DPT: Psychology and Economics (MA Hons) (UTMAHPSYEC2F)

Jump to: Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4

Year 1 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: September

Compulsory courses

Economics 1

Psychology 1A

Must be taken during Semester 1

Psychology 1B

Must be taken during Semester 2

Course options

An overall maximum of 40 credits at level 7 is permitted across years one and two.

Year 2 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: August

Compulsory courses

Economics 2

Must be passed and taken during Full Year

Psychology 2A

Must be passed 1st time and taken during Semester 1

Psychology 2B

Must be passed 1st time and taken during Semester 2

Research Methods and Statistics

Must be passed 1st time and taken during Full Year

Course options

An overall maximum of 40 credits at level 7 is permitted across years one and two.

Year 3 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: August

Entry into Honours requires a mean mark of 50% or above in Psychology 2A and Psychology 2B (with a minimum of 40% achieved at the first attempt) and a mark of 40% or above in Research Methods and Statistics at the first attempt.
AND
a pass in Economics 2

Students may replace Critical Analysis or Psychology Mini Dissertation for a 10 or 20 credit level 9/10 outside (i.e. non-psychology) course. Permission from the Course Organiser is required for this, see the 3rd Year Course Handbook for further details

Compulsory courses

Essentials of Econometrics

Topics in Microeconomics

Research Methods and Statistics 2

Must be taken during Semester 1

Research Methods & Statistics 3

Must be taken during Semester 2

Course options

Applications of Econometrics

Topics in Macroeconomics

AND

Critical and Discursive Social Psychology

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: Childhood

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: Infancy

Thinking and Reasoning

Psychological Therapies

Personality Topics

Motivation and Emotion

Methods and Controversies in Parapsychology

Introduction to Neural Network Modelling

Perception, Action , Cognition

Year 4 Academic year: 2018/19, Starting in: August

Students returning to Year 4 from a year of study abroad who have not taken and passed courses equivalent to PSYL10126 Research Methods and Statistics 2 and PSYL10127 Research Methods and Statistics 3 while abroad will be required to take one or both of these courses in Year 4.

There are no compulsory courses in this year of this programme.

Course options

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)

Dissertation in Psychology