BSc Criminology with Psychology (with Foundation Year)
Entry requirements
GCSE: Grade C/4 or above in English, or equivalent. Tariff points: 48 Contextual tariff: See our contextual offers page. English Language Requirement: International and EU applicants are required to have a minimum overall IELTS (Academic) score of 6.0 with 5.5 in each component (or approved equivalent*). *The university accepts a large number of UK and International Qualifications in place of IELTS. You can find details of acceptable tests and the required grades you'll need in our English Language section. Please visit our English language requirements page. A-level subjects: No specific subjects required. EDEXCEL (BTEC) Diploma: No specific subjects required. For information on required Guided Learning Hours please see our minimum entry requirements page. Access: No specific subjects required. Baccalaureate IB: No specific subjects required. We accept the IB Career-related Programme in conjunction with other Level 3 qualifications. Irish Highers: No specific subjects required. Welsh Baccalaureate: We accept tariff points achieved from the Advanced Skills Baccalaureate Wales in conjunction with other Level 3 qualifications. Cambridge Technical: No specific subjects required. T Levels: No specific subjects required.
About this course
BSc(Hons) in Psychology and Sociology, exploring the interplay between crime, criminal behaviour and social structures. Core topics include research methods for analysing crime data and criminal behaviour. The programme is split equally between criminology and psychology before a major is chosen in the later years. Students carry out an independent criminology project and engage in work-based learning with organisations including the police and youth offender schemes.
Modules
- Essentials of Academic Practice
- Exploring the Social World and the Problems of Crime
- From Plato to Nato
- Psychology, Policing and Society
- Introduction to Criminal Justice
- Introduction to Criminological Theory
- Introduction to Psychology and Crime
- Research Design and Analysis 1
- Understanding Crime
- Contemporary Perspectives in Criminology
- Criminology in Action: Engaging in the Real World
- Identities in Psychology
- Nature and Use of Research (Criminology)
- Angels or Demons? Understanding and Managing Youth Offending
- Policing and Crime Prevention
- Crime, Media and Culture
- Criminal Psychology
- 'Difference': Race, Ethnicity and Diversity in Contemporary Society
- Drugs, Crime and Society
- Mental Health, Crime and Criminal Justice
- Transnational Crime and Comparative Criminology
- Criminology Project
- Gender, Sex and Social Control
- Green Criminology: Environment, Crime and Justice
- Hate Crime: Offenders, Victims and the Criminal Justice System
- Missing People: Lost Identities and Social Harm
- Organised Crime
- Prisons, Punishment and Human Rights
- Protest, Policing and Public Order
- Risk and Risk Management
- Terrorism: History, Myths and Policy
- Victims and Victimology
- Animal Behaviour and Cognition
- Constructing Gender in Society
- Developmental Psychology: Contexts, Neurodiversity and Complexities
- Forensic Psychology
- Health Psychology in Practice
- Human Sexuality
- Principles of Counselling and Psychotherapy
- Psychology and Social Justice
- Psychology of Sport and Exercise
- Psychology of Work
- The Arts and Mental Health