Course Resources Archive
Psychology and Sociology (BSc) - Single Honours Full Time - Course Map
For current students who started their course in 2012/13 academic year and later.
- Course Code: PSSDG
- Course Leader: Julie Collins
- Senior Tutor(s): Jonathan Hobson
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 4
| Module | CATs |
|---|---|
| To complete your programme you must pass the following compulsory modules: | |
| NS4101: Foundations of Psychology
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with PY101, PY114 or PY111 |
30 |
| NS4102: Analysis, Evidence and Theory
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with PY101, PY114 or PY111 Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass NS4101 |
30 |
| NS4402: Social Identities
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with module SY107 |
30 |
| NS4403: Sociological Issues
Restrictions: Cannot be taken with SY113 |
30 |
Level 5
| Module | CATs |
|---|---|
| To complete your programme you must pass the following compulsory modules: | |
| NS5102: Development of the Person
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with PY217 or PY213 Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass NS4102 |
30 |
| NS5401: Sociology in the Real World
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with SY233 Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass NS4402 |
30 |
| To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 30 credits from the following: | |
| NS5101: Research Design and Analysis
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with PY208 Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass NS4102 |
30 |
| NS5402: Data Collection & Data Analysis
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with CRI210, GEO210, SY210, CRI208, GEO208, SY208, NS5101 or NS5308 Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass NS4301 or pass NS4401 |
30 |
| Other modules that can be counted toward your programme include: | |
| NS5001: Internship
Restrictions: Only available to ANB, BIO, CRI, GEO, SY, PY |
15 |
| NS5103: Criminological Psychology
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with PY216, PY320 Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass NS4102 |
30 |
| NS5104: Psychology and Mental Health
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with PY214 or PY310 |
30 |
| NS5105: Psychology in Education
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with PY218 or PY305 |
30 |
| NS5305: Cities: Urban Worlds
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with GEO202 |
15 |
| NS5403: Crimes against Humanity
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with SY231 |
15 |
| NS5404: Gender, Culture and Society | 15 |
| NS5405: Challenging Injustice: Welfare, Policy and Control
Restrictions: Cannot be taken with SY220 |
15 |
| NS5501: Crime and Society: Theorising Crime
Restrictions: Cannot be taken with CRI229 or CRI230 |
30 |
Level 6
| Module | CATs |
|---|---|
| To complete your programme you must pass the following compulsory modules: | |
| NS6401: Research, Philosophy & Epistemology
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with SY310 or SY319 Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass NS5402 or pass NS5101 |
15 |
| To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 30 credits from the following: | |
| NS6111: Psychology Dissertation
Restrictions: Cannot be taken with PY338 Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass NS5101 |
30 |
| NS6444: Sociology Dissertation
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with SY333 Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass NS5402 |
30 |
| To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 30 credits from the following: | |
| NS6101: Social Psychology: Cognition and Construction
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with PY204, PY212 Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass NS4102 |
30 |
| NS6102: Cognition, Neuroscience and Neuropsychology
Restrictions: Cannot be taken with PY210 or PY313 Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass NS4102 |
30 |
| To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 15 credits from the following: | |
| NS6402: Visual Culture & the Information Society
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with SY313 or SY320 |
15 |
| NS6403: Challenges, Risk, and Security in a Global Age
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with SY321 |
15 |
| NS6404: Social Debates on Human Nature
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with SY316 or SY317 |
15 |
| NS6405: Applied Politics for a Global Age | 15 |
| Other modules that can be counted toward your programme include: | |
| NS6103: Occupational Psychology
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with PY312 Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass NS5102 |
15 |
| NS6104: Psychology of Gender and Sexuality
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with PY314 |
15 |
| NS6105: Applied Cognition
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with PY316 Corequisites: While taking this module you must pass NS6102 |
15 |
| NS6106: Critical Practice in Psychology | 15 |
| NS6107: Psychology of Creativity and the Arts | 15 |
| NS6303: The Postcolonial World
Restrictions: Cannot the counted with GEO304 |
15 |
| NS6304: Cities: Space and Culture
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with GEO302 |
15 |
| NS6503: Environments of crime
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with CRI303 |
30 |
| NS6504: Global Crime
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with CRI304 |
15 |
| NS6603: Counselling Models and Approaches | 15 |
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