Criminology and Security Studies - BA (Hons)

This course, BA Criminology and Security Studies course incorporates wide range of topics, from war and conflict to counter-terrorism.

Our degree will equip you with a wide range of knowledge about both national and international politics and intelligence. It will also show how politics can impact both security and insecurity in Birmingham and the United Kingdom.

In your second and third year, this wide information base will be constructed upon as you specialize for your learning.

Your know-how of the core ideas in Criminology could be re-enforced during these years, and you may learn more about subjects such as the position of MI5 and MI6, extremism, terrorism and counter-terrorism, the Middle East and war in the cutting-edge world, and International Relations.

Together these years will provide you with a well-rounded knowledge of the political and historical troubles that are leading to continued battle and instability within the international today. 

This is an exciting and dynamic direction whose modules at once reflect what is going on around the sector and that's at the slicing aspect of cutting-edge scholarship.

This course is affiliated and accredited by our strong links with local criminal justice organizations, including West Midlands Police Force and Birmingham Community Safety Partnership.