BA Criminology and Sociology
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, combining the study of social structures and institutions with criminological theory. Core topics include Data Analysis, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, Human Behaviour, and Social & Cultural Analysis. The course includes a placement year option and an independent study project in criminology or sociology, supported by active researchers. Students can tailor the programme through study abroad or a foreign language.
Modules
- Understanding Crime, Understanding Criminal Justice
- Becoming a Social Scientist
- Exploring Inequalities
- Policing, Prevention and Punishment
- Murder, Death and Destruction
- Society, People and Place: Global Issues and Local Realities
- Imagining Social Order and Deviance
- Social Science Methods
- Data Analysis in Social Sciences
- Crime Across Borders
- Crime and Justice in Practice: Voices from the Margins
- Crime, Morality and the Media
- Contemporary Social Theory
- Social Sciences Placement
- Challenges and Issues in Criminal Justice
- Families and Households: Diversity and Change
- Globalisation and its Discontents
- Social Sciences at Work
- Prisons and Imprisonment
- Rethinking 'Participation' in Crime control, Punishment and Criminology
- Hatred, Justice and the State
- Sociology of Parenting and Early Childhood
- Sex, Death, Desire: Psychoanalysis in Social Context
- Dissertation for Criminology - ISP
- Dissertation – 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
- Streets, Skyscrapers, and Slums: The City in Social, Cultural, and Historical Context
- Engaged Social Science