PG Cert Security and Crime Science

A minimum of a lower second-class Bachelor's degree from a UK university in a relevant discipline or an overseas qualification of an equivalent standard.

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Our graduates are fully equipped for exciting careers on the frontlines of crime science, in both the public and private sector, in areas such as intelligence and crime prevention analysis.

Compulsory modules

• Foundations of Security and Crime Science
• Designing and Doing Research
• Preventing Crimes
• Crime Mapping and Spatial Analysis
• Quantitative Methods
• Perspectives on Organised Crime
• Investigation and Detection
• Perspectives on Terrorism
• Introduction to Cybersecurity
• Qualitative Research Methods
• Cybercrime
• Horizon Scanning and the Changing Nature of Crime
• Intelligence Gathering and Analysis
• Risk and Contingency Planning
• Applied Data Science
• Simulation for research
• Online Extremism and Hate Crime
• Assessing Extremism Risk
• Understanding Multivariate Modelling and Causal Inference
• Human trafficking, smuggling and exploitation
• Perspectives on Extremism and Terrorism

Optional modules

• Designing and Doing Research
• Preventing Crimes
• Crime Mapping and Spatial Analysis
• Quantitative Methods
• Perspectives on Organised Crime
• Investigation and Detection
• Perspectives on Terrorism
• Introduction to Cybersecurity
• Qualitative Research Methods
• Cybercrime
• Horizon Scanning and the Changing Nature of Crime
• Intelligence Gathering and Analysis
• Risk and Contingency Planning
• Applied Data Science
• Simulation for research
• Online Extremism and Hate Crime
• Assessing Extremism Risk
• Understanding Multivariate Modelling and Causal Inference
• Human trafficking, smuggling and exploitation
• Perspectives on Extremism and Terrorism
• reasonable adjustments
• Student Support and Wellbeing Services
• UCL Student Support and Wellbeing Services
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• UCL Student Support and Wellbeing Services.