BA Criminology
Entry requirements
A level: BBC-BBB IB: We are happy to accept IB qualifications which achieve the required number of UCAS Tariff points.
About this course
BA (Hons) in Sociology and Social Policy. Core topics include Data Analysis, Statistics, Research Methods, Historical Research, Entrepreneurship, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The programme includes a 60-hour work-based placement and a self-directed study project. A 40-credit dissertation in the final year is assessed by coursework only. Staff have professional backgrounds in policing, prisons and children's rights.
Modules
- Key Criminological Thinkers
- Multi-agency Work in Criminal Justice
- Professional Skills
- Criminal Justice
- Language 1
- Criminology and the Modern World
- Cyber Security Fundamentals and Ethics
- Addictions and Offending
- Becoming a Social Researcher
- Entrepreneurship and Innovation
- Crime, Media and Criminology
- Generating Reputations
- Violence and Society
- Gendered Violence, Crime and Justice
- Crime and Music
- Crime, Harms, Law and Justice
- Victims, theories, debates and practices
- Community Punishment
- Doing Social Research
- Work-based learning and Employability
- Self-Directed Study
- Youth Offending: Critical Perspectives
- Dissertation
- The Politics of Imprisonment
- Justice, Rights and the State
- Expanding the Criminological Imagination
- State Crime
- Corporate Crime
- Prison Lives in Literature and Films
- Race, Crime and Criminology
- Critical Migration Studies
- A Century of Crime and Its Contexts: Circa 1840-1940
- Global Antisemitism and Islamophobia
- Global and National Activist Movements
- Critical Terrorism Studies