BA (Hons) SOCIOLOGY WITH CRIMINOLOGY

University of East London

Bachelor's degree

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    3 Years

Do you want to make sense of the rapidly changing society in which we live and the freedom with which information, money, goods and services now move across national boundaries? Would you like to understand the effects of this globalisation on modern Britain?

Are you interested in how deviance in social circumstances can lead to crime? Are you fascinated by social justice, human rights and the workings of the criminal justice system?

On this course, you’ll study these issues in the vibrant, multicultural setting of east London. You’ll graduate with a degree that has vocational relevance, while putting no limit on your career options.

If you want to be a probation officer, for example, you need to know about criminology. This course is an exciting way of preparing for a career while studying the wider questions that sociology addresses and the impact it has on our daily lives.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Docklands Campus, University Way, E16 2RD

Start date

On request

About this course

This three-year (full-time) or four-year (part-time) degree course will connect you to the real-world issues that exist in our community.

Sociology is about the world we live in, how we interact and relate to each other. Developing your understanding of people will help your understanding of criminality.

The course combines social theory and the appliance of that theory to the real world beyond the classroom or the lecture hall with an unusual combination of criminology modules.

You can choose to study youth crime and sub-culture, football hooliganism and global illicit drug trafficking. Or perhaps you will be drawn to the appeal of terrorism studies and surveillance, technology and society.

You’ll learn about the different types of crimes that exist and explore various theories about why people commit certain crimes.

As well as providing you with a strong theoretical grounding through a variety of criminology options, we’ll also give you a comprehensive knowledge of criminal law.

A sociology degree from UEL will prepare you for a wide range of jobs such as teaching, journalism and social work. Add criminology to your qualification and you’ll be able equipped with the knowledge to join the police force, the probation service, pressure groups, the central and local government.

UEL has strong links with criminal justice organisations who work with us both in and out of the classroom. You’ll benefit from these links as they can help you choose your career after you graduate.

You may wish to become a prison officer, a community development worker, a probation officer or a youth worker.

This degree will also give you the skills to move into a career as an adult guidance worker, a housing management officer or manager or a social researcher, or it could set you on the road to becoming a solicitor.

Alternatively, you may decide you want to continue your fascinating discovery of the social issues that affect us all by staying on at UEL and helping to shape the local community on one of our postgraduate courses.

Must include passes at A2 in at least two subjects.
Extended Diploma or Diploma
Diploma with 25 points including a minimum of 15 points at Higher Level.

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  • Criminology

Course programme

YEAR 1
  • Knowledge, skills, practice and the self (Mental Wealth) (Core)
  • Introduction to Crime and Punishment (Core)
  • Social Theory 1: Sociological arguments (Core)
  • The Mess We Are In (And how we got here) (Core)
  • Digital Sociology and the 4th Industrial Revolution (Core)
  • Issues in Contemporary Society (Core)
YEAR 2
  • Research Methods for Social Sciences (Core)
  • Space, Power,Bbodies (Core)
  • Social Theory 2 (Core)
  • New Social Entrepreneurship (Core)
  • Theoretical Criminology (Mental Wealth) or Crime and Social History (Mental Wealth) - Option 1
  • Intersectionality and Digital Cultures or Generations, Age and Meaning or Policing and Society - Option 2
OPTIONAL PLACEMENT

This course offers the opportunity of year-long placement between years two and three. If you choose to take this option, you’ll spend your third year on a placement with a relevant company or organisation, adding valuable practical experience to your growing academic knowledge.
The extra placement year means it will take four years to complete your studies, instead of three.

YEAR 3
  • Applied Project (Core)
  • Placement Reflections (Mental Wealth) (Core)
  • Psychological Criminology (Optional)
  • Youth Crime (Optional)
  • Life Histories (Optional)
  • Gender Studies (Optional)
  • Constructions of Race in Culture and Politics (Optional)
  • Surveillance, Technology and Society (Optional)
  • Culture, Media and Politics (Optional)
  • Bordering and Governance (Optional)

Additional information

UCAS CODE - M9L3

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