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BA (Hons) Literature and Criminology

University of the Highlands & Islands, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

Most of our humanities subjects can be studied as joint honours as well as single honours. Joint honours programmes give you the opportunity to combine two subjects, which complement your interests or career goals. You will usually concentrate on both subjects equally. It can be possible to transfer between single and joint honours options, usually during your first or second year, and advice will be available from your personal academic tutor.

This joint degree covers:

  • Literature: using a wide range of authors and texts, from classic to contemporary, explores literature in a global context, looking in depth at language and literary history.

  • Criminology: the changing nature of crime and the social, political, historical and individual forces behind these changes

General Eligibility

  • 3 Scottish Highers at grade BBC or above, or

  • 2 A levels at grade BC or above

  • At least two should be from the list of relevant subjects

  • Applicants with other relevant qualifications or experience will be considered on an individual basis

  • This is a Category 2 PVG course: PVG Scheme membership is required for specific optional modules/unit(s), where there is guaranteed contact with vulnerable groups in optional module/unit(s), but an alternative pathway exists to achieve target qualification.

Part Time Work Details

20 hours work permit for international students

What You'll Study

1 Year 1 - CertHE

You will study the following core modules:

Literature

  • Theories of literature: an introduction (S1)

  • Travelers in the wilderness: literature and exile (S2)

Criminology

  • Understanding the social world (S1)

  • Introduction to criminological theory (S2)

You will choose two further option modules from a range of literature, criminology, and other humanities subjects.

2 Year 2 - DipHE

Year 2 - DipHE

Literature

You will study two modules, which may include:

  • Medieval literature: text and contexts (S1)

  • An introduction to Gaelic poetry (S1)

  • Theatrical powerplay: classical and modern tragedy (S2)

  • Heroic literature: epic from classical to contemporary (S2)

Criminology

You will also study two core modules:

  • History of crime and punishment (S1)

  • Practical research and analysis skills (S2)

You will choose two further option modules from a range of literature, criminology, and other humanities subjects.

3 Year 3 - BA

Year 3 - BA

Literature

You will choose three modules, which may include:

  • Romantic genius: Scottish and European literature 1750-1830 (S1)

  • Risk anything! The modernist short story (S1)

  • Literary borrowings: adaptations and appropriations (S1)

  • Imagining new worlds: renaissance literature and thought (S2)

  • Nature writing and ecology (S2)

Criminology

You will also choose three core modules, which may include:

  • Advanced Social Research Methods (S1)

  • Psychology of criminal justice (S1) OR Strange cases: crime literature (S1)

  • Gender, crime, and justice OR Understanding violence in sport (S2)

4 Year 4 - BA (Hons)

You will complete a dissertation in literature or criminology. You will also study one option module from your chosen dissertation subject plus three option modules from the other subject.

Literature

Modules may include:

  • Avant-garde literature (S1)

  • Apocalyptic fiction (S1)

  • Metafiction: self-referential texts (S2)

  • Satire: the art of attack (S2)

Criminology

Modules may include:

  • Globalisation of crime (S1)

  • Cultural criminology (S1)

  • Restorative justice: ideas and values (S2)

  • The darker side of the internet (S2) 

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.0
  • TOEFL80
  • PTE58
  • Duolingo00

Applicants must have an IELTS score- 6.0 or equivalent

English (PTE) Academic-58 average with 51 in each component

TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) iBT4-Min 80 or above with min 18 in each section

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