Career opportunities
This course enables students to develop the methodological expertise to analyse social and psychological data and the analytical capability to identify and engage with social policy debates. Students develop skills relevant to several professions, plus critical thinking, which is prized in graduate employment. The skills developed in this degree are highly sought after in sectors as diverse as government, the NHS, education, market research organisations, the notfor-profit sector, human resources, the financial sector and the news media.
Opportunities for work placements
Sumayya Janmohamed Sociology with Psychology BSc (Hons) Graduated 2015
Dr Vanessa Gash Senior Lecturer, Associate Fellow of the Centre for Comparative Social Surveys (CCSS)
One of the highlights of my time at City has been taking part in the Sprint Programme. Sprint is a development programme for undergraduate women and it was held for the first time in London at City last year: we had the chance to network with potential employers, discuss our career aspirations with mentors and take part in development activities. The Programme helped me focus on applying for placements.
Dr Vanessa Gash is responsible for the development, management and delivery of core and optional modules in sociology and research methods for students in Sociology and related disciplines. In addition, she oversees the supervision and assessment of Masters and PhDs in Sociology and related disciplines.
In terms of my degree, I appreciated the wide range of modules on offer across Sociology and Psychology: I feel that this prepared me well for the future.
Students on the course have the opportunity to undertake a work placement between the second and third years.
Sociology with Psychology BSc (Hons)
Elective modules: — Approaches to Autism — Judgment and decision-making — Global migration processes — Celebrity and society — Applied multivariate data analysis — Topics in advanced quantitative social research — Democracy, social media and participation — New media: from cyberspace to social media — Youth crime.
Dr Gash is Head of International Studies, responsible for liaison with partner universities and Junior Year Abroad, Study Abroad and Exchange students. She is the Departmental Liaison with the Associate Dean of Research Students on the School’s strategy towards achieving Doctoral Training Centre status in 2016 and an active member of the Departmental Structuring Inequalities Research Group. She joined City University London in 2013. Before then she worked at both the Department of Sociology and the Department of Social Statistics at the University of Manchester.
Opportunities for study abroad
Students may study for between one and three terms at a partner institution in Europe through the British Council Erasmus scheme.
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