BA Sociology & Criminology
Entry requirements
For 2027 entry: 112–128 UCAS tariff points (A-level grades BBC–ABB) including a minimum of 2 A-levels or equivalent qualifications. We also accept a wide range of vocational qualifications including BTEC Extended Diploma (grade DMM–DDM) and T Levels (Merit).
About this course
BA (Hons) in Sociology, examining social structures, inequalities and the dynamics of contemporary societies. Core topics include Research Methods, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Social & Cultural Analysis, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The course offers a choice between a 30-week sandwich placement or a shorter 20-day placement, and includes a final-year dissertation.
Modules
- Introduction to Social Theory
- Media, Power & Social Order
- Social Research Skills
- Introduction to Criminological Theory
- Social Inequality & Exclusion
- Crime & the Criminal Justice System
- Qualitative Research Skills
- Contemporary Social Theory
- Borders, Migration and Human Trafficking
- Quantitative Skills
- Doing Ethnographic Research in the Social Sciences
- Victims of Crime
- Policing & Society
- Youth Crime, Gangs & Youth Justice
- Globalisation, Justice and Global Instabilities
- Public Health & Crime
- Culture & Conflict
- Growing Up and Growing Old
- Placement Learning unit
- Criminological Psychology
- The Sociology of AI
- Dissertation
- Politics & Ideology
- Terrorism, Protection & Society
- Drugs, Crime & Society
- Seekers, Believers and Iconoclasts
- ‘Troubling’ Gender
- Crime and Criminal Justice in the 21st Century
- Intersectional Criminology
- Capitalism’s crimes, contracts, and crises. Decolonial perspectives in the social sciences
- Sport and Leisure Cultures
- Health, Wellbeing & Society
- Criminology of Organisations
- Prisons & Punishment: This unit takes a historical and theoretical approach to punishment, to gain a critical understanding of conceptualisations of and rationalisations for punishment. The unit aims to provide an understanding of the current issues within the penal system in England and Wales, whilst critically thinking through alternatives.