Bachelor of Arts Honours in Psychology

The IIE Bachelor of Arts Honours in Psychology is designed to develop high-level skills in the field of applied psychology.

These skills include measurement skills (e.g. how to operationalize the measurement of complex processes); environmental awareness (e.g. habit formation and social appropriateness); interpersonal awareness (e.g. the mechanisms of social communication and potential sources of interpersonal conflict); problem-solving skills (e.g. the ability to tackle a range of different types of problems and to employ a range of approaches to understanding problems); critical evaluation (e.g. to identify the shortcomings and pitfalls of a particular action); perspectives (e.g. the ability to explore issues from multiple points of view); higher order analysis (e.g. identifying recurrent patterns in human activity); and, pragmatism (e.g. a pragmatic approach to work and problem-solving). All of these skills are scarce and promote employability.

Since the IIE Bachelor of Arts Honours in Psychology programme is registered as an academic honours, which generally does not cover a practicum, one would not yet be positioned to register as a Psychologist, Counsellor or Psychometrist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) upon completion of this honours programme.

This honours programme will, however, position graduates for admission into a professional Master’s degree training programme such as Clinical Psychology, Counselling Psychology and Research Psychology at another institution, after which, registration with the HPCSA is possible.