BSc (Hons) Criminology

This module map provides a list of the modules that make up your course.

Each module is worth a specified number of credits (typically either 15 or 30 credits for undergraduate courses). Compulsory (or ‘core’) modules cover key subject knowledge, while ‘option’ modules enable you to develop your own interests. For a full-time course you must take modules worth a total of 120 credits at each level of the course. The number of option modules you can take depends on the number of compulsory modules at each level. You can find more information about how your course is structured via the Academic Advice pages.

Our teaching is informed by research and employer requirements, and modules change periodically to reflect developments in the subject area. In addition, where we have insufficient numbers of students interested in an option module, this may not be offered. If an option module does not run, we will advise you as soon as possible and help you choose an alternative module.

The modules available on this course are as follows:

• Introduction to Criminology: The History of Punishment
• Introduction to Criminology: The Concept of Crime
• Police Crime and the Media
• Criminal Justice Process
• Making Sense of Society: The Sociological Imagination
• Making Sense of Society: Understanding the Social World
• Policy and Society
• Policy in Context

• Research Methods
• Issues in Criminology: Discrimination
• Contemporary Criminology
• Forms of Crime
• Knowledge of Policing (optional)
• Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity (optional)
• Gender and Sexuality in Society (optional)
• Race Ethnicity and Migration (optional)