Degrees

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BA (Hons)
Mass Communications with Advertising and Public Relations
The Mass Communications with Advertising and Public Relations degree will prepare you for employment or postgraduate study in a range of disciplines such as advertising, public relations, branding, marketing, corporate communications, mass communications, media and digital communications.  
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BA (Hons)
Mass Communications
The Mass Communications degree will give you the opportunity to explore a variety of career options and find the best fit for you.
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MSc (Hons)
Healthcare Management
Study health and social care at an advanced level, learn alongside students from around the world and enhance your career development.
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MSc (Hons)
Master of Public Health
This course is experiential, and the learning is contextual and authentic: principles taught can be applied to your public health practice.
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MA (Hons)
Journalism
If you have a passion for news and an interest in media, along with an instinct to find and produce stories across different platforms: We will teach you to develop skills to make sense of the 24-7 online news schedules, while reporting a story accurately with honesty, integrity and creativity.
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MA (Hons)
Sports Journalism
If you have a passion for the world of sport and you have an interest in media, Edinburgh Napier University will provide you with the foundation on which to enter and build a career in the sports media sphere.
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MSc (Hons)
Publishing
Our intensive, industry-focused publishing programme is the ‘standard bearer for publishing education in the UK’ and will open doors for you
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MA (Hons)
Design for Interactive Experience
This course will give you the skills and understanding to design technology driven experiences that inspire and delight.
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MA (Hons)
Heritage and Exhibition Design
Explore the development of public spaces, civic amenities and heritage sites through applied principles of exhibition and display.
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MSc
Digital Marketing Extended Masters
The course will enable you to blend design thinking and innovation models to redefine the luxury sector for the customer of tomorrow. Armed with customer market data, you will engineer new ways to influence the relationship between luxury brands, high-value services, consumer and market behaviours. Extended Masters courses have all been designed to support international students with a minimum of IELTS 5.5 (5.0) on their journey to postgraduate study.
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MSc
Luxury Brand Management Extended Masters
The course will enable you to blend design thinking and innovation models to redefine the luxury sector for the customer of tomorrow. Armed with customer market data, you will engineer new ways to influence the relationship between luxury brands, high-value services, consumer and market behaviours. Extended Masters courses have all been designed to support international students with a minimum of IELTS 5.5 (5.0) on their journey to postgraduate study.
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Design Management Extended Masters
This course offers a range of interdisciplinary perspectives from business, technology, social enterprises and new venture creation. It offers practical research and work-based projects in all areas shaping the creative economy and the fourth industrial revolution – including the role of creative interventions in technology-enabled business transformation, change management and design leadership. Extended Masters courses have all been designed to support international students with a minimum of IELTS 5.5 (5.0) on their journey to postgraduate study.
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MBA (Hons)
MBA Extended Masters
During the course, you will take an in-depth look at business management and administration and will participate in a collaborative working environment. Extended Masters courses have all been designed to support international students with a minimum of IELTS 5.5 (5.0) on their journey to postgraduate study.
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MSc
Project Management Extended Masters
Throughout this course, you will explore various project management methodologies and techniques, and learn to apply them to different project types and contexts. Extended Masters courses have all been designed to support international students with a minimum of IELTS 5.5 (5.0) on their journey to postgraduate study.
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MA (Hons)
Text and Performance
MA Text and Performance is a highly distinctive degree delivered by one of the most exciting and impactful departments in the UK. Taught by world-leading academic researchers, artists and industry professionals, you will explore the dynamic relationship between text and performance through a combination of: -writing for and about theatre and performance -theatre practice -performance-making -academic study
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MSc
Sport Management and Marketing
Our MSc Sport Management and Marketing is designed to give you the skills and expertise you need to compete in the sport industry and related businesses and organisations, by providing specialist teaching about the principles and practice of sport management and marketing.
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MRes (Hons)
Social Research and Applied Linguistics
Our MRes Social Research and Applied Linguistics is an interdisciplinary social science training programme designed to prepare you for further research in the workplace or for MPhil/PhD study.
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MSc
Quantitative Finance with Data Science
This MSc Quantitative Finance with Data Science provides you with training in advanced mathematical finance and the skills in data science needed for a career in modern financial institutions.
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Grad Cert
Psychosocial Studies
Psychosocial studies holds that conventional distinctions found in many areas of sociology and psychology between the 'psychological' and the 'social' are untenable and that our 'inner' and 'outer' worlds are empirically and theoretically inseparable.
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MSc
Analytical Bioscience
Our analytical bioscience postgraduate course provides hands-on experience and training in a wide range of analysis techniques and instrumentation used in the molecular biosciences, biomedical and pharmaceutical sectors.
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Advanced Computing
The MSc is designed to advance your knowledge of advanced computing technologies. This Master's degree in computing has significant coverage of emerging technologies and research developments and focuses on areas of expertise and research specialisation among our academic staff.
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MSc (Hons)
Sustainable Cities
MSc Sustainable Cities offers you the opportunity to understand environmental risks and how their impacts are unevenly distributed across geographies and social demographics, such as race, class, religion and gender.
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MA (Hons)
Victorian Studies
Drawing on Birkbeck's position as a world-leading centre in the field of nineteenth-century studies, MA Victorian Studies offers you the chance to take a genuinely interdisciplinary approach to studying the literature, culture and history of Victorian Britain.
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PG Cert
Web Design and Development
Our Postgraduate Certificate in Web Design and Development focuses on a user-based approach to designing websites and implementation through standards-based, accessible code. The course covers coding, user-centred planning and design, the optimisation and manipulation of images and the delivery of a final published project.
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MSc (Hons)
Structural Molecular Biology
Postgraduate structural molecular biology course provides you with excellent training and education in the core knowledge and skills required by scientists concerned with structural molecular biology methods relating to protein and cellular structural analysis.
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MSc (Hons)
Social Research
Our social research postgraduate course is an interdisciplinary social science training programme designed to prepare you for further research in the workplace or for MPhil/PhD study.
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MRes (Hons)
Social Research and Law and Legal Studies
MRes Social Research and Law and Legal Studies is an interdisciplinary social science training programme designed to prepare you for further research in the workplace or for MPhil/PhD study.
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MRes (Hons)
Social Research and Gender and Sexuality
MRes Social Research and Gender and Sexuality is an interdisciplinary social science training programme designed to prepare you for further research in the workplace or for MPhil/PhD study.
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LLM (Hons)
Qualifying Law Degree
This course places the study of law in a historical, social and comparative context. You will develop advanced skills in legal writing, oral presentation and critical reasoning. The course emphasises the importance of an academic and intellectually challenging approach to the study of law, and of its institutions and processes.
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MSc (Hons)
Sport Management
MSc Sport Management is designed to give you the skills and expertise you need to compete in the sport industry and related businesses and organisations, by combining specialist teaching about the principles and practice of sport management with general training in management, business organisation, strategy and research methods.
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MRes (Hons)
Social Research and Psychosocial Studies
MRes Social Research and Psychosocial Studies is an interdisciplinary social science training programme designed to prepare you for further research in the workplace or for MPhil/PhD study.
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MSc (Hons)
Public Policy and Management
MSc Public Policy and Management is ideal if you are working, or seeking a career, in public policy research and implementation. You will gain an advanced understanding of the ideas, interests and institutions that contribute to the making of policy across a wide range of areas, including healthcare, society and social care, migration, the environment, education and macroeconomics.
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MA (Hons)
Sociology
MA Sociology offers you the theoretical and practical tools for understanding the political, social and ecological crises with which we are currently confronted - and for imagining how the world might be different.
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MSc (Hons)
Social and Political Theory
MSc Social and Political Theory explores pressing contemporary issues using political theory and sociology. Our focus is on the nature and workings of political power and authority, and we will consider the relationships between states and societies, and the place of politics and power in everyday life.
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MSc (Hons)
Microbiology
MSc Microbiology is a research-based degree, providing you with essential training in scientific research methodology and data analysis, as well as specific scientific techniques appropriate to the research microbiologist.
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MA (Hons)
Philosophy
The course will give you a firm philosophical grounding and mastery of complex, specialised areas of philosophical study, enabling you to engage critically and reflectively with current philosophical debates.
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MSc (Hons)
Politics
This course provides you with the conceptual insights and structured empirical knowledge relevant to any area where collective decision-making is needed to address societal issues. Whether you are looking to engage in traditional politics or new forms of political mobilisation.
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MA (Hons)
Modern Literature and Culture (1900-present)
MA Modern Literature and Culture (1900-present) has been designed to offer you a set of sophisticated cultural and critical frameworks to read literature and culture, across a range of different themes, from 1900 to the present day.
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MSc (Hons)
Political Communication
MSc Political Communication provides you with advanced training in critical perspectives on a broad range of issues in political communication, including campaign and media effects, misinformation, comparative media systems and civic technologies.
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MSc (Hons)
Psychology
Birkbeck's School of Psychological Sciences is renowned for its research in neuroscience, cognition, development, health and lived experience, and you will be taught by world-leading academics.
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MSc (Hons)
Politics, Philosophy and Economics
MSc Politics, Philosophy and Economics introduces you to the basics of the three subjects and it will hone your ability to understand, evaluate and analyse real-world information. The study of philosophy will introduce you to critical reasoning and some of the most profound questions it is possible to ask about humanity.
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MA (Hons)
Museum Cultures
MA Museum Cultures combines study of the history and cultural significance of museums with opportunities for professional museum experience. If you are contemplating a career in the museum and gallery sector, this course provides you with the perfect opportunity to study this expanding and dynamic field in close proximity to world-distinguished museums and galleries.
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MSc (Hons)
Psychological Research Methods
MSc Psychological Research Methods provides in-depth training in both the quantitative and qualitative methods employed in contemporary psychological research.
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MSc (Hons)
Marketing Analytics
MSc Marketing Analytics gives you the opportunity to gain specialisation in data analytics with a core knowledge in digital marketing. It is designed to offer you a blend of technical, quantitative modules in data analytics, alongside more technical marketing, social media and branding modules that will develop your ability to apply data analytics and technology to related digital marketing practices and real-world examples.
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MSc (Hons)
Management with International Business
MSc Management with International Business provides a solid grounding in key aspects of business and management while allowing you to specialise through a range of option modules focusing on international business.
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MA (Hons)
Medical Humanities: Bodies, Cultures and Ideas
MA Medical Humanities: Bodies, Cultures and Ideas explores human health through the lenses of culture and history, covering topics including infectious disease, diet and exercise, mental health and wellbeing, and disability.
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MA (Hons)
Medieval Studies
MA Medieval Studies offers you the only opportunity in London and the surrounding area to study the Middle Ages at postgraduate level through evening classes at university.
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MSc (Hons)
Management with Marketing
MSc Management with Marketing provides a solid grounding in key aspects of business and management while allowing you to specialise through a range of option modules focusing on marketing.
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MSc (Hons)
Marketing
MSc Marketing provides a comprehensive understanding of the relevance and necessity of marketing and insight into the marketing decision-making process.
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MSc (Hons)
Management with Business Innovation
MSc Management with Business Innovation provides a solid grounding in key aspects of business and management while allowing you to specialise through a range of option modules focusing on business innovation.
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MSc (Hons)
Management
This management degree examines the essentials of management theory and practice and the core principles and practice of business and organisations in a local and international context. You will gain a broad knowledge and expertise in the design and implementation of strategy at different levels of the corporate organisation and of other types of organisation such as public, not-for-profit and cooperative.
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MSc (Hons)
Management and Finance
MSc Management and Finance provides in-depth knowledge of contemporary issues in management and empirical finance, in particular financial management, financial reporting, small business finance, financial modelling and international finance.
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LLM (Hons)
Law with Law and Political Economy
LLM Law with Law and Political Economy is especially relevant with the resurgence of interest in political economy. With a focus on law, this timely course offers you the chance to study the links between economy, crime and punishment, as well as the relationship between property, trade, law and regulation.
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MSc (Hons)
Management Consultancy and Organisational Change
MSc Management Consultancy and Organisational Change blends management consultancy theory and practice from the viewpoint of organisational and strategic change. This unique and innovative degree offers you the opportunity to develop your knowledge, skills and capabilities to operate as a successful consultant.
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LLM (Hons)
Law with International Intellectual Property
LLM focuses on the critical analysis of intellectual property law as an international phenomenon. We draw from a range of primary and secondary sources to address contemporary debates in intellectual property law and policy with attention to the history, theory and political economy of intellectual property law.
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LLM (Hons)
Law with Law and New Technologies
Birkbeck’s innovative LLM Law with Law and New Technologies is a research-led course that focuses on how new technologies are transforming the way society operates - the way we communicate, the way we work, the way we do business, the way we travel - and the profound consequences of these changes for the law.
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LLM (Hons)
Law with International Law and Development
LLM Law with International Law and Development gives you the opportunity to focus on the operation and relationship of the systems of public international law and international economic law in the post-colonial context.
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LLM (Hons)
Law with Human Rights
LLM Law with Human Rights pathway is unique in its passionate engagement with the highly contested and, at best, scandalous nature of human rights law and discourse.
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LLM (Hons)
Law with Constitutional Politics, Law and Theory 
LLM Law with Constitutional Politics, Law and Theory is research-led, focusing on the history, theory and politics of constitutional law and comparative regional perspectives.
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LLM (Hons)
Law with Environmental Law, Governance and Policy 
Birkbeck’s LLM Law with Environmental Law, Governance and Policy is an innovative, research-led course offering you the theoretical and practical knowledge crucial for a nuanced understanding of the ways in which policy, the law and governance structures respond to environmental problems.
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LLM (Hons)
Law with Commercial Law 
LLM Law with Commercial Law is a research-led course focusing on the law governing private economic relations and businesses. It offers you the chance to combine theoretical analysis with practice-oriented approaches to commercial law.
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LLM (Hons)
Law General 
LLM Law General is a highly flexible course that builds on our experience of offering postgraduate legal education at master's level. It will provide you with substantive knowledge of a wide range of contemporary legal topics and introduce you to key critical legal theories and methodologies.
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MA (Hons)
Language Teaching/TESOL
Birkbeck's specialist course in language teaching/teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) is ideal if you wish to progress to a more senior or specialised position in language teaching. You will already have experience of teaching second or foreign languages, or a strong academic background in a relevant subject and an interest in the theory and practice of language teaching.
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MSc (Hons)
International Security and Global Governance
MSc International Security and Global Governance explores urgent contemporary debates about violence, conflict, security and governance from a global perspective.
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Law
Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) enables you to gain the legal skills necessary for the best possible preparation in beginning vocational training for a career in legal practice. The GDL teaches you the seven foundations of law as required by the Bar Standards Board for the vocational training for barristers. It also equips you to embark on the necessary preparation for the Solicitors Qualifying Examination.
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MA (Hons)
Journalism
Journalism postgraduate course offers you the opportunity to acquire a fast-track but thorough grounding in practical journalistic skills, a strong working knowledge of the media industry and the principal contemporary theories of media and culture, along with an ability to develop professional writing skills across journalistic genres.
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MA (Hons)
Investigative Journalism
Investigative journalism is at a crossroads in theory and practice. Crises of ethics and funding have brought profound changes to the nature of long-form journalism, the ways in which it is produced and the institutions that invest in it.
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MSc (Hons)
International Business
MSc International Business seeks to meet the buoyant labour market demand for more postgraduates in the field. This course is distinctive in the way it presents the multidisciplinary context of international business and promotes a connection with cognate fields such as management, business, economics and organisation studies.
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MSc (Hons)
Human Resource Management
MSc Human Resource Management (HRM) is an essential course for those who wish to purse a dynamic career as an HR professional in contemporary organisations.
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MSc (Hons)
International Development
This course offers a transformative approach to international development rooted in social justice. It examines the structures, institutions and theories which have shaped international development, the unequal global relationships which underpin it, and the social and political movements which challenge and redefine development in an era of rising global inequalities and climate crisis.
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MSc (Hons)
International Relations
International relations (IR) refers to a dynamic and popular discipline that examines how various actors, including nation-states, multinational corporations and inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations, interact and pursue often conflicting agendas beyond national borders.
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International Human Resource Management
MSc International Human Resource Management (HRM) is designed to prepare you for an outstanding career in people management and human resources.
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MA (Hons)
History of Photography
MA History of Photography enables you to learn about - and negotiate your individual path through - past and present photographic practices and cultures, in order to develop your interests, whether your engagement with the medium is academic, artistic, personal or vocational.
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MA (Hons)
Historical Research
MA Historical Research is our most flexible postgraduate history degree, offering you the opportunity to develop a pathway that best suits your needs and interests.
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MA (Hons)
History of Art with Collections Management
MA History of Art with Collections Management will absorb you in the rich and dynamic discipline of the history of art as well as preparing you with the skills and experience you need for the museum workplace with an intensive skills-based Collections Management module.
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MA (Hons)
History of Art
History of art is a rich and dynamic discipline, combining the rigorous investigation of the visual arts with the creative exploration of their connections to culture, politics and society. Postgraduate study in this area trains you at a high level in looking at, thinking about and researching art and its histories.
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MA (Hons)
Global History: Empires, States and Cultures
MA Global History: Empires, States and Cultures will expand and deepen your understanding of world history through the exploration of global perspectives and interconnections across geographical and national boundaries.
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MSc (Hons)
Global Political Economy
MSc Global Political Economy provides a cross-disciplinary perspective on the interplay of global political and economic forces that shape our world. You will develop an in-depth understanding of actors and structures governing the global economy.
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MSc (Hons)
Global Politics of Environment and Resources
MSc Global Politics of Environment and Resources you will become knowledgeable about the trajectories of current environmental and demographic change and explore the tensions and contradictions they generate from a critical geopolitical perspective.
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MSc (Hons)
Geographic Data Science
Birkbeck's geographic data science postgraduate course will provide you with advanced scientific and technical training in capturing, analysing and visualising geospatial information.
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MSc (Hons)
Geography
Geography is a wide-ranging subject: from the study of physical landscapes on the one hand, to cultural identity on the other, as well as how these two fields intersect. This breadth of subject matter is drawn together by our shared passion to understand the human and environmental patterns, processes and associations that create our world.
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MSc (Hons)
Government, Policy and Politics
MSc Government, Policy and Politics examines the day-to-day practice and reality of government by analysing post-war politics and public policy in the UK and around the world. You will develop your ability to analyse political debates and issues in a critical manner and you will be taught by academics with expertise in researching, writing about and participating in politics.
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MSc (Hons)
Education and Social Justice
This postgraduate course in education and social justice provides you with well-grounded theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of education and social justice, as well as the opportunity for a comprehensive and critical analysis of literature on education, globalisation, power and resistances.
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MSc (Hons)
Financial Economics
MSc Financial Economics will give you the tools and techniques you need to investigate important economic issues. It provides a thorough grounding in mathematical and econometric techniques, as well as microeconomics, and examines why financial markets are prone to crises, studying the details of past and present crises, and subsequent policy responses.
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MSc (Hons)
Finance and Data Analytics
MSc Finance and Data Analytics is designed for graduates who are keen to gain specialisation in data analytics with core knowledge in finance. This Master’s degree offers you a blend of technical, quantitative modules in data analytics, alongside accounting and finance modules that will develop your ability to apply data analytics and technology to related practices and real-world examples.
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MSc (Hons)
Entrepreneurship
The digital transformation of business including the emergence of new digital business models have become crucial issues for leaders in the vast majority of organisations. The MSc Entrepreneurship gives you the necessary expertise vital for organisations to be able to navigate the challenges in this era of digital business.
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MSc (Hons)
Environment and Sustainability
This postgraduate course on environment and sustainability provides an advanced-level grounding in sustainable responses to a broad range of environmental issues. It explores the relationship between policy, practice and the ecological environment, and the development of effective strategies for addressing the threats and opportunities posed by environmental issues.
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Economics
Our MSc Economics is a challenging but rewarding course. It is designed to equip you with tools and techniques that provide a strong basis for careers in business, government and academia. It provides a grounding in economics and econometric techniques:
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MA (Hons)
European History
MA European History offers you the chance to study with world-renowned experts in European history, including British, German, French, Italian, Balkan, Russian and Eastern European history, as well as international, transnational, global and comparative historical perspectives.
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MSc (Hons)
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Gender and sexuality studies course is built around the interdisciplinary study of gender and sexuality, an exciting and growing area of study. It is ideal if you are interested in how gender and sexuality are constructed, understood and represented in different historical, cultural, geographic and social contexts.
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MSc (Hons)
Finance
MSc Finance combines academic rigour with a solid grounding in the practical, problem-solving skills that employers value. The course will give you excellent, specialist knowledge and training in finance and financial economics
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Econometrics 
Our Postgraduate Certificate in Econometrics provides very specific training in advanced econometric theory and applications.
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MSc (Hons)
Digital Business
The digital transformation of business and the emergence of new digital business models have become crucial issues for leaders in the vast majority of organisations. This MSc Digital Business offers you the expertise vital for organisations tackling challenges in this era of digital business.
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MA (Hons)
Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity
The course examines connections between intertwined colonial histories and our ordinary, local everyday life. We focus on a broad range of subjects such as modern colonial statecraft, forms of colonial labour, racial typology and other systems of categorisation; colonial cultures and nationalisms; histories of anticolonial, antifascist and antiracist resistance, criminalisation and policing; theorising culture, community and postcolonial belonging; contemporary racial nationalisms and religious authoritarian movements and race, gender and sexuality.
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MA (Hons)
Dramaturgy
MA Dramaturgy is a highly unique degree delivered by one of the most impactful and innovative departments in the UK. This course offers you a comprehensive exploration of the theory and practice of dramaturgy. Taught by world-leading academic researchers, artists and industry professionals, you will explore diverse aspects of dramaturgy.
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MSc (Hons)
Criminology
MSc Criminology offers you unique insights into crime, punishment and justice in today’s world. It explores both cutting-edge criminological theory and current real-world phenomena related to crime and punishment.
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Curating and Collections Management
Postgraduate Certificate in Curating and Collections Management offers you a unique opportunity to gain practical skills in museum work and to better understand the issues facing curators and collections managers today.
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MA (Hons)
Critical Theory
MA Critical Theory gives you the opportunity to explore the provocations of various waves of critical theory in relation to culture. You will examine a multitude of critical theoretical approaches - with an emphasis on the contributions of the German critical tradition from Kant through Marx to the Frankfurt School, and all those thinkers following in its wake.
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MA (Hons)
Digital Media Design
The MA Digital Media Design concentrates on industry-standard techniques, introducing you to core development tools and how to use them. You will develop skills in coding, visual design and image manipulation, and an appreciation of user experience through research.
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MA (Hons)
Digital Media Culture
This course provides you with the conceptual framework required to analyse and comprehend the digital environments of today and tomorrow. It is one of the only MA degrees in the UK to combine academic rigour and scholarly consideration with the opportunity for hands-on training in digital media design and management.