Course Content
Year 1
Core modules
- Crime Scene and Forensic Investigation – 20 credits
- Criminal Justice – 20 credits
- Essential Skills for Criminologists – 40 credits
- Psychology for Criminologists – 20 credits
- Understanding Criminology – 20 credits
Year 2
Core modules
- Forensic Evidence from Crime Scene to Court - 40 credits
- Questioning Criminology – 20 credits
- Researching Criminology – 20 credits
Placement year (optional)
- Work Placement Year – 120 credits
Year 3
Core modules
- Dissertation/Major Project – 40 credits
- Management of Criminal Investigations – 20 credits
- The Future of Forensic Investigations – 20 credits
Optional modules
- Crime and New Technologies: Theory and Practice - 20 credits
- Dangerous Offenders and Public Protection - 20 credits
- Economic Crime and Fraud Examination - 20 credits
- Forensic Taphonomy - 20 credits
- Green Crime and Environmental Justice - 20 credits
- Introduction to Teaching - 20 credits
- Policing: Law, Policy and Practice - 20 credits
- Political Extremism - 20 credits
- Professional Development: Recruiters and Candidates - 20 credits
- Black Criminology, Race and the Criminal Justice System - 20 credits
- Contemporary Terrorism and the Global Response - 20 credits
- Forensic Linguistics: Language and the Law - 20 credits
- Forensic Psychology: Investigation - 2024 - 20 credits
- Gender and Crime - 20 credits
- Information Security Management - 20 credits
- Miscarriages of Justice - 20 credits
- Money Laundering and Compliance - 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
