Psychology
Joint Honours
The subject
Psychology is the fascinating and complex scientific study of mind and behaviour, based on continuous testing and reformulating of theories. As a student, you will learn to critically evaluate and integrate various approaches.
In the First Year, you will study the foundations of cognitive psychology, historical and conceptual issues in psychology, the person in society and biological psychology.
Depending whether you are on the Major, Minor or Joint route, Second Year modules can include:
- social psychology
- developmental psychology
- cognition
- applied psychology
- further biological psychology
- language and mind
In the Final Year, you will choose modules based on your interests.
Careers
An understanding of psychology is relevant to many careers and you will gain skills that employers highly value.
Further study may be required to gain British Psychological Society (BPS) recognition and become a professional psychologist.
Combined with
One other subject can be combined with Psychology in a Joint Honours degree:
- Business
UCAS code: C8N1 - Digital Media Technology
UCAS code: C8H6 - English Language and Communication
UCAS code: C8Q1 - Financial Mathematics
UCAS code: C8G9 - Health Studies
UCAS code: C8B9 - Human Biology
UCAS code: C8B1 - Human Geography
UCAS code: C8L7 - Law
UCAS code: C8M1 - Mathematics
UCAS code: C8G1 - Philosophy
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UCAS code: C8N8