Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in English with Placement Year

at City, University of London United Kingdom

You will study a broad curriculum in your first two years – learning about cognitive, behavioural and biological psychology – before having the opportunity to specialise in your final year.

We offer four pathways linked to the expertise of our staff, who are all research-active academics and practitioners. Continue with our BSc Psychology degree or specialise in:

• BSc Psychology with Counselling and Health Psychology
• BSc Psychology with Organisational Psychology and Behavioural Economics
• BSc Psychology with Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience
• BSc Psychology with Child Development.

This flexibility offers you the chance to start shaping your CV as your career aspirations take shape.

• Learn from internationally recognised research-active academics
• Study cutting-edge topics related to our research activity, in areas such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Autism, Child Development, Memory, and Counselling and Health Psychology
• Benefit from our three specialist research centres that provide a link between our research and professional practice and industry
• Develop your research skills in our specialised psychology research laboratories
• Boost your employability with an integrated professional training year, research assistant opportunities or volunteering.

You will be introduced to the fast-paced world of commercial publishing and learn the how the different sectors of the publishing industry fit together.

Our digital publishing element shows you how social media and web publishing is vital to finding and sustaining your community of readers.

We aim to improve your skills as a creative writer, particularly as a writer of short stories and novels. You will build the skills and experience needed to better engage with the publishing industry and work within it.

Who is this course for?

If you are a writer seeking to develop publishing industry knowledge alongside writing skills, this programme is ideal. You can get hands-on publishing experience and enhance your creative practice.

Whether you are an experienced writer or relatively new to the field, you will be equipped with new professional competencies from creative digital content to traditional print.

This degree provides the first stage of professional training for aspiring barristers and solicitors, laying the foundations for a rewarding legal career.

It is also suitable for anyone who wants to develop in-demand transferable skills such as critical thinking, commercial awareness, reasoning and research.

You’ll be trained to deal with challenging situations, excel under pressure, and demonstrate professionalism in your work environment.

• Access 250,000 books and 25,000 online journals with City’s library service, including our brand-new dedicated Law Library (opening 2020)
• Choose to specialise in Commercial Law, International Law, Human Rights and Law with Professional Practice
• Develop your commercial awareness and professional network with an intensive five-week micro-placement with a legal employer
• Practise your skills with our popular Pro Bono Unit, which provides legal advice to real clients
• Volunteer for the Start Ed Commercial Law Clinic - a free walk-in centre offering assistance for small businesses and start-ups
• Master important legal skills, such as research and analysis, public speaking and argument with regular mooting.

Get quick and easy access to the latest research materials and legislative updates with Lawbore, our acclaimed legal resource portal.

Mental health nurses help patients understand and manage their condition, take positive steps towards recovery, and minimise the impact of their mental health on everyday life.

Working in community or hospital settings, you will support patients of all ages and backgrounds, with diverse conditions such as anxiety, depression, addiction, eating disorders, OCD, perinatal depression and more.

This three-year degree is accredited by the Nursing and Midwifery Council and provides the opportunity to train in one of London's leading departments for nursing.

You will graduate with the skills and knowledge to start your career with confidence, due to the wide range of professional experiences built into your training.

• Benefit from diverse clinical placements at East London NHS Foundation Trust
• Practise your skills in our well-equipped Clinical Skills Centre, before transferring these skills to real life settings
• Spend approximately half your time on clinical placement, understanding the journeys of service users including older people, children, the severely ill and those in recovery
• Learn from leading academics, active researchers, clinicians and experts in mental health nursing, to gain up-to-date insights about professional practice.

This accredited integrated master’s covers mechanical, computational and sustainable life-cycle engineering in this high-tech field.

Over four years, students develop professional engineering skills, with a focus on innovative and sustainable solutions to future mechanical engineering systems.

Individual and group engineering design projects demonstrate students’ expertise to future employers. Whilst a fourth year, at master’s level, it helps to transition from study to professional practice.

• Benefit from strong links to industry and exceptional industry involvement in the degree programme. Profit from City’s vision of sustainable engineering, a fundamental aspect in future Mechanical and Design Engineering.
• Study in world leading test facilities, including our thermo-fluid laboratories, engine test beds and  low-turbulence wind-tunnel, and high-speed tunnel belonging to the UK National Wind Tunnel Facility initiative.
• Work with modern state-of-the art experimental equipment and high-performance computational fluid solvers, both being developed at City and supported by world-experts in those fields.
• Enjoy easy access to our central London location and benefit from the links to our international aviation program, with City being the hub for key national and international industries.

You will develop your clinical and theoretical knowledge with the guidance of expert practitioners informed by the most up-to-date research.

You will gain a detailed understanding of the expanding role of optometrists in the co-management of patients.

Your studies will be underpinned by a core module in Research Methods and Applied Data Analysis to develop your critical research skills.

Elective modules will allow you to build your professional knowledge and contribute to research in your particular areas of interest.

Our International Political Economy BSc is designed to meet increasing demand for an interdisciplinary course that prepares students for both the public and private job markets.

This bespoke programme – the first degree in IPE in the UK – provides training in a range of conceptual and analytical skills. These will help you analyse the challenges facing decision-makers in business and politics in the global age.

You will be able to analyse complex dynamics of the global markets, financial systems and national political structures. You’ll have the skills and knowledge to draw connections between economic, political and social processes driving major changes on the global scene.

• Study politics, the economy and society as a whole, developing a fully integrated understanding of the world’s changing economic and political topography
• Receive interdisciplinary training from the largest concentration of world-renowned experts in IPE and related fields
• Benefit from our close links to business, the financial sector, policy-makers and think tanks

Develop data literacy, analytical skills and in-depth understanding of micro- and macro-economic theory that are sought-after a wide range of careers.

The benefits of this course are many and varied and will help you build a thorough understanding of the field and its application across the games industry.

By the end of the programme you will have specialist knowledge of computer graphics, AI, the ability to design and build game engines from scratch, knowledge of the games development process and experience of planning, managing and completing a major games technology project.

Who is this course for?

If you have a passion for computer games and a strong interest in programming, this course is perfect.

The programme will help you build on your undergraduate degree, which should be in a numerate subject with substantial computing content.

Throughout the course you’ll build strong technical skills suitable for professional programming roles in the games industry.

This degree provides strong technical expertise in electronics, power engineering, signal processing, control systems and engineering management.

It provides a solid foundation for anyone who wants to pursue a career at the cutting edge of technology, developing innovative solutions in areas like communications and robotics.

We have been educating electrical and electronic engineers for almost 90 years.

Our degrees are dual-accredited by professional bodies, meaning your qualification will be recognised for its quality and relevance. Furthermore, you will:

• Learn from research-active academics working at the cutting-edge of their field
• Develop highly relevant, in-demand skills thanks to industry involvement in our curriculum
• Put your in-depth engineering knowledge into practice and apply your expertise to real-world problems with design projects at every stage of your studies
• Gain hands-on experience with high-tech equipment in newly refurbished undergraduate and research labs, including chip production facilities and electrical power equipment
• Take an optional work placement to boost your grades, employability and professional expertise
• Pass your second year and apply to transfer to our integrated MEng degree, which fast tracks your progress to Chartered Engineer status.

This programme builds on our international reputation in creative writing, journalism and publishing.

You will study the written word across time and space, from Shakespeare to social media, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to comic books.

By the end of the degree you will have produced your own creative and professional writing.

You will also have developed critical and analytical skills needed to understand how the written word shapes, and is shaped by, the world we live in.

• Immerse yourself in world literature and engage with current debates in literary scholarship
• Write creatively, professionally and analytically in a range of different forms, via a range of different media
• Learn from a team of expert lecturers who are passionate about engaging with the written word in all its forms
• Develop employability skills with a placement module in a relevant business, like publishing, teaching, journalism and the arts
• Or spend a full year on work placement – there are amazing opportunities on your doorstep in London’s exciting Knowledge Quarter
• Access awe inspiring library collections – including the Senate House Library, with millions of books and beautiful study spaces, and nearby British Library.