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BSc Criminology

Cardiff University

Institution
Cardiff University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Social sciences
Duration
3 years
UCAS code
L370
Typical offer
A-level AAB

Entry requirements

A level: AAB

About this course

BSc in Sociology. Core topics include Research Methods, Policy Analysis, and a Global & Comparative Perspective on social issues. The programme offers a specialisation in criminology, drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives from sociology, law, and history. A placement year option allows students to gain practical experience in a professional setting.

Modules

  • Criminological Inquiries
  • Introduction to Social Science Research
  • Key Ideas in Social Science
  • Foundations of Contemporary Criminology
  • Becoming a Social Scientist
  • An Introduction to Education
  • Introduction to Social and Public Policy
  • Introduction to Sociology
  • Introduction to Psychology for the Human and Social Sciences
  • Crime and Punishment
  • Offending and Victimisation
  • Responses to Crime
  • Social Research Methods
  • Cynllunio ar gyfer Iechyd a Lles Cenedlaethau’r Dyfodol
  • Damcaniaethu Cyfalafiaeth
  • Children and Childhood
  • Working Knowledge: Analysing and Experiencing Employment (with Placement)
  • Evaluating Social Practice, Policy and Innovation
  • Focus Groups and Interviews
  • Human Development
  • Real World Research (with Placement)
  • Knowing the Social World - Online and Offline Surveys
  • Poverty and Social Security in the UK
  • Social Policy Analysis
  • Gender Relations and Society
  • Ethnography and Everyday Life
  • Crimes of the Powerful
  • Digital Social Research: Theory and Methods
  • Race and Racism
  • 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
  • Issues in Social and Cultural Psychology
  • International and Comparative Social and Public Policy
  • Equality and Social Justice in a Globalised World
  • Power, Politics and Policy
  • Sociology on the Move
  • Live Theory
  • Decolonising the Social Sciences
  • Monsters and Mysteries
  • Sociology of Techno-Capitalism
  • Environmental Rights, Societal Insights