Bachelor of Arts in Criminology and Criminal Justice / Bachelor of Creative Industries (Dual Degree)

Western Sydney University - Parramatta South Campus

Australia,New South Wales

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48 Months

Duration

CAD 33,120/year

Tuition Fee

CAD 0 FREE

Application Fee

Jul 2025

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Australia, New South Wales

Type: University

Location Type: Semi-Urban

Founded: 1989

Total Students: 49,200 +

Int. Students: 6,300 +

Campus Detail

Main Campus Address

169 Macquarie Street, Parramatta NSW, 2150

Bachelor of Arts in Criminology and Criminal Justice / Bachelor of Creative Industries (Dual Degree)

Program Overview

Tailor your studies to your specific goals by combining our Bachelor of Arts degree with the Bachelor of Creative Industries degree.

When you graduate after four years, you have two degrees, and the unique skills relevant to the contemporary employment environment. The Arts component combines academic knowledge with practical real life training. It is designed to equip you with a broad range of skills and knowledge in research and critical enquiry, and is sufficiently flexible to cater to a range of career aspirations and personal interests.

In the Creative Industries component, you will combine a core of entrepreneurship with major studies including culture and society, creative writing, design, enterprise innovation, journalism, literature, media arts, music performance and photo media. You will have the opportunity to develop projects with real creative industries and deliver solutions across a range of platforms.

Major: Criminology and Criminal Justice
This criminology major offers students the opportunity to study crime and criminal justice in a critical way that particularly stresses social and cultural definitions of criminality and the reactions to it.

Areas of focus include criminal justice institutions and practices; the development of criminology as a discipline and its various strands; forms and patterns of victimisation; crime prevention strategies and debates; aspects of juvenile justice; the evolution of prisons and different forms of punishment; law enforcement and surveillance; violence, gender and crime; cultural depictions of crime and contemporary debates in criminology.