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BSc Criminology and Social Policy

Cardiff University

Institution
Cardiff University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Social sciences
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
8D46
Typical offer
A-level ABB

Entry requirements

A level: ABB

About this course

BSc in Sociology and Social Policy, combining criminology with social policy analysis. Core topics include Research Methods, Policy Analysis, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The programme draws on multiple social science perspectives and culminates in a final-year dissertation.

Modules

  • Social and Public Policy: in Principle and Practice
  • Introduction to Social Science Research
  • Key Ideas in Social Science
  • Introduction to Social and Public Policy
  • Foundations of Contemporary Criminology
  • Becoming a Social Scientist
  • Offending and Victimisation
  • Responses to Crime
  • Social Research Methods
  • Poverty and Social Security in the UK
  • Social Policy Analysis
  • Evaluating Social Practice, Policy and Innovation
  • Focus Groups and Interviews
  • Knowing the Social World - Online and Offline Surveys
  • Ethnography and Everyday Life
  • Digital Social Research: Theory and Methods
  • Cyfiawnder Byd-eang
  • Dissertation
  • Analysing Social Change
  • Crime, Security and Justice in the City
  • Police and Policing
  • Prisons and Prisoners
  • Drugs, Crime and Society
  • Radical Education
  • Work and Skills in the 21st Century: an international perspective
  • International and Comparative Social and Public Policy
  • Equality and Social Justice in a Globalised World
  • Power, Politics and Policy
  • Sociology on the Move
  • Reflections on Education: Theory into Practice
  • Live Theory
  • Decolonising the Social Sciences
  • Monsters and Mysteries
  • Sociology of Techno-Capitalism
  • Environmental Rights, Societal Insights