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This course is designed for those in the Public Services aimed at developing knowledge, skills and competences for individuals to progress their careers, enhance their understanding of business and engage with further study in the area of leadership and management.

It is a high quality programme that adopts a blended learning approach of face to face delivery and online taught content. It is delivered by experienced academics providing the latest thinking and developments in the areas of business, leadership and management. A variety of modules ensure both academic and vocational perspectives.

Workshops:

Academic Skills Induction – All participants will undertake non-credited bridging work during Induction to ensure they are prepared for HE study. This will include study skills, research and academic writing.

Finance Workshop – underpins the study of business and improves individual knowledge of financial practices and decisions within organisations. These will be undertaken in the first Semester of the programme.

Innovation and Enterprise Workshop – underpins study of business and improves individual knowledge and understanding of the principles of enterprise and innovation. These will be undertaken in the first Semester of the Programme.

Credited Modules:

Level 5

Research Methods – this will cover the fundamentals of conducting a research project including methodology, analysis and reporting.

Marketing in Business – improves individual knowledge and understanding of the principles of marketing and the relationship between marketing and customer relationships.

Level 6

Advanced Coaching and Mentoring – Students will critically examine the role and purpose of coaching and mentoring and evaluate its use within an organisational setting.

Business Leadership – Students will examine how leaders make decisions and lead teams, evaluating their own leadership practice and self-leadership capabilities.

Reflective Business Portfolio – portfolio based module whereby students reflect upon their academic, personal and professional development within their organisational context applying relevant business theory.

Contemporary Business Issues – Review and critical evaluation of the social, political and cultural issues impacting the operation of private and public sector organisations.

Honours Project – study area of choice in leadership and management.

A key feature of this course is practical development; therefore, you’ll undertake Professional Practice modules during each year or stage of study (i.e. Levels 4,5 & 6). Each module will focus on developing the requisite skills and qualities necessary to commence a policing role, as stipulated by the College of Policing. For existing Police Constables RPL/APL will be applicable for these modules. For other staff you will complete a required number of duty hours as a Special Constable under tutorship with a serving police tutor.

The evidence based and innovative curriculum allows each learner to individually design the content of their programme (with support from their own academic adviser) to suit their own needs.  It starts with a programme planning module and a review of the learning/skills and capabilities the practitioner has developed to date.  The learner will probably be able to make a claim for this learning already achieved ‘on the job’ and evidence that it should be ‘counted against’ a part of their degree. This can reduce the number of modules the learner needs to achieve in the remainder of their programme which can be made up of:

1) Modules chosen to cover a specific technical area or a management skills. Individual modules from all courses within the University.

2) A research project (with or without research methods training). This project work is designed by the learner to achieve real impact within their work role and bring value to both themselves and their department.

The BA Criminal Justice Practice (Policing Studies) aims to:

Provide a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the core areas of criminology, with a particular focus on policing and criminal justice.

Develop the skills and theoretical knowledge required to become critically reflective practitioners

Provide a dynamic and student-centred approach to learning that reflects specialist interests and student autonomy

Enable students to develop key personal and transferable graduate skills through embedded academic and professional development

This course will encourage you to evaluate a range of theoretical perspectives from the social sciences and apply them to the social and personal context of crime, victimisation and criminal justice responses to crime. The course introduces you to the principles of social research methodologies, quantitative and qualitative techniques and processes for the analysis of research findings.

Specialist areas of interest include; policing and crime prevention, penal policy, legal and policy frameworks within criminal justice, partnership working, and personal/organisational ethics.

The course aims to:

1.Offer a course relevant to a range of careers in the area of criminal justice and related fields.

2.Develop the intellectual skills necessary for the understanding, critical evaluation and application of a range of theoretical approaches to the study of crime, deviance, policing and conceptions of rights and justice.

3.Develop students’ competence in qualitative and quantitative research methodologies

4. Develop students’ grasp of the institutional apparatus which regulates and seeks to control socially defined deviant populations
5. Develop students’ awareness of the global as well as the local dimensions of crime
6. Offer the opportunity to develop the above in relation to specialist areas of interest culminating in the production of an in-depth piece of independent research at honours level.

Students are assessed through a combination of essays, module specific research projects,

seen and unseen examinations and an individual largely self-directed project which includes an assessed oral presentation.

At level 4 assessments seek to encourage students to specify and describe theories and institutions.

At level 5 assessments require students to extend and critically to evaluate the knowledge they have encountered. Students at this level are also required to produce research reports including data analysis and interpretation.

At level 6 assessments test students’ critical knowledge of applied areas of Criminology and their ability to think and research independently.