C10F Psychology and Criminal Behaviour with Foundation Year BSc (Hons)

Skills and experience gained The aims of the course are to: Provide an understanding and critical awareness of a range of issues, theories and empirical methods across the core areas of psychology and in the applied area of criminal psychology. It aims to demonstrate how the application of psychological knowledge can help inform and explain human behaviour in general and criminal behaviour in particular, enable you to gain and fully develop a broad range of research skills and methods, including quantitative and qualitative methods, throughout your degree, resulting in an ability to design and conduct a small-scale research project in psychology. It aims to encourage you to reach your personal potential by enhancing your knowledge, skills and self awareness through the development of critical enquiry, analysis, evaluation, reflection and synthesis., and emphasise the applied nature of psychology and the employability skills that a psychology degree confers by building employability into the curriculum. The degree aims to provide an understanding of real life applications of theory to experience and behaviour in both normality and illness. This aim is built into the course. Furthermore, you will encounter a range of examples of the application of psychology relevant to a future career in psychology or in a profession where such knowledge and skills acquired during the degree would be useful. Throughout the course you will have lectures and workshops given by the Careers and Employment Service. After the course Criminal psychology can be evidenced in a range of settings such as the prison and probation service, the NHS,...