Bsc Hons Sociology And Criminology

Year 1

Core modules in this year include:

• Criminal Justice – 20 credits
• Developing Your Sociological Imagination – 40 credits
• Enrichment – 0 credits
• Research Design and Analysis – 20 credits
• Theorising Social Life – 20 credits
• Understanding Criminology – 20 credits
• There are no optional modules in this year.

 

Year 2

Core modules in this year include:

• Doing Sociological Research – 20 credits
• Enrichment – 0 credits
• Questioning Criminology – 20 credits

 

Optional modules in this year include:

• Challenging Global Inequality – 20 credits
• Community Justice – 20 credits
• Consumer Society: Critical Themes and Issues – 20 credits
• Crimes of the Powerful – 20 credits
• Cultural Criminology – 20 credits
• Emotions and Social Life – 20 credits
• Engaged Citizenship in Humanities and Social Sciences – 20 credits
• Equality or Liberation? Theorising Social Justice – 20 credits
• Family, Career and Generation – 20 credits
• Food, Culture, and Society – 20 credits
• Gang Crime – 20 credits
• Gender and Sexuality – 20 credits
• Global Environmental Justice – 20 credits
• Global, State and Corporate Security – 20 credits
• Hate Crime – 20 credits
• Health, Wellbeing, and Happiness – 20 credits
• Modern Foreign Language (Institution-wide Language Programme) – 20 credits
• Modernity and Globalisation – 20 credits
• Nationalism and Migration: Chaos, Crisis And the Everyday – 20 credits
• Penology and Prison – 20 credits
• Police, Law and Community – 20 credits
• Policing and Society – 20 credits
• Principles of Economic Crime Investigation – 20 credits
• Professional Experience – 20 credits
• Race and Racism – 20 credits
• Researching Criminology – 20 credits
• Risk and Society – 20 credits
• Social Power, Elites and Dissent – 20 credits
• Sociology of Culture: Taste, Value and Celebrity – 20 credits
• The Body: Sociological Perspectives – 20 credits
• The Sociology of Education – 20 credits
• Understanding Personal Life – 20 credits
• Victims of Crime: Key Players in Criminal Justice – 20 credits
• Wildlife Crime: Threats and Response – 20 credits
• Work, Employment and Society – 20 credits
• Youth Crime, Youth Justice – 20 credits
   

Placement year

After your second year, you can do an optional work placement year to get valuable longer-term work experience in the industry.

 

Examples of placement organisations include:

• Why Me? Restorative Justice
• SEK International School, Spain
• Aurora New Dawn – a charity giving safety, support, advocacy and empowerment to survivors of domestic abuse, sexual violence and stalking

 

We’ll help you secure a work placement that fits your aspirations. You’ll get mentoring and support throughout the year.

 

Year 3

Core modules in this year are:

• Sociology Dissertation or Major Project – 40 credits
• You'll also need to choose 2 optional sociology modules and 2 criminology modules.

 

Optional sociology modules in this year are:

• Challenging Global Inequality – 20 credits
• Consumer Society: Critical Themes and Issues – 20 credits
• Emotions and Social Life – 20 credits
• Equality or Liberation? Theorising Social Justice – 20 credits
• Family, Career and Generation – 20 credits
• Food, Culture and Society – 20 credits
• Gender and Sexuality – 20 credits
• Health, Wellbeing and Happiness – 20 credits
• Introduction to Teaching – 20 credits
• Nationalism and Migration: Chaos, Crisis and the Everyday – 20 credits
• Professional Development – 20 credits
• Professional Experience: Recruiters and Candidates – 20 credits
• Race and Racism – 20 credits
• Social Power, Elites and Dissent – 20 credits
• Sociology of Culture: Taste, Value and Celebrity – 20 credits
• Sociology of Religion – 20 credits
• The Body: Sociological Perspectives – 20 credits
• Understanding Personal Life – 20 credits

Optional criminology modules are:

• Black Criminology, Race and the Criminal Justice System – 20 credits
• Contemporary Terrorism and the Global Response – 20 credits
• Crime and New Technologies: Theory and Practice – 20 credits
• Critical Penal Studies – 20 credits
• Dangerous Offender and Public Protection – 20 credits
• Economic Crime and Fraud Examination – 20 credits
• Forensic Psychology and Mental Health – 20 credits
• Gender and Crime – 20 credits
• Green Crime and Environmental Justice – 20 credits
• Intelligence Analysis – 20 credits
• Miscarriages of Justice – 20 credits
• Money Laundering and Compliance – 20 credits
• Policing: Communities, Intelligence and Information – 20 credits
• Policing: Law, Policy and Practice – 20 credits
• Political Extremism – 20 credits
• Professional Development: Recruiters and Candidates
• Social Policy, Justice and Crime – 20 credits
• State Crime – 20 credits
• Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders – 20 credits
   

Typical offers

 

• A levels – ABB–BBC
• UCAS points – 112–128 points (calculate your UCAS points)
• T levels – Merit
• BTECs (Extended Diplomas) – DDM–DMM

 

English language requirements
English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.0 with no component score below 5.5.
 

Tuition fees (2022 start)

 

• UK/Channel Islands and Isle of Man students – £9,250 per year (may be subject to annual increase)
• EU students – £9,250 a year (including Transition Scholarship – may be subject to annual increase)
• International students – £16,200 per year (subject to annual increase)
   

Studying a combination of sociology and criminology opens up a wide range of potential careers, both in and out of the criminal justice system. Whether you’re attracted to careers that involve working closely with other people, or roles that call for rigorous and structured thinking, you’ll be well prepared.

 

This is because you’ll graduate with a set of skills that are transferable to all kinds of professions. Those skills include:

• insight into people and social dynamics
• critical thinking and analysis
• qualitative and quantitative research
• the ability to shape and communicate an argument

For proof that a wide range of employers value these skills, look at the diversity of roles our recent graduates have taken on. They include: police officer, recruitment consultant, litigation paralegal, digital forensics assistant and victim support caseworker.