BSc Biology with Psychology (C1C8)

The BSc Biology with Psychology degree is for students who wish to study psychology as a minor subject alongside whole organism biology. The programme covers theory and empirical work in the biological and behavioural sciences. Areas covered include skills for studying biology at degree-level study, evolutionary biology, genetics, biochemistry, cell biology, introduction to psychology (cognitive and social), animal behaviour and cognition (including evolutionary approaches to human behaviour), animal physiology and neurobiology, microbiology, ecology and conservation, personality and individual differences, cognitive, social and developmental psychology. Students are taught using mixture of lectures, practical laboratory classes, workshops, field trips and small-group tutorials. 

Programme structure

In BSc Biology with Psychology we have created a unique programme structure which combines the School's strengths in whole organism biology with new expertise in biological and experimental psychology.

Year 1

Required Modules – Essential skills for biologists, Exploring psychology, Cognition evolution and behaviour, Evolution.
Options – Cell dynamics, Chemistry for biologists, Ecological and environmental techniques, Heredity and gene action, Introductory chemistry, The diversity of life, Basic biochemistry, Conservation and the environment. 

Year 2

Required Modules – Animal physiology, Cognitive psychology, Fundamentals of neurobiology, Social and developmental psychology, Statistical methods in biology.
Options – Evolutionary genetics, General microbiology, Populations, communities and ecosystems, Transmission genetics, Genes and bioinformatics, Metabolic pathways, Microbial physiology and growth. 

Year 3 

Required Modules –Integrative studies in biological sciences, Personality and individual differences, Neuroscience: from molecules to behaviour and either Biological sciences psychology research project or Investigative project or Project skills in the life sciences.
Options –Behavioural ecology, Endocrine physiology and biochemistry, Human genetics and genomics, Membrane proteins, Molecular basis of disease, Population and chromosome genetics, Developmental biology and cell signalling, Functional genomics and epigenetics, Mammals and evolution, Parasites and infectious disease.

Entry requirements

  • 300 points at A2, normally with a grade C or above in Biology.
  • International Baccalaureate: 32 points overall. Must include Biology (HL) with grade 6 and three other subjects to be specified (HL or SL) at least 6
  • For more information on entry requirements visit the SBCS general entry requirement page.