Arts and Human Sciences (AHS) Undergraduate Prospectus
BSc (Hons)
Location Location
Southwark Southwark
BA (Hons)
Criminology
Duration Duration
European Policy Studies
3 years (full-time) 3 years (full-time)
5 years (part-time) 6 years maximum (part-time)
Start date Start date
September September
Number of places How to apply
50 Via UCAS
Arts and Human Sciences Arts and Human Sciences
Course description Career opportunities Course description Career opportunities
This degree provides a rigorous, The employment record of graduates
How to apply UCAS code
The development of contemporary The skills and knowledge that you will
Full-time: via UCAS L421
stimulating and critical understanding is excellent, with participants entering
Part-time: direct to LSBU
Europe touches upon a whole range gain studying for a degree in European
of the changing character of crime, fields such as probation, policing and
Course contacts
of issues and policies including the Policy Studies are widely valued by
criminology and criminal justice policy. the prison service. Students have also
UCAS code Dr Richard Rooke
single European market, media, policing employers. This is reflected in the broad
Full-time: M930
rookera@lsbu.ac.uk –020 7815 5817
(AHS)
Our approach is multidisciplinary in gone on to work for non-governmental and immigration, defence and business range of careers that our previous
(AHS)
character, drawing from across the organisations, local authorities and
LSBU code Catriona Beaumont
strategies. Business and accounting graduates have entered. This includes
social sciences and humanities and youth offending teams.
Part-time: 2462 Admissions Tutor
options for some students with the teaching, the media, public and private
Full-time: 1358
beaumoca@lsbu.ac.uk
delivered by our highly experienced
020 7815 5766
relevant background are also available. sector administration and policy-
teaching staff whose broad range Professional contacts/industry links
Course contact
making, and work at various levels of
of research interests are drawn from Students who perform well on the
Dave Edwards Typical offer
Whether you want to work in the public government, including within foreign
edwardda@lsbu.ac.uk – 020 7815 5752 160 UCAS Tariff points
backgrounds in criminology, sociology, degree are invited to apply for a or private sectors, this course provides ministries and national UN delegations.
history law and politics. PhD. There is also the opportunity
Typical offer Course units
an in-depth understanding of how the
for students to study for the MSc in
160 UCAS Tariff points Year 1
European Union works and how its Progression routes
– Introduction to Politics and Society
The course’s focus places crime and Social Research Methods or the MSc
Course units – Politics, Decision Making and Democracy
policies are changing the economy and to postgraduate study
criminal justice in a comparative in European Public Policy. Career
Year 1 – Political Theory in its Social Context
shaping our societies. The degree offers Students on the BA (Hons) European
historical and theoretical perspective opportunities are enhanced by a
– Introduction to Criminological Theory – Poverty to Social Exclusion
you access to a new 21st century era of Policy Studies can progress to
– Introduction to Criminal Justice Policy – Social and Political Economy
and will give you the opportunity to popular volunteering programme
– From Poverty to Social Exclusion Year 2
policy development and focuses on the postgraduate study in European Policy
study a number of contemporary issues available to Level Two and Three
– Issues in Contemporary Sociology – Politics and Protest
economic, political and decision-making Studies. Opportunities exist for further
within crime and criminal justice, such students. Through this our graduates
– Issues in Crime – Group Project
processes within policy studies. You studies at doctoral level.
– Researching Social Life – Modern Ideologies
as policing, the penal system, white gain valuable experience of working in
– Introduction to Sociological Thought – European Politics in Transition:
will develop a broad understanding of
collar crime, organised crime, drugs criminal justice and related agencies.
– Criminal Justice and the Crime Problem Continuity and Change
the multidisciplinary context in which For full entry requirements see pages
and crime, green criminology, criminal Recent students have found placements
Year 2 – Post-war West European Politics
European policy issues are developed 252 to 253.
– Issues in Contemporary Policing – European Media
justice policy and gender and crime. The with the Metropolitan Police, Victim
– Penal Theory Year 3
and will experience an intriguing,
degree will provide you with a thorough Support, New Bridge Foundation and
– Genocide in the 20th Century – Political Economy of the EU
rigorous, cross-European educational
grounding in the theories and methods various youth mentoring programmes.
– Issues in Criminal Justice History – EU Politics in the 21st Century:
experience. In Year Two, there will
– Researching Crime From Markets to Citizenship
of criminological research, the character
– Cities, Politics and Crime – War and its Opponents
be the opportunity to study for one
of criminal justice policy and a thorough Additional notes
– Crime Disorder and Community Safety
semester at a European University.
knowledge of the changing character Teaching staff are active researchers.
– Mini Project
Year 3
of crime. You will gain a sound The Crime Reduction and Community
– Crime, Criminology and Modernity
academic foundation for understanding Safety Research Group carries out a
– Drugs and Crime
and engaging in current debates about great deal of policy relevant research.
– Gender, Crime and Justice
– Youth Crime and Delinquency
the problem of crime and criminal We also regularly hold conferences with
– Green Criminology
justice policy. internationally speakers which students
– Dissertation
are encouraged to attend. We have
Assessment styles include open recently held conferences on Anti-Social
and closed examinations, reports, Behaviour Orders, gangs and sex work.
coursework essays and oral
presentations. When you graduate For full entry requirements see pages
you will be able to progress to careers 252 to 253.
in many areas including the police,
probation service, social work and
law, as well as higher level study
and research.
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