What subjects if you like English and Psych?

[PrincessOfPreschool]

Obviously we can look at a joint honours. But just wondering if there are any subjects which involve similar skills...

DD loves English but has a scientific side and has really taken to Psychology A level, finding it so interesting. Despite loving History GCSE, it's now her least favourite A level. Just wondering what slightly 'leftfield' uni subjects she might like. She's on track for AAB. She was thinking of Law, but I think it may be closer to History skills than English/ Psych. No ideas of future careers.

My only warning is that A level psychology is essentially Year 1 of psychology at university. Obviously there are some differences in terms of level of detail and expectations but I ended up changing courses because I was so bored at relearning all that I had already learned at A level.
Does she have much work experience? It might help to narrow down the direction she goes.

No, not much work experience. It's quite difficult to get.

Speech and language therapy?

Linguistics is an interesting blend of humanities and science. Would work well as joint honours with psychology.

Was just about to suggest linguistics or speech therapy!!!

Depend whether she wants to do something vocational of course.

If she doesn't know what she wants to do, is going to university straight away the right decision? I know myself and others wish we had more time to decide because you only get so much funding by student loans. I know it's the done thing to go straight after school, but it's an expensive decision to make if you don't need it. For example, I work a job paid above average and with a strong career potential still ahead of me but I didn't need to have a degree to get to my role and won't likely need one if I wish to continue moving up. Many of my colleagues don't have degrees. I have 30k of loans that I didn't need if I'd known what I wanted to do.

Linguistics leapt out at me too! Philosophy?

Criminology or sociology.

Anthropology

Agree with @Nn9011 , ‘nowadays’ they need to have a career in mind, unless you can fund a masters (or two)
generally jobs available in speech and language therapy, though be aware that it’s very medical based, with quite a focus on dysphasia.
psychology - you need a pure honours to progress not joint.
not sure what you can do with philosophy or anthropology NOWADAYS- teaching?
DN with degree in anthropology works in a restaurant.

Anthropology is good but be very very careful about which institution as the anthropology departments are closing in many universities.

I was going to suggest anthropology!

Maybe archaeology.

Could go back to history if it's the period she's studying she doesn't like rather than the greater depth.

Dd did English lang, psychology and theology philosophy and ethics at a level and is her 3rd year of a law degree. She’s enjoyed on the whole.
Have you looked at what results you need to do law?

Might be worth looking at degrees in departments which offer computational linguistics - Birmingham is excellent in this area.

Or any of the 80% of graduate jobs that are open to anyone with a degree in any discipline…

Social Work

Results needed for law vary and it's early days too. Not sure what she may get ultimately as they've only done 1 term of A levels.

I don't think she could hack it emotionally.

DS enjoyed psychology A level and planned to study this at uni, but then changed his mind and ended up doing criminology instead which he loved. Worth looking at different courses as some unis offer criminology as a BA and others as a BSc depending on course content. But a really interesting subject and followed on well from the psychology A level. There's a lot of writing involved so the English would be a good fit too.

Will take a look at criminology with her. Linguistics is a possibility, though @FlyingPandas the computational one may be a bit Maths-based for her. She likes Maths but no A level in it. A possibility for DS though so thanks for that.

Sorry, I meant @ParmaVioletTea regarding the computational linguistics

@FlyingPandas may I ask if your DS has gone into a career using his criminology degree please?

Don’t do S&L therapy unless passionate about working in practical therapy. It’s poorly funded and subject to constant NHS cuts and restructures so huge expertise and stress coupled with job insecurity, external pressure and falling remuneration.

A psychology degree involves a fair bit of biology & statistics so worth considering whether she enjoys those.
English/psychology would be a good basis for becoming an educational psychologist if she has any desire to work with children.
I ended up teaching - don’t recommend it!

Perhaps something like Neurobiology?

Something like Mental Health Nursing if she wants to work closely with people (that's my career!)