B.A. /BSc (Hons) Crime Studies / Psychology
Bachelor's degree
In Lancaster
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Lancaster
Our combined honours programme offers the opportunity to study two different subjects at degree level. This combination will enable you to benefit from high quality teaching across two courses and will provide you with greater career options.
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Subjects
- Psychology
- Options
- Teaching
Course programme
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Year 1
How does a Combined Honours degree work?
Teaching is organised in units that typically involve lectures, seminars and practical/tutorial work. Most units are assessed by a mixture of coursework and formal examination, although there are a number of units that are assessed by coursework only.
In each year of full-time study, you will take 120 credits, made up of a number of units which are worth 30 credits each.
In Year 1 you will take 60 credits of core units from each of your two subjects.
The following information will give you an indication of what you will study, however the modules you study will depend on which Combined Honours study route you decide to take.
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Year 2
In Year 2 you can choose the balance of your two subjects:
Equal study 60 credits from each of your subjects
Major/minor study 90 credits from the major subject and 30 credits from the minor subject.
Your crime studies units will include analysing criminal behaviour and the criminal mind using social science perspectives within the criminal justice system.
Second year psychology students will examine social psychology of human relationships and explore the ways in which psychologists attempt to measure human behaviour, characteristics and abilities.
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Year 3
In your final year you can continue with the equal or major/minor route you have chosen in Year 2 or you can choose from the following options:
If you have chosen equal study in Year 2 you can choose major/minor study in Year 3.
If you have chosen major/minor study in Year 2, in most subject areas you can choose units completely in your major subject in Year 3. This option is called named route study and leads to a single subject degree. See below for a list of available named route degrees.
All final year Combined Honours students must complete a directed project, dissertation or independent study unit. If you take equal study you can choose this unit in any of the two subject areas; if you take major/minor study, you will take this unit as part of your major subject.
Your crime studies units will focus on the theories of crime and the various responses from the criminal justice system and public concerns. You will analyse the concept of violence and crime, both historically and within contemporary society, explore aspects of forensic science and investigate a crime studies topic of your choice.
You will undertake a psychology project, and select options from a range that may include cognitive neuroscience, self and identity, educational psychology, forensic psychology, clinical psychology and counselling.
B.A. /BSc (Hons) Crime Studies / Psychology