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How to apply

Key facts

Entry requirements

We accept a range of entry qualifications

Full entry requirements

Duration

Three years full-time

Fees

AED 71,610 (Sept 2025 intake)

Start date

September 2025

Entry requirements

We accept a range of entry qualifications

Full entry requirements

Duration

Three years full-time

Fees

AED 71,610 (Sept 2025 intake)

Start date

September 2025

This course combines psychology with criminology, exploring how the mind shapes behaviour and how psychological theories apply to criminal behaviour and societal reactions to crime. You’ll study human behaviour using scientific methods—observation, measurement, and testing—to understand how and why people act the way they do.

You’ll also develop key skills in critical thinking, communication, and scientific research, including data analysis and presentation, preparing you for careers where understanding societal issues is essential.

Graduates succeed in fields such as criminal justice, education, social work, research, advertising, human resources, and healthcare.

You’ll study core areas of psychology including biological, cognitive, developmental, and social psychology, with topics such as personality, intelligence, research methods, and historical perspectives. In your second and third years, you’ll have the opportunity to tailor your learning with elective modules in psychology and criminology.

Key benefits

  • Personalise your learning: Choose from a wide range of optional modules in Year 3 to align your studies with your interests and career goals.

  • Research-informed teaching: Learn from a team of academics with expertise in Health Psychology, Cognition, Neuroscience, and Criminology.

  • Focused learning: Modules are delivered through our block teaching approach, so you can concentrate on one subject at a time.

What you will study

Block 1: Professional Skills for Psychologists

Focuses on important academic and professional skills to help students transition to higher education studies and beyond.

Block 2: Core Areas and Research Methods 1

Focuses on important academic and professional skills to help students transition to higher education studies and beyond.

Block 3: Contemporary Issues in Criminology

This module engages you with a range of issues pertinent to complex problems in crime, harm and justice. You will be able to describe the characteristics of these phenomena and identify the links between crime, politics and society. Lastly, you will explore how power inequality and exclusion link with crime harm and victimisation drawing on issues such as race, class gender and sexuality.

Block 4: Core Areas and Research Methods 2

Provides a concise overview of the core paradigms in psychology, namely social, personality and intelligence, and international perspectives, while embedding qualitative research methods.

Block 1: Mind, Brain and Behaviour

Builds on the core areas of the BPS guidelines to give students in-depth coverage of topics in biological and cognitive psychology. Practical sessions will enable students to develop their knowledge of more advanced research designs and quantitative research skills.

Block 2: Psychology Across the Lifespan

Applies the lifespan perspective to studying human development, emphasising the importance of all developmental stages and the interconnectivity between domains of change.

Block 3: Choice of modules

  • Psychology and Mental Health explores how we define, classify and explain psychological problems.

  • Psychology of Social Problems applies psychological theory and research to topics that cover current important debates and issues, directly informed by local, national and global priorities such as ¹Ï×ÓTV’s commitment to decolonization and net zero, and the United Nations’ Sustainable Developmental Goals.

  • Domestic Violence and Abuse considers the changing social, political and legal recognition of abuse and violence in intimate relationships and its impact.

  • Children and the Criminal Justice System explores contemporary issues for children and the criminal justice system, across community and custody contexts.

  • Animals and Criminology covers the different ways in which animals are the topic of criminological examination.

  • Introduction to Probation explores what is probation and where it sits within the wider criminal justice system and justice journeys.

  • Genocide explores a range of genocides and mass atrocities (where genocidal type actions have taken place but have not been legally defined as genocide, or where killings have taken place along with identity-based cleavages).

  • Restorative Justice explores the various origins and applications of Restorative Justice and the critical theoretical analysis which has followed.

  • Drugs and Crime focuses on exploring the social context of drugs, alcohol and substance use (primarily but not exclusively) in the UK and how it is controlled and managed in various settings with a focus on the criminal justice system.

  • Clinical Psychology: Through this module you will gain an overview of clinical psychology practice in the UK, including professional practice, research methods and ethical issues, as well as how to become a clinical psychologist.

Block 3: Personality and Social Psychology

Builds on the core areas of the BPS guidelines to give students in-depth coverage of topics in social psychology and personality and intelligence, and developing a research project on one of these topics.

Block 1: Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology

Students will learn to contrast perspectives within significant conceptual debates in psychology, which are placed within their historical context.

Block 3: Module choice

  • Counselling Psychology
    Introduces the basic principles of counselling psychology and practice

  • Cognitive Neuropsychology
    Provides an overview of modern cognitive neuropsychological approaches to dysfunction following head injury and how theory is applied to case histories

  • Wellbeing and Positive Psychology
    Introduces the scientific study of optimal human functioning within areas such as happiness, wellbeing, personal strengths, positive emotions, optimism, hope and flow

  • Introduction to Data Science for Psychologists
    Introduces basic skills in computer programming and computational data processing, which are essential employability skills in data science and related fields.

  • Loss, Grief and Bereavement: Cultural, Social, and Therapeutic Perspectives
    Enables students to develop understanding of loss, grief and bereavement from theoretical, cultural, social and therapeutic perspectives

  • Psychology of Addiction
    Provides students an opportunity to critically explore addiction to licit and illicit substances and is theoretically grounded within a neuropsychosocial approach.

  • Psychology of Human Rights, Activism and Social Justice
    Provides students an opportunity to explore perspectives on local, regional, national, and transnational activism and protest and resistance; together with related issues such as prejudice, discrimination and stigma.

  • Psychology and Culture: Global Issues and International Perspectives
    Provides students with up-to-date knowledge about cross-cultural theories and models as they relate to the study of human behaviour to consider how and why behaviour differs across cultures.

Block 3: Emerging Issues in Criminology

This module aims to promote a culture of curious and continuous enquires as part of a lifelong learning mindset. You will explore immediate issues that emerge within society and examine these using knowledge and understanding from their undergraduate degree programme. 

Block 4: Psychology project

Gives you the opportunity to design and conduct an empirical study showing originality and expertise in methodological and data handling techniques.

Note: All modules are indicative and based on the current academic session. Course information is correct at the time of publication and is subject to review. Exact modules may, therefore, vary for your intake in order to keep content current. If there are changes to your course we will, where reasonable, take steps to inform you as appropriate.

Structure

You will learn through a combination of lectures, tutorials, seminars, group work and self-directed study. There are regular tutorials and reviews which allow you to reflect on and develop your work.

Assessment is through coursework, presentations, phase-tests, essays and reports. This will include live projects with industry and an option of a research project for your final year.

Contact hours

You will be taught through a combination of lectures, tutorials, seminars, group work and self-directed study. Assessment is through coursework (presentations, essays and reports) Your precise timetable will depend on the optional modules you choose to take, however, in your first year you will normally attend around 10-15 hours of timetabled taught sessions (lectures and tutorials) each week, and we expect you to undertake at least 25 further hours of independent study to complete project work and research.

Each module provides tutorials for individual consultation with the lecturer. You will also have timetabled meetings with your personal tutor and careers and/or subject meetings scheduled throughout the year.

Entry requirements

GCE A-Level

CCD

CBSE/ ICSE/ All Indian Boards

  • Successful completion of Standard XII with a 65% average from the best four subjects excluding Hindi or any other local language, e.g. Punjabi, Gujarati, Tamil, Marathi
  • Interview any candidate with 60% or above.

American High School Diploma + SAT

High School Diploma with a minimum GPA of 3.0 plus Advanced Placement, two subjects from group A with grade 3 or above ORSAT2 - 2 subject tests with a minimum score of 500 in each = 1000

UAE Tawjihiyya

Entry to IYZ only

International Baccalaureate Diploma

24 points

BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma

DMM

African WAEC/ NECO/ WASSCE

Entry to IYZ only

FBISE grade 12 (Pakistan)

85%

Curriculum Russian/Kazakhstan

Entry to IYZ only

English language tests and their entry requirements

IELTS Academic: 6.0 (minimum 5.5 in each band)

TOEFL Internet-based: 72 (17 in listening & writing, 20 in speaking and 18 in reading)

Pearson PTE Academic: 51

Additionally, students with the following qualifications may be considered as having met the English language requirements:

GCSE/IGCSE/O-Level English (as a first or second language): Grade C or higher

CBSE/ISC boards/NIOS/All state boards: A minimum grade of 55% in English

International Baccalaureate: Minimum grade 5 in English A1 (Standard or Higher Level) in IB OR a minimum of grade 5 in English B (Higher Level)

West African/Nigerian Curriculum WAEC/ WASSCE/ SSSCE: Minimum grade "C6"

Course specifications

Course title

Psychology with Criminology

Award

BSc (Hons)

Study level

Undergraduate

Study mode

Full-time

Start date

September 2025

Duration

Three years full-time

Fees

AED 71,610 (Sept 2025 intake)