University College Cork (UCC)

BA (Hons) Psychology and Computing

The BA Psychology and Computing is a degree in which psychological research, theory, and knowledge is applied to a context of increasing importance to the modern world – the design, development, evaluation, and critical engagement with the technology and systems that increasingly surround us. It is a degree that...... 

• provides high level technical skills training that will be of benefit to psychologists of the future, who will find themselves working with data science, AI, physiological sensing, online behaviour, neuroscience and experimental psychophysics
• will enable students to develop a skill set that will be attractive to employers in information technology companies, increasingly bringing psychology research, values, and methods to the forefront in professions of user experience design, user interface design, ergonomics, data science and user research
• provides an advanced understanding of how the quality of peoples interaction with technology affects how we access, understand and make use of modern systems and services, such as healthcare, financial services, civic participation, and education
• provides an advanced understanding of online social behaviour – its impact on health, wellbeing, discourse and decision making
• Encourages critical reflection on digitally-mediated experience, a common aspect of everyday lived experience in many parts of the world
• Develops understanding and sensibilities to create evidence- and skills-based routes in this world for themselves and others