Professional Studies University of Leeds

Overview

During the  Professional Studies programme offered by the University of Leeds You’ll gain the exciting opportunity to personalise your studies, based on your own experience and interests, by choosing a third of the degree topics from our specialised pathways, or from a wide range of discovery modules.

Key Facts

This unique and interdisciplinary course, taught by the University's Lifelong Learning Centre (LLC), is particularly relevant if you can bring prior work and life experience to your studies. There'll be opportunities for you to gain further experience, learning from and undertaking research for local organisations and employers, as well as investigating areas of your own interest.

The course explores key contemporary issues relevant to all of our lives and to a wide range of professional roles such as globalisation, diversity, health, creativity, leadership and technology. It also offers a set of modules to help develop your own professional identity, learn about the world of work, and research areas of your own interest. And then for a third of the degree you will choose from an exciting range of subjects offered from within the Lifelong Learning Centre and the rest of the university.

The course content is continually updated and developed to help you further your adaptability and effectiveness in the fast-changing world of work so that you can develop your professional profile for a wide range of graduate jobs. It encompasses professional and project strands which focus on skills relevant to a wide range of careers.