Category:Education (Other Subjects)
Study mode:At the institution
Lifelong Learning (PhD / MPhil) Lifelong learning is a broad concept, covering learning that takes place in formal and informal educational settings, in the workplace, in community and voluntary organisations, in the home and in the family. It is a key issue in...
Category:Finance
Study mode:At the institution
Financial Engineering (MSc / Postgraduate Diploma) These programmes offer advanced training in quantitative skills used in modern financial institutions. These include most notably valuation of securities, and measurement and management of portfolio risks. Training...
Category:Finance
Study mode:At the institution
Finance (MSc) This degree provides complete training in advanced finance at a high academic level. The study of core material in financial theory, including portfolio decisions and continuous time-pricing, occurs alongside the study of market microstructure, corporate...
Category:Finance
Study mode:At the institution
Finance and Commodities (MSc / Postgraduate Diploma) Energy commodity prices have experienced unprecedented growth over the last few years as a result of shocks in supply, increasing demand from developing and developed countries, and the fragile balance between...
Category:Economics
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Economics (MSc / Postgraduate Diploma) This degree is designed to equip you with tools and techniques for investigating important economic issues. It provides a grounding in mathematical and econometric techniques, and goes on to discuss the foundations of microeconomics...
Category:Economics
Study mode:At the institution
Economics / Finance (PhD / MPhil) The PhD/MPhil programme aims to train you to conduct research of a high academic standard and to make original contributions to the subject. The programme involves both coursework and research training, but its major component...
Category:Geology
Study mode:At the institution
Geology (PhD / MPhil) Staff research areas
Igneous petrology and geochemistry, sedimentology, environmental geochemistry and mineralogy, stratigraphy and palaeontology, structural geology, planetary geology and earthquake studies are all key research interests....
Category:Science & Environment
Study mode:At the institution
Earth Sciences (MRes / Postgraduate Diploma) This programme teaches the fundamentals of modern research in the earth sciences. You will have the opportunity to develop a range of research skills and try your hand at practical research.
Year 1 covers a broad spectrum...
Category:Theatre
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Theatre Directing (MFA) This degree offers a professionally recognised training for theatre directors. It is the result of a unique collaboration between Birkbeck and the National Council for Drama Training, Arts Council England, Equity and the Theatrical Management...
Category:Geography and Cartography
Study mode:Distance
Geographic Information Science by Distance Learning (MSc / Postgraduate Diploma / Postgradute Certificate) The aims of the programme are to:
-introduce the principles of Geographic Information Science (GISc) at an advanced level through the development of scientific...
Category:Political Science
Study mode:At the institution
Race and Ethnicity: Globalisation and Diasporas (PhD / MPhil) The Faculty of Lifelong Learning offers committed, enthusiastic and dynamic research-based teaching, with a changing curriculum sensitive to developments in policy, politics and culture. Our approach...
Category:Political Science
Study mode:At the institution
Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict (MSc / MRes) The vast majority of wars in the world today involve ethnic conflict within states. In the West, majority groups bemoan a loss of national identity while minority nations press for devolution or independence. Religious...
Category:Political Science
Study mode:At the institution
Global Politics (MSc / MRes) These degrees provide the analytical tools required to examine the changing nature of international politics and the emergence of a global political space. They provide a historical understanding of the evolution of global political...
Category:Sociology
Study mode:At the institution
Ethnicity, Migration, Policy (MSc / Postgraduate Diploma / Postgraduate Certificate) The MSc/PgDip/PgCert Ethnicity, Migration, Policy programme is orientated towards key debates in socal policy, while the MA/PgDip/PgCert Ethnicity Globalisation, Culture is more...
Category:International Business
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International Business and Development (MSc / MRes / PgDip) The pace of the globalisation of national economies has accelerated in recent years, and this has led to a more dynamic relationship between international business activities and economic and social development....
Category:Economic Development
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Development Studies (MSc / Postgraduate Diploma / Postgraduate Certificate) This interdisciplinary programme focuses on the determinants and dynamics of global poverty and the institutional mechanisms within multi-lateral, bi-lateral and non-governmental organisations....
Category:History
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Victorian Studies (MA) This degree is ideal if you want to pursue an interest in the literature, culture and history of nineteenth-century Britain, or study in preparation for a research degree.
Two academic Schools at Birkbeck currently contribute to the MA:...
Category:Latin American Studies
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Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Cultural Studies (MA / MRes) These programmes offer the possibility of following advanced study in the histories of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American cultures in the light of contemporary theoretical developments in...
Category:Spanish
Study mode:At the institution
Spanish (PhD / MPhil) As people involved in research, our prime concern is with producing top-quality work that in one way or another questions the boundaries of the disciplines we work in and seeks to bring new materials, theories and methods into them.
The...
Category:History
Study mode:At the institution
Renaissance Studies (MA) This degree is a well-established interdisciplinary programme, which has been running for nearly 20 years and produces about 20 successful graduates annually. Broadly based, it explores a variety of aspects of Renaissance culture, particularly...
