Program Overview

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Professional Policing (with Foundation Year), BSc (Hons)

Attendance

Full-time

Campus

Preston Campus

Start

September 2025

Duration

4 years

UCAS Code

PP15

Delivery

In-person

Overview

This Professional Policing (with Foundation Year) degree leads on to a full BSc (Hons) programme. A foundation year is a great option if you want to study at university but don’t currently have the qualifications needed for your chosen honours degree.

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.

BSc (Hons) Professional Policing

When you successfully complete the foundation year, you'll progress onto Year 1 of our BSc (Hons) Professional Policing which is taught through block learning. This means you’ll study one module at a time, and you'll focus on one topic before moving on to the next one.

The BSc (Hons) Professional Policing is pre-recognised by the police service as one of the entry routes for the role of police constable. From Year 1 you'll cover the national curriculum for the police constable role, taking your first steps towards a successful career in the police.

Other Pathways

This foundation year covers aspects of policing, law and criminology. This means you’ll also be able to progress onto any of our following courses:

• BSc (Hons) Policing, Law Enforcement and Investigation
• BSc (Hons) Cyber Investigations with Digital Forensics
• BA (Hons) Criminology and Criminal Justice
• BA (Hons) Criminology and Sociology
• LLB (Hons) Law
• LLB (Hons) Law with Business
• LLB (Hons) Law with Criminology

Why Study with Us

• This course is an ideal pathway if you’re looking to progress on to our BSc (Hons) Professional Policing programme.
• You’ll be taught by leading academics and staff who have real world experience both in the police force and the wider law enforcement sector.
• You’ll learn about policing, the English legal system and decision making and investigation within police forces.

Entry Requirements

• Minimum qualifications:
  • UCAS: 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

• 2025/26:
  • UK: £5,760 for the first year, £9,535 per year (full-time)
  • International: £17,250 for the first year, £17,325 per year (full-time)

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
• Independent study

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