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BA(Hons) Criminology and Sociology

Keele University, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

Many students who study this combination find their degree useful for careers in probation, social work, socio-legal work, the voluntary sector, and policing. Alternatively, you might seek to develop a career in the creative industries, social care, the health sector, advertising and marketing, the charity sector, youth services, and local government. Some of our graduates choose to pursue further academic study.

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

  • Social inequalities in the contemporary world

  • Classical Sociology

OPTIONAL MODULES

  • Murder

  • Psychology and Crime

  • Thinking Criminologically

  • Investigating Crime: Criminological Perspectives

  • Punishment: Beyond the popular imagination

  • Investigating Social Issues

  • Social and Political Theory

  • Audiences: From Moral Panics to Digital Cultures

  • The Anthropological Imagination

2 Year 2

COMPULSORY MODULES

  • Crime and Justice in a Global Context

  • Research Methods in Criminology

  • Contemporary Social Theory

  • Research Methods

OPTIONAL MODULES

  • Policing and the Police

  • Mental Health and Offending

  • Working for Justice

  • Probation, Resettlement, Rehabilitation and Desistance

  • Globalisation and its Discontents

  • Work, Identities and Skills

  • Families and Households: Diversity and Change

  • Producing Sociological Knowledge

  • The Magic of Modernity

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

  • Sociology of Parenting and Early Childhood

  • Celebrity

  • Moving People: Migration, emotion, identity

  • Dissertation - ISP

  • Race, Politics and Education

  • Visual Pleasures: From Carnival to Disney

  • Home: belonging, locality and material culture

  • Consuming Nature

  • Gender, Power and Representation

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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