BA (Hons) Criminology and Sociology Bachelor's degree at Southampton Solent University

This module will introduce you to the discipline of Sociology, enabling you to start becoming sociological. You will start developing your sociological imagination, by being introduced to a range of social theories and concepts that allow you to perceive the world through a sociological lens.

This module introduces you to social inequalities related to gender, ethnicity, class, disability, health, age, nationality, religion, and sexuality by investigating social problems connected to poverty, homelessness, migration, unemployment, youth crime, gang violence, and educational attainment.

This module introduces you to the core concepts, methods and practices used to research urban life. Content covers key themes in urban sociology, including inequality; community dynamics; space and place, and the social impacts of urban change

This module will cover introductions to illegitimate power and legitimate authority; classical and contemporary accounts of power; political power; socio-cultural power; economic power; technological power, and case studies of power and authority.

This module explores the sociological dimensions of death, dying, and killing across cultural, political, and historical contexts. It examines how societies construct meanings around mortality that reflect their death practices; how institutions of healthcare, law, religion and the state regulate death, and how social inequalities shape experiences of dying.

This module aims to develop an understanding of the key concepts of punishment, resistance and desistance with specific reference to comparative criminal justice responses (Britain, Scandinavia and South-East Asia) to offending and research on desistance from crime following the introduction of the 2012 Transforming Rehabilitation Programme in England and Wales.

Working on a live project for an external organisation, you will develop professional research skills, as well as gaining valuable experience working for an employer as part of your degree. You will develop a set of practical research skills that you will use as a real-world sociologist, such as writing a proposal; bidding (pitching) for research; designing the research; writing up field notes, analysing and presenting your research.

This module introduces you to the diverse ways people find meaning, identity and connection through belief and community. While teaching covers key debates in the sociology of religion, secular worldviews, spirituality, ethics, and belonging, the emphasis is on practice-based learning that develops your ability to interpret how beliefs shape everyday life.

This module introduces you to the complex social, political and ethical challenges shaping life in an age of global crisis. While teaching explores key debates around forced migration, displacement, war, climate change, environmental breakdown, and the devaluation of human life, the emphasis is on practice-based learning that develops your ability to critically evaluate real-world problems.

This module critically examines the relationship between crime, gender and sexuality within contemporary society and the criminal justice system. You will learn to apply theory and methods to analyse and solve real-world issues in gender and sexuality within criminal justice and related fields.

This module provides you with the opportunity to work with an organisation that puts people at the heart of what it does in local communities. You will enhance your experience of the world, and your own CV, by directly involving yourself with advocacy, rights and community action.

This module enables students to apply sociological knowledge, theory, and research skills to a real-world project related to students' extra-curricular interests.