Criminology and Security Studies - BA (Hons)

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Bachelor's degree

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Birmingham

  • Duration

    3 Years

In your second and third years, this wide knowledge base will be built upon as you specialise in your learning. Your knowledge of the core ideas in Criminology will be re-enforced throughout these two years, and you will learn more about topics such as the role of MI5 and MI6, extremism, terrorism and counter-terrorism, the Middle East and conflict in the modern world, and International Relations.

Together these two years will provide you with a well-rounded knowledge of the political and historical issues which are leading to continued conflict and instability in the world today. This is an exciting and dynamic course whose modules directly reflect what is happening around the world and which is at the cutting edge of current scholarship.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Birmingham (West Midlands)
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City North Campus, B42 2SU

Start date

On request

About this course

Our degree will equip you with a wide range of knowledge about both national and international politics and intelligence. It will also show how politics can impact both security and insecurity in Birmingham and the United Kingdom.

This course is suitable if you wish to embark on a criminal justice-related career, including jobs in security services, police, revenue and customs, probation, youth justice, community safety and the prison service, as well as the voluntary sector. It’s also suitable for serving police officers and civilian support staff, customs officers, prison officers, and those working in the Immigration and Nationality Service.

This course has also improved the career prospects of serving military personnel and is suitable to both currently serving and recently retired members of the armed forces.

Part-time study in Criminology is often followed by people who are already employed within the criminal justice system and who are intending to improve their career prospects.

You’ll also develop transferable skills such as analysis and decision making, commercial awareness, accessing information, problem solving, and cultural and political awareness.

These skills are appropriate to a range of careers from teaching to retail management.

BBC or 112 UCAS tariff points from a maximum of 3 subjects.

GCSE English language at grade C/4 or above

Equivalent level 2 qualifications can be accepted

Must have been achieved at the point of enrolment

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2020

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Subjects

  • Human Rights
  • Conflict
  • Criminology
  • Politics
  • International
  • Criminal Justice
  • Political context
  • Criminological Theory
  • Social Construction
  • Sociological Theorising
  • Security Studies
  • Criminological Research
  • Terrorism Theory

Course programme

Year One

In order to complete this course, you must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 120 credits).

  • On Crimes and Punishment: An Introduction to Criminological Theory
  • Doing Criminological Research
  • Crime in its Historical and Political Context
  • Security Studies: The Essentials
  • Social Construction of Crime and Deviance
  • Policing, Investigation and Society
Year Second

In order to complete this course, you must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 100 credits).
  • War and Conflict in the Modern World
  • Beyond the Statistics: Researching Criminological Experiences
  • Intelligence and Security Post-1945
  • Prisons and Punishment
  • Terrorism Theory
In order to complete this course, you must successfully complete at least 20 credits from the following indicative list of OPTIONAL modules.
  • Contemporary Issues in Policing
  • Issues in Criminal Investigation: Forensic Science
  • Working in Criminal Justice
Final year

In order to complete this course, you must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 80 credits).
  • Britain and Terrorism
  • Critical and Human Security in the Global South
  • The Live Project
In order to complete this course, you must successfully complete at least 40 credits from the following indicative list of OPTIONAL modules.
  • Homicide and Multiple Homicide
  • Policing Priorities
  • Cyber Crime

Additional information

Study mode: Full Time (3 Years), Sandwich (4 Years), Part Time (5 Years)

UCAS Code: ML94

International Students

Full Time - 3 Years
£13,200 per year

Criminology and Security Studies - BA (Hons)

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