Overview

NFQ Level 8, Major Award

The BA (Hons) (Criminology) (International) Pathway is a four-year, full-time, interdisciplinary degree in Criminology which enables students on the BA (Hons) Criminology programme to study abroad for a year in an approved University outside Ireland.

First Year - Arts (Criminology)

In First Arts (Criminology) students study prescribed modules to the value of 60 credits in the designated subjects:

1. Criminology
2. Sociology
3. Law
4. Applied Psychology
5. French, German, Italian, Spanish or Irish.

Points to Note:

1. German: Students wishing to select German (Non Beginners) should have a minimum grade H4 in German in the Leaving Certificate (or equivalent).
2. French: A student will not normally be allowed to select French unless he/she has attained a pass standard in French in the Leaving Certificate Examination or equivalent.
3. Italian: Students wishing to take Non-Beginners' Italian are recommended to have a minimum of Grade H4 in Italian in the Leaving Certificate Examination (or equivalent). Students who have studied Italian at second level and obtained a grade below H4 can join the Beginners' Italian course.
4. Spanish: Students wishing to take Beginners' Spanish must have obtained a Grade H4 in the Leaving Certificate (or equivalent) in another modern continental language or Irish, Latin, or Greek. Students wishing to take Non-Beginners' Spanish must have obtained a minimum Grade H4 in Spanish in the Leaving Certificate Examination (or equivalent). Students will be accepted to the Beginners group only if they have no prior German, or if they have reached a level no higher than Junior Certificate German.

Second Year - Arts (Criminology) (International) Pathway

Students who wish to take the Second Arts (Criminology) (International) Pathway register for the pathway at the beginning of Second Year. No student may register for Second Arts (Criminology) (International) Pathway until s/he has passed the First University Examination in Arts (Criminology). The selection of any module is conditional on the Professor or Lecturer concerned and the College being satisfied that a student is capable of profiting by attendance thereat. Students may not select modules which involve a timetable clash.

In Second Arts (Criminology) (International) Pathway students take core modules in Criminology to the value of 20 credits plus 40 credits of elective modules. 

Students who choose Italian take the following core modules to the value of 20 credits:

Module List

Code	Title	Credits
Italian
IT2101	Intermediate Italian Language	10
IT2105	Vivere l'Italia/Living Italian Culture and Society	5
IT2309	Italian Crime Narratives	5
Total Credits		20

and choose elective modules to the value of 20 credits from the elective list in Second Arts (Criminology). 

Third Year - Arts (Criminology) (International) Pathway

Students complete the Third Year of BA Hons Criminology (International) Pathway at a host university abroad.

Students are reminded that if they wish to transfer from the BA Hons Arts-Criminology (International) Pathway to the BA – Hons Arts-Criminology CK113, they may do so at the start of Semester 1 by submitting a transfer application to the Office of the College of Arts, Celtic Studies, and Social Sciences. Transfers are not available for students in European Studies.

Third Arts (Criminology) (International) Pathway is spent in an approved foreign university where students will study approved courses/modules to the equivalent value of 60 credits. All courses will be assessed by the approved Host University.

Fourth Year - Arts (Criminology) (International) Pathway

No student may register for Fourth Arts (Criminology) (International Pathway) until s/he has passed the Third University Examination in Arts (Criminology) (International) Pathway. The selection of any module is conditional on the Professor or Lecturer concerned and the College being satisfied that a student is capable of profiting by attendance thereat. Students may not select modules which involve a timetable clash.

In Fourth Arts (Criminology) (International) Pathway students take core modules to the value of 25 credits in Criminology plus 35 credits of elective modules. Students follow the same curriculum as students taking Third Arts (Criminology)).

Programme Requirements

For information about modules, module choice, options and credit weightings, please go to Programme Requirements. 

Programme Requirements

Module List

Code	Title	Credits
Year 1
Students take 60 credits as follows - all listed core modules (45 credits) and 15 credits of elective modules:
Core Modules
Criminology
CR1001	Criminology: a history and introduction	5
CR1002	Criminology: key concepts, studies and issues	10
CR1003	Introduction to the Psychology of Crime	5
Sociology
SC1012	Introduction to Sociology (Part A)	5
SC1013	Key Issues in Sociology (Part B)	10
Law and Society
CR1004	Introduction to Law and Social Control	5
LW1169	Introduction to the Legal System for Criminology	5
Elective Modules
Students take one 15-credit option from the following:		15
French
FR1101	Foundation Course in Written and Oral French
FR1201	Introduction to French Studies
Gaeilge
GA1003	Bunstaidéar ar Theanga agus ar Chultúr na Gaeilge
German
Intermediate Level B1
GE0005	German Language (CEFR-Level A2.1)
GE0008	German Language (CEFR-Level A2.2)
GE1102	Introduction to German Literature and Culture
Beginners
GE0003	German Language (Beginner Level A1) Part 1 1
GE0004	German Language (Beginner Level A1) Part 2
GE1104	Introduction to German Culture and Literature for Beginners
Italian
Beginners
IT1109	Introduction to Written and Spoken Italian
IT1201	Post-Unification Italian Culture and Society
Non-Beginners
IT1102	Non-Beginners' Written and Spoken Italian
IT1201	Post-Unification Italian Culture and Society
Spanish
Beginners
HS0028	Spanish Language (Beginner Level)
HS1007	Research Project in Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
Post-Leaving Certificate
HS1007	Research Project in Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies
HS1009	Spanish Language (Post Leaving Certificate)
Philosophy
PH1001	Introduction to Philosophy
Government and Politics
GV1204	Democracy, Ideology and Utopia
GV1207	Politics and Government of Ireland
GV1217	Introduction to Political Science
Year 2
Single Subject
Students take 60 credits as follows: - all listed core modules (25 credits) and 35 credits of elective modules:
Core Modules
CR2001	Contemporary Criminological Theory	10
SC2065	Introduction to Social Research	10
SC2021	Sociology of Crime and Deviance	5
Elective Modules
Students take modules to the value of 35 credits from the following:		35
CR2002	Women, Confinement and Social Control in Ireland
CR2003	Crime, Urbanization and Cities
CR2006	Policing Modern Society
CR2007	Life-Course Criminology and Desistance
CR2008	Victims and Victimology
CR2011	Education in Prisons
CR2015	Young people, trauma and the criminal justice system
CR2021	Prisons in Practice
CR2025	Online Hackers and Cyber-deviants
CR2019	The Global Trade in Illicit Drugs and Its Regulation
CR2022	Inside-Out Criminal Justice and Social Justice 2
FR2101	Advanced French Language I 3
FR2202	Literary Seminar I
FR2204	Topics in Literature and Culture
FR2306	The Theatre of the Absurd
FR2311	Africa: Colonialism to Continental Crisis
FR2313	Francophone Travel Narratives
FR2406	An Introduction to Translation Studies with French
GA2001	Úsáid agus Cruinneas na Gaeilge I
GE2101	Integrated German Language Course
GE2102	Linguistics 1
GE2126	German Literature from 18th to 21st Century
GE2130	Constructing and Deconstructing German National Identity: Key Texts
GE2150	Memory in Contemporary German Fiction
GV1218	International Politics
GV2230	Public Management Concepts
GV2231	Public Management in Practice
GV2240	International Security
HI2044	Crime and Media in Ireland
HI2045	Crime, Violence, and Revolutionary Ireland, 1913-1925
HI2046	Policing and Popular Justice in Ireland, 1803-1940
HI2047	Hitler, Nazism and the Holocaust
HS0128	Spanish Language (Improver [01] Level)
HS2101	Second Year Spanish Language Course (Ex-Beginners)
HS2022	Catalan Language and Culture I
HS2023	Catalan Language and Culture II
IT2101	Intermediate Italian Language
IT2306	Italo Calvino and the Interpretation of Reality
IT2309	Italian Crime Narratives
IT2310	Issues in Contemporary Italian Society through Film and Documentaries
IT2311	New Italians: Race, Identity and Memory in Contemporary Literature
LW1153	Criminal Law
LW2207	International Human Rights Law
LW2208	Law of the European Convention on Human Rights
LW2006 plus LW2007	The Law of Evidence I plus The Law of Evidence II
PH2002	Reasoning and Argument
PH2004	An Introduction to Political Philosophy
PH2006	Philosophy of Mind and Consciousness
PH2017	Feminist Philosophy
PH2019	Philosophy of Science
PH2028	Applied Ethics
PH2035	Roman Political Thought: Cicero
PH2036	Existentialism
SC2004	Sociology of Politics, Power, and Ideology
SC2012	Race, Ethnicity, Migration and Nationalism
SC2014	Classical Social Theory
SC2015	Critical Social Theory
SC2017	Sociology of Education/Sociology for Education
SC2026	The Family: Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives
SC2027	Sociology of the Body, Health and Illness
SC2034	Sociology of the City
SC3059	Sociology of Law: Legal Justice, Human Right and Social Change
SS2007	Penal Policy and Practice
ST2001 plus ST3001	Introduction to Biostatistics plus Biostatistics I 4
Year 3
Study Abroad		60
Year 4
Single Subject
Students take 60 credits as follows - all listed core modules 15 credits and 45 credits of elective modules:
Core Modules
CR3001	Research Methods for Criminology	5
CR3010	Crime, Justice, and Policy	10
Elective Modules
Students take modules to the value of 45 credits from the following:		45
CR2002	Women, Confinement and Social Control in Ireland
CR2003	Crime, Urbanization and Cities
CR2006	Policing Modern Society
CR2007	Life-Course Criminology and Desistance
CR2008	Victims and Victimology
CR2011	Education in Prisons
CR2015	Young people, trauma and the criminal justice system
CR2019	The Global Trade in Illicit Drugs and Its Regulation
CR2021	Prisons in Practice
CR2022	Inside-Out Criminal Justice and Social Justice 2
CR2025	Online Hackers and Cyber-deviants
CR3009	Corporate Crime
CR3002	Dissertation on Criminology
FR4101	Advanced Use of French
GA3001	Úsáid agus Cruinneas na Gaeilge
GE3101	Advanced Integrated German Language Course
GE3126	German Film in Focus: A Thematic Approach
GE3137	Interpreting Heinrich von Kleist's Short Prose Fiction
GE3139	Historical Connections: German-Irish Relations and Biographies
GE3142	Nietzsche für Alle und Keinen: The Philosopher as Artist
GE3150	Topographies and Fiction
GE3151	Migration, Multilingualism and Literature
GE3902	Language and Interpretation: The Philosophy of Making Sense
GE3904	The Double Face of Germany: Representing the Holocaust
GE4005	Life Writing through Technology: An Irish-German Project
GV3210	Conflict and Conflict Resolution
HI2045	Crime, Violence, and Revolutionary Ireland, 1913-1925
HI2046	Policing and Popular Justice in Ireland, 1803-1940
HS1009	Spanish Language (Post Leaving Certificate)
HS3001	Final Year Spanish Language
HS3054	Gender, Violence and Power on the US-Mexico Border
HS3058	Human Rights, Memory and the Post-Dictatorship Generation in the Southern Cone
IT3101	Advanced Italian Language
IT3205	Dante, Inferno
IT3307	Italian Women Writers
IT3312	Renaissance Virtues and Vices in Italian Early Modern Literature
IT3316	Dante's Commedia: The Poetic Path to Paradise
IT3317	Cinematic Representations of the 'anni di piombo'
IT3318	Unearthly Narratives: Italian Tales of the Fantastic and Apocalyptic
IT3401	Minor Dissertation
PH3025	Political Philosophy in Theory and Practice
PH3041	Moral Psychology 2
PH3042	Professional Ethics
PH3048	Moral Philosophy in Theory and Practice
PH3110	Human Nature and Free Will
SC3001	Contemporary Social Theory
SC3003	Understanding Globalisation and Development
SC3012	Sociology of the Media
SC3029	Sociology of the Environment
SC3046	Gender, Sexuality and Inequality
SC3058	Sociology of Memory, Trauma & Collective Denial
SC3059	Sociology of Law: Legal Justice, Human Right and Social Change
SS3011	Youth Policy and Practice
SS3015	The Politics of Racism (Online)
SS3112	Penal Policy and Practice
ST2001 plus ST3001	Introduction to Biostatistics plus Biostatistics I 4
Total Credits		240

¹

GE0003 German Language (Beginner Level A1) Part 1 and GE0004 German Language (Beginner Level A1) Part 2 must be taken together.

²

Selection of CR2022 Inside-Out Criminal Justice and Social Justice is subject to the approval of the module co-ordinator. Students will be required to submit a motivational statement outlining why they wish to take the module and undergo an interview as prescribed by the School. 

³

FR2101 Advanced French Language I is an obligatory language module.

⁴

Co-requisite ST2001 Introduction to Biostatistics

Programme Learning Outcomes

Programme Learning Outcomes for BA (Hons) (Criminology) (International) Pathway (NFQ Level 8, Major Award)

On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:

• Have a critical analysis of the varying causes and functions of crime in society;
  
• Know the history of criminology and its wide range of theories;
  
• Be aware of the influence of class, gender, race, religion, politics, region and age in the causation and definition of crime and social deviance;
  
• Have learned key empirical research findings about crime and understood the main research methodologies used to construct criminological knowledge;
  
• Create research designs into a wide range of criminological issues;
  
• Read and decode the philosophy, theory and research implicit in different criminal justice politics and policies;
  
• Conduct a critical assessment of popular opinion, media images of crime and deviance, and the official criminal statistics;
  
• Have gained an insight into the forms and processes of criminalization, and an awareness of alternatives to imprisonment;
  
• Have become aware of cultural variations in the handling of moral and political conflicts globally; and of the relationship between the international economic order and crime and justice in developing countries.