Category:History
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History (PhD / MPhil) A research degree offers students the opportunity to acquire a highly advanced set of conceptual skills developed in the pursuit of new knowledge, which can be applied within or beyond an academic or scholarly context. Research training in...
Category:History
Study mode:At the institution
History of Ideas (MA) How can we understand the ‘lived reality of ideas’, and how can the study of the history of ideas help us to interpret past societies and individual thinkers? Intellectual history is a dynamic and expanding field, and this new MA will enable...
Category:History
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Historical Research (MA) This degree will provide you with the advanced conceptual, theoretical and technical skills necessary for PhD research in history. The degree critically examines problems of historical theory and practice, with emphasis on debates around...
Category:History
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Contemporary History and Politics (MA) This degree aims to give you a deeper understanding of the recent past and the contemporary world. Using a combination of historical and theoretical approaches, it lays a strong emphasis on the historical analysis of the...
Category:Health Sciences (Various)
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Medicine, Science and Society: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives (MA / MSc) This degree programme is intended for those who want to enhance their understanding of the historical roots and the social and conceptual foundations of science and medicine. Emphasis...
Category:Biomedical Sciences
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Biomedicine (Graduate Certificate / Graduate Diploma) If you have already studied biology and wish to update your understanding of biomedicine – either to progress in your career, or prior to applying for a postgraduate qualification in biomedicine, or simply...
Category:Geriatrics
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Life Transitions (MSc / Postgraduate Diploma / Postgraduate Certificate) This interdisciplinary programme aims to improve your understanding of the processes of adult life from mid-life onwards, and of the impact of social change on the life course of individuals....
Category:Geography and Cartography
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Spatial Information Science (Graduate Certificate / Graduate Diploma) This programme introduces you to spatial information science disciplines, including: geographical information system methodologies and applications, remote sensing image processing techniques...
Category:Geography and Cartography
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Geography (PhD / MPhil) Research study in geography can take a wide variety of forms across the social and physical sciences dependent on topic, but the common thread is the distinctive perspective, often interdisciplinary, that a geographical approach to research...
Category:Science & Environment
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Environmental Systems Science (Graduate Certificate / Graduate Diploma) For those with some prior education in this field, this programme will refresh your knowledge of the manipulation of climate, environmental modelling, pollution and coastal processes, and...
Category:Biomedical Sciences
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Health and Disease (MSc) This programme is designed to provide up-to-date understanding of human biology and the disease process, with emphasis on emerging threats to human well-being. Throughout, the objective is to provide those with a background in health and...
Category:Gender Studies
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Gender Studies (PhD / MPhil) Birkbeck has a strong tradition in interdisciplinary gender studies and encourages research students to think in innovative and critical ways about the topics they are investigating. Your study can take a wide variety of forms and...
Category:Film Studies
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History of Film and Visual Media (MA) This degree will give you an up-to-date postgraduate orientation in film and visual media studies, within a progressive history of art and media environment. It is aimed at people who have already studied film and/or visual...
Category:Film Studies
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Film / Television / Media Studies (PhD / MPhil) The School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media has an excellent national and international reputation for teaching and research. It uniquely combines postgraduate taught courses in history of art and design,...
Category:Political Science
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Politics of Europe and the European Union (MSc / MRes) This programme is ideally suited to you if you want to develop an advanced understanding of national politics in Europe and the European Union. The MRes also provides a specialist research track. You will...
Category:Political Science
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European Public Policy (MSc / MRes) This programme has been designed to provide you with the full range of tools to analyse the contemporary public policy-making process in the complex, multi-level system of the EU as well as European states. It will enable you...
Category:Political Science
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European Policy and Management (MSc / MRes) This unique interdisciplinary programme bridges the gap between the study of economic management and public policy in a European context. It aims to equip you with advanced knowledge of the nature of the European Union...
Category:History
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European History (MA) This MA will offer you the opportunity to develop new approaches to the history of Europe from the early modern period to the present day. It aims to provide you with an appreciation of the broad themes and key debates that have shaped our...
Category:History
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Early Modern History (MA) This degree offers you a unique opportunity to compare early modern European societies in the period from the Renaissance and Reformation to the Enlightenment, with special reference to Britain, France and Italy. One of the most exciting...
Category:Comparative Literature
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Modern and Contemporary Literature (MA) This degree introduces key texts and paradigms that shape our conception of literature from the early twentieth century to the present.
You will gain a thorough grounding in the key concepts of modernism, modernity and...