Bachelor of Psychological Science

No changes for 2025.

Criminology major:

• CRIM305 is not on offer in 2025. Students may replace CRIM305 with any CRIM unit at 200 or 300-level.

Counselling major:

• pre-2025 rules – HSCS240 has been withdrawn from offer from 2025. Any student yet to complete HSCS240 will instead be required to complete HSCS200 Culturally Responsive Counselling.
• Note changes to Placement Requirements for the Counselling Major.

Admission:

ATAR increased to 75.

Placement Requirements:

Candidates undertaking the Counselling Major will need to ensure they are compliant for placement. Please see placement requirements within the Unit Note of HLTH201 and HLTH301 and in the Field Education Placement Moodle site, which you can self-enrol in.

• Unit Overview - reference to the Counselling major has been amended.
• Counselling Major - HSCS333 and HSCS338 removed, HSCS240 and HLTH325 added.
• Intensive School field - updated to capture the mandatory intensive requirements for students undertaking the counselling major.
• Exit award - Undergraduate Certificate in Psychological Science added for students who complete PSYC101, PSYC102 and 2 x 200-level PSYC coded units.

Program of Study

• Listed Unit component removed
• Psychological Health and Wellbeing Minor added
• PSYC304 added to Psychological Health and Wellbeing Minor
• PSYC307 added to Psychological Health and Wellbeing Minor
• PSYC308 added to Psychological Health and Wellbeing Minor
• PSYC314 added to Psychological Health and Wellbeing Minor
• Criminology Minor reduced to 4 specified CRIM units
• Counselling Major has been amended to include capstone unit (HLTH305)
• Counselling Major no longer requires Listed unit component

Enrolment and Progression

• Removal of the requirement for candidates who complete a Minor to have at least 12 credit points at 300-level included in the required 24 credit points.

Note unit changes

Note New Major and changes to Majors and Minors

Program of Study

Core Units:

• PSYC106 deleted
• PSYC363 added

Listed Units:

• PSYC316 deleted

Note unit changes

Program of Study – For candidates admitted under Rule (a)

Listed Units:

• HLTH103 has replaced HLTH300

A new Major (48 cps) has been added for eligible students:

• Counselling

Criminology Minor:

• CRIM390 code changed to CRIM190
• CRIM301 code changed to CRIM201
• CRIM306  code changed to CRIM206
• CRIM307 code changed to CRIM207
• CRIM344 code changed to CRIM244
• CRIM302 title changed
• CRIM374 title changed

Note unit, unit code and/or title changes

Note New Major

Current students will be able to complete under current rules and may enrol in the new units if they wish or transfer subject to meeting new course requirements.

Core Units

• BCSS100 – code changed to PSYC106

Note code change

No implications to continuing students.

A new Minor (24 cps) has been added for eligible students:

• Criminology

Listed Units:

CRIM100, CRIM101, CRIM104, CRIM301, CRIM302, CRIM304, CRIM305, CRIM306, CRIM307,CRIM308, CRIM309, CRIM314, CRIM324, CRIM333, CRIM334, CRIM344, CRIM374, CRIM388, CRIM390 and CRIM394 have been added for this Minor.

Listed Units (both admission rules):

• PSYC306 title changed to Organisational Psychology

Note unit title change

Candidates admitted under Rule (a)

Core Units:

• BCSS100 title changed to Critical Thinking and Decision-Making
• PSYC301 code changed to PSYC371
• PSYC302 code changed to PSYC372

Listed Units:

• PSYC315 title changed to Environmental Psychology: How to Tame an Ecological Serial Killer
• SOCY345 has been added
• WORK300 title changed to Work Integrated Learning – Professional Skills Development

Candidates admitted under Rule (b)

Core Units:

• PSYC301 code changed to PSYC371
• PSYC302 code changed to PSYC372

Listed Units:

• PSYC315 title changed to Environmental Psychology: How to Tame an Ecological Serial Killer

Note unit and/or title changes

There have been major changes to the Bachelor of Psychological Science for 2015.

• There are now two levels of admission within the Program of Study:
  Candidates admitted under Rule (a): 144 cps to complete (original admission to candidature)
  Candidates admitted under Rule (b): 72 cps Block Advanced Standing plus 72 cps to complete

Candidates admitted under Rule (a)

Listed Units:

• ENCO100 and WORK300 have been added
• PSYC316 title changed to Psychology of Perception

Candidates admitted under Rule (b)

Block Advanced Standing:

• 72 cps

Core Units:

• Complete the following units (54 cps): PSYC101, 102, 200, 202, 206, 213, 301, 302 and 366

Listed Units:

• Complete 18 cps from the following units: PSYC304, 306, 307, 308, 309, 314, 315, 316, 363, 399

Note unit and/or title changes

Note two levels of admission to candidature

Current students have the option of completing under the current course rules or transferring to the 2015 course rules.

Listed Units:

• Credit points changed from 24 cps to 36 cps
• HLTH300 has been added
• PSYC321 has been withdrawn

Elective Units:

• Credit points changed from 60 cps to 48 cps

Note unit changes

Students who have already successfully completed units that are no longer offered will be credited towards their course

Current students have the option of completing under the current course rules or transferring to the 2014 course rules.

Listed Units:

• Credit points changed from 18 cps to 24 cps
• PSYC308 title changed to Sport and Exercise Psychology
• PSYC309 title changed to Cognitive Affective and Social Neuroscience

Elective Units:

• Credit points changed from 66 cps to 60 cps

Note unit title changes

Current students have the option of completing under the current course rules or transferring to the 2013 course rules.

• Elective Units changed from 30 cps selected from Bachelor of Arts Majors and 36 from any units offered by the University to 66 cps from units offered by the University

Current students have the option of completing under the current course rules or transferring to the 2012 course rules.

• PSYC309 title changed to Human Neuropsychology
• PSYC308 and PSYC315 have been added

Note the unit/title changes

• PSYC309 title changed to Cognitive, Affective and Social Neuroscience

Note the title change

Core Units:

• Credit points changed to 60 cps
• Complete the following: BCSS 100, PSYC 101, 102, 200, 202, 206, 213, 301, 302, 366
• The following units changed from Listed to Core units: PSYC200, PSYC206, PSYC213 (previously coded PSYC313), PSYC301 (previously coded PSYC201) and PSYC366

Listed Units:

• PSYC306 and PSYC314 have been added
• PSYC307 has been added (previously PSYC204)
• PSYC363 title changed to Abnormal Psychology