On all of our courses you will gain a professional focus and real world experience of sociology ensuring you are equipped to make an immediate impact in your career You have the opportunity to embark on a year-long sandwich placement as part of your degree course The course s professional relevance is supported by our close links with local criminal justice agencies including Birmingham Community Safety Partnership and West Midlands Police Force We have also worked with local schools youth work family support housing and advice agencies We have links with local voluntary statutory and commercial organisations such as SIFA Fireside and NACRO Women s Aid and Citizen s Advice Bureau among others giving you the chance to undertake a placement and develop your practical skills All our courses have an international focus This is embedded throughout the curriculum giving you the opportunity to transform your experience with us into a global one There are a variety of exciting possibilities open to you ranging from our successful international travel scholarships scheme through which you can spend a summer working for a charitable organisation overseas to one of our many overseas study exchange programmes As a student on one of our undergraduate degrees you will be able to benefit from our Graduate initiative This three-year award course enables you to gain award levels for all the extra-curricular activities you undertake so that you can stand out from the crowd on graduation The department is recognised for being at the forefront of sociological research specialising in areas such as Black Studies human rights and social identities You will share a common first year with Sociology BA Hons allowing you the opportunity to transfers onto the course in your second year Gain an understanding of the contemporary social world by practising a form of sociological inquiry that is informed knowledge-applied evidence-based and interdisciplinary You will study in our state-of-the-art City Centre Campus ideally located for you to take advantage of our links to industry in the UK s second city Employability is interwoven into every aspect of our course Areas of employment for Sociology graduates can include local and central government roles publishing market research and marketing fundraising youth community and housing work and voluntary not-for-profit sector management Birmingham City University has just launched the UK s first Centre for Brexit Studies researching all aspects of the UK s vote to leave the EU including the impact it has on cultural identities both in Britain and in Europe

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