BA (Hons) Sociology with Criminology

In this course, you’ll study these issues in the vibrant, multicultural setting of east London. You’ll graduate with a degree that has vocational relevance while putting no limit on your career options. If you want to be a probation officer, for example, you need to know about criminology. This course is an exciting way of preparing for a career while studying the wider questions that sociology addresses and the impact it has on our daily lives.

Year 1

• Knowledge, skills, practice and the self (Mental Wealth) (Core)
• Introduction to Crime and Punishment (Core)
• Social Theory 1: Sociological arguments (Core)
• The Mess We Are In (And how we got here) (Core)
• Digital Sociology and the 4th Industrial Revolution (Core)
• Issues in Contemporary Society (Core)

Year 2

• Research Methods for Social Sciences (Core)
• Space, Power, Bodies (Core)
• Social Theory 2 (Core)
• New Social Entrepreneurship (Core)
• Theoretical Criminology (Mental Wealth) or Crime and Social History (Mental Wealth) – Option 1
• Intersectionality and Digital Cultures or Generations, Age and Meaning or Policing and Society – Option 2

This course offers the opportunity for year-long placement between years two and three. If you choose to take this option, you’ll spend your third year on a placement with a relevant company or organization, adding valuable practical experience to your growing academic knowledge. The extra placement year means it will take four years to complete your studies, instead of three.

Year 3

• Applied Project (Core)
• Placement Reflections (Mental Wealth) (Core)
• Psychological Criminology (Optional)
• Youth Crime (Optional)
• Life Histories (Optional)
• Gender Studies (Optional)
• Constructions of Race in Culture and Politics (Optional)
• Surveillance, Technology, and Society (Optional)
• Culture, Media and Politics (Optional)
• Bordering and Governance (Optional)

Employability

A sociology degree from UEL will prepare you for a wide range of jobs such as teaching, journalism, and social work. Add criminology to your qualification and you’ll be ably equipped with the knowledge to join the police force, the probation service, pressure groups, the central and local government. UEL has strong links with criminal justice organizations that work with us both in and out of the classroom. You’ll benefit from these links as they can help you choose your career after you graduate. You may wish to become a prison officer, a community development worker, a probation officer, or a youth worker. This degree will also give you the skills to move into a career as an adult guidance worker, a housing management officer or manager, or a social researcher, or it could set you on the road to becoming a solicitor. Alternatively, you may decide you want to continue your fascinating discovery of the social issues that affect us all by staying on at UEL and helping to shape the local community on one of our postgraduate courses.