BSc (Hons) - Security, Intelligence and Investigative Practice (Integrated Foundation Year)

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.