What will I learn?
**Course overview**This course includes a foundation year - ideal if you need additional preparation or if you don't have sufficient grades to join Year 1 of a degree. The course draws on law, crime scene science, criminology and investigation, giving you a broad, holistic and stimulating learning experience. Knowledge and skills developed will be valuable across a range of careers such as the police, prison service, probation service, border force, intelligence services, forensic services, and civilian investigative roles. Your teaching team have professional and teaching experience, and delivery methods are varied, including practical skills and theoretical knowledge with a real-life flavour. They draw upon local case studies to enrich your learning experience in class and by sending you out into the community. Put theory into practice using our fingerprint lab, crime scene evidence room and our crime scene house which presents over 30 crime scene areas. Network of contacts with criminal justice organisations and practitioners, locally and nationally, our Policing Clinic, strong links with Her Majesty’s Prison, probation service, and Cleveland Police ensures your course is relevant and adds additional depth and breadth to your studies. First-class facilities enable you to develop and hone important professional and practical skills including our simulated police station equipped with interview rooms, a custody office and an enquiry desk. You benefit from an immersive learning experience and expand your understanding of practical procedures. In addition, our replica court room has the features of a modern court and offers invaluable courtroom experience to increase your awareness of the needs of victims and witnesses. We have a proven track record of working effectively with policing and criminal justice partners which provide unique employability opportunities. Our exceptionally talented crime and investigation team are from a variety of backgrounds including policing professionals and academia giving you an authentic and current learning experience. We support you to build your confidence as you progress through the course. We’ll teach you how to study well, write coherently and critically engage with ideas, develop professional and practical skills, experience and knowledge giving you key transferable skills, which form the foundations of a successful career.**Top reasons to study this course*** **Step into the scene:** discover how to present and contest evidence in our replica courtroom, preserve a crime scene in the crime scene house, or see how suspects are booked and charged in our replica police station.* **No two days the same:** the subject is incredibly varied and always interesting – you’ll enjoy exploring every angle.* **Understand the bigger picture:** develop a deep understanding of crime, criminals and how the justice system operates in the real world.* **Be part of the solution:** explore the root causes of crime and learn how to prevent and reduce it, creating safer communities.**Employability**\You can enter a broad range of careers including the police service as a police officer or member of police staff (for example, crime scene investigator, intelligence analyst, fingerprint examiner), other law enforcement or criminal justice agencies, voluntary organisations, the public sector or the law sector, and postgraduate training or study. All programmes are designed to incorporate employability skills development alongside your degree course. Our staff utilise their extensive connections to provide many and varied opportunities to engage with potential employers through fairs, guest lecture sessions, live projects and site visits. In addition we offer a series of workshops and events in the first, second and third year that ensure you are equipped with both degree level subject knowledge PLUS
