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BSc Social Policy with Criminology

Ulster University

Institution
Ulster University
Level
undergraduate
Subject
BSc (Hons) Social Policy with Criminology
Duration
5 years

About this course

BSc (Hons) in Sociology and Social Policy. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, Policy Analysis, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The programme includes a final-year dissertation allowing independent research into a social policy topic. The course is studied part-time over five years.

Modules

  • Understanding Crime, Harm and Deviance
  • The Criminal Justice System
  • Introduction to Social Policy and Social Justice
  • Making and Delivering Policy
  • Contemporary Social Policy Issues
  • Education: Policy and Practice
  • Social Survey Methods
  • Qualitative Research Methods
  • Policies for Families and Children
  • Social Policy: Concepts and Theories
  • Policy Analysis: Skills, Tools and Techniques
  • Policing and Society
  • Environmental Crime
  • State Crime
  • Victims of Crime
  • Young People, Crime and Harms
  • Understanding Punishment
  • Terrorism and Political Violence
  • Policing & the Law
  • Restorative Justice
  • Exploring Crime and the Media
  • International Social Policy
  • Dissertation
  • Drugs and Crime
  • Gender, Crime and Justice
  • Prisons, Punishment and Power
  • Cybercrime
  • Corporate Crime
  • Life After Crime and Criminal Justice
  • Surveillance and the Law
  • Crime and the Media
  • Terrorism and Political Violence
  • Psychology and Crime
  • Green Criminology and Environmental Crime
  • Crime, Social Order and Social Control
  • Global Crime
  • Gender and Social Policy
  • Migration, 'Race' and Ethnicity
  • Contemporary Issues in Health Policy
  • Ageing and Society
  • Mental health and disability
  • The Environment, Social Justice and Sustainable Social Policy