Course Resources Archive
Criminology and Sociology (BSc) - Single Honours Full Time - Course Map
For current students who started their course in 2012/13 academic year and later.
- Course Code: CRSDG
- Course Leader: Charlotte Parker
- 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 |
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To complete your programme you must pass the following compulsory modules: | |
NS4401: Introductory Research & Fieldwork in the Social Sciences
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with module CRI111, SY111, GEO111, GEO107, NS4301 |
30 |
NS4403: Sociological Issues
Restrictions: Cannot be taken with SY113 |
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 |
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To complete your programme you must pass the following compulsory modules: | |
NS5401: Sociology in the Real World
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with SY233 Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass NS4402 |
30 |
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 |
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 |
NS5305: Cities: Urban Worlds
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with GEO202 |
15 |
NS5403: Crimes against Humanity
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with SY231 |
15 |
NS5404: Gender, Culture and Society | 15 |
NS5405: Challenging Injustice: Welfare, Policy and Control
Restrictions: Cannot be taken with SY220 |
15 |
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 |
Level 6
Module | CATs |
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To complete your programme you must pass the following compulsory modules: | |
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 |
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 30 credits from the following: | |
NS6444: Sociology Dissertation
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with SY333 Prerequisites: Before taking this module you must pass NS5402 |
30 |
NS6555: Criminology Dissertation
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with CRI333 |
30 |
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 15 credits from the following: | |
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 |
NS6404: Social Debates on Human Nature
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with SY316 or SY317 |
15 |
NS6405: Applied Politics for a Global Age | 15 |
To complete your programme you must pass a minimum of 30 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: | |
NS6303: The Postcolonial World
Restrictions: Cannot the counted with GEO304 |
15 |
NS6304: Cities: Space and Culture
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with GEO302 |
15 |
NS6504: Global Crime
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with CRI304 |
15 |
NS6505: Strategic Policing: Applied Performance Improvement
Restrictions: Cannot be counted with CRI306 |
15 |