Program Overview

LLB Law and Criminology

Key Facts

• UCAS Tariff: 128 - 104
• Course duration: 3 years
• Available for September start 2025

Course Overview

The LLB Law and Criminology degree at Aberystwyth University is a practical law degree designed to meet employer needs and taught by experienced legal professionals and academics. The course combines the study of law with criminology modules that explore the theories and debates relating to crime, deviance, victimhood, law, and punishment.

Modules

Year 1

• Core:
  • Crime Control and Prevention
  • Criminal Law
  • Introduction to Criminology
  • Legal Skills and Research
  • Legal and Criminal Justice Systems
• Options:
  • Contract Law
  • Criminology in Action
  • Foundations of Psychology
  • Tort

Year 2

• Core:
  • (None)
• Options:
  • Climate Change and Environmental Law
  • Commercial Law
  • Community Justice
  • Company Law
  • Contemporary Issues in Criminology
  • Contract Law
  • Crime and the Media
  • Criminal Justice Placement
  • Critical Perspectives on Imprisonment
  • Cybercrime and Cybersecurity
  • Drugs and Crime
  • Employment Law
  • Equity and Trusts
  • European Law
  • Family and Child Law
  • Human Rights
  • Humanitarian Law
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • International Law
  • Land Law
  • Medicine Ethics and the Law
  • Police, Policing and Society
  • Principles of Evidence
  • Psychological Explanations of Criminal Behaviour
  • Psychology and Crime
  • Psychopathology
  • Public Law
  • Sports Law and Society
  • Technology, Artificial Intelligence and the Law
  • Tort
  • Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders
  • Victimology
  • Wrongful convictions in criminological context
  • Youth Crime and Justice

Year 3

• Core:
  • Law and Criminology Dissertation
• Options:
  • Advocacy Skills
  • Business Law and Practice and Solicitors Accounts
  • Climate Change and Environmental Law
  • Commercial Law
  • Community Justice
  • Company Law
  • Contemporary Issues in Criminology
  • Crime and the Media
  • Criminal Justice Placement
  • Criminal Law
  • Criminal Law and Practice
  • Critical Perspectives on Imprisonment
  • Critical and Radical Criminology
  • Cybercrime and Cybersecurity
  • Dispute Resolution in Contract and Tort
  • Drugs and Crime
  • Employability Skills for Professionals
  • Employment Law
  • Equity and Trusts
  • European Law
  • Family and Child Law
  • Human Rights
  • Humanitarian Law
  • International Law
  • Land Law
  • Legal Practice and Public Law
  • Medicine Ethics and the Law
  • Police, Policing and Society
  • Principles of Evidence
  • Property Law and Practice
  • Psychological Explanations of Criminal Behaviour
  • Psychology and Crime
  • Psychopathology
  • Public Law
  • Sports Law and Society
  • Technology, Artificial Intelligence and the Law
  • Treatment and Rehabilitation of Offenders
  • Victimology
  • Wills, Trusts and Estates Law and Practice
  • Wrongful convictions in criminological context
  • Youth Crime and Justice

Careers

The LLB Law and Criminology degree from Aberystwyth University will prepare you for employment in the legal profession and criminal justice system and will give you an excellent springboard into a wide range of careers. Recent graduates are succeeding in these areas:

• Criminology
• Financial management
• Business
• Human resources
• International relations
• Journalism
• Education

Teaching & Learning

You will be taught through a combination of innovative and high-quality lectures, tutorials, and seminars. Our lectures will introduce you to key concepts and relevant up-to-date information. You will also have access to recorded versions of lectures.

Our tutorials and seminars are an opportunity for you to discuss specific legal themes or topics, and to evaluate and obtain feedback on your individual learning while at the same time improving your construction of legal arguments.

Typical Entry Requirements

• UCAS Tariff: 128 - 104
• A Levels: ABB-BCC
• GCSE requirements (minimum grade C/4): English or Welsh
• BTEC National Diploma: DDM-MMM
• International Baccalaureate: 30-28
• European Baccalaureate: 75%-65% overall
• English Language Requirements: See our Undergraduate English Language Requirements for this course. Pre-sessional English Programmes are also available for students who do not meet our English Language Requirements.

Country Specific Entry Requirements

International students whose qualification is not listed on this page, can check our Country Specific Entry Requirements for further information.

The University welcomes undergraduate applications from students studying the Access to Higher Education Diploma or T-level qualifications, provided that relevant subject content and learning outcomes are met. We are not able to accept Access to Higher Education Diplomas or T-levels as a general qualification for every undergraduate degree course.

Our inclusive admissions policy values breadth as well as depth of study. Applicants are selected on their own individual merits and offers can vary. If you would like to check the eligibility of your qualifications before submitting an application, please contact the Undergraduate Admissions Office for advice and guidance.