Detail of award: MAJOR, MINOR AND JOINT AWARDS involving PSYCHOLOGY and/with CRIMINOLOGY including Integrated Foundation Year: 2020 entry 
Name of award:
BA/BSc (Hons) involving Psychology and/with Criminology

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

 

STAGE 1a

Code

Title

Credits

Status

Pre-Requisites

FDN018

Transition to University – Learning to Learn

40

Compulsory

None

FDN020

Investigating Your Subject

20

Compulsory

None

FDN021

Negotiated Learning Project

40

Compulsory

None

FDN025

Foundations in Development and Education

20

Designated

None

FDN024

Foundations in Crime and Law

20

Designated

None

Students must take all compulsory modules plus one designated module

 

 

STAGE 1b - Psychology

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

STAGE 1b - Criminology

 

Code

Title

Credits

Status

Pre-Requisites

CRI1002

Crime and Society

20

Compulsory

None

CRI1006

True Crime and Other Fictions

20

Compulsory

None

CRI1007

The Science of Crime and Criminals

20

Compulsory

None


Students must take all modules



STAGE 2 - Psychology

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

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 or PSY1006 or CRI1005

PSY2025

The Psychology of Learning and Teaching in Educational Settings

20

Designated

None



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.

STAGE 2 - Criminology

 

Code

Title

Credits

Status

Pre-Requisites

CRI2004

Research Methods for Criminology1

20

Comp: for Mj/Jt

CRI1007 or CRI1006

CRI2001

Crime and Justice

20

Compulsory

CRI1002

CRI2002

Outsiders

20

Designated

None

CRI2008

Communities, Crime and Alternative Justice

20

Designated

None

CRI2007

Policing and Crime Control

20

Designated

None

HIS2010

Crime, Policing and Punishment in England 1700-1900

20

Designated

None

 

Major students must take CRI2004 and CRI2001 plus two designated modules to total 80 credits and must take 40 credits from their minor subject to total 120 credits for Level 5 study
Joint students take CRI2004 and CRI2001 plus one designated module to total 60 credits and must take 60 credits in each of their other subject to total 120 credits for Level 5 study.

Minor students must take CRI2001 and one designated module not including CRI2004


∞ CRI2004 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 - Psychology

Code

Title

Credits

Status

Pre-Requisites

PSY4001

Psychology Dissertation2

40

Designated for Mj 

PSY2005

PSY4002

Psychology Dissertation3

20

Designated for Jt

PSY2005

PSY4003

Psychology Joint Dissertation4

20

Designated for Jt

PSY2005

PSY4004

Psychology Library Based Dissertation 5

40

Designated for Mj

PSY2005

PSY3004

The Psychology of Mental Health

20

Designated

PSY2030 or PSY2031

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 6

20

Designated

PSY2030 or PSY2031

PSY3055

Applying Positive Psychology

20

Designated

None

PSY3023

Educational Psychology

20

Designated

None

PSY3024

Understanding the Social World

20

Designated

PSY2006 or PSY2007 or PSY2030 or PSY2031

PSY3027

Psychology of Spirituality, Religion and Wellbeing

20

Designated

None

PSY3054

Neuroscience of Mind

20

Designated

PSY2029

PSY3053

Lifespan Development

20

Designated

PSY2008 or 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



STAGE 3 - Criminology

 

Code

Title

Credits

Status

Pre-Requisites

CRI4003

Criminology Dissertation7

40

Compulsory for Major

CRI2001 and CRI2003 or CRI2004 or level 5 methods module from another relevant subject or equivalent. ∞

CRI4001

Criminology Dissertation (Joint) 8

20

Designated for Jt

CRI2001 or CRI2004 or level 5 methods module from another relevant subject or equivalent. ∞

CRI4002

Criminology Joint Dissertation9

20

Designated for Jt

CRI2001 or CRI2004 or level 5 methods module from another relevant subject or equivalent. ∞

CRI3001

Crime and Punishment

20

Compulsory

CRI2001

CRI3002

Crime: Perspectives of Gender and Race

20

Designated

None

CRI3003

Violence: from Domestic to Institutional

20

Designated

None

HIS3019

Crime and Popular Culture in late Victorian Britain

20

Designated

2 Level Five History modules OR HIS2003 or a Level Five Methods / Research module in a different subject

CRI3004

Addiction: Crime and Criminalisation

20

Designated

None

CRI3006

Beyond Justice10

20

Designated

CRI2003 or CRI2004

CRI3007

Critiquing Criminalistics

20

Designated

None

 

Major students must take CRI4003, CRI3001 and one designated module making 80 credits and must take 40 credits from their minor subject to total 120 credits of Level 6 study
Joint students must take all CRI3001, two designated modules making 60 credits in total. Students must take 60 credits from their other subject making a total of 120 credits of Level 6 study. 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 CRI3001 and one designated module making 40 credits in total and must take 80 credits from their major subject to total 120 credits of Level 6 study.

 

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 Cannot be counted with CRI2003
2Cannot be taken with PSY4002, PSY4003 or PSY4004
3 Cannot be taken with PSY4001, PSY4003 or PSY4004
4 Cannot be taken with PSY4001, PSY4002 or PSY4004 and must be taken with the joint module from a second subject
5 Cannot be taken with PSY4001, PSY4002 or PSY4003. Please read the rubric carefully about this module as it has implications regarding your degree title.

6 Students must obtain the approval of the module leader before choosing or enrolling on to this module
7 Cannot be taken with CRI4001 or CRI4002
8 Cannot be taken with CRI4003 or CRI4002
9 Cannot be taken with CRI4003 or CRI4001 and must be taken with the joint module from a second subject.
10 Students will only be admitted to this module following successful completion of a selection process.

 

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