Undergraduate Foundation Pathway in Humanities, Social Sciences and Education - Continue to Bachelor of Science (Honours) - Politics and Sociology (with Placement year)

LBIC offers University Foundation Studies for candidates who do not meet the direct entry criteria or hold high school qualifications that are not recognised. Upon successful completion of the pathway programme students will progress onto Brunel University London.

Politics and Sociology at Brunel is a dynamic combination of high level study in both subjects. The politics studies will help students address critical questions like: Who has political power? Why do they have it? And in whose interest do they exercise it?

Meanwhile, the studies in sociology will look at subjects like sociological theory, social identities, the sociology of everyday life and the changing nature of modern societies. Students will be studying people, societies and how people live, and on the other how they are governed or want to be governed.

Students can opt for a placement year to gain valuable experience to help give them the edge in the job market when they come to graduate. Past students have secured placements in the Home Office, HM Treasury, the House of Commons, and the Competition Commission, but the list of possibilities is endless.

Brunel graduates of this subject enter diverse careers. Some go into politics and the civil service, some are at GCHQ and military intelligence, and some go on to further study or into research.