These include careers in personnel management, public relations work and marketing as well a number of different careers in one of the caring professions, where people with communication difficulties are commonly encountered. Previous graduates from this course have also gone on to further study in order to enter various professions, including social work, special needs teaching and primary education. The degree is also a suitable basis for applying to train as a speech and language therapist at a postgraduate level and is therefore an option for individuals who wish to delay making the decision to pursue a career in speech and language therapy until after their undergraduate study. The BSc is a modular course. This means that it comprises a combination of core, compulsory courses, studied by all students on the course, together with a range of optional modules, from which individual students may choose in order to concentrate on particular areas of interest.
All students complete a dissertation in their final year, focusing on a particular area of interest.