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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
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Full Time
SEP-24
1 year
Recently completed an FdA or equivalent in criminology or uniformed public services? Are you looking to take your learning to the next step?Students on the FdA progress to the BA (hons) Top Up in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Focus here is on application of critically informed knowledge and understanding, alongside helping students to find their role and purpose within the criminological world. Students can apply learning from the FdA to new modules designed around more contemporary criminological concepts including Comparative Criminology and Zemiology, as well as undertaking and developing a dissertation project of personal choice.Modules at the cutting edge of criminology: alongside the chosen dissertation project, students also study 2 core modules; Diversity, Crime and Justice and Crimes of the Powerful. Students will be able to select 2 optional modules* from; Crime at the Movies, Human Trafficking, Drugs, Crime and Society, New Perspectives in Cybercrime, Gender, Crime and Justice, and Prison and Society.At the end of the course, if successful, students will achieve a BA (Hons) Criminology and Criminal Justice Top Up, awarded by the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan).*depending on the number of students it is not always possible to deliver all the optional modules
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Applicants interested in applying to the BA (Hons) criminology and criminal justice must have competed the appropriate or equivalent course; Foundation Degree or Diploma in Higher Education or a Higher National Diploma at pass level in an appropriate subject Non-standard applications, industry professional qualifications, relevant work or life experience and who can demonstrable the ability to cope with and benefit from degree-level studies are considered on an individual basis and applicants may be interviewed.
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