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MA Global Politics: Art​ & Activism

This MA explores twenty-first-century global politics through the intersection of critical theory, activism and artistic practice. You’ll engage with transformative ideas and real-world challenges, developing creative and analytical approaches to understanding power, resistance and change in a rapidly shifting world.

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MA/LLM Human Rights and Social Justice

This interdisciplinary Master’s is rooted in Goldsmiths’ strengths in critical theory and practice-based approaches to social change. Bringing together legal, sociological and critical perspectives, the programme equips you to understand, question and transform how human rights work in theory, in practice and in everyday struggles for justice.

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MA Experimental Film & Documentary​

The MA/MFA Experimental Film and Documentary at Goldsmiths helps storytellers discover their unique voices, new audiences and exciting possibilities. If you're passionate about pursuing a career as a storyteller, film director or content creator in an environment that promotes innovative filmmaking and cross-disciplinary collaboration, this programme is for you.

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MSc Marketing and Innovation

This distinctive Master’s offers a combination of two organisational disciplines that are essential for success in today’s dynamic, technology-driven marketplace: marketing and innovation. You’ll be equipped with the knowledge, mindset, and capabilities needed to thrive in a rapidly changing business environment.

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Graduate Diploma Contemporary Art History

The Graduate Diploma in Contemporary Art History is for graduates of other disciplines with an interest in contemporary art and ideas, and who wish to carry out research at higher levels in the fields of visual cultures. By studying this programme, you will build upon your existing knowledge and develop a greater independent and critical engagement in the fields of art and visual cultures.

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MSc Applied Artificial Intelligence

In a world increasingly influenced by Artificial Intelligence, this future-focused Master’s will equip you with the technical expertise and the practical skills required to design, build, and deploy responsible AI solutions.

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MA Digital Political Communications

Engage with real-world issues on this dynamic Master’s programme. You will develop not just an understanding of the forms and impacts of political communications. You will also contextualise that knowledge in relation to the structures, institutions and actors that are at the heart of politics and media today.

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MA Applied Anthropology & Community & Youth Work

Professionally validated by the National Youth Agency and the Endorsement and Quality Standards Board for Community Development, this MA brings together youth work and community development theory and practice with the research methods and theoretical preoccupations of anthropology.

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MA Art & Ecology

This is a 15-month studio-based postgraduate programme for emerging artists who want to engage in meaningful and transformative ways with the most pressing ecological questions of our time.

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MA Art Psychotherapy

This programme will provide you with a broad understanding of the theories and practices of art psychotherapy necessary for safe and effective clinical work.

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MA Artists' Film & Moving Image

This 12-month, intensively taught practice-based Masters is aimed at artists and graduates working within the field of artists’ film and moving image who wish to develop their practice and professional networks with the support of Goldsmiths' School of Art and its uniquely high concentration of accomplished artist filmmakers.

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MA Arts Administration & Cultural Policy

This MA will enable you to develop an awareness of and a critical approach to the discipline of arts administration and cultural policy, by studying trending issues in cultural policy and art practice in Europe, Asia and wider international contexts.

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MA Brands, Communication & Culture

This unique programme introduces the ways in which brands are developed and used. It will help you understand how the growth of branding in areas such as business, entertainment, politics, government, sport and culture has changed and how it is impacting the societies we live in.

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MA Computational Arts

Develop your arts practice through the expressive world of creative computation. This Masters provides you with the historical foundations, frameworks and critical skills to produce a series of projects for public exhibition.

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MA Computer Games: Art & Design

This MA is tailored for people who want to start a career in the game industry. One of the only programmes in the UK taught by actual game developers, it will teach you game design, art and animation, and game programming. This programme has a strong focus on entrepreneurship and business, including the possibility to carry out an internship with industry partners.

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MA Contemporary Art Theory

The MA Contemporary Art Theory is for those with a passionate interest in contemporary art, and a desire to reshape or contribute to theoretical work in the subject.

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MA Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship

The MA Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship should be attractive if you either wish to develop a business arising from an existing creative practice, or to understand how to create the infrastructure and environment for new creative businesses.

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MA Creative and Life Writing

Have you got a story to tell? Or poems that you want to shape into a collection? This Masters degree will help you develop your creative writing practice. You’ll experiment with a wide variety of forms to help you discover your preferred mode of writing.

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MA Critical and Creative Studies in Literature

Aimed at students who want to think rigorously and write imaginatively, this groundbreaking and intellectually rigorous Masters programme invites you to explore literature in depth, developing your critical and creative practice and engaging with literature’s past, present, and future in a global cultural context.

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MA Dance Movement Psychotherapy

This programme provides you with a broad understanding of the theories and practices of dance movement therapy necessary for safe and effective clinical work, and enables you to practise as a dance movement psychotherapist.

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MA Design: Expanded Practice

This is a radical post-disciplinary programme for practitioners who want to push the boundaries of what design can be and do.

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MA Designing Education

Explore the relationship between designing and education, through radical pedagogies, design thinking methods, creative processes, and practical applications of design.

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MA Digital Media

The MA Digital Media is unique in its combination of practical and theoretical approaches to contemporary media and technology.

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MA Film & Screen Studies

Explore film philosophy, find out how images create meaning in experimental modes, and discover how we can think through the moving image on this eclectic Masters.

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MA Filmmaking (Cinematography)

MA Filmmaking (Cinematography) is designed for filmmakers who want to develop a distinctive visual voice while gaining professional-level technical expertise.

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MA Filmmaking (Directing)

The MA Filmmaking (Directing) is the premier place to develop your skills as a director, working on a range of projects from personal ‘essay’ films to large-scale shoots with professional actors and feature crew.

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MA Filmmaking (Editing)

This Masters will enhance your narrative skills as an editor of fiction for film and television.

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MA Filmmaking (Producing)

The MA Filmmaking (Producing) will provide you with a thorough training in all aspects of producing – from the conception of an initial idea through to development, financing, production and release.

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MA Filmmaking (Sound)

On this Masters you'll learn the fundamental technical skills necessary to begin a career in screen sound, both as a location sound recordist and post-production sound designer. But equally importantly, you will gain an understanding of how a film’s narrative relies on the precise partnership between image and sound.

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MA Games and Playful Design

On this brave games Masters focusing on game design, you’ll explore the ways that games are used in the creative arts to engage conversation, inspire personal expression, and explore our world.

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MA Gender, Sexuality and Creative Practice

The MA Gender, Sexuality & Creative Practice introduces you to recent conceptual debates and creative practices drawing on interdisciplinary domains of feminist, queer, social and cultural conversations.

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MA Luxury Brand Management

This Masters equips you with the management, entrepreneurial, marketing and professional skills to work in the luxury goods and experiential luxury industry.

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MA Media and Communications

Join a pioneering MA Media and Communications programme in a world-leading school. Founded in 1993, this Master's programme reflects the research-led interdisciplinary approach we take to media and communications that has made us leaders in the field. We value the creative and the critical and their interrelationships, to explore and interrogate how the complex, mediated worlds we live in work.

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MA Musical Theatre

This unique Masters will enhance your critical understanding of musical theatre as a popular entertainment genre, and will train you as a performer, composer, writer or producer.

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MA Photography Practice

MA Photography Practice at Goldsmiths approaches photography as an expanded art form in a time of radical transformation. Our programme cultivates the essential visual sensitivity needed to create powerful images while balancing digital innovation with analogue craft, critical theory with practical skills, and personal expression with professional development.

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MA Public Relations, Advertising and Marketing

The MA Public Relations, Advertising and Marketing crosses the formalised boundaries established between media, public relations (PR), marketing and advertising in theorisations of these fields; establishing links between practitioner literatures/theory, and media and cultural studies.

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MA Research Architecture

The MA Research Architecture is for graduates from a range of disciplines who want to examine how architecture can engage with questions of contemporary culture, politics, media, ecology and justice, and question whether spatial practice can become a form of research.

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MA Script Writing

The skills of storytelling are timeless. Tackle the creative, analytical and professional sides of script writing for film, television and radio on this industry-accredited Masters.

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MA Social Anthropology

Are you interested in a career in anthropology, but haven’t studied the subject before? Have you studied anthropology in the past, but need to consolidate this experience before moving into anthropological research?

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MA Social Work

This Masters is ideal for graduates with relevant experience interested in pursuing a professional career in social work. You will receive an approved qualification, enabling you to register with Social Work England and work as a qualified professional on completion of the programme.

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MA Theatre, Performance and Participation

This interdisciplinary MA is for performance makers, researchers, facilitators and writers who want to use performance to respond to the most urgent social, political and ecological issues of our times.

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MA Visual Anthropology

The MA Visual Anthropology offers a unique combination of anthropological theory and visual practice. It provides you with a strong foundation for producing visual work informed by anthropology.

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MA/MSc Virtual & Augmented Reality

Immersive experiences, including virtual and augmented reality, are the most exciting new mediums to emerge in the 21st century. On this Masters, you’ll be working on a once-in-a-lifetime challenge: shaping and pioneering a medium that’s already having a major impact on our society.

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MFA Computational Arts

Study a degree that develops your arts practice through the expressive world of creative computation. This Masters provides you with the historical foundations, frameworks and critical skills to produce a series of projects for public exhibition.

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MFA Creative and Life Writing

The MFA Creative and Life Writing is for committed writers who are interested in critically examining their own writing and exploring the possibilities of storytelling. Develop your writing skills within a challenging, flexible and advanced scheme of study, invigorated by current research.

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MFA Creative Practice

Develop a distinctive, original and trans-disciplinary creative practice in (or related to) music through this programme.

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MFA Curating

The MFA Curating at Goldsmiths is designed for students who wish to take up the challenge of artistic, social and critical curating with a contemporary approach to the subject. It also helps students to develop their professional practice.

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MFA Fine Art

Our MFA programme aims to strengthen your motivation, self-reflection and ambition as an emerging artist. We do this by subjecting art-making to intense critical scrutiny.

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MMus Creative Practice

This flexible Masters is an inclusive, forward-thinking music degree, open to broad conceptions of composition and multi-disciplinary approaches to practice.

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MPhil/PhD Advanced Practices

This programme will provide you with an opportunity for your own work to engage with the widening horizons of new practices. It will also enable you to invent methodologies, reframe urgencies, and reimagine the contexts for work.

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MPhil/PhD Anthropology

Anthropology at Goldsmiths offers supervision in a wide range of areas for research degrees.

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MPhil/PhD Art

We support innovative art research in fine art, curating, art writing and across disciplines.

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MPhil/PhD Art Practice & Learning

What kind of learning emerges from and with art practice, and how does such learning further impact upon arts practice? This reflexive question lies at the heart of the MPhil/PhD Art Practice & Learning.

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MPhil/PhD Arts & Computational Technology

This is the only programme in the University of London in which students can include creative work and an arts-based context of their practice within the distinctive field of arts and creative technologies.

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MPhil/PhD Communities and Social Justice

Goldsmiths is home to world-renowned researchers in social justice, community work and youth work, making it a perfect home for postgraduate research studies in these areas.

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MPhil/PhD Computer Science

Our MPhil/PhD programme in computer science offers you the opportunity to participate fully in the highly interdisciplinary research environment of the School of Computing and of Goldsmiths as a whole.

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MPhil/PhD Counselling & Psychotherapy

Goldsmiths has a rich research culture, and hosts clinically and/or theoretically focused research in the fields of psychoanalysis, analytical psychology and psychodynamic counselling.

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MPhil/PhD Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship

Creative Industries and Cultural Entrepreneurship at Goldsmiths has a strong research base in all areas of cultural policy, cultural diplomacy, arts management, and creative, cultural and social entrepreneurship.

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MPhil/PhD Creative Writing

The inter-relationship between theory, scholarship and the creative process is key to the Goldsmiths MPhil/PhD Creative Writing.

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MPhil/PhD Dance Movement Psychotherapy

With a world-class reputation for creativity and innovation, and a commitment to encouraging interdisciplinary collaboration, Goldsmiths provides researchers with a unique intellectual environment.

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MPhil/PhD Design

Goldsmiths’ School of Design postgraduate research programmes offer you the opportunity to redefine design research in a community of design practice.

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MPhil/PhD Drama

Theatre and Performance's research at Goldsmiths embraces a range of global theory and practice in theatre and performance including play-texts, physical practices and critical/cultural theory on which students can draw in their research.

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MPhil/PhD Economics

Training future economists who combine imaginative approaches with rigorous analysis.

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MPhil/PhD Education

We are committed to developing our postgraduate students into competent and critical educational researchers able to conduct rigorous and socially impactful research using a variety of methodological approaches.

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MPhil/PhD Law

Goldsmiths Law MPhil/PhD candidates are given outstanding opportunities to explore modern legal phenomena in their rapidly changing socio-political, cultural, and economic context.

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MPhil/PhD Management

The School of Creative Management will equip you with a sound understanding of the methods and skills necessary to conduct high-level research, using a wide range of approaches and techniques.

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MPhil/PhD Media & Communications & Cultural Studies

We welcome proposals for research in any area connected with media, communications, digital media, cultural theory and practice. We aim to engage you, intellectually and critically, and with enthusiasm, in a media or cultural studies project that questions everything.

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MPhil/PhD Music

Goldsmiths’ Music has a lively and varied research base, a large postgraduate community, an active performing tradition, and offers proximity to London’s resources.

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MPhil/PhD Politics

Undertake a research degree in politics and international relations at Goldsmiths.

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MPhil/PhD Psychology

We're committed to developing our postgraduates into skilled researchers who can conduct rigorous research using a variety of methods and analytic techniques.

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MPhil/PhD Psychology (IMS)

The Mphil/PhD in Psychology (IMS) will equip you with a sound understanding of the methods and skills necessary to conduct high-level research, using a wide range of approaches and techniques.

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MPhil/PhD Religious Studies

Goldsmiths is an exciting space for postgraduates, with numerous international speakers, a huge range of interdisciplinary seminars and reading groups and a very open and warm environment for the exchange of ideas.

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MPhil/PhD Social Work & Social Policy

Goldsmiths is home to a wealth of experience and research in social work, spanning areas from social justice to social injustices to sexual and gender diversity.

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MPhil/PhD Sociology

We offer MPhil and PhD research programmes in Sociology for full or part-time study.

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MPhil/PhD Visual Culture

We welcome applicants wishing to explore visual culture understood as a meeting ground between creative practices, the philosophical and the political.

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MRes Advanced Practices

The MRes in Advanced Practices responds to the growing importance of research within contemporary cultural production.

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MRes English

This MRes prepares you for more advanced research projects at MPhil/PhD level, but is also a degree in its own right. It's ideal if you're considering a 'taster' year of research, or if you're keen to complete shorter term research at graduate level. 

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MRes Research Methods in Psychology

The programme aims to equip you with a sound understanding of the research methods and skills necessary to conduct high-level research in psychology, using a wide range of approaches and techniques.

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MRes Visual Cultures

The MRes Visual Cultures is ideal if you have already completed an advanced course of study in art history and theory but would like to further develop your thought and research projects before studying at MPhil/PhD level.

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MSc Business Management

Gain the skills and knowledge you need to be an effective manager in increasingly uncertain and technology-dominated environments.

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MSc Computer Games Programming

This MSc is tailored for people who want to start a career in the game industry. One of the only programmes in the UK taught by actual game developers, you will learn multi-platform game development and gain a solid foundation in programming. The programme has a strong focus on entrepreneurship and business, including the possibility to carry out an internship with industry partners.

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MSc Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

The MSc Data Science and Artificial Intelligence will provide you with a deep understanding of cutting-edge artificial intelligence techniques and the practical skills to implement data analytics using AI.

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MSc Marketing and Consumer Behaviour

The MSc Marketing & Consumer Behaviour will equip you with a comprehensive grounding in approaches to understanding consumer preferences, judgements and decision-making.

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MSc Music, Mind & Brain

This distinctive programme combines psychology and neuroscience to understand how music shapes the human mind and society. You’ll learn how biological, cognitive, and cultural mechanisms influence music perception, creation, and experience, while developing the skills required to apply this knowledge in research, industry, and creative practice.

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MSc Psychology (Conversion)

The programme is the first of its kind at the University of London, offering a scientific approach to the study of human behaviour. You will develop a broad understanding of psychological theory and research, and the processes influencing how people think, feel, behave, and interact.

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MSc Social Research

The MSc Social Research is an advanced degree in social scientific methodology and is recognised by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) as a research training degree.

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MSc User Experience Engineering

This innovative programme will explore how people experience the world, particularly when using technology. You'll learn how each layer of technology, from core hardware through to the way that media is handled, can affect user experience, and gain the skills for researching user requirements and designing the best solutions.

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MSc/PGDip Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

This Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) programme aims to provide a structured training where you can systematically acquire the knowledge and skills needed to practise as a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist.

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PGCert Digital Media – Theory

The Postgraduate Certificate in Digital Media offers an introduction to critical and theoretical approaches to contemporary media and technology.

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PGCert Film and Screen Studies

The Postgraduate Certificate in Film and Screen Studies offers a unique combination of critical and creative approaches to the past and the future of audiovisual media.

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PGCert Media & Communications

You are invited to think critically about the larger, global media worlds of the present age, and about your own location in the mediated society in which you live.

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PGCert Political Communications

The Postgraduate Certificate in Political Communications offers teaching that is critical, innovative and diverse. It combines theory with practical, applied elements, and draws on a range of research and contemporary examples.

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PGCert Race, Media & Social Justice

The Postgraduate Certificate in Race, Media and Social Justice offers a rigorous and academic approach to deepen your understanding of contemporary issues regarding race and ethnicity, in order to form your own interventions that can contribute to social justice and equality.

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PGDip Digital Media – Theory

The Postgraduate Diploma in Digital Media – Theory is unique in its combination of theoretical approaches to contemporary media and technology.

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PGDip Film and Screen Studies

The PGDip in Film and Screen Studies offers a unique combination of critical and creative approaches to the past and the future of audiovisual media.

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PGDip Media & Communications

The Postgraduate Diploma in Media and Communications offers a broad look at many aspects of the media – sociological, economic and cultural. It invites you to think critically about the larger, global media worlds of the present age, and about your own place in society.

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PGDip Political Communications

The Postgraduate Diploma in Political Communications combines theory with practical, applied elements, and draws on a range of research and contemporary examples. It offers teaching that is critical, innovative and diverse.

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PGDip Race, Media & Social Justice

The Postgraduate Diploma in Race, Media and Social Justice offers a rigorous and academic approach to this subject to deepen your understanding of contemporary issues regarding race and ethnicity. This will enable you to form your own interventions that can contribute to social justice and equality.

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MA Cultural Studies & Social Justice

The MA Cultural Studies and Social Justice offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of contemporary culture (in all its forms), race, and justice. The programme is theory-driven but grounded in practice, media, creative approaches, and social justice.

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