Policing Studies (Top-Up) BSc (Hons)

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Overview

Course options

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Degree with distance learning

UCAS code: PS10 N/A UCAS points
  1. BSc (Hons) Policing Studies (Top-Up)

    • Home Applicant
    • Part time, 2 years
    • 4480 Per year. Discounted fee for some forces such as the Met Police.

What makes this course different

  • Learn from the best

    You’ll be taught by practitioners and world-renowned experts and advisers in policing who provide opinion, skilled analysis, comment and advice to government, the media and other bodies.

  • Improve your policing skills

    We work across five continents taking the best ideas forward to re-imagine a policing service.

  • Open to all police services across the UK

    We work closely with law enforcement, including the Met Police, to ensure our courses address current issues. We are experts in areas like gang crime, cybercrime, counterterrorism and equality.

Course modules

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Professional Development Portfolio

Research – Practitioner Skills (with proposal)

Professional Policing (work) based project (dissertation)

Organised Crime & Contemporary Challenges

Leadership, Coaching & Mentoring – Term 2

Digital Policing and Terrorism (Term 1)

Cybercrime in Contemporary Society

NOTE: Modules are subject to change. For those studying part time courses the modules may vary.

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Your future career

We offer dedicated careers support, further opportunities to thrive, such as volunteering and industry networking. our courses are created in collaboration with employers and industry to ensure they accurately reflect the real-life practices of your future career and provide you with the essential skills needed. You can focus on building interpersonal skills through group work and benefit from our investment in the latest cutting edge technologies and facilities.

Our Criminal Justice Project offers students an exceptional opportunity to work on community-based cases. Students get to collaborate with legal experts.

Industry links

You will be taught by practitioners and world–renowned experts and advisors in criminology and policing.

Graduate employers

Graduates have found jobs in a number of related areas, such as:

  • the police, prison, and probation services
  • central and local government 
  • social work 
  • voluntary organisations, including victim support groups. 

Job roles

This course is for existing police personnel with over 3 years of service (and out of their probation), and for those who have recently retired.

Explore the different career options you can pursue with this degree and see the median salaries of the sector on our Career Coach portal. 

Further study

This course is for existing police personnel but if you want to study one of our masters degrees in law or community work, we offer many options.

How we support your career ambitions

We offer dedicated careers support, further opportunities to thrive, such as volunteering and industry networking. our courses are created in collaboration with employers and industry to ensure they accurately reflect the real-life practices of your future career and provide you with the essential skills needed. You can focus on building interpersonal skills through group work and benefit from our investment in the latest cutting edge technologies and facilities.

Career Zone

This digital platform provides you with careers and employability resources, including:

  • Jobs board for internships, placements, graduate opportunities, flexible part-time work 
  • Mentoring programmes for insight with industry experts 
  • 1-2-1 career coaching services 
  • Careers workshops and employer events 
  • Learning pathways to gain new skills and industry insight

Mental Wealth programme

Our Professional Fitness and Mental Wealth programme issues you with a Careers Passport to track the skills you've mastered. Some of these are externally validated by corporations like Amazon and Microsoft.

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We are careers first

Our teaching methods and geographical location put us right up top: 

  • Work-based projects 
  • Networking and visits to leading organisations 
  • Support in starting a new business 
  • London on our doorstep

How you'll learn

You'll be taught by practitioners and world-renowned experts and advisers in policing and adjoining subject areas who are regularly called upon to provide opinion, skilled analysis, comment and advice to government, the media and other bodies.

Some of the ways you will learn are through: Guided reading, Knowledge-based activities with feedback, Student-led interaction via online discussion forums and activities, Self-directed learning facilitated by course and module handbooks and other learning materials, Research skills-based activities with feedback, Group exercises, Peer learning sets, Completion of learning/reflective journal/portfolio, One-to-one coaching, Formative feedback on work from tutors through blended approaches including face-to-face, via email, webcam, discussion boards and workshops.

You will engage in continual self-reflection and evolving strategies to improve your professional knowledge

    Guided independent study

    We are investing in key areas beyond your studies including our career services, library and well-being, to be available both face-to-face on campus and online with many of these available 24/7. We have new, modern library facilities on both campuses offering inspirational environments for study and research. Libraries contain resources in print and digital formats, a range of study spaces and dedicated librarian who can assist with your learning.

    Academic support

    Students are supported with any academic or subject-related queries by an Academic Advisor, module leaders, former and current UEL students.

     

    Dedicated personal tutor

    If you need a bit of extra help with certain skills such as academic writing, English, maths or statistics, our Academic Tutors offer workshops, drop-in sessions and one-to-one appointments to help our students achieve their potential. You can receive advice and guidance on all aspects of the IT systems provided by the university from our IT.

    Workload

    Each year you will spend around 300 hours of timetabled learning and teaching activities. These may be lectures, workshops, seminars and individual and group tutorials. Contact hours may vary depending on each module.

    Your timetable

    You will receive your personalised timetable at the beginning of the academic year dependent on your course.

    Class sizes

    The size of classes can vary depending on the nature of the course, module and activity. This can range from large groups in a lecture theatre setting, to smaller groups taking part in seminars and collaborative work.

How you'll be assessed

We'll assess you with a mixture of coursework. Coursework includes essays, reflective reports and group and seminar presentations. You'll be given plenty of feedback to help you improve.

You will also have the chance to complete a work-based project, drawn from your own independent research.

Campus and facilities

University Square Stratford

Who teaches this course

This course is delivered by Royal Docks School of Business and Law

The teaching team includes qualified academics, practitioners and industry experts as guest speakers. Full details of the academics will be provided in the student handbook and module guides.

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What our students and staff say

Nadia-Habashi
I love empowering our diverse students through learning; enabling and teaching them skills which enhance their opportunities and life chances. Most of all, I love to watch my students grow more confident as they start to believe in themselves, their abilities and what they are truly capable of."

Dr Nadia Habashi

Senior lecturer