Politics (Hons)

Overview

Delivered by experienced, expert and enthusiastic academics, it combines political concepts, ideas, values and institutions, and explores the relationship between political theory and practice. 

Your learning experience will go beyond observing and studying, and prepare you for engaging with politics in your career. Our core placement scheme offers opportunities that have seen former students work in parliament and MPS’ constituency offices – seeing politics-making from the inside, and providing a great basis for professional development.

Employability

Graduates of the Politics (Hons) degree offered by London South Bank University are in demand for their skill-mix, including analysis, critical thinking, research, and strong communication skills.

As a graduate you’ll be able to appreciate that problems are often multi-faceted and require thoughtful, creative and logical approaches. Such graduates are highly valuable (in both commercial and Not-for- Profit sectors) because of their ability to contribute to strategic decision making.

Typical careers are:

• teaching
• voluntary sector project management
• work in NGOs, local and central government
• general commercial businesses
• national delegations at the United Nations