Program Requirements

This Bachelor of Criminology program requires the completion of 144 units, of which:

A maximum of 60 units can come from the completion of 1000 level courses.
A minimum of 84 units must come from the completion of 2000 and 3000 level courses. 

 

The 144 units must include:

72 units from completion of the following compulsory courses:

SOCY1002 – Self and Society (6 units)

SOCY1004 – Introduction to Social Psychology (6 units)

ANTH2130 – Violence and Terror (6 units)

BIAN2128 – Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology (6 units)

PHIL2020 – Theories of Social Justice (6 units)

PSYC2011 – Perspectives on Crime from Psychology and Criminology (6 units)

SOCY2038 – Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods (6 units)

SOCY2043 – Qualitative Research Methods (6 units)

SOCY2062 – Dimensions of Crime: Identifying and Controlling Offenders (6 units)

SOCY2156 – The Criminological Imagination: Theory and Understanding (6 units)

SOCY2157 ­– Surveillance and Society (6 units)

SOCY3016 – Controversies in Crime Control (6 units)

 

24 units from completion of core courses from the following list:

ANIP3005 – Australian National Internship B (12 units)

ENGL2081 – Australian Crimes: Crime Narratives on Page, Stage and Screen (6 units)

GEND2021 – Trauma, Memory and Culture (6 units)

LING2105 – Language and the Law: Introduction to Forensic Linguistics (6 units)

POLS2096 – Genocide Studies (6 units)

POLS2100 – Genocide – Post 1945 (6 units)

SOCY2026 – Excessive Appetites: Sociocultural Perspectives on Addiction, Drug Use and Gender (6 units)

SOCY2058 – Doing Criminology: Studies in Social Problems (6 units)

SOCY2063 – Corruption in our World (6 units)

SOCY3123 – Policy and Program Evaluation (6 units)

 

48 units from completion of elective courses which may be offered by the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences or any other College.

 

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