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North West University

Bachelor of Arts in Behavioural Science with Sociology and Psychology

The Bachelor of Arts in Behavioural Science with Sociology and Psychology in Psychology is offered by North West University.

Program Length: 3 YEARS.

Bachelor of Arts in Behavioural Science with Sociology and Psychology offered by the North-West University at the Faculty of Humanities

 Programme outcomes

On completion of the programme of this programme, students should:

a) be able to take the initiative within private organisations when human resources need to be managed, sound working relationships have to be promoted and dynamic group work has to be mobilised;

b) have basic training in the human and economic sciences, which will enable them to function in a problem-solving capacity within the work place and to contribute through personal initiative and job creation;

c) be equipped to perform functions and apply skills that would enable the students to investigate and manage psychological phenomena within the work context.

This programme allows students to plan for a PGCE and a career in teaching as a main career path or a backup career. To gain admission to the PGCE, students must have an undergraduate university degree with two recognised school subjects, such as History, Mathematics, Languages, Sociology, Psychology (the two school subjects allow the student to select two methodologies of teaching in the PGCE). The recognised school subjects have to be combined as follows: one recognised school subject at level 3 + one recognised school subject at level 1 (with the exception of languages and mathematics).

A student who wants to take the Methodology of Life Orientation must have two of the following subjects on degree level: Sociology, Psychology, Political Studies, Human Movement Science, Labour -and Industrial studies, Human Rights and Ethics and Nutrition. The student must already have a second school subject on degree level for the second methodology. 

A student who wants to take the Methodology of Languages must have completed it on level 3. In this programme, languages will have to be taken additionally up to third year level to qualify as first or second school subject.

A student who wants to take the Methodology of Mathematics must have completed Mathematics on level 2 or otherwise Mathematics on level 1 with one of the following on level 2: Statistics, Mathematical Statistics, Applied Mathematics and Financial Mathematics. Statistics offered in this programme qualify as statistics modules for the PGCE.