Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience BSc Honours

Course summary

This exciting interdisciplinary degree considers how the structure and function of the brain gives rise to mental processes while it interacts with its physical, social, and cultural environment.

Cognitive and clinical neuroscience blends theoretical, experimental and applied aspects of psychology with neuroscience, and overlaps with other psychological disciplines including physiological, cognitive and clinical psychology, developmental science, psychopharmacology and neuroanthropology.

Our unique course places a particular focus on brain-behaviour relationships, by bringing together evidence from molecular and cellular neuroscience, brain injury studies, neurological illness, and also looks at developmental and cognitive aspects. It explores a wide range of research-based and clinically relevant methodologies including brain imaging, computational modelling and comparative cognition (considering evolutionary and developmental approaches).

During your degree, you’ll consider all aspects of cognitive functioning, from learning, memory and language through to concepts such as intelligence, decision-making, creativity and consciousness.

Our course will equip you with the skills and knowledge to develop a career across a vast range of highly sought-after employment areas, including academic research, clinical psychology, experimental research, IT and neuropsychology. You’ll also gain the transferable and cognitive skills necessary for lifelong personal and professional development.

In your first year Credit Level 4, you’ll gain core skills in psychology, as identified by the British Psychological Association for chartered membership. In your second and third years Credit Levels 5 and 6, you’ll enrol on core and option modules from a range of cognitive and clinical disciplines.

Top reasons to study with us

• Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience BSc has a 91% student satisfaction rate and 90% of students are in work and/or further study 15 months after the course. (Source: Discover Uni, accessed in December 2020)
• Our course provides a unique blend of psychology and neuroscience in a suite of tailored modules exploring the mind-body link
• Assessments are designed to be rich, varied and authentic to real-world research and practice
• The breadth of this degree allows students to pursue careers in a wide range of jobs in a variety of sectors

With a growing global network of 3,000 employers, our Careers and Employability Service is here to support you to achieve your full potential.

This course will prepare you for roles and areas such as:

• Academia (eg anorexia, dyslexia, face perception, neuroscience of hearing, rehabilitation in dementia, robotics and more )
• Clinical psychologist
• Counselling
• Forensic psychology
• Human resources
• School/further education teacher
• Speech therapist

Graduate employment

Graduates from this course have found employment at organisations including:

• Market research companies
• NHS
• Pharmaceutical companies
• Police Service
• Prison Service