Program Overview
The Master of Criminology at the University of Sydney is a multidisciplinary program that provides a comprehensive understanding of crime, criminal justice, and social control. Led by renowned criminologists, it equips students with knowledge and skills for careers in the criminal justice and social welfare sectors, including criminal agencies, non-profit organizations, and academia. The program offers full-time and part-time options and emphasizes research, policy, and applied learning.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The Master of Criminology is a postgraduate coursework degree designed to equip students with a deep understanding of crime and social control in policy, theory, and practice. It explores contemporary questions about crime and criminal justice within modern Australia, comparing it to a global context.
Objectives:
The program aims to:
- Develop students' knowledge of criminology and criminal justice through multidisciplinary learning.
- Provide insights into crime and social control.
- Build the knowledge and skills required to work with public and private criminal justice and social welfare agencies.
Program Description:
The program focuses on crime theories, psychology, public policy, social research, legal practice and theory. It prepares students for careers in various criminal justice and social welfare sectors.
Teaching:
- The program is taught by leading Australian criminologists.
- Face-to-face classes are delivered by experts in various fields, including criminal law, criminal justice policy, juvenile and restorative justice, forensic psychology, crime and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander issues, international and comparative criminal justice and policing.
- The program emphasizes the importance of research, policy, and applied learning.
- Students can experience the working environment of criminal justice agencies through the Criminal Justice Internship.
- The Criminology Research Project units provide a pathway to Higher Degree Research.
Careers:
Graduates from the Master of Criminology program work across a broad range of areas, including:
- Criminal justice agencies
- Non-criminal justice state agencies
- Government policy and politics
- Border protection and intelligence agencies
- Local government
- Research institutions
- Non-government organisations (NGOs)
- Consumer groups and advocacy organisations
- Private companies
- Universities
Other:
- The program is offered full-time (1 year) and part-time.
- The program is delivered across two locations: Camperdown/Darlington University of Sydney and Sydney CBD Castlereagh Street.
- The program offers 48 credit points, which is equivalent to eight units of study.
- Two compulsory units of study are:
- Crime, Research & Policy
- Explaining Crime
- Students can choose from a wide range of elective units.
- Seminars, courses, and units of study offered under Sydney Law School's Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Program meet the requirements for individual members of the Law Society of New South Wales or the New South Wales Bar Association to maintain legal registration through continuing education.
