Sociology and Criminology BSc

Programme structure

The modules we outline here provide examples of what you can expect to learn on this degree course based on recent academic teaching. The precise modules available to you in future years may vary depending on staff availability and research interests, new topics of study, timetabling and student demand.

The BSc Sociology and Criminology degree programme is made up of compulsory (core) and optional modules, which are worth 15 or 30 credits each. Full-time undergraduate students need to complete modules worth a total of 120 credits each year.

Depending on your programme you can take up to 30 credits each year in another subject, for instance a language or business module, to develop career-related skills or just widen your intellectual horizons.

Please note that modules offered are subject to change, depending on staff availability, timetabling, and demand.

Year 1

The first year gives you a foundational knowledge of sociological and criminological theory and concepts. You will also gain important analytical techniques that will be useful across a range of subjects and research tasks.

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits SOC1037Introduction to Social Analysis: Classical Social Theory15 SOC1038Introduction to Social Analysis: Contemporary Social Theory15 SOC1039Social Issues Part 1 - Introducing Crime and Deviance 15 SOC1041Data Analysis in Social Science 15 SOC1019Contemporary Society-Themes and Perspectives15 SOC1020Contemporary Society-Fields and Case Studies15 Optional modules

You may elect to take a maximum of 15 credit options outside of Sociology, for example to develop skills attractive to employers such as language proficiency; to examine an issue you’ve covered in one of your Sociology modules from a different disciplinary perspective; or to widen your horizons and challenge yourself intellectually.

CodeModuleCredits ANT1003Imagining Social Worlds: Texts15 ANT1004Introduction to Social Anthropology-Theorising the Everyday World15 ANT1005Introduction to Social Anthropology: Exploring Cultural Diversity15 ANT1006You Are What You Eat: Food, Culture and Society15 ANT1007Media and Society15 ANT1008Imagining Social Worlds: Artefacts15 ANT1111Career Planning Workshops0 SOC1003Imagining Social Worlds: Texts15 SOC1008Imagining Social Worlds: Artefacts15 SOC1019Contemporary Society – Themes and Perspectives15 SOC1020Contemporary Society – Fields and Case Studies15 SOC1028Media and Society15 SOC1035Social Issues: Crime and Deviance30 SOC1036Foucault-Discipline and Punish15 SOC1037Introduction to Social Analysis: Classical Social Theory15 SOC1038Introduction to Social Analysis: Contemporary Social Theory15 SOC1111Career Planning Workshops0 SOC1905Employability0 Year 2

In the second year you will advance your grasp of sociological and criminological knowledge and methods through a set of compulsory modules. Optional modules enable you to develop specialist knowledge on a range of topics.

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits SOC2004Into the Field 15 SOC2050Knowing the Social: perception, memory and representation 15 SOC2005Theoretical Sociology 30 Optional modules

You will be able to choose 60 credits from a wide range of Sociology and Criminology options covering topics as diverse as counter cultures, health, media, forensic science, war crimes, ethics, addiction and human rights.  15 credits should come from level 2/3 options below and 30 credits of level 2/3 approved Criminology options:

CodeModuleCredits SOC2222Career Planning Workshops0 SOC3016Gender and Society30 SOC3028Media in Society15 SOC3029Sociology and Philosophy of Globalisation15 SOC3030Sociology of Art and Culture15 SOC3046AThe Holocaust, Genocide and Society30 SOC3074Cyborg Studies 30 SOC3084Ethnomusicology15 SOC3085Health, Illness and Bodies in Contemporary Society Part 1: Medicine and Social Control15 SOC3086Addiction 30 SOC3087Disability and Society15 SOC3088Health, Illness and Bodies in Contemporary Society: Part 2: Bodies in Society15 SOC3333Career Planning Workshops0 Year 2 and 3 Criminology optional modules CodeModuleCredits HIH2107Crime and Society in England, 1500-180030 HIH2169War and Peace: Mass Violence and its aftermath in Independent Africa30 ARA2132Islamic Law and Society15 BIO2068Forensic Science30 PSY3256Psychology and Law30 SOC3086Addiction 30 PHL3046The Holocaust and Society 15 THE2080Theology and Criminal Justice15 SOC3066Cultures of War: the Transformation of War and the Armed Forces30 POL3042Understand Democracy and Human Rights in Middle East. 30 PHL2012Social Philosophy 15 PHL3032Freedom15 PHL3048Ethics and Human Nature15 EAS3217Crime and Punishment30 Year 3

The centre-point of the final year is the dissertation. This provides you with the opportunity to explore an area of interest and to demonstrate what you have learned over the previous years of your degree. You will also take up to three other specialist modules to create a programme of work fully reflecting your interests.

Compulsory modules CodeModuleCredits SOC3040Dissertation 30 Optional modules

You can choose 90 credits from a list of modules reflecting the research expertise of academic staff. Please see the table below for examples.

CodeModuleCredits HIH2107Crime and Society in England, 1500-180030 HIH2180AWar, Revolution and Reform and the making of Modern China (Term 1)30 ARA2132Islamic Law and Society15 BIO2068Forensic Science30 SOC3033 Addiction 15 SOC2046A The Holocaust, Genocide and Society 30 THE2199 Theology and Criminal Justice15 PHL2012Social Philosophy 15 EAS3217 Crime And Punishment: Detective Fiction From The Rue Morgue To The Millenium 30 SOC2092Introduction To Terrorism Studies15 ANT2009Living Cities: Migration, Place and the Politics of Identities 15 POL3148 Human Rights and The Political 30