B.A. Criminology & Quantitative Methods [BASS]

University of Manchester

Bachelor's degree

In Manchester

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Manchester

  • Start date

    September

Criminology and Quantitative Methods is a pathway within the BA (Social Sciences) degree or BASS for short. BASS at Manchester is designed to give you maximum flexibility and choice. If you feel that you are interested in the social sciences but fancy the chance to try out a range of different topics, this could be the degree for you.

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Location

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Manchester (Greater Manchester)
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Oxford Road, M13 9PL

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Subjects

  • Criminology
  • Politics
  • Joint

Course programme

Course Content Course content for year 1
  • In your first year on the BA Social Sciences you will take 120 credits overall which include:
  • 20 credit compulsory course unit - Engaging with Social Research - just for BASS Students
  • You will then choose the remaining 100 credits from your two pathways along with another subject from another pathway:
  • Criminology - (Crime and Society, Criminal Law or Foundations of Criminal Justice)
  • Quantitative Methods - (Applied Statistics or Unequal Societies - Health, Well Being and Happiness)
  • Philosophy - (eg Critical Thinking, Discovering Reality or Mind and World )
  • Politics - (International Politics, Political Theory or Comparative Politics)
  • Social Anthropology - ( Regional Studies of Culture, Digital Film Making or Cultural Diversity in Global Perspective)
  • Sociology - (Media, Culture and Society, Sociology of Personal Life, From Modernity to Post Modernity)
Course content for year 2
  • In your Second Year you begin to study your chosen pathway in much greater depth and take 120 credits over the year.
  • Single pathway
  • If you decide to specialise in one pathway, such as Criminology, you can take a maximum of 80 credits (or two thirds of your courses) in that single pathway and the remaining 40 credits from other pathways from the BA Social Sciences
  • Joint pathway
  • If you decide to take a joint pathway such as Criminology and Quantitative Methods for instance you can again take a minimum of 40 credits (or a third of your year) in each pathway, but you have the freedom to split these between the two disciplines depending on what you'd like to study.
  • Free choice units
  • In your second year you can also take 20 credits of free choice units from across the University
  • Go beyond the boundaries of your degree with University College for Interdisciplinary Learning
  • Stand out from the crowd and give something back through the Manchester Leadership Programme - run by our Careers Service
  • Study a language and improve your career prospects
Course content for year 3
  • In your final year you would again take 120 credits of courses overall.
  • Single pathway
  • If you decide to specialise in one pathway, such as Criminology, you can take a maximum of 80 credits (or two thirds of your courses) and minimum of 60 credits in that single pathway and the remaining credits from other pathways from the BA Social Sciences.
  • Joint pathway
  • If you decide to take a joint pathway such as Criminology or Quantitative Methods, you can also take a minimum of 40 credits (or a third of your year) in each pathway, but you have the freedom to split these between the two disciplines depending on what you'd like to study or even select units from another pathway or subject.
  • In your final year you will do a compulsory dissertation. With the joint pathway, you can choose whether this is in Criminology or Quantitative Methods.
  • Facilities
  • One of the UK's largest academic libraries
  • 24/7 access to computer facilities across campus
  • A wide variety of extra-curricular facilities all in the heart of the UK's most popular student city
  • Take a 360 tour of where you will be studying

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