Program Overview

Law with Criminology (with Foundation Year), LLB (Hons)

Attendance

Full-time

Campus

Preston Campus

Start

September 2025

Duration

4 years

UCAS Code

L458

Delivery

In-person

Overview

This course is an ideal pathway if you're looking to progress on to our LLB (Hons) Law with Criminology programme. You'll be taught by leading academics and staff who are professionally qualified as solicitors and barristers and hear from professors who are involved in ground-breaking research. You'll learn about the criminal justice system, crime in the media and explore legal topics such as the purpose of law.

Modules

Foundation Year

Compulsory Modules

• Academic Skills for Higher Education: Develop a range of core literacy skills to support the skill of extended writing so that you can study independently at Level 4 and beyond in a UK HEI.
• Verbal skills: Rights and Debating: This module will help you develop effective verbal skills and build verbal confidence by participating in the planning and presentation of individual and group tasks. As well as debates on contemporary human rights/social justice issues.

Optional Modules

• Introduction to Law and Policing: This module will introduce you to the purpose of law, the English Legal System, policing and decision making in policing. It will also facilitate discussion of the interaction of law, politics, and morality.
• Introduction to Criminology and Sociology: Consider the influence and impact of ideas about socially constructed identities, inequalities, and crime in the context of the media's representation of marginalised groups in society.
• Issues in Family Law: Examine how law regulates aspects of family life, including marriage, cohabitations, ending relationships, parent-child relationships, and domestic violence.
• Issues in Sociology: This module will introduce and explain some selected sociological theories, which you'll apply to a case study evaluation of the relationship between health, the body, and disability.
• Police Decisions: Risk and Vulnerability: Explore how the national decision-making model informs the assessment of risk and vulnerability when making decisions.
• Policing: Digital Investigation: This module outlines and explains the variety of crimes that can be committed digitally and explores how these crimes are investigated using science software to analyse and gather digital evidence.
• Issues in Criminology: Explore a range of criminological issues arising from the workings of the criminal justice system to enable a broad understanding to evolve of how criminology as a discipline frames issues relating to crime, criminality, and victimhood.
• Introduction to Psychology: In this module, you will study cognition, development, social behaviour, and individual differences. You will attend workshops on the methods of psychology, design and analysis, memory, and testing.

Why Study with Us

• This course is an ideal pathway if you're looking to progress on to our LLB (Hons) Law with Criminology programme.
• You'll be taught by leading academics and staff who are professionally qualified as solicitors and barristers and hear from professors who are involved in ground-breaking research.
• You'll learn about the criminal justice system, crime in the media and explore legal topics such as the purpose of law.

Entry Requirements

• UK: 64 points at A2
• BTEC Extended Diploma: MPP
• BTEC Diploma: MM
• Pass Access Course: 64 UCAS points
• International Baccalaureate Diploma: Pass including 64 points from Higher Level subjects
• T Level: P (D or E)
• IELTS: grade 6.0 with no component lower than 5.5
• GCSEs: 5 at Grade C/4 including Maths and English or equivalent

Fees and Funding

• UK: £9,535 for the first year
• International: £17,250 for the first year

Scholarships and Bursaries

• Care Leaver Bursary: Our Care Leaver Bursary is for students who need extra support because they have been in care or are estranged from their parents.
• Estranged student support: Estranged Student Support Bursary is for students who need extra support because they are estranged from their parents.
• Dependants Bursary: Students with financially dependent children may be eligible for our Dependants Bursary as part of our financial support package.
• Foundation Year Bursary: Our Foundation Year Bursary scheme is for students starting a four or five year undergraduate degree programme.

Learning and Assessment

This course is delivered by expert academics and practitioners with extensive experience.

Course delivery is via a mixture of lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical sessions and independent study.

Independent study is an important aspect of your course. The exact combination of study time will depend on your module choices.