Course Content
Year 1
Core modules in this year include:
- Becoming a Researcher – 20 credits
- Child and Youth Development – 20 credits
- Criminal Justice – 20 credits
- Enrichment – 0 credits
- Understanding Childhoods – 40 credits
- Understanding Criminology – 20 credits
Year 2
Core modules in this year include:
- Penology and Prison – 20 credits
- Professional Practice With Children and Young People – 20 credits
- Questioning Criminology – 20 credits
- Research With Children and Young People – 20 credits
- Youth Culture – 20 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Empire and its Afterlives in Britain, Europe and Africa - 20 credits
- Global Security - 20 credits
- Intercultural Perspectives on Communication - 20 credits
- Marketing and Communication - 20 credits
- Modernity and Globalisation - 20 credits
- Nationalism and Migration: Chaos, Crisis and the Everyday - 20 credits
- News, Discourse and Media - 20 credits
- Principles of Economic Crime Investigation - 20 credits
- Puritans to Postmodernists: American Literature - 20 credits
- Transitional Justice and Human Rights - 20 credits
- Wildlife Crime: Threats and Response - 20 credits
- Children's Social Minds - 20 credits
- Development of Learning - 20 credits
- Global Childhoods - 20 credits
- Professional Experience - 20 credits
Year 3
Core modules in this year include:
- Professional Themes in Supporting Young People's Relationships and Interactions - 20 credits
- Supporting Children and Young People's Mental Health- 20 credits
Optional modules in this year include:
- Dissertation (Childhood Studies) - 40 credits
- Major Project - 40 credits
- Cyberpsychology - 20 credits
- Dangerous Offenders and Public Protection - 20 credits
- Green Crime and Environmental Justice - 20 credits
- Policing: Law, Policy and Practice - 20 credits
- Black Criminology, Race and the Criminal Justice System - 20 credits
- Forensic Linguistics: Language and the Law - 20 credits
- Gender and Crime - 20 credits
- Policing: Communities, Intelligence and Information - 20 credits
- Professional Experience - 20 credits
- Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders - 20 credits
- True Crime - The Making of a Genre - 20 credits
- Understanding and Addressing Sexual Offending - 20 credits
