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Undergraduate Course Maps 2012/13

Criminology and Psychology (BSc) - Joint Honours Full Time - Course Map

For current students who started their course in 2011/12 academic year and earlier.
  • Course Code: CRIAPY
  • Course Leader: Julie Collins / David Turner
  • Senior Tutor(s):
Each module taken by a student has a credit value (measured in Credit Accumulation and Transfer [CAT] points). Approximately 10 hours of total study time is required per CAT credit. A full-time year is equivalent to 120 CATs for students on an Undergraduate course. To achieve an undergraduate award a student must accumulate a particular number of CATs at Level 4, 5 or 6 as illustrated below: Bachelors Degree without Honours: 300 CATs Bachelors Degree with Honours: 360 CATs (or 480 with year-long placement)

Level 5

Level 5 Notes:

For BPY accreditation: students must take PY204, PY208, PY210, PY213 and PY217

CRI joint students should take CRI208 or CRI210 unless joint with Psychology and electing to take PY208.

Module CATs
To complete your programme you must pass the following compulsory modules:
CRI205: Victims of Crime 15
CRI209: Policing and Social Control
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass CRI101 and pass CRI104
15
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 15 credits from the following:
CRI208: Qualitative Methods
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass 1 module from {SY111, CRI111, GEO111}
15
CRI210: Quantitative Methods Social Sciences
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass 1 module from {SY104, SY111, CRI111, GEO111}
15
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 15 credits from the following:
PY204: Interpersonal and Group Behaviour
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass PY101 or pass PY105 or pass PY108
15
PY210: Perception, Learning and Memory
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must ( pass PY109 or pass PY111 ) and pass PY107
15
PY212: Controversies in Psychology
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass PY101 or pass PY105 or pass PY108
15
PY217: Lifespan Development
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass PY107 and pass PY111
15
PY218: Psychology of Learning and Teaching
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass PY101
15
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 15 credits from the following:
PY213: Individual Differences
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass PY101 or pass PY108
15
PY214: Abnormal Psychology
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass PY101 or pass PY108
15
Other modules that can be counted toward your programme include:
CRI203: Youth and Community Justice 15
CRI204: Forensic Criminology
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass CRI105 or pass CRI101
15
CRI206: Crime Science for Prediction : Profiling and Risk Assessment
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass CRI101 or pass CRI105
15
CRI229: Crime and Society 15
CRI230: Theories of Crime
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass CRI101 or pass CRI104
15
GEO202: Contemporary Urban Issues 15
GEO207: International Fieldwork
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass GEO107
15
NS5207: Animal Behaviour
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with BIO224
15
PY208: Investigative Methods
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass PY110 or pass PY111
30
PY216: Psychology and Law
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass PY101 or pass PY108
15
SY214: Disability and Society 15
SY220: Policy, Power and Injustice 15
SY231: Crimes Against Humanity 15

Level 6

Level 6 Notes:

For BPS accreditation: student must take PY313, PY315, and PY338
Module CATs
To complete your programme you must pass the following compulsory modules:
CRI307: Comparative Perspectives On Criminal Justice
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass CRI202 or pass CRI209
15
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 15 credits from the following:
CRI303: Environments of Crime 15
CRI304: Global Crime 15
CRI305: Contemporay Issues in Penology
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass 1 module from {CRI202, CRI205, CRI209}
15
CRI306: ILM: The Effective Detective
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass CRI202 or pass CRI209 or pass PY216
15
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 30 credits from the following:
CRI333: Dissertation
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass 1 module from {SY223, SY224, CRI208, CRI210, EL202}
30
PY338: Psychology Investigation
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass PY208
30
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 15 credits from the following:
NS6603: Counselling Models and Approaches 15
PY305: Educational Psychology
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass PY208 or pass PY213
15
PY310: Issues in Clinical Psychology
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass PY214
15
PY312: Occupational Psychology
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass PY213
15
PY320: Psychology and Crime
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass PY213 or pass PY214 or pass PY216
15
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 15 credits from the following:
PY313: Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuropsychology
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass PY210
15
PY314: The Psychology of Sex and Gender
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass PY204 or pass SY208
15
PY315: History and Theories of Psychology
Prerequisites: PYL2XX totalling at least 30 credits
15
PY316: Thinking and Reasoning: From the Laboratory to the Real World
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass PY208 and pass PY210
15
PY318: Stereotypes
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass PY204
15
Other modules that can be counted toward your programme include:
CRI308: Exploring Homicide
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass 1 module from {CRI202, CRI204, CRI206, CRI209}
15
CRI398: Independent Study
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass CRI201 or pass 1 module from {CRI202, CRI209}
15
PY306: Further Statistics and Investigative Methods
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass PY208
15
PY320: Psychology and Crime
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass PY213 or pass PY214 or pass PY216
15
PY399: Independent Study
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass PY208
15
SY316: Biology and Politics 15
SY319: Research, Epistemology and Philosophy 15
SY320: Visual Culture and the Information Society 15
SY321: Politics, Risk and Security in the Global Order 15
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