BSc (Hons) Politics & International Studies with Criminology
Course Overview
This Politics and International Studies with Criminology degree provides a dynamic and research-driven education, moving to the Belfast campus partway through the program. You will develop a deep understanding of political systems and criminal justice, learning to apply theoretical concepts to real-world societal problems. The course equips you with highly sought-after analytical and research skills, preparing you for a diverse range of local and international careers.
Key Program Highlights
- Unique interdisciplinary approach combining politics, international studies, and criminology
- Curriculum informed by the world-leading research of our academic staff
- Strong emphasis on developing advanced social research methods and analytical skills
- Focus on applying theoretical knowledge to contemporary real-world problems and debates
- Excellent preparation for careers in the statutory, voluntary, and private sectors
Course Overview
This Politics and International Studies with Criminology degree provides a dynamic and research-driven education, moving to the Belfast campus partway through the program. You will develop a deep understanding of political systems and criminal justice, learning to apply theoretical concepts to real-world societal problems. The course equips you with highly sought-after analytical and research skills, preparing you for a diverse range of local and international careers.
Key Program Highlights
- Unique interdisciplinary approach combining politics, international studies, and criminology
- Curriculum informed by the world-leading research of our academic staff
- Strong emphasis on developing advanced social research methods and analytical skills
- Focus on applying theoretical knowledge to contemporary real-world problems and debates
- Excellent preparation for careers in the statutory, voluntary, and private sectors
Requirements
Modules
- Introduction to Government and Public Policy
- Foundations of Political Thought
- Introduction to the Study and Practice of Politics
- Introduction to Crime and Deviance
- Crime and Criminal Justice
- Democracy in the United Kingdom
- International Relations
- Political thought: Text and Context
- British Politics: 'Race', Class, and Policy
- Work Based Learning and Politics
- Sentencing and Punishment
- Policing & the Law
- The Politics of Ireland since Partition
- Politics in Europe
- The Comparative Politics of Democracy and Dictatorship
- Populism
- State Crime
- Restorative Justice
- Victims of Crime
- Policing and Society
- Young People, Crime & Justice
- Exploring Crime and the Media
- Environmental Crime
- Terrorism and Political Violence
- Politics Study Abroad
- Diploma in Professional Practice
- Research Methods
- Dissertation: Politics
- Crime, Social Order and Social Control
- Prisons, Punishment and Power
- Surveillance and the Law
- Memory and the Nation
- Transforming Violence
- Politics of Deeply Divided Societies
- The Politics of Identity
- Crime and the Media
- Terrorism and Political Violence
- Psychology and Crime
- Green Criminology and Environmental Crime
- Gender, Sexuality, Crime and Justice
- Cybercrime
- Global Crime
- Drugs and Crime
- Rehabilitation and Desistance from Crime
- Corporate Crime
- Migration, 'Race' and Ethnicity
