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Criminology and History BA (Hons)

Oxford Brookes University

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  • Qualification

    Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)

  • Location

    Main Site

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    15-SEP-25

  • Duration

    3 Years

Course summary

Overview

Our joint honours course allows students to pursue their own areas of interest within Criminology and History whilst also providing them with a solid foundation in both disciplines and a range of personal and professional skills which will serve as a springboard for their future career development. The programme is carefully designed to enable students to gradually develop their knowledge and skills and become autonomous, effective and independent learners.

Criminology is a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary subject concerned with analysing the nature, occurrence and explanations of crime, criminal behaviour and societal responses to these phenomena. History is about far more than studying the past. It enables you to discover why people act the way they do and to explore how societies develop.

Links between research and undergraduate teaching are an important and distinctive feature of the programme, and the combined research experience and competencies of staff have shaped its design, content and delivery.

Learning and assessment

In your first year, you’ll develop key academic skills to help you succeed in the course. We’ll also ask some big questions like, What is crime? Why do some people commit crime, but not others? You’ll develop core historical skills whilst studying topics ranging from the beginnings of Europe’s colonisation of the rest of the world to more recent debates on race and the environment.

In your second year, core modules will ask you to questions the status quo: How might capitalism encourage crime? Where and why are there inequalities in the criminal justice system? You’ll explore more specialist historical issues, like what the Jack the Ripper case tells us about Victorians, or how thinkers like Charles Darwin have influenced our culture.

In your final year, you’ll have the freedom to focus on what you care about most, including your dissertation subject. Optional modules include topics like the pleasures of crime, visual criminology, queer criminology, drugs, or policing. You might study life in Renaissance Italy, or the fall of the Russian monarchy.

Application deadline

29 January

Tuition fees

Students living in United States
(International fees)

£ 15,950per year

Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.

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QUALIFICATION TYPE

UCAS Points : 104 - 120

This programme operates a tariff range depending applicant's current studies:2 or more cognate subjects = 1041 cognate subjects = 112No cognate subjects = 120

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Oxford Brookes University

  • University League Table

    46th

  • Campus address

    Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire, OX3 0BP, England

Oxford is a city full of history and renowned for academic excellence and culture. Just over 1 hour from London, with 24-hour bus links to major airports.
Oxford Brookes courses give students the fundamental skills and experience needed to succeed in their chosen career and become internationally employable.
Starting university is exciting but also a time of great change, so Oxford Brookes does all it can to help you settle in, feel at home and make new friends.

Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    66th out of 91 4

    61st out of 101 5

  • Entry standards

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    109 53%

    77th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    66.0 66%

    53rd

    3
  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.07 77%

    73rd

    6
  • Entry standards

    / Max 206
    115 56%

    71st

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    56.0 56%

    72nd

    3
  • Student satisfaction

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    2.94 73%

    70th

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