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Course modules BA Criminology


First year Researching Social Life 1 Crime, Law and Society Sociology and the Modern World


One social science option


Second year Researching Social Life 2 Sociology of Crime and Control


Punishment, Justice and Modernity


Crime, Media and Culture One sociology option


Third year


Globalisation and Crime Crime, Policy and Social Justice


Policing and Criminal Justice Project One sociology option


BA Criminology and the Media


First year Crime, Law and Society Media, Culture and Society Sociology and the Modern World


One social science or humanities option


Second year New Media and


Contemporary Cultural Change


Crime, Media and Culture Sociology of Crime and Control Researching Social Life 2 One sociology option


Third year


Globalisation and Crime Mass Media and Modern Life Project One sociology option


BA Criminology with Social Psychology


First year Crime, Law and Society Discovering Psychology Researching Social Life 1 Sociology and the Modern World


Second year Sociology of Crime and Control


Social Psychology Researching Social Life 2 Plus one sociology, health and human sciences or psychology option


Third year


Globalisation and Crime Human Communication and Interaction


Project Plus one sociology, health and human sciences or psychology option


BA Sociology and Criminology


First year


As for BA Criminology Second year


Continuity and Controversy in Sociology Researching Social Life 2 Sociology of Crime and Control


One sociology or criminology option


Third year


Globalisation and Crime Current Disputes in Sociology


Project One sociology option


This information is a guide to course content and is subject to review on an annual basis.


have over 100 undergraduates across these courses. Most of our first-year students are very new to criminology. Some will have covered criminological topics in sociology, law, psychology or history at A-level or IB-level, some not. Our first-year modules are designed to introduce all students to the subject and to explore its vital links with sociology and other disciplines.


Criminology combines very well with media and cultural studies. The mass media is, after all, a major source of public (mis)information about crime which dominates many media outputs from local newspapers and evening TV schedules to Hollywood blockbusters. The history of crime and its control plays an important part in criminological thinking. It might appear, for example, that modern societies have become more violent but a longer historical approach might rightly question this. Social psychological approaches to crime-related matters are becoming increasingly important, not least


in helping us to better understand the interpersonal dynamics in crime control organisations, as well as questions of criminal motivation.


Can I study abroad? We offer year abroad variants for all our three-year courses. These courses enable you to broaden your understanding of the subject by studying at a partner institution in the EU or in the rest of the world, as the third year of a four-year course. Apart from the year abroad, the study abroad courses are identical to the corresponding three-year course. For details, please see page 56.


If you take BA Criminology and American Studies, you can spend a year at a university in the United States, which is a great chance to gain a direct insight into the factors shaping the US criminal justice trends which are – rightly or wrongly – so very influential around the world today. If you take one of our other criminology courses, you can also spend a


term or a vacation at a European university (including many which conduct their teaching in English) via the ERASMUS programme. We offer another unique opportunity here: Maggy Lee (visiting fellow), a lecturer from Hong Kong University, co-ordinates an exchange scheme for those of our students who go on to do postgraduate criminology programmes with us. Given the global nature of crime and its control, we are very happy to encourage students to take advantage of these international links if they so choose.


How will I be taught? You will be taught through a combination of lectures, classes and workshops (see page 207). We are keen for you to develop confidence in dealing with theoretical frameworks around, for example, justice, punishment, community, culture, modernity, globalisation, inequality, ethnicity and gender. We help you to combine these theoretical insights with


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