**Overview**
If you're enthusiastic about environmental protection, social justice, ethical responsibility and dealing with climate change – and want to help develop and apply legal frameworks that protect the planet – this combined degree is your ideal next step.
You'll analyse the causes of environmental harms and crime and familiarise yourself with modern crime investigation techniques. You'll learn how the dynamics between its perpetrators (such as conglomerates) and victims (such as small communities) shape environmental justice. You'll develop extensive knowledge of the criminal justice system and a strong technical and legal understanding of contemporary green crime, including the settings it takes place in. You'll also have opportunities to enhance your CV and apply your knowledge in the field on an optional placement year or by volunteering in the local community.
You'll emerge from this course with the skills, knowledge and experience for a career in environmental protection in areas such as conservation, environmental harm research, policy and law enforcement. You could also continue your studies at postgraduate level.
**What you'll experience**
On this course, you'll:
- Cover specialist topics including the exploitation of our natural resources, wildlife crime and conservation, environmental justice and climate change criminology
- Use the latest forensic advances, immersive learning technologies and artefacts (ivory, traps and snares) – gaining insight into investigation techniques for environmental and wildlife crime
- Be taught by lecturers with practical and research expertise, whose work has featured globally in publications including National Geographic
- Study alongside students in related disciplines, helping you understand the roles and perspectives of those who work in other areas of criminal justice
- Tailor your degree to match your interests and workplace ambitions
- Explore your career options by tapping into an external network of guest lecturers and experts
You can also:
- Broaden your understanding of different approaches from national and global actors, agencies and institutions
- Spend a year abroad, studying with an international partner university
- Learn a new language and get credits towards your degree
- Build valuable professional experience through volunteering in the local community
- Choose modules in your final year that allow you to qualify as a police or probation officer more quickly after you graduate
Course Details - Modules
**Year 1 – Core modules**
- Essential Skills for Criminologists (40 credits)
- Understanding Criminology (20 credits)
- Criminal Justice (20 credits)
- Green Criminology: Environmental Crimes and Harms (20 credits)
- Psychology for Criminologists (20 credits)
There are no optional modules for this year.
**Year 2 – Core**
- Questioning Criminology (20 credits)
- Crimes of the Powerful: Corporate and Governmental Environmental Harms (20 credits)
- Global Environmental Justice (20 credits)
- Researching Criminology (20 credits)
**Year 2 – Optional**
- Wildlife Crime: Threats and Responses (20 credits)
- Fundamentals of Forensic Investigation (20 credits)
- Cultural Criminology (20 credits)
- Global, State and Corporate Security (20 credits)
- Learning From Experience (20 credits)
- Introduction to Teaching (20 credits)
- Penology and Prison (20 credits)
- Police and Society (20 credits)
- Youth Crime, Youth Justice (20 credits)
- Work Placement Year (120 credits)
- Study Year Abroad (120 credits)
**Year 3 – Core**
- Dissertation (40 credits)
- Ecological Justice and Climate Change Criminology (20 credits)
**Year 3 – Optional**
- Cybercrime: Deviance, Crime and Terror (20 credits)
- Political Extremism (20 credits)
- Social Policy, Justice and Crime (20 credits)
- State Crime (20 credits)
- Dangerous Offenders and Public Protection (20 credits)
- Policing: Law, Policy and Practice (20 credits)
- Introduction to Teaching (20 credits)
- Money Laundering and Compliance (20 credits)
- Contemporary Terrorism and the Global Response (20 credits)
- Gender and Crime (20 credits)
- Miscarriages of Justice (20 credits)
- Policing: Communities, Intelligence and information (20 credits)
- Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders (20 credits)
- Learning From Experience (20 credits)
Course Details – Assessment Method
You’ll be assessed through:
- Essays
- Reports
- Oral presentations
- Group projects and portfolios
- Seminar participation and engagement
- Thesis/major report
You’ll be able to test your skills and knowledge informally before doing assessments that count towards your final mark.
You can also get feedback on all practice and formal assessments so you can improve in the future.
Course Details – Professional Bodies
Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.
How to Apply
26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application Codes
Course code:
M931
Institution code:
P80
Campus Name:
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Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Year 1
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
We also accept other combinations equivalent to 120 -128 points from 3 A levels, or equivalent.
120-128 points from 3 A levels or equivalent.
Acceptable when combined with other qualifications.
122-128 Tariff points from the Access to HE Diploma.
120-128 Tariff points.
29 points from the IB Diploma. 664 at Higher Level - 30 points from the IB Diploma. 665 at Higher Level.
Acceptable when combined with other qualifications.
Cambridge Pre-U score of 56-60.
Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course
Minimum Qualification Requirements
Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.
English language requirements
Test
Grade
AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)
6.0
English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.0 with no component score below 5.5.
PTE Academic
54.0
An overall score of 54 with a minimum of 51 in each skill.
TOEFL (iBT)
79.0
79 with a minimum of 18 in Reading, 17 in Listening, 20 in Speaking and 17 in Writing.
Cambridge English Advanced
Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) taken after January 2015.
An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162.
Cambridge English Proficiency
Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) taken after January 2015.
An overall score of 169 with no component score less than 162.
Trinity ISE
Trinity College Integrated Skills in English (ISE) Level III with a Pass in all 4 components
English Language Entry Requirement Information are not listed for this Course.
Unistats information
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Fees and funding
Additional Fee Information
**Undergraduate fees for 2022 entry will be available shortly.**
For further fee information please visit https://www.port.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/undergraduate-fees-and-student-finance
Provider information
University House
Winston Churchill Avenue
Address3 are not listed for this Course.
Portsmouth
PO1 2UP
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