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Undergraduate Course Maps 2012/13

Education Studies and Psychology (BA/BSc) - Joint Honours Full Time - Course Map

For current students who started their course in 2011/12 academic year and earlier.
  • Course Code: EDSAPY
  • Course Leader: Richard Millican / Julie Collins
  • 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 BPS accreditation: include PY204, PY208, PY210, PY213 and PY217
Module CATs
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:
EDS201: Work Based Learning in An Educational Context
Restrictions: Must have an enhanced CRB. Only available to EDS
30
EDS202: Contemporary Issues in Education 15
EDS203: Education and Society Around the World 15
EDS204: Educational Research 15
EDS205: Independent Study 15
EDS206: Education in An Ethnically Diverse Society 15
EDS207: Overcoming Barriers to Progress 15
EDS208: First and Second language acquisition, learning and development 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

Level 6

Level 6 Notes:

For BPS accreditation: include PY313, PY315 and PY338
Module CATs
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 30 credits from the following:
EDS333: Education Studies Dissertation
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass EDS204
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:
ECS321: Children and Their Worlds 15
EDS301: Work Based Learning in An Educational Context
Restrictions: Must have an enhanced CRB. Only available for EDS
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass EDS201
30
EDS302: Learning to Think and Thinking to Learn 15
EDS303: Education and Community
Restrictions: Must have a current CRB. Only available for EDS
30
EDS305: Education for Change 15
EDS306: Human Development 15
PY306: Further Statistics and Investigative Methods
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass PY208
15
PY399: Independent Study
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass PY208
15
SY316: Biology and Politics 15
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