BSC Psychology and Sociology [LC38]

Academic Year 2025/2026 September 2025 Start

Campus Aberystwyth

Single Honours scheme - available from 2020/2021

Duration 3 years

Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards Excellence Scholarship;

Aberystwyth University Standard Awards

  • Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
  • Sports Bursary
  • Music Bursary
  • International Excellence Scholarship
  • Residential Bursary
  • Aberystwyth Bursary
  • Care Leaver Bursary

Part 1 Rules

Year 1 Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
PS11300

Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology

or
SC11300

Cyflwyniad i ddulliau ymchwil mewn seicoleg

PS11420

Introduction to core topics in Social and Individual Behaviour

Semester 2
PS11220

Brain, Behaviour and Cognition

PS11320

Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology

or
SC11320

Cyflwyniad i ddulliau ymchwil mewn seicoleg

Year 1 Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS15120

Thinking Sociologically

Semester 2
GS14220

Place and Identity

GS16120

Key Concepts in Sociology

Part 2 Rules

Year 2 Core (60 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
PS21310

Quantitative Research Methods

or
SC21310

Dulliau Ymchwil Meintiol

PS21820

Cognitive Psychology

Semester 2
PS20220

Social Psychology

PS20310

Qualitative Research Methods

Year 2 Core (40 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS20220

Genders and Sexualities

Semester 2
GS25020

Sociological Theory

Year 2 Options

Choose 20 credits. (Students may elect to take 20 credits of relevant modules from outside of department with the agreement of the scheme leader.)

Semester 1
DA20820

Astudio Cymru Gyfoes

GS22920

Placing Culture

Semester 2
DA23020

Lleoli Gwleidyddiaeth

GS23020

Placing Politics

Final Year Core (60 Credits)

Students must take PS34120 / SC34120, in order to be awarded BPS Accreditation which confers Graduate Basis for Chartership students must achieve at least a 2:2 degree and pass the dissertation module.

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
PS32120

Behavioural Neuroscience

PS34100

Psychology Research Project for Joint Honours

or
SC34100

Prosiect ymchwil Seicoleg ar gyfer cyd-anrhydedd

Semester 2
PS34120

Psychology Research Project for Joint Honours

or
SC34120

Prosiect ymchwil Seicoleg ar gyfer cyd-anrhydedd

PS34320

Developmental Psychology

Final Year Core (20 Credits)

Compulsory module(s).

Semester 1
GS33320

Everyday Social Worlds

Final Year Options

Choose 40 credits from the following modules.

Semester 1
DA32220

Cenedlaetholdeb a chymdeithas

GS33520

Nation, Society, & Space

GS36220

Landscape, Culture and Society in 20th Century Britain

Semester 2
GS30020

The psychosocial century

GS37520

Urban Risk and Environmental Resilience

GS37920

Memory Cultures: heritage, identity and power