Newcastle University

Biology and Psychology BSc Honours UCAS Code: CC18 (3 years)Joint Honours in Science

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This degree, part of the Joint Honours in Science scheme, allows you to divide your time equally between biology and psychology topics.

This allows you to develop an informed interest in biology and gain an awareness of how current developments in the subject affect the overall wellbeing of our planet and society.

Throughout your degree programme you have a personal tutor in one of the two subjects and an adviser from the other.

Our degrees are divided into Stages. Each Stage lasts for an academic year and you need to complete modules totalling 120 credits by the end of each Stage.

Stage 1

Compulsory modules

• ACE1013  Introduction to Genetics
• ACE1050  Sustainable Development
• BIO1005  Evolution
• BIO1006  Ecology 1
• BIO1019  Introductory Biochemistry for Biologists
• MAS1401  Statistical Methods
• PSY1002  Developmental and Social Psychology
• PSY1004  Cognitive Psychology
• PSY1005  Sensation and Perception
• PSY1006  Instinct, Learning and Motivation
• PSY1008  Personality and Abnormal Psychology

Stage 2 

Compulsory modules

• BIO2013  Animal Behaviour
• PSY2001  Developmental Psychology
• PSY2002  Visual Perception
• PSY2003  Social Psychology
• PSY2004  Individual Differences
• PSY2007  Biological Psychology: Sex, Drugs, Rhythms and Blues
• PSY2014  Cognitive Neuroscience

Optional modules

You take five modules from the following list:

• ACE2053  Graduate Skills for Professional Practice
• BIO2007  Vertebrate Biology
• BIO2008  Evolutionary and Population Genetics
• BIO2010  Molecular Biology and Genomics
• BIO2014  Animal Physiology
• BIO2016  Metabolism
• BIO2019  Animal Reproduction and Development

Other optional modules may also be available.

Stage 3

Compulsory modules

• BIO3001  Animal Ecophysiology
• BIO3006  Plant-Animal Interactions
• PSY3025  Forensic Psychology

Optional modules

You take 90 credits from the following list:

• ACE2053  Graduate Skills for Professional Practice
• ACE3049  Companion Animal Behaviour
• ACE3901  Joint Honours Project
• BIO3014  Evolution and Behaviour
• BIO3015  Social Impact of Biology
• BIO3016  Mechanisms of Behaviour
• BIO3019  Genomics
• BIO3022  Residential Field Course
• PSY3006  Consumer Psychology
• PSY3007  Abnormal Psychology and Psychiatry
• PSY3009  Cooperation
• PSY3013  Eating Disorders: Diagnosis, Assessment and Treatment
• PSY3022  The Psychology of Financial Decision Making
• PSY3024  Personality Disorders

Please note

Our BSc Joint Honours Psychology programmes are not accredited by the British Psychological Society.

The modules listed here are those currently being taught in this academic year and may vary for your year of entry.