Applied Criminology with Foundation Year Canterbury Christ Church University

Overview

The varied expertise of the teaching staff allows you to explore these themes from a range of perspectives. You will also be supported by a range of criminal justice professionals and agencies, who teach on the course and provide volunteering and networking opportunities to help prepare you for your career.

What you'll study

During the Applied Criminology with Foundation Year degree at Canterbury Christ Church University, you'll develop a basic understanding of the key disciplines that underpin applied criminology, including psychology, sociology and politics. This year is designed to set you up for the three-year degree.

Through compulsory modules the Applied Criminology programme at Christ Church will cover key criminological concepts to provide you with a strong grounding in criminology. Optional modules will allow you to specialise in the areas of crime that interest you most, such as, interpersonal violence, terrorism, political violence, cybercrime, youth crime and gangs or social harm and mental health and crime.

The nature of the programme enables you to develop your research skills and to cast a critical eye over the processes of criminalisation and crime control. Further, to be able to set these processes within wider social, economic and political contexts.

Our degree is delivered by staff who have worked as practitioners or researchers within criminology, or its related fields. As such they have an excellent understanding of the core knowledge and skills required for criminology job roles. This allows them to support and prepare our students for future employment through volunteer work, paid work and projects with external partners. Students will also benefit from visiting lecturers through our ‘insights from practice initiative’, most of who are professionals working in the criminal justice field.

Your future career

Through this course, you'll have the opportunity to gain the core knowledge and skills required for many criminal justice careers, and transferable to other related careers. Graduates of the course typically secure posts within the police, the prison service, the probation service, youth work, private companies working in security, and third sector organisations working in crime control and victim support.

Further postgraduate study is also an option and you'll be encouraged to make the most of the volunteering and networking opportunities available throughout your course in order to enhance your employability.