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 People are not born criminals. On this course, you’ll explore how human relationships and social structures influence behaviour. You’ll discover how power dynamics and inequalities create crime. And you’ll see people who break and enforce the law in a new light. With many diverse options to choose from, you can tailor this BSc (Hons) Sociology with Criminology degree around topics that fascinate you – from identity issues, such as race and sexuality, to issues of experience, such as happiness, gang crime or serial killing. Modules are taught by experts who draw directly from their research activity – to give you the latest knowledge in the field. . Course highlights
- Explore topics informed by our latest research, from a curriculum constantly updated to reflect new ideas in areas as diverse as black studies, gender, class and inequality
- Learn how to persuade others through evidence-based argument, by taking a critical look at different ideas of society, crime and justice
- Go beyond issues of crime to explore the human experience more broadly – from migration to inequalities, from food to celebrity culture
- Practice analysing human behaviour through social research, so you can gain insights to help improve people’s wellbeing
- Customise your degree to match your ambitions: some modules reduce the amount to time you’d need to train for a policing career or as a probation officer
- insight into people and social dynamics
- critical thinking and analysis
- qualitative and quantitative research
- the ability to shape and communicate an argument
- health and social care
- law enforcement
- probation
- counselling
- advertising, marketing and media
- teaching and lecturing
- human resources and recruitment
- business administration and personnel management
- social researcher
- probation officer
- investigative analyst
- police officer
- human resource manager
- counsellor
- teacher
- charity worker
- detention custody officer
Modules
Year 1 Core modules in this year include:
- Criminal Justice (20 credits)
- Developing your Sociological Imagination (40 credits)
- Research Design and Analysis (20 credits)
- Theorising Social Life (20 credits)
- Understanding Criminology (20 credits)
- Doing Sociological Research (20 credits)
- Questioning Criminology (20 credits)
- Consumer Society: Critical Themes and Issues
- Contemporary Terrorism and the Global Response
- Crimes of the Powerful
- Digital Cultures: Exploring the Digital in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Drugs and Society
- Emotions and Social Life
- Empire and Its Afterlives in Britain, Europe, and Africa
- Engaged Citizenship in Humanities and Social Sciences
- Equality Or Liberation? Theorising Social Justice
- Family, Career and Generation
- Gang Crime
- Gender and Sexuality
- Global Environmental Justice
- Global Security
- Hate Crime
- Health, Wellbeing, and Happiness
- Intercultural Perspectives On Communication
- Marketing & Communication
- Modernity and Globalisation
- Nationalism and Migration: Chaos, Crisis and the Everyday
- News, Discourse, and Media
- Penology and Prison
- Policing and Society
- Principles of Economic Crime Investigation
- Professional Experience
- Puritans to Postmodernists: American Literature
- Race and Racism
- Risk and Society
- Social Power, Elites and Dissent
- Sociology of Culture: Taste, Value and Celebrity
- The Sociology of Education
- Transitional Justice & Human Rights
- Understanding Personal Life
- Victims of Crime: Key Players in Criminal Justice
- Wildlife Crime: Threats and Response
- Work, Employment and Society
- Youth Crime, Youth Justice
- Challenging Global Inequality
- Consumer Society: Critical Themes and Issues
- Emotions and Social Life
- Equality or Liberation? Theorising Social Justice
- Family, Career and Generation
- Food, Culture and Society
- Gender and Sexuality
- Health, Wellbeing and Happiness
- Introduction to Teaching
- Nationalism and Migration: Chaos, Crisis and the Everyday
- Professional Development
- Professional Experience: Recruiters and Candidates
- Race and Racism
- Social Power, Elites and Dissent
- Sociology of Culture: Taste, Value and Celebrity
- Understanding Personal Life
- Black Criminology, Race and the Criminal Justice System
- Consumer Society: Critical Themes and Issues
- Contemporary Terrorism and the Global Response
- Crime and New Technologies: Theory and Practice
- Dangerous Offenders and Public Protection
- Dissertation
- Economic Crime and Fraud Examination
- Emotions and Social Life
- Equality Or Liberation? Theorising Social Justice
- Family, Career and Generation
- Gender and Crime
- Gender and Sexuality
- Green Crime and Environmental Justice
- Health, Wellbeing and Happiness
- Introduction to Teaching
- Major Project
- Miscarriages of Justice
- Money Laundering and Compliance
- Nationalism and Migration: Chaos, Crisis and the Everyday
- Policing: Law, Policy and Practice
- Policing: Communities, Intelligence and Information
- Political Extremism
- Professional Development: Recruiters and Candidates
- Professional Experience
- Race and Racism
- Social Power, Elites and Dissent
- Sociology of Culture: Taste, Value and Celebrity
- The Sociology of Education
- Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders
- True Crime - the Making of a Genre
Assessment method
You'll be assessed through:
- written essays
- group and individual presentations
- group and individual projects
- seminar participation
- examinations
- a 10,000 word dissertation
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
- Course code:
- LM40
- Institution code:
- P80
- Campus name:
- Main Site
- Campus code:
- -
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.
This course may be available at alternative locations, please check if other course options are available
Entry requirements
Qualification requirements
UCAS Tariff - 96 - 112 points
A level - BBC - CCC
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016) - DMM - MMM
Access to HE Diploma
Scottish Higher
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate (first teaching from September 2016)
Scottish Advanced Higher
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme - 25 points
Welsh Baccalaureate - Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate (last awarded Summer 2024)
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017) - H3, H4, H4, H4, H4 - H3, H3, H3, H3, H4
Cambridge International Pre-U Certificate - Principal
GCSE/National 4/National 5
T Level - M
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. |
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. | |
PTE Academic | 62 | An overall score of 62 with a minimum of 59 in each skill. |
TOEFL (iBT) | 79 | 79 with a minimum of 18 in Reading, 17 in Listening, 20 in Speaking and 17 in Writing. |
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 | £9535 | Year 1 |
England | £9535 | Year 1 |
Northern Ireland | £9535 | Year 1 |
Scotland | £9535 | Year 1 |
Wales | £9535 | Year 1 |
Channel Islands | £9535 | Year 1 |
Republic of Ireland | £9535 | 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