Criminology and Cultural Studies

Study mode:On campus Study type:Full-time Languages: English
Local:$ 9 k / Year(s) Foreign:$ 12.5 k / Year(s) Deadline: Jan 15, 2025
StudyQA ranking:3275 Duration:36 months

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Description

Criminology at Kent examines the major political issues surrounding crime and explores the wider sociology and social policy context. Taught by staff with internationally recognised expertise in criminology and cultual studies. We work regularly with criminal justice agencies, and people from these agencies occasionally lecture on the course.

Cultural Studies at Kent is an innovative subject with distinctive perspectives on all forms of present day culture. You will explore significant connections between popular culture, the arts and everyday life by crossing traditional social sciences/humanities boundaries.

Combining these subjects gives a thorough, yet broad understanding of the surrounding issues, concepts and theories.

A term abroad

Students undertaking criminology joint degrees have the opportunity of spending the second term of their third year at San Diego State University in California as part of an international exchange programme. While at San Diego State, University of Kent criminology exchange students can select from a number of module options delivered by the well-respected School of Public Affairs, which offers courses in fields such as criminal justice and criminology, public affairs and administration, and urban and transborder studies.

Detailed Course Facts

Application deadline January 15 Tuition fee
  • GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
  • GBP 12450 Year (Non-EEA)
Start date September 2015 Credits (ECTS) 180 ECTS
Credits 360
Duration full-time 36 months Partnership Joint Languages Take an IELTS test
  • English
Delivery mode On Campus Educational variant Full-time Intensity Flexible More information Go To The Course Website

Course Content

The course structure below gives a flavour of the modules that will be available to you and provides details of the content of this programme. This listing is based on the current curriculum and may change year to year in response to new curriculum developments and innovation.

Most programmes will require you to study a combination of compulsory and optional modules, you may also have the option to take ‘wild’ modules from other programmes offered by the University in order that you may customise your programme and explore other subject areas of interest to you or that may further enhance your employability.

Stage 1

Possible modules may include:

  • SO305 - Introduction to Criminology
  • SO333 - Crime, Culture and Control
  • SO334 - Modern Culture
  • SO335 - Contemporary Culture
  • SO337 - Fundamentals of Sociology
  • SO408 - Sociological Theory: The Classics

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Stage 2

Possible modules may include:

  • SO536 - Criminal Justice in Modern Britain:Development, Issues and Politics
  • SO505 - Sociology of Crime and Deviance
  • SO506 - Popular Culture, Media and Society

Stage 3

  • Possible modules may include:
  • SO605 - Crime , Media and Culture
  • SO657 - Digital Culture
  • SO676 - Cultures of Embodiment
  • SO605 - Crime , Media and Culture
  • SO683 - Cultural Studies Research Dissertation
  • SO689 - Drugs, Culture and Control
  • SO710 - War, Atrocity and Genocide
  • SO711 - The Sociology of Imprisonment
  • SP637 - Forensic Psychology: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives
  • TH570 - I:Religion and Film
  • TH574 - H:Religion and Film
  • SO533 - Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice
  • SO534 - Violence and Society
  • SO535 - Youth and Crime
  • SO594 - Terrorism and Modern Society
  • CP518 - The Book and the Film: Adaptation and Interpretation
  • CP527 - Medieval Literature and Culture
  • CP530 - Marriage, Adultery and Divorce in 19th Century Fiction
  • CP531 - The Renaissance
  • CP609 - Modernism and the European Avant-Garde
  • CP611 - Postmodernism
  • CP624 - The Shoah in Literature, Film and Culture
  • CP627 - Science Fiction: History and Innovation
  • CP629 - Second Thoughts: Women Novelists from Bronte to Jelinek
  • CP632 - Reason and Passion in 18th Century European Fiction
  • CP636 - European Realism
  • CP642 - The Epic: From Homer to Walcott
  • CP644 - Creatures of the Night: Vampires in Literature and Film
  • CP646 - Prize Winners
  • CP647 - Prize Winners
  • CP650 - Decadence in Fin-de-Siecle Europe
  • CP652 - Postcolonial Images of Africa and South Asia
  • CP653 - Comparative Literature and English & Linguistics in the Classroom
  • CP656 - Shakespeare's Afterlives
  • FR593 - Paris: Myth and Reality in the 19th century
  • FR594 - Paris: Myth and Reality in the 20th century
  • HA504 - Classicism and Baroque
  • HA504 - Classicism and Baroque
  • HA554 - Contemporary Art:From Warhol to Whiteread: Postmodernity & Visual Art Pr
  • HA556 - Art and Film
  • HA595 - Visual Arts Writing
  • HA648 - Drawing on History
  • HA650 - Russian Painting from the Academy to the Avant-Garde
  • HA655 - Photography and Surrealism
  • HA661 - Art & Film
  • HA666 - Drawing on History
  • HA669 - Study of a Single Artist
  • HA670 - Study of a Single Artist
  • LW542 - Policing
  • LW544 - Punishment and the Penal System
  • PL526 - Aesthetics
  • SA519 - The Social Politics of Food

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6.5

To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you to

take an IELTS test.

Requirements

The University will consider applications from students offering a wide range of qualifications, typical requirements are listed below, students offering alternative qualifications should contact the Admissions Office for further advice. It is not possible to offer places to all students who meet this typical offer/minimum requirement.

Qualification /Typical offer/minimum requirement

  • A level

ABB including B in either Film, English Literature, Politics, Media, Geography or Philosophy (where taken)

  • Access to HE Diploma

The University of Kent will not necessarily make conditional offers to all access candidates but will continue to assess them on an individual basis. If an offer is made candidates will be required to obtain/pass the overall Access to Higher Education Diploma and may also be required to obtain a proportion of the total level 3 credits and/or credits in particular subjects at merit grade or above.

  • BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma (formerly BTEC National Diploma)

The university will consider applicants holding BTEC National Diploma and Extended National Diploma Qualifications (QCF; NQF;OCR) on a case by case basis please contact us via the enquiries tab for further advice on your individual circumstances.

  • International Baccalaureate

34 points overall or 16 at HL

International students

The University receives applications from over 140 different nationalities and consequently will consider applications from prospective students offering a wide range of international qualifications. Our International Development Office will be happy to advise prospective students on entry requirements

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

  • Academic Excellence Scholarship

    "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

  • Access Bursary

    Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

  • Alumni Bursary

    Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than University of Kent.

Funding

Kent offers generous financial support schemes to support eligible undergraduate students during their studies. Our 2013 financial support package includes a fee waiver and cash bursary, as well as additional funds on your Kent account to help with accommodation, food, books and other living costs. Find out more on our fees and funding page.

General scholarships

Scholarships are available for excellence in academic performance, sport and music and are awarded on merit. For further information on the range of awards available and to make an application see our scholarships website.

The Kent Scholarship for Academic Excellence

At Kent we recognise, encourage and reward excellence. We have created a new scholarship, The Kent Scholarship for Academic Excellence, which will be awarded to any applicant who achieves a minimum of AAA over three A levels, or the equivalent qualifications as specified on our funding pages.

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