BSc Criminology and Psychology
Entry requirements
A level: AAB IB: Pass, with 34 points overall with 17 points at Higher Level
About this course
Bachelor of Science in Criminology and Psychology, a psychology and sociology degree focused on the scientific study of crime, the criminal mind, and human behaviour. Core topics include Programming, Data Analysis, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, Human Behaviour, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, and Social & Cultural Analysis. This degree is accredited by the British Psychological Society. The first year introduces foundational subjects through compulsory modules such as Interrogating Crime: An Introduction to Criminology, Introduction to Psychology, Behavioural Neuroscience, and Understanding the Social World. The second year expands into specialized areas with compulsory study in Criminological Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Qualitative Research: Methods, Tools and Techniques, and Introduction to Social Data Analytics, alongside optional choices like Crime Scene Investigation: Methods and Applications and Techno Harms: Discrimination, Conspiracy Theories and Extremism. The final year centers on independent research through the Dissertation and Real World Research: Designing Your Dissertation modules, complemented by optional studies in AI Applications in Psychology, Penology, and Global Terrorism and Political Violence.
Modules
- Behavioural Neuroscience
- Delivering Justice: Mapping the Criminal Justice System
- Individual Differences
- Interrogating Crime: An Introduction to Criminology
- Introduction to Psychology
- Simple Liars, Damned Liars and Experts: the use of empirical research in social science
- Understanding the Social World
- What's the problem? Debating responses to Contemporary Social Challenges
- Clinical Psychology
- Criminological Perspectives in Global and Post-colonial Contexts
- Criminological Psychology
- Developmental Psychology
- Introduction to Social Data Analytics
- Qualitative Research: Methods, Tools and Techniques
- What's the Solution? How to Become an Agent for Change in Public Policy
- Children and Society
- Crime Scene Investigation: Methods and Applications
- Global Transformations
- Introduction to Health Psychology
- Issues in Law Enforcement and Social Control
- Social Stratification, Divisions and Resilience
- Techno Harms: Discrimination, Conspiracy Theories and Extremism
- Dissertation
- Real World Research: Designing Your Dissertation
- AI Applications in Psychology
- Advanced Quantitative Research Skills
- Applied Social Quantitative Analysis
- Building Digital Health Interventions
- Children and Society
- Collective Action and Social Change
- Comparative Youth Justice
- Crime Scene Investigation: Methods and Applications
- Current Topics in Cognitive Psychology
- Education Policy and Reforms: Global Experiences and Local Contexts
- Employability: Successful futures in Sociology and Criminology
- Exploring the Hidden Assumptions in Education
- Gender and Society
- Gender, Power and Politics
- Global Terrorism and Political Violence
- Global Transformations
- Introduction to Educational Psychology
- Introduction to Experiments in Social Science
- Issues in Law Enforcement and Social Control
- Neurodiversity and Development
- Penology
- Psychology of Advertising
- Race and Ethnicity in Society
- Social Stratification, Division and Resilience
- Social and Affective Neuroscience
- Social and Psychological Approaches to Understanding Sexual Health
- Techno Harms: Discrimination, Conspiracy Theories and Extremism
- Victims or Perpetrators? Social and Psychological Perspectives on Older People and Crime
- Violent and Sexual Offenders