理学学士学位自然科学学位提供了广泛的研究主题选择，并且不需要申请人学习任何特定主题。杜伦大学自然科学学位的关键特征是选择，灵活性和深度。自然科学学位课程具有广泛的学科选择，并且在以后的几年中，可以在学科内的各个模块之间进行选择。它也是一种灵活的学位课程，对于大多数科目，您可以推迟选择科目，直到到达杜伦为止，并且您还可以在第一年末更改学位的形状。
Durham's Psychology and Anthropology Departments pride themselves on excellence in both teaching and research. The breadth of complementary research strengths across the two Departments means that you are guaranteed to be taught by staff who are actively engaged in the interaction of psychological and anthropological approaches, and are leading figures in their field of research. <br><br>The joint honours degree is designed to enable you to understand what it means to be human in our rapidly changing world, including why we, and other animals, behave as we do and our interactions with each other and other animals.<br><br>In Psychology you will study people (and animals) in terms of their internal mental processes, the biological mechanisms that underlie their behaviour, and the social and developmental context in which they act.<br><br>In Anthropology, you will use perspectives from human biology, cultural evolution, animal behaviour, and human evolution to illuminate inquiry into the mind and behaviour of past and present human and primate populations. You will learn how anthropology and psychology provide complementary and contrasting perspectives on what it is to be human, as well as a variety of quantitative and qualitative ways of addressing major questions. The interface of anthropology and psychology explicitly integrates intercultural, international and global issues. For example, in anthropology's traditional focus on cultural diversity and the burgeoning recognition of psychology's need to address cross-cultural issues and move away from studies biased by Western Educated Industrialised and Rich (WEIRD) samples.