Modules

**Year one**
- Essential University Skills One
Develop the academic and professional skills required for effective learning and successful progression through your chosen course.
- Contemporary Issues and the Media
Explore a range of contemporary issues through the lens of the media that relates to your subject area.
- Introduction to Policing, Criminology and Law
Gain a basic understanding of the English and Welsh Legal and Criminal Justice system, and Criminology as a discipline.
- Essential University Skills Two
Further develop the skills acquired in Essential University Skills 1.
- Families, Communities & the Criminal Justice System
Gain an understanding into the psychological and societal risk factors and pre-cursors to criminality.
- Professional Practice in the Community
Develop your awareness of community groups and activities to help your understanding of society.

**Year two**
- Intelligence, Structures and Products
An introduction to the core concepts essential to understanding the definition of intelligence and its place in the context of 21st century policing.
- Managing Criminal Enquiries
An introduction to the fundamental theory and practice of criminal investigation.
- Crime Scene Investigation
Explore techniques involved in crime scene investigation and recovery of evidence as practised by UK forensic agencies.
- Operational Security
An introduction to the processes that result in security measures being implemented.
- Cyber Security
An introduction to protective digital practice, using real-word examples to reflect the complexity of cyber crime in an increasingly digital society.
- Evolution of threat
Explore the history of threat in the form of protest, extremism and terrorist activity, drawing on underpinning literature, enquires and a practical context.

**Year three**
- Investigative Interviewing
Explore the importance of human testimony to the gathering of information as a central component of investigative practice
- Serious Organised Crime Investigations
Develop knowledge of decision making, crime, investigation and offending, examining the nature and development of serious organised crime.
- Covert Operations
An introduction to covert techniques used within investigations.
- Security Risk Management
Learn to recognise risk in both physical and electronic environments.
- Digital Intelligence
Understand technical intelligence gathering operations using cutting edge and bespoke methods to collect and analyse intelligence.
- Practical Action Research (optional module)
Develop your research skills through an action research project, using independent enquiry skills.
- Forecasting Future Challenges (optional module)
Develop research skills, recognising and forecasting potential threats to individuals and communities.

**Year four**
- Global Threats & Risk Principles
Develop a comprehensive understanding of the repercussions of events in a globalised environment.
- Safeguarding Society
Understand how to manage vulnerability.
- Freedoms and Protections
Explore what privacy means in contemporary society.
- Extremism
Gain a detailed understanding of theory and practice surrounding acceptable protest and illegal extremism.
- Dissertation/ Work Based Project
Develop an appropriate investigation into a chosen area of practice.

Assessment methods

Summative and formative assessment is an important part of the programme curriculum. It is recognised that a breadth of assessment strategies is supportive across the range of student preferences.

Support will be provided to successfully meet the assessments within modules. A selection of assessment methods are employed including:
- Case studies
- Essays
- Reports
- Examinations
- Practical skills assessment
- Poster presentation
- Oral briefings
- Virtual reality supported vignettes