Joint honours degrees

Develop a wide range of skills - study for a joint honours degree

Combine two or three subjects together in your joint honours degree

Keep your options open by studying two or three subjects - you'll open a wide range of career opportunities.
Put yourself ahead in the jobs market by combining subjects that give you an obvious career path - eg, Business Management & Accounting; English & Creative Writing; Criminology & Law.
Focus on what you're most interested in. You can study subject equally or you can major or minor in a certain subject - it's up to you.
It's really flexible. You can study full time or part time if you want to, and you can change your balance of study across the subjects as you go. For instance, you can start doing three subjects and then later change to two subjects.

You'll attend the same lectures and classes as students studying for single honours degrees, be taught by the same academics, do the same amount of work, and be assessed in just the same way - usually a combination of coursework and exams.

How does it work?

Courses at the University of Derby are made up of modules - these are bite size 'chunks' of study, usually based around a particular theme.

Each year, you'll take eight modules - if you're part time, this will be less, depending on how long you're taking to complete the course. In the first year you can study up to three subjects. The more subjects you try, the greater your choice will be when you decide your final degree path.

In the second year, most students choose two subjects and study towards a joint or major-minor degree. You can carry on with all three subjects for a minor-minor-minor degree.

There are three ways you can combine subjects through the Joint Honours scheme:

Major-minor:specialise in one subject and take another as a minor
Joint: study two subjects equally
Three minors: study three subjects equally.

If you're studying at Buxton, you will follow the joint (two subjects) programme.

What can I combine?

You can combine over 40 different subjects- most combinations are possible, and subjects don't necessarily have to be related. They just have to be on the same campus.

You can study in different ways

With joint honours, you can study flexibly part time and some modules you can also study through work.

You can take a break from study or do a work placement to get more experience. And if you don't like a module, you can change it - it's that flexible.