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Study psychology & mental health online with La Trobe University through Open Universities Australia. Explore all degrees, subjects and short courses now.

Understand the human mind and how it drives behaviour.La Trobe&#39;s Bachelor of Psychological Science will prepare you for a career as a professional psychologist, or in a psychology-related field across industries from clinical psychology to human services and marketing.Elective subjects with a choice of minor sequences in human relationships and neuroscience gives you the flexibility to work towards the career you want. You&#39;ll learn:<ul><li>Analytical, research and communication skills<ul><li>Learn skills that are essential to your future career in psychology.</li></ul></li><li>Clinical and health psychology<ul><li>Gain an understanding of how to help people cope with mental and physical disorders.</li></ul></li><li>Developmental and social psychology<ul><li>Understand how environmental factors contribute to peoples&#39; psychological makeup.</li></ul></li><li>Psychological assessment, intervention and research<ul><li>Become familiar with methods to understand and measure people&#39;s psychological state.</li><li>Learn when and how to intervene and how to conduct research.</li></ul></li></ul>

From public health to business, this course opens a range of career pathways in addition to professional psychology. You’ll study the scientific foundations of psychology, and zoom in on human relationships or neuroscience. Includes research methods.

Bachelor of Psychological Science

With our flexible Bachelor of Arts, you can choose from a wide range of majors and minors taught by La Trobe&#39;s passionate and committed staff. This flexible degree allows you to pursue your passion and your profession, while keeping your career options open.Shape your own future with this interdisciplinary course. You’ll specialise in at least one area by choosing a major from the School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HUSS), and then explore your interests or build an essential skill by choosing secondary majors, minors and electives from HUSS and select other areas of the University. You’ll graduate with your majors and minors listed on your academic transcript, so future employers can recognise your expertise.Create your own path. Want to major in Sociology, with a second major in Marketing, then take a Creative and Professional Writing subject as an elective? Go for it. Or perhaps you’d like to pair Politics and English? Or Crime, Justice and Legal Studies with Linguistics? Build your own future – we’re here to help you achieve your dream. No matter which path you choose, you’ll learn from world-class academics and leading researchers.In your first year, you’ll explore your interests and passions, trying out subjects from a range of different areas. In your second and third years, you’ll delve deeper while also choosing electives and minors that broaden your skills and knowledge. Studying online offers you the flexibility to complete the degree from wherever you’re based. Throughout your degree, you’ll be well supported by La Trobe’s passionate and committed academics, who are experts in their fields. Many of La Trobe’s online subjects in Humanities and Social Sciences also give you the opportunity to log in to live sessions and engage directly with academics and your fellow students in real time.Gain real-world experience and build valuable connections that will shape your career. Take on an industry placement at organisations like SBS Radio, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre or the United Nations Association of Australia or travel overseas for an international sustainability experience.* Many of our exchange programs are financially supported.The world is waiting for you. Step into it. You’ll learn:<ul><li>Critical thinking</li></ul>Delve into complex problems. Experts say critical thinking will be a highly valued skill in the workforce of tomorrow.**<ul><li>Emotional intelligence</li></ul>Understand what drives our decisions. Learn how to connect to others with emotion and intelligence.<ul><li>Creativity</li></ul>Learn how to see new possibilities and turn them into reality.<ul><li>Communication</li></ul>﻿Learn how to connect, communicate and collaborate with your University peers and future colleagues.*Please note: overseas programs may be impacted by travel restrictions.**Forbes, 2019, The 10 Vital Skills You Will Need For The Future Of Work; PwC, 2020, 10 skills you need for future employment

A flexible arts degree offering a large selection of humanities and social sciences majors. Mix it up with minors and electives in business, health, and science. Develop critical thinking, emotional intelligence, creativity, and communication skills.

Bachelor of Arts

Applied Psychology

Mind, "Madness" and Society: An Introduction to the Sociology of Mental Illness

Introductory Psychology: People and Culture

Scientific Foundations of Psychology

Human Relationships with Animals and the Environment

Psychology Of Close Adult Relationships

Introduction To Behavioural Neuroscience 1B

Introduction To Behavioural Neuroscience 1A

Introductory Psychology: Brain and Mind

Positive Psychology

In this subject you will discover how your brain works in creating your behaviour, how your brain and behaviour change across the lifespan, how, why and in what way you are different from other people. You will learn about how you sense the world and how you process and understand the information that arises from your senses.

This subject provides students with the knowledge and critical thinking skills required to analyse and address questions concerning how humans interact with animals (anthrozoology) and how they interact with the natural environment (ecopsychology). Throughout the subject, students are provided with a broad overview of relevant theories and methods of scientific inquiry. There is an emphasis on developing practical solutions to challenging social issues such as the use of animals, land and water in food production, conservation of endangered species and companion animal breeding and training. Online learning materials are used to provide information about contemporary issues, with tutorials providing many opportunities for students to engage in discussion, debate and further analysis.

This subject serves as an introduction to the biological bases of behaviour. Nerve cells are the basic building blocks of the brain. Therefore their functioning and methods of communicating form the basic principles of brain and nervous system functioning. Hence this subject includes introductory lectures on the elements of the nervous system that contribute to the conscious and unconscious aspects of behaviour. There is an emphasis on understanding how the cells of the nervous system function and communicate with each other, thus allowing us to explain how sensory information, drugs, and hormonal changes influence behaviour, as well as how behaviour influences the brain.

In this subject you will be introduced to the philosophical, historical and methodological foundations of the discipline of psychology. You will critically examine how theories are developed and used in psychological science and examine how they are operationalised in experimental contexts. As part of a team, you will propose your own research question in an applied area of psychology and present this enquiry to your class, and as an individual you will analyse, present and discuss the results in a written report.

This subject will introduce you to key elements and psychological processes involved in close adult relationships. These include areas such as attachment, trust and forgiveness, as well as a specific focus on phases during relationships including dating, commitment, and becoming a parent. Research methodologies used to assess relationship dynamics and functioning will be outlined, and outcomes of research studies explored in depth. You will learn about relevant theories proposed to help us understand the complex dynamics inherent in close adult intimate relationships.

In this subject you will learn about the biological, social, and psychological factors that influence our psychological health. You will examine definitions and experiences of mental health and illness from a theoretical, clinical, and public health perspective. Concepts such as stigma, diagnostic approaches, and cultural perspectives will be investigated with regards to psychological health and illness.

Psychological Health and Illness

In this subject you will develop the ability to evaluate and interpret information gathered from measures and approaches used in psychological assessment. The subject will be comprised of three themes covering measurement theory, individual differences, and psychological assessment in applied contexts. Lectures in measurement theory will cover classical and modern psychometric approaches to the construction, implementation, and evaluation of psychological measures. Lectures in individual differences will extend on the coverage of cognitive ability, personality, and emotion offered in introductory psychology subjects, with a focus on assessment. Lectures in applied psychological assessment will cover the issues associated with the appraisal of behaviours, thoughts, interests and emotions across clinical, educational, organisational, and forensic contexts. This subject is a capstone subject in a psychology major.

Psychological Assessment

In this subject, you will explore theoretical approaches to neural systems and processes relevant to a wide range of normal conscious and unconscious behaviour, and behavioural difficulties, and will provide training in the issues of contemporary cognitive neuroscience. In particular the subject will focus on clinically related aspects of neurodevelopmental, neurodegenerative, traumatic brain injury and sensory disorders. You will be introduced to neuroscientific aspects of a number of common testing procedures underlying theoretical approaches to professional practice.

Clinical Neuroscience and Neuropsychology

In this subject, students are introduced to a range of theories, methods and topics in social psychology. Social psychology is the scientific attempt to understand and explain how the thoughts, feelings, and behaviours of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of other human beings. The topics to be covered in this unit include attitudes, self and identity, person perception and social cognition, interpersonal attraction, social influence, prejudice, intergroup relations, and prosocial and antisocial behaviour.

Social Psychology

The two parts of this subject deal with statistical inferences that we can make about (1) relationships between measures gathered from a single group of participants and (2) differences in the group means on one variable gathered from two or more groups of participants. In the first part, we start with correlation between variables and move on to more advanced regression topics of using several variables to predict an outcome. In the second part, we start with the basic principles of experimental design to compare data gathered from the same or different groups of participants. We study the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) in detail, on how we can use it to establish differences between several groups and, following that, how we can compare means between groups.

Psychological Research Methods

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