First Year
Joint honours students take five courses in the first year. You will be taught in several different ways, mostly through lectures, tutorials and laboratory classes. Altogether you can expect around 12 hours of tutorials, lab classes and lectures each week and the rest of the time you will be engaged in private study, reading and revision. Your understanding and knowledge will be assessed in coursework essays throughout term and end of year examinations, which are usually in May. You will also be allocated your own Personal Advisor – a member of academic staff who will be available to give you guidance and support throughout your time as a student at Royal Holloway.
Criminology Courses
CR1011 - Introduction to Criminology
CR1013 - Criminal Justice System
Psychology Courses
PS1030 Self and Society
PS1060 - Biological Foundations of Psychology
PS1110 - Introduction to Abnormal Psychology
PS1021 Learning and Memory
Second Year
Second year modules build on the knowledge gained in the first year. They are more specialised and give students the chance to learn about particular topics in greater depth. Second year students are expected to carry out more independent reading and to begin to understand research design. You will receive lab classes, tutorials and lectures in research methodology and modules in criminology and psychology.
Criminology courses
CR2013 - Key Perspectives and Debates in Criminology
CR2010 – Research Methods for Psychologists
CR2030 – Data Analysis for Psychologists
Psychology courses
PS2030 - Social Psychology
PS2040 - Developmental Psychology
PS2050 - Personality and Individual Differences
PS2080 - Conceptual Issues in Psychology
Third Year
In the final year courses are flexible and you have a great deal of choice of which units to take. Courses are highly specialized and at the cutting edge of research. All students will take the following core courses;
CR3025 Dissertation (Psychological focus)
PS2021 Cognitive Psychology
PS2061 Brain and Behaviour
and also choose options, in consultation with the Academic Coordinator, from the following (half from Criminology and half from Psychology):
Criminology courses
CR3005 - Crime, Media and Culture
CR3018 - Risk Insecurity and Terrorism (1)
CR3019 Risk Insecurity and Terrorism (2)
CR3023 Prisons
CR3027 Drugs, Crime and Society
CR3028 Gender, Sexuality and Crime
CR3029 Sentencing and Penal Policy
CR3030 Victims and Witnesses
Psychology courses
PS3022 Language, Communication and Thought
PS3031 Methods in Cognitive Neuroscience
PS3041 - Advanced Developmental Psychology
PS3050 - Health Psychology
PS3060 - Consciousness and Cognition
PS3061 - The Ageing Brain
PS3090 - Advanced and Applied Social Psychology
PS3110 - Adult Psychological Problems
PS3121 - Developmental Disorders
PS3131 - Human Neuropsychology
PS3151 - Occupational and Organisational Psychology
PS3171 - Human Performance: Work, Sport, and Medicine
PS3181 - Criminal and Forensic Psychology
PS3190 Educational Psychology