Study Schemes
BSC Criminology and Sociology [ML93]
Academic Year: 2021/2022Single Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020
Duration (studying Full-Time): 3 years
Award Eligibility:Standard Awards; Excellence Scholarship;
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Understanding Sameness and Difference
Year 1 Core (60 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Understanding (in)equality and (in)justice
Introduction to Social Theory
Year 2 Core (20 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 2 Options
Students must choose 20 credits from the Departmental modules. Indicative list as follows: (Note: Students can choose to study a maximum of 20 credits each year from appropriate modules offered elsewhere in the University at the permission of the relevant scheme co-ordinators.)
Year 2 Options
Choose 40 credits
Yr Heddlu, Plismona a'r Gymdeithas
Lleoliad Gwaith Cyfiawnder Troseddol
Troseddau & Chyfiawnder Ieuenctid
Legal and Criminal Justice Systems
Police, Policing and Society
Critical Perspectives on Imprisonment
Criminal Justice Placement
Youth Crime and Justice
Criminal Justice and the Penal System
Psychological Explanations of Criminal Behaviour
Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders
Cyfraith a Pholisi Cymru
Lleoliad Gwaith Cyfiawnder Troseddol
Trosedd a Chosb o Safbwynt Hanesyddol
Wrongful convictions in criminological context
Criminal Justice Placement
Crime & Punishment in Historical Perspective
Psychology and Crime
Principles of Evidence
Final Year Options
Students must choose 60 credits from the Departmental modules. Students may not register for year 3 variants of year 2 modules, which they have already studied. Indicative list as follows: (Note: Students can choose to study a maximum of 20 credits each year from appropriate modules offered elsewhere in the University at the permission of the relevant scheme co-ordinators.)
Final Year Options
Option 1: The following 60 credits are core (empirically-based dissertation)
Final Year Options
Option 2: The following 60 credits are core (non-empirically-based dissertation)
Final Year Options
Choose 20 credits
Yr Heddlu, Plismona a'r Gymdeithas
Trosedd & Chyfiawnder Ieuenctid
Sgiliau Cyflogadwyedd ar gyfer Gweithwyr Proffesiynol
Troseddeg Feirniadol a Radical
Police, Policing and Society
Critical Perspectives on Imprisonment
Criminal Justice Placement
Youth Crime and Justice
Criminal Justice and the Penal System
Employability Skills for Professionals
Critical and Radical Criminology
Psychological Explanations of Criminal Behaviour
Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders
Trosedd a Chosb o Safbwynt Hanesyddol
Sgiliau Cyflogadwyedd ar gyfer Gweithwyr Proffesiynol
Wrongful convictions in criminological context
Criminal Justice Placement
Crime and Punishment in Historical Perspective
Psychology and Crime
Principles of Evidence
Employability Skills for Professionals
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary