BSc Sociology and Criminology with a Placement Year
Entry requirements
A level: CCD IB: 24 points
About this course
BSc in Sociology and Criminology, combining the study of society with the analysis of crime and justice. Core topics include Research Methods and Global & Comparative Perspective. The course is jointly offered by the Department of Politics and International Relations and the School of Law. The degree incorporates a professional placement year between the second and third years, and the final year includes a choice between a Sociology or Criminology dissertation.
Modules
- Thinking Sociologically
- Gender, Race, and Class: Social Differentiation and Stratification
- British Society
- Introduction to Criminology
- Introduction to Criminal Justice
- Inequality
- Law and Society
- Global Justice
- Introduction to Political Ideas
- Research Methods
- Sociological Theory
- Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice
- Advanced Criminological Theory
- Work Placement and Project
- Families and Society
- Learning Gender: Exploring the links between gender, education, and society
- Crime and the Media
- Critical Victimology
- The Media, Society, and Politics
- Global Historical Sociology
- Women, Crime, and Justice
- Society, Thought, and Art in Modern Europe
- Dissertation in Sociology
- Dissertation in Criminology
- Global Justice
- Experiencing War
- Feminism and Political Theory
- Young People, Crime, and Justice
- Crimes of the Powerful
- Marx, Durkheim, Weber
- Gender and Politics
- Prisons in Crisis
- Police and Society