Criminology

Major/Minor/Specialisation !D22-AA-SPC+1011 (2015)

Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2015.

Year and Campus: 2015

Coordinator

Assoc. Prof. John Fitzgerald

Email: jlfitz@unimelb.edu.au

Contact

Enquiries
Phone: 13 MELB (13 6352)
Email: 13MELB@unimelb.edu.au

Overview:

Criminology draws knowledge and perspectives from a range of disciplines such as law, sociology, psychology, psychiatry and history. Initially, criminology had a strong practical focus: its role was to advise governments on issues such as policing, the management of prisons, sentencing and offender treatment. Concern with policy and practice remains, but criminologists now work in a much wider range of fields including crime prevention, corporate and white-collar crime, business regulation, drug policy and consumer and environmental protection. Criminology doesn’t take crime and criminal law for granted. As an academic discipline it continually questions why different societies define and respond to crime in different ways, and why approaches to punishment and other forms of social control have varied so much from era to era. Increasingly criminologists also study the ways cultures depict crime: whether in newspapers, television and other mass media or in films, novels and art.

Learning Outcomes:

See program objectives

Structure & Available Subjects:

Duration: 1 year full-time / 2 years part-time

The Graduate Diploma in Arts in this area of specialisation requires:

  • two compulsory subjects (25 points)

  • two core subjects (25 points)

  • elective subjects (50 points)

Total 100 points

Please note: students can only take a maximum 12.5 points of Level 1 subjects

Subject Options:

Compulsory Subjects

Two compulsory subjects (25 points)

Subject
Study Period Commencement:
Credit Points:

Core Subjects

Two core subjects (25 points)

Subject
Study Period Commencement:
Credit Points:
Semester 2
12.50
Semester 1
12.50

Elective Subjects

Elective subjects (50 points)

Please note: students can only take a maximum 12.5 points of Level 1 subjects

Subject
Study Period Commencement:
Credit Points:
Semester 1
12.50
Not offered in 2015
12.50
Semester 2
12.50
Links to further information: http://www.ssps.unimelb.edu.au/
Related Course(s): Graduate Diploma in Arts

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