History of Christianity MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This interdisciplinary programme involves staff from a number of Schools within the College of Arts and Law, each providing a different area of expertise in the subject area; it is intended for those preparing for doctoral research and combines training in research skills and methodology with the writing of a dissertation.(read more)

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Sociology and Communication MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Students undertake 4 modules on research issues and other topics relevant to their specialist interests, together with a preliminary thesis based on initial research in their chosen field; on successful completion of the MPhil, students become formally registered for a PhD; current staff research interests include: science, technology and the environment; conversation analysis, discourse analysis and ethnomethodology; media studies.(read more)

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Late Antique and Byzantine Studies MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The course offers students the opportunity to specialise in an exciting and multi-faceted field of study that covers the history and culture of the Eastern Mediterranean world during the long millennium from the foundation of Constantinople (modern Istanbul) in 324 to the fall of the Byzantine empire in 1453.(read more)

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Early Modern Studies MLitt

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Modules include: Early modern Catholicism; reformations and recusants; Renaissance cultures; Scots and Irish in India, c.1650-1800; the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, c.(read more)

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History MA (Research)

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This course provides an opportunity for students to study specific areas of history in greater depth than at undergraduate level; students specialise in a particular branch of historical research and the choice includes British history, medieval history, modern European history, gender history, Islamic and Middle Eastern history, Environmental history and contemporary history.(read more)

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European Studies MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Current research topics include: Political science and international relations: European Union, especially Britain and European Union; European Union foreign and defence policy co-operation; gender and European politics; public administration in Britain; British social movements and politics; contemporary politics in Germany and European fascism; German-German relations before reunification; Franco-German relations.(read more)

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Politics MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Supervision available in the areas of: political behaviour and political sociology, with focus on voting, parties and electoral behaviour; theories of the state; political theory, with focus on classical theory, rational choice, theories of justice and democracy; ideology and discourse analysis; political economy, including economic theories of political and the environment; feminism and politics; methodology: computing and statistics.(read more)

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Postcolonial Studies MA

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Course description: The centre for colonial and postcolonial research has a lively graduate community, and promotes research through international conferences, national colloquia, visiting speakers and a regular graduate research seminar; this course offers the opportunity to work on African, Caribbean, Indian, African-American, Native American, Australian, South pacific and multicultural British writing.(read more)

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Literature and Modernity MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The programme offers students the opportunity to pursue higher-level study of literary texts and aesthetic debates from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with a particular focus on the concepts of aestheticism, decadence and modernism.(read more)

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Greek and Roman Studies MA (Research)

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The course is designed for students who wish to explore a particular area of classics in special depth, primarily by independent work, but don't feel able to commit themselves to 3 years of full-time study (or its part-time equivalent) for a doctorate.(read more)

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Continental Philosophy and Health Care Ethics MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: This course provides health care practitioners and students of diverse backgrounds with the theoretical tools that will help them understand the existential meaning of illness and care in a philosophically grounded way.(read more)

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Sociology MA (Research)

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Research supervision is offered in the areas of: citizenship, ethnicity and nation; class and stratification; conversation analysis; crime and deviance; culture; development; ecology and environment; ethnographic methods; Europe, the new Europe; family; gay and lesbian studies; gender divisions; health and medicine including mental illness; history of sociological thought; Japanese society; Latin America; masculinity; mass media; oral history.(read more)

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Digital Humanities MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Research focuses on the intersection of digital tools and methods with 1 or more artefacts or processes studied in the humanities or interpretative social sciences; it varies in emphasis on practical, experimental and theoretical work; examples include reconstruction of historical persons from scattered evidence; imagining of diasporic communities online; modelling of literary context.(read more)

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Social Policy and Administration MPhil

Study modes: Part time day

Course description: Research is focused in 4 key areas: policy pocesses and outcomes with specialisations (education including higher education, housing, health and social care, labour markets and public procurement, historical and sociological analysis of policy in the UK); equality, social inclusion and human rights (includes discrimination, fair employment gender, race, disability, immigration/refugee studies).(read more)

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Health History MSc

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Core modules: Sources and methods in the history of medicine/health and healthcare (40 credits); options (20 credits each): Origins and development of the national health service, 1919 to the present; health and healthcare in the long 19th-century governing highs and health: history and the control of drugs, c1800-c1945; death and modernity; work and occupational health in the 20th century: comparative perspectives.(read more)

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French MLitt

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Prominent research areas include: medieval and Renaissance studies, emblem literature, 18th-century theatre, 20th-century fiction, cinema and cultural studies, contemporary thought and literary theory; Department supports 2 special areas of research activity: Centre for Francophone Studies: advanced study centre with substantial collection of material in French-speaking Caribbean and African literature.(read more)

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Education and Professional Studies MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The department provides extensive research training recognised by the Economic and Social Research Council; the research infrastructure is organised around 7 research groups: Assessment; centre for public policy research; centre for theology; religion and culture; language and literacy; mathematics education; psychology and cognitive processes; science education, with information communications technology and education as a cross-cutting theme.(read more)

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Law MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Supervision is available for research in the following main areas: access to justice; accountability; banking law; comparative constitutions; human rights; international law; international economic law; law and religion; medical ethics; policing and crime; workplace rights.(read more)

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Philosophy MPhil

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: Research supervision available in areas of staff interest, including: continental philosophy; Marx and critical theory; ethics and practical reasoning; applied ethics; social and political philosophy; philosophy of mind, theory of knowledge and cognitive science; philosophy and psychoanalysis; philosophy, art and literature; philosophy and religion, emphasising Kierkegaard; Hobbes and Descartes.(read more)

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Viking and Anglo-Saxon Studies (Language, Texts and History) MA

Study modes: Full time | Part time evening

Course description: The programme offers a thorough grounding in text-based approaches to the interdisciplinary study of the early medieval period of England and Scandinavia, and provides a foundation for research work; students may choose to emphasise either Old English and Anglo-Saxon studies, or Old Norse and Viking studies; in addition to language and literature, the school is renowned for its specialisation in name studies and in runology.(read more)

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