心理与社会政策学士（荣誉）学位

我们在心理学上的主要重点是人类行为的研究。您将研究行为的条件–我们如何学习，记住，协调我们的行为并与他人互动–以及人与人之间差异的原因，例如人格或智力。由于该课程的受欢迎程度和进入荣誉课程的绩效标准（四年级），该课程第二年和第三年的入学人数有限。社会政策是一门理论和应用学科，它借鉴了许多不同的学科，例如历史，社会学，人类学，经济学，法律，心理学和政治学，以增进我们对不同社会如何组织其资源以满足个人和社会需求以及如何实现的理解。他们衡量这些领域的进展。这项新的社会政策学位课程为您提供了更多了解苏格兰社会面临
Why this courseYou'll look at conditions of behaviour – how we learn, remember, co-ordinate our actions and interact with others – and the reasons for differences between individuals, such as personality or intelligence.Due to the popularity of the course and performance criteria for entry into Honours (Year 4) the numbers admitted to Years 2 and 3 of the course are limited.Social Policy examines the ways in which societies distribute resources and develop services to meet individual and social needs. Key social policy issues examined include poverty; economic, race, age and gender inequality; social justice health; education; criminal justice and housing.It utilises a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to improve our understanding of how societies organise their resources to meet individual and social needs and how they measure progress in these areas.This programme gives you the opportunity to learn more about the social and economic challenges facing Scottish society and place these in a broader international perspective. It draws on disciplines such as history, sociology, anthropology, economics, law, psychology, social anthropology and politics.CareersAs a psychology graduate, continuing your studies will help you become a professional psychologist, which can lead to working in areas such as clinical, educational or occupational psychology. Many graduates also work in research.Other possible careers are teaching, human resource management, social work, counselling and management and professional positions throughout the private and public sectors.The most common employment destinations for social policy graduates include:local & national government policy development and researchregional & urban developmentbusiness administration & managementthird sectorcharity research & policy developmentchildren’s serviceseducationhealth & social welfareprotective services