Education

What can you find on this webpage?

Our (future) students can find the official study programme and other useful info here.

You can find information about admission requirements, further studies and more practical info such as ECTS sheets, or a weekly timetable of the current academic year.

 Are you a future student?

Be sure to first take a look at the page about the Master of Criminology.

There you can find more info on:

- What’s the programme about?

- Starting profile

- Admission and application

- Future possibilities

- Why KU Leuven

- Contact

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Objectives

Criminological theories and phenomena learning path
1. The student possesses in-depth knowledge of and insight into criminological theories and phenomena and is able to contextualise this knowledge and insight within a broader legal and socio-scientific perspective at the local, national, European and international levels.
2. The student possesses in-depth knowledge of and insight into one of the following sub-domains of criminology, i.e. criminality and security/insecurity, person and community-related criminology or law enforcement.
3. The student is able to apply knowledge of the paradigms and frameworks of reference of diverse socio-scientific disciplines to criminological research and criminological practice.
4. The student can analyse, contextualise and synthesise criminological and other socio-scientific texts and assess them in terms of their relevance and scientific value.

Law and policy learning path
5. The student has an insight into the separate international and European levels at which criminal policy is developed, into the functioning of these levels and into their direct or indirect impact on the criminal policy of states and Member States.
6. The student is able to evaluate developments in criminal policy in light of the required balance between the control, organisation and management approach on the one hand and the fundamental human rights and freedoms approach on the other.

Methods learning path
7.The student possesses in-depth knowledge of and insight into either quantitative, qualitative or comparative law research methods.
8. The student able to assess the value of research results of related socio-scientific disciplines and integrate them into his or her research and is able to establish his or her own viewpoint within diverse scientific perspectives and justify it.
9. The student is able to adopt an academically substantiated social viewpoint and communicate this verbally and in writing.

Interventions learning path
10. The student is able to test criminological problems against existing theories and propose an appropriate criminological intervention based on an analysis from several angles.

Educational quality of the study programme

Here you can find an overview of the results of the COBRA internal quality assurance method.

Educational quality at study programme level

Blueprint
BLUEPRINT_MA_Criminology.pdf
Blauwdruk_BA_MA_Criminologische wetenschappen_Criminology.pdf

COBRA 2019-2023
COBRA-fiche_MA_Criminologische Wetenschappen_Criminology.pdf

Educational quality at university level

• Consult the documents on educational quality available at university level.

More information?

• More information on the educational quality at KU Leuven
• More information on the available documents