Category:Philosophy
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MA Continental Philosophy and Health Care Law To provide students of diverse backgrounds (in particular Law, health care or Philosophy) with the theoretical tools that will help them understand the existential meaning of illness and care in a philosophically grounded...
Category:Philosophy
Study mode:At the institution
MA Continental Philosophy and Health Care Ethics To provide students of diverse backgrounds (in particular health care or Philosophy) with the theoretical tools that will help them understand the existential meaning of illness and care in a philosophically grounded...
Category:Language Education
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MA Computer Assisted Language Learning 1. To provide sound theoretical foundations in applied linguistics for language teaching.
2. To provide practical experience both at locating resources as well as creating them. This component of the course will enable...
Category:Linguistics
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MA Computational Linguistics This graduate programme provides students with the opportunity to:
Gain a theoretically grounded appreciation of contemporary work in Computational Linguistics (CL)
Develop practical skills in writing and implementing grammar...
Category:Linguistics
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MA Applied Linguistics Research To enable students to develop systematic understanding of existing linguistically-informed research into how second languages are learned.
To make students aware of the variety of methodologies used in teaching second/foreign...
Category:Linguistics
Study mode:At the institution
MA Applied Linguistics and Intercultural Communication To provide students with the ability to:
understand and evaluate a number of models of communication.
appreciate and assess the role of culture in communication.
analytically investigate the place...
Category:Linguistics
Study mode:At the institution
MA Applied Linguistics To enable students to develop systematic understanding of existing linguistically-informed research into how second languages are learned.
To make students aware of the variety of methodologies used in teaching second/foreign languages,...
Category:Political Science
Study mode:At the institution
MA Politics To develop a systematic knowledge and understanding of the conceptual foundations of the discipline of political science;
To promote the critical use of evidence, and the effective application of quantitative methods of political analysis;...
Category:Cultural Studies
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MA Media, Culture and Society To provide students with an advanced understanding of key historical and contemporary debates concerning culture and the formation of 'cultural studies' as a distinctive, interdisciplinary field of analysis
To enable students...
Category:Literature
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MA Literature 1. To enhance (to deepen and extend) students' acquaintance with literary texts.
2. To provide courses opening paths to areas of current scholarly and critical specialisation
3. To deepen the knowledge and to refine the skills which students...
Category:History
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MA History The Programme aims to:
P1 stimulate the historical imagination of students through a critical engagement with the past.
P2 provide students with an advanced understanding of the methods and techniques of the historical discipline, based on a...
Category:Philosophy
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MA Continental Philosophy To provide students of various backgrounds with a rigorous grounding in Continental Philosophy from Kant and Hegel to the present. To present students with the opportunity to engage directly with some of the major texts of the Continental...
Category:Political Science
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Revolution and Counter-Revolution (MSc/Postgraduate Diploma/Postgraduate Certificate) The MSc has been developed in order to give students the opportunity to study revolution and counter-revolution in a variety of geographical areas and historical periods, in...
Category:History
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Renaissance Studies (MLitt) This programme is taught under the aegis of the Scottish Institute for Northern Renaissance Studies, with the degree jointly awarded by the Universities of Strathclyde and Stirling. The programme is currently administered by the University...
Category:History
Study mode:At the institution
Postcolonial Diasporas (MLitt) The programme concentrates on the border narratives to have emerged both within and between South Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific, the Americas and the United Kingdom. Diaspora culture is considered within both colonial...
Category:Philosophy
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Philosophy (MLitt) The St Andrews/Stirling Graduate Programme offers a taught MLitt providing a sound background for research in the core areas of Philosophy. It aims to teach programmes at a level that matches the best graduate programmes elsewhere in the world...
Category:Creative Writing
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Modern Scottish Writing (MLitt) This programme explores modern Scottish literature, focusing on the specific contribution of Scottish writing to 'cultural modernity'.
We focus on writing from Robert Burns, Walter Scott and James Hogg, through Victorian and late...
Category:Cultural Studies
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Media and Culture (MLitt) Students will develop a critical and reflexive appreciation of the variety of research methods available within both humanities and social science frameworks. They will enhance their ability to undertake detailed textual analysis within...
Category:Political Science
Study mode:At the institution
International Policing: Peace Support Operations MSc, Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma This distance learning programme is based on a collaborative learning model, which relies on participants being able to communicate with both tutors and peers....
Category:Political Science
Study mode:At the institution
International Conflict and Cooperation MSc/Postgraduate Diploma/Postgraduate Certificate The end of the Cold War and the terrorist attacks on America on 9/11 have shifted the international dynamics of interaction between conflict and cooperation. This, in turn,...
