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Degree Programme Table: Psychology and Economics (MA Hons) (UTMAHPSYEC2F)

Year 1, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: September


COMPULSORY COURSES
This DPT has 3 compulsory course(s).


Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
PSYL08009 Psychology 1A Semester 1 20
PSYL08010 Psychology 1B Semester 2 20
ECNM08013 Economics 1 As available 40




COURSE OPTIONS
This DPT has 1 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


Select exactly 40 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, as available

 


Year 2, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: August


COMPULSORY COURSES
This DPT has 4 compulsory course(s).


Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
ECNM08006 Economics 2 As available 40
PPLS08001 Research Methods and Statistics Full Year 20
PSYL08011 Psychology 2A Semester 1 20
PSYL08012 Psychology 2B Semester 2 20




COURSE OPTIONS
This DPT has 1 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


Select exactly 20 credits from Level 7 and 8 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W, as available

 


Year 3, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: August

  • Notes: Entry to Honours requires a pass at 50% or above in Psychology 2 and a pass in Research Methods and Statistics BOTH at the first attempt; a mark of 50% or above in Economics 2 at the first attempt.
    *Candidates entering the third year of programme in 2017-2018 will require a pass AT THE FIRST ATTEMPT of 50% or above in the following courses: Psychology 2A, Psychology 2B and Research Methods and Statistics and a mark of 50% or above in Economics 2 at the first attempt.


    • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 4 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    ECNM10052 Essentials of Econometrics As available 20
    ECNM10070 Topics in Microeconomics As available 20
    PSYL10126 Research Methods and Statistics 2 Semester 1 10
    PSYL10127 Research Methods & Statistics 3 Semester 2 10




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 3 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Overarching rule collection group: A  
    Select exactly 20 credits from these collections:  

    Select exactly 20 credits course level 10, as available
    ECNM10056     Applications of Econometrics     (20 credits)

     
    OR   

    Select exactly 20 credits course level 10, as available
    ECNM10069     Topics in Macroeconomics     (20 credits)

     


    Overarching rule collection group: B  
    Select exactly 40 credits from these collections:  

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    PSYL10113    Biological Psychology   10  
    PSYL10106    Development of language, literacy and communication   10  
    PSYL10105    Human Personality   10  
    PSYL10108    Learning and Memory   10  
    PSYL10116    Perception   10  
    PSYL10109    Psychology of Language   10  
    PSYL10110    Social Psychology: Experimental and Applied Approaches   10  
    PSYL10111    Thinking and Reasoning   10  
    PSYL10124    History and Theory of Psychology   10  
    PSYL10122    Clinical Psychological Problems in Context   10  
    PSYL10125    Cognitive Development in Children   10  

     



    Year 4, Academic year 2016/17, Starting month: August

  • Notes: Students returning to Y4 from a year of study abroad will be required either to take and pass a General Methodological Proficiency test at the beginning of the year, or to take PSYL10126 Research Methods and Statistics 2 and/or PSYL10127 Research Methods and Statistics 3


    • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 0 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 4 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Overarching rule collection group: A  
    Select exactly 40 credits from these collections:  

    Select exactly 40 credits course level 10, as available
    PSYL10004     Dissertation in Psychology     (40 credits)

    Notes:Students who wish to be eligible for the British Psychological Society's Graduate Basis for Registration must take the Dissertation in Psychology. (MUST be taken in Final Year)
     
    OR   

    Select exactly 40 credits course level 10, as available
    ECNM10030     Economics Honours Dissertation     (40 credits)

     


    AND   

    Overarching rule collection group: B  
    Select exactly 80 credits from these collections:  

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    PSYL10018    Critical Social Psychology   10  
    PSYL10041    Clinical Neuropsychology: a Cognitive Perspective   10  
    PSYL10026    Parapsychology   10  
    PSYL10064    Causes and Consequences of Personality   10  
    PSYL10014    Children with Language Impairments   10  
    PSYL10092    Marxist Psychology   10  
    PSYL10033    Psychological Therapies   10  
    PSYL10075    Frontal Lobe Functions   10  
    PSYL10061    Sentence Processing and Psycholinguistics   10  
    PSYL10100    Moral Judgment and Behaviour   10  
    PSYL10099    Consciousness and Perceptual Awareness   10  
    PSYL10101    Intelligence, Personality and Health   10  
    PSYL10117    Working Memory   10  
    PSYL10118    Psychology of Counselling   10  
    PSYL10120    Debates in Current Personality   10  
    PSYL10096    Eye Movements and Visual Cognition   10  
    PSYL10123    Class: The Psychology of Wealth, Poverty, and Social Rank   10  
    PSYL10027    Psycholinguistics of Language Production   10  
    PSYL10128    Social Psychological Approaches to Health   10  

    Notes:PSYL10090 Psychology Tutorial course (10 credits) can also be one of the Honours options
     
    AND   

    Select exactly 40 credits from the following list of courses, as available
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    ECNM10056    Applications of Econometrics   20  
    ECNM10066    Behavioural Economics   20  
    ECNM10061    Development Economics   20  
    ECNM10020    Economics of Financial Markets   20  
    ECNM10068    Economics of Sport   20  
    ECNM10036    Economics of Transition   20  
    ECNM10018    History of Economic Thought   40  
    ECNM10025    History of Economic Thought 1   20  
    ECNM10026    History of Economic Thought 2   20  
    ECNM10013    Economics of Strategic Behaviour   40  
    ECNM10032    Economics of Strategic Behaviour 1   20  
    ECNM10022    Natural Resource and Environmental Economics   20  
    ECNM10074    Economics of the Family   20  
    ECNM10024    Monetary Theory and Policy   20  
    ECNM10080    The Economics of Crime   20  
    ECNM10079    The Chinese Economy: Past and Present   20  
    ECNM10077    Issues in Climate Change Economics   20  
    ECNM10078    Modelling the Financial Crisis and its Aftermath   20  
    ECNM10007    Economics of Self-Management   20  
    ECNM10069    Topics in Macroeconomics   20  
    ECNM10081    Economics of Inequality   20  
    ECNM10084    Policy Evaluation for Public Economics   20  
    ECNM10085    Advanced Mathematical Economics   20  
    ECNM10086    The Economics of Cities and Regions   20  
    ECNM10087    International Economics   20  
    ECNM10088    Productivity, Growth and Development   20  
    ECNM10089    Economics of Migration   20  
    ECNM10083    Economics of Asymmetric Information   20  
    ECNM10090    Experimental Economics   20  

     



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