Do you want to delve into an enthralling field that deals with the complexities of crime and responses to crime? Look no further.

Our program addresses the causes, politics and management of criminality from a range of disciplinary perspectives.

You will develop and understanding of a range of issues in contemporary criminology including definitions and representations of crime, victimization, policing, the criminal justice system, transnational crime, and restorative justice.

The ANU Bachelor of Criminology draws attention to the social dimensions of crime and deviancy and assesses the effectiveness and implications of crime control measures.

The human capacity for language is at the heart of the study of linguistics. The field encompasses the nature of different languages and the nature of language as a cognitive and social phenomenon. It asks questions such as: How do we communicate? In what ways are languages different and similar? How do we learn language? Why does language change over time? What is the relationship between mind and language? The Master of General and Applied Linguistics offers the opportunity to explore these and many other questions through an especially broad selection of topics. The program will provide you with a solid grounding in linguistic theory, analysis and associated methodologies, and offers the opportunity to study language as a cognitive, social and historical process. Students can also study a broad range of languages as part of the degree.

Employment Opportunities

In the Bachelor of Criminology you will learn about the drivers of crime and how society responds to it. The breadth of knowledge that you learn can be applied to many different industries and institutions. Graduates may find work in government, intelligence, correctional services, social work, journalism and policy making.

In the Bachelor of Criminology you will learn about the drivers of crime and how society responds to it. The breadth of knowledge that you learn can be applied to many different industries and institutions. Graduates may find work in government, intelligence, correctional services, social work, journalism and policy making.

Learning Outcomes

1. better understand the social conditions, forces and relations influencing crime and deviance, criminal justice system processes, and crime control interventions;
2. develop sophisticated analytical techniques and research skills for applied use in the field of criminology and in social research more generally;
3. critically evaluate theories, concepts and methodological approaches relating to all aspects of contemporary criminological inquiry; and
4. critically assess criminal justice policies and other social, cultural and legal responses to criminality and crime control from an informed interdisciplinary perspective.

1. apply established theoretical frameworks critically and creatively at an advanced level to the description, analysis and explanation of linguistic data and language use;

2. identify sources of linguistic data, and evaluate the reliability of those sources and their relevance to theoretical issues;

3. research complex language phenomena using a variety of sources and techniques, and communicate this research to both specialist and non-specialist audiences; and

4. apply a sophisticated understanding of language and its use to real-world language contexts.

Admission Requirements

At a minimum, all applicants must meet program-specific academic/non-academic requirements, and English language requirements. Admission to most ANU programs is on a competitive basis. Therefore, meeting all admission requirements does not guarantee entry into the program.

In line with the university's admissions policy and strategic plan, an assessment for admission may include competitively ranking applicants on the basis of specific academic achievement, English language proficiency and diversity factors.

The University reserves the right to alter or discontinue its programs and change admission requirements as needed.

Domestic applicants

Before applying for a program, you should review the general information about domestic undergraduate admission to ANU programs and how to apply, and the program-specific information below.

• Applicants with recent secondary education are assessed on:
  • completion of Australian Year 12 or equivalent, and the minimum Selection Rank (from their academic qualifications, plus any adjustment factors) requirement for this program; and
  • co-curricular or service requirement (applies to applicants who complete secondary education in the year prior to commencing at ANU); and
  • English language proficiency; and
  • any program-specific requirements listed below.
• Applicants with higher education study are assessed on:
  • previous higher education studies; or secondary education results if completed less than one full-time equivalent year (1.0 FTE) of a degree; or the result from a bridging or preparatory course; and
  • English language proficiency; and
  • any program-specific requirements listed below.
• Applicants with vocational education and training (VET) study are assessed on:
  • previously completed VET qualifications at AQF level 5 or higher (i.e. a Diploma or above); or secondary education results if the VET qualification is not completed; and
  • English language proficiency; and
  • any program-specific requirements listed below.
• Applicants with work and life experience are assessed on:
  • ATAR or equivalent if secondary education was completed; or the Special Adult Entry Scheme (SAES); or work experience; and
  • English language proficiency; and
  • any program-specific requirements listed below.

International applicants

Applicants who complete a recognised secondary/senior secondary/post-secondary/tertiary sequence of study will be assessed on the basis of an equivalent selection rank that is calculated upon application. A list of commonly observed international qualifications and corresponding admission requirements can be found here. Applicants must also meet any program specific requirements that are listed below.

Diversity factors & English language proficiency  
As Australia's national university, ANU is global representative of Australian research and education. ANU endeavours to recruit and maintain a diverse and deliberate student cohort representative not only of Australia, but the world. In order to achieve these outcomes, competitive ranking of applicants may be adjusted to ensure access to ANU is a reality for brilliant students from countries across the globe. If required, competitive ranking may further be confirmed on the basis of demonstrating higher-level English language proficiency.

Further information is available for English Language Requirements for Admission

Adjustment Factors

Adjustment factors are additional points added to an applicant's Selection Rank (for example an applicant's ATAR). ANU offers adjustment factors based on performance and equity principles, such as for high achievement in nationally strategic senior secondary subjects and for recognition of difficult circumstances that students face in their studies. 

Selection Rank adjustments are granted in accordance with the approved schedules, and no more than 15 (maximum 5 subject/performance-based adjustment factors and maximum 10 equity-based adjustment factors) can be awarded. 

You may be considered for adjustment factors if you have:

• applied for an eligible ANU Bachelor degree program
• undertaken Australian Year 12 or the International Baccalaureate
• achieved an ATAR or equivalent at or above 70
• not previously attempted tertiary study.

Please visit the ANU Adjustment Factors website for further information.

Scholarships

ANU offers a wide range of scholarships to students to assist with the cost of their studies.

Eligibility to apply for ANU scholarships varies depending on the specifics of the scholarship and can be categorised by the type of student you are.  Specific scholarship application process information is included in the relevant scholarship listing.

For further information see the Scholarships website.

Program Requirements

The Bachelor of Criminology requires completion of 144 units, of which:

A maximum of 60 units may come from completion of 1000-level courses

The 144 units must include:

42 units from completion of the following compulsory courses:

CRIM1001 - Criminological Imaginations: Understanding Criminality (6 units)

CRIM1002 - Criminological Perspectives: Understanding Crime (6 units)

CRIM2001 - Doing Criminology: Research and Practice in Crime and Criminal Justice (6 units)

CRIM3001 - Professional Perspectives on Crime and( Prevention (6 units)

CRIM3005 - Diversity and Crime: Equality in the Criminal Justice System (6 units)

SOCY2038 - Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods (6 units)

SOCY2043 - Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods (6 units)

6 units from completion of a course from the following list:

SOCY1002 - Self and Society (6 units)

SOCY1004 - Analysing the Social World: An Introduction to Social Psychology (6 units)

A minimum of 12 units from:

ANIP3003 - Australian National Internships Program A (6 units)

ANIP3005 - Australian National Internships Program B (12 units)

CRIM3002 - Corruption in Sport (6 units)

CRIM3003 - Criminology at the Scene (6 units)

CRIM3004 - Criminology at the Scene - Extended (12 units)

CRIM3006 - Crime Prevention: Theory and Practice (6 units)

LING3032 - Advanced Forensic Linguistics: Forensic Voice and Text Comparison (6 units)

POLS3036 - International Terrorism (6 units)

SOCY3001 - Research Internship (6 units)

A minimum of 24 units from completion of courses from the following list:

ANTH2130 - Violence and Terror (6 units)

CRIM2000 - The Illicit Economy (6 units)

CRIM2002 - Organised Crime: Understanding the Underworld (6 units)

CRIM2003 - Controversies in Crime Control (6 units)

CRIM2005 - Alcohol, Drugs and Crime: Promoting Health and Preventing Consequences (6 units)

CRIM2006 - Young People and Crime: Developmental Criminology and its Discontents (6 units)

CRIM2007 - Order in the Courts: An Introduction to the Australian Judicial System (6 units)

CRIM2008 - Punishment and Society: An Introduction to Penology (6 units)

CRIM2009 - Corruption in our World (6 units)

CRIM2010 - Cybercrime: An Introduction (6 units)

CRIM2011 - Special Topics in Criminology (6 units)

CRIM2013 - Policing (6 units)

CRIM2014 - Introduction to Crime Science (6 units)

CRIM2015 - Targeted Violence: Criminological Approaches to Understanding and Prevention (6 units)

HIST2232 - Crime and Justice: Historical Dilemmas (6 units)

PHIL2020 - Theories of Social Justice (6 units)

POLS2100 - Genocide in the Modern World (6 units)

PSYC2011 - Introduction to Forensic and Criminal Psychology (6 units)

SOCY2026 - Excessive Appetites: Sociocultural Perspectives on Addiction and Drug Use (6 units)

SOCY2157 - Surveillance and Society (6 units)

A maximum 12 units from completion of courses from the following list:

BIAN2128 - Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology (6 units)

ENGL2081 - Australian Crimes: Crime Narratives on Page, Stage and Screen (6 units)

GEND2021 - Trauma, Memory and Culture (6 units)

HIST1209 - Terror to Terrorism: A History (6 units)

HIST2238 - Human Rights in History (6 units)

INDG1001 - Indigenous Peoples, Populations and Communities (6 units)

LING2105 - Forensic Linguistics: Language and the Law (6 units)

24 units from completion of introductory graduate linguistics courses from the following list:

LING6001 Introduction to the Study of Language

LING6002 Language and Society

LING6010 Sounds of the World's Languages: Phonetics and Phonology

LING6013 Teaching Languages

LING6015 Language, Culture and Translation

LING6018 Languages in Contact

LING6020 The Structure of English

LING6021 Cross Cultural Communication

LING6105 Forensic Linguistics: Language and the Law

LING6311 Language and Social Interaction 

24 units from completion of elective courses from ANU

24 units from completion of elective courses from ANU.

The Master of General and Applied Linguistics requires completion of 96 units, which must consist of:

24 units of specified credit from graduate courses completed in the Bachelor degree

24 units of unspecified credit

A maximum of 24 units from completion of disciplinary courses from any of the following lists:

Structural Linguistics

LING6003 Grammar of the World's Languages

LING6008 Semantics

LING6010 Sounds of the World's Languages: Phonetics and Phonology

LING6026 Topics in Advanced Syntax and Morphology

LING6033 Advanced Sociophonetics

LING6525 Special Topics in Linguistics

Language learning

LING6013 Teaching Languages

LING6023 Dictionaries and Dictionary-Making

LING6029 Assessing Language

LING6101 Second Language Acquisition

LING6521 Child Language Acquisition

Language in society

ASIA8051 Language and Power in Asia and the Pacific

LING6015 Language, Culture and Translation

LING6021 Cross Cultural Communication

LING6022 Language Policy and Language Politics

LING6034 Communication in Heath Care

LING6105 Forensic Linguistics: Language and the Law

LING6311 Language and Social Interaction

Forensic Linguistics

LING6105 Forensic Linguistics: Language and the Law

LING6032 Forensic Linguistics: Forensic Voice and Text Comparison

Language documentation and language change

ASIA6308 Linguistic Histories in Asia and the Pacific

LING6005 Language across time

LING6018 Languages in Contact

LING6529 The History of the English Language

Language-specific linguistics

ARAB6505 Introductory Course to Arabic Linguistics

JPNS6024 Japanese Grammar

JPNS6513 Japanese - English Translation

JPNS6514 Teaching Japanese Method

LANG6004 Language and Society in Latin America

LING6016 Language and Society in Indigenous Australia

LING6017 Chinese Linguistics

LING6020 The Structure of English

LING6027 Language and Society in Latin America

LING6028 Japanese Linguistics

LING6030 Advanced Academic English

LING6040 Austronesian Languages

LING6031 Papuan Languages

SPAN6022 Intermediate Spanish II (Language and Linguistics)

SPAN6509 Advanced Spanish Topics in Language and Linguistics

SPAN6514 The Structure of Spanish

SPAN6516 History of the Spanish Language: A Linguistic Time Travel

SPAN6518 The Sounds of Spanish

SPAN6604 Multilingualism and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas

12 units from completion of compulsory research methods courses from the following list:

LING8026 Qualitative Research Methods in Language Studies

LING8027 Quantitative Research Methods in Linguistics

A maximum 12 units from completion of research methods courses from the following list:

LING6009 Field Methods in Linguistics

HUMN8032 Writing for the Research Process

A minimum of 12 units and a maximum of 24 units from completion of research project courses from the following list:

ASIA6308 Linguistic histories in Asia and the Pacific

HUMN8030 Digital Humanities and Public Culture Research Project

HUMN8031 Digital Humanities and Public Culture Research Project (Advanced)

JPNS6512 Teaching Japanese: Content

LING6005 Language Across Time

LING6010 Sounds of the World's Languages: Phonetics and Phonology

LING6016 Language and Society in Indigenous Australia

LING6017 Chinese Linguistics

LING6023 Dictionaries and Dictionary-Making

LING6028 Japanese Linguistics

LING6029 Assessing Language

LING6036 Advanced Sociolinguistics

LING6101 Second Language Acquisition

LING6311 Language and Social Interaction

LING6521 Child Language Acquisition

LING6525 Special Topics in Linguistics

LING6040 Austronesian Languages

LING6034 Communication in Health Care

LING6031 Papuan Languages

LING8001 Graduate Reading Course (Linguistics)

LING8003 Readings in Applied Linguistics

SPAN6022 Intermediate Spanish II (Language and Linguistics)

SPAN6514 The Structure of Spanish

SPAN6604 Multilingualism and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas

A maximum of 24 units from completion of courses from any of the following language specialisations:

Ancient Greek Language and Culture

Arabic Language and Culture

Australian Indigenous Languages and Society

Burmese Language and Culture

Chinese Language and Culture

English Language

French Language and Culture

German Language and Culture

Hindi Language and Culture

Indonesian Language and Culture

Italian Language and Culture

Japanese Language and Culture

Korean Language and Culture

Latin Language and Culture

Mongolian language and Culture

Persian Language and Culture

Portuguese Language and Culture

Russian Language and Culture

Sanskrit Language and Culture

Spanish Language and Culture

Tetum Language and Culture

Thai Language and Culture

Tok Pisin Language and Culture

Vietnamese Language and Culture

Specialisations

Master of General and Applied Linguistics Specialisations