Criminology with Social Psychology

Study mode:On campus Study type:Full-time Languages: English
Local:$ 9 k / Year(s) Foreign:$ 12 k / Year(s) Deadline: Jan 15, 2025
301–350 place StudyQA ranking:3591 Duration:36 months

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Description

Our BA Criminology with Social Psychology is taught by criminologists within our Department of Sociology and social psychologists within our School of Health and Human Sciences and Department of Psychology. As a first year student, you take four compulsory modules: Introduction to Crime, Law and Society, Discovering Psychology, Researching Social Life and Sociology and the Modern World. In your second and third years, you take a combination of criminology, social psychology and broad social science modules.

We teach through large-group lectures and smaller-group seminars and classes. You contribute in many ways, for example, by analysing set readings, giving presentations or completing research tasks. Some modules have their own websites where you can download powerpoints and podcasts, and contribute to online discussions. One module - Crime, Policy and Social Justice requires students to undertake consultancy-style evaluations of real-world criminal justice practice.

Criminologists study crime, criminals and criminal justice within wider social contexts. They engage with some of the most pressing issues, decisions and dilemmas facing societies today like: how should we prevent crime? How and why should we punish? How does criminal justice connect with social justice? Alongside this, social psychological approaches to crime-related matters are becoming increasingly important in helping us to better understand the interpersonal dynamics in crime control organisations as well as questions of criminal motivation. A social view of crime and control holds that these are issues best understood when considered alongside questions of power, resources, rights, (in)equality, governance and culture. This view leads us to ask, for example, why certain groups of people are more likely than others to become offenders, why certain kinds of offenders are more likely than others to be caught and punished, why crime rates change over time and why so many people are simultaneously fearful of, yet fascinated by, crime.

A criminology-linked course can lead to a career in the criminal justice system or in other areas such as project management, policy evaluation, counselling or lobbying.

Detailed Course Facts

Application deadline January 15 Tuition fee
  • GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
  • GBP 11950 Year (Non-EEA)
Start date October 2015 Duration full-time 36 months Languages Take an IELTS test
  • English
Delivery mode On Campus Educational variant Full-time

Course Content

In your first year all your modules are compulsory. For BA Criminology with Social Psychology your optional modules can be chosen from within our Department of Sociology, School of Health and Human Sciences and Department of Psychology. There is a great deal of choice for these optional modules due to the extensive range of modules offered by our departments.
With a small number of exceptions, if you successfully complete the first year of your BA, then you are qualified to enter the second year of that course and a range of other courses: for example, if you take economics, politics, philosophy and sociology, then you have a choice of at least nine possible single or joint honours courses at the end of your first year. This means you can change your course, providing you have taken the appropriate pre-requisites and places are available.
During your second and third year you will have 90 credits of compulsory modules and you will take a further 30 credits of optional modules. In your final year you will write a dissertation worth 30 credits as part of your compulsory element.
We operate a credit framework for our awards, which is based on principles widely used across the UK university sector. Each module has a credit rating attached and our standard three-year course consists of 360 credits (120 credits in your first year, and 240 credits across your second and final years).
Please note that module information on our course finder provides a guide to course content and may be subject to review on an annual basis.

Year 1

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

Year 2

Sociology of Crime and Control;
Social Psychology;
Researching Social Life 2; and
one option from either sociology, health and human sciences or psychology

Year 3

Globalisation and Crime;
Project: Sociology ; and
one option from either sociology, health and human sciences or psychology

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6

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Requirements

  • A-levels: ABB-BBB
  • GCSE English: C
  • IB: 32-30 points (we consider IB certificates at the Higher level on a case-by-case basis)
  • BTEC qualifications, in relevant disciplines, will be considered on an individual basis, depending on the units studied. The standard required is generally at Distinction level.
  • Achievement of the Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 6 level three credits at distinction and the remainder at merit (or above) or achievement of the Access to HE Diploma with a minimum of 45 level three credits at merit (or above).

English language requirements for applicants whose first language is not English: IELTS 6.0 overall with minimum 5.5 in each component (or equivalent). Different requirements apply for second year entry.

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 Essex.

Funding

For up-to-date information on funding opportunities at Essex, please visit: www.essex.ac.uk/studentfinance.

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