Our CAVA Access to HE programmes at City College Plymouth offer fantastic opportunities to retrain for a new job and a more fulfilling career. This Access to Higher Education Social Science pathway can enable you to retrain in social science careers such as psychology, sociology, criminology, criminal justice services, drugs and alcohol counselling or philosophy and ethics. After completing this one-year, full-time course you could progress to university courses in psychology and other social science-related subjects – all depending on your aspirations and the combination of subjects you choose.

This Diploma of Higher Education in Criminology and Sociology offers you the chance to study topical and at times controversial, criminological and sociological subject matter.  You'll be introduced to the social research process, exploring what social research is, how it’s conducted, and why it’s important so you'll become curious, inspired, and empowered to think critically about the process of producing knowledge about the social world.