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BA Criminology

Keele University

Institution
Keele University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Criminology
Duration
3-4 years
UCAS code
L611
Typical offer
A-level BBC, IB 29

Entry requirements

A level: BBC in three A Levels. IB: 554 in three Higher Levels or 29 points.

About this course

BA (Hons) in Sociology. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, and Human Behaviour. The programme includes a supervised final-year dissertation and offers an optional placement year or international study, including a four-week US summer school at a partner university.

Modules

  • Understanding Crime, Understanding Criminal Justice
  • Policing, Prevention and Punishment
  • Murder, Death and Destruction
  • Becoming a Social Scientist
  • Imagining Social Order & Deviance
  • Crime Across Borders
  • Social Science Methods
  • Data Analysis in Social Sciences
  • The American South: US Summer School (Level 5)
  • Crime and Justice in Practice: Voices from the Margins
  • Crime, Morality and the Media
  • Social Sciences Placement
  • Challenges and Issues in Criminal Justice
  • Public Policy and How To Make It
  • Globalisation and its Discontents
  • Social Sciences at Work
  • Dissertation for Criminology - ISP
  • The American South: US Summer School (Level 6)
  • Prisons and Imprisonment
  • Rethinking 'Participation' in Crime control, Punishment and Criminology
  • Hatred, Justice and the State
  • The Extreme Right in Western Europe
  • Sex, Death, Desire: Psychoanalysis in Social Context
  • Work Placement for Social Sciences Final Year Students
  • State crimes and crimes against humanity
  • Migration, Crime and (In)Security
  • Environmental Harm, Justice and Global Inequalities
  • Streets, Skyscrapers, and Slums: The City in Social, Cultural, and Historical Context
  • Engaged Social Science