BSC Criminology and Sociology [ML93]
Academic Year 2025/2026 September 2025 Start
Campus Aberystwyth
Single Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020
Duration 3 years
Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards Excellence Scholarship;
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 (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Thinking Sociologically
Year 1 Core (60 Credits)
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Genders and Sexualities
Sociological Theory
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Quantitative Research Skills
Year 2 Options
Choose 20 credits from the following modules. (Students can choose to study a maximum of 20 credits from appropriate modules offered elsewhere in the University with the permission of the relevant scheme co-ordinators.)
Year 2 Options
Choose 40 credits from the following modules.
Seiberdroseddu a Seiberddiogelwch
Lleoliad Gwaith Cyfiawnder Troseddol
Cybercrime and Cybersecurity
Critical Perspectives on Imprisonment
Criminal Justice Placement
Crime and the Media
Youth Crime and Justice
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).
Everyday Social Worlds
Final Year Options
Choose 40 credits from the following modules. (Students can choose to study a maximum of 20 credits from appropriate modules offered elsewhere in the University with the permission of the relevant scheme co-ordinators.)
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 choose 20 or 40 credits of optional modules in the final year depending on the choice of dissertation. (Please note some optional modules are alternate year).
Seiberdroseddu a Seiberddiogelwch
Lleoliad Gwaith Cyfiawnder Troseddol
Sgiliau Cyflogadwyedd ar gyfer Gweithwyr Proffesiynol
Troseddeg Feirniadol a Radical
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
Critical and Radical Criminology
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