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Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
Greenwich Campus
Full Time
Sep 2026
3 Year
Our sociology and criminology degree takes an in-depth approach to society and crime by focusing on issues such as class, ethnicity, identity, gender and inequality.Through this course in sociology and criminology, you'll explore how social structures and institutions shape the individual and society. You'll gain an understanding of crime and violence, crime policy and the relationship between social status and access to justice and rights.The course also explores how we define crime, how society deals with crime, and how the distinction between crime and deviance changes over time.Popular careers for our sociology and criminology graduates include criminal justice, public policy, education, youth work, social services, community work and policing.
This course examines the role of communities in shaping social experiences. In doing so, students will enhance their research methods skills through the analysis of texts which analyse each thematic area. Students will also undertake and secondary data research projects as part of their assessments. Through teaching and assessment they will become familiar with both quantitative and qualitative research methods as used by social researchers.
This course introduces students to debates around what constitutes crime and deviance. However, there is specific emphasis upon how crime and deviance is dealt with through social and public policy. It provides students with an understanding of how governance monitors individuals? behaviour/ conduct and links between these issues and the general welfare of the public. Students will be able to identify the key players and stakeholders in policy formulation within the criminal justice system, including in relation to micro and macro level crimes. They will also learn to critically analyse approaches to reform with reference to theories used within Criminology and the Sociology of Crime and deviance, Public Policy.
The objective of this course is to engage with different aspects of contemporary popular culture within British society and to apply (and explore) different sociological and cultural studies approaches within this context. Students will therefore explore a range of theoretical traditions and methodological approaches typically employed in relation to the study of culture, but will do so in relation to aspects of their own lived experience.
The aims of this course are to: Invite students to consider the realities of oppression, poverty, wealth and social exclusion, introducing them to theories of social justice from a range of social science perspectives: everyday inequalities, critical enquiries.
The aims of the course are to introduce students to a range of issues central to the social sciences, including debates concerning macro (large scale) vs micro (smaller scale) approaches to analysing society. The main focus is, however, on micro approaches, and more specifically theories and concepts of the self and subjectivity, the roles and impacts of social structures in shaping the self and experience, and how Sociological thinking in this area has developed over the past 100 years. In addition, students will develop an understanding of qualitative research methods, such as autobiography used by sociologists to understand the ?self?.
The objective of this course is to provide a clearer understanding of the meaning of drugs in society. The course will examine a range of inter-related issues surrounding the phenomenon of drug use (legal and illegal) in society and attempt to show how many of the pre-conceptions commonly advanced about the drug user and the drugs themselves are often contradictory and/or culturally specific. Particular questions (among others) that will be addressed are: how should we understand drug effects; what is addiction/dependence and how is it caused; will the war on drugs succeed; should heroin and/or other drugs be legalised? We shall also explore the link between drugs, crime and violence, whether we should be teaching children how to use drugs properly to reduce potential long-term harm, and how serious the drugs problem is. The course also examines the histories of alcohol and tobacco use in the UK and contemporary issues related to these.
Provide an in-depth understanding of the main theorists and main schools of thought within Sociology.
This course has four main aims: to embed key employability related skills and understandings within an academically sociological course; to develop research skills associated with literature surveys and secondary data analysis; to make students familiar with and aware of the skills required for Sociology professions including particularly research skills, report writing skills, and presentation skills; to enhance and extend familiarity with job search skills while applying Sociological knowledge.
Introduce students to a variety of sociological research methods.
HPSS Sandwich Placement
The HPSS sandwich placement aims to help students synthesise knowledge and skills acquired during the first two years of the degree programme and apply them appropriately in a working environment under the supervision of an employer. It provides students with the opportunity to manage and enhance the development of their own personal skills, acquire and develop a range of skills such as communication skills, professional awareness, technological skills, employability skills, and have the opportunity to apply them in a work environment. It also aims to provide students with an opportunity to work supervised and unsupervised with an appreciation of work ethics.
This course explores the intersections between understandings of deviance and crime and the social constructions of gender and ?race?. It examines the cultural representations of the criminal and the victim, and the political and social repercussions of these.
To equip students with a broad knowledge and understanding of violence. The course will consider different forms of violence from a range of different, but often inter-linking, perspectives. In exploring historical, gender, comparative and theoretical perspectives, the course aims to widen the understanding of violence, but also problematise the concept itself.
Gain an in-depth understanding of theoretical frameworks related to gender ad sexuality and the ways in which they have been positioned within the social sciences.
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