Criminology and Sociology BA (Hons)

University of Sussex

Bachelor's degree

In Brighton

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Brighton

  • Duration

    3 Years

Make the most of our interdisciplinary teaching by combining Criminology and Sociology.
By sharing methods, theories and interests, you’ll diversify your understanding of crime as a social construction as well as its relationships with class, gender, race and law. In the process, you develop your own critical and creative approaches.
This course is for you if you’re committed to expanding your criminological imagination and interested in sociological perspectives.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Brighton (East Sussex)
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Sussex House, BN1 9RH

Start date

On request

About this course

With a Criminology and Sociology BA, you get the perfect training and knowledge for graduate careers in policing, welfare, social services, the prison service or youth justice.
You’ll gain skills in communication, critical thinking and data analysis. This means you can go into research and policy-related roles both in the UK and abroad.
And to help you apply for graduate schemes and jobs in the public, private and voluntary sectors, you can attend specialist career workshops and sessions at Sussex.

You should also have a broad range of GCSEs 9-4 (or A*-C), including good grades in relevant subjects.

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Subjects

  • Criminology
  • Sociology
  • Teaching
  • Criminologists
  • Criminologist
  • Criminological Classics
  • Criminal Justice
  • Lifecourse
  • Migration
  • Health

Course programme

Year 1 at sussex

Autumn teaching
  • A Sociology of 21st Century Britain
  • Critical Reading and Writing for Criminologists
  • Themes and Perspectives in Sociology I
  • Thinking Like a Criminologist
Spring teaching
  • Criminological Classics
  • Making the Familiar Strange
  • Themes and Perspectives in Sociology II
  • Understanding the Criminal Justice System
Year 2 sussex

Autumn teaching
  • Criminology in Theory and Perspective
  • Doing Social Research: working with quantitative data
Spring teaching
  • Doing Social Research: working with qualitative data
Options

Autumn teaching
  • Beyond the Vote: Citizenship and Participation in Sociology
  • Health across the Lifecourse
  • Identity, Crisis and Transgression (Aut)
  • Migration and Integration (Aut)
  • Race: Conflict and Change
  • Sociology of Everyday Life
  • Victims of Crime and Society (Aut)
Spring teaching
  • Classical Sociological Theory
  • Education and Inequality
  • Policing and Society (Spr)
  • Punishment and Penology (Spr)
  • Resistance Movements in Conflict & War
  • Restorative Justice and Desistance
  • Sociology of Childhood (Spr)
Student abroad or Placement

Study abroad (optional)

Apply to study abroad – you’ll develop an international perspective and gain an edge when it comes to your career.

Placement (optional)

A placement is a great way to network and gain practical skills. When you leave Sussex, you’ll benefit from having the experience employers are looking for.

Year 3 sussex

Options

Autumn teaching
  • Alternatives to Incarceration
  • Contemporary Social Theory (Aut)
  • Crimes against Humanity (Aut)
  • Criminology Research Proposal
  • Critical Perspectives on Terrorism
  • Death of Socialism?
  • Development, Human Rights & Security
  • Identity and Interaction
  • Postcolonial Europe?
  • Sexualities / Intersections
  • Sociology of Humans and Other Animals (Aut)
  • Sociology Research Proposal
  • Surveillance, Security and Control
  • The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment (Aut)
Spring teaching
  • Alternative Societies (Spr)
  • Alternatives to Incarceration
  • Crimes of Hate and Violence (Spr)
  • Criminology Project
  • Identity & Interaction
  • Medicine and the Body
  • Sexualities / Intersections
  • Sociology of Fun
  • Sociology Project
  • Surveillance, Security and Control
  • The Body: current controversies and debates

Additional information

International students Fee :  £16,750 per year

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Criminology and Sociology BA (Hons)

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