BSc Criminology
Entry requirements
A level: BBB IB: International Baccalaureate Diploma 30 points. GCSE English equivalent SL 5 or HL 4
About this course
BSc (Hons) in Sociology, combining sociological and criminological perspectives. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, and Ethics & Professional Practice. The first year provides a broad social sciences foundation studied alongside sociology students, with progressive specialisation in later years. A final-year dissertation is undertaken, and an optional industry placement year is available.
Modules
- Contemporary Challenges
- Fundamentals of the Social Sciences
- Special Subjects B
- Special Subjects A
- Crime and Deviance in Society
- Global and Intersectional Criminology
- Researching Your World
- Colonialism, Migration and Global Racism
- Digital Culture
- Gangs, Street Culture and Crime
- Mental Health and Offending
- National Security Intelligence
- Victims: Crime, Social Harm and Justice
- War and Humanitarianism
- Youth Crime and Youth Justice
- Criminology in Practice
- Dissertation
- Apocalypse! Crisis and Society
- Capitalism and Sex
- Cities, Culture and Social Change
- Climate Justice in a Changing World
- Crimes of the Powerful
- Criminal Law in Context
- Drugs, Crime and Criminal Justice
- Global Migration
- Housing, Harm and Inequality
- Lawyers, Guns and Money: Making the Modern World System
- Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
- Power, Space and Resistance: Carceral Geographies
- Psychosocial Perspectives on Crime and Violence
- Terrorism and Counterterrorism
- War and Humanitarianism