Detail of award: MAJOR, MINOR AND JOINT AWARDS involving PSYCHOLOGY: 2021 entry
Name of award: BA/BSc (Hons) involving Psychology

In order to achieve the named award above, students must meet all requirements of this award map

STAGE 1

Code	Title	Credits	Status	Pre-Requisites
PSY1003	Introduction to Psychology	20	Compulsory	None
PSY1006	Becoming a Psychologist	20	Compulsory	None
PSY1012	Psychology for Life	20	Compulsory	None

Students must take all modules. Students who are studying Law as their other subject must take PSY1003 and PSY1006 only to total 120 credits at Level 4

STAGE 2

Code	Title	Credits	Status	Pre-Requisites
PSY2005∞	Research Methods and Statistics	20	Comp: Mj Des: Jt	PSY1006
PSY2003	Independent Practical Work	20	Designated Mj/Jt	PSY1006 and PSY1003
PSY2006	The Human Animal	20	Designated	PSY1003
PSY2007	The Psychology of Well Being	20	Designated	None
PSY2025	The Psychology of Learning and Teaching in Educational Settings	20	Designated	None
PSY2029	Biological and Cognitive Psychology: Mechanisms of the mind	20	Comp: Mj Des: Jt/Mn	PSY1003
PSY2030	Development and Society	20	Comp: Mj Des: Jt/Mn	PSY1003 or CRI1005
PSY2031	Personality & the Fundamentals of Psychology	20	Comp: Mj Des: Jt/Mn	PSY1003

Please note PSY2005 is a pre-requisite for all Psychology dissertation modules
If you want to have a degree that is accredited by the British Psychology Society, so that you have GBC (Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership), then you must major in Psychology, taking the core modules identified here.

Major students must take the core BPS modules PSY2005, PSY2029, PSY2030 and PSY2031, making 80 credits and must take 40 credits in their minor subject to total 120 credits at level 5.
Joint students must take designated modules totalling 60 credits and must take 60 credits in their other subject to total 120 credits at level 5
Minor students must take 40 credits of designated modules not including PSY2005 and must take 80 credits in their major subject to total 120 credits at level 5

∞ PSY2005 is the research methods module for this subject. Please note that only one research methods module can be undertaken as part of a Joint Honours award. If your other chosen subject offers a research methods module an additional designated module must be taken in its place from the second award map.

OPTIONAL PLACEMENT YEAR

Code	Title	Credits	Status	Pre-Requisites
HRM2053	The Placement Year Experience: Organisations in Context (WBL)	40	Compulsory	None

Students must have successfully completed 100 credits at Level 5 in order to undertake placement

STAGE 3

Code	Title	Credits	Status	Pre-Requisites
PSY4001	Psychology Dissertation^3	40	Designated for Mj	PSY2005
PSY4002	Psychology Dissertation^4	20	Designated for Jt	PSY2005
PSY4003	Psychology Joint Dissertation^5	20	Designated for Jt	PSY2005
PSY4004	Psychology Library Based Dissertation ^6	40	Designated for Mj	PSY2005
PSY3004	The Psychology of Mental Health	20	Designated	PSY2029 or PSY2030
PSY3007	Parapsychology and Anomalous Experiences	20	Designated	PSY2029
PSY3013	The Psychology of Health	20	Designated	40 credits of second year PSY modules
PSY3016	Forensic Psychology ^7	20	Designated	PSY2029 or PSY2030
PSY3055	Applying Positive Psychology	20	Designated	None
PSY3023	Educational Psychology	20	Designated	None
PSY3024	Understanding the Social World	20	Designated	PSY2006 or PSY2007 or PSY2029 or PSY2030
PSY3027	Psychology of Spirituality, Religion and Wellbeing	20	Designated	None
PSY3054	Neuroscience of Mind	20	Designated	PSY2029
PSY3053	Lifespan Development	20	Designated	PSY2030
PSY3063	The Psychology of Work and Organisations *	20	Designated	None

Major students must take either PSY4001 or PSY4004, and two designated modules making 80 credits and must take 40 credits from their minor subject to total 120 credits at level 6
Major students requiring GBC must take PSY4001 plus two designated modules. Students who complete PSY4004 will achieve “Psychological Studies and other named subject”, not “Psychology and other named subject”.
Joint students must take three designated modules making 60 credits and must take 60 credits from their other subject. Joint students must take a dissertation module from one of their subjects, but may instead also undertake an interdisciplinary dissertation joining both subjects together.
Minor students must take two designated modules making 40 credits and must take 80 credits from their major subject to total 120 credits at level 6

Students who do not complete the Honours Degree will be eligible for an Ordinary Degree in the named subjects upon successful completion of a minimum of 60 Level 6 credits. These can be from any Level 6 modules, whether identified as compulsory or designated. Where the completed Level 6 credits are from one subject area only, the award title will be Ordinary Degree X WITH Y.  Where the completed Level 6 credits are from both subject areas, the award title will be either Ordinary Degree X WITH Y or Ordinary Degree X AND Y depending on the degree on which the student registered.

*New Module

¹ Restricted module : available to single honours, joint and Psychology major students only
² Restricted module : available to single honours, joint and Psychology major students only
³Cannot be taken with PSY4002, PSY4003 or PSY4004
⁴ Cannot be taken with PSY4001, PSY4003 or PSY4004
⁵ Cannot be taken with PSY4001, PSY4002 or PSY4004 and must be taken with the joint module from a second subject
⁶ Cannot be taken with PSY4001, PSY4002 or PSY4003. Please read the rubric carefully about this module as it has implications regarding your degree title.

⁷ Students must obtain the approval of the module leader before choosing or enrolling on to this module

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16/12/2021