Education Studies and Criminology (Hons) University of Derby

Overview

Who do we label as ‘offenders’, and why? Learn about human behaviour from the perspectives of both criminal and community justice professionals and wider society. In this Education Studies and Criminology (Hons) degree at University of Derb you’ll explore the relationships of crime, deviance and offending, and victimisation to social divisions such as age, gender, sexuality, social class, race, ethnicity and religion.

Combine this with a multi-disciplinary social science approach to education, focussing on current educational curriculum, policy and trends. You’ll explore the concept of education through four key academic disciplines; sociology, history, psychology and philosophy to gain a broad understanding of education policy and practice.

Bringing theory to life

As well as traditional lectures and tutorial sessions, the programme features a strong practical element. You’ll develop your criminology skills through activities such as interviewing, negotiation, decision making, research and argument, and problem-based learning, ensuring that you achieve a wide-ranging understanding of systems of criminal and community justice. 

The  Criminology team works closely with courts, prisons and youth offender training centres, and bring this expertise into their teaching.

As part of your Education Studies modules, you could have the opportunity to undertake a work placement or work experience, take fieldtrips and study visits, or study abroad to explore education on a global scale.

Careers

As a Criminology graduate, you will receive an exceptional grounding for a career in the probation service, the prison service, the police, youth justice, voluntary organisations or the wider public sector. Alternatively, you may wish to pursue postgraduate studies at the University. The strong links with local and regional agencies coupled with our staff’s extensive practice experience means that our criminology teaching is highly relevant to today’s job market.

Education graduates have gone on to a variety of employment opportunities, including primary and secondary teaching, teaching assistants, education liaison roles, social work, youth and community work; or further postgraduate study.