Awards

Target Award

Award Description:Bachelor of Arts with Honours - BAH
Alternative Exit
Alternative Exit
Alternative Exit

Programme Offerings

Full-Time

F2F-JMU-SEP

Educational Aims of the Course

1. To provide, for all students, a defined academic programme with clear learning outcomes. 2. To develop students’ critical, analytical and evaluative skills, and transferable skills, to prepare them for graduate employment. 3. To encourage students to acquire a critical understanding of criminology topics which demonstrates an appreciation of criminological theory, evidence and the relevance to contemporary debates. 4. To encourage students to critically evaluate responses to deviance, crime, harm, victimisation, punishment and justice and representations of these at national, international and global levels. 5. To equip students with the necessary knowledge, understanding and skills to formulate and ethically investigate criminological questions using appropriate quantitative and/or qualitative methods. 6. To encourage students to make an academic and practical contribution to the discipline of Criminology. 7. To develop those learning, information technology, communication and reflective skills necessary to enable students to undertake independent study, and to participate in lifelong learning. 8. To develop new areas of teaching in Criminology in response to the advance of scholarship and the needs of the community. 9. To encourage students to engage with the development of employability skills, including the completion of a self awareness statement.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Engage critically with concepts and theories in a series of substantive criminological concerns.
2.
Identify a range of research methodologies and methods and assess their relative merits.
3.
Analyse quantitative and/or qualitative data.
4.
Design, conduct and communicate criminological enquiry using appropriate quantitative and/or qualitative methods.
5.
Understand the ethical implications of criminological enquiry.
6.
Retrieve and organise relevant information effectively
7.
Use a variety of concepts and theories to analyse and understand complex issues around contemporary criminal justice, social policy and related practice.
8.
Applying skills of choosing and applying appropriate advanced empirical methods in criminological research and the treatment of resulting data with appropriate analytical methods.
9.
Apply skills of literature search, critical review and selection of relevant sources, and systematic synthesis, and treatment of key materials and relevant policy documentation.
10.
Communicate effectively via discussion, written materials and presentations (oral and poster).
11.
Self -evaluate academic and professional performance.
12.
Critically appraise, select and utilise appropriate methods to generate empirical knowledge on a substantive criminological concern.
13.
Utilise problem-solving skills in respect to theoretical, research, policy and practice contexts.
14.
Demonstrate a wide range of study, IT and computational skills.
15.
Manage time, prioritise workloads and recognise and manage personal emotions and stress.
16.
Understand continuing professional development, identifying career opportunities and challenges ahead
17.
Evaluate critically the origins, trajectories and impacts of international, national and local state responses to these activities, as well as the co-opted roles of actors and institutions beyond the state sector.
18.
Critically assess competing interpretations of crime and crime control.
19.
Critically interrogate the relationships between a variety of social divisions and definitions, practices and effects of crime, harm, criminal justice and criminology.
20.
Synthesise insights from a range of disciplines pertaining to the relationships between crime, harm, power and the state.
21.
Apply major theories and concepts to the study of crime and its control.
22.
Assess the values and practices of the key agencies which administer responses to deviance, crime and harm.
23.
Recognise the relevance of criminological knowledge to questions of power, human rights and social justice.

Teaching, Learning and Assessment

Teaching is delivered via lectures, workshops, tutorials, group work, supervision, online activities, study trips, independent learning and private study. All of these methods are complemented by staff and student use of and interaction within the virtual learning environment to support and facilitate student learning. Modes of assessment used in the programme are: essays, examinations (including multiple choice, unseen, seen and ‘take-home),portfolios (skills and reading),presentations (seminar, group),SPSS data-files, reports, poster presentations, case studies, article reviews, blogs, visual essays, Geographical Information Systems reports; research plans, research reports, dissertation proposition and dissertation. Intellectual skills are strongly linked to the development of knowledge and understanding. Lectures provide the foundations of and models for students to develop and consolidate their intellectual skills, while workshops, tutorials and independent learning provide opportunities for students to practice and apply these intellectual skills. The assessment of intellectual skills is closely linked with subject knowledge and assessment, however the focus is upon the student's ability to recognise, construct and defend arguments, to undertake critical analysis and to identify and resolve intellectual problems. A variety of written coursework and exam based assessments focus directly on the student's ability to construct rigorous arguments and analysis. While the more applied nature of some assessments (briefing papers, blogs, case studies, reports),particularly those requiring students to understand and undertake Criminological research encourages students to creatively develop their intellectual skills. All teaching and learning activities focus on developing and improving communication skills: lectures enable students to become effective listeners who can assimilate ideas and information; discussions in workshops and small group settings develop spoken communication skills, collaboration and interpersonal skills. Students are also encouraged and supported, via tutor guidance and the VLE, to undertake independent learning which, in turn, promotes planning. organisational and time-management skills. All assessment utilized on the programme encourages students to develop their communication skills and to present arguments and ideas with precision and clarity. Achievement of good time management and organizational skills is demonstrated by students completing work on time to a satisfactory standard. These skills and abilities are integrated into the teaching and learning activities and methods described above. They are central to every activity that is undertaken as part of study for the degree. The development of transferable skills is a core aim of the programme, with the study of criminology allowing students to apply their knowledge and aptitude in a variety of employability settings.

Opportunities for work related learning

Personal development planning is integrated into the personal tutor arrangements at Levels 4, 5 and 6. Work related learning is embedded at Level 5 in 5201CRIM Criminology into Practice and at Level 6 6201CRIM: Dissertation Part 2; 6206CRIM: International Fieldwork in Criminology. All LJMU undergraduate programs are required to incorporate into a L4 module an assessment item of the submission of a Future Focus assessment. Students have the opportunity to choose from employability focussed modules at L5 and L6, while the programme’s PDP system provides opportunities for students to reflect on and document their achievements inside and outside of university and think about future employability paths.

Programme Structure

Programme Structure Description

The programme is taught within the University Academic Framework. Students must take 120 credits of criminology modules at each level of the programme (Levels 4,5 and 6). Each Level of the programme should normally be completed in one academic year. Modules are of two types: core and options. Modules are … For more content click the Read More button below.

Structure

Entry Requirements

A levels
Access awards
Alternative qualifications considered
BTECs
GCSEs and equivalents
IELTS
International Baccalaureate
Interview required
Irish awards
NVQ
Reduced offer scheme
T levels
UCAS points
Welsh awards

Extra Entry Requirements

Can this course be deferred?

Yes

Is a DBS check required?

No

OCR National acceptability 

  • National Certificate: Acceptable only when combined with other qualifications
  • National Diploma: Acceptable only when combined with other qualifications
  • National Extended Diploma: Acceptable on its own and combined with other qualifications

HECoS Code(s)

(CAH15-01) sociology, social policy and anthropology