Reply 1
. I would say that psychology at university level is quite different to A-Level in the sense that it tends to be a bit more scientific in nature (hence why most degrees are BSc - bachelor of science than BA).
If it sounds like something you're interested in though, I'm happy to answer any questions you had about studying psychology 
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There are certainly courses that incorporate both traditional humanities style approaches of reading texts and writing analytical essays with also incorporating scientific approaches like evaluating gathered data or conducting structured experiments, for example archaeology/archaeological science, linguistics, sociology, politics, some areas of anthropology etc.
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There are also others which incorporate the two areas as more discrete subjects studied in parallel e.g. joint honours courses in physics and philosophy, arts and sciences degrees and similar.
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There are some which might try and overlap the two or study one area in terms of the other e.g. the history and/or philosophy of science, digital humanities, various technical approaches to e.g. conservation of artefacts/objects etc.
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There's also human sciences which isn't widely available but tends to fall into any of those categories depending on the exact university offering it and subjects being studied there. Note human sciences is a very specific field that overlaps heavily with aspects of (biological/physical) anthropology and (evolutionary/prehistoric) archaeology in the first category.
Reply 3
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There are certainly courses that incorporate both traditional humanities style approaches of reading texts and writing analytical essays with also incorporating scientific approaches like evaluating gathered data or conducting structured experiments, for example archaeology/archaeological science, linguistics, sociology, politics, some areas of anthropology etc.
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There are also others which incorporate the two areas as more discrete subjects studied in parallel e.g. joint honours courses in physics and philosophy, arts and sciences degrees and similar.
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There are some which might try and overlap the two or study one area in terms of the other e.g. the history and/or philosophy of science, digital humanities, various technical approaches to e.g. conservation of artefacts/objects etc.
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There's also human sciences which isn't widely available but tends to fall into any of those categories depending on the exact university offering it and subjects being studied there. Note human sciences is a very specific field that overlaps heavily with aspects of (biological/physical) anthropology and (evolutionary/prehistoric) archaeology in the first category.
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