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Programme specifications 2022-23

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.

Programmes with pathways show the pathways indented.

Biological Sciences

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Life Sciences for Subjects allied to Medicine (September start) (PDF) (03.11.22)
- Cert HE Life Sciences for Subjects allied to Medicine (January start) (PDF) (03.11.22)
Undergraduate Programmes
- BSc Biomedicine including Foundation Year (PDF) (29.07.22)
4-Year Integrated Master's Programme
- MSci Biomedicine with Advanced Pathways (PDF) (29.07.22)
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) (15.07.22)
- MSc Microbiology (PDF) (17.08.20)
- MSc Structural Molecular Biology (suspended)
- 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)
MRes Programmes
- MRes Bioinformatics (PDF) (23.12.21)
- MRes Chemical Research
- MRes Global Infectious Diseases (PDF) (20.07.17)
- MRes Structural Biology (PDF) (22.03.16)

Computer Science and Information Systems

Undergraduate programmes
- BSc Information Technology (Year 3 entry) (PDF) (update in progress)
- BSc Computing (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (16.05.23)
- BSc Data Science and Computing (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (22.03.24)
- BSc Digital and Technology Solutions (suspended)
Postgraduate programmes
- PG Cert Applied Data Science (PDF) (02.09.22)
- MSc Advanced Computing Technologies (PDF) (10.01.22)
- MSc Computer Science (PDF) (14.01.22)
- MSc Data Science (PDF) (26.11.21)
- MSc Information Technology (PDF) (21.04.22)
MRes Programmes
- MRes Computer Science (PDF) (17.07.20)

Earth and Planetary Sciences

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Earth History and Palaeontology (PDF) (29.06.20)
- Cert HE Forensic Geology (suspended)
- Cert HE Geology (PDF) (15.05.20)
- Cert HE Mineralogy and Volcanology (PDF) (15.05.20)
- Cert HE 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) (15.06.21)
- Cert HE Mathematics (PDF) (07.10.20)
- 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) (14.06.22)
- BSc Economics and Business (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (14.06.22)
- BSc Economics and Social Policy (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (14.06.22)
- BSc Economics and/with Mathematics (PDF) (06.08.18)
- BSc Finance with Accounting (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (29.07.22)
- BSc Financial Economics (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (14.06.22)
- 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 Mathematics (PDF) (08.03.21)
- Grad Dip Statistical Data Science (PDF) (04.07.22)
- PG Cert Econometrics (PDF) (19.02.19)
- MSc Applied Statistics (with pathway) (PDF) (14.06.22)
- MSc Applied Statistics and Financial Modelling (PDF) (11.03.20)
- MSc Banking and Finance (PDF) (24.08.22)
- MSc Economics (PDF) (26.08.14)
- MSc Financial Economics (PDF) (29.10.19)
- MSc Finance (PDF) (28.06.22)
- 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) (22.04.22)
- 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) (01.02.22)
- BA English (PDF) (05.05.23)
- BA Liberal Arts (PDF) (03.11.23)
- BA Theatre and Drama Studies (PDF) (09.06.22)
- BA Theatre, Film and Media Studies (PDF) (11.05.23)
- BA Theatre Studies and Arts Management (PDF) (11.05.23)
- BA Theatre Studies and Creative Writing (PDF) (14.08.23)
- BA Theatre Studies and English (PDF) (09.06.22)
Postgraduate programmes
- MA Applied Medical Humanities (suspended)
- MA Contemporary Literature and Culture (PDF) (17.04.23)
- MA Creative Writing (PDF) (17.04.23)
- MA Creative and Critical Writing (PDF) (28.07.20)
- MA Cultural and Critical Studies (PDF) (12.10.20)
- MA Dramaturgy (PDF) (28.11.19)
- MA Medical Humanities: Bodies, Cultures and Ideas (see History, Classics and Archaeology)
- MA Medieval Studies (PDF) (19.11.21)
- MA Modern and Contemporary Literature (PDF) (15.09.17)
- MA Renaissance Studies (suspended)
- MA Text and Performance (PDF) (20.01.22)
- MA Victorian Studies (PDF) (30.06.17)
- MFA Theatre Directing (PDF) (15.09.17)
- MRes English, Theatre and Arts (suspended for 2022-23)

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) (15.05.24)
- 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 with Departments of Management and Computer Science and Information Systems)
- MA Digital Media (includes: MA Digital Media Design, MA Digital Media Management, MA Digital Media Culture)(PDF) (29.11.22)
- 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) (28.11.22)
- MA Screenwriting (PDF) (29.05.15)

Geography

Undergraduate programmes
- BSc Environment and Sustainability (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (02.07.20)
- BSc Geography (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (02.07.20)
- BSc Geography and International Development (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (02.07.20)
- BA Human Geography (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (02.07.20)
Postgraduate programmes
- MA/MSc Cities (PDF) (06.03.20)
- MSc Children, Youth and International Development (PDF) (28.09.22)
- 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) (17.04.23)
- MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert International Development (PDF) (29.07.22)
- MSc/PG Dip International Development and Social Anthropology (PDF) (24.01.22)

History, Classics and Archaeology

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE History and Archaeology (PDF) (22.3.21)
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) (PDF) (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 Dip Gender, Sexuality and Society (PDF) (04.10.17)
- MA Archaeological Practice (PDF) (04.10.22)
- MA Classical Archaeology (PDF) (04.10.22)
- MA Classical Civilisation/MA Classics (PDF)
- MA Contemporary History and Politics (PDF) (14.09.22)
- MA Early Modern History (PDF) (27.03.17)
- MA European History (PDF) (14.09.22)
- MA Gender Sexuality and Culture (PDF) (14.03.22)
- MSc Gender Sexuality and Society (PDF) (14.03.22)
- MA Global History: Empires, States and Cultures (PDF) (14.09.22)
- MA History of Ideas (PDF) (28.03.17)
- MA Historical Research (PDF) (21.04.22)
- MA Medical Humanities: Bodies, Cultures and Ideas (PDF) (28.07.20)
- MA Medieval Studies (joint with Department of English, Theatre and Creative Writing)
- MA Public Histories (PDF) (06.04.22)
- 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)

History of Art

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE History of Art (PDF) (22.04.22)
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) (29.09.22)
- 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)

Languages, Cultures and Applied Linguistics

Note: 2022-23 updates to the BA specifications are in progress.

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 (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (07.06.23)
- BSc Management (PDF) (09.12.22)
- BSc Marketing (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (29.08.24)
Postgraduate programmes
- MSc Accounting and Finance (PDF) (26.08.22)
- MSc Business Analytics (PDF) (20.06.23)
- MSc Business Innovation with E-Business (PDF) (14.12.22)
- 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) (26.08.22)
- MSc Creative Industries (PDF) (24.03.20)
- MSc Governance, Economics and Public Policy (PDF) (07.02.22)
- MSc International Business (PDF) (14.12.22)
- MSc International Business and Development (PDF) (26.08.22)
- MSc International Management (PDF) (22.03.19)
- MSc International Marketing (PDF) (26.08.22)
- MSc Management and pathways (PDF) (14.12.221)
- MSc Management and Finance (PDF) (26.08.22)
- MSc Management Practice (suspended)
- MSc Marketing (PDF) (26.08.22)
- MSc Marketing Communications (PDF) (22.03.22)
- MSc Sport Management (PDF) (15.09.22)
- MSc Sport Management and Marketing (PDF) (26.08.22)
- MSc Sport Management and the Business of Football (PDF) (26.08.22)
- MSc Sport Management Governance and Policy (PDF) (26.08.22)
- MSc Sport Marketing (PDF) (26.08.22)
- 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)
MRes/MPhil 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) (26.04.22)
- MSc Coaching Psychology (PDF) (12.08.22)
- MSc Human Resource Management (PDF) (31.05.22)
- MSc Management Consultancy and Organizational Change (PDF) (22.06.21)
- MSc Organizational Psychology (PDF) (07.03.22)
- MSc Organizational Behaviour (suspended)
- PG Cert Career Coaching (PDF) (26.04.22)
- PG Cert Coaching Psychology (PDF) (27.04.22)
- Professional Doctorate Evidence-Based Human Resource Management (PDF) (09.09.21)
- Professional Doctorate Occupational Psychology (PDF) (16.12.22)

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 (October start) (PDF) (12.09.22)
- MA Philosophy (January start) (PDF) (15.09.22)
- 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) (06.06.22)
- BA Politics (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (06.06.22)
- BA Politics, Philosophy and History (PDF) (04.06.20)
Postgraduate programmes
- MSc European Politics and Policy (PDF) (18.02.22)
- MSc Food, Politics, and Society (PDF) (02.09.22)
- MSc Global Environmental Politics and Policy (PDF) (01.04.22)
- MSc Global Governance and Emerging Powers (25.02.22)
- MSc Global Political Economy (PDF) (30.03.22)
- MSc Global Politics (PDF) (25.03.22)
- MSc Government, Policy and Politics (PDF) (25.02.22)
- MSc International Security and Global Governance (PDF) (02.09.22)
- MSc Middle East in Global Politics: Islam, Conflict and Development (PDF) (02.09.22)
- MSc Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict (PDF) (28.02.22)
- MSc Political Communication (PDF) (28.09.22)
- MSc Politics (PDF) (25.03.22)
- MSc Politics of Population, Migration and Ecology (PDF) (25.03.22)
- MSc Public Policy and Management (PDF) (10.05.22)
- MSc Social and Political Theory (PDF) (28.02.22)
- MSc War and Humanitarianism (PDF) (01.04.22)
MRes programmes
- MRes Global Politics (PDF) (08.04.22)
- MRes Politics (PDF) (04.04.22)
- MRes Public Policy and Management (PDF) (08.04.22)

Psychological Sciences

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Applied Psychology (PDF) (19.11.20)
- Cert HE Psychology (PDF) (29.06.20)
Undergraduate programmes
- BSc Psychology including Foundation Year (PDF) (20.03.19)
- BA Psychology for Education (PDF) (25.03.25)
Postgraduate programmes
- MSc/MA Brain and Cognitive Development (PDF) (23.05.22)
- MSc/MA Cognition and Computation (PDF) (23.05.22)
- MSc/MA Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology (PDF) (23.05.22)
- MSc/MA Educational Neuroscience (PDF) (24.05.22)
- MSc/MA Health and Clinical Psychological Sciences (PDF) (04.07.22)
- MSc Psychological Research Methods (PDF) (12.05.22)
- MSc Psychology, October start (PDF) (19.08.22)
- MSc Psychology, January start (PDF) (26.09.23)
Research Programmes
- MRes Functional Neuroimaging (PDF) (23.06.14)
- MRes Psychology (PDF) (05.05.15)

Psychosocial Studies

Certificate programmes
- 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 Foundation for Counselling and Psychotherapy Training (PDF) (31.01.22)
- Grad Cert Psychodynamic Thinking (PDF) (15.07.22)
- 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) (01.12.22)
- 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) (22.05.22)
- MA Psychosocial Studies (PDF) (11.12.17)
- MA Sociology (PDF) (14.10.22)

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 (suspended)
Postgraduate programmes
- MSc Culinary Innovation Management (PDF) (08.07.22)
- MSc Management Practice (suspended)

School of Law

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Criminology (PDF)
- Cert HE Legal Studies (PDF) (03.04.19)
Undergraduate programmes
- 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
- Grad Dip in Law (PDF) (30.09.22)
- LLM Law (General) (PDF) (17.10.19)
- LLM Constitutional Politics, Law and Theory (PDF) (19.07.18)
- LLM Commercial Law (PDF) (19.11.21)
- LLM Environmental Law, Policy and Governance (PDF) (11.01.21)
- LLM International Economic Law, Justice and Development (PDF) (14.12.20)
- LLM International Intellectual Property Law (PDF) (11.11.21)
- LLM/MA Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (PDF) (16.09.20)
- LLM/MA Human Rights (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) (27.05.22)
- MSc Criminology (PDF) (17.04.23)

School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy

Postgraduate programmes
- MSc Social Research (PDF) (11.04.22)
- PG Dip Social Research (PDF) (21.04.22)
- PG Cert Social Research (PDF) (21.04.22)
- MRes Social Research pathways
  - MRes Social Research and Applied Linguistics (PDF) (21.04.22)
  - MRes Social Research and Criminology (PDF) (21.04.22)
  - MRes Social Research and Gender and Sexuality (PDF) (21.04.22)
  - MRes Social Research and Law and Legal Studies (PDF) (21.04.22)
  - MRes Social Research and Psychosocial Studies (PDF) (21.04.22)