BSc (Hons) Sociology with Criminology

After your second year, you can do an optional work placement year to get valuable longer-term work experience in the industry.

Examples of placement organisations include:

• Why Me? Restorative Justice

• SEK International School, Spain

• Aurora New Dawn – a charity giving safety, support, advocacy and empowerment to survivors of domestic abuse, sexual violence and stalking

We’ll help you secure a work placement that fits your aspirations. You’ll get mentoring and support throughout the year.

Core modules in this year include:

• Criminal Justice

• Developing Your Sociological Imagination

• Research Design and Analysis s

• Theorising Social Life

• Understanding Criminology

Core modules in this year include:

• Doing Sociological Research

• Questioning Criminology

Optional modules in this year include:

• Challenging Global Inequality

• Consumer Society: Critical Themes and Issues

• Crimes of the Powerful

• Digital Cultures: Exploring the Digital in the Humanities and Social Sciences

• Emotions and Social Life

• Empire and its Afterlives in Britain, Europe and Africa

• Engaged Citizenship in Humanities and Social Sciences

• Equality or Liberation? Theorising Social Justice

• Family, Career and Generation

• Food, Culture, and Society

• Gang Crime

• Gender and Sexuality

• Global Environmental Justice

• Global Security

• Global, State and Corporate Security

• Hate Crime

• Health, Wellbeing, and Happiness

• Intercultural Perspectives on Communication

• Marketing and Communication

• Modern Foreign Language (Institution-wide Language Programme)

• Modernity and Globalisation

• Nationalism and Migration: Chaos, Crisis And the Everyday

• News, Discourse and Media

• Penology and Prison

• Police, Law and Community

• Policing and Society

• Principles of Economic Crime Investigation

• Professional Experience

• Race and Racism

• Researching Criminology

• Risk and Society

• Social Power, Elites and Dissent

• Sociology of Culture: Taste, Value and Celebrity

• Space, Place and Being

• The Sociology of Education

• Transitional Justice and Human Rights

• Understanding Personal Life

• Victims of Crime: Key Players in Criminal Justice

• Wildlife Crime: Threats and Response

• Work, Employment and Society

• Youth Crime, Youth Justice

Core modules in this year are:

• Sociology Dissertation or Major Project

You'll also need to choose 2 optional sociology modules and 2 criminology modules.

Optional sociology modules (20 credits each):

• Challenging Global Inequality

• Consumer Society: Critical Themes and Issues

• Emotions and Social Life

• Equality or Liberation? Theorising Social Justice

• Family, Career and Generation

• Food, Culture and Society

• Gender and Sexuality

• Health, Wellbeing and Happiness

• Introduction to Teaching

• Nationalism and Migration: Chaos, Crisis and the Everyday

• Professional Development

• Professional Experience: Recruiters and Candidates

• Race and Racism

• Social Power, Elites and Dissent

• Sociology of Culture: Taste, Value and Celebrity

• Understanding Personal Life

Optional criminology modules:

• Black Criminology, Race and the Criminal Justice System

• Contemporary Terrorism and the Global Response

• Crime and New Technologies: Theory and Practice

• Dangerous Offenders and Public Protection

• Economic Crime and Fraud Examination

• Gender and Crime

• Green Crime and Environmental Justice

• Intelligence Analysis

• Miscarriages of Justice

• Money Laundering and Compliance

• Policing: Communities, Intelligence and Information

• Policing: Law, Policy and Practice

• Political Extremism

• Professional Development: Recruiters and Candidates

• Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders

• True Crime - The Making of a Genre