BSC Criminology [M900]
Academic Year 2025/2026 September 2025 Start
Campus Aberystwyth
Single Honours scheme - available from 2014/2015
Duration 3 years
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (100 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1 Options
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Quantitative Research Skills
Year 2 Options
Students must take 80 credits of optional modules at Level 2 (please note that some optional modules are alternate year). Students may take 20 credits (of the 80) as elective modules outside of the Department (subject to the approval of both departments). Appropriate co-requisite and/or pre-requisite modules must have been studied.
Seiberdroseddu a Seiberddiogelwch
Lleoliad Gwaith Cyfiawnder Troseddol
Cybercrime and Cybersecurity
Critical Perspectives on Imprisonment
Criminal Justice Placement
Crime and the Media
Family and Child Law
Principles of Evidence
Humanitarian Law
Climate Change and Environmental Law
Psychological Explanations of Criminal Behaviour
Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders
Final Year Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Final Year Options
Students must take either the 20 credit or 40 credit module from the following modules, dependant on language preference:
Final Year Options
Students must take 60 to 80 credits of optional modules in the final year depending on the choice of dissertation. (Please note some optional modules are alternate year). Students may take 20 credits (of the 60 or 80) as elective modules outside of the Department (subjective to the approval of both departments). Appropriate co-requisite and/or pre-requisite modules must have been studied.
Seiberdroseddu a Seiberddiogelwch
Lleoliad Gwaith Cyfiawnder Troseddol
Sgiliau Cyflogadwyedd ar gyfer Gweithwyr Proffesiynol
Cybercrime and Cybersecurity
Critical Perspectives on Imprisonment
Criminal Justice Placement
Crime and the Media
Family and Child Law
Principles of Evidence
Employability Skills for Professionals
Humanitarian Law
Climate Change and Environmental Law
Psychological Explanations of Criminal Behaviour
Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders
Lleoliad Gwaith Cyfiawnder Troseddol
Sgiliau Cyflogadwyedd ar gyfer Gweithwyr Proffesiynol
Wrongful convictions in criminological context
Criminal Justice Placement
Psychology and Crime
Employability Skills for Professionals
Medicine Ethics and the Law
Sports Law and Society
Law & Criminology,Aberystwyth University, Hugh Owen Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DY
Telephone Department: +44 01970 622712 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021
Email: law@aber.ac.uk