BA Sociology 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
Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Criminology with Year Abroad, a sociology degree examining social life, crime, and justice systems. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, and Social & Cultural Analysis. Students complete a study period abroad during the third year before returning for advanced study and a final-year dissertation. The first year introduces foundational themes through Causes of Crime, The Sociological Imagination, Discovering Social Problems, and Social Research I. The second year expands theoretical and empirical knowledge via Criminology and its Critics, Modern Sociological Theory, Social Research II, and Gender and Sexuality. Optional modules across intermediate and final stages cover topics such as Prisons, Punishment and Penality, Media and Society, Psychology and Crime, and Wrongful Conviction. The final year centres on the Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology Dissertation alongside advanced specialist study.
Modules
- Causes of Crime
- The Sociological Imagination
- Discovering Social Problems
- Social Research I
- Introduction to Social Divisions
- Violence in a Global Context
- Criminology and its Critics
- Modern Sociological Theory
- Social Research II
- Gender and Sexuality
- Poverty, Class and Inequality
- Race and Racism
- Prisons, Punishment and Penality
- Histories of Criminal Justice and Empire
- Housing, Home and Place: Issues in Policy
- Media and Society
- Social Psychology
- Education, Policy and Social Justice
- Enterprising Solutions to Social Problems
- Terror, Threat and Security
- Youth, Crime and Justice
- Contemporary Issues in Policing
- 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
- Selling the Self? Sex, Gender and Consumer Culture
- Mental Health and Society
- Sociology of Success and Spectacle
- Social Policy, Inequality and the Life Course
- Professional Development
- Contemporary Social Theory
- Technology & Society
- Power, Control and Resistance
- Quantitative Data Analysis
- Policing Migration: Victims, Villains and Global Border Regimes