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BA(Hons) Criminology and History

Keele University, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

Studying Criminology and History at Keele will provide you with important skills to carry through the rest of your life. Youll develop the sort of enquiring, open-minded and creative attitude which employers are looking for. You could go on to work in the fields of crime reduction, offender rehabilitation, or community safety, or as a teacher, librarian, archivist, museum conservator, heritage manager, barrister, solicitor, civil service administrator, journalist, or a politicians assistant or researcher. You can also aspire to work in areas such as victim support, penal reform, and advocacy, the courts, or in local or central government.

General Eligibility

A LEVEL REQUIREMENTS

  • A Level requirement BBC

GCSE REQUIREMENTS

  • English at C (or 4)

BTEC

  • BTEC requirements DMM

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

COMPULSORY MODULES

  • Understanding Crime

  • Criminal Justice: Process, Policy, Practice

  • Defining Moments in World History, c.1000-2000

OPTIONAL MODULES

  • Murder

  • Psychology and Crime

  • Thinking Criminologically

  • Investigating Crime: Criminological Perspectives

  • Punishment: Beyond the popular imagination

  • Transatlantic Gothic: Studies in Nineteenth-Century English and American Literature

  • Childhood, Policy and Education

  • Understanding Learning

  • Back to the Future: issues in the history of schooling

  • Reading Literature

  • History, Media, Memory: The Presentation of the Past in Contemporary Culture

  • Medieval Europe and Its World

  • The American Past: Explorations in U.S. History

  • Why Politics Matters

  • Education in Britain:past, present, future

  • Playing Parts: Studying Drama and Poetry

  • Literature as History: Writing the Americas

  • Global Warming or a New Ice Age?

  • Modern History

  • The Early Modern World, 1490-1700

  • Debates in American Politics

  • Introduction to International Relations

  • Modern Democracies

2 Year 2

COMPULSORY MODULES

  • Crime and Justice in a Global Context

  • Research Methods in Criminology

  • Sources and Debates in History

OPTIONAL MODULES

  • Policing and the Police

  • Mental Health and Offending

  • Working for Justice

  • Probation, Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Desistance

  • Saints and Society in Medieval Europe

  • Natural Cultures: Humans and their Environments since 1700

  • Creating Britain, 1536-1707

  • A Very Short History of Socialism

  • Rebels and Revolutionaries in Colonial American History (1607-1776)

  • Work Placement for Humanities Students

  • Castle and Cloister in Medieval Europe, c. 900-1250

  • Company and Crown in India 1818-1928: the cultural history of the Raj

  • The History of the Camp: From the GULAG to The Jungle

  • 'Shining City on a Hill'? The United States in the Twentieth Century

3 Year 3

OPTIONAL MODULES

  • State crimes and crimes against humanity

  • Popular Culture and Crime

  • Youth Justice and Crime

  • Dissertation for Criminology - ISP

  • Prisons and Imprisonment

  • Living with 'Aliens': Immigration, Crime and Social Control

  • Understanding Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism

  • Policing International Order

  • Britain and war since 1945: War, Cold War and society

  • The English Civil War, c.1640-46

  • Gender and Sexuality in Georgian Britain

  • Crisis, Rupture, and Opportunity: German 'Modernity', 1900-1933 I

  • The contested city: a spatial history of Rome, 1870-1978

  • The Making of Contemporary Africa since c.1945

  • 'Eyes on the Prize': The Struggle for Civil Rights in America

  • Violence and Power in Antebellum America

  • Work Placement for Humanities Final-Year Students

  • Dissertation for History - ISP

  • From Sawbones to Social Hero? Doctors and medicine 1808-1886

  • The Art of Dying: Death and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

  • Sites of Sexual Conflict in South Asia I

  • The Making of Middle Britain: The Mercian Moment

  • Extinction: Existential Panic since 1945

  • 'Eyes on the Prize': The Struggle for Civil Rights in America (Part II)

Language Requirement

  • IELTS5.5
  • TOEFL59
  • PTE50
  • Duolingo69

IELTS 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each individual component or equivalent.

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