Name: MSc Criminology
Brand: University of Southampton

Description

Type

Postgraduate
Location

Southampton

Start date

September

Introducing your course
Crime, deviance and criminal justice are endlessly fascinating. By studying Criminology at the University of Southampton, you will be engaging in a discipline that is one of the oldest in the Social Sciences, and with the topic of crime, a central feature of human behaviour. This fascinating course will help you establish a successful academic or professional career with the police, the prison service, the NHS or security companies.
MSc Criminology is one of the most exciting postgraduate masters courses available. It will expose you to important international criminological research findings and help you develop the skills to analyse the complex social issues confronting a globalised world.

Facilities

Southampton (Hampshire)

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University Road, SO17 1BJ

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Subjects

Criminology
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Course programme

Year 1

The programme is studied over one year full-time, or 27 months part-time. The taught course component consists of 30 study weeks divided into two semesters during which time students study six modules (or to a minimum of 60 ECTS (120 CATS) points). Students who successfully complete the taught course component undertake a three month period of supervised research for a Master’s dissertation (six-month for part-time). The dissertation module, CRIM6006, is core.

The programme compromises six modules and a dissertation. There are two core substantive modules:

Criminal behaviour - Applied Perspectives will provide the conceptual and theoretical underpinnings that will provide students with a systematic understanding of critical, analytical, reflective and comparative criminological study.

Criminal Justice - Policy and Practice will explore contemporary policy debates and perspectives in criminal justice and crime control. Students will study criminal justice policy within the context of broader social changes and political and ideological processes, and consider the ways in which policy debates inform, and are informed by, broader perspectives on criminal justice and the politics of crime control and what that means for the design and delivery of public policy.

In addition to the compulsory modules, students must also take 40 credits of optional modules; a range of which are listed below. Please be aware that specific options may vary from year to year.

Core [?]

A core module is a module which must be taken and passed.

CRIM6003Credit[?]