BA Social Policy and Criminology with Year Abroad
Entry requirements
A Level: ABB. IB: 6,5,5 at Higher Level with a minimum of 32 points overall.. BTEC: BTEC Extended Diploma, Diploma and Subsidiary Diploma are all considered.considered. T Level: all subjects considered; Standard offer: Distinction overall with A in the Core Component.
About this course
BA in Social Policy and Criminology with Year Abroad, a sociology and social policy degree examining social welfare, justice systems, and crime. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, and Social & Cultural Analysis. Students spend the third year completing an international exchange. The first year covers the foundations through Introduction to Social Policy, Causes of Crime, Discovering Social Problems, and Crime, Justice and Society. The second year builds competence with Criminology and its Critics, Policy Analysis, Social Research II, and Race and Racism. The third year consists of the Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology Year Abroad module. The final year involves advanced study including the Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology Dissertation, Crime and the City, Genocide and Mass Atrocities, and Quantitative Data Analysis.
Modules
- Introduction to Social Policy
- Causes of Crime
- Discovering Social Problems
- Crime, Justice and Society
- Violence in a Global Context
- Social Research I
- Criminology and its Critics
- Policy Analysis
- Social Research II
- Race and Racism
- Gender and Sexuality
- Histories of Criminal Justice and Empire
- Housing, Home and Place: Issues in Policy
- Media and Society
- Prisons, Punishment and Penality
- Contemporary Issues in Policing
- Education, Policy and Social Justice
- Poverty, Class and Inequality
- Social Psychology
- Youth, Crime and Justice
- Enterprising Solutions to Social Problems
- Victimology
- Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology Year Abroad
- Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology Dissertation
- Crime and the City
- Genocide and Mass Atrocities
- Harmful Societies: Crime, Social Harm and Social Justice
- Psychology and Crime
- Drugs: Society, Politics and Policy
- Wrongful Conviction
- Mental Health and Society
- Sociology of Success and Spectacle
- Social Policy, Inequality and the Life Course
- Professional Development
- Contemporary Social Theory
- Policing Migration: victims, villains and global border regimes
- Technology & Society
- Power, Control and Resistance
- Quantitative Data Analysis