Studying Psychology at Cambridge

Psychological and Behavioural Sciences (C800 BA/PBS)

There are many branches of psychology and this course will give you the

opportunity to study a range of them. You will carry out research projects that

enable you to explore topics that parcularly interest you.

Within the course there is also exibility to pursue related disciplines such as

polics, sociology, archaeology, biological and social anthropology, computer

science, philosophy, natural sciences, economics, and educaon.

To nd out more visit our website

at www.pbs.tripos.cam.ac.uk.

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Year One

In your rst year you take four papers, two of which are compulsory:

 Introducon to Psychology

 Psychological Enquiry and Methods (this includes praccal demonstraons)

The remaining two papers are chosen from a selecon oered by other departments.

Topics typically include:

 Archaeology

 Evoluon and Behaviour

 Philosophy

 Sociology

Year Two

In your second year you take four papers in total, two of which are compulsory:

 Social and Developmental Psychology

 Cognive Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology

The remaining two papers are chosen from a selecon of oponal papers available

that cover a similar range of topics to the Year One list above.

Year Three

In your nal year you undertake a research project on a psychology topic of your

choice. You also choose a further three papers from a selecon which will include the

following:

 Cognive & Experimental Psychology

 Developmental Psychology

 Similar oponal papers to Year Two

Course Structure

Entry Requirements

 Biological Anthropology

 Mathemacal Biology

 Social Anthropology

 Behavioural & Cognive Neuroscience

 Social Psychology

Typical oers for the course are A*AA at A-Level. Equivalent qualicaons are also

considered. See the Undergraduate Study website for details.

A wide range of subjects would be benecial to study for this course, although you

may nd science and mathemac subjects useful preparaon. Students are not

required to have studied Psychology before starng the course. More informaon is

available on College websites. Further informaon about applying to the University

is available from the Undergraduate Study website at www.cam.ac.uk/apply/.

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