On this course you will study a range of modules which may include the following:

• PSY4372 - Uses and Abuses of Psychology

  This module provides an introduction to the application of psychology both to everyday life and to various professional domains. Students are introduced to the notion of "psychological literacy" and encouraged to develop their critical thinking skills, to develop confidence in engaging with psychology and to reflect on psychology as an applied, dynamic and wide-ranging discipline. The module considers how psychology can be applied to the understanding of everyday life: explaining human behaviour in real-world contexts, including personal relationships, group and individual behaviour, health and well-being, community and environmental psychology. The way in which psychology is represented and understood in wider society is considered. Topics such as ethics, professional issues and conduct are explored along with conceptual and historical issues including the use and potential abuse of psychology.

• PSY4442 - Psychology of Social Issues 1

  Introduction to social psychology, its evolution as a discipline within psychology and its use in everyday life. Indicative content includes; history of social psychology, including the contributions of early philosophers through to key 19th and 20th century thinkers, social thinking, social beliefs & judgements, attitudes & behaviours, research methods and the ethical issues related to conducting psychological research and applying social psychology to social issues (both in the past and in the present) including international and cultural perspectives. Throughout the module the relationship between the individual and society will be highlighted.

• PSY4992 - Ethics, Society and Employability

  The module aims overall to introduce students to the social justice mission of Leeds Trinity University and invites them to consider a range of contemporary social issues, as well as their own personal and academic development. The module will help students to engage with a broad range of ethical topics and perspectives that are relevant to their specific programme. It will help students transition in to higher education and introduce the learning and teaching approaches at Leeds Trinity, allowing students to integrate their own learning from personal experience with an ability to engage in an empathic, ethical and compassionate way with the wider world. Core topics may include: -The LTU mission -Diversity -Social justice -The Environment -Professional and career aspirations -Preparation for a work placement As it is a University wide module, we will be using a shared repository of materials which may be helpful to staff teams.

• SOC4000 - Programme Level Assessment

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• SOC4012 - Introduction to Sociology

  This module offers an introduction to sociological theory and provides a historical overview of the systematic examination of society. The module will enable students to think sociologically and raise questions on the development of sociology as well as on the way societies are organised. Does society exist? How determined is social life? What is the relationship between society and the individual? The module focuses on key sociological texts and themes such as the distinction between community and society; institutions and social order; society and revolution; imitation and invention; functionalism and biological metaphors; redistribution and recognition; structure and agency.

• SOC4042 - Contemporary Research 1

  This module examines how sociological data may be collected, analysed, displayed and explained effectively. This module introduces students to becoming research literate. Students will examine different ways of communicating research, to identify the methods used by contemporary criminologists and sociologists, and explore the suitability of the methods selected. In doing this students will be able to critically evaluate the strength of the researches findings, and identify ethical moments.

• SOC4092 - Urban Sociology

  This module introduces key ideas in urban sociology. A key focus is on the contemporary city and the ways it is experienced by different social groups. This module poses the question 'who has the right to the city?' Examining the historical origins of urban space, right up to the post-modern city, key concepts here include questions of belonging, transgression, discipline, policing, surveillance, the control of space, consumerism, protest and power.

On this course you will study a range of modules which may include the following:

• PSY5262 - Psychology Around the World

  The module focuses on the practice, research, and development of psychology in different parts of the world, and the implications that this has for the study and application of psychology. This will include, but not be limited to, elements of cross-cultural psychology, broadly defined as a comparative study of behaviour and mental processes and the consideration of relevant cultural issues. The further development of psychological literacy within this module will underpin students' abilities to consider how they might think about the contribution they can make to the world.

• PSY5302 - Psychological Issues in Gender and Emotion

  This module builds on core aspects of two contemporary themes in psychology. For each subject area it provides a background and framework in the defining characteristics, methods and scope of the core topic areas included, but are not exclusive to, gender and emotion: For Individual Differences: Motivation, social cognition models, mood disorders, irrational belief, personality disorders, the role of individual differences in health and illness, gender differences, cultural differences. For Developmental Psychology: Theories of gender identity, transgender issues in development, sex differences in aggression and other characteristics; emotions and attachment; parenting/social influences; identity, the self, self- esteem, adolescence and relationship formation.

• PSY5342 - Psychology of Social Issues 2

  Building on Psychology of Social Issues 1, students will critically examine the ways in which social psychology draws upon different theoretical perspectives and methods of inquiry. Indicative content includes social influence, social relations, social identity, social justice in everyday life, critical psychology (including relativism and constructivism) and the implications of applying social psychology to social issues (both in the past and present) including international and cultural perspectives. Throughout the module the relationship between the groups and society will be highlighted..

• SOC5012 - Reimagining the Global

  We are living in an era of rapid change. Global and technological transformations are reshaping our work and home lives, our cultures, identities and social experiences. New forces within our societies and beyond are leading to new social ties or the disintegration of old ones. This module explores conceptual frameworks that help explain recent developments in global society. The choice of frameworks to explore should reflect current trends within the discipline. Sample frameworks include: 1) World Systems Theory - Wallerstein's concepts of nations, core and peripheral; modern world systems; holistic analysis. 2) Divisions of Labour Theory - transnational companies; world market factories. 3) Globalisation - including nationalist and fundamentalist resistance to globalisation.

• SOC5042 - Contemporary Research 2

  This module examines how social data may be collected, displayed, analysed and explained effectively. It introduces students to the criticism and interpretation of data and techniques. This module will also develop the skills required to plan and begin an independent research project within a supportive learning environment, and reinforce research skills developed in other modules. On completion of the module students will be prepared to use appropriate research methodologies in order to plan for and embark upon their extended research project at L6.

• SOC5222 - Professional Placement 2

  This module follows on from SOC 4222 Professional Placement 1 and enables students to prepare appropriate professional experience and networking opportunities for SOC 6044 Professional Research Project. Across these modules students are expected to develop insights into potential career avenues and to identify productive ways of interrelating academic learning with relevant professional practice. Career evaluation and planning is expected to continue across all three modules and a career-action plan, identifying key skills and work-experience needs, should be continued across the placement reports. The module aims to prepare students for the placement including seminars on: Introduction to Professional Development Planning and Placements at Level 5; Interview with Placement Tutor; Placement with suitable organisation(s), normally six weeks in total. Completion of Portfolio and Report (including Career Research project). The workshop sessions guide and support the students through the process of choosing and applying for appropriate placements. There will be a series of sessions preparing the students for the placement. These will normally include discussion of and lectures on wider theoretical and practical reading on work, and presentations from staff in the Employer and Partnership Office (EPO) and Careers. Topics include job satisfaction, relevant fields of employment, definitions of employment, professionalism, higher-order graduate skills, team work, careers planning, employability skills, briefings on EPO procedures, and skills and preparation for attachment/assessment.

• SOC5252 - Professional Placement 2 (Volunteering)

  This module is a direct equivalent of SOC 5222 Professional Placement 2, but it allows students to spread out their placement activity across the 2 semesters, rather than taking it within a 6-week block. It follows on from SOC 4222 Professional Placement and enables students to prepare appropriate professional experience and networking opportunities for SOC 6044 Professional Portfolio. Across these modules, students are expected to develop insights into potential career avenues and to identify productive ways of interrelating academic learning with relevant professional practice. Career evaluation and planning is expected to continue across all three modules and a career-action plan, identifying key skills and work-experience needs, should be continued across the placement reports, helping to define the nature and purpose of SOC 6044 Professional Portfolio.

On this course you will study a range of modules which may include the following:

• PSY6122 - Psychology Special Subject

  The Special Subject will not entail the student conducting empirical research. Rather, the extended essay is intended to provide an opportunity for the student to write critically about a selected and approved area in considerably more depth than is possible in other assessed essays.

• PSY6322 - Childhood and Society

  Applied issues in psychological development are presented and explored as the complex interaction of inherited and environmental effects, set in a varying cultural context that governs the roles, goals and purposes of childhood. Indicative content: cross-cultural (and historical) experiences of childhood and development; the impact of early experiences - vulnerability and resilience; ethnicity - growing up with minority status; poverty - 'relative': role of cultural influences, comparisons and effects; transracial/inter-country adoption; street-children - development and effects; separated children - separation from parents due to divorce, bereavement, etc.; child abuse - short and long term effects; role of the father in development; role of children in adult development.

• PSY6462 - Counselling Psychology

  Introduction to psychotherapy and counselling psychology. Critical consideration of a variety of psychotherapy and counselling schools and theories. Consideration of the challenges faced by psychotherapists and counselling psychologists working in a variety of contexts with a variety of populations. Wider counselling perspectives including eclectic and integrative, time-limited and the influence of positive psychology. The wider applications of counselling psychology with specific groups. Introduction to the skills used by psychotherapists and counsellors. Consideration of health economics and of broader modes of delivery, for example, group and internet counselling.

• PSY6482 - Changing the World

  This module focuses on the application of knowledge and understanding of psychology to real-world problems and the development of evidence-based solutions in order to effect positive change. Drawing on their own psychological literacy, students will work in groups to bring to bear concepts from such areas as community psychology, environmental psychology, cross-cultural and international psychology to demonstrate how they can change the world for the better. Problem scenarios to be explored might include such topics as bullying at school or in the workplace; building relationships between individuals and community groups; promoting participation and diversity within organisations or communities; advising individuals or groups how to change their environment so that it becomes more stimulating and less stressful; how to use psychology to encourage a positive relationship between individuals and the natural world; promoting social change; encouraging healthy behaviours; tackling social isolation. The aim is to provide a rich and engaging variety of topic areas. There will also be scope for students to select their own broad areas of interest.

• PSY6502 - Professional Learning Through Work

  This module enables students to develop and negotiate learning outcomes and assessment modes that provide the flexibility for them to apply theoretical understanding and practical work-based development to a chosen context. This could include a work-based project or intervention or an alternative professional development project within their work setting. Students will be expected to negotiate a project with their employer or prior placement provider organisation that meets the needs of both the employer and Leeds Trinity University.

• SOC6004 - Independent Social Project

  This module is all about you putting your experience and knowledge into practice by undertaking a non-empirical piece of project work. You may work independently, in teams and across disciplines. It will be a requirement that you have negotiated access to a community/ organisation or workplace and that a minimum of 3 hours per week (or the equivalent) will be spent on this social project. Supervision will be provided relevant to the negotiated assessment. Students will work in small groups to identify a local issue to address across the academic year. You will plan the development of a campaign, service, or product which you will work in partnership to deliver. Assessment of the project will be negotiated with the project supervisor. However, assessments will link to the overall degree of the student. For example, a group of students who produce a poster campaign focusing upon student metal health. The assessments may be: -An A1 poster with written exposition detailing the link between mental health and young people, with written reflective account of the project. -A project report that examines qualitative and quantitative studies in to links between mental health and criminal behaviour in young people with written reflective account of the project. -An extended essay that examines the third sectors role in providing mental health provision in the criminal justice system with written reflective account of the project. -An extended essay that examines sociological theory in relation to mental wellbeing with written reflective account of the project. Please Note: These assessments listed here are not intended to be prescriptive, but an example of how within a group members will each negotiate a different form of assessment to accompany the reflective written work. This example is purely a demonstration of how a group supervisor may advise members within the group. With a focus upon ensuring the overall assessment demonstrates the link between the student's undergraduate programme and the ISP project.

• SOC6022 - Prisons and Punishment

  This module will complete the strand of modules on the criminal justice process from profiling and suspicion to arrest, the courtroom, incarceration and post-prison care. It introduces students to a range of ways that the nature of criminality has been related to the process of punishment, both historically and in a global context. The first part of the module explores a range of readings in penal theory and explores the diverse ways in which punishment has functioned within socieites, as a social warning to others, as a means of reforming criminal behaviour, and as a way of removing anti-social elements from society. Case studies will be used to relate theory to practice, but also to help identify ways in which key social perspectives about punishment are at once historically related to governmental policies and the organisation of key institutions, but also persistant across time and place. The second part of the module will explore ways in which governments have sought to reduce the use of prisons, either through alternative forms of rehabilitation or social punishments, such as community service. The conflicting justifications for these initiatives are related to the present prison 'crisis' and students will be expected to deploy ethical and critical insight to analyse the difficulties facing penology today.

• SOC6044 - Professional Research Project

  This module culminates the research methods strand of modules. This strand develops student understanding of the mutual relationship between academic study and professional practice and also to the range of professional employment suitable for graduates of the programme. This 40-credit module has a status equivalent to a traditional dissertation. The proposal for the research project undertaken in SOC 6044 will have been developed and assessed within SOC 5042 Contemporary Research 2. The research project should integrate knowledge and understanding from the academic modules and professional experiences from the professional placement modules to create a research project that generates new knowledge and/or develops our conception of the topic studied. The design of the project should include consideration of: a target audience for the research findings; their potential use-value, and the appropriate technologies or procedures for conducting the research. The findings of the research project may constitute a professional portfolio for prospective employers to demonstrate practical and professional experience within a relevant professional sector.

• SOC6102 - Gender and Society

  This module is designed to develop sociological literacy skills and enable students to analyse key political and cultural texts in a range of historical, critical and contextual approaches to gender. The aim of this module is to examine the way gender is performed, consumed, and contested. It offers a critical review of key aspects of classical and contemporary theory and research in gender studies. It examines a range of interconnected issues concerning power, gender, and identity. The course examines debates surrounding the social construction of gender, including how gender could be considered an oppressing force that could define and determine the an individual's lifecourse, regardless of biological sex.