Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Criminology and Psychology

at City, University of London United Kingdom

Our finance courses are for students who want to progress with the knowledge and skills required for a successful career in the increasingly competitive world of global finance and banking.

The BSc Finance is for someone who knows they are interested in finance, and at this point would like to keep their eventual finance career options open. The skills you gain during your studies will equip you both for a career in finance or further, postgraduate study.

Our three degrees in finance (Finance, Banking and International Finance, and Investment and Financial Risk Management) provide detailed knowledge of how financial markets work, how companies make investment, financing and acquisition decisions and how modern banks operate. If you are looking for a career in finance and weighing up which aspects of the field excite you the most, this course if for you.

This course will sharpen your understanding of the broad disciplines involved, from corporate finance to asset pricing, international finance to corporate governance. Throughout your studies, you’ll focus on quantitative methods, enabling you to understand the cutting-edge techniques in use today. In the second half of the finance degree, core modules allow you to create a bespoke degree that matches your own interests. As a result, you will gain a good understanding of financial markets, its activities, and its products.

The jobs in this field are both exciting and well paid. They demand intellectual rigour and commercial acumen, and by selecting this course, you too can prepare yourself with the skills and competencies these jobs require.

This degree has a strong focus on the practical link between theory and real-world application. You'll learn the mathematics and statistics that underpin economics and develop professional accountancy skills and techniques.

On successful completion of this degree, you will gain multiple exemptions from professional licensing examinations with several prestigious accountancy bodies, including CIMA, ACCA and ICAEW. This means you'll be a step closer to professional qualification as an accountant.

• Learn with leading experts in the field from our Department of Economics and our Business School
• Develop a wide range of economic and quantitative skills and knowledge
• Stand out from the crowd with a professional placement year - past students have undertaken placements with organisations like PriceWaterhouseCoopers, GlaxoSmithKline, RBS and HM Treasury
• Follow in the footsteps of recent graduates who now work for major global corporations, such as KPMG, Bloomberg, RBS, Deloitte, Lombard, PwC and Ernst & Young
• Lay the foundations for further study in economics, business, finance and management - past graduates have progressed to LSE, UCL, Oxford and Cambridge.

On this four-year integrated Computer Science MSci (Hons) master’s degree, you will develop a comprehensive overview of all areas of computing.

By exploring the diverse applications of computing science, you’ll keep your career options open and develop a broad portfolio of professional expertise.

You’ll become proficient in computing, coding, programming and problem-solving, as well as developing management and communication skills.

• Develop systematic knowledge of computer science, with a focus on how software and programming can be used to solve real-world problems
• Boost your professional credibility, employability and earning potential with a degree that satisfies the academic requirements for CEng status
• Learn to code creatively and use programming languages accurately
• Study in City’s computing labs, which include the latest hardware and software, such as state-of-art NVidia GPUs
• Gain practical work experience with an optional one-year work placement
• Study at master’s level in your fourth year, learning alongside our internationally renowned researchers at the cutting edge of the subject
• Get three years of professional experience with our innovative Professional Pathway Scheme, combining paid employment and study.

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.

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.

This course will offer those students wishing to report on domestic and international affairs the opportunity to study in greater detail the forces that have shaped the world, and for historians and students of politics to acquire extra skills to become first-rate communicators in whichever professional field they choose to enter.

City’s Journalism department enjoys a first-rate reputation among professional journalists because of the high standard of graduates it produces.

Successful journalists are interested in ideas. This course will give you the education in Journalism, Politics and History for professional success in a complicated world where politics is often polluted by disinformation.

• Location in central London, one of the world’s leading media capitals, with access to the Journalism department’s excellent facilities, and extensive industry contacts
• The chance to study, and report on, British and international politics and history at a time when the U.K. is redefining its relationship with the rest of the world
• A focus throughout on how your studies will prepare you for professional success

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.

You will learn about the visual and audio communication of topical information.

Our course is not just about presenting on screen or on air, but you must be prepared to present your material on camera or to a microphone, and write and direct material for others.

We emphasise practical skills. This means you will spend a considerable amount of time learning the professional practice of key broadcast journalism skills including research, newsgathering, interviewing, presenting, self-shooting/recording and editing.

You will also learn core skills in media law, journalism ethics and data journalism.

Who is this course for?

Our course is suitable if you have a degree and are seeking to become a well-rounded broadcast journalist. You should have a keen existing interest in television, radio, social and digital news, and current affairs. You will also have a knowledge of sport, lifestyle and politics.

This course prepares you for a career in the global aerospace industry. You’ll develop in-depth engineering knowledge each year, putting it into practice through cross-disciplinary design projects at every stage of your studies.

• Learn about the design, analysis and testing of aeronautical and aerospace vehicles and associated technology
• Study in industry-standard specialist facilities including our flight deck, motion simulators, wind tunnels, fuel injection systems, formula car simulator and flight test course
• Prepare for professional practice in your final year, with an in-depth individual design project based on industrial needs
• Boost your employability with an optional 12-month professional placement - past hosts include Airbus, DHL, British Airways, EDF Energy
• Future-proof your skills with our focus on design innovation and sustainability
• Progress to a high-tech career in the airline and aircraft industries
• Shine at interview with practical examples to showcase your expertise, thanks to real-world projects throughout your studies
• Benefit from our industry connections and outstanding reputation as the first UK university offering aeronautic engineering.

Focus on developing the cutting-edge skills you require to work in this area of growth in the media industry. Our MA in Data Journalism is designed to build skills in working with data and communicating the stories that emerge from it in a range of innovative and engaging ways.

The MA Data Journalism has been developed to allow students to develop the skills required to work within specialist teams that are being developed in newsrooms across the country.

There’s a strong focus on telling data-driven stories with engaging graphics, working as part of an agile team and using data techniques to investigate key issues.

The course offers a mix of technical skills that allow students to investigate, analyse and visualise information as well as the core Journalistic skills of research, storytelling, media law and ethics.

Across the course you will build a portfolio of visualisations and journalistic work and develop the problem-solving skills required to work in the agile and developing area of data journalism.

Who is this course for?

The course is suitable for students from any background with an interest in current affairs, story development and innovation.

Previous knowledge of journalism or coding is not required as the course provides a stepping-stone into careers in data in the news industry and beyond.