If your heart is set on studying A-Levels and would like an environment that is different from the traditional school environment, then A-Levels at MidKent College could be your perfect next step.

Based at our Sixth Form Centre in Maidstone, you will be taught by specialist lecturers who will support you to gain the qualifications, skills and confidence to progress to university-level study, an apprenticeship, or into employment.

You will study three A-Levels over a two-year period. Please confirm your preferred A-Level subjects through the application process. (Within the A-Level application process, please read the information for all the subjects you are interested in studying prior to applying, once you are ready to apply – choose 1 of your choices- at this point you will see two sets of drop-down boxes to choose your remaining 2 subjects.)


Psychology (Awarding Body: AQA)

Psychology is broadly defined as the scientific study of the mind and behaviour, and you will study this across the two-year course.

You will focus on a number of core units including:

• Social psychology, which focuses on the social interactions people have with each other and explains social behaviours; cognitive psychology, the study of how we percieve and interpret the world around us.
  
  
• Developmoental psychology which considers how people develop and change throughout their lives, with specific focus on attachment theory.
  
  
• Biological psychology, looking at the role of evolutionary forces and genetics in behaviour and investigates how the nervous system and hormones work, how the brain functions, and how flutuations affect behaviour.
  
  You will be assessed entirely through examination, and there is no coursework component at this time.
  
  Please note that there is a significant maths component in this course.