Semester 1
This module will introduce you to key criminological concepts, questions, and debates while supporting their development as independent learners. It explores what crime is and how criminologists study it. Alongside subject content, you will build essential academic skills such as referencing, academic integrity, and locating academic sources. The module encourages curiosity, critical thinking, and engagement with contemporary social issues, laying a strong foundation for further criminological study.
This module explores key questions about crime, harm, and justice, encouraging you to think critically about what counts as crime and who is labelled a criminal. You will examine how crime is constructed, represented, measured, and addressed in society, and consider topics such as moral panics, surveillance, urban inequalities and lived experiences of the crime and social control. The module also moves beyond traditional criminology to look at wider forms of social harm, including environmental damage and structural inequalities. By the end, you will understand how power and social structures shape definitions of crime, whose harms matter, and how societies choose to respond.
This module introduces you to the study of psychology, first by discussing its conceptual underpinnings and historical development and then topics related to living in the world as biological, learning and feeling beings. Block 1 focuses on the philosophical foundations of Psychology, its status as a science and current identity, while Block 2 covers learning from the environment and from others. Block 3 includes evolutionary theory and the relationship of the brain to behaviour and Block 4 covers emotions from biological, psychological and social perspectives. The module provides the knowledge-base necessary for advanced study at level 5 and the development of skills relating to factual learning, i.e., accessing, organising, assimilating and revising information.
Semester 2
Explore London as a dynamic case study to explore how crime, social exclusion, and power shape urban life. Through historical and contemporary examples, students will examine themes such as poverty and crime, spatial stigma, race and policing, gender and sexuality, security and urban design, and cultural representations of “criminal London”. You will uncover how social difference and criminalisation interact to produce the city’s spaces and identities. By connecting criminological debates to the politics of urban space, this module equips you to critically analyse inequality, power, and control in one of the world’s most complex cities.
This module will introduce you to key criminological concepts, questions, and debates while supporting their development as independent learners. It explores what crime is and how criminologists study it. Alongside subject content, you will build essential academic skills such as referencing, academic integrity, and locating academic sources. The module encourages curiosity, critical thinking, and engagement with contemporary social issues, laying a strong foundation for further criminological study.
Get the opportunity to explore how theories, approaches and evidence from psychology have been applied to the real world. You will be presented with a number of topics that have been important for understanding how people behave in the ways they do in the real world. Such topic areas will include the developmental, cognitive (thinking), social, and individual differences aspects of behaviour. In addition, the topic areas presented and explored in this module will inform you about a diverse range of psychology-related employment opportunities.
