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Criminology BSc (Hons) – 3 years

Bachelor's degree

In Bath ()

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Duration

    3 Years

Explore issues facing us in the 21st century relating to crime and criminal justice. Develop research and data handling skills relevant to a range of careers.

Criminology gives you a deep insight into the theories of crime, justice and punishment, by drawing on multiple perspectives and disciplines.

With a strong global focus, you’ll explore crime and related topics from around the world, looking at everything from human rights and terrorism, to social justice, contemporary social problems, and the globalisation of crime.

About this course

You’ll gain knowledge of how criminal justice agencies work and interact, how criminal justice policy is created, and how policing, courts and prisons present new and pressing challenges for today’s world.

As well as a strong theoretical grounding, the course equips you with solid practical skills in critical enquiry, research and data generation. Studying at Bath means you’ll get to work with a leading team of criminal justice researchers and criminologists, with significant global expertise. There’s also the chance to hone your skills further by doing a placement year in a relevant setting.

This course will particularly appeal if you’re strong on critical thinking. The skills and broad-based understanding you go away with will set you up well for diverse careers, whether you decide to go into the criminal justice sector, a third sector organisation or another field.

Those who study our social sciences degrees have excellent career options. Our graduates have worked as social and policy researchers, civil servants, international consultants, journalists, accountants and in a variety of government, charity sector and business-related roles.

Our recent graduates have gone on to work for:

Amazon
Guide Dogs
Parliamentary Research Service
Goldman Sachs
BBC Worldwide

We prefer applicants with at least one humanities or social science subject as part of their entry qualifications. This subject might be:

Geography
History
Philosophy
Politics
Psychology
Religious Studies
Sociology
GCSE Mathematics grade C or 4 plus GCSE English grade C or 4 (or equivalent from English language category B).

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2021

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Subjects

  • Criminology
  • Global
  • Crime and Justice
  • Social Justice
  • Criminal justice policy
  • Psychological
  • Sociological
  • Sociological Theory
  • Classical sociological theory
  • Justice and punishment

Course programme

Year 1
  • Understanding crime and justice
  • Social justice and criminal justice policy: from redistribution to recognition
  • Critical readings in criminology
  • Understanding society: Britain in global context
  • Academic and research skills 1: introduction to qualitative methods
  • Deviance: psychological and sociological perspectives
  • Academic and research skills 2: introduction to quantitative methods
  • Classical sociological theory
Year 2
  • Theorising crime, justice and punishment
  • Analysing data: quantitative and qualitative data analysis
  • Crimes of the powerful in a global context
  • Sociology of criminal justice policy
  • Plus optional units
Year 3
  • Criminology dissertation
  • Crime and the media
  • Ideas about ‘terrorism’
  • Plus optional units
Optional course units

Here are some examples of the units available to our current students.

  • Sexual violence
  • Social concepts of humans, monsters, and machines
  • Understanding migrations
Learning and assessment

Learning
  • Laboratory sessions
  • Lectures
  • Online resources
  • Practical sessions
  • Seminars
  • Tutorials
  • Workshops
Assessment
  • Coursework
  • Dissertation
  • Essay
  • Oral assessment
  • Practical work
  • Written examination
  • Other

Additional information

Overseas students - 

The tuition fee for the academic year 2020/21 - £18,000

UK/EU application deadline - 15 January 2020

Overseas deadline - 15 January 2020

Criminology BSc (Hons) – 3 years

£ 9,250 VAT inc.