Course Content
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
Year 2
Core modules in this year include:
- Doing Sociological Research – 20 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 (optional)
- work placement year between your 2nd and 3rd years
Year 3
Optional modules in this year are:
- Dissertation (Sociology) - 40 credits
- Major Project - 40 credits
- Consumer Society: Critical Themes and Issues - 20 credits
- Crime and New Technologies: Theory and Practice - 20 credits
- Dangerous Offenders and Public Protection - 20 credits
- Economic Crime and Fraud Examination - 20 credits
- Gender and Sexuality - 20 credits
- Green Crime and Environmental Justice - 20 credits
- Health, Wellbeing and Happiness - 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
- Race and Racism - 20 credits
- Sociology of Culture: Taste, Value and Celebrity - 20 credits
- Black Criminology, Race and the Criminal Justice System - 20 credits
- Contemporary Terrorism and the Global Response - 20 credits
- Emotions and Social Life - 20 credits
- Equality or Liberation? Theorising Social Justice - 20 credits
- Family, Career and Generation - 20 credits
- Gender and Crime - 20 credits
- Miscarriages of Justice - 20 credits
- Money Laundering and Compliance - 20 credits
- Nationalism and Migration: Chaos, Crisis and the Everyday - 20 credits
- Policing: Communities, Intelligence and Information - 20 credits
- Professional Experience - 20 credits
- Social Power, Elites and Dissent - 20 credits
- The Sociology of Education - 20 credits
- Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders - 20 credits
- True Crime - The Making of a Genre - 20 credits
- Understanding Personal Life - 20 credits
