Explore criminological issues through a psychological lens with our BA (Hons) Criminology and Psychology with Foundation Year joint degree. The foundation year equips you with the academic skills and subject knowledge needed for success at the university level, ensuring you’re ready to tackle your degree with confidence.The programme equally integrates both disciplines, providing you with a profound understanding of deviant and criminal behaviour. As you delve into the influences and management of such conduct, you will acquire modern skills crucial for fulfilling roles within the criminal justice field.
Career focussed skills
- Gain expertise in crime, state power, and criminal justice, alongside factors influencing behaviour, building your ability to provide interventions and support.
- Gain insights into human behaviour through examination of personality, development, and social psychology theories, developing analytical skills.
- Investigate causes and consequences of crime, and examine high-profile cases through a forensic psychologist’s lens, refining your operational and strategic decision-making abilities.
- Look at global criminal justice processes whilst exploring key theories and research that shape policy and practice, fostering critical evaluation skills.
Modules
Foundation year modules
- Preparing for University Success
- Exploring the Social World
- Advancing your Academic Skills
- Examining Social Justice
- Planning for Your Future Success
- Investigation & Innovation Project
Level 4
- Becoming a Criminologist (20 credits)
- Introduction to Studying Psychology (20 credits)
- Social Psychology (20 credits)
- Crime, Media, Culture (20 credits)
- Working within the Criminal Justice System (20 credits)
- Developmental Psychology (20 credits)
Level 5
- The Prison (20 credits)
- Personality and Intelligence (20 credits)
- Youth Crime and Justice (20 credits)
- Crimes of the Powerful (20 credits)
- Researching the Field (20 credits)
- Forensic Psychology (20 credits)
Level 6
- Counselling Psychology, Mental Health and Illness (20 credits)
- Victimology (20 credits)
- Cyberpsychology (20 credits)
- Professional Practice: A Case Study (20 credits)
- Research Project  (40 credits)