Criminology and Sociology with Foundation Year
University of Salford
UCAS Code: LM59 | Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
University of Salford
UCAS Code: LM59 | Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
Entry requirements
80 UCAS Points
80 UCAS points from Approved Access to HE Diploma
80 UCAS Points
80 UCAS points
UCAS Tariff
A Minimum of 80 From at Least 2 A Levels or equivalent
About this course
The Foundation Year of this four-year programme is designed to build your understanding of key subjects in social sciences, preparing you to meet the prerequisites for the associated degree programme.
You will develop effective communication and study skills while covering fundamental topics. Modules include sociology, criminology, social policy, and social care, which will help you explore inequalities related to gender, class, race, disability, and health. You will use various theories to understand social change and how societies address discrimination and inequality.
**Please note that this course is not open to international students.**
Modules
- **Foundation Year:** Introduction to Sociology, Social Care Practice, University Life, Introduction to Counselling, Understanding Criminology, and Understanding Social Policy.
- **Year one:** Contemporary Challenges in Crime and Society, Thinking Sociologically, Understanding Criminology, Criminal Justice and Human Rights, Culture, Power and Deviance, and Social Justice in Action.
- **Year two:** Theoretical Criminology, Understanding the Social World, Research Problems and Methods: Qualitatively Better, and Research Problems and Methods: Making it Count.
- **Optional modules (semester two):** Critical Perspectives on Policing, Critical Victimology, Environmental Justice, Internet Risk and Security, Policing and Social Control, and Violence in Society.
- **Year three:** Dissertation, Work: Practice and Reflection.
**In addition to choosing one core module, you will select four optional modules from the following list:** Bodies: Biology to Blushing, Crime, Society and Racialisation, Critical Approaches to (Counter) Terrorism, Critical Perspectives on Policing, Critical Victimology, Digital Society, Environmental Justice, Gender, Crime and Criminal Justice, Human Rights, Genocide and Resistance, Identities and Interactions, Internet Risk and Security, Migration and Socio-Legal Dynamics, Prisons and Punishment, Probation and Rehabilitation, The Criminal Justice Process, and Violence in Society.
Assessment methods
You will be assessed during the foundation year through the following methods: group presentation and individual reflective essay, personal learning statement essay, written exam, essays, a 5-minute presentation, portfolio project, and reflective portfolio.
To find out more about assessment in the remaining three years, please visit the relevant course page.
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Peel Park Campus
School of Health and Society
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We have quite a lot of sociology graduates, although numbers fell last year. But graduates still do pretty well. Most sociology graduates go straight into work when they complete their degrees, and a lot of graduates go into jobs in social professions such as recruitment, education, community and youth work, and housing. An important option for a sociology graduate is social work - and we're short of people willing to take this challenging but rewarding career. Sociology is a flexible degree and you can find graduates from the subject in pretty much every reasonable job — obviously, you don't find many doctors or engineers, but you do find them in finance, the media, healthcare, marketing and even IT. Sociology graduates taking further study often branch out into other qualifications, like teaching, law, psychology, HR and even maths, so don’t think a sociology degree restricts you to just one set of options.
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