Undergraduate Studies: Why Study Politics?
A degree in Politics from Sheffield will give you a broad-ranging yet highly relevant qualification that will prove invaluable in whatever career you choose. A degree in Politics gives you a flexible qualification for the employment market.
For more than 70 per cent of graduate job vacancies, employers are more interested in your intellectual calibre and transferable skills than in the subject of your degree, and these are among the qualities for which Politics graduates are highly valued in the careers market.
In recent years our graduates have gone into a wide range of professions. They became administrators, recruitment consultants, campaign co-ordinators for charities, and analysts with accountancy firms, to name just a few.
When you study Politics, you will be taught not what to think, but how to think:
- how to gather relevant information and marshal arguments in a logical and clear fashion
- how to deepen your understanding of a range of political phenomena
- how to form independent judgements about some of the major controversies of our age.
You will discover how the key concepts in politics, such as justice, freedom or equality, are contested and you will gain a broad understanding of such important issues as democracy, political participation, globalisation, environmentalism, feminism and the links between politics and economic performance.
In addition, you will develop a range of general, interpersonal skills:
- communication and presentation skills
- IT skills
- information-gathering skills
- project-planning skills.
- team-working skills