BA Sociology and Criminology
About this course
BA in Sociology and Criminology, a sociology degree focused on crime, deviance, and the social structures shaping human life. Core topics include Data Analysis, Statistics, Research Methods, Fieldwork, Environmental Analysis, Critical & Analytical Thinking, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Social & Cultural Analysis, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The interdisciplinary curriculum integrates sociological, historical, political, and psychological viewpoints to examine criminal behaviour and societal responses. The first year establishes academic foundations through compulsory modules such as Social Issues: Part I - Introducing Crime and Deviance, Contemporary Society: Themes, Perspectives and Case Studies, and Imagining Social Worlds: Social Research Methods, with optional choices available in media, demographics, and social data. The second year advances core knowledge with compulsory modules including International Criminal Justice: Application of Theory to Transnational and International Crime, Theoretical Sociology, and Knowing the Social World. Optional modules across later stages allow students to pursue specialised interests in areas ranging from health and science to digital society, policing, and environmental issues.
Modules
- Social Issues: Part I - Introducing Crime and Deviance
- Social Issues: Part II - Themes in Criminology
- Imagining Social Worlds
- Contemporary Society: Themes, Perspectives and Case Studies
- Social Analysis
- Imagining Social Worlds: Social Research Methods
- Introduction to Criminal Justice
- Introduction to Social Anthropology
- Media and Society
- Population and Society
- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
- Introduction to Social Data
- Data Analysis in Social Science 1
- International Criminal Justice: Application of Theory to Transnational and International Crime
- Theoretical Sociology
- Knowing the Social World
- Pharmaceutical Cultures
- Sociology of Family and Gender
- Disability and Society
- Aging, Health and Society
- Science, Technology and Society
- Politics of Food and Farming
- Emotions, the Body and the Social
- Addiction
- Bodies and Society
- BioSocieties
- Cyborg Studies
- Environments and Societies
- The Anthropology of Prisons
- Organised Crime and Criminal Networks
- Race, Ethnicity and Criminalisation
- Police and Policing
- Victimology
- Forensic Science, Conflict and Justice
- Deprivation of Liberty: Imprisonment and Beyond
- Introduction to Terrorism Studies
- Crime Science
- Crimes of the Powerful
- On Violence
- Forensics in Policing
- Deviance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
- Power and Domination
- Deception
- Digital Society
- Data Science in Society
- Data Justice and Surveillance Capitalism
- Social Networks
- Data Analysis in Social Science 3
- Mapping the Social World: Introduction to Spatial Analysis in the Social Sciences