BA (Hons) Criminology with Applied Social Sciences (Full Time)

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BA (Hons) Criminology with Applied Social Sciences (Full Time)

Southampton Solent University
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The distinctive and varied curriculum for this degree builds on the success of the Criminology programme at Southampton Solent University. It features a range of assessments focused on both academic achievement and enhancing skills for employment in a broad range of professional roles.

Key elements include:

  • Highly qualified course team with wide experience in higher education and professional practice, including criminal law, probation, policing, drugs services and government research
  • Enthusiastic, approachable and supportive tutors dedicated to your academic and professional development
  • Associate lecturers with very high-level professional experience
  • The course examines crime from an…

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The distinctive and varied curriculum for this degree builds on the success of the Criminology programme at Southampton Solent University. It features a range of assessments focused on both academic achievement and enhancing skills for employment in a broad range of professional roles.

Key elements include:

  • Highly qualified course team with wide experience in higher education and professional practice, including criminal law, probation, policing, drugs services and government research
  • Enthusiastic, approachable and supportive tutors dedicated to your academic and professional development
  • Associate lecturers with very high-level professional experience
  • The course examines crime from an interdisciplinary perspective in the applied social sciences, including elements of law, history, sociology, social policy, politics and psychology
  • Study of how crime is defined, investigated and prosecuted and how defendants and victims are processed by the criminal justice system in England and Wales, in comparative context
  • An appreciation of how criminology relates to the broader social sciences
  • Opportunities for voluntary work experience, internships and work shadowing
  • Wide variety of guest speakers able to offer up-to-date professional and academic insight
  • Active learning through seminars and formative assessments
  • A wide range of imaginative and professionally relevant assessment strategies
  • Teaching programme under continuous review, via engagement with student representatives and feedback exercises.

The Criminology team at Solent has consistently scored well in the National Student Survey. An external examiner noted that the team had generated ‘a community of scholars’.

Industrial focus

Employability is at the heart of this course. Students graduate with professional and managerial skills and knowledge used in frontline criminal justice organisations, including the police, courts, probation and victim services and prisons, in addition to their support services in the public and private sector.

Graduates from this course are attractive to a wide range of employers and are now working in all of these fields. Tutors are working to smooth the process of applying for these roles via enhanced application and employment training.

A wide range of criminal justice professionals give lectures on the practical aspects of criminal justice and potential careers in the field. There are also many opportunities to undertake voluntary work in relevant fields, and to take part in work shadowing and internships.

The course is international in orientation, drawing on comparisons in approaches and practice from a variety of jurisdictions. This emphasis is important, both academically and professionally, in the context of increasing globalisation.

Course content

Year 1

  • Society and Social Change
  • Power, Politics and Policy
  • Understanding Social Policy
  • Criminal Process and Responsibility
  • Key Perspectives in Criminology and Research Methods.

Year 2

  • Policing Politics and Social Change
  • Critical Issues and Professional Practice in Criminal Justice
  • Contemporary Debates in Crime
  • Culture and Society
  • Current Issues in Society and Social Policy
  • Contemporary Britain
  • Criminological Research Methods and Skills.

Year 3

In the final year students prepare for and complete a major dissertation, and may choose from a range of option units in the fields of criminology and the social sciences in addition to specialist units aimed at developing professionalism and preparing for employment.

Assessment

At each level of study, students are assessed on both academic skills and knowledge and on the development of competences that will be of value in pursuing public or private sector careers in the fields of criminology and criminal justice and, more broadly, in social welfare, policy and administration.

Projects/work experience

The course aims to encourage and facilitate voluntary work, work shadowing and placements and has a number of established internship arrangements in order to promote both a sophisticated understanding of scholarly debates and develop a professional orientation and employability.

Why chose Solent?

The course benefits from being delivered by an established, dedicated team with diverse academic and professional experiences and contributions from an impressive range of guest speakers dawn from relevant practitioner backgrounds.

There are opportunities for academic study visits in the UK and more recently to the USA in collaboration with academic and professional partners.

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