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.

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It’s a political minefield out there. It’s your job to make sense of it all – you even get to join in debates and attend our very own Question Time, how’s that for a Party? Studying Politics at Runshaw College will help students to understand the nature and scope of the issues and questions in the modern world and to appreciate the wide range of possible solutions that are offered. This is a subject that both unites and divides people: it unites in that challenges we face such as health and education are all relevant to our lives, and divides as few seem to agree on how to deal with these challenges.

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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.

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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!

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