If your first language is not English, you will need an IELTS of 6.0 overall, with 5.5 in each component.
Immigration, crime, social injustice and youth unemployment make headline news almost daily. These are the key issues of our time. If you’re interested in such issues, and want to understand how societal structures impact on people's everyday lives and interactions, or how criminal justice relates to social justice, then you should consider studying sociology and criminology. Combined, these two disciplines develop your sociological and criminological imagination and answer questions about society and its various institutions.
You’ll be taught by active researchers, whose expertise includes human rights, migration, comparative and transnational criminology, convict criminology, youth justice, terrorism studies, psychology of crime, education, gender and sexuality, 'race' and ethnicity, social movements, families, media and cultural studies. You’ll have access to a wide range of specialist option modules in both disciplines, and you’ll have the opportunity to take a work experience module where you can put into practice the personal and professional skills you've developed while studying.
This combined degree enables you to sufficiently specialise in criminology to enter professions connected to the criminal justice system, but also benefit from the broader careers available to sociologists. You'll also gain the transferable skills necessary for lifelong personal and professional development.
Our students go on to careers in the police and police-supporting organisations, crime prevention, the probation service, the charity and non-governmental organisations sector, local and central government, teaching, social work, youth work, and many more.
This course offers a unique curriculum. A distinctive feature of the course is our use of London as a learning and teaching resource, with several modules offering field trips around the city such as museum visits and themed street walks. You’ll be part of a diverse and international student culture, and you can also gain valuable experience studying abroad for a semester.
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Year 1
Subjects of study include:
Crime and the London Underworld
Controversies in Criminal Justice
Identity and Society
Introducing Gender
London Explored
Psychology and Crime
Researching Crime and Society
The Criminological Imagination
Thinking Sociologically
Understanding Race
Credit Level 4
Year 2
Subjects of study include:
Education Now
Emotional Life
Food, Taste and Consumption
Forensic Criminal Psychology
Gender, Crime and Justice
Globalisation and the Media
Globalisation, Crime and Control
Modern Social Theory
Race, Crime and Justice
Radical Criminology
Research Methods in Sociology and Criminology
Sexualities
The Sociology of Religion
Work Experience
Youth, Crime and Justice
Youth, Culture and Identity
Credit Level 5
Year 3
Subjects of study include:
Dissertation in Sociology and Criminology
Contemporary Social Theory
Consuming Race
Families, Intimacies and Personal Life
Gender, Education and Identity
Human Rights and Global Injustice
Immigration, Crime and Control
Issues in State Crime
Making Bodies: Gender, Culture, Science
Making the News
Media and Crime
Perils and Pleasures: A London Sociology of Leisure
Politics, Protest and the Public Sphere
Psychology of Crime and the Popular Imagination
Punishment and Modern Society
Victims of Crime
Work Experience in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Credit Level 6
Job roles
This course will prepare you for roles, such as:
Charity/NGO worker
Local government official
Probation officer
Social worker
Teacher
Youth worker
Graduate employers
Recent employers of our graduates include:
Department for Work and Pensions
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Haverstock School
Kent Police
Medway Youth Trust
Save the Children
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
