Who is it for?
This Media, Communication and Sociology (Hons) course at City, University of London is for those students wishing to pursuing postgraduate careers in media and related research fields such as professional journalism training and careers in publishing, advertising, public relations, marketing and arts administration and policy.
There are also an increasing number of employment opportunities in the rapidly expanding new cultural and creative industries sector of the economy.
Objectives
This course will enable you to develop the methodological expertise to analyse social data, as well as the analytical capability to identify and engage with social policy debates. You will develop specific skills relevant to a variety of professions, as well as critical thinking, which is prized in graduate employment.
The degree's affiliation with the Q-Step Centre ensures that graduates possess strong data literacy and quantitative methods skills, which are highly sought after in sectors as diverse as the government and local government, education, market research organisations, the not-for-profit sector, the financial sector and the news media. You can further your data skills through a Quantitative Methods (QM) pathway for your final 2 years of study.
Placements
You are encouraged to take advantage of the excellent internship opportunities that City's central London location provides.
Sociology students have secured placements with a diversity of organisations, large and small, international and local and often situated within minutes of the University, working in the following areas:
- Media and communications
- Crime and justice
- Human rights
- Migration and refugee support
- Mental health.
If you opt onto a Q-Step pathway, you will do a workplace Data Placement in Year 2 and have the opportunity to do an international placement between Year 2 and Year 3.
Career prospects
This course will enable you to develop the methodological expertise to analyse social data, as well as the analytical capability to identify and engage with social policy debates. You will develop specific skills relevant to a variety of professions, as well as critical thinking, which is prized in graduate employment.
The degree's affiliation with the Q-Step Centre ensures that graduates possess strong data literacy and quantitative methods skills, which are highly sought after in sectors as diverse as the government and local government, education, market research organisations, the not-for-profit sector, the financial sector and the news media. Alumni who have entered all of these fields and many others upon graduation.
As well as successfully pursuing postgraduate careers in media and related research fields, they pursue professional journalism training and careers in publishing, advertising, public relations, marketing and arts administration and policy.
There are also an increasing number of employment opportunities in the rapidly expanding new cultural and creative industries sector of the economy.
