1566
Nathan
Gold Coast
Mount Gravatt
Logan
South Bank
Online
Offshore
Other
4 years full-time
8 years part-time
320
For Continuing Students Only
In this specialised double degree, students will learn about the causes of crime and society's response to it, whilst developing a core of IT technical knowledge related to your chosen major from those listed below.
Graduates of the program will have a broad and coherent body of knowledge in the fields of criminology and criminal justice, including an in-depth understanding of various theoretical frameworks underpinning the study of criminal behaviour, victimisation and criminal justice responses to crime, and crime prevention.
Additionally, students will have a broad and coherent body of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) knowledge, with depth in the underlying principles and concepts in ICT problem solving (i.e., how to use modelling methods and processes to understand problems, handle abstraction and design solutions), ICT professional knowledge (i.e., ethics, professionalism, teamwork concepts and issues, interpersonal communication, societal issues/legal issues/privacy, history and status of discipline), technology building (i.e., programming and human-computer interaction), and/or technology resources (i.e., hardware and software fundamentals, data and information management, and networking).
The Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice/Bachelor of Information Technology is offered full-time on-campus at the Nathan, Mt Gravatt and Gold Coast campuses and Online.
To be classed as a full-time student, you are required to enrol in a minimum number of credit points each standard study period. The minimum credit points for full-time enrolment in this program is 30 credit points.
Trimester 1 and Trimester 2 are deemed standard study periods. As Trimester 3 is a non-standard study period, continuing students moving from one year to the next will not be required to study during this trimester to be eligible for student income support.
Domestic students who commence in Trimester 3 may be eligible for student income support from the onset of study provided they are enrolled full-time in this study period.
Please refer to the Australian Government website for more details.
You will find opportunities in police and law enforcement, corrections, intelligence data collection and analysis, crime prevention, non-police law enforcement and investigations.
Students in this program MAY BE REQUIRED to undergo the Working with Children Check and be issued with a Blue Card before they undertake work experience or placements in professional settings.
Blue Card applications must be submitted online by the student via the Queensland Government Blue Card Services website. There is no fee for a student Blue Card.
Graduates of this program may continue their studies by undertaking the Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice (Honours) (Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice (Honours) (2022)/Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice (Honours) (2117)) or the Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours) (Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours) (2011)/Bachelor of Information Technology (Honours) (2020)
These fees are only applicable to domestic students who are not Commonwealth supported including:
If the fee rate for your program is not displayed above, please contact Student Connect for assistance.
Eligible undergraduate fee-paying students may defer their tuition fees by taking out a FEE-HELP loan which is part of the Higher Education Loan Program (HELP). Payment of the loan is via the taxation system when income reaches a specified level.