Criminology with Social Psychology (including Year Abroad)

Study mode:On campus Study type:Full-time Languages: English
Local:$ 9 k / Year(s) Foreign:$ 12 k / Year(s)  
301–350 place StudyQA ranking:3235 Duration:48 months

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Description

Our BA Criminology with Social Psychology (including Year Abroad) is taught by criminologists within our Department of Sociology and social psychologists within our School of Health and Human Sciences and Department of Psychology. You spend your third year abroad. 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

Tuition fee
  • GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
  • GBP 11950 Year (International)
Start date October 2015 Duration full-time 48 months Partnership Joint Languages Take an IELTS test
  • English
Delivery mode On Campus Educational variant Full-time

Course Content

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

  • Year abroad

Year 4

  • 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

Qualifications

  • 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)
  • 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).
  • Entry requirements for students studying BTEC qualifications are dependent on units studied. Advice can be provided on an individual basis. The standard required is generally at Distinction level.

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 home and EU students your main source of funding will be government loans, as well as University bursaries and scholarships.

While international students may be eligible for some scholarships, as well as additional funding from charities and trusts, it is imperative that you do not travel to the UK or begin your studies without ensuring you have enough money to cover all fees and living expenses. It is virtually impossible to make arrangements for financial support once you have left your home country, while the immigration authorities are unlikely to allow you UK entry unless you have evidence that you can cover the costs of your study.

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