BA (HONS) CRIMINOLOGY | The University of Law
KEY COURSE INFORMATION

Award BA (Hons) Criminology
UCAS Code M900

Locations 
Birmingham, Leeds, London Bloomsbury, Manchester or Nottingham

Duration 3 Years (full-time)/ 4 Year (with Foundation Year)

Next Start 
September 2020

Course Fees, per year 
£9,250 (UK/EU) / £13,750 (International)

THREE YEAR FULL-TIME
Designed by practising criminologists, this three year degree programme will enable you to develop an understanding of contemporary criminology concepts and theories, looking at areas such as drugs, cybercrime, migration, mass incarceration, terrorism, and trafficking. Different perspectives of criminology will be explored, including feminism, race and cultural approaches.   

Aimed at students looking to work in the criminal justice sector or associated fields, this course benefits from both a theoretical basis as well as a vocational and applied nature. This will enable you to develop a comprehensive understanding of criminology and apply this to current socio-economic policies and conditions.

You will learn through a variety of group sessions, workshops, digital media and a wide range of learning resources, completing a dissertation in your final year or a research project and research methods module. In addition to your knowledge of criminology, you will gain a wide range of analytical, research, problem-solving and communication skills, which are in high demand by employers.

As we specialise in teaching, with a focus on problem solving and weighing up arguments, you’ll develop a formidable range of essential skills that can make all the difference when starting your career. The University of Law was awarded a silver rating in the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF) in June 2019. We were found to deliver high quality teaching, learning and outcomes for our students and consistently exceed rigorous national quality requirements for UK higher education.

Ulaw has also achieved top ten placements among universities in the UK for 5 categories in the National Student Survey 2019: teaching, learning opportunities, academic support, learning resources and student voice.

WITH FOUNDATION YEAR (FOUR YEARS)
UCAS Code M910

Next start date September 2020

Locations Birmingham, Leeds, London Bloomsbury, Manchester, Nottingham


The first year is a Foundation year which students study alongside our LLB (Law) students and is taught by our law tutors. This year focuses on developing the key skills required to undertake degree level study. The subsequent three years then follow our full-time BA (Hons) Criminology degree course.

INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP SUMMER SCHOOL
Students starting their course in September 2020 will have the opportunity to attend our International Leadership Summer School in Berlin, during the second year of their degree or third year of a degree with Foundation Year.* This week will focus on developing employability skills.

COURSE CONTENT

Set Modules


Year 1
  • Foundations of Criminology
  • Society and Punishment
  • Media, Crime and Control
  • Criminal Justice in Modern Britain
  • Contemporary Criminology
  • Drugs in the Criminal Justice System

Year 2
  • Gender, Sexuality and Crime
  • Research Methods
  • Zemiology (Social Harms)
  • Cybercrime
  • The Evolution of the Prison System
  • Youth, Crime and Media

Year 3
  • Urban Criminology - The City and Globalisation
  • Migration
  • Dissertation

Optional Modules

Year 1
  • none

Year 2
  • Optional International Leadership Summer School in Berlin (5 days)

Year 3
Choose two modules from:
  • Race, Ethnicity and Religion
  • Terrorism
  • The Politics of Policing

The modules for the optional Foundation Year are: Academic and Report Writing, Numeracy, Citizenship and the Law, Introduction to Legal Personnel and Principles, Introduction to Marketing, Public/Private Law.

COURSE STRUCTURE
Each year is made up of two semesters consisting of 12 teaching weeks and one week consolidation/revision and two weeks to complete assessments. You will study a total of 18 modules over the three years of the course.
  • Year 1: 31 study weeks including a one-week induction
  • Year 2: 30 study weeks plus one week optional International Leadership Summer School in Berlin
  • Year 3: 30 study weeks

ASSESSMENT
Assessments are spread out throughout the duration of the course, rather than having lots of exams at the end of the year. This means at the end of each semester, you have a revision/consolidation week followed by two weeks for assessment in each module.

METHOD OF ASSESSMENT
A wide range of assessment methods will be used across all modules to ensure that all programme outcomes can be demonstrated by students. These include unseen essay type exams, Knowledge and Reasoning Exams, Mock Scenarios, Reflective & Critical Essays, Posters, Case Studies.

This variety of approach reflects more closely the practical focus of the programme, and the assessment instruments test more accurately and with greater realism the knowledge, skills and attributes required of students. It also helps to remove barriers to some students who might perform better in different types of assessments.  

In each module students will have the benefit of a formative assessment aligned to the methodology of the particular summative assessment. Additional formative assessment of knowledge and understanding will take place through the regular activities within workshops.

YOUR DEGREE CLASSIFICATION
You must pass each module to be awarded your degree. The pass mark for each subject is 40%.
In calculating the overall average, for purposes of deciding the degree classification, the assessments are weighted as below.

Weighted average Degree classification
70% and above 1
60-69% 2.1
50-59% 2.2
40-49% 3

COURSE FEES
UK/EU Course Fee per year
£9,250

International course fees per year
£13,750
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