BSc (Hons) Police Studies with Criminal Investigation with Foundation Year

Bucks New University

Bachelor's degree

In High Wycombe

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    High wycombe

  • Duration

    4 Years

The Foundation Year will allow you to develop your academic study skills and build confidence in your abilities, identifying your own strengths and development needs for progression onto an undergraduate degree.

Are you interested in working in policing or the wider criminal justice system? If you’re good at problem solving and want to make a difference, there are lots of options open to you, both within and outside policing.

This degree allows you to study policing in depth, get tangible experience in the areas you are interested in, and see where your talents and interests lie.

Facilities

Location

Start date

High Wycombe (Buckinghamshire)
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High Wycombe Campus, Queen Alexandra Road, HP11 2JZ

Start date

On request

About this course

Throughout the course, you’ll learn about contemporary policing and criminal justice processes, with a particular focus on criminal investigation in England and Wales.

Alongside operational policing, we’ll cover a wide range of areas such as the police use of firearms, the wide demands placed upon policing, miscarriages of justice, and major crime investigations.

You’ll gain exposure to some of the real challenges facing policing today, exploring current reforms and what they mean, and looking at the importance of accountability, citizenship and ethics.

Policing is changing rapidly, and many new police officer and non-police officer opportunities are opening up, which this degree allows you to explore and prepare for.

By the end of the programme, you will be qualified to work in large number of roles in the criminal justice system. This includes roles in the police service, the prison service, the probation service, youth offending teams, drug action teams, community partnerships, the Home Office and crime analysis.

You could go on to postgraduate studies in policing, criminology, or other related subjects.

Applicants who do not meet the minimum requirements for the 3-year undergraduate programme, or those who do not feel fully prepared for a Level 4 course, will be considered for the 4-year programme including a Foundation Year.

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Subjects

  • Media
  • Policing
  • Social Science
  • Cyber Crime
  • Criminal law
  • Rural Policing
  • Human Rights
  • Community Support
  • Research methods
  • Criminal Investigation
  • Operational Policing

Course programme

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:

Foundation Year Modules
  • Ways of Learning about the Social World
  • Preparing for Success Knowledge and Creativity
  • Preparing for Success Selfdevelopment and Responsibility
  • Inquiry Based Learning
Year One Modules
  • Social Sciences & Policing Practice
  • Introduction to Policing
  • Criminal Law and Justice
  • Police Crime and the Media
  • Introduction to Cyber Crime
Year Two Modules
  • Research Methods
  • Criminal Investigation - Past to Present
  • Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity (optional)
  • Policing: Concepts, Theories and Practice (optional)
  • Crime Prevention and Reduction (optional)
  • Forms of Crime (optional)
  • Knowledge in Policing in context (optional)
  • Rural Policing (optional)
  • Police Community Support Officer (optional)
Year Three Modules
  • Operational Policing
  • Criminal Investigation Systems
  • Criminal Investigations: Scope of the State
  • Dissertation

Additional information

Full Time International, September 2019: £12,000 per year

Full Time Home and EU, February 2020: £9250 per year

Full Time International, February 2020: £12,000 per year

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BSc (Hons) Police Studies with Criminal Investigation with Foundation Year

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