BSc Sociology with Criminology
About this course
BSc (Hons) in Sociology. Core topics include Statistics, Research Methods, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Social & Cultural Analysis, and Global & Comparative Perspective. The programme integrates sociological and criminological study across modules on crime, the criminal justice system, and policing. Students complete a final-year dissertation informed by quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Modules
- Understanding Crime, Harm and Deviance
- The Criminal Justice System
- Introduction to Sociology
- The Sociological Imagination
- Sociology of Health and Illness
- Contemporary Culture & Social Change
- Classical sociological theory
- Quantitative research methods
- Contemporary Ireland
- 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
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Methodology, Ethics and Politics of Research
- Contemporary sociological theory
- 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
- Global Inequalities:Issues and Challenges
- Dissertation
- Media, Culture and Society
- Sociology of Education
- Professional Placement
- Sport in Society