Course summary

You are passionate about developing a deep understanding of the causes and consequences of crime and committed to providing a specialist response. We are here for you with a criminology foundation degree designed by academics with a wealth of research and practice expertise. Course Overview Our foundation year has been designed to provide you with the essential university skills and confidence needed to progress to our full BSc (Hons) Criminology degree programme. On this criminology course, you will learn to understand how and why crime occurs at local, societal and global level. You will develop a critical insight into the work of the criminal justice system in bringing offenders to justice. We will encourage you to sharpen your sense of social justice by exposing you to the realities of crime committed by the powerful and relatively powerless, and the different ways these impact on victims. From the outset, you will be able to satisfy your curiosity about criminology in innovative ways, such as exploring how crime stories are told. Through developing creative criminology research skills, you will be empowered to produce knowledge, not just learn it. Our strong links with criminal justice and community-based organisations and groups in Cumbria will provide you with excellent volunteering opportunities and job prospects. On this course you will...

• Study criminology on a foundation course which has been designed and informed with our connections in the Police, Solicitors Regulator Authority, and the British Psychological Society.

• Learn from academic tutors who are former or practising professionals in diverse fields including policing, probation, substance misuse, domestic violence work and the law.

• Have the opportunity to volunteer with organisations connected to the criminal justice system, gaining real-life criminology in practice experience to boost your CV.

• Engage in our active student-led Criminology Society with socials, film nights and crime reading groups.

• Essential University Skills One

• Essential University Skills Two

• Contemporary Issues and the Media

• Families, Communities and the Criminal Justice System

• Introduction to Professional Practice in the Community

• Criminology, Policing and Law

• Crime and Deviance

• Criminal Justice System

• Becoming a Criminologist

• Crime Stories

• Crime and Social Justice

• Global Crime

• Explaining Crime

• Bringing Offenders to Justice

• Prisons and Punishment

• Real-world research

• Social Exclusion

• Crimes of the Powerful

• New Challenges in Criminology

• Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System

• Victimology

• Research and Practice

• Dissertation

• Criminal Law and Evidence (optional)

• Representations of Crime (optional)