Social Science

From serial killers to the justice system, you'll study the act of crime in forensic detail. Level 3 Applied Diploma in Criminology is a two year course, which you can study alongside A Levels. Teachers are specialists and use a variety of teaching methods to engage students in the study of crime, deviance and society’s response to these.

Society is all around us - family, education systems, different cultures, religious beliefs, crime and deviance. Just some of the topics we discuss. If questions such as ‘What is the definition of family?’, ‘Why do people break the law?’ and ‘Is religion still important in Britain?’ are of interest to you, then Sociology at Runshaw College is the course for you!

Are you intrigued by what causes our behaviour and what makes us who we are? This fascinating subject studies the complexities of human and animal behaviour and experience. Across the course, students cover areas such as cognition and memory, social behaviour such as obedience and prejudice, behavioural processes in terms of how we learn, physiological processes such as how the brain affects behaviour.