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Bachelor of Criminology
Bachelor of Criminology

Bachelor of Criminology

  • ID:UWS610027
  • Level:3-Year Bachelor's Degree
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Admission Requirements

Entry Requirement

English Requirements

  • IELTS (Academic version): 6.5 overall score, minimum 6.0 in each subtest   

  • TOEFL internet-based score :Total score 82, Writing 21, Speaking 18, Reading 13, Listening 13

  • Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE):  58 overall; No communication skills less than 50               

Course Information

The Bachelor of Criminology degree offers students the opportunity to study crime and criminal justice in both a conceptual and an applied way that particularly stresses social and cultural definitions of criminality and the reactions to it. Areas of focus include criminal justice institutions and practices; the development of criminology as a discipline and its various strands; forms and patterns of victimisation; crime prevention strategies and debates; aspects of juvenile justice; the evolution of prisons and different forms of punishment; law enforcement and surveillance; violence, gender and crime; cultural depictions of crime and contemporary debates in criminology. As such, the degree addresses the criminalisation of disadvantage through race, class, disability and gender, with a focus on the nexus between social and criminal justice. This will equip students with the specialist skills and knowledge that a new graduate would need on entering the workforce or on proceeding to advanced study.

CRICOS Code: 079498E

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Recommended Sequence:

Year 1

AUTUMN SESSION

  • The Individual in Society

  • Understanding Society

  • Introduction to Criminal Justice

Select one elective

 , Credit Points, 40

SPRING SESSION

  • Introduction to Indigenous Australia: Peoples, Places and Philosophies

  • People, Place and Social Difference

  • Crime, Deviance and Society

Select one elective

 , Credit Points, 40

Year 2

AUTUMN SESSION

  • Investigating and Communicating Social Problems

  • Youth Justice and Practice

  • Mental Health in the Community

Select one elective

, Credit Points, 40

SPRING SESSION

  • Ethics in the Social Sciences

  • First Peoples and Criminal Justice

  • Crime Prevention and Drugs

Select one elective

Credit Points, 40

Year 3

AUTUMN SESSION

  • Applied Social Research

  • Perspectives in Criminology

  • Gender, Crime and Violence

Select one elective

 , Credit Points, 40

SPRING SESSION

  • Contemporary Social Issues and Professional Practice

  • Crime, Media, Culture

  • Prisons, Punishment and Criminal Justice

Select one elective

 Credit Points, 40

Total Credit Points, 240

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Career Opportunity

Career Opportunity

As a criminology graduate you can look forward to great opportunities including:

  • Community development worker

  • Police officer

  • Casework and case management

  • Correctional officer

  • Youth worker

  • Policy development

Ability to settle

Overseas Student Health Cover

OSHC: 530 ($) per year

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