Abstract

At the University of Lincoln, we offer three undergraduate degrees in psychology: Psychology; Psychology with Clinical Psychology; and Psychology with Forensic Psychology. All three programmes are very positively perceived, by the students, teaching team, and external examiners. While the ‘with’ students show high satisfaction for the applied elements of their courses, they consistently rate the core psychology modules (common across the three programmes) lower than the Psychology students and appear to be less satisfied with all core domains. So perhaps our approach to the applied elements of the course has been driving this dissatisfaction and apparent disconnect with the core concepts of psychology.