BSc Sociology and 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. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Fieldwork, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. Students may undertake a placement year with organisations such as criminal justice agencies, housing associations, charities, and social policy bodies. The programme concludes with a dissertation or major final project.
Modules
- Contemporary Challenges
- Fundamentals of the Social Sciences
- Special Subjects A
- Special Subjects B
- Global and Intersectional Criminology
- Researching Your World
- Sociology of Everyday Life: Issues in Contemporary Culture
- Colonialism, Migration and Global Racism
- Crime and Deviance in Society
- Digital Culture
- Gangs, Street Culture and Crime
- Gender, Sexuality and Feminism
- Global Communication
- Mental Health and Offending
- Understanding Cities and Inequalities
- Victims: Crime, Social Harm and Justice
- Youth Crime and Youth Justice
- Advanced Research Skills for Social and Political Sciences
- Dissertation
- Major Final Project
- Apocalypse! Crisis and Society
- Capitalism and Sex
- Cities, Culture and Social Change
- Climate Justice in a Changing World
- Criminal Law in Context
- Crimes of the Powerful
- Digital Media, Social Movements and Change
- 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
- Politics and Digital Cultures
- Political Satires & Comedy
- Power, Space and Resistance: Carceral Geographies
- Psychosocial Perspectives on Crime and Violence
- Terrorism and Counterterrorism
- 21st Century Media Bodies