Program Overview

Bachelor of Criminology / Bachelor of Global Security

The Bachelor of Criminology / Bachelor of Global Security is an integrated course of study that offers disciplinary depth and breadth greater than is achievable in either of the individual degrees or through double majors in either the Bachelor of Criminology or the Bachelor of Global Security.

Overview

Murdoch offers the opportunity for students to complete combined degrees in Criminology and Global Security in an integrated course of study. The combined degree offers disciplinary depth and breadth greater than is achievable in either of the individual degrees or through double majors in either the Bachelor of Criminology or the Bachelor of Global Security.

Admission Requirements

• Entry requirements (onshore): As per normal undergraduate admission requirements.
• English language requirements: Equivalent of an Academic IELTS overall score of 6.0 with no band less than 6.0.

Learning Outcomes

The learning outcomes for this course are divided into two categories: Criminology and Global Security.

Criminology Learning Outcomes

1. Knowledge: Demonstrate a broad and coherent understanding of the discipline.
2. Skills: Appraise and interpret available information to communicate to a range of audiences.
3. Skills: Synthesise ideas and information from a variety of sources to a standard consistent with the discipline.
4. Application: Competently apply concepts to problems in the discipline.
5. Application: Critically analyse research findings and policy recommendations.
6. Application: Through independent enquiry, apply knowledge and skills that recognise diversity and the rights and perspectives of others in various contexts.

Global Security Learning Outcomes

7. Solve real-world human, environmental, political, cyber, terrorism and/or other security challenges.
8. Explain and analyse the political and social contexts in which security policies, institutions, actors and agencies operate.
9. Critically evaluate competing strategies, theoretical understandings, and sources of knowledge that inform approaches to global security.
10. Effectively communicate ideas, synthesise complex information, and make evidence-based arguments in relation to global security.
11. Design and manage self-directed projects of increasing sophistication, involving ethical and independent inquiry.
12. Act as global citizens, contributing as informed participants within scholarly, professional and other communities, working with diverse people and ideas to address security challenges.
13. Wield valuable skills that prepare graduates for professional futures, such as ethical practices, creative problem solving, analytical thinking, effective communication, and the ability to work constructively independently and with others.

Structure

The course requires 96 credit points, consisting of:

• Spine: 9 credit points
  • MSP100: Career Learning: Managing Your Career (3 cp)
  • MSP200: Building Employability Skills (3 cp)
• Specified Electives: 3 credit points
  • Choose one from:
    • MSP201: Real World Learning (3 cp)
    • MSP202: The Search for Everything: Data Analytics and Storytelling in the Twenty-First Century (3 cp)
    • ART200: The Power of Perfect Text: Writing for Professional Contexts (3 cp)
    • ART208: Presenting in Public: Writing and Performing for Professional Contexts (3 cp)
    • KAC102: Wandju Boodja (Welcome to Country) (3 cp)
    • GRD204: Design Thinking for Innovation (3 cp)
    • CRM310: CRM Internships (WIL) (3 cp)
    • CRM311: CRM Internships (WIL) 2 (3 cp)
    • ART300: Industry Project: Real-world partnership and project design (3 cp)
    • ART303: Research Project (3 cp)
    • ART304: In-Country Studies Indonesia (6 cp)
    • ART325: Internship (3 cp)
    • POL340: Public Policy Internship (6 cp)
• Course Core: 18 credit points
  • Required Units - Criminology: 6 credit points
    • CRM303: Technology, Crime and Justice (3 cp)
    • CRM307: Culture, Diversity and Crime (3 cp)
  • Specified Electives - Criminology: 12 credit points
    • Choose from:
      • CRM388: Treatment of Criminal Behaviour (3 cp)
      • CRM310: CRM Internships (WIL) (3 cp)
      • CRM311: CRM Internships (WIL) 2 (3 cp)
      • CRM202: Corrections (3 cp)
      • CRM389: Psychology and Law (3 cp)
      • CRM302: Children and Crime (3 cp)
      • CRM219: International and Transnational Crimes (3 cp)
      • LEG323: Social and Welfare Law (3 cp)
      • BSL391: Alternative Dispute Resolution (3 cp)
      • BRD205: Crime Through the Ages (3 cp)
      • BMS213: Forensic Anatomy and Anthropology (3 cp)
      • LEG203: Indigenous Peoples, Law and Society (3 cp)
• Major: 48 credit points
  • Criminology Major: 24 credit points
    • Choose one from:
      • MJ-CRIB: Criminal Behaviour (24 cp)
      • MJ-CRIS: Crime Science (24 cp)
      • MJ-LEGS: Legal Studies (24 cp)
      • MJ-WCCC: White Collar and Corporate Crime (24 cp)
  • Global Security Major: 24 credit points
    • Choose one from:
      • MJ-CYPS: Cyberspace, Policy and Security (24 cp)
      • MJ-ECS: Environment, Conflict and Security (24 cp)
      • MJ-POLI: Politics and International Studies (24 cp)
      • MJ-TCS: Terrorism and Counterterrorism Studies (24 cp)
• Options: 21 credit points
  • Students complete 18cp of Global Security Electives, plus 3cp of General Electives, to achieve an overall total of 21cp.
  • Global Security Electives: 18 credit points
    • Students must complete 12cp of Global Security Electives, in addition to their Major.
  • General Electives: 3 credit points
    • Choose units subject to meeting prerequisite requirements.

Course Details

• Course Version: 20
• Version Start Date: 01/01/2024
• End Date: 31/12/2024
• Owning College: College of Law, Arts and Social Sciences
• Owning School: Law and Criminology
• Duration in Years: 4
• Enrolment Pattern(s): Part Time, Full Time
• Credit Points: 96
• Award Title: Bachelor of Criminology / Bachelor of Global Security
• AQF Level: Level 7 - Bachelor Degree