New Master of Criminology at ANU launches in 2016 – features cybersecurity

New Master of Criminology at ANU launches in 2016 – features cybersecurity
Wednesday 2 September 2015

M. Crim Introduction

Tap into the growing field of criminology with this professionally focused degree located in the heart of the nation’s legal, policing, security and intelligence communities.

ANU is home to world leading researchers in the field of criminology and was the only institution to receive a ranking of five in the Excellence for Research in Australia (ERA) report in 2012. Through this flexible degree, you will be taught by internationally known academics and be able to take advantage of our proximity to national agencies, extending your learning beyond the confines of the classroom. The degree offers a problem-based and research led learning approach that enables courses to be undertaken in conventional, intensive and on-line supported modes of learning. An opportunity for a research-focused degree is available through the Master of Criminology (Advanced) that is designed as a gateway to doctoral study.

Advanced standing based on prior undergraduate work and experience enables credit for the introductory component.

Career Options

The Master of Criminology degree is designed to prepare students for service in criminal justice, security and allied occupations and enhance skills for those in such occupations. You will develop skills relevant to financial crime (including money laundering and counter-terrorist finance), cybercrime and cyber-security, data analytics, terrorism, transnational and organised crime.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the skills and knowledge to:

  1. understand and distinguish different theoretical and cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of criminology;
  2. critically review the literature, theories and response to the phenomena of criminal states and the intersection between terrorism, transnational and financial crime, cyber-security war and organized crime;
  3. apply concepts and theories used in the study of criminology to the analysis of the policy and practice of the criminal justice system, and to the evaluation of criminal phenomena; and
  4. communicate the main theoretical ideas of the criminological imagination to specialist and non-specialist audiences.

See

http://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/program/MCRIM

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