Social Science

Course summary

WJEC Level 3 Applied Diploma in Criminology is aimed at developing your knowledge and understanding of a wide range of crimes and work done in the criminal justice system. The course covers a wide variety of crime-related topics including biological and sociological theories of criminality, media representations of crime, and many more. You will have the opportunity to acquire both practical and academic skills, and the flexibility of the course enables you to study crimes you find personally interesting. The qualification is assessed using a combination of internal and external assessment. The internal assessment involves two eight-hour controlled assessments, one in the lower sixth and one in the upper sixth. There are two external assessments, again one per year, both of which are 90-minute examinations with a total of 75 marks. The units taken in lower sixth are worth 50% of the overall final grade.