BSc (Hons) Applied Criminology with Criminal Investigation with Foundation Year

A four-year route that begins with a foundation year to build academic skills and subject knowledge, then continues into the full Applied Criminology with Criminal Investigation degree. Criminology combined with the practice of criminal investigation: investigative interviewing, decision making, serious sexual offences and domestic abuse, and miscarriages of justice, using simulation facilities. Careers: Police and investigative roles, prison and probation services, private security and wider criminal justice careers.

Foundation Year: Exploring Justice; Crime, Power and Society; Interdisciplinary Communication Skills; The Big Question; Student Success Modules

Year 1: Becoming a Criminologist; Criminal Justice and Accountability; Succeeding in Your Criminal Justice Specialism; Investigative Interviewing; Student Success Modules

Year 2: Global Crime and Culture; Interdisciplinary Modules; Criminal Investigation: Process and Decision Making; Employability Modules

Year 3: Investigating Serious Sexual Offences and Domestic Abuse; Policing, Punishment and Rehabilitation; Applied Criminology Major Project; Miscarriages of Justice; Demystifying 'True' Crime (optional); Research in Practice (optional); Knowledge in Practice (optional); Mental Health and Trauma in Criminal Justice (optional)