Psychology (Forensic Psychology), BSc (Hons)

This BPS-accredited Psychology (Forensic Psychology) degree examines psychological insights into offending behaviour, including the police, courts, prison systems, and offenders. It covers core BPS curriculum areas such as brain functions, human cognition, emotions, and behaviour, while integrating forensic applications. Taught by over 150 expert psychologists in one of the UK's largest departments, students utilise innovative laboratories for research. The programme ensures eligibility for Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership upon achieving a 2.2 honours degree, opening paths to professional psychology careers.At NTU, students benefit from work placements, tailored modules in forensic psychology, international opportunities, and strong employability skills. The course includes core modules on biological, social, developmental, and cognitive psychology, plus specialised forensic topics in later years, culminating in a research project. Assessment involves coursework, exams, presentations, and tests, with options for a four-year placement route.

The course is a specialised variant of our BSc (Hons) Psychology degree, with tailored modules towards a forensic psychology emphasis in Years One and Two and a focus on our psychological understanding and response to offending behaviour, encompassing the police, the courts, the prison system and offenders in your final year. In the first two years of this degree, you'll study a variety of content that will train you in the core areas of psychology, including biological, social, developmental, and cognitive psychology, as well as conceptual and historical issues. You'll also receive extensive training in research methods and statistics. You'll also complete bespoke modules that explore the academic and professional context of psychology with a particular focus on this specialism. Further specialisation takes place in the final year where most modules will be related to the specialism. You'll also complete a research project in psychology, focused on a topic of your choosing under the supervision of a research-active member of staff. In your First Year, you will study key topic areas including: Psychological Research in Context (Forensic Psychology); Social and Developmental Psychology (One), Cognitive and Biological Psychology (One), Research Methods (One) and Statistics (One). In Year Two the core modules include: Analytical Thinking in Psychology; Cognitive and Biological Psychology (Two); Social and Developmental Psychology (Two); Research Methods and Statistics (Two); and Individual Differences and Conceptual and Historical Issues in Psychology. In your Final Year you will study Professional Practice in Psychology and undertake your Educational and Development Psychology Research Project. You will also have the chance to choose a number of optional modules. You can find a full list of these on the NTU website. Example topics include the Criminal Justice System, Criminal Behaviour, Sexual Offending, Offender Behaviour, Mental Health and Wellbeing, Evolutionary Psychology, Family, Sleep, Politics, Ideology and Moral Psychology. Your Work Based Psychology Practice module is a unique feature of Psychology at NTU. Taking on the role of a consultant psychologist, you will work on real-life problem scenarios supplied by external organisations, and provide evidence-based solutions to these organisations. You also have the option of choosing to complete a four-year course that includes a year-long work placement in between Year Two and Year Three. You must apply with the UCAS code C805 to be considered for the four-year sandwich or placement course.