History and Criminology

The BA (Hons) History and Criminology covers a range of approaches, from thematic modules that cover a variety of places and historical periods, to concentrated and in-depth studies of the changing nature of crime and the social, political, historical and individual forces behind these changes.

Each year, you will build on your analytical and research abilities through a series of skills modules in both History and Criminology.

You can also choose to specialise in Scottish History at the upper levels and graduate with a BA (Hons) Scottish History and Criminology degree.

Please see our FAQ sheet on our website for further information on this course.

Please note this fully online course can be studied from anywhere in the world. If you are not based near to one of the listed locations: you should apply to UHI House, and you will be enrolled and supported by our team at UHI Centre for History. If you are based near to one of the listed locations: you can still choose to apply to UHI House or you can apply to, and will be enrolled and supported by, your local campus.

Module outline

Year 1 - CertHE

You will study the following core modules:

• Comparative institutions of justice

• Introduction to criminological theory

• What is history?

You will also choose one history option module, which may include:

• A Middle Age? Europe c.1100‐1500

• Empire, environment and identity: Scotland, 1600-2000

• People, protest and power: themes in modern British history, 1780-1918

You will also choose two option modules from our range of humanities and social science subjects.

Year 2 - DipHE

You will study the following core modules:

• Historians and history

• History of crime and punishment

• Politics of policing

You will also choose one history option module, which may include:

• A curious age: European society and culture

• Court, kirk and burgh in medieval and early modern Scotland

• Themes in American history

You will also choose two further option modules from our range of humanities and social science subjects.

Year 3 - BA

You will choose at least two history option modules, which may include:

• Conquerors, crusaders and churchmen: the world of the Normans, c.911-c.1204

• Dynastic decline and religious violence: Valois France, 1550-1610

• Jacobites: patriots, rebels or opportunists?

• Land as power: the making of the modern Scottish landscape from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries

• Scots in North America: experience and identity

• Study of things: material culture of medieval and early modern Europe

You will also choose at least two criminology option modules, which may include:

• Gender, crime and justice

• Psychology of criminal justice

• Strange cases: crime literature and the construction of crime

• Victimology

PLUS

• Advanced social research methods OR

• Public history

You will choose one further module from one of your two subject areas to ensure that you have a total of three modules from each half of your degree.

Year 4 - BA (Hons)

You will complete a dissertation in criminology OR history. You will also study one option module from your chosen dissertation subject, plus three option modules from the other subject.

History options may include:

• Death and destruction: the social impact of the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648)

• Deviants, rebels, outcasts and villains: history from the margins in medieval and early modern society

• Empire and ‘others’: the shaping of British imperialism in North America

• Reaching the ‘estate of manhood’ in medieval and early modern Europe

• The empire strikes back: how the British empire shaped Scotland""

Criminology options may include:

• Cultural criminology

• Globalisation of crime

• The darker side of the internet

• Understanding violence and crime in sport

This outline reflects the modules as currently delivered and is subject to change.

For more information on what you’ll study on your degree, as well as our range of other degree options, please explore our Humanities subject area page on our website.