BSC Criminology and Criminal Psychology [M9C6]
Academic Year 2025/2026 September 2025 Start
Campus Aberystwyth
Single Honours scheme - available from 2019/2020
Duration 3 years
Award Eligiblity
Standard Awards Excellence Scholarship;
Aberystwyth University Standard Awards
- Entrance Scholarship / Merit Award
- Sports Bursary
- Music Bursary
- International Excellence Scholarship
- Residential Bursary
- Aberystwyth Bursary
- Care Leaver Bursary
Part 1 Rules
Year 1 Core (100 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Year 1 Options
Part 2 Rules
Year 2 Core (80 Credits)
Students must take LC39220 in the final year.
Compulsory module(s).
Year 2 Options
Students must take their remaining credits of optional modules at Level 2 (please note that some optional modules are alternate year). Students may take 20 credits (of the 80) as elective modules outside of the Department (subject to the approval of both departments). Appropriate co-requisite and/or pre-requisite modules must have been studied. (Students must take the following modules in either year 2 or year 3 LC24020/LC34020 Psychology and Crime; LC29120/LC39120 The Treatment & Rehabilitation of Offenders; LC29220/LC39220 Psychopathology)
Seiberdroseddu a Seiberddiogelwch
Lleoliad Gwaith Cyfiawnder Troseddol
Troseddau & Chyfiawnder Ieuenctid
Cybercrime and Cybersecurity
Critical Perspectives on Imprisonment
Criminal Justice Placement
Crime and the Media
Youth Crime and Justice
Family and Child Law
Principles of Evidence
Humanitarian Law
Climate Change and Environmental Law
Final Year Core (40 Credits)
Compulsory module(s).
Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders
Psychology and Crime
Final Year Options
Students must take ONE of the following core dissertation modules in the final year
Final Year Options
Students must take their remaining credits from the following modules in the final year (please note some modules are alternate year). Student may take up to 20 credits as elective modules outside the Department (subject to approval of both departments.) Appropriate co-requisisand/or pre-requisite modules must have been studied.
Lleoliad Gwaith Cyfiawnder Troseddol
Trosedd & Chyfiawnder Ieuenctid
Sgiliau Cyflogadwyedd ar gyfer Gweithwyr Proffesiynol
Troseddeg Feirniadol a Radical
Cybercrime and Cybersecurity
Critical Perspectives on Imprisonment
Criminal Justice Placement
Crime and the Media
Youth Crime and Justice
Family and Child Law
Principles of Evidence
Employability Skills for Professionals
Critical and Radical Criminology
Humanitarian Law
Climate Change and Environmental Law
Cyfraith Troseddol
Lleoliad Gwaith Cyfiawnder Troseddol
Sgiliau Cyflogadwyedd ar gyfer Gweithwyr Proffesiynol
Criminal Law
Wrongful convictions in criminological context
Criminal Justice Placement
Employability Skills for Professionals
Medicine Ethics and the Law
Sports Law and Society
Law & Criminology,Aberystwyth University, Hugh Owen Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DY
Telephone Department: +44 01970 622712 Admissions: +44 (0)1970 622021
Email: law@aber.ac.uk