Why choose this course?

Experience, opportunity and inclusion inform education on this course, the University of Wolverhampton drawing from student, teacher and guest input to craft a curriculum which effectively explores contemporary concerns. Your insights will be explored through community-based learning, embedding your knowledge through engagement with the lived experiences of people living with disadvantage and discrimination, as well as larger institutions including schools, voluntary sector organisations, the local council or the criminal justice system. The power of celebrity, environmental movements, nationality, crime, policing and probation are examined at local, national and international levels, aided by the expert School of Social, Historical and Political Studies teaching team and curated guest speakers, further enhancing your research with real-world examples and developing skills for the workplace.

What's unique about this course?

• Your insights will be explored through community-based learning, embedding your knowledge through engagement with the lived experiences of people living with disadvantage and discrimination.
• This exciting course offers you the opportunity to study the social world we inhabit and apply that knowledge to understand and address social issues.
• Students who graduate from the BA (Hons) Sociology and Criminology and course will have an in-depth theoretical and applied knowledge and understanding of social issues, inequality, the environment, crime, victimisation, and social harm.

What happens on the course?

Our exciting new course offers you the opportunity to study the social world we inhabit and apply that knowledge to understand and address social issues. What causes inequality, and what can be done to reduce it? How much power does the media have to shape public opinion and what is the reality behind the newspaper headlines on crime? What is crime? Who commits crime and what happens when they do? What is the importance of nations and nationalities in a global world? Why is the environment a topic that should be at the forefront of sociological thinking and why is environmental crime on the rise? How important is the body in the construction of our identity? How can we understand health and illness outcomes by ethnicity, gender, and even geographical location? A Sociology and Criminology degree at The University of Wolverhampton enables us to consider these questions, and more, by examining the role of theory in empowering us to understand contemporary concerns at local, national, and international levels. In your final year of study, you will undertake a piece of individual research on an area of sociology or criminology that particularly interests you, and which will further develop your research skills.

Students who graduate from the BA (Hons) Sociology and Criminology and course will have an in-depth theoretical and applied knowledge and understanding of social issues, inequality, the environment, crime, victimisation, and social harm. Subject specific topics, such as knowledge of the social processes of crime and the criminal justice system, human rights, rehabilitation and desistance, criminal justice history, and youth crime will be explored and complemented by the type of transferable skills that are highly valued by employers in the graduate job market. These include the ability to present and develop a cohesive argument, the development of a wide range of IT skills, research and problem-solving skills, communication skills, and working effectively as part of a team.