Course Resources Archive
Geography 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: GEOAPY
- Course Leader: Phillip Toms / 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
Module | CATs |
---|---|
To complete your programme you must pass the following compulsory modules: | |
GEO207: International Fieldwork
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass GEO107 |
15 |
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 15 credits from the following: | |
GEO208: Qualitative Methods | 15 |
GEO209: Quantitative Methods Natural Sciences
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass GEO109 |
15 |
GEO210: Quantitative Methods Social Sciences | 15 |
Other modules that can be counted toward your programme include: | |
BIO228: Ecological Impact Assessment and Monitoring | 15 |
GEO201: Threats to Civilisation | 30 |
GEO202: Contemporary Urban Issues | 15 |
GEO204: Ice Age Earth | 15 |
GEO205: Fluvial Hydrosystems | 15 |
GEO206: Geographical Information Systems | 15 |
GEO208: Qualitative Methods | 15 |
GEO209: Quantitative Methods Natural Sciences
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass GEO109 |
15 |
GEO210: Quantitative Methods Social Sciences | 15 |
GEO211: Conflict & Development | 15 |
GEO227: Biogeography | 15 |
HS246: Nature, Culture and Society | 15 |
NS5207: Animal Behaviour
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with BIO224 |
15 |
PY216: Psychology and Law
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass PY101 or pass PY108 |
15 |
SY214: Disability and Society | 15 |
TRM201: Tourism Impacts
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass TRM101 or pass TRM102 |
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 |
Level 6
Module | CATs |
---|---|
To complete your programme you must pass the following compulsory modules: | |
GEO301: Global Futures | 15 |
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 30 credits from the following: | |
GEO333: Geography Dissertation
Prerequisites: Pass appropriate Level II research methods module |
30 |
PY338: Psychology Investigation
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass PY208 |
30 |
Other modules that can be counted toward your programme include: | |
CRI303: Environments of Crime | 15 |
CRI304: Global Crime | 15 |
GEO302: Place, Culture and Identity | 15 |
GEO304: The Postcolonial World | 15 |
GEO305: Climate Change | 15 |
GEO306: Sustainable Rivers: Science and Management | 15 |
GEO307: Advanced Geographical Information Systems
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass GEO206 |
15 |
GEO308: Subject Elective
Prerequisites: Passed a Level II module, congruent with the elect |
15 |
GEO309: Work Placement | 15 |
NS6204: Pollution in Ecological Systems
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with BIO328 |
15 |
NS6206: Palaeoecology
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with BIO327 or GEO327 |
15 |
NS6208: Conservation Ecology
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with BIO326 or BIO330 |
15 |
PY399: Independent Study
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass PY208 |
15 |
SY316: Biology and Politics | 15 |
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 |