UDPSYSCG - BSc Psychology and Sociology
Course Specification
Validation status | Validated | |||||||||||
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Highest award | Bachelor of Science | Level | Honours | |||||||||
Possible interim awards | Bachelor of Science, Diploma of Higher Education, Certificate of Higher Education, Bachelor of Science | |||||||||||
Total credits for course | 360 | |||||||||||
Awarding institution | London Metropolitan University | |||||||||||
Teaching institutions | London Metropolitan University | |||||||||||
School | School of Social Sciences | |||||||||||
Subject Area | Psychology | |||||||||||
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About the course and its strategy towards teaching and learning and towards blended learning/e-learning
The BSc Psychology and Sociology course provides a specialist programme which enables students to acquire and develop knowledge in each of the core areas of the respective disciplines, along with a wide range of academic and transferable skills.
The teaching and learning strategies employed across the programme are designed to:
- further stimulate students’ interest in all aspects of human social behaviour
- provide an appropriate intellectual challenge at BSc level whilst enabling students to gain the relevant knowledge and skills across the disciplines of Psychology& Sociology
- promote students’ self management of the learning process with a view to future training and continuing professional development.
Factors influencing the choice of teaching and learning strategy include:
- enhancing students’ communications and IT skills relevant to studying social behaviour
- developing students’ research skills and their ethical awareness
- developing students’ problem solving skills
- facilitating variation in students’ learning styles and preferences
- facilitating learning for students in both full-time and part-time mode.
Module teams will ensure opportunities for students to:
- be actively involved in their own learning
- pose and test psychology/sociology related hypotheses
- work to deadlines and balance conflicting pressures
- use appropriate resources and technology available
- review, evaluate and reflect on their work
- work with others and develop team-working skills.
Course aims
Course learning outcomes
On successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- deploy accurately established techniques of analysis and enquiry within psychology and sociology;
- devise and sustain arguments, and/or to solve problems, using ideas and techniques, some of which are at the forefront of psychology and sociology;
- describe and comment upon particular aspects of current research, or equivalent advanced scholarship, in [the subject], recognising the uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge;
- manage their own learning, and to make use of scholarly reviews and primary sources (for example, refereed research articles and/or original materials appropriate to psychology and sociology);
- apply the methods and techniques that they have learned to review, consolidate, extend and apply their knowledge and understanding, and to initiate and carry out projects;
- critically evaluate arguments, assumptions, abstract concepts and data (that may be incomplete), to make judgements, and to frame appropriate questions to achieve a solution - or identify a range of solutions - to a problem;
- communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences;
- exercise initiative and personal responsibility, including decision-making in complex and unpredictable contexts;
- undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature.
Course learning outcomes / Module cross reference
- Deploy accurately established techniques of analysis and enquiry within psychology and sociology:
SS4008 Sociological imagination (I)
SS5003 Interactive Research Methods (P)
SS5006 Racism and Ethnicity (P)
SS5008 Self & Society (P)
SS6003 Global Cities (P)
SS6051 Religion and Social Science (A)
SS6P02 Sociology Dissertation (A)
PC4002 Individual Differences and Social Psychology 1 (I)
PC4003 Cognitive and Developmental Psychology 1 (I)
PC5002 Individual Differences and Social Psychology 2 (P)
PC5003 Cognitive and Developmental Psychology 2 (P)
PC6002 Counselling, Health and Abnormal Psychology (A)
PC6003 Work Psychology and Applied Decision Making (P)
PC6P53 Psychology Joint Project (A)
PC6003 Applied Social and Developmental Psychology (A)
PC6051 Forensic Psychology (A)
- Devise and sustain arguments, and/or to solve problems, using ideas and techniques, some of which are at the forefront of psychology and sociology:
SS4008 Sociological Imagination (I)
SS5003 Interactive Research Methods (P)
SS5008 Self & Society (P)
SS6002 Living Theory (A)
SS6053 Visual Sociology (A)
SS6P02 Sociology Dissertation (A)
PC4002 Individual Differences and Social Psychology 1 (I)
PC4003 Cognitive and Developmental Psychology 1 (I)
PC5002 Individual Differences and Social Psychology 2 (P)
PC5003 Cognitive and Developmental Psychology 2 (P)
PC6002 Counselling, Health and Abnormal Psychology (A)
PC6003 Work Psychology and Applied Decision Making (P)
PC6P53 Psychology Joint Project (A)
PC6003 Applied Social and Developmental Psychology (A)
PC6051 Forensic Psychology (A)
- Describe and comment upon particular aspects of current research, or equivalent advanced scholarship, in [the subject], recognising the uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge:
SS4007 Social Problems & Social Issues (I)
SS4008 Sociological imagination (I)
SS5003 Interactive Research Methods (P)
SS5008 Self & Society (P)
SS6002 Living Theory (A)
SS6055 Political Sociology (P)
SS6P02 Sociology Dissertation (A)
PC4002 Individual Differences and Social Psychology 1 (I)
PC4003 Cognitive and Developmental Psychology 1 (I)
PC5002 Individual Differences and Social Psychology 2 (P)
PC5003 Cognitive and Developmental Psychology 2 (P)
PC6002 Counselling, Health and Abnormal Psychology (A)
PC6003 Work Psychology and Applied Decision Making (P)
PC6P53 Psychology Joint Project (A)
PC6003 Applied Social and Developmental Psychology (A)
PC6051 Forensic Psychology (A)
- Manage their own learning, and to make use of scholarly reviews and primary sources (for example, refereed research articles and/or original materials appropriate to psychology and sociology):
SS4007 Social Problems & Social Issues (I)
SS5003 Interactive Research Methods (P)
SS5008 Self & Society (P)
SS6002 Living Theory (A)
SS6P02 Sociology Dissertation (A)
PC6P53 Psychology Joint Project (A)
- Apply the methods and techniques that they have learned to review, consolidate, extend and apply their knowledge and understanding, and to initiate and carry out projects:
SS5003 Interactive Research Methods (P)
SS5008 Self & Society (P)
SS6002 Living Theory (A)
SS6052 Research Analysis Strategies Using IT (A)
SS6054 Human Rights and Conflict (P)
SS6P02 Sociology Dissertation (P)
PC5002 Individual Differences and Social Psychology 2 (P)
PC5003 Cognitive and Developmental Psychology 2 (P)
PC6002 Counselling, Health and Abnormal Psychology (P)
PC6003 Work Psychology and Applied Decision Making (P)
PC6P53 Psychology Joint Project (A)
PC6003 Applied Social and Developmental Psychology (A)
PC6051 Forensic Psychology (A)
- Critically evaluate arguments, assumptions, abstract concepts and data (that may be incomplete), to make judgements, and to frame appropriate questions to achieve a solution - or identify a range of solutions - to a problem:
SS4007 Social Problems & Social Issues (I)
SS5003 Interactive Research Methods (P)
SS5008 Self & Society (P)
SS6002 Living Theory (A)
SS6P02 Sociology Dissertation (A)
PC5002 Individual Differences and Social Psychology 2 (P)
PC5003 Cognitive and Developmental Psychology 2 (P)
PC6002 Counselling, Health and Abnormal Psychology (A)
PC6003 Work Psychology and Applied Decision Making (P)
PC6P53 Psychology Joint Project (A)
PC6003 Applied Social and Developmental Psychology (A)
PC6051 Forensic Psychology (A)
- Communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences:
SS4007 Social Problems & Social Issues (I)
SS5008 Self & Society (P)
SS6P02 Sociology Dissertation (A)
PC6P53 Psychology Joint Project (A)
- Exercise initiative and personal responsibility, including decision-making in complex and unpredictable contexts:
SS5003 Interactive Research Methods (I, P)
SS5008 Self & Society (P)
SS6002 Living Theory (A)
PC6P53 Psychology Joint Project (A)
- Undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature:
SS4007 Social Problems & Social Issues (I)
SS5003 Interactive Research Methods (P)
SS6002 Living Theory (I)
SS6W52 Sociology Placement (A)
SS6P02 Sociology Dissertation (A)
PC6002 Counselling, Health and Abnormal Psychology (A)
PC6003 Work Psychology and Applied Decision Making (P)
PC6051 Forensic Psychology (A)
PC6P53 Psychology Joint Project (A)
Principle QAA benchmark statements
QAA Statement for Psychology
Sociology http://www.qaa.ac.uk/Publications/InformationAndGuidance/Documents/Sociology07.pdf
Assessment strategy
A range of assessment methods will be used, with the choice of assessment instrument chosen to test the specified learning outcomes. Overall the strategy is to promote students written, oral and research skills within the context of their understanding of psychological and sociological theory. At Level 4 assessments seek to encourage students to assimilate and describe theory. At Level 5 assessments require students to critically evaluate the knowledge and theories they have encountered. At Level 6 assessments test the students’ critical knowledge of applied areas of psychology and sociology and their ability to be independent researchers.
Assessment is the responsibility of the academic staff delivering the module. Assessment is part of the learning process and confirms the outcomes of the learning process. As such, the assessment process is used to provide an insight into learning problems and to thus trigger remedial action. It also provides feedback on curriculum design and delivery and, via the ongoing iterative process of module monitoring, makes a significant contribution to the continued development and improvement of the courses.
Organised work experience, work based learning, sandwich year or year abroad
The Sociology Placement is a subject option modules that available to students entering their 3rd year. This is usually undertaken over the summer period – between 2nd and 3rd year.
Course specific regulations
If attendance falls below 75% on a module, reassessment opportunities will not be available and instead the module will have to be retaken the following year with attendance and payment of fees. Mitigating circumstances cannot be claimed for missed classes; however Module Leaders will take account of absences that are a consequence of recorded disability or otherwise recorded as 'Authorised Absence' when applying the 75% threshold.
Modules required for interim awards
The following modules are core-compulsory to gain a BSc Psychology and Sociology:
PC4002 Individual Differences & Social Psychology 1
PC4003 Cognitive & Developmental Psychology 1
SS4007 Social Problems and Social Issues
SS4008 Sociological Imagination
SS5003 Interactive Research Methods
PC5002 Individual Differences & Social Psychology 2
SS5008 Self and Society
PC6003 Applied Social and Developmental Psychology
PC6P53 Psychology Joint Project or SS6P04 Psychology and Sociology Dissertation or SS6P51 Sociology Project
SS6002 Living Theory
Career opportunities
This course opens up job opportunities in both the private and public sectors. Examples of our Sociology orientated graduates include those now working as Human Resources Officer at Clarins and Prison Custody Officer at Sodexo, while our Psychology inclined graduates have gone on to become Support Workers at Creative Support, Special Needs Teaching Assistant at Edustaff and more.
The skills you’ll develop are transferable across an even wider range of sectors, such as advertising, human resources and marketing. It’s also great preparation for postgraduate study.
Entry requirements
In addition to the University's standard entry requirements, you should have:
- GCSE English language at grade C or above (or equivalent)
- a minimum of 260 or more UCAS points from three A levels (or equivalent Level 3 qualification, eg BTEC Extended Diploma in a relevant subject area with DMM)
Entry from appropriate foundation and access courses will also be considered.
Applicants with relevant professional qualifications or extensive professional experience will be considered on a case by case basis.
All applicants must be able to demonstrate proficiency in the English language. Applicants who require a Tier 4 student visa may need to provide a Secure English Language Test (SELT) such as Academic IELTS. For more information about English qualifications please see our English language requirements.
Official use and codes
Approved to run from | 2013/14 | Specification version | 1 | Specification status | Validated |
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Original validation date | 01 Sep 2013 | Last validation date | 01 Sep 2013 | ||
Sources of funding | HE FUNDING COUNCIL FOR ENGLAND | ||||
JACS codes | C800 (Psychology): 50% , L300 (Sociology): 50% | ||||
Route code | PSYSCG |
Stage 1 Level 04 September start Offered
Code | Module title | Info | Type | Credits | Location | Period | Day | Time |
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PC4006 | Personality and Social Psychology | Core | 30 | |||||
PC4007 | Cognitive and Developmental Psychology | Core | 30 | |||||
SS4007 | Social Problems and Social Issues | Core | 30 | |||||
SS4008 | Sociological Imagination | Core | 30 |
Stage 2 Level 05 September start Offered
Code | Module title | Info | Type | Credits | Location | Period | Day | Time |
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PC5005 | Individual Differences and Social Psychology | Core | 30 | |||||
SS5003 | Interactive Research Methods | Core | 30 | NORTH | AUT+SPR | THU | PM | |
SS5008 | Self and Society | Core | 30 | |||||
PC5006 | Developmental Psychology and Cognition | Option | 30 | |||||
SS5005 | Youth, Resistance and Social Control | Option | 30 | |||||
SS5006 | Racism and Ethnicity | Option | 30 | NORTH | AUT+SPR | FRI | PM | |
SS5014 | Global Inequalities in the 21st Century | Option | 30 | NORTH | AUT+SPR | MON | PM |
Stage 3 Level 06 September start Offered
Code | Module title | Info | Type | Credits | Location | Period | Day | Time |
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SS6002 | Living Theory | Core | 30 | NORTH | AUT+SPR | FRI | AM | |
SS6P04 | Psychology and Sociology Dissertation | Core | 30 | NORTH | AUT+SPR | TUE | PM | |
PC6006 | Clinical and Health Psychology | Option | 30 | |||||
PC6051 | Forensic Psychology | Option | 15 | NORTH | SPR | MON | PM | |
PC6053 | Judgement and Decision Making | Option | 15 | |||||
PC6054 | Counseling Psychology | Option | 15 | NORTH | AUT | WED | AM | |
PC6055 | Psychology of Learning and Education | Option | 15 | |||||
PC6056 | Work Psychology | Option | 15 | NORTH | AUT | THU | AM | |
PC6057 | Cultural and Social Psychology | Option | 15 | |||||
SS6006 | Gender and Sexuality | Option | 30 | NORTH | AUT+SPR | THU | PM | |
SS6033 | Inclusion and Special Educational Needs | Option | 30 | |||||
SS6063 | Religion and the State | Option | 15 | NORTH | AUT | MON | AM | |
SS6W53 | Sociology and Social Policy Work Placement | Option | 15 | NORTH | AUT | TUE | PM | |
NORTH | SPR | TUE | PM |