Repeating 2nd year

mrsvanderkamp_2

Hi, I'm not sure if this is the right place, but basically I,m in my second year and defered two exams with approved mitigating circumstances, and I am sitting them this week. However I'm really not at all confident and understand that if I fail them them I have to at the very least re-take those modules, which my uni may or may not allow me to do whilst continuing into the 3rd year. I'm doing criminology and psychology and tbh its the psych modules that I am struggling with. I am wondering whether to redo my 2nd year, because if I do, I think that I can change my route and do straight criminology. I want to work with offenders and a lot the pysch stuff I do isn't really that relevant (I'm a mature student btw). Does anyone have any experience of this type of situation and do you know if I can have student finance for an extra year (I know of people on my course who re-did the first year with full finance). Any help/advice much appreciated. Thankyou.

MrsManda

You're entitled to the length of your course + 1 year so you should be ok with funding if you need to repeat the year.

In terms of whether you should just do criminology rather than criminology and psychology I suggest speaking to someone in the field in which you wish to work and look at job adverts for the kind of job you want to do. Job adverts are a good source of information as they provide a person specification which will include what qualifications you are expected to have.

A criminology degree does not necessarily provide you with the qualifications/knowledge required to work with offenders.

melancholly

http://www.workwithoffenders.co.uk/careers

have a chat with your careers service about what qualifications you need for whatever kind of career you're looking for. if you are clear in your career goals, get some extra help with that decision - it would be awful for you to make a decision now that might harm your chances later.

also, before you make your decision, have a look at what modules you need to do in your third year for psychology. it may be that you can select topics you like a bit more - just make your decision as informed as possible.

mrsvanderkamp_2

Thank you both very much for your replies, they were very helpful. I only have one psychology module next year which is the Diversity of Human Behaviour which actually sounds very interesting, but it the possibility of having to repeat the module that I'm sure I'm going to fail which is the issue (although if I'm brutally honest, I could have worked harder but sometimes life gets in the way a bit - and no I don't mean partying, I mean work, housework, cooking, cleaning, looking after husbands, kids, dogs etc, you know just life). I am hoping I have scraped a pass in the other psych module so if it is just the one then I should be ok to progess next year anyway. As is usually the case, things seem a bit clearer this morning than they did last night and probably not quite as disasterous as I thought. Thanks again for the replies.