This is a combined Honours programme which allows the student to combine the 2 subjects; the disability studies course represents an opportunity to engage with extremely topical issues relating to disability throughout society and across the lifespan; the course offers the student the opportunity to examine society’s response to its members with disabilities; the psychology course offers the student the opportunity to study and research such diverse topics as: why people commit criminal offences; how children learn to read; what functions of the brain are impacted upon when someone sustains a serious head injury; when would be the most suitable time to intervene in an international conflict? the course is suitable for students who are interested in learning about why people and animals behave in the way that they do, as well the processes involved in thinking, remembering and understanding the world we live in.