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BSc (Hons)

Psychology & Criminology

Attendance

Campus

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Duration

3 Years

Start

September 2023

UCAS Code

CMV9

Delivery

Campus Taught

Foundation entry

On our BSc (Hons) Psychology & Criminology degree you’ll study the nature of crime in society and gain an understanding of crime and criminal behaviour from two complementary perspectives.

On the Psychology & Criminology course you study the core Psychology modules alongside the related discipline of Criminology. Choose from a range of criminology and psychology optional modules, exploring issues such as violent and sexual offending, cybercrime, youth justice and the operation of the police and prison services. This provides you with the benefits of understanding perspectives from different disciplines on the same phenomena and provides you with a wide range of career options upon completion of the course.

Why study with us

You will gain the added benefits from studying in a department with an international reputation for Forensic Psychology, the field of Psychology that considers psychological aspects of legal processes in courts.
Complement your BPS-accredited Psychology degree with related criminological perspectives providing you with a broad understanding of the topics of interest.
Our flexible degree route enables you transfer to any of our other Psychology courses, such as Forensic Psychology, after Year 1, to add a greater degree of specialism to your undergraduate study.

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What you'll do

Our Psychology & Criminology course enables you to gain the benefits of the breadth and depth of knowledge required for a BPS accredited Psychology degree whilst gaining a complementary perspective from criminological insights into the causes of crime, prevention and rehabilitation.
You will gain the added benefits from studying in a department with an international reputation for Forensic Psychology, the field of Psychology that considers psychological aspects of legal processes in courts.
On this course you’ll learn application of psychological theory to criminal investigation and crime prevention. You'll also develop an understanding psychological problems associated with criminal behaviour and the treatment and rehabilitation of those who have committed offences.

Module overview

Course delivery

Following the pandemic, we have found that some courses benefit from a blended learning and teaching approach. Therefore, the majority of your teaching will be face-to-face on campus aside from a small amount of online teaching where we have learnt it works best.

90%Face-to-face

10%Online

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our published course information. However, our programmes are subject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may cause alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses. Changes may be necessary to comply with the requirements of accrediting bodies or revisions to subject benchmarks statements. As well as to keep courses updated and contemporary, or as a result of student feedback. We reserve the right to make variations if we consider such action to be necessary or in the best interests of students.

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Future careers

Graduating on this BPS-accredited course enables you to gain entry requirements to further education and professional training in Psychology. We offer a range of BPS-accredited MSc courses (eg Forensic Psychology) which would be the first step towards achieving professional training in Psychology.

Graduates are involved in a range of roles related to law, order, crime and crime prevention. This includes the development and implementation of treatment programmes, modifying offender behaviour and improving the psychological wellbeing of prisoners and prison staff. They often provide the research evidence to support practice, conduct prisoner profiling and give evidence in court or at parole boards and mental health tribunals.

Our graduates are valued more broadly, and others utilise the skills that our degree encourages to take graduate-level positions in a range of organisations, including the Police, Prison Service, NHS, social and community services, health authorities and in the pharmaceutical industry, and in education and training.

If you are interested in immediately entering employment after graduating, a year-long placement or placement module can be used to enhance your graduate prospects.

Fees and funding

2022/23

Full-time£9250 per year

Sandwich year£1000 for the sandwich year

Part-time£1540 per 20 credits

International

Full-time£14250 per year

2023/24

Full-time£9,250 per year

Sandwich year£1,385 for the sandwich year

Part-time£1,540 per 20 credits

International

Full-time£14,900 per year

Sandwich year£2,000 for the sandwich year

Scholarships and bursaries

We have a wide range of bursaries, scholarships and funds available to help support you whilst studying with us.

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During Year 1 you will spend half of your time studying Psychology and half of your time learning about Criminology. The first year provides sufficient coverage across the core areas of Psychology that you are able to transfer at the end of Year 1 to any of the Single Honours Psychology courses in our portfolio or to continue with a combination of both subjects through the remaining two years of the degree.

In Year 2 you spend a greater proportion of your time studying Psychology. This is to ensure that you cover the core areas of the British Psychological Society (BPS) curriculum, developing the breadth and depth of understanding that permits you to graduate at the end of the final year with the Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership of the BPS for those graduating with a Lower Second Class degree or higher. This means you are able to undertake postgraduate study and, if you wish, pursue Chartered Psychology status.

Between the second and third year of your degree you may, should you wish, choose to take advantage of the flexibility of our programme to add either a placement year or a year at an overseas university via our International Year. You may use these to build additional skills and knowledge ahead of your final year or to enhance your graduate employment prospects.

In the final year of the course you spend three quarters of your time studying Psychology and a quarter of your time studying Criminology. You are required to take the final module for the BPS accreditation (Individual Differences) alongside a research project investigating an area relevant to Forensic Psychology. You are then free to choose two further Psychology modules and a Criminology module to tailor the final year to your interests, goals or career aspirations.

Assessment throughout the course is based upon the principle of allowing you to demonstrate your understanding of the material you have learned, so a wide variety of techniques; lab reports, essays, presentations etc. are used, and where possible assessments mirror the tasks that you may be asked to undertake by a potential employer.

With the Criminology aspect of this course you’ll get access to facilities such as our Moot Court. Our School of Psychology is housed in the Darwin Building which has been home to the School since it was built in 2005. With over 35 laboratories arranged in a series of lab complexes and suites, there are many opportunities for you to take part in or conduct research as part of your course. The Cognitive Psychology Complex is home to the award winning EvoFIT eyewitness composite system which provides cutting edge technology to police forces around the world to create likenesses of criminal suspects wanted in their investigations. This facility and the other laboratories provide research opportunities for you to further your knowledge whilst studying on the course.

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This course is based in the School of Psychology and Computer Science located in the Faculty of Science and Technology

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