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About Landing PageThe BA (Hons) in Criminal Justice Studies is a three year degree course designed to equip the student with general knowledge and transferable skills while focusing on the broad theme of criminal justice. It is a multidisciplinary course.
While this course is both inter-disciplinary and multidisciplinary in order to help students develop general academic skills, it is designed with those in mind who would like to enter the criminal justice professions and seeks to cater for their specific educational requirements.
Semester 1 | Semester 2 |
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Introduction to Sociological Problems | Introduction to Management |
Introduction to Psychology | Introduction to Research |
Critical & Creative Thinking | Introduction to Employment Law |
Irish State & EU Structures | Irish Legal System |
Foundations of Irish Law | Aspects of Family Law |
Introduction to Criminal Law | The Sociology of Contemporary Ireland |
Semester 3 | Semester 4 |
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Foundations of Ethics: Philosophical & Theological | Social Ethics |
Criminology 1 | Criminology 2 |
Irish Fundamental Rights | Human Rights Law |
Incarceration & the Law | Legal Research |
Victimology | Policing & the Police |
*Elective | *Elective |
Semester 5 | Semester 6 |
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Applied Criminal Law 1 | Applied Criminal Law 2 |
Ethnicity & Criminal Justice | Practical Management |
Organisational Psychology | Applied Criminal Evidence |
Introduction to Personal & Professional Development | Applied Forensics |
Theory of Criminal Evidence | *Elective |
*Elective | *Elective |
*Electives are chosen from a selection of Law modules offered at the discretion of WIT |
2 subjects: H5
4 subjects: O6/H7
English or Irish: O6/H7
Mathematics: O6/H7
The Probation Service
The Security Industry
The Civil Service
An Garda Síochána
The Prison Service
Research
Journalism
Non-Governmental Organisations
Banking
Taught Masters programmes or Masters degrees by Research at WIT or other third-level Colleges.