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BA Criminology and History

Keele University

Institution
Keele University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
Criminology and History
Duration
3-4 years
UCAS code
MXV1
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 and History. Core topics include Research Methods, Historical Research, Data Analysis, Policy Analysis, and Fieldwork. Optional modules allow specialisation in areas such as crime, deviance, and heritage. A placement year and study abroad options are available, including a four-week summer school in the southern United States.

Modules

  • Understanding Crime, Understanding Criminal Justice
  • Defining Moments in World History, 1000-2000
  • Modern History: From the Industrial Revolution to the Global Pandemic
  • Policing, Prevention and Punishment
  • Murder, Death and Destruction
  • Becoming a Social Scientist
  • Applied History: What’s Past is Present
  • Imagining Social Order & Deviance
  • Themes, Debates and Sources in History
  • Social Science Methods
  • Data Analysis in Social Sciences
  • Crime Across Borders
  • Crime and Justice in Practice: Voices from the Margins
  • Professional Experience with History (Year 2)
  • Social Sciences Placement
  • Challenges and Issues in Criminal Justice
  • History in the Headlines
  • Applied History 2: Working with the Past
  • The American South: US Summer School (Level 5)
  • World Wars and the Age of Extremes
  • Social Sciences at Work
  • Prisons and Imprisonment
  • Rethinking 'Participation' in Crime control, Punishment and Criminology
  • Hatred, Justice and the State
  • Gender and Sexuality in Victorian Britain
  • The contested city: a spatial history of Rome, 1870-1978
  • 'Eyes on the Prize': The Struggle for Civil Rights in America
  • Engaged Social Science
  • Dissertation for Criminology - ISP
  • Dissertation for History - ISP
  • 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
  • The Making of Contemporary Africa since c.1945
  • Violence and Power in American History: Revolution to Civil War
  • Sites of Sexual Conflict in South Asia
  • The American South: US Summer School (Level 6)