Modules are rated at either 10 or 20 credits. The modular system allows great flexibility. In Year 1 you must take at least 40 credits from each of your pathways with the remaining 40 made up from either of your pathways or elsewhere. Academic advice is available each semester when choices are made for the next step. The aim is to ensure a coherent academic program.
Teaching is structured on a semester basis.
Instead of the three terms which you are no doubt used to, you will have two teaching blocks of 15 weeks. The first semester starts in September and the second in February. The first year is designed as a foundation year in social sciences together with providing students with a thorough grounding in some of the current issues that concern crime and criminology. They will build upon the general introduction of level B modules and provide the appropriate knowledge for subsequent modules. Additionally, if you choose to major in Criminology, the Dissertation 20 credit module must be included in your Criminology program.