16 | PSYCHOLOGY
Psychology Combined Honours Degrees
2020/ 21 entry
BSc (Hons) Psychology
and Management BSc (Hons) Psychology
and Physical Sciences
As a Combined Honours degree Psychology can be
combined with a number of management disciplines.
This combination provides the student an opportunity
to obtain a degree in Psychology along with a
broad understanding of psychology in working life.
Popular combinations are Psychology and Marketing,
Psychology and Human Resource Management,
Psychology and Business Management or
International Business. These provide an opportunity
to combine such Psychology modules such as
Applied Psychology and Psychology of Advertising
with such Management modules as Business
Strategy or Contemporary Issues in Management.
Graduates in such combinations can go on to
careers in marketing, business or human resource
management or further research and professional
training in social and organisational psychology. As a Combined Honours degree Psychology
can also be combined with a number of physical
science disciplines such as Forensic Science and
Mathematics. These combinations enable the
student to obtain a degree in Psychology as well as
in this wide range of physical sciences.
BSc (Hons) Psychology
and Life Science
As a Combined Honours degree Psychology
can be combined with a number of life science
disciplines such as Human Biology and
Neuroscience. These combinations enable the
student to obtain a degree in Psychology as well
as developing an in-depth knowledge of one
of the life sciences. With the growing interest
among psychologists in the neurological basis
of human behaviour these combinations offer
many exciting career opportunities. For example,
a popular Combined Honours combination is
Psychology and Neuroscience. Within Psychology
we offer such modules as Biological and Cognitive
Psychology which you can combine with such
Neuroscience modules as From Neurone to Brain,
Neuropharmacology or Behavioural Neuroscience.
You can also take a Combined Honours combination
in Psychology and Biology or Human Biology.
In addition to the Psychology core modules
the student can also take such complementary
modules as Neurobiological Basis of Brain Disease
and Human Genetics. Graduates from these
combinations go on to careers in medicine, medical
laboratory science and the pharmaceutical industry
or undertake postgraduate research in cognitive
and cognitive neuropsychology.
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BSc (Hons) Psychology
and Humanities
As a Combined Honours degree Psychology can
be combined with a number of the humanities
disciplines such as English, History and Philosophy.
These combinations enable the student to obtain
a degree in Psychology as well as developing
an in-depth knowledge of one of the Humanities
disciplines. As the relationship between Psychology
and the arts and humanities is increasingly
recognised these combinations offer many exciting
opportunities. For example, you can have a
Combined Honours degree in Psychology and
English. Besides taking core modules in Psychology
you can also take such modules as Psychology
of Education. You can combine these with modules
in English such as Becoming a Critic, Telling Tales,
French Cinema and Post-War British Fiction.
Graduates from this combination go on to such
careers as journalism, publishing, the media,
or librarianship. They can also seek to undertake
advanced postgraduate work linking the
two disciplines.
For more detailed
course information
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