Course summary
This is a Connected Degree Portsmouth is the only University in the UK with the flexibility to choose when to do an optional paid placement or self-employed year. Either take a placement in your third year, or finish your studies first and complete a placement in your fourth year. You can decide if and when to take a placement after you've started your course. Overview Join the global mission to stop criminals exploiting the internet. On the UK’s first BSc (Hons) Criminology and Cybercrime degree, you'll explore the future of policing and how criminal organisations operate online. You'll learn to make a difference, not by fighting tech with tech, but by understanding the human aspects of cybercrime. Cyber is always evolving, so this course does too. You can choose from wide range of innovative and topical modules – from cybersecurity, online terrorism and digital forensics, to cyberdeviance and cyberpsychology. Course highlights
- Learn from cybercrime, criminology, probation and policing experts whose expertise is requested by organisations around the world
- Tailor the course to meet your interests, by studying modules that match your career aspirations
- Explore up-to-the-minute topics based on our own team’s research, including hacktivism and the incel subculture
- Investigate issues as varied as cyber fraud, cyberbullying and online piracy, to discover how they affect people, organisations and government
- Work with practitioners providing professional cybersecurity advice in our award-winning Cybercrime Awareness Clinic
- Practise digital investigative techniques and develop transferable skills in analysis, research and new technologies
- Meet visiting professionals who work in areas of cyber like the dark web and penetration testing
- specialised cybercrime units
- crime prevention
- criminological research
- intelligence analysis
- digital investigations
- security consultancy
- the prison system
- chief infosec officer
- security consultant
- incident responder
- security analyst
- digital forensics expert
- penetration tester
- vulnerability assessor
Modules
Year 1 Core modules in this year include:
- Criminal Justice (20 credits)
- Cyberspace, Subcultures and Online Deviance (20 credits)
- Essential Skills for Criminologists (40 credits)
- Introduction to Digital Forensic Investigations (20 credits)
- Understanding Criminology (20 credits)
- Contemporary Terrorism and the Global Response (20 credits)
- Cyberlaw Governance and Human Rights (20 credits)
- Online Activism, Cyberterrorism and Cyberwarfare (20 credits)
- Researching Criminology (20 credits)
- Crimes of the Powerful (20 credits)
- Cybercrime Clinic (20 credits)
- Drugs and Society (20 credits)
- Empire and Its Afterlives in Britain, Europe, and Africa (20 credits)
- Engaged Citizenship in Humanities and Social Sciences (20 credits)
- Forensic Linguistics: Language As Evidence (20 credits)
- Fundamentals of Forensic Investigation (20 credits)
- Gang Crime (20 credits)
- Global Environmental Justice (20 credits)
- Global Security (20 credits)
- Hate Crime (20 credits)
- Intercultural Perspectives On Communication (20 credits)
- Marketing & Communication (20 credits)
- Modernity and Globalisation (20 credits)
- Nationalism and Migration: Chaos, Crisis and the Everyday (L5) (20 credits)
- News, Discourse, and Media (20 credits)
- Penology and Prison (20 credits)
- Policing and Society (20 credits)
- Principles of Economic Crime Investigation (20 credits)
- Professional Experience L5 (20 credits)
- Psychology and Security (20 credits)
- Puritans to Postmodernists: American Literature (20 credits)
- Questioning Criminology (20 credits)
- The Dark Web: Threats, Freedoms and Responses (20 credits)
- Transitional Justice & Human Rights (20 credits)
- Victims of Crime: Key Players in Criminal Justice (20 credits)
- Wildlife Crime: Threats and Response (20 credits)
- Youth Crime, Youth Justice (20 credits)
- Cybersecurity: Theory and Practice (20 credits)
- Dissertation (Criminology) (40 credits)
- Information Security Management (20 credits)
- Black Criminology, Race and the Criminal Justice System (20 credits)
- Contemporary Terrorism and the Global Response (20 credits)
- Crime and New Technologies: Theory and Practice (20 credits)
- Cyberpsychology (20 credits)
- Dangerous Offenders and Public Protection (20 credits)
- Economic Crime and Fraud Examination (20 credits)
- Forensic Linguistics: Language and the Law (20 credits)
- Forensic Psychology: Investigation (20 credits)
- Gender and Crime (20 credits)
- Green Crime and Environmental Justice (20 credits)
- Introduction to Teaching (20 credits)
- Miscarriages of Justice (20 credits)
- Money Laundering and Compliance (20 credits)
- Policing: Law, Policy and Practice (20 credits)
- Policing: Communities, Intelligence and Information (20 credits)
- Professional Development: Recruiters and Candidates (20 credits)
- Professional Experience L6 (20 credits)
- Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders (20 credits)
- True Crime - the Making of a Genre (20 credits)
- Understanding and Addressing Sexual Offending (20 credits)
Assessment method
You’ll be assessed through: coursework examinations presentations group projects dissertation You’ll be able to test your skills and knowledge informally before you do assessments that count towards your final mark. You can get feedback on all practice and formal assessments so you can improve in the future. The way you’re assessed may depend on the modules you select. As a guide, students on this course last year were typically assessed as follows: Year 1 students: 18% by written exams, 7% by practical exams and 75% by coursework Year 2 students: 10% by practical exams and 90% by coursework Year 3 students: 8% by written exams, 13% by practical exams and 79% by coursework
How to apply
This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application codes
Please select a course option – you will then see the application code you need to use to apply for the course.
Points of entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
- Year 1
- Year 2
- Year 3
Entry requirements for advanced entry (i.e. into Year 2 and beyond)
We welcome applications for advanced entry. If you’d like to apply for advanced entry, you need to select the required year when you complete your UCAS application.
Entry requirements
Qualification requirements
UCAS Tariff - 112 - 120 points
A level - BBB - BBC
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016) - DDM - DMM
Access to HE Diploma
Scottish Higher - Not accepted
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate (first teaching from September 2016)
Pearson BTEC Extended Diploma (QCF) - DDM
Pearson BTEC Diploma (QCF)
Scottish Advanced Higher
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme - 29 points
Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (first teaching September 2015)
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017) - H3, H3, H3, H3, H4 - H3, H3, H3, H3, H3
Cambridge International Pre-U Certificate - Principal
GCSE/National 4/National 5
OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Diploma - DDM
OCR Cambridge Technical Diploma
T Level - M
CLEARING INFORMATION – Our entry requirements may be different during Clearing, so please contact us on 023 9284 8000 to discuss your options.
English language requirements
Test | Grade | Additional details |
---|---|---|
IELTS (Academic) | 6 | English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.0 with no component score below 5.5. |
PTE Academic | 54 | An overall score of 54 with a minimum of 51 in each skill. |
TOEFL (iBT) | 79 | 79 with a minimum of 18 in Reading, 17 in Listening, 20 in Speaking and 17 in Writing. |
Cambridge English Advanced | Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162. | |
Cambridge English Proficiency | Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) taken after January 2015. An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162. | |
Trinity ISE | Pass | Trinity College Integrated Skills in English (ISE) Level III with a Pass in all 4 components |
Student Outcomes
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Fees and funding
Tuition fees
EU | £9250 | Year 1 |
England | £9250 | Year 1 |
Northern Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
Scotland | £9250 | Year 1 |
Wales | £9250 | Year 1 |
Channel Islands | £9250 | Year 1 |
Republic of Ireland | £9250 | Year 1 |
International | £17200 | Year 1 |
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
Provider information
University of Portsmouth
University House
Winston Churchill Avenue
Portsmouth
PO1 2UP
Clearing contact details
Contact us about ClearingUniversity Admissions Centre - Clearing
023 9284 8000
Additional information
Clearing Hotline opening hours: Thursday 15th August - 08:00 - 20:00 Friday 16th August - 08:00 - 18:00 Saturday 17th August - 10:00 - 14:00 Sunday 18th August - Closed Monday 19th onwards - 09:00 - 17:00 (09:00 - 16:00 on Fridays)