DPT: Psychology and Business MA (Hons) (UTMAHPSYBU1F)

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

Year 1 Academic year: 2022/23, Starting in: September

Compulsory courses

Psychology 1A

Must be passed and taken during Semester 1

Psychology 1B

Must be passed and taken during Semester 2

Global Challenges for Business

Must be taken during Semester 1

The Business of Edinburgh

Must be taken during Semester 2

Course options

Accounting for Business 1

AND

Data Analysis for Psychology in R1

Year 2 Academic year: 2022/23, Starting in: August

Compulsory courses

Psychology 2A

Must be passed 1st time and taken during Semester 1

Psychology 2B

Must be passed 1st time and taken during Semester 2

Data Analysis for Psychology in R 2

Must be passed 1st time and taken during Full Year

Course options

Principles of Finance

Marketing

Business Economics

International Business: Globalisation and Trade 2A

International Business and the Multinational Enterprise 2B

Human Resource Management 2

Organisational Behaviour 2

Business Simulation

Business Analytics and Information Systems

Fundamentals of Programming for Business Applications

Understanding and Delivering Public Services

Planning for a start-up

Innovation and Enterprise

Year 3 Academic year: 2022/23, 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 Data Analysis for Psychology in R 2 at the first attempt.
AND
a mark of 50% or above in one 2nd year Business School course taken in second year.

Compulsory courses

Strategic Management

Research in Management

Data Analysis for Psychology in R 3

Qualitative Methods in Psychology

Course options

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: Childhood

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: Infancy

Thinking and Reasoning

Social Psychology of Groups

Science of Close Relationships

Methods and Controversies in Parapsychology

Perception, Action, Cognition

Developmental Psychopathology

Human Personality

Origins of competence: Cognitive Ability, Interests, and Conscientiousness

Behavioural Genetics

History and Theory of Psychology

From Perception to Cognition: A Journey in Colour

Prejudice and Social Change

The Psychology of Conversation

Induction: Analogy, Learning, and Generalisation in Humans and Machines

Moral Psychology in the Real World

Big Data and Psychological Science

AND

A booklet giving details about the courses being offered in any one year, as well as about restrictions on choice of courses, will be available to students entering the course to facilitate advance planning.

Behavioural Finance and Market Efficiency

The Accounting Profession

International Business in Emerging Markets

The Economics of Corporate Strategy

Futures and Options

Quality Management

Managing Employment Law

Financial Services Marketing

The Management of Technology

International Marketing

Operations Strategy

International Strategic Management in Practice

Managing Change

Marketing and Society

The Entrepreneurial Manager

Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation

Economic Aspects of Competition Policy

Applications of Human Resource Management

Decision Analytics

Mathematical Programming in Advanced Analytics

Management Science and Operations Analytics

Global Creative Industries: The art of business and the business of art

Service Management in an International Context

Digital Business

The Future of Work

Global Business and the Sustainable Development Goals

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Restructuring

Interactive Retailing

Theories and Techniques of Persuasion

Strategies for Collective Action

Eco-Innovation for a Circular Economy

Year 4 Academic year: 2022/23, Starting in: August

Students returning to Year 4 from a year of study abroad who have not taken and passed courses equivalent to PSYL10168 Data Analysis for Psychology in R 3 and PSYL10174 Qualitative Methods in Psychology 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)

Management Honours Dissertation

Dissertation in Psychology

AND

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

A booklet giving details about the courses being offered in any one year, as well as about restrictions on choice of courses, will be available to students entering the course to facilitate advance planning.

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: Childhood

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience: Infancy

Thinking and Reasoning

Social Psychology of Groups

Science of Close Relationships

Methods and Controversies in Parapsychology

Perception, Action, Cognition

Developmental Psychopathology

Human Personality

Origins of competence: Cognitive Ability, Interests, and Conscientiousness

Behavioural Genetics

History and Theory of Psychology