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Programme specifications 2021-22

Please select each level heading to view a full list of programme specifications at that level within that department.

Programme specifications are regularly updated by departments/schools when changes are made to core or compulsory modules, but all options lists are indicative only, as the availability of options can vary each year.

Biological Sciences

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Life Sciences for Subjects allied to Medicine (September start) (PDF) (18.11.15)
- Cert HE Life Sciences for Subjects allied to Medicine (January start) (PDF) (24.04.20)
Undergraduate programmes
- BSc Biomedicine (including Foundation Year) (PDF) (25.01.21)
4-YEAR INTEGRATED MASTER'S PROGRAMME
- MSci Biomedicine with Advanced Pathways (PDF) (06.07.22)
Postgraduate programmes
- MSc/PG Dip Analytical Bioscience (PDF) (23.10.20)
- MSc Analytical Chemistry (PDF) (23.09.20)
- MSc Bio-business (PDF) (18.02.21)
- MSc Bioinformatics (PDF) (17.09.20)
- MSc Microbiology (PDF) (17.08.20)
- MSc Structural Molecular Biology (PDF) (01.02.21)
- PG Cert Macromolecular Electron Microscopy (PDF) (01.11.19)
- PG Cert Protein Crystallography (PDF) (01.11.19)
- PG Cert Structural Molecular Biology (PDF) (01.11.19)
Research programmes
- MRes Bioinformatics (PDF) (08.07.20)
- MRes Chemical Research
- MRes Global Infectious Diseases (PDF) (20.07.17)
- MRes Structural Biology (PDF) (22.03.16)

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Information Technology (PDF) (06.12.24)
- Cert HE Web Design Technologies (PDF) (10.05.23)
Undergraduate programmes
- Foundation Degree in Computing/Information Technology/Web Development (PDF) (04.03.22)
- BSc Information Technology (Year 3 entry) (PDF) (06.04.20)
- BSc Computing (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (25.02.21)
- BSc Data Science and Computing (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (25.02.21)
- BSc Digital and Technology Solutions (suspended)
- BSc Information Systems and Management (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (04.03.22)
Postgraduate programmes
- PG Cert Applied Data Science (PDF) (29.06.20)
- MSc Advanced Computing Technologies (PDF) (27.03.18)
- MSc Computer Science (PDF) (28.06.21)
- MSc Computing for the Financial Services (PDF) (01.02.17)
- MSc Data Science (PDF) (26.11.21)
- MSc Information Technology (PDF) (08.12.20)
Research programmes
- MRes Computer Science (PDF) (17.07.20)

EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES

Certificate programmes
- Certificate HE in Earth History and Palaeontology (PDF) (29.06.20)
- Certificate HE Forensic Geology (suspended)
- Certificate HE Geology (PDF) (15.05.20)
- Certificate HE in Mineralogy and Volcanology (PDF) (15.05.20)
- Certificate HE in Planetary Science with Astronomy (PDF) (15.05.20)
Undergraduate programmes
- BSc Earth Sciences (PDF) (15.05.20)
- BSc Environmental Geology (PDF) (15.05.20)
- BSc Geology (PDF) (15.05.20)
- BSc Planetary Science with Astronomy (PDF) (15.05.20)
Postgraduate programmes
- Grad Cert Environmental Geology (PDF) (28.03.19)
- Grad Cert Geology (PDF) (02.04.19)
- Grad Cert Planetary Sciences (PDF) (02.04.19)
- MSc Geochemistry (suspended)

ECONOMICS, MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Economics (PDF) (07.10.20)
- Cert HE Mathematics (PDF) (15.06.21)
- Dip HE Mathematics (PDF) (07.10.20)
Undergraduate programmes
- BSc Economics + with Foundation Year (PDF) (30.07.20)
- BSc Economics (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (28.07.20)
- BSc Economics and Business (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (27.07.20)
- BSc Economics and Social Policy (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (27.07.20)
- BSc Economics and/with Mathematics (PDF) (06.08.18)
- BSc Finance with Accounting (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (30.07.20)
- BSc Financial Economics (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (18.09.20)
- BSc Mathematics (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (03.07.20)
- BSc Mathematics with Accounting (PDF) (09.08.19)
- BSc Mathematics with Economics (PDF) (09.09.20)
- BSc Mathematics with Management (PDF) (09.08.19)
- BSc Mathematics with Statistics (PDF) (09.08.19)
Postgraduate programmes
- Grad Cert Mathematics (PDF) (12.01.17)
- Grad Cert Mathematics by distance learning (PDF) (08.09.20)
- Grad Cert Statistical Data Science (PDF) (30.10.20)
- Grad Dip Economics (PDF) (17.04.19)
- Grad Dip Financial Engineering (PDF) (26.08.14)
- Grad Dip Mathematics (PDF) (08.03.21)
- Grad Dip Statistical Data Science (PDF) (30.10.20)
- PG Cert Econometrics (PDF) (19.02.19)
- MSc Applied Statistics (with pathways) (PDF) (11.03.20)
- MSc Applied Statistics and Financial Modelling (PDF) (11.03.20)
- MSc Economics (PDF) (26.08.14)
- MSc Financial Economics (PDF) (29.10.19)
- MSc Finance (PDF) (06.07.20)
- MSc Banking and Finance (PDF) (15.12.20)
- MSc Mathematical Finance (PDF) (17.01.17)
- MSc Mathematics (PDF) (21.05.20)
- MSc Mathematics and Financial Modelling (PDF) (21.05.20)
- MSc Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PDF) (11.10.19)
- MSc Quantitative Risk Management with Machine Learning (PDF) (06.03.20)
- MRes Economics/Financial Economics (PDF) (30.04.21)

ENGLISH, THEATRE AND CREATIVE WRITING

Undergraduate programmes
- School of Arts Foundation Year (PDF) (10.08.21)
- BA Creative Writing (PDF) (29.04.21)
- BA Creative Writing and English (PDF) (18.03.21)
- BA English (PDF) (07.03.22)
- BA Liberal Arts (PDF) (03.11.23)
- BA Theatre and Drama Studies (PDF) (30.04.20)
- BA Theatre Studies and English (PDF) (20.04.15)
Postgraduate programmes
- MA Applied Medical Humanities (PDF) (25.04.19)
- MA Contemporary Literature and Culture (PDF) (09.05.18)
- MA Creative Writing (PDF) (15.03.18)
- MA Creative and Critical Writing (PDF) (28.07.20)
- MA Cultural and Critical Studies (12.10.20)
- MA Dramaturgy (PDF) (28.11.19)
- MA Medical Humanities: Bodies, Cultures and Ideas (see History, Classics and Archaeology)
- MA Medieval Literature and Culture (PDF) (11.09.14)
- MA Migration Literatures and Cultures (suspended)
- MA Modern and Contemporary Literature (PDF) (15.09.17)
- MA Renaissance Studies (PDF) (20.06.19)
- MA Text and Performance (PDF) (04.01.21)
- MA Victorian Studies (PDF) (30.06.17)
- MFA Creative Writing (PDF) (12.08.19)
- MFA Theatre Directing (PDF) (15.09.17)
- MRes English, Theatre and Arts (PDF) (05.08.20)

FILM, MEDIA AND CULTURAL STUDIES

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Arts Management (PDF) (29.10.20)
- Cert HE Film and Media Studies (PDF) (26.08.14)
- Cert HE Journalism (PDF) (26.08.14)
- Cert HE Media Practice (PDF) (26.08.14)
Undergraduate programmes
- School of Arts Foundation Year (PDF) (10.08.21)
- BA Arts and Media Management (PDF) (02.09.20)
- BA Film and Media (PDF) (19.01.17)
- BA Journalism and Media (PDF) (25.09.17)
- BA Digital Culture and Media (PDF) (06.08.20)
Postgraduate programmes
- PG Cert Arts Policy and Management (PDF) (14.12.18)
- PG Cert Digital Media Management (PDF) (17.01.17)
- PG Cert Web Design and Development (PDF) (17.01.17)
- PG Dip Arts Management (PDF) (14.12.18)
- MA Arts Policy and Management (PDF) (08.06.21)
- MSc Creative Industries (joint between Departments of Management, and Computer Science and Information Systems)
- MA Digital Media (PDF) (19.04.21) (includes: MA Digital Media Design, MA Digital Media Management and MA Digital Media Culture)
- MA Film Programming and Curating (PDF) (04.08.20)
- MA Film and Screen Media (and pathways) (PDF) (19.03.20)
- MA Investigative Reporting (PDF) (29.06.17)
- MA/PG Dip/PG Cert Journalism (PDF) (26.08.14)
- MA Screenwriting (PDF) (29.05.15)
- MA World Cinema (suspended)

GEOGRAPHY

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Community Leadership (PDF) (03.03.15)
Undergraduate programmes
Postgraduate programmes
- MA/MSc Cities (PDF) (06.03.20)
- MSc Children, Youth and International Development (PDF) (11.06.18)
- MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert Climate Change (PDF) (11.08.20)
- MSc/PG Dip Environment and Sustainability (PDF) (11.08.20)
- MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert Geographic Data Science (PDF) (01.02.21)
- MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert Geography (PDF) (15.05.16)
- MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert International Development (PDF) (14.08.18)
- MSc International Development and Social Anthropology (PDF) (14.08.18)

HISTORY OF ART

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE History of Art (PDF) (21.04.21)
Undergraduate programmes
- School of Arts Foundation Year (PDF) (10.08.21)
- BA History of Art (PDF) (23.05.19)
- BA History of Art and History (PDF) (23.05.19)
- BA History of Art with Curating (PDF) (23.05.19)
- BA History of Art with Film (PDF) (23.05.19)
Postgraduate programmes
- Grad Cert History of Art and Architecture (PDF) (14.07.20)
- Grad Dip History of Art and Architecture (PDF) (21.10.20)
- PG Cert Curating and Collections Management (PDF) (10.12.21)
- MA History of Architecture (PDF) (07.05.21)
- MA History of Art and pathways (PDF) (07.05.21)
- MA History of Photography (PDF) (11.05.21)
- MA Museum Cultures and pathways (PDF) (11.05.21)

HISTORY, CLASSICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE History and Archaeology (PDF) (22.03.21)
Undergraduate programmes
- BA Ancient History and Archaeology (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (26.08.20)
- BA Archaeology (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (25.02.21)
- BA Archaeology and Geography (including with Foundation Year) (25.02.21)
- BA Classics and BA Classical Studies (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (03.07.20)
- BA Contemporary History and Politics (PDF) (23.04.21)
- BA History (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (03.07.20)
- BA History and Archaeology (PDF) (25.02.21)
- BA History and International Relations (PDF) (22.04.21)
Postgraduate programmes
- Grad Cert Gender and Sexuality Studies (PDF) (16.02.15)
- Grad Cert History (PDF) (01.05.20)
- PG Cert Gender, Sexuality and Society (PDF) (04.10.17)
- PG Diploma Gender, Sexuality and Society (PDF) (04.10.17)
- MA Archaeological Practice (PDF) (15.02.19)
- MA Classical Archaeology (PDF) (15.02.19)
- MA Classical Civilisation/MA Classics (PDF)
- MA Contemporary History and Politics (PDF) (18.02.19)
- MA Early Modern History (PDF) (27.03.17)
- MA European History (PDF) (28.03.17)
- MA Gender Sexuality and Culture (PDF) (03.10.17)
- MSc Gender Sexuality and Society (PDF) (03.10.17)
- MA Global History: Empires, States and Cultures (PDF) (05.02.18)
- MA History of Ideas (PDF) (28.03.17)
- MA Historical Research (PDF)
- MA Medical Humanities: Bodies, Cultures and Ideas (PDF) (28.07.20)
- MA Medieval History (PDF) (28.03.17)
- MA Public Histories (PDF) (02.02.17)
- MA Psychoanalytic Studies (joint with Department of Psychosocial Studies)
- MSc Archaeological Practice (Economic and Social Research) (PDF) (27.02.17)
- MSc Historical Research (Economic and Social History) (PDF) (02.02.17)
- MRes History (PDF) (21.12.16)

Languages, Cultures and Applied Linguistics

Management

Undergraduate programmes
- BSc Accounting (PDF) (26.02.24)
- BSc Accounting with Foundation Year (PDF) (26.02.24)
- BSc Accounting and Management (PDF) (23.01.24)
- BSc Accounting and Management with Finance (PDF) (23.01.24)
- BSc Accounting with Finance (PDF) (23.01.24)
- BSc Business with pathways (PDF) (07.10.22)
- BSc Business with Foundation Year (PDF) (25.09.20)
- BSc International Business (PDF) (22.12.22)
- BSc Management (PDF) (09.12.22)
- BSc Marketing (PDF) (17.05.23)
- Foundation Degree in Management (PDF) (12.03.21)
Postgraduate programmes
- MSc Accounting and Finance (PDF) (22.03.22)
- MSc Business Innovation with E-Business (PDF) (12.02.21)
- MSc Business Innovation with Entrepreneurship (PDF) (12.02.21)
- MSc Business Innovation with International Technology Management (PDF) (01.03.21)
- MSc Business, Political Economy and Society (PDF) (10.12.20)
- MSc Corporate Governance and Business Ethics (PDF) (12.02.21)
- MSc Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (PDF) (29.03.21)
- MSc Creative Industries (PDF) (24.03.20)
- MSc Governance, Economics and Public Policy (PDF) (12.02.21)
- MSc International Business (PDF) (22.03.19)
- MSc International Business and Development (PDF) (22.03.19)
- MSc International Management (PDF) (22.03.19)
- MSc International Marketing (PDF) (22.03.22)
- MSc Management and pathways (PDF) (11.08.21)
- MSc Management and Finance (PDF) (22.03.22)
- MSc Marketing (PDF) (22.03.22)
- MSc Marketing Communications (PDF) (22.03.22)
- MSc Sport Management (PDF) (10.07.20)
- MSc Sport Management and Marketing (PDF) (08.01.21)
- MSc Sport Management and the Business of Football (PDF) (10.07.20)
- MSc Sport Management Governance and Policy (PDF) (22.03.18)
- MSc Sport Marketing (PDF) (22.03.22)
- PG Cert Business Innovation (PDF) (20.06.19)
- PG Cert Corporate Governance and Business Ethics (PDF) (25.01.19)
- PG Cert Management (PDF) (25.01.19)
- PG Cert Sport Governance (PDF) (20.01.19)
- PG Cert Sport Management (PDF) (20.03.19)
- PG Dip Management (PDF) (04.04.19)
Research programmes
- MRes Management (PDF) (21.01.21)
- MPhil Management (PDF) (18.01.21)

ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

Undergraduate programmes
- BSc Business Psychology (PDF) (22.03.24)
Postgraduate programmes
- MSc Career Coaching (PDF) (16.04.20)
- MSc Coaching Psychology (PDF) (05.05.20)
- MSc Human Resource Development and Consultancy (PDF) (16.04.19)
- MSc Human Resource Management (PDF) (16.04.19)
- MSc Management Consultancy and Organizational Change (PDF) (22.06.21)
- MSc Organizational Psychology (PDF) (14.05.21)
- MSc Organizational Behaviour (suspended)
- PG Cert Career Coaching (PDF) (05.05.20)
- PG Cert Coaching Psychology (PDF) (05.05.20)
Research programmes
- Professional Doctorate Evidence-Based Human Resource Management (PDF) (09.09.21)
- Professional Doctorate Occupational Psychology (PDF) (24.11.21)

PHILOSOPHY

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Philosophy (PDF) (07.04.20)
Undergraduate programmes
- BA Philosophy (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (14.04.21)
Postgraduate programmes
- PG Cert Philosophy (PDF) (08.03.20)
- PG Dip Philosophy (PDF) (12.06.20)
- MA Philosophy (PDF) (12.06.20)
- MRes Philosophy (PDF) (08.03.16)

POLITICS

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Politics and International Studies (PDF) (09.03.21)
Undergraduate programmes
- BA Global Political Economy (including with Foundation Year) (suspended)
- BA Global Politics and International Relations (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (18.11.21)
- BA Politics (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (18.11.21)
- BA Politics, Philosophy and History (PDF) (04.06.20)
Postgraduate programmes
- MSc European Politics and Policy (PDF) (28.07.17)
- MSc Food, Politics, and Society (PDF) (03.04.19)
- MSc Global Environmental Politics and Policy (PDF) (22.04.16)
- MSc Global Governance and Emerging Powers (PDF) (21.04.17)
- MSc Global Political Economy (PDF) (28.05.20)
- MSc Global Politics (PDF) (20.07.17)
- MSc Government, Policy and Politics (PDF)
- MSc International Security and Global Governance (PDF) (21.04.17)
- MSc Middle East in Global Politics: Islam, Conflict and Development (PDF) (21.04.17)
- MSc Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict (PDF) (04.09.19)
- MSc Politics of Population, Migration and Ecology (PDF) (17.09.19)
- MSc Public Policy and Management (PDF) (28.09.18)
- MSc Social and Political Theory (PDF) (24.04.17)
- MSc War and Humanitarianism (PDF) (27.03.17)
Research programmes
- MRes Global Politics (PDF) (20.04.17)
- MRes Politics (PDF) (12.12.16)
- MRes Public Policy and Management (PDF) (28.08.18)

PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Applied Psychology (PDF) (19.11.20)
- Cert HE Psychology (PDF) (29.06.20)
Undergraduate programmes
- FdSc Psychology for Education Professionals (PDF) (16.08.19)
- BSc Psychology including Foundation Year (PDF) (20.03.19)
- BA Psychology for Education (PDF) (20.07.21)
Postgraduate programmes
- MSc/MA Cognition and Computation (PDF) (05.07.18)
- MSc/MA Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology (PDF) (12.06.14)
- MSc/MA Developmental Sciences (PDF) (02.08.19)
- MSc/MA Educational Neuroscience (PDF) (18.10.21)
- MSc/MA Health and Clinical Psychological Sciences (PDF) (01.10.18)
- MSc Psychological Research Methods (PDF) (07.07.20)
- MSc Psychology (PDF) (29.03.21)
Research programmes
- MRes Functional Neuroimaging (PDF) (23.06.14)
- MRes Psychology (PDF) (05.05.15)

PSYCHOSOCIAL STUDIES

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Higher Education Introductory Studies (PDF) (27.10.20)
- Cert HE Psychodynamic Counselling (PDF) (06.07.20)
Undergraduate programmes
- BA Psychosocial Studies (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (06.07.20)
- BA Psychosocial Studies and Principles of Psychodynamic Counselling (PDF) (24.07.17)
- BSc Social Sciences (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (15.07.20)
Postgraduate programmes
- Grad Cert Psychodynamic Practice (PDF) (19.06.20)
- Grad Cert Psychosocial Studies (PDF) (04.01.21)
- MA/PG Dip/PG Cert Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity (PDF) (05.06.20)
- MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert Education Power and Social Change (PDF) (29.06.15)
- MA Psychoanalytic Studies (PDF) (joint with Department of History, Classics and Archaeology) (14.03.17)
- MSc Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy (PDF) (12.12.17)
- MSc Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents (PDF) (31.07.15)
- MSc/PG Dip Psychodynamics of Human Development (PDF) (26.02.16)
- MA Psychosocial Studies (PDF) (11.12.17)

SCHOOL OF ARTS

Undergraduate programmes
- School of Arts Foundation Year (PDF) (10.08.21)

School of Business, Economics and Informatics

Undergraduate programmes
- BBA Chartered Management (suspended)
- BBA Culinary Industry Management (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (30.10.23)
- BSc Professional Studies (PDF) (07.07.20)
Postgraduate programmes
- MSc Culinary Innovation Management (PDF) (04.12.20)
- MSc Management Practice (suspended)

School of Law

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Criminology (PDF)
- Cert HE Legal Studies (PDF) (03.04.19)
Undergraduate programes
- BSc Criminology and Criminal Justice (PDF) (12.07.18)
- BA Criminal Law, Policy and Practice (suspended)
- LLB Law (incl with Foundation Year) (PDF) (18.08.21)
Postgraduate programmes
- LLM Law (General) (PDF) (17.10.19)
- LLM Environmental Law, Policy and Governance (PDF) (11.01.21)
- LLM International Economic Law (intensive) (PDF) (14.12.20)
- LLM International Economic Law, Justice and Development (PDF) (14.12.20)
- LLM/MA Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (PDF) (16.09.20)
- LLM/MA Human Rights (PDF) (19.07.18)
- LLM Constitutional Politics, Law and Theory (PDF) (19.07.18)
- LLM Law and New Technologies (PDF) (29.01.20)
- LLM/MSc Law and Political Economy (PDF) (29.01.20)
- LLM Qualifying Law Degree (PDF) (18.08.21)
- MSc Criminology (PDF) (18.08.20)

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Mathematical Studies (PDF) (24.04.20)
- Cert HE Physics and Mathematics (PDF) (24.04.20)

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY

Postgraduate programmes
- MSc Social Research (PDF) (02.05.18)
- PG Dip Social Research (PDF) (02.05.18)
- PG Cert Social Research (PDF) (02.05.18)
- MRes Social Research and Applied Linguistics (PDF) (12.11.19)
- MRes Social Research and Criminology (PDF) (02.05.18)
- MRes Social Research and Gender and Sexuality (PDF) (02.05.18)
- MRes Social Research and Law and Legal Studies (PDF) (02.05.18)
- MRes Social Research and Psychosocial Studies (PDF) (02.05.18)