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	Brock Critical Criminology OUAC BBC Remove	Hearst Arts – Général (3 ans) Études des enjeux humains et sociaux; Gestion; Psychologie OUAC LHF Remove	Ottawa Communication and Sociology (Joint Honours – 4 years) (French Immersion Stream is available) OUAC OXT Remove
Your average, their wayrequired courses forced in
Published rangetheir exact wording	73–77%“Mid 70s”	70%“70 %”	70–80%“70%; co-op 80%”
Required coursesforced into your top 6 — options are the row below	ENG4U	FRA4U	No course codes parsed — see prerequisites
Choose one ofany of these satisfies it	—	—	one of ENG4U, FRA4U
Prerequisitesas published	ENG4U Alternative Offers You will receive an offer of admission to only 1 program. Your highest listed choice is considered first when you indicate more than 1 Brock program on your application. If you are not eligible for your first choice, your subsequent choices will be considered in your indicated order of preference. In most cases: If you apply to only 1 Brock program but do not qualify, you will be considered for an alternative or related program. If you apply but are not admitted to a co-op program, you will automatically be considered for the regular, non-co-op program.	FRA4U 5 autres cours de niveau 4U/M Alternative Offers S/O	ENG4U or FRA4U
More than marks?supplementary application	Marks only	Marks only	Marks only
Co-op	No	No	Available
Degree	—	—	Bachelor of Arts (Co-op), BA (Co-op), Bachelor of Social Science, BSocSc
First-year intakewhere published	—	—	—
What you study	Law & Criminology	Business Studies Interdisciplinary Studies Management Studies Psychology	Interdisciplinary Studies Journalism Media and Communication Studies Sociology
What it is	Critical Criminology examines why crimes happen and how criminal justice systems work, focusing on how power, inequality, and social structures shape both crime and punishment. Unlike traditional criminology, which mainly studies criminal behaviour itself, this program questions whether laws and enforcement are fair and who benefits from the current system. It suits students interested in understanding crime as a social problem rather than just studying offenders.	This three-year arts degree lets you study human and social issues from multiple angles — combining courses in psychology, sociology, management, and business. Unlike a specialized honours program, it gives you breadth across disciplines rather than depth in one field, so you can explore how people behave, organizations work, and societies function together. It suits students curious about people and society who want flexibility to discover their focus before committing to a specific major.	You study how people communicate and how society works, combining media, journalism, and social analysis. Unlike a program focused only on communication or only on sociology, this joint degree lets you examine both how messages spread through society and why societies function the way they do. It suits students interested in understanding culture, institutions, and human behaviour through multiple lenses, and who want practical work experience alongside their studies.
The door tomajors you reach through it	criminology	Applied to directly	Applied to directly
Entrance awardsat this campus, by average	4 published, 1 with no applicationfrom 80%See them	None published by average	22 published, 5 with no applicationfrom 75%See them
Source	Brock University on OUInfo	Université de Hearst on OUInfo	University of Ottawa on OUInfo

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