1. Criminology in the
Professions
CRI2002M
Lecture and Seminar
Programme:
Week 1
Lecture:
Introduction: Professional Opportunities in crime, policy and the social
sciences (1 Hour). Professionals from the university will talk to you
about their services.
Seminar:
Introduction to Criminology in the Professions (1 Hour). You will be put into
working groups within which you will be expected to design and pose
questions in various sessions, as well as lead a seminar in weeks 22 to 26.
Tasks for seminar:
1. Introduction to the Module.
2. Formation of working groups within which you will be expected to
design and pose questions in various sessions.
3. Appointment of team leader for each of the working groups.
4. Allocation of student led seminars to working groups:
Tasks for next week:
Think about what careers you might be interested in.
You could look at Prospects which shows you all sorts of graduate jobs on:
http://www.prospects.ac.uk
University careers service which is http://www.uolcareers.co.uk/
Join Lincoln university face book http://www.facebook.com/UOLCareers
Look also at community volunteers at http://www.lincolnsu.com/volunteer
Look in to the ‘Lincoln Award’. http://lincolnsu.com/lincolnaward
…or you could visit the university careers service which is located in the
enterprise centre which is near to the library. There’s a great café there!
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2. Week 2
Lecture:
How do I start? Applying theory to practice: Using Organisational
Cultures, Career anchors and DOT analysis (1 Hour)
Looks at how an understanding of these might help your career planning.
IT Workshop:
1. Looking ways of collating and storing your information and researching
what graduates can do with a criminology degree.
2. Working on your presentation for next week (2 Hours).
Task for next week:
1. Following on from the IT sessions, prepare a 5 minute presentation on
how you see your future life after criminology using 6 attractive power-
point slides.
2. You can do the following:
• Concentrate on one particular career strand/post graduate
course/training opportunity/travel opportunity in detail;
• Do a more general presentation and cover a number of
different examples, if you are interested in lots different
things (but remember that you only have 5 mins);
• If you don’t know what you want to do, you could identify
where you might look for information to help your career
planning eg detailing specific websites or even reflective
exercises (career anchors/dots analysis);
• You could reflect about whether there are opportunities to
start your own business.
• REMEMBER THIS IS ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT TO DO
AND DOES NOT NEED TO BE A CRIME JOB!
Criteria:
1. Presentations must be kept to exactly 5 minutes.
2. Tutors will indicate when you have 30 seconds remaining, and will stop
you at 5 minutes.
3. You must use 6 power-point slides to illustrate your presentation.
4. Presentations will be informally commented on by the tutor in the
seminars, but must be handed in on Blackboard.
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3. Week 3
Lecture:
Discourse Analysis Introduction and theoretical underpinning (1 Hour)
Analysing practitioner discourses.
Presentation Seminar 2 Hours:
Individual student presentations of your findings about potential ‘Life after
criminology’. All students will undertake a 5 minute presentation on how you
see your future life after criminology using 6 attractive power-point slides.
(These need to be handed in electronically through blackboard)
You can do the following:
• Concentrate on one particular career strand/post graduate
course/training opportunity/travel opportunity in detail;
• Do a more general presentation and cover a number of
different examples, if you are interested in lots different
things (but remember that you only have 5 mins);
• If you don’t know what you want to do, you could identify
where you might look for information to help your career
planning eg detailing specific websites or even reflective
exercises (career anchors/dots analysis);
• You could reflect about whether there are opportunities to
start your own business.
• REMEMBER THIS IS ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT TO DO
AND DOES NOT NEED TO BE A CRIME JOB!
Task for next week:
Look also at community volunteers at http://www.lincolnsu.com/volunteer
Look in to the ‘Lincoln Award’. http://lincolnsu.com/lincolnaward
Task for working group:
In your working groups, develop three questions to ask the student visitors in
next week’s seminar on developing skills.
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4. Week 4
Lecture:
Applying a discourse analysis to your practitioner analysis assignment.
(1 Hour)
Seminar: Developing skills:
1. The University provides opportunities for you to develop your
employability skills both within and outside of your degree. This
seminar identifies some of these opportunities and discusses how you
can make the best use of what is available. The seminar will include:
2. DVD presentation of ‘Life after Criminology’.
3. A discussion session with level 3 students and alumni that are taking
part in the mentor and internship schemes (1 hour).
Task for working group:
In your working groups, develop three questions to ask the Practitioner in next
week’s lecture.
.Week 5
Practitioner Lecture: (2 Hours)
The practitioner will talk for around an hour about things such as what their
everyday work life is like, what different types of opportunities are available,
what skills they are looking for and how you might gain employment in their
area. In this lecture you will be briefed by staff before and after the lecture
regarding the issues that you need to be looking for in this session. During the
session you will be expected to make notes about important subjects raised
by the practitioner, and you also may be called upon to pose a question to the
practitioner.
IT workshop:
Designing creative graduate CV’s (2 Hours)
Task for working group:
In your working groups, develop three questions to ask the Practitioner in next
week’s lecture.
Group 1 prepare seminar materials for practitioner discussion seminar.
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5. Week 6
Lecture: Practitioner Lecture (2 Hours)
Seminar: Student led seminar by group 1 (1 Hour).
Task Hand in CV electronically on blackboard.
Tasks for working groups:
All groups to develop three informed questions that you could ask the
practitioner in next week’s lecture.
Group 1 Each individual to hand in seminar materials onto Blackboard site.
Group 2 prepare seminar materials for Practitioner discussion seminar.
Week 7
Lecture: Practitioner Lecture (2 Hours)
Seminar: Student led seminar by group 2 (1 Hour).
Tasks for working group:
All groups to develop three informed questions that you could ask the
practitioner in next week’s lecture.
Group 2 Each individual to hand in seminar materials onto Blackboard site.
Group 3 prepare seminar materials for Practitioner discussion seminar.
Week 8
Lecture: Practitioner Lecture (2 Hours)
Seminar: Student led seminar by group 3 (1 Hour).
Tasks for working groups:
All groups to develop three informed questions that you could ask the
practitioner in next weeks lecture.
Group 3 Each individual to hand in seminar materials onto Blackboard site.
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6. Group 4 prepare seminar materials for Practitioner discussion seminar.
Week 9
Lecture: Practitioner Lecture (2 Hours)
Seminar: Student led seminar by group 4 (1 Hour).
Tasks for working groups:
All groups to develop three informed questions that you could ask the
practitioner in next weeks lecture.
Group 4 Each individual to hand in seminar materials onto Blackboard site.
Group 5 prepare seminar materials for Practitioner discussion seminar.
Week 10
Lecture: Practitioner Lecture (2 Hours)
Seminar: Student led seminar by group 5 (1 Hour).
Tasks for working groups:
Groups 4 and 5 each individual to hand in seminar materials onto Blackboard.
Self-Directed Learning weeks and Easter Holiday: In the self-directed
learning weeks make sure that you have uploaded all of the materials
required onto blackboard. These are:
• 6 Powerpoint slides from your ‘Life after Criminology'
presentation,
• Your CV
• Your reflection on the alumni evening.
• The seminar materials from your practitioner seminar.
• Any practitioner questions or other materials that you have
created for this module.
Week 11
Lecture: Post Graduate Options: Looking at Masters and PhD University
courses; Teaching PGCE; Law Conversions; Social Work Masters.
Seminar: Class discussion of Practitioner presentation applied to the practical
practitioner assignment.
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7. Week 12
No Lectures or seminars, but staff will be available for informal tutorials.
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