BA (Hons) Criminology and Sociology with Foundation Year in Criminology, Policing and Sociology Bachelor's degree at Leeds Trinity University

Develop core academic skills such as using electronic resources, planning and note-taking, communication skills related to essay and report writing and delivering presentations. Learn to manage time, prioritise tasks and manage stress, and become more confident in engaging with collaborative learning, debates, discussions and critical reflection.

Look at the wider skills needed to succeed in Higher Education including undertaking your own individual project. The individual project that you undertake will focus on existing academic literature and secondary sources and you can negotiate your project title and key themes to align with your own personal interests.

Look at social inequalities in society, how they can be explained, and current trends and issues in modern-day policing. Cover concepts such as socialisation, norms and values, social control, status, inequality, crime, deviance, victimisation, retribution and non-crime-related social trends. Address social problems, including inequality and criminality, and explore topical areas related to sociology, policing and crime.

Look at patterns of crime, social control, deviance, victimisation, the media and punishments. Examine crime statistics, self-report studies and non-crime-related social trends. Make sense of these areas using introductory-level theories from key academics and criminologists. Review how policy-makers attempt to address social problems such as criminality.

Explore and examine the origins of criminology, some of its historical debates, concepts, literature and research. Look at the core perspectives and theories related to crime and criminality. Find out about the history and development of criminology as an academic discipline.

Learn the basics of social research, academic writing, presenting and professional development. Combine your learning from personal experience with an ability to engage in an empathic, ethical and compassionate way. Reflect on and develop your employability profile, find and apply for placements, and complete a Professional Challenge Project or work placement at the end of semester two. In the second semester, begin to understand the importance of social research by examining how sociological da

Learn about the historical formation and contemporary experiences of identity, inequality, and division across society. Focus on lived experiences and the prevalence of inequalities in the UK and globally. Discover ways to conceptualise and articulate matters of race and ethnicity, gender, disability, health, age, class, and education. Examine the relationship between the individual and society, and how inequalities disadvantage social groups throughout their life.

Be introduced to the key field of urban sociology. Explore the thematic, empirical and conceptual aspects of urban sociology in relation to the city of Leeds.

Be introduced to sociology as a distinctive discipline concerned with understanding the relationship between individuals and society. Centred on C. Wright Mills' concept of the sociological imagination, the module encourages you to explore how personal experiences and everyday situations are shaped by wider historical, cultural and structural contexts. Through engagement with key classical thinkers and other foundational theories, you will develop the conceptual tools needed to think sociologica

Get an understanding of the history and theories of victimology, the term 'victim' and the social construction of victims. Reflect on the relationship between social inequalities and victimisation in domestic violence, hate crime, sexual violence and corporate crime. Learn about victimology theories and the experiences and interactions of the victim for both the crime and the criminal justice system.

Develop a critical understanding of the function and effects of digital technology on society. Cover areas from our everyday digital lives to broader contemporary digital issues affecting society. Explore how digital technologies are connected with the global economy and the exploitation of the global south, as well as structural inequalities perpetuated through algorithmic systems.

Understand why we view criminals and crime in certain ways, due to cultural factors and the media. Think critically about crime, crime control and its media coverage. Look at contemporary criminological theories, exploring how crime is constructed and defined by subcultures, the nation-state, the criminal justice system and corporations. Analyse how mainstream media and social media shape our collective (mis)understanding of a range of crime and crime control.

Explore how to collect, analyse, display and explain social science research data. Find out what it means to be research literate and how to apply this to employment, policies and organisational considerations. Focus on qualitative and mixed methodology in one semester and quantitative methodology in another semester. You'll finish the module with a six-week professional placement, using your research methods skills and knowledge to think about how research may inform the approaches taken in the

Explore and examine a number of dimensions relating to human experience and social life, engaging with contemporary sociological theory in particular. Enhance your knowledge and understanding of fundamental, theoretical and conceptual frameworks in the discipline of sociology.

Your final year dissertation project is the culmination of your studies. It's an independent project guided by the support of your supervisor. It can either be a theoretical-based piece of work, investigating a particular issue within social sciences, or you can take on a piece of primary research. It should bring together knowledge and understanding from other modules to create a research project.