Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Psychology with Addiction Studies

at University of West London United Kingdom

The MBA has been designed to support your career progression, preparing you to carry out managerial roles successfully or to build your own business. You will study with a cohort of experienced professionals drawn from a range of industries, building your network and giving you insights into best practice.

You will explore issues that have significant impact within organisations by working with others and building on both personal individual experiences and comparing and contrasting with your cohort members. You will carry out projects and assignments designed to help you critique and apply the theories, tools and techniques you learn.

Much of the learning is developed through the establishment of collaborative learning communities of programme participants and tutors and you will become part of that community of learning. Your understanding is developed around the key skills, processes and practices of business, leadership and management.

You can choose to study this course on a day-release basis to help you balance your studies with other commitments. Upon successful completion of the course, you will receive a Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice.

This course provides excellent teaching in all of key areas of biological sciences including biostatistics, programming in R and data modelling, helping you learn how to design biological research, analyse and model data, and present your results, preparing you for a career where your skills can be applied.

You will do a year-long project as part of a team in the second year, and another year-long project individually, in your third and final year, as well as present your research at the course research conference.

This Biological Sciences degree offers you the flexibility to choose certain modules in your second and third years depending on your interest, allowing you to specialise - from the second year - by taking one of four specialist pathways:

• Developmental biology
• Genomics and computational biology
• Ecology and conservation
• Animal behaviour and artificial intelligence.

Make a difference in young people's lives and understand the challenges they face with this BA (Hons) Youth Studies and Youth Justice degree.

Whether you want to influence public policy, or create change at a more grassroots level, this course will help you navigate the multitude of factors that affect how youth behave today.

You will be introduced to modules which incorporate youth studies, criminology, criminal law, youth justice, sociology, psychology and cultural studies, as these disciplines are best placed to provide the necessary insights and framework for understanding all aspects of youth work.

You will learn about educational concerns, offending behaviour including gangs and gang-affiliated young people, social exclusion and grooming, as well as aspects of social welfare, housing and other relevant local authority issues.  

The course sits at the heart of the London College of Music and represents a creative hub for forward-thinking musical minds.

In line with today’s creative industries, our new BMus (Hons) Composition course offers a unique twofold pathway with specialisms in either Film Composition or Theatre Composition, with the facility to undertake optional modules from both the Film and Theatre strands to create a more generic course of study.

These pathways represent the most significant routes contemporary composers take in their professional life, and aim to directly bridge your university studies with both the creative industries and your future career.

The Film and Theatre pathways are here intended in a holistic way, enabling you to engage with different genres: the Theatre pathway covers composition for musical theatre, opera and experimental music-theatre; the Film pathway encompasses composition for film, television and video games.

Prepare for a rewarding career in international business with this hands-on course accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).

This international business management degree is designed to give you real-world knowledge of the contemporary business landscape. You will learn essential business functions within an international context and how culture influences international management.

Our teaching is informed by current research and global practices, while our highly qualified, experienced staff will support your personal and professional development.

We maintain links with major professional institutes, including the CMI, to ensure the course remains current and to open up potential opportunities for students.

The foundation year course is designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to continue onto your Honours degree. You will study a range of subjects that will underpin your future study and also gain valuable experience of university life, with full access to campus facilities. Successful completion of the year allows you to progress straight onto Level 4 of this course.

This course is aimed at students and professionals working towards the ACCA professional qualification, or those who have already completed this professional qualification. Relevant exemptions would be granted to ACCA Affiliates and Members in good standing, with the possibility of completing this course in the shortest span of time.

As the course content is 100% aligned to the ACCA Strategic Professional Level, it would prepare you for the ACCA Strategic Professional Level exams, whilst studying towards this Masters qualification.

This course is designed to develop a more advanced understanding of the theories and techniques of strategic financial management. It would also enable you to develop the specialist skills, behaviours and qualities required by professional accountants in order to successfully meet the future demands of the profession and make a more meaningful contribution to the organisations they work for.

The MSc Finance and Economics course has been designed to equip you with the knowledge and technical skills required to meet your goals and make a meaningful contribution to the organisations your work for. The various pathways provide you further opportunities to pursue rewarding careers by exploring areas relevant to your chosen subject specialism.

An MSc Finance and Economics degree will equip you with the economics and financial knowledge and skills required to build a strong career in the business and finance sectors. Through specialist modules such as Quantitative Approaches to Economic Analysis, and Economic Theory and practice, you will be able to address strategic challenges faced by business organisations operating in competitive national and global markets.

If you are a Business or Economics graduate and interested in pursuing a career in economics, this course would give you the opportunity to gain more specialist knowledge. When you study economics at the University of West London, you will have direct contact with our course tutors who have extensive theoretical knowledge and industry experience. Their combined expertise will support your professional development throughout the course.

The hospitality industry has seen tremendous growth in recent years, showing it to be a sector resilient to economic turbulence. As demand for highly skilled employees in the industry continues to increase, this food business management course will equip you with the ability to design, manage and lead developments in the food business.

Your studies will focus on the role of the manager and the issues they may face within the international food, food service and hospitality sectors. You will also explore new findings in food research.

In addition, you will become part of a strong professional network that can support you with coaching and mentoring as you develop your career plans. 

This course meets the Stage 1 training requirements developed by the British Psychological Society’s (BPS) Division of Health Psychology. It will prepare you to advance to Stage 2 training, which enables you to become a health psychologist.

The course covers the core BPS material, including contexts and perspectives in health psychology, research methods, and ethical, legal and professional practice issues.

You will learn from specialist staff who have a wealth of experience in both teaching and health psychology research.

Our psychology research facilities include state-of-the-art brain imaging electroencephalogram (EEG), eye tracking equipment and a range of experiment and research software. We provide access and a high standard of support for use of these facilities.

Our music mixing and mastering course represents more than two decades of development and experience. During your studies at the London College of Music (LCM) you will build up your core recording and production skills to mix and master for commercial release.

Throughout the course, you will have opportunities to work in professional studios and with a wide range of musicians.

The foundation year course is designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to continue onto your Honours degree. You will study a range of subjects that will underpin your future study and also gain valuable experience of university life, with full access to campus facilities. Successful completion of the year allows you to progress straight onto Level 4 of this course.