University Of Salento

Bachelor's Degree in PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNIQUES

Degree course in italian: SCIENZA E TECNICHE PSICOLOGICHE
Degree course: PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE AND TECHNIQUES
Title: Bachelor's Degree
MIUR Class: Scienze e tecniche psicologiche - L-24 R (DM270)
Length: 3 years
Credits: 180
Department: HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Website: https://www.unisalento.it/didattica/cosa-studiare/corsi-di-laurea/-/dettaglio/corso/LB58/scienza-e-tecniche-psicologiche
Language: ITALIAN
Location: Lecce
Academic year: 2025/2026
Admission procedure/Available places: Limited admission
Career opportunities: 3.4.5.2.0 - Tecnici del reinserimento e dell’integrazione sociale

Course description
Course modules

Course description

The three-year degree course in Psychological Science and Techniques allows students to acquire basic knowledge of the various sectors of psychological disciplines and scientific investigation methods and procedures, as well as the basic elements of some fundamental technical skills (interview management, psychometric techniques, data collection and processing techniques) and operational skills (e.g. activity planning, communication, reporting, documentation management), to operate professionally - under the responsibility of psychologists with a master's degree or higher qualification - in the field of services aimed at individuals, groups, organizations and communities.
The training course is organized in such a way as to integrate the work of acquiring theoretical and methodological knowledge with training activities aimed at acquiring technical-operational skills.
The course allows access to the training courses of the master's degree class LM-51 (Psychology).

To access the Course, a five-year high school diploma or another qualification obtained abroad recognized as equivalent is required.
To access the degree course, the student must demonstrate a good level of general culture, possession of basic skills in syntax, spelling and text comprehension, possession of transversal skills (logical and scientific reasoning, problem solving and critical thinking) and a basic knowledge of the English language.
The possession of these skills and knowledge is verified through an entrance test. Any gaps, ascertained by the entrance test, in knowledge of the English language imply the attribution of additional training obligations (OFA).

Profile

Doctor in psychological techniques.

Functions

Pursuant to Law 11 July 2003, n. 170, the doctor in Psychological Techniques can access, after a professionalizing post-graduate internship, the State Exam for registration in Section B of the Professional Register of Psychologists (section "Psychological techniques for social, organizational and work contexts" or section "Psychological techniques for personal and community services").
Due to the knowledge and skills in his possession, he is able to perform the functions of Psychological Technician with collaborative tasks in the context of psychological interventions carried out under the responsibility of Psychologists (master's degree or higher degree graduates).

Skills

The skills associated with the function of Psychological Technician include: the management of contact operations with the users of the intervention, the collection and processing of data, the communication of information, the management of documentation, the evaluation, measurement, and operational coordination of the activities involved in interventions carried out in the various fields of psychologically relevant action (individual, family, interpersonal, micro and macro social, organizational, productive, community and cohabitation, institutional contexts).

Sbocco

The transversal nature of the skills profile adopted for the training purposes of the course is aimed at placing the graduate in a position to pursue a plurality of employment opportunities, both in a freelance regime and in dependent work.
Among the client contexts:
• Personal consultancy services
• School and training systems
• Territorial agencies, local authorities, Public Administration
• Organizations, companies, businesses
• Communication and marketing agencies
• Third sector agencies

The Course ends with a final exam, worth 3 CFU, consisting of the drafting of a written paper, consisting of:
- a brief bibliographic review on a topic of scientific interest;
- psychological analysis of a phenomenon of socio-cultural interest;
- a brief report presenting an original empirical research.
In all its variants (review, psychological analysis, research report) the final exam has the objective of developing and verifying the autonomy of judgment developed by the student at the end of the course of study and his/her learning ability.

Course modules

PERCORSO-GENERICO-COMUNE

VENULEO Claudia

BANDO DI ACCESSO 2025/2026