Psychology with Law Students
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BSc Psychology with Law
Welcome to the BSc in Psychology with Law. You will attend the same main psychology modules as the students on the BSc Psychology but all your options will be from your chosen field of Law. As such you are an integral part of the School of Psychology and you will receive the same academic and pastoral support as all other psychology students. For full details of the support please refer to the information in the main part of the hand book. If you have any further questions please email Dr Jana Kreppner (J.Kreppner@soton.ac.uk), the Psychology with Law programme coordinator.
Course content
You will develop an understanding of the basic principles and methods of psychology as a scientific discipline, and, through option modules, a more specialised knowledge of a chosen area of psychology.
You can combine these with modules from the University’s Law School to gain a grounding in core law subjects and develop your understanding by taking law option modules that most complement your psychology studies. For example the Family Law option would complement the Attachment option, illustrating the crucial role of all care givers in child development for custody cases. Mental Health and Epidemiology would complement Health Care Law.
The psychology element of the course will meet all the requirements of the British Psychological Society, so when you graduate you’ll be eligible for the Graduate Basis of Chartership.
Modules
In year one you will take six psychology modules and two law modules which would include the exciting opportunity to learn to present constructive, compelling and succinct arguments.
Your first-year studies will help you to choose a direction for your second year, when you will again take six psychology modules and select from a range of law modules.
In your final year you will have flexibility in terms of the topics you study in both Psychology and Law. You will take a module on Clinical Psychology and complete a literature review and research paper on a topic of your choice from Psychology. You will also choose three psychology modules from a wide range of specialist areas and another two law modules.
The list of modules for years 2 and 3 below is what is currently available, these may change when you come to choose your options in those years.
Programme structure
Year one
Semester 1 and 2
PSYC1020 Psychology Skills and Employability 1 – Compulsory (0 ECTS/CATS)
Semester 1
LAWS1024 Legal System and Reasoning – Core
PSYC1016 – Introduction to Psychology – Compulsory
PSYC1005 Thinking Psychologically – Compulsory
PSYC1010 Research Methods & Data Analysis 1 – Core
Semester 2
PSYC1017 – Behavioral Neuroscience – Core
PSYC1018 – Individual Differences – Core
PSYC1019 – Research Methods and Data Analysis II – Core
Law Optional Modules
LAWS1022 Historical Development of the Common Law
LAWS1023 Legal Skills
LAWS1025 Philosophical Perspectives on the Common Law
Year Two
Semester 1 and 2
PSYC2024 Psychology Skills and Employability 2 – Compulsory (0 ECTS/CATS)
Semester 1
PSYC2003 Social Psychology – Core
PSYC2019 Research Methods & Data Analysis 3 – Core
PSYC2021 Language and Memory – Core
Semester 2
PSYC2007 Developmental Psychology – Core
PSYC2018 Perception – Core
PSYC2020 Empirical Studies 2 – Core
Law optional modules (once selected these modules will be considered compulsory for progression and award)
30 CATS/15 ECTS modules
LAWS1020 Criminal Law
LAWS2040 Land Law
LAWS3064 Intellectual Property Law
15 CATS/7.5 ECTS modules
LAWS3071 Renting Homes: Law and Policy
LAWS3072 Youth Justice
LAWS3089 Miscarriages of Justice
LAWS3101 International Criminal Law
LAWS3137 Equality at Work
LAWS3141 Law and the Human Body
LAWS3142 International Cybercrime Law
LAWS1022 Historical Development of the Common Law
LAWS1023 Legal Skills
LAWS1025 Philosophical Perspectives on the Common Law
LAWS3086 Health Care Law
LAWS3091 Child Support Law
LAWS3094 Traditional Justice: Law, War & Crime
LAWS3098 Violence and Sex in Law, Literature and Culture
LAWS3140 Politics of Crime Control
Year Three
Semester 1 and 2
PSYC3067 Psychology Skills and Employability 3 – Compulsory (0 ECTS/CATS)
Semester 1
PSYC3003 Literature Review – Core
Semester 2
PSYC3002 Current Issues in Clinical Psychology – Core
PSYC3005 Research Paper – Core
Psychology optional modules (once selected these modules will be considered compulsory for progression and award)
PSYC3010 Attachment and Personal Relationships
PSYC3015 Social and Psychological Approaches to Understanding Sexual Health
PSYC3024 Self-Conscious Emotions: Guilt, Shame, Pride and Nostalgia
PSYC3043 Ambiguous scenes
PSYC3044 Eye Movements and Visual Cognition
PSYC3045 Perspectives of Human-Animal Interaction
PSYC3048 Human Learning
PSYC3053 Developmental Psychopathology
PSYC3056 Current and Emerging Issues in Psycho-oncology and Pain Research
PSYC3057 Introduction to Educational Psychology
Law optional modules (once selected these modules will be considered core for progression and award)
30 CATS/15 ECTS modules
LAWS2017 European Union Law
LAWS2018 Land Law
LAWS2019 Law of Torts
LAWS3061 Family Law
LAWS3064 Intellectual Property Law
LAWS3069 Public International Law
15 CATS/7.5 ECTS
LAWS3072 Youth Justice
LAWS3089 Miscarriages of Justice
LAWS3101 International Criminal Law
LAWS3137 Equality at Work
LAWS3141 Law and the Human Body
LAWS3142 International Cybercrime Law
LAWS3086 Health Care Law
LAWS3091 Child Support Law
LAWS3094 Transitional Justice: Law, War & Crime
LAWS3098 Violence and Sex in Law, Literature and Culture
LAWS3140 Politics of Crime Control