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Undergraduate Course Maps 2012/13

Criminology (BSc) - Single Honours Full Time - Course Map

For current students who started their course in 2012/13 academic year and later.
  • Course Code: CRIDG
  • Course Leader: David Turner
  • Senior Tutor(s):
Each module taken by a student has a credit value (measured in Credit Accumulation and Transfer [CAT] points). Approximately 10 hours of total study time is required per CAT credit. A full-time year is equivalent to 120 CATs for students on an Undergraduate course. To achieve an undergraduate award a student must accumulate a particular number of CATs at Level 4, 5 or 6 as illustrated below: Bachelors Degree without Honours: 300 CATs Bachelors Degree with Honours: 360 CATs (or 480 with year-long placement)

Level 4

Module CATs
To complete your programme you must pass the following compulsory modules:
NS4303: Living in a Globalised World
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with GEO104 or SY114
30
NS4401: Introductory Research & Fieldwork in the Social Sciences
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with module CRI111, SY111, GEO111, GEO107, NS4301
30
NS4501: Understanding Criminology
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with CRI101
30
NS4502: Criminal Justice: From Crime Scene to Court
Restrictions: Only available to ANB, BIO, CRI, GEO, SY, PY
30

Level 5

Module CATs
To complete your programme you must pass the following compulsory modules:
NS5402: Data Collection & Data Analysis
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with CRI210, GEO210, SY210, CRI208, GEO208, SY208, NS5101 or NS5308
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass NS4301 or pass NS4401
30
NS5501: Crime and Society: Theorising Crime
Restrictions: Cannot be taken with CRI229 or CRI230
30
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 30 credits from the following:
NS5502: Policing in the Community
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with CRI204 or CRI206
30
NS5503: Forensic Criminology and Crime Science
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with CRI204 or CRI206
30
Other modules that can be counted toward your programme include:
NS5001: Internship
Restrictions: Only available to ANB, BIO, CRI, GEO, SY, PY
15
NS5301: Fieldwork Elective
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with GEO207
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass NS4301 or pass NS4401
15
NS5304: Conflict & Development 15
NS5403: Crimes against Humanity
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with SY231
15
NS5405: Challenging Injustice: Welfare, Policy and Control
Restrictions: Cannot be taken with SY220
15

Level 6

Module CATs
To complete your programme you must pass the following compulsory modules:
NS6555: Criminology Dissertation
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with CRI333
30
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 60 credits from the following:
NS6501: Comparative Perspectives on Criminal Justice
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with CRI305 or CRI307
30
NS6502: Homicide and Victimology
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with CRI308 or CRI205
30
NS6503: Environments of crime
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with CRI303
30
Other modules that can be counted toward your programme include:
NS6401: Research, Philosophy & Epistemology
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with SY310 or SY319
Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass NS5402 or pass NS5101
15
NS6402: Visual Culture & the Information Society
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with SY313 or SY320
15
NS6403: Challenges, Risk, and Security in a Global Age
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with SY321
15
NS6504: Global Crime
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with CRI304
15
NS6505: Strategic Policing: Applied Performance Improvement
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with CRI306
15
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