Master's Degrees

The Institutes of the School offer Master's degrees in their specialist areas of expertise in the humanities and social sciences. Each year, the School enrols around 200 Master's degree students and 100 doctoral students.

"The academic community here is forward-thinking, cosmopolitan and has the ability to help you improve your skills in your chosen field. It has allowed me to connect with academics, researchers and other students; connections that will be integral to my future goal to work in academia myself." Meghan (Canada), Institute of Historical Research

A-Z of Master's degrees

LLM in Advanced Legislative Studies
This postgraduate degree examines issues related to the legislative process, constitutional law, the methods of drafting in a modern democratic context, legislative ethics and law reform. This degree is also offered via distance learning.
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LLM in International Corporate Governance, Financial Regulation and Economic Law
The main themes covered by this postgraduate degree include the role of international economic organisations in globalised financial markets and the emerging legal and regulatory institutions that govern European financial markets.
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MA in Caribbean and Latin American Studies
This postgraduate degree offers a unique opportunity to study differences and commonalities in the histories, politics, economies and cultures of the different linguistic territories of the region, contributing to a broader understanding of issues affecting the region as a whole.
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MA in Comparative American Studies
The postgraduate degree provides an opportunity to take courses on Latin America, the Caribbean and the United States, and to consider the transnational linkages that characterise the hemisphere.
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MA in Contemporary British History - *THIS COURSE WILL NOT BE RUNNING IN 2010-11*
This postgraduate programme provides training in and experience of historical analysis of issues of importance for the understanding of contemporary Britain.
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MA in Cultural and Intellectual History 1300–1650
This postgraduate degree is intended as an introduction to the principal elements of the classical tradition and to interdisciplinary research in cultural and intellectual history from the late middle ages to the early modern period.
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MA in Cultural Memory
This interdisciplinary postgraduate programme explores the many different ways in which culture is based on the construction, manipulation and transmission of memories, and the role played by memory in collective and individual identity formation.
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MA in Historical Research
This postgraduate degree enables students to undertake assessed work and independent projects in the historical issues and controversies that interest them most. Students are introduced to key historical approaches, sources and methods and learn to apply them to their particular subject area.
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MA in Human Rights
As the longest-running multidisciplinary and practice-oriented postgraduate human rights programme in the UK, this course is aimed at individuals who are already, or wish to become, human rights professionals and activists.
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MA in the History of the Book
This interdisciplinary postgraduate programme aims to provide a stimulating range of courses in this new but rapidly growing subject, encompassing the history of literate western culture and focusing not only on books, but also newspapers, magazines, chapbooks, and broadsides.
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MA in Latin American Studies
The postgraduate programme aims to attract students from a wide range of backgrounds and to offer them an opportunity to study a comprehensive range of specialist courses in a wide range of topics in anthropology, economics, environment, history, politics, culture and literature, and sociology of Latin America.
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MA in Taxation (Law, Administration and Practice)
This is an advanced level programme in all aspects of taxation, including tax law, tax administration, tax policy and taxation in practice.
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MA in United States Studies
The postgraduate programme aims to provide a comprehensive range of specialist courses in the humanities and social sciences, (cultural studies and literature, geography and environmental studies, history, politics and international relations, and sociology), attracting students from a wide range of backgrounds.
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MRes in Modern Languages: French, German, Hispanic, and Italian
This postgraduate degree has been designed to maximise flexibility of choice and outcome, offering opportunities to those seeking specific training for postgraduate research in modern languages, aiming ultimately at a PhD, those who want to take a challenging end-stopped Master’s and/or those who have one, two or three modern foreign languages.
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MSc in Globalisation and Latin American Development
This multidisciplinary postgraduate degree examines both the theoretical issues raised by globalisation and the variant ways in which different Latin American societies have reacted to it.
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MSc in Latin American Politics
This postgraduate degree provides students with an opportunity to develop their general and specialist knowledge of major issues in the politics of Latin America.
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MSc in Latin American Studies (Development)
The postgraduate programme aims to develop an understanding of the history, theory and evolution of economic development and social change in Latin America in the twentieth century, founded on a multidisciplinary approach and from a comparative perspective.
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MSc in United States Foreign Policy
The postgraduate degree aims to enhance students’ understanding of the policymaking processes, ideas, aims and objectives of US foreign policy in the period since 1945, with a particular focus on the post-Cold War era.
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MSc in United States Politics and Contemporary History
This postgraduate degree not only offers students the opportunity for in-depth study in US politics, foreign policy/international relations, and contemporary history but it also provides training in the methods and concepts of research in these areas, so it is an ideal preparation for students contemplating progressing to PhD.
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