UDCRIMGY - BSc Criminology

The course is delivered through a range of pedagogic methods including formal lectures, seminars, workshops, project-based research activity and individual tutorials held in staff office hours. There is an emphasis upon the link between teaching and research so that staff research provides the basis for teaching on a range of modules.

The course integrates face-to-face with online learning. All modules use Weblearn/Blackboard facilities making key information available and also providing a convenient place for handbook information, calendars and class announcements. Some modules, for example Researching Crime and Deviance, focus specifically on the development of CIT skills. The course will also progressively examine ways of further developing the link between face-to-face and online learning as ideas and technology develop, and as resources permit. The course encourages contact between students and tutors and, in the course of this, encourages active learning. CIT and other media are used to encourage collaboration among students.

The course aims to:

1. offer a course relevant to a range of careers in the area of criminal justice and related fields
2. develop the intellectual skills necessary for the understanding, critical evaluation and application of a range of theoretical approaches to the study of crime, deviance, policing and conceptions of rights and justice
3. develop students’ competence in qualitative and quantitative research methodologies
4. develop students’ grasp of the institutional apparatus which regulates and seeks to control socially defined deviant populations
5. develop students’ awareness of the global as well as the local dimensions of crime

offerthe opportunity to develop the above in relation to specialist areas of interest culminating in the production of an in-depth piece of independent research at honours level.

On successful completion of this course students will be able to:

1. deploy accurately established techniques of analysis and enquiry within Criminology
2. devise and sustain arguments, and/or solve problems, using ideas and techniques, some of which are at the forefront of Criminology
3. describe and comment upon particular aspects of current research, or equivalent advanced scholarship, in Criminology, recognising the uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge
4. manage their own learning, and make use of scholarly reviews and primary sources (for example, refereed research articles and/or original materials appropriate to Criminology
5. apply the methods and techniques they have learned to review, consolidate, extend and apply their knowledge and understanding, and to initiate and carry out projects
6. critically evaluate arguments, assumptions, abstract concepts and data (that may be incomplete), make judgments, and frame appropriate questions to achieve a solution, or identify a range of solutions, to a problem
7. communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences
8. exercise initiative and personal responsibility, including decision-making in complex and unpredictable contexts
9. undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature.

- Deploy accurately established techniques of manalysis and enquiry within Criminology:

SC4000 Introduction to Criminological Theory
(I)
SC4003 Researching Crime and Deviance (I)
SC5001 Measuring and Interpreting Crime (P)
SC5000 Crime in Context (P)
SC6000 Crime Control and Penology (A)
SC6001 Justice, Punishment and Social
Control (A)
SC6P00 Criminology Project (A)

- Devise and sustain arguments, and/or solve problems, using ideas and techniques, some of which are at the forefront of Criminology:

SC4000 Introduction to Criminological Theory
(I)
SC4001 Introduction to the Criminal Justice
System (I)
SC4002 Introduction to Policing (I)
SC5001 Measuring and Interpreting Crime (P)
SC5002 Perspectives on Policing (P)
SC5050 Crime, Media and Technology (P)
SC6000 Crime Control and Penology (A)
SC6P00 Criminology Project (A)

- Describe and comment upon particular aspects of current research, or equivalent advanced scholarship, in Criminology, recognising the uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge:

SC4003 Researching Crime and Deviance (I)
SC4001 Introduction to the Criminal Justice
System (I)
SC5001 Measuring and Interpreting Crime (P)
SC5000 Crime in Context (P)
SC5051 Youth, Crime and Violence (P)
SC6051 Serious and Serial Offenders (P)
SC6000 Crime Control and Penology (A)
SC6052 Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism (A)
SC6P00 Criminology Project (A)

- Manage their own learning, and make use of scholarly reviews and primary sources (for example, refereed research articles and/or original materials appropriate to Criminology:

SC4003 Researching Crime and Deviance (I)
SC4001 Introduction to the Criminal Justice
System (I)
SC5001 Measuring and Interpreting Crime (P)
SC5000 Crime in Context (P)
SC6051 Serious and Serial Offenders (A)
SC6000 Crime Control and Penology (A)
SC6P00 Criminology Project (A)

- Apply the methods and techniques they have learned to review, consolidate, extend and apply their knowledge and understanding, and to initiate and carry out projects:

SC4003 Researching Crime and Deviance (I)
SC4001 Introduction to the Criminal Justice
System (I)
SC5001 Measuring and Interpreting Crime (P)
SC5051 Youth, Crime and Violence (P)
SC5050 Crime, Media and Technology (P)
SC6P00 Criminology Project (A)
SC6W50 Criminology Work Placement (A)

- Critically evaluate arguments, assumptions, abstract concepts and data (that may be
incomplete), make judgments, and frame appropriate questions to achieve a solution, or
identify a range of solutions, to a problem:

SC4000 Introduction to Criminological Theory
(I) SC4002 Introduction to Policing (I)
SC5001 Measuring and Interpreting Crime (P)
SC5000 Crime in Context (P)
SC5002 Perspectives on Policing (P)
SC6001 Justice, Punishment and Social
Control (A)
SC6050 The Criminology of Pleasure (A)
SC6P00 Criminology Project (A)

- Communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences:

SC4003 Researching Crime and Deviance (I)
SC4001 Introduction to the Criminal Justice
System (I)
SC5001 Measuring and Interpreting Crime (P)
SC6P00 Criminology Project (A)

- Exercise initiative and personal responsibility, including decision-making in complex and unpredictable contexts:

SC4003 Researching Crime and Deviance (I)
SC4001 Introduction to the Criminal Justice
System (I)
SC5001 Measuring and Interpreting Crime (P)
SC6P00 Criminology Project (A)
SC6W50 Criminology Work Placement (A)

- Undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature:

SC4003 Researching Crime and Deviance (I)
SC4001 Introduction to the Criminal Justice
System (I)
SC4002 Introduction to Policing (I)
SC5002 Perspectives on Policing (P)
SC5001 Measuring and Interpreting Crime (P)
SC6000 Crime Control and Penology (A)
SC6P00 Criminology Project (A)
SC6W50 Criminology Work Placement (A)

Criminology (http://www.qaa.ac.uk/AssuringStandardsAndQuality/subject-guidance/Pages/Honours-degree-benchmark-statements.aspx)

Students are assessed through a combination of essays, module-specific research projects, seen and unseen examinations and an individual largely self-directed project which includes an assessed oral presentation.At level 4 assessments seek to encourage students to specify and describe theories and institutions. At level 5 assessments require students to extend and critically to evaluate the knowledge they have encountered. Students at this level are also required to produce research reports including data analysis and interpretation. At level 6 assessments test students’ critical knowledge of applied areas of Criminology and their ability to think and research independently.

Students may undertake an optional work placement at level 6.

There will be opportunities for students to study for part of their degree in another European country. ERASMUS is part of the European Union SOCRATES programme for cooperation in the field of education. Under ERASMUS the university has student exchange agreements with 16 different European countries.

Students must take at level 4:

SC4000 Introduction to Criminological Theory

SC4001 Introduction to the Criminal Justice System

SC4002 Introduction to Policing

SC4003 Researching Crime and Deviance

Students must take at level 5:

SC5000 Crime in Context

SC5001 Measuring and Interpreting Crime

SC5002 Perspectives on Policing

Students must take at level 6:

SC6000 Crime Control and Penology

SC6001 Justice, Punishment and Social Control

SC6P00 Criminology Project

Successful completion of this degree offers improved career opportunities within the Criminal Justice System, in particular, the police service, probation service and areas of victim support. Our graduates have become police officers, criminal lawyers and teachers.

The programme is also excellent preparation for further research or study.

In addition to the University's standard entry requirements, you should have:

• GCSE English at grade C or above, or Higher Diploma (or equivalent)
• at least 280 UCAS points

If you don’t have traditional qualifications or can’t meet the entry requirements for this undergraduate degree, you may still be able to gain entry by completing the Criminology and Policing Extended Degree BSc (Hons).

All applicants must be able to demonstrate proficiency in the English language. Applicants who require a Tier 4 student visa may need to provide a Secure English Language Test (SELT) such as Academic IELTS. For more information about English qualifications please see our English language requirements.