, children, young people and online behaviour and personality online.

You'll cover topics related to forensic psychology.

These include theories of crime, violent and sexual offenders, treatment, female offenders, personality disorder, risk assessment, forensic mental health and suicide and self-harm.

You'll explore how psychologists model human behaviour and how to modify this in the context of health within a relevant population.

You'll analyse and debate issues and problems in health psychology.

You'll differentiate interactions between the psychological, social and biological functions that lead to illness and compare and evaluate the relevant factors.

We'll cover UK and international perspectives and look at ethical issues in health psychology.

Each week you'll look at a different contemporary health issue in the context of behaviour and health outcome. These could include physical activity in pregnant women and the general population, and smoking in lower social economic status groups.

You'll write critically about a selected and approved area in more depth than is possible in other assessed essays.

You'll develop your ideas for the negotiated essay with the guidance of a supervisor with expertise in your area of interest.

You'll have up to three hours of supervision.

Get a broad overview of stress and illness, and how biological processes are influenced by stressful events.

We'll cover stressors, stress appraisal, hormonal changes, neurotransmitter processes, the immune system, cardiovascular disease, affective disorders, addiction, epigenetics, coping strategies, navigating stigma and seeking help.

In groups, you'll do informal presentations on your progress during the module.

You'll also get a personalised podcast on Panopto revolving around your group work, enabling further clarification and points of discussion.

Explore how we impact the environment and how the environment impacts us from a psychological perspective.

You'll look at psychological approaches to understanding, assessing, and modifying peoples’ environmental awareness and behaviours.

The UN Sustainable Development Goals underpin the module content.

You'll use examples of sensory illusions, cognitive biases and disorders to explore important cognitive mechanisms and their neurological basis.

We'll use sensory illusions such as Kanizsa figures and rubber hand illusions to illustrate the perceptual system.

Processing disorders such as prosopagnosia and object agnosia will help you understand how sensory information is integrated.

We'll showcase the systems underlying human thinking through cognitive biases.

Get a critical introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Genocide Studies.

You'll explore case studies relating to historical and contemporary instances of genocide, and interrogate the memorialisation of genocide.

You'll evaluate international legal mechanisms of genocide prevention.

We may address themes including the relationship of genocide to cognate categories in international legal discourse such as crimes against humanity and ‘ethnic cleansing’, sociological, criminological and social-psychological approaches to perpetration, the aftermath of genocide and the emerging concept of ecocide.

You'll analyse political and cultural texts covering historical, critical and contextual approaches to gender.

You'll examine the way gender is performed, consumed and contested.

We'll look at issues concerning power, gender and identity, examining debates on the social construction of gender.

Critically explore concepts, debates, literature and research on justice, punishment and human rights.

You'll consider whether the criminal justice system balances these three elements.

In the first semester, you'll explore the history of punishment. You'll assess the importance of protecting human rights within punishment and look at the work of philosophers including John Locke, Jeremy Bentham and Michel Foucault.

In the second semester, you'll critically analyse the philosophies of punishment -
deterrence, incapacitation, rehabilitation and retribution - underpinning the criminal justice system.

We'll explore how much criminological theory can help us understand criminality and harm in the 21st century.

We've already seen dramatic transformations with protests and uprisings, climate change, a global financial crisis and the birth of social media and the dark web.

You'll critically assess which theories can help us understand and respond to the negative consequences of these changes, and why we are willing to inflict harm on others and ourselves.

You'll develop an in-depth understand of 21st century policing issues such as cybercrime and terrorism.

We'll explore the role of intelligence agencies and how effective they are at fighting security issues in Britain.

You'll get a critical awareness of the role of police and agencies such as the National Crime Agency and British Security Service (MI5).