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SOAS, University of London Postgraduate Prospectus 2014/15 www.soas.ac.uk Facebook www.facebook.com/ soasunioflondon Twitter @soas YouTube www.youtube.com/ soasuniversity Weibo SOASLondon SOAS, University of London University SOAS, Thornhaugh Street Russell Square 0XG London WC1H O ce Student Recruitment +44 (0)20 7898 4034 Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4039 Fax: [email protected] Email: Switchboard +44 (0)20 7637 2388 Tel: LifeSOAS, and University Study at ofSOAS London Welcome

SOAS, University of London is the world’s leading institution for the study of Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

While other universities have mission statements, SOAS has a real mission – to analyse, understand and explain a globalised world in which, nevertheless, difference and regionalism present themselves acutely. Students and scholars from across the globe continually choose SOAS because of its international reputation and unrivalled concentration of expertise in these regions. SOAS is a guardian of specialised knowledge in languages and periods and regions not available anywhere else in the UK but, equally, SOAS scholars grapple with pressing issues – democracy, development, human rights, identity, legal systems, poverty, religion, social change – confronting two-thirds of humankind. SOAS is renowned for its diverse and vibrant community. Almost half the student body is international, which according to the 2012 QS World University Rankings, places SOAS as having the ninth highest percentage of international students in the world. More importantly for SOAS, the exchange of ideas takes place on a world stage, crucial to deepen research, sharpen scholarly debate and, ultimately, nurture, challenge and inspire. SOAS is located right in the heart of London – one of the best cities in the world for students, according to QS – and it’s easy to see why. World-famous cultural sites such as the British Museum, the British Library and Covent Garden are all nearby, offering a range of music, art and architecture to explore. By choosing SOAS for your postgraduate study, you will be joining us at a very exciting time. As we plan for our centenary in 2016 and our future beyond, we hope you will play a part by ensuring SOAS continues to advance the knowledge and understanding of our regions through high-quality research and teaching.

Professor Paul Webley Director

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5 SOAS at a glance 82 Master’s and Research Degrees 84 Department of the Languages and Cultures 6 Life and Study at SOAS of Africa 8 Why choose SOAS? 87 Department of Anthropology and Sociology 12 Faculties and Departments 99 School of Arts 16 Taught Master’s Programmes 100 Department of the History of Art and 20 Research Archaeology 28 Other Study Opportunities 110 Centre for Film and Screen Studies 34 SOAS Library and Information Services 115 Department of Music 37 Student Support Services 121 Department of the Languages and Cultures 42 Living in London of China and Inner Asia 44 Accommodation 125 Centre for Cultural, Literary and 46 Regional Centres Postcolonial Studies 52 A–Z of Postgraduate Degrees 134 Department of Development Studies 55 New Programmes 145 Department of Economics 154 Department of Financial and 56 Interdisciplinary Area Studies Management Studies Master’s 160 Centre for Gender Studies 164 Department of History 58 Introduction 170 Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy 59 MA African Studies 176 Department of the Languages and Cultures 60 MA Chinese Studies of Japan and Korea 62 MA Iranian Studies 181 School of Law 63 MA Islamic Societies and Cultures 195 Department of Linguistics 64 MA Israeli Studies 204 Centre for Media Studies 66 MA Japanese Studies 213 Department of the Languages and Cultures 68 MA Korean Studies of Near and Middle East 69 MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies 221 Department of Politics and International Studies 72 MA Pacific Asian tudiesS 235 Department of the Languages and Cultures 74 MA Study of Contemporary Pakistan of South Asia 75 MA South Asian Area Studies 238 Department of the Languages and Cultures 78 MA South East Asian Studies of South East Asia 80 MA Taiwan Studies 240 Department of the Study of Religions

248 Coming to SOAS 250 Making your Application 254 Fees 255 Equality and Diversity 256 Freedom of Expression: Statement of Principles 257 Your SOAS Alumni Network 258 Term Dates and Open Days 259 Useful Contacts 261 Address and Principal Officers 262 Campus Map

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SOAS at a glance

SOAS has more than 2,100 postgraduate students, including 488 on research programmes

We have students from more than 130 countries

Student:staff ratio 11:1 is one of the best in the UK

We have 120 taught Master’s programmes in social sciences, humanities, languages and cultural studies, with a distinctive regional focus

Our library has more than 1.5 million items and extensive electronic resources on Asia, Africa and the Middle East and attracts scholars from all over the world

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Life and Study at SOAS

Key information about coming to study a degree at SOAS

8 Why choose SOAS? 12 Faculties and Departments 16 Taught Master’s Programmes 20 Research 28 Other Study Opportunities 34 SOAS Library and Information Services 37 Student Support Services 42 Living in London 44 Accommodation 46 Regional Centres 52 A–Z of Postgraduate Degrees 55 New Programmes

6 For more information go to www.soas.ac.uk SOAS Postgraduate Prospectus 2014 Entry 7 Life and Study at SOAS Why choose SOAS?

• SOAS, University of London is the world’s • SOAS is rated first for its political scene, a score leading institution for the study of Asia, Africa of 98 per cent, by Which? University. and the Middle East. Its research expertise in languages, political and social sciences and • With 54,000 alumni worldwide, the global arts and humanities provides the resources reach and global perspectives of SOAS and knowledge to equip people for a global graduates empowers them to work in a wide economy and a multicultural world. range of sectors, from government and inter- governmental institutions, NGOs and charities, • SOAS is an exceptionally cosmopolitan through think tanks and academia, to business university. Almost half the student body and social enterprise. is international giving it the ninth highest percentage of international students at a • SOAS has the largest concentration of specialist university in the world (QS World University staff (400+ academics) concerned with the Rankings). study of Asia, Africa and the Middle East of any university in the world. Students benefit • The 2012 QS World University Rankings placed from small-group teaching, which remains SOAS joint fifth best in the UK for modern an important feature of study at SOAS – languages. It also ranked SOAS 52nd in the Our student-staff ratio (11:1) is one of the best world for arts and humanities and 51st for in the UK. This concentration of expertise is modern languages. further enforced by its world-leading library, which attracts scholars from across the globe. • Our academic excellence is recognised in Research Assessment Exercises. In the most • While student numbers are growing and recent exercise, SOAS submitted more than programmes expanding, SOAS retains a 92 per cent of its eligible staff and was friendliness and warmth. Students can question ranked first in Asian Studies with four other and challenge conventional thinking, widen departments, Anthropology, History, Music their horizons and put preconceptions of Asia, and Politics, performing exceptionally well. Africa and the Middle East to the test.

World-class library and facilities Excellent career prospects We have well-equipped facilities including a world- Whether you are an aspiring UN envoy, a researcher renowned library. With more than 1.5 million items eager to document endangered Nigerian dialects or and extensive electronic resources in more than a passionate champion of human rights, studying at 400 languages, the SOAS Library is the national SOAS will give you the skills and contacts to allow library for the study of Asia, Africa and the Middle you to hit the ground running after completing your East and attracts scholars from all over the world. further degree. We also have our own exhibition and conference Our graduates have built careers in academia, space, the Brunei Gallery. In addition to a changing the public and private sectors, including the civil programme of visiting exhibitions and events service, business and finance and arts and cultural reflecting the broad teaching and research interests institutions. They also work for international here, a permanent rotating display of SOAS’s own agencies, charities, NGOs and the media. For rich collections of manuscripts and artifacts is example, they have secured highly sought-after on show in the Foyle Special Collections Gallery. internships with the UN Refugees Agency, the For details see page 36. European Union and Action Against Hunger. Many have also taken up PR and consultative functions with Médecins Sans Frontières, Amnesty International, UNESCO, the World Bank and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, or joined the BBC or Al-Arabiya News.

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A great number of SOAS alumni have excelled in their chosen field, including: • Professor John Atta Mills (PhD Law 1970) Former President of Ghana (21 July 1944– 24 July 2012). • Aung San Suu Kyi (Research student 1987–8) Leader of the National League for Democracy, Burma, and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, 1991. • Zeinab Badawi (MSc Near and Middle Eastern Studies 1989) Journalist and presenter of BBC World News Today, the BBC’s flagship news programme. • Luisa Diogo (MSc Financial Economics 1992) Former Prime Minister of Mozambique (2004–2010). • David Lammy MP (LLB (Hons), School of Law 1993) Elected to Parliament in 2000, as the MP for Tottenham. • Paul Robeson (African languages 1934) American actor, singer, and civil rights activist • Dame Freya Stark DBE (Arabic and Urdu language 1921–45) British travel writer. One of the first Western women to travel through the Arabian deserts, often alone. • Fatima Bhutto (MA South Asian Studies 2005) Poet and writer. Fatima is the granddaughter of former Pakistani Prime Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and the niece of the late Benazir Bhutto. • Jemima Khan (MA Near and Middle East Studies 2007) Writer, human rights campaigner and fundraiser for several national and international charities. She is the Associate Editor of New Statesman and the European editor-at-large for Vanity Fair. • James Harding (Japanese 1992) Director of News, BBC. • Lord Wilson of Tillyorn KT GCMG FRSE (PhD History 1972) British diplomat and Sinologist, 27th Governor of Hong Kong (1987–1992).

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Stimulating community Both SOAS campuses are well served by all forms of public transport. The nearest underground stations, With more than 5,200 students representing Russell Square and King’s Cross, offer direct links to 130 nationalities and diverse backgrounds, SOAS London Heathrow Airport and several of London’s is a fascinatingly eclectic, lively and close-knit main railway stations (St Pancras, for Eurostar community. All have an intellectual interest in the services to Paris and Brussels; Euston and King’s international issues in which the School specialises, Cross, for services to Scotland) are within easy reach. which makes for a stimulating academic environment and sparks dynamic debates both inside and outside the classroom. Internationally renowned academics More than 400 academic staff are dedicated Heart of London campuses to teaching and research at SOAS, and many are world-class experts in their fields, advising Whether you’re into art and architecture, music governments and policy makers around the globe. and dance, film and theatre or current affairs and finance, London has it all. As a student at SOAS, the capital’s rich intellectual, cultural and social life is on Choice of study options your doorstep. You can choose from a huge range Our postgraduate and research degrees provide a of attractions and opportunities to suit every taste wide range of options to suit all interests. More than (and pocket). 120 taught Master’s programmes are offered in law SOAS’s main site, the Russell Square campus, is in and social sciences, arts and humanities, languages historic Bloomsbury, an area of leafy squares and and cultural studies. Most are available full-time parks well-known as a haven from the bustle of or part-time. A range of diplomas and distance the city and ideal for study breaks. It’s also enviably learning programmes are also on offer. close to the West End with its cinemas, theatres, clubs, popular shopping areas, such as Oxford Range of awards Street and Regent Street, and Covent Garden with its kaleidoscope of cafés, market stalls and We offer a range of studentships and scholarships street performers. The British Museum, the British to support our postgraduate and research students, Library and a number of other University of London and also administer several scholarships. A number colleges and facilities are also nearby. of these awards have been made possible by generous donations from individuals, foundations SOAS’s other campus, Vernon Square, is a and companies, including the Sochon Foundation 20-minute walk from Russell Square and close and the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. to Islington’s boutiques, restaurants and galleries. This campus is housed in an English Heritage listed Awards exist for UK and international students building and offers state-of-the-art teaching and on full-time and part-time programmes. New learning resources, as well as an internet café, opportunities regularly become available, including alongside spacious social amenities. From 2015 we awards by major companies. For details see will be moving from Vernon Square to Senate House page 254 and visit www.soas.ac.uk/scholarships North Block, which will bring all our campuses together on one site at Russell Square. Many of the social and sports activities offered by SOAS are either on-site or currently provided by the University of London Union (ULU), which is just two minutes’ walk from Russell Square and has its own fitness centre and swimming pool.

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SOAS Postgraduate Prospectus 2014 Entry 11 Life and Study at SOAS Faculties and Departments

SOAS has three faculties: Faculty of Arts Arts and Humanities, Languages and Humanities and Cultures, and Law and Social

Sciences. Between them, they Dean include 17 departments and five Professor Gurharpal Singh degree-awarding centres, which Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) Dr Lukas Nickel offer more than 120 taught Associate Dean (Research) postgraduate programmes. Dr Andrea Janku School of Arts -- Department of History of Art and Archaeology -- Department of Music -- Centre for Media and Film Studies Departments -- Anthropology and Sociology -- History -S- tudy of Religions Centre -- Media and Film Studies

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Degrees offered by the Faculty of Arts and An interest in the peoples of Asia, Africa and the Humanities are designed to provide students with Middle East is best grounded in an integrated the knowledge they need to understand the nature understanding of languages and cultures. Teaching of other societies and cultures, and to form ideas and research in the Faculty of Languages and about the past, present and future of the complex Cultures at SOAS reflect this and draw upon its and multicultural world in which we live. internationally renowned expertise in a range of languages and cultures. Research provides the basis for teaching activity in the Faculty. All Faculty staff are specialists in regions In 2009 SOAS was awarded a prestigious Queen’s as well as disciplines, and all subjects taught within Anniversary Prize for Higher Education. The award the Faculty can be combined with other disciplines honours the Faculty for the excellence, breadth and from across the School. depth of its teaching in the languages of Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The Faculty is committed to providing stimulating and accessible postgraduate and research programmes The 2008 Research Assessment Exercise produced that enable students to study particular countries or healthy results for the Faculty, which submitted regions in depth and to explore comparisons and its research outputs to the Asian Studies, Middle contrasts across the major areas of Africa, Asia and Eastern and African Studies and Linguistics sub- the Near and Middle East. panels. These are subject areas in which good teaching draws heavily upon the quality of the research conducted. More than 50 per cent of all research outputs were assessed to be either of Faculty of Languages world-leading quality or internationally excellent. and Cultures In addition, we were judged to be the national leader in Asian Studies by a significant margin, with 65 per cent of our research in the world-leading Dean and internationally excellent categories. Professor Anne Pauwels While staff undertake a wide variety of research Associate Dean (Master’s) relating to Asia, Africa and the Middle East, their Dr Monik Charette teaching is focused around three main areas: Associate Dean (Research) comparative and language-specific textual and Professor Bernhard Fuehrer literary studies; language studies with linguistics at its core; and the teaching of language competence Departments in a wide range of Asian, African and Middle -- Languages and Cultures of Africa Eastern languages. -- Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia -- Languages and Cultures of Japan and Korea Major research programmes currently under -- Languages and Cultures of the Near and way include work on endangered languages, Middle East comparative literature and a range of other cultural -- Languages and Cultures of South and and linguistic topics. South East Asia All languages at SOAS can be taught from the start, --Linguistics and no prior knowledge is required. Centres -- Gender Studies -- Film and Screen Studies -- SOAS Language Centre

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Now the largest faculty at SOAS, Law and Social Faculty of Law and Sciences has grown rapidly and successfully over recent years. This has been through the development Social Sciences of unique and innovative new programmes in Law, Development Studies, Politics, Management and Dean Economics, and the recruitment of new staff working Professor Matthew Craven on issues of greatest contemporary relevance. It is now home to one of the largest concentrations of Associate Dean (Learning and Teaching) social science expertise relating to the developing Dr Emilia Onyema world within the UK, and produces a significant Associate Dean (Research) amount of research (as recognised in the most Dr Stephen Hopgood recent Research Assessment Exercise) of an internationally excellent or world-leading nature. Departments Staff are internationally renowned for their expertise, -- Development Studies and routinely advise governments and policy makers -E- conomics across the globe and work with non-governmental -- Financial and Management Studies organisations and inter-governmental agencies. -- School of Law They have also taught at universities around the -- Politics and International Studies world and have direct experience of the different Centres values and aspirations that students bring to SOAS. -- Gender Studies The Faculty is particularly proud of its postgraduate -- International Studies and Diplomacy teaching programmes, which have all been carefully, yet very successfully, developed in recent years, with new programmes coming on line each year. The combination of staff interests and expertise and a very diverse and engaged student population provides for a learning experience that is unmatched in any other UK university. The most distinctive feature of the Faculty’s research is the way in which it seeks to combine regional knowledge and expertise with the global thematics of law, political economy, management and development, with a continued emphasis placed upon both interdisciplinarity and cultural understanding. The Faculty is thus able to offer unique programmes of an international and regional nature in matters as diverse as conflict and violence, migration, diplomacy, human rights, development and management, to name but a few. It also encourages the development of knowledge and understanding of some of the most pressing and troubling issues in the contemporary world.

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Faculty and Departmental Centres Our faculties and departments have a range of affiliated centres, which engage in research and teaching activity and also host regular events including workshops, seminars and conferences.

Faculty of Arts and Humanities • Centre of Jaina Studies • Centre for the Study of • Centre of Buddhist Studies www.soas.ac.uk/jainastudies Japanese Religions www.soas.ac.uk/ • Centre for Media and www.soas.ac.uk/csjr buddhiststudies Film Studies • SOAS Food Studies Centre • Centre of Eastern and Orthodox www.soas.ac.uk/mediaandfilm www.soas.ac.uk/foodstudies Christianity • Centre for Migration and • Sainsbury Institute for the Study www.soas.ac.uk/ceoc Diaspora Studies of Japanese Art www.soas.ac.uk/ www.sainsbury-institute.org migrationdiaspora

Faculty of Languages and • Hans Rausing Endangered • Centre for Jewish Studies Cultures Languages Project www.soas.ac.uk/jewishstudies • Centre for Cultural, Literary www.hrelp.org • Centre for Language Pedagogy and Postcolonial Studies • Centre for Film and Screen www.soas.ac.uk/clpr www.soas.ac.uk/cclps Studies • Centre for Palestine Studies • Centre for Digital Africa, Asia www.soas.ac.uk/cfss www.soas.ac.uk/lmei-cps and the Middle East • Centre for Gender Studies • Centre for Translation Studies www.soas.ac.uk/cedaame www.soas.ac.uk/genderstudies www.soas.ac.uk/cts • Centre for Excellence in • Centre for Iranian Studies • London Confucius Institute Teaching and Learning www.soas.ac.uk/lmei-cis www.soas.ac.uk/lci Languages of the Wider World • Centre of Islamic Studies • Centre of Taiwan Studies www.soas.ac.uk/lwwcetl www.soas.ac.uk/islamicstudies www.soas.ac.uk/taiwanstudies

Faculty of Law and Social Sciences • Centre for Gender Studies • London International • Asia-Pacific Centre for www.soas.ac.uk/genderstudies Development Centre (LIDC) Social Science • Centre for the International www.soas.ac.uk/lidc www.soas.ac.uk/apcss Politics of Conflict, Rights • Centre on the Politics of • Centre for Development, and Justice Energy Security Environment and Policy www.soas.ac.uk/ccrj www.soas.ac.uk/cepes www.soas.ac.uk/cedep • Centre for International Studies • Centre for the Study of • Centre for Development Policy and Diplomacy Colonialism, Empire and and Research www.cisd.soas.ac.uk International Law www.soas.ac.uk/cdpr • Centre of Islamic and Middle www.soas.ac.uk/cceil • Centre of East Asian Law Eastern Law • Centre for Water and www.soas.ac.uk/ceal www.soas.ac.uk/cimel Development www.soas.ac.uk/water • Centre for Ethnic Minority Studies • Law, Environment and www.soas.ac.uk/cems Development Centre (LEDC) www.soas.ac.uk/ledc • Centre for Financial and Management Studies • Centre for Law and Conflict www.soas.ac.uk/cefims www.soas.ac.uk/lawandconflict

Our centres provide an exciting forum for collaboration in research and teaching within SOAS and in conjunction with other institutions. For further information on these centres, please visit the respective websites.

SOAS Postgraduate Prospectus 2014 Entry 15 Life and Study at SOAS Taught Master’s Programmes

SOAS offers more than 120 requirements of the programme. You will be largely responsible for planning and organising on-campus taught Master’s your workload. You should be prepared to spend degrees and several diplomas in a considerable amount of time in independent study, reading and preparing for seminars. languages and cultures, arts and humanities, and social sciences. Choosing your course A range of factors such as career or professional Apart from subject-based MAs, there are also several development may determine your choice of interdisciplinary and area studies programmes with programme. However, once you have decided on the important research agendas, which combine SOAS’s programme you still have some choice in the courses unique regional and subject expertise. you study. All programmes will normally stipulate at A Master’s degree can offer a range of benefits. least one, and in some cases two, core or compulsory For example, there is the opportunity for pursuing courses; the choice of the remaining one or two in greater depth a subject you have already studied. courses from those approved for the programme Alternatively, you may need to acquire skills and will be up to you (in consultation with your tutor). knowledge in a new subject. If you are planning to go on to a research degree, a Master’s will be MA degrees in regional studies necessary to prepare you for more advanced work. The degrees of the university for which graduate SOAS offers several interdisciplinary Master’s students may register at the School are as follows: programmes in regional studies – African, Chinese, Iranian, Israeli, Japanese, Korean, Near and Middle • Master of Arts (MA) Eastern, Pacific Asian, Pakistan, South Asian, South • Master of Music (MMus) East Asian, Taiwanese and Turkish – which provide • Master of Science (MSc) a unique opportunity for students to develop or • Master of Laws (LLM) deepen their knowledge of a particular region. See pages 52–55 for an A–Z list of which Detailed information is available on page 52. programmes should be available in 2014/15. As the emphasis is on an interdisciplinary approach to any region, students are required to select three Teaching and learning taught courses from more than one subject or discipline. For instance, the MA Chinese Studies Most Master’s degrees involve both coursework offers a choice of more than 25 courses from and the writing of a dissertation. Taught Master’s across 13 subject areas, such as anthropology, art, programmes last for 12 months of full-time economics, history, languages, music and politics. study, but are usually available part-time as well. Most consist of four elements: three taught In addition, SOAS offers several trans-regional courses, which are assessed by coursework and cross-disciplinary programmes, for example in Film written examination papers, and a dissertation of and Screen Studies, Gender Studies, Media Studies, approximately 10,000 words. International Studies and Diplomacy and Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies, which are also Teaching is usually through lectures and seminars, supported by dedicated centres. For details on these for which students are required to present programmes see pages 110, 160, 204, 170 and 125. substantial papers. One of the courses chosen is designated as the Examinations take place in May and June, and major, and the dissertation is written in this subject most Master’s programmes include an element of area. Many students choose to take advantage of assessed coursework. Dissertations are submitted the flexibility offered, to adopt a broad approach to in September. a region, selecting courses from several disciplines, The Master’s programmes are very intensive and including language study. There are, however, some demand a high level of commitment. At SOAS we restrictions on choice. For example, you will usually believe that students benefit most from taking not be able to take an economics course as your responsibility for ensuring that they meet the major if you have not previously studied the subject.

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LLM/MA Law degrees The MA programmes are designed primarily for those wishing to study law at a postgraduate level SOAS is one of the few institutions in the world but who do not already possess an undergraduate which specialises in the study of law within, or law degree. It is also open to those with law degrees in relation to, the developing world. The LLM but who may not wish to undertake an LLM. A core programme is a single-subject law programme that component of the MA programmes is a Pre-Sessional may be taken over a period of one year (full-time), Course in Law and Legal Method, which runs for two or part-time over a period of two, three or four weeks prior to the beginning of each autumn term. years. It is expected that all students will graduate with an LLM in Law. It is possible, however, for students wishing to graduate with a specialist LLM Language study degree to do so by way of opting to take three or Students on most Master’s programmes are able more courses from relevant subject groupings. to take one language course if required. The School The SOAS School of Law also offers ten different currently offers around 40 languages, all taught MA Law programmes in the field of International from beginner’s level, including Arabic, Amharic, and Comparative Legal Studies. Nine of these Bengali, Chinese, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, programmes are specialist programmes centred Nepali, Swahili, Thai, Tibetan, Urdu, Vietnamese upon clusters of expertise and research interest and Zulu. within the School of Law; the tenth programme (the MA in International and Comparative Legal Studies) is for those who want to study a variety of different subjects which do not fall within the scope of any one particular programme.

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Part-time study Minimum entry requirements We welcome applications from eligible students Entry requirements for Master’s programmes are a wishing to study part-time. Most MA programmes first-class or upper second-class honours Bachelor’s can be taken over two or three years, although degree from a UK university, or equivalent, in a applicants should note that most of the teaching subject appropriate to that of the programme to takes place during the day (with some notable be followed. As an approximate comparison, an exceptions, such as MA International Studies and equivalent BA from a US university with a selective Diplomacy, which offers evening teaching). entry policy would have a Cumulative Grade Point Average of 3.3 or a Cumulative Grade Point of 3.5 If you choose to study over two years, two elements from a non-selective US university. must be taken in the first year and two in the second; over three years, one taught course must be taken An applicant who does not have a Bachelor’s in each year and the dissertation completed in an degree in an appropriate field may be required to appropriate year, as decided by the programme complete a qualifying year or a one-year diploma or convenor. We recommend that part-time students certificate before entering the Master’s programme. have between two-and-a-half and three days a Relevant work experience may also be taken into week free to pursue their course of study. consideration. For details on the application process please see page 250. International students should ensure they are in possession of a valid and appropriate visa, permitting them entry into the UK. If your right to stay in the UK is restricted, you may have difficulty entering or remaining in Britain as a part-time student. Anyone interested in part-time study should contact the relevant faculty office (page 259) for details of timetabling, or visit www.soas.ac.uk/timetable

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English language requirements normally be required to take a pre-sessional or in- sessional English course (see www.soas.ac.uk/ifcels If your first language is not English, you must for detailed descriptions of these courses). provide evidence of your English language ability before admission to the School. Although in some For applicants whose scores fall below these circumstances other evidence may be acceptable, requirements or who feel they need academic and normally language competence is demonstrated by study/research skills preparation, the International success in one or more of a range of English tests Foundation Courses and English Language Studies (see panel below). (IFCELS) department (www.soas.ac.uk/ifcels) offers the FDPS Pre-master’s Diploma as well as Any test score submitted as evidence of an shorter programmes focusing on English language applicant’s academic English proficiency must and academic skills. IFCELS can be contacted at relate to a test taken no more than two years [email protected] prior to the start of the relevant academic year. If applicants wish to submit other English Language Applications for Pre-master’s and English language qualifications, these will be assessed on a case-by- programmes should be made directly to IFCELS case basis. at SOAS. Application forms and further details are available at www.soas.ac.uk/ifcels Students with the test scores specified in the panel below qualify for an unconditional offer to study at SOAS. Those with scores lower than the specification but who have scores of IELTS 6.0 (with minimum 5.5 in writing and other scores 5.0) or TOEFL iBT 85 are encouraged to apply, but will

English Language Requirements

Public Examinations Score for Unconditional Entry

International English Language Testing Service Overall 7, with no sub-score lower than 6.5 (IELTS) www.ielts.org

Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) iBT 105 with at least 22 in each sub-score Institution Code 0107 www.ets.org/toefl

Pearson Test of English – Academic Score of 70–74 with at least 65 in all sub scores www.pearsonpte.com

Other Acceptable Qualifications Score for Unconditional Entry

Cambridge Proficiency in English Grade A

European Baccalaureate (English) Pass (60%)

International Baccalaureate (English) Pass (Grade 4 in English)

International General Certificate of First language (mother tongue) Secondary Education in English Grade A

General Certificate of Secondary Education Grade A in English

SOAS Postgraduate Prospectus 2014 Entry 19 Life and Study at SOAS Research

Postgraduate research is at the Studying for a research degree enables students to develop the highest levels of expertise in a heart of the School’s academic discipline, a region and a specialist topic, while mission. Around 180 new using state-of-the-art disciplinary theories and methodologies. You will also acquire wider skills research students are admitted appropriate for Early Career Researchers, and be each year to contribute to our able to take advantage of careers development consultancy, training in teaching techniques, thriving research culture. and a range of generic skills delivered either at SOAS or through our partner institutions in our neighbourhood Bloomsbury networks. Research students at SOAS join both a Department or Centre, which takes lead responsibility for their specialist training and guidance, and the SOAS Doctoral School, which looks after the wider research student experience at SOAS. The Doctoral School provides work stations for the exclusive use of research students at various points on the campus, notably at the Doctoral School Hub in a listed Bloomsbury building in Gordon Square.

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The supervision of research work for higher degrees and comparable programmes is led by a supervisor in the student’s home Department or Centre and supported by a research committee, which may include members from other Departments or Centres where appropriate. Further resources are provided through the Doctoral School which works closely with the Research Student Association and Postgraduate Research Section of Registry to meet student needs. Specialist advisers in research training, careers and scholarships are available to help your research, and to point you towards resources in the wider Bloomsbury environment where SOAS belongs to a number of consortia. SOAS’s specialist library is the finest in the United Kingdom for Africa and Asia, and its archives contain unique resources.

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Other professional services, as well as the Students’ Length of study Union, and the Research Student Association, are In common with other British universities, SOAS there to support you in a wide range of non- does not normally offer candidates registration for a academic issues, including international student PhD at the outset. Students are initially registered for matters, disability advice, financial advice, and a host an MPhil and, usually by the end of June in the first of other issues experienced by research students. full-time year, are transferred to PhD registration if Further inspiration can be found in our numerous their progress is satisfactory. PhD registration will be Regional and Special Purpose Centres, which are far effective retrospectively, from the date on which the too many to list here. These combine disciplinary student first registered for their MPhil. and regional perspectives at the cutting edge A full-time MPhil/PhD student is expected to of research in their fields, hosting international complete a research project within three years, seminars and conferences. Recent additions include and must submit a thesis for examination within centres in Food Studies, Colonialism, Empire and 48 months of initial registration. A full-time student International Law, Migration and Diaspora Studies studying for an MPhil should complete a research and Law, Environment and Development, and new project in two years and must submit within regional Centres, like that dedicated to the study of 36 months of initial registration. Pakistan (see page 48).

Thanks to its wonderful location and unmatched Part-time study specialist resources, SOAS remains the world’s leading university for the study of Asia, Africa and It is possible to complete a research degree as a the Near and Middle East, and their diasporas. part-time student, in which case the period of study is doubled (six years instead of three). Research PhD Degrees students may enrol on a part-time basis if the relevant academic department is prepared to accept The SOAS Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees them on this basis and the student completes a are awarded on the basis of a three-year research part-time study declaration form. project and the completion of a thesis. Examination Although the majority of students undertake research is by assessment of the thesis and includes an oral degrees on a full-time basis, part-time study should examination concerning the thesis and the research be seriously considered by Home/EU students who on which it is based. may be required to balance their research with The PhD thesis should demonstrate an original employment or personal commitments. contribution to scholarly knowledge and be a Students from other countries whose right to stay in maximum of 100,000 words. At least in modified the UK is restricted should note that they will not be form, it must be suitable for publication as a book able to remain in the UK as part-time students. You or as a learned article. should ensure you are in possession of a valid and Applications must be made through the Online appropriate study visa which covers the duration of Application System, but applicants are encouraged your programme and permits your entry into the UK. to identify and contact potential supervisors for advice before (and after) submitting an application. Research programme structure For information on the expertise and research interests of SOAS staff, please visit www.soas.ac.uk/ A full-time student would register for an MPhil/ business/expertise or see also the sections on PhD degree with the intention of completing academic staff research areas on pages 82–241. a PhD. Students follow a programme with the general structure outlined on the facing page. Students also attend the weekly regional or departmental (disciplinary) research seminars in all years, whenever based in London, and during the third year must present at least one research paper to that seminar or an equivalent.

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Outline of degree Regulations Year 1 – Project Development and Research Training All research degrees are subject to SOAS regulations Undertake a programme of seminars and courses and the SOAS Code of Practice for Research designed to provide research methods and Degrees. Full details of the conditions applying discipline-specific training. These can include to these degrees can be obtained from the courses on research methodologies, statistical Postgraduate Research Section website at methods, using and creating databases, utilising www.soas.ac.uk/registry/pgresearch the web, and others of relevance to the student’s research area. Minimum entry requirements Develop a detailed research proposal and undertake An offer of a place to study at SOAS will depend the first stages of research. Write initial drafts of upon an assessment of the applicant’s academic some parts and outline the main arguments of the qualifications and background, references from thesis. Prepare for consideration for upgrade to PhD. academics, a short proposal outlining the intended Year 2 – Fieldwork and Data Collection research (see below for further information) and Conduct research. In many cases this will involve the level of English language competence as a period of fieldwork abroad (one, two, or three indicated in the application (page 251). Students terms). Write draft chapters of the thesis. may also be interviewed. Year 3 – Writing-up The normal minimum entry requirement is a UK Complete research and write complete draft of Master’s degree or equivalent recognised by SOAS. the thesis. Most departments organise seminars The Master’s degree should normally be in the same in which students returning from fieldwork are discipline as the proposed research and have been expected to present the results of their work-in- completed with a high grade. For details on the progress and receive feedback from both academics application process please see page 250. and research fellows. Research proposal Year 4 – Extension of Writing-up (optional) If applying for admission to a research degree Any work done at this stage would normally programme, an applicant must include with their involve only redrafting of chapters. The thesis application a statement of 1,000–2,000 words must be submitted for examination during this outlining their proposed research topic, indicating year. The programme of work is carried out the research methods and the source materials under the direction of your named supervisor. to be used (for further details see previous page). In the department the supervisor is assisted by This is in addition to the supporting statement. a supervisory committee whose other members also have responsibility for your progress. Prospective research degree students are encouraged to make contact with an academic Examination who shares their research interests prior to the submission of an application. Details of academics The examination (or viva voce) is conducted by and their research areas can be found under two examiners, at least one of whom is from a the various sections of academic staff research university outside SOAS. Your supervisor is not one areas on pages 82–241 in this prospectus, on the of these examiners. departmental staff pages of the SOAS website www.soas.ac.uk and on www.soas.ac.uk/ business/expertise If the application is successful, the proposed research statement need not be binding, but the final choice of research topic will have to be approved by a supervisor and the other members of the supervisory committee.

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English language requirements Research fellowships It is necessary to possess a high standard of English Each year SOAS is able to offer a range of to undertake research at SOAS. We have designated postgraduate research fellowships. Full details minimum English language requirements for entry are available on the Scholarships website to postgraduate study, and applicants who have www.soas.ac.uk/scholarships been educated outside one of the Home Office list of native speaking countries (or educated for Visiting Research Students less than three years at degree level within one of the countries), to submit an official English The Visiting Research Students (VRS) scheme is language test. The requirement is to ensure that ideally designed for students already embarked on they can benefit fully from their research at the doctoral research with their home university but School, although in some circumstances other who are planning to conduct research in London or evidence may be acceptable. Normally, language who wish to take advantage of the unique resources competence is demonstrated by success in one SOAS and London have to offer. or more of a range of English tests. For details, VRS benefit from most of the privileges enjoyed by see page 251. the School’s research degree students. They are allocated a research supervisor, are attached to the Points to cover in the research proposal academic department of the supervisor, are full members of the SOAS library, may use the School’s You must define clearly the research questions student computing facilities and may attend you intend to address, the aims of the research School and departmental research seminars. Also, programme, the context for your research and the they may be granted membership of the relevant research methods. The text should be as concise School Regional Centre and can enjoy the social and clear as possible (1,000–2,000 words) and benefits of being students of the School. VRS may, arranged according to the following subheadings: by arrangement with the teachers concerned, audit a) Research Questions (attend but not be registered for or examined in) What are the research question(s) and why are they classes in areas relevant to their research. important? State your hypothesis. Period of study and supervision b) Research Methods VRS can expect up to approximately five hours of What research methods will you use and why do supervision per term. They normally enrol full-time you consider them appropriate? for a maximum of one year (usually beginning in What is the core literature relevant to your research September/October). The minimum enrolment topic? What do we already know? period is one term. c) Significance of Research Students whose enrolment period includes the What contributions will your project make to summer term have the added benefit of continuing improving, enhancing or developing creativity, enrolment through to the beginning of the next insights, knowledge or understanding of the academic year with no additional charge, although discourses in your chosen area of study? To which there may be only limited access to their supervisor audiences will the outcomes of your research be during the summer vacation period. of particular interest? Tuition fees d) Outcomes These are set to reflect the period of study undertaken. What are the objectives of your proposal? For current fees look at www.soas.ac.uk/registry/fees. What specific targets or outcomes will you have Students enrolling for one term pay only one-third achieved by the end of the research project? of the fee, while students enrolling for a two-term e) Preliminary Table of Contents period pay two-thirds of it. f) Preliminary Bibliography

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Certification Notable awards VRS are not normally registered for a degree Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) programme, are not formally assessed on their work and cannot be awarded a qualification of the Dr Whitney Cox School or University of London. A certificate of South Asia, Faculty of Languages and Cultures attendance will be provided on request at the end Early Career Fellowship of the enrolment period. Moonset on Sunrise Mountain: Poetry, Politics and the Making of a South Indian King Entry qualifications £80,677 (fEC) There are no specific VRS qualifications to fulfil, Dr Ayman Shihadeh but the School will wish to be satisfied that Near and Middle East, Faculty of Languages applicants have the background and experience and Cultures necessary to undertake research work, and also Research Fellowship sufficient command of the English language. The Reception of Avicennan Philosophy in the In these respects, considerations applying to Twelfth Century: Al-Mas’udi’s Dobuts on Avicenna VRS applications are the same as for research £27,080 (fEC) student applications in general. For details on the application process please see page 250. Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Professor Chandra Sriram Worldwide reputation Law, Faculty of Law and Social Sciences Standard Grant Our academic excellence is recognised in Research The impact of transitional justice measures on Assessment Exercises. In the most recent exercise, democratic institution building SOAS submitted over 92 per cent of its eligible staff £546,148 (fEC) and was ranked first in Asian Studies, with four other Dr Frauke Urban departments, Anthropology, History, Music and Centre for Development, Environment and Policy, Politics, performing exceptionally well. Faculty of Law and Social Sciences SOAS continues to have remarkable success in Standard Grant attracting external funding for staff research. China goes Global: A comparative study of Chinese The total value of new external research grants hydropower dams in Africa and Asia announced during the year was almost £3 million. £663,974 (fEC)

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The British Academy Dr Peter Flügel Study of Religions, Faculty of Arts and Humanities Professor Trevor Marchand Research Project Grant Anthropology and Sociology, Faculty of Arts Johannes Klatt’s Jaina-Onomasticon and Humanities £245,160 Mid-Career Fellowship Brain, Hand, Tool: an anthropological study of Dr John Stevens carpentry handskill and tool use South East Asia, Faculty of Languages and Cultures £135,183 (fEC) Early Career Fellowship Counter Preachers: Political Theology in Britain Leon Goldman and India, 1813–1947 Anthropology and Sociology, Faculty of Arts £122,530 and Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship Professor Irina Nikolaeva A Study of the Sanskrit Yasna Linguistics, Faculty of Languages and Cultures £293,149 (fEC) Research Project Grant Multimedia documentation of Siberian Languages Dr Joseph Trapido and Cultures Study of Religions, Faculty of Arts and Humanities £14,570 Postdoctoral Fellowship Elections and electoral politics in Kinshasa, Other applying political anthropology to democratization Fanny Bessard (mentor Hugh Kennedy) processes in Africa Near and Middle East, Faculty of Languages £296,631 (fEC) and Cultures Dr Francesca Orsini The Royal Society South Asia, Faculty of Languages and Cultures Newton International Fellowship International Partnership and Mobility Scheme The Early Islamic Economy in the Middle East Hinglish: the social and cultural dimensions of (600–950 CE): Global and Regional Dynamics Hindi-English bilingualism in contemporary India £77,700 £29,932 Professor Hugh Kennedy Dr Lucia Dolce Near and Middle East, Faculty of Languages Study of Religions, Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Cultures Small Grant EU FP7 Buddhist Embryology: Textual Evidence from Marie Curie Actions – International Training Network Mediaeval Japanese Archives Power and institutions in Medieval Islam and £9,988 Christendom: An integrated training in research diffusion for comparative history The Leverhulme Trust £250,860 Professor Andrew George Near and Middle East, Faculty of Languages and Cultures The British Academy / The Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship Sources for Ancient Mesopotamian Apotropaism and Exorcism £50,701 Professor Richard Reid History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities Research Project Grant Endangered Histories: the role of the deep past in the making of modern Uganda £235,820 Left: A partial view of The East Gate, Pyeng Yang – Taken from the SOAS Treasures Collection

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Postgraduate Certificate/Diploma Language Centre in Teaching Chinese

The Language Centre provides a wide range of Start of Programme day, evening and weekend classes and intensive September intake only vacation courses (Easter and summer) in over thirty languages of Africa, the Near and Middle East and Duration Asia. Courses are available at beginner’s level, with Diploma: One year (full-time) or two years many also available at intermediate and advanced (part-time Saturday daytime) levels. In addition to non-accredited courses, the Language Centre offers the following full-time and Certificate: One year (part-time Saturday part-time certificates and diplomas: daytime) • Modern Standard Arabic Mode of Attendance • Chinese (Mandarin) Mixed Full-Time and Part-Time • Japanese Description SOAS Language Centre is pleased to offer this professional development Postgraduate Certificate and Diploma in Teaching Chinese, which will contribute to the professionalisation of Chinese teaching in the UK and elsewhere.

Overview The Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching Chinese The Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching Chinese (only offered in part-time) programme has been specifically designed to meet the rapidly growing demand for trained and qualified teachers of Chinese in the UK and elsewhere. It equips students with the knowledge and skills which will enable them to teach Chinese to a broad profile of Chinese learners in UK, European and worldwide educational contexts. The Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching Chinese The Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching Chinese (offered part-time and full-time) provides students with the knowledge and skills to enable them to teach Chinese professionally. It also enables students to fulfil supervisory and pedagogical roles such as course coordinator, teacher developer, course designer and materials developer. It will equip students with the knowledge and skills to deal with the teaching of Chinese in different contexts and through the integration of different varieties of Chinese language.

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As a practical component, students will also Fees become familiar with the content and design of Fees for 2014–2015 have not been finalised instructional material and teaching and testing but fees for 2013–2014 are as follows: techniques, and will evaluate second language learners’ performance through the analysis PG Diploma in Teaching Chinese (full-time): of empirical data and adequate descriptive £6,562.50 terminology. They will also be able to design PG Certificate in Teaching Chinese (part-time): appropriate lesson plans, and will have carried out £3,281.25 a certain amount of practice in teaching Chinese. Graduates will be qualified and well prepared Entry Requirements for such professions such as teaching Chinese Candidates must have a degree or equivalent in higher education in the UK, Europe and other (preferably in Chinese language or a related parts of the world, teaching Chinese at private area). Candidates must pass a SOAS Language institutions or companies, administrative or Centre test of Chinese language competency. consultative roles in educational organisations; Candidates must have a command of English and editing roles in publishing houses specialised equivalent to IELTS with 7 overall. Admission in language courseware. is by means of an interview after the receipt of application. Structure The closing date for applications: The Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching Chinese 30th June 2014 consists of four core modules, which can be taken on a full-time (one year of study, six hours per week) Candidates will be accepted on the programme or part time basis (two years of study, three hours subject to a satisfactory face-to-face interview per week), equivalent to three course units carrying with the programme convenor. Arrangements 135 CATS credits at postgraduate level. can be made for telephone interviews. The Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching Chinese can only be taken on a part-time basis (one year How to Apply of study, three hours every Saturday) equivalent Complete an application form, downloadable to 1.5 course units carrying 67.5 CATS credits at from the SOAS website. Please enclose copies postgraduate level. After successful completion of of your certificates, transcripts, references and the certificate, students will be able to continue to any other relevant documentation in support of another year of part-time study in order to obtain your application. the Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching Chinese. Overseas Students Applying for Tier 4 VISA: Students not from the UK or EU will need to Core Courses obtain a Tier 4 VISA from the UK Border Agency. All students on the programme must take the For criteria and applications see its website at following courses: www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk • Language Awareness, Methods and Practice in For details on how to apply, please visit Teaching Chinese (one unit) www.soas.ac.uk/languagecentre • Language Learning (half unit) • Chinese Applied Linguistics: Theory and Practice For additional queries, please contact the relevant (half unit) Course Officers. Their contact details may be found • Language Teaching and Professional Development on the Language Centre ‘Contact Us’ page at: (one unit) www.soas.ac.uk/languagecentre/contact SOAS Language Centre 22 Russell Square London WC1H 0XG

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Centre for International Studies and Distance Learning Diplomacy (CISD) Degrees The Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy is committed to the development of applied international studies and to ensuring that SOAS has an extremely successful and expanding its work impacts key international debates and range of postgraduate programmes taught by promotes excellence in teaching, scholarship and distance learning. With more than 4,000 students research in this field. in over 160 countries, it is the largest provider of postgraduate courses by distance learning in the MA Global Diplomacy University of London’s International Programmes. The programme is designed to provide a dedicated These specialist Master’s programmes are equal to understanding of international affairs and degrees taught on campus and have been designed contemporary diplomatic practice. The MA Global and written specifically for study by distance Diplomacy is relevant for students engaged in, learners. Students are supported throughout their or embarking upon, a career in diplomatic and studies by our team of tutors, via an online learning related fields. environment and by our support staff. SOAS currently offers postgraduate distance Centre for Development, Environment learning in three specialist fields, through the Centre and Policy (CeDEP) for Development, Environment and Policy (CeDEP), These programmes are taught by distance the Centre for Financial and Management Studies learning with no on-campus equivalents. (CeFiMS) and the Centre for International Studies The MSc programmes require the completion and Diplomacy (CISD). of a 60-credit dissertation. The programmes offered are available to be taken as Master’s degrees or by studying part of the MSc Agricultural Economics full programme, as Postgraduate Diplomas. This programme provides the essential tools A shorter Postgraduate Certificate is available required for theoretical and empirical economic in the CeDEP programmes. analysis relevant to the improvement of sustainable agricultural productivity. This grounding in The Centre for Development, Environment and economics is studied in conjunction with Policy and the Centre for Financial and Management development, production, marketing and policy. Studies also offer individual modules selected from any of the Master’s programmes for the purpose MSc Applied Environmental Economics of continuing professional education known as This programme provides graduates with a Individual Professional Awards (IPA). These are also theoretical base and practical appreciation of the useful for study as a qualifier for our programmes concepts and methods of environmental and natural or a ‘sampler’ of distance learning. resource economics. With an emphasis on issues Successful attainment at IPA, certificate or diploma and policies concerning the rural environment, level will allow progression to the higher levels of many of the concepts and methodologies are also our postgraduate qualifications. For more detailed relevant to the urban environment. information of all postgraduate qualifications for study by distance, please visit www.soas.ac.uk/ MSc Environmental Management admissions/distance Relevant to those concerned with the management of natural resources and the formulation and implementation of policies, this programme offers students multidisciplinary training in impact assessment and audit, management, law, ethics and policy. This MSc, and the Diploma in Environmental Management, are approved by the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA), subject to the completion of specified modules.

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MSc Managing Rural Development MSc Sustainable Development This programme provides an interdisciplinary This programme provides a theoretical basis for awareness of the social, economic and management the study of sustainable development. It also offers issues relating to rural change, together with the the necessary critical, analytical and integrative conceptual, analytical and operational skills required skills for resolving environmental and sustainability for those working or interested in development, challenges. The elective component allows government and business. study within these specialisms: Development Management, Environmental Economics, MSc Poverty Reduction: Policy and Practise Environmental Management, Natural Resource Focusing on rural areas which, despite growing Management and Rural Development and Change. urbanisation, continue to be home to the majority of the world’s poorest people, this programme examines the complex nature of poverty, its causes, and processes of poverty reduction. The elective component allows study within these specialisms: Development Management, Food and Agricultural Policy and Natural Below: Terraced rice cultivation, Guangxi province, China Resource Management. – Jienchi Dorward

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Centre for Financial and Management MSc Finance and Financial Law Studies (CeFiMS) Uniquely combines a strengthened knowledge of financial principles and applications with modern CeFiMS focuses on key areas within the study financial law and regulation. It relates to both of finance, finance and law, public policy and national and international finance and will introduce management and international management, students to how financial and legal principles are teaching these postgraduate degrees by distance applied in practice as well as in theory. learning. It is an integral part of the Department of Financial and Management Studies, which offers MSc International Business Administration some of these programmes on campus. Master’s A postgraduate degree that deals with international degrees have an optional research component. management and the business environment, aimed at managers in multinational businesses and those MSc Finance seeking a greater understanding of how companies Major: Economic Policy focuses on the principles, operate internationally. Designed for specialists who applications and context underlying economic policy, wish to extend their skills, knowledge and regional with an emphasis on policy’s financial aspects. expertise, the core of the programme consists of Major: Financial Sector Management has been two courses, ‘International Business Strategy’ and developed for managers to build upon their ‘Managing the Transnational Corporation’. The understanding of the principles, applications and electives that follow offer a variety of functional context underlying management decision-making and regional specialisms, including on China and in the financial sector. Sub-Saharan Africa. Major: Quantitative Finance is for professionals to MBA Banking strengthen their knowledge of statistical (particularly This programme is tailored for banking-sector econometric) and quantitative approaches to risk professionals wanting to strengthen their and derivatives. understanding of the principles underlying good banking practice and the current issues facing MSc Public Policy and Management bankers at an intermediate and high level. The MBA Designed for managers within the public sector Banking equips students to manage and advise on and agencies to strengthen their understanding of banking and develop a number of bank functions. the principles and methods of policy management and strategy development, and to enhance their ability to make informed management decisions and policy choices. This programme also offers three postgraduate diplomas which allow students to specialise in a key theme: PGDip Public Management, PGDip Policy Studies and PGDip Public Financial Management.

MSc Public Financial Management This programme is designed for people working in the field of public finance. It ranges across all applications — budgeting, revenue policy, financial reporting and audit, compliance or where financial matters take a central position in policy, such as in public-private partnerships or fiscal decentralisation.

Right: The developing city: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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International Associate Student Foundation Courses programme and English Language If you are interested in taking one or two courses but have no wish to work towards obtaining Studies (IFCELS) a degree, you can register for the Associate Student programme. Pre-Master’s Programme: Foundation You can choose up to four course units in any one year. If the topics you are interested in are new to Diploma for Postgraduate Studies (FDPS) you, you are advised to start with undergraduate The FDPS provides complete preparation for level courses. You do not get tutorial help or a international students wishing to enter a Master’s qualification at the end, and the courses you take programme in the UK. will not count towards a degree should you decide later to take up a degree course. However, your It combines academic subjects with English work may be considered in support of an application language, study and research skills tuition and for admission at any level. See page 250 for details is designed for students interested in studying on how to apply. at postgraduate level in the humanities, social sciences or business-related fields at SOAS or other UK universities. It is aimed particularly at students from education systems with different approaches to teaching, learning and assessment from those required for postgraduate study in the UK. The FDPS is particularly suitable for those who intend to specialise in a different subject area from that of their first degree major. It is also taken by students who need to improve their English language skills before starting postgraduate study and wish to do this in the context of an academic programme in a university environment. Students progressing to a taught Master’s degree at SOAS after the FDPS receive a five per cent discount on their tuition fees. The period of study is one academic year (full- time), and intake is in September only. The entry requirement is normally a Bachelor’s degree and an IELTS score of 5.5 overall with 5.5 in writing (or equivalent). In exceptional cases, applicants with three-year diplomas or associate degrees may be considered if they have substantial relevant work experience. For further details please visit www.soas.ac.uk/ ifcels/fdps

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• The SOAS Library is the UK’s The SOAS Library holds an internationally important collection of material for the study of Asia, Africa National Research Library for and the Middle East and the interaction of these Asia, Africa and the Middle East, regions and cultures with the wider world. The archives collection covers an even broader containing over 1.5 million items geographical scope, including substantial primary in more than 400 languages. sources on the Caribbean, Australasia and the South Pacific. The Library is unique in bringing together It holds one of the largest extensive research collections on these regions in archives and special collections one building, much of which is on open access. in the University of London. The collections are arranged over six floors in the Russell Square campus by region – Asia, Africa and It subscribes to some 4,000 print the Middle East – and their constituent countries journals and provides access and languages. There are specialist collections by discipline for Law and Art and Archaeology to over 40,000 electronic as well as a broader Humanities and Social journals, and more than Sciences collection. 100 research databases. Librarians with specialist regional, linguistic and subject knowledge provide assistance in person, by email and via ‘Moodle’, a virtual learning • The Library’s sound collection environment. Students can request individual information skills training sessions related to their consists of more than 4,000 areas of interest. They can also suggest books and items of music, poetry and journals (both print and electronic) and databases for acquisition by the Library. drama. It houses a collection The Library has more than 1.5 million items of almost 50,000 photographs (including a major collection of Asian, African and slides, with more than and Middle Eastern films) together with significant archival holdings, special collections and an 2,000 films on video, VCD and extensive and growing network of electronic and DVD. There are also extensive online resources. As the central research facility of SOAS, the Library is heavily used by staff and resources on cross-regional students and also attracts scholars from around and interdisciplinary subjects. the world. All material acquired since 1989, all current periodicals and a large proportion of older material are accessible via the online catalogue at • This extensive, world-renowned http://lib.soas.ac.uk resource offers nearly 800 seats The bulk of the collection is on open access in the Library for browsing and loan, but selected for readers, including private material not in continuous demand for teaching study carrels for PhD students. and research is held in an off-site store and retrieved on request. Rare books, manuscripts, archives, maps and some audio-visual materials must be accessed through the Special Collections Reading Room, which is supported by a dedicated Archives staff, who can provide specialist advice and guidance on using this rare material. The collection continues to develop through the addition of material on interdisciplinary and thematic subjects that relate to SOAS’s areas of

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teaching, study and research. This includes print IT facilities and electronic resources on cross-regional and The School has approximately 300 computers thematic subjects such as: Migration, Refugee and (Macs and PCs) available for student use, Diaspora Studies; Gender and Sexuality; Race and providing internet access and email facilities. Ethnic Relations; Islamic, Customary and Traditional See www.soas.ac.uk/itsupport for full details Law; Music and Ethnomusicology; Environment; about the IT facilities available. International Business and Finance; Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism and Security Studies; Human Every student is given an email account at Rights; and International Politics and Diplomacy. enrolment. This email address is the only one that the School will use to communicate with The Library has a range of seating and study areas you. Designated connection points are located with flexible access to wired and wireless networks. throughout the School where students may It is open until late on weekday evenings and connect their own laptop computers to the SOAS is also open at weekends. SOAS students have network and internet. In addition, all SOAS student access to, and in some cases can borrow from, residences are online, allowing students with many nearby libraries, including Birkbeck College, computers to access the internet and email from UCL, King’s College, LSE and the British Library. their study bedrooms. The School has a wireless All SOAS students can borrow books from Senate network covering all communal areas, including House Library and may use the Library’s electronic the SOAS Library, and students can connect their resources both on- and off-site. Library staff can laptops to this network to access the internet. advise on and provide referrals to other libraries and By signing up to the School’s wireless network, archives. For further information about the Library you will have access to wireless networks at some visit www.soas.ac.uk/library other universities across the UK and Europe should you visit their sites.

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Computers are equipped with Microsoft Office, The Brunei Gallery offering the standard range of word processing, The Brunei Gallery is an exciting central London spreadsheet, database and graphics applications, venue, hosting a changing programme of while some machines also provide non-Roman contemporary and historical exhibitions from Asia, print facilities. New students are offered training Africa and the Middle East. The Gallery’s aims are in the basic suite of applications, such as word to present and promote cultures from these processing, spreadsheets and databases, as well regions and to be both a student resource and as internet applications. a public facility. The School has negotiated special educational The Brunei Gallery is located on the Russell Square prices on a number of hardware and software campus. Along with the British Museum, which is only products. Please check the IT Support website a three-minute walk away, and other local museums, www.soas.ac.uk/itsupport for the latest it is a member of the ‘Museum Mile’ group. With information on these deals. permanent rotating displays of the school’s own The School has various forms of assistive collections in the Foyle Special Collections Gallery technology for use by disabled students or and the Japanese Roof Garden, the Brunei Gallery students with a specific learning difficulty (for makes a stimulating haven in the heart of London. example, dyslexia). These include some specialist software (Inspiration for mind-mapping and visual Opening times planning and TextHelp! to help with proofreading Open: Tuesday to Saturday: 10.30am–5pm and correction) and various workstations which Late night Thursday until 8pm have additional facilities, plus screen readers and Closed: Sundays, Mondays and bank holidays ergonomically designed seats. Further information on the dedicated technology is available from Admission: Free the Student Disability Advisers (see page 260 for contact details). Recorded info: 020 7898 4046 Email: [email protected] Media services If you are enrolled on one of the School’s courses Main Galleries which includes audio or video production, you have access to a range of equipment which can be 2013 borrowed from the Media Services section. Please Oct – Dec note that you will need a letter of authorisation The Everlasting Flame: from your course tutor in order to use the facilities Zoroastrianism in history and imagination or borrow the equipment. Training in the use of the equipment can be provided. A room with multimedia Missions; Empire; Exploration and Celebrity: computers is available to students submitting The life and life after David Livingstone work using non-traditional media, and a range of television and radio programmes from around the 2014 world are available in a variety of languages. Printing Jan – Mar facilities are available for students across the School Iranian Art Since the Revolution: and we operate a ‘follow me’ service. The Tradition of the New

Language labs Apr – Jun Dream, Fantasy and Reality: Dedicated language laboratories and two open- Agbarha-otor Harmattan Workshops 1998–2010 access language resource rooms are available to language students, and a recording studio provides Jul – Sep facilities for the production of audio and video. Empire, Faith and Kinship: Students and staff also have access to satellite The Sikhs and the Great War television offering about 80 channels. In partnership with the UKPHA

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Student Advice and Wellbeing Learning Advice Coming to university can be challenging as well The Learning Advisors offer learning support and as exciting. SOAS recognises the difficulties faced advice for students relating to specific learning by some students and provides many sources of differences (SpLDs). SpLDs include dyslexia, dyspraxia, support and advice on non-academic matters AD(H)D and dyscalculia. They also provide advice ranging from finance and immigration to exam and support regarding other disabilities or issues worries and homesickness. Student Services at that can impact on learning, such as depression, SOAS are based at the Vernon Square campus anxiety and procrastination. until 2015. For full details go to www.soas.ac.uk/ Tel: +44 (0)20 7074 5065 studentadviceandwellbeing Email: [email protected] Reception and Administration: Tel: +44 (0)20 7074 5015 Disability Advice Email: [email protected] The Student Disability Advisors offer information, advice and support Welfare and International Student Advice Tel: +44 (0)20 7074 5018 The International Student and Welfare Advisor Email: [email protected] provides impartial and confidential advice on non- academic issues such as student finance, visas and Support for Disabled Students immigration, welfare benefits, student housing, childcare and general personal issues. Applications from disabled students are considered using the standard academic criteria regardless of Tel: +44 (0)20 7074 5014 any disability, and any related information that is Email: [email protected] supplied is treated as confidential.

Counselling The disability office negotiates individual adjustments for disabled students to make the Professionally trained counsellors provide school accessible to them. These can include: confidential support to students facing problems • adjustments to exam arrangements and of a personal or emotional nature. library services Tel: +44 (0)20 7074 5016 • arranging specialist support such as learning Email: [email protected] support, mentoring and sessions with the mental health advisor Mental Health and Wellbeing • offering loan equipment (such as digital recorders The Mental Health and Wellbeing Advisor offers and laptops with specialist software) professional confidential one-off meetings or • creating a learning support agreement which ongoing support where students may be struggling specifies any recommended adjustments so that to manage their wellbeing while at the School, academic and teaching staff are aware of them. or where there may be ongoing mental health concerns that need attention and support. The Almost all of the SOAS buildings are accessible Advisor can liaise with both internal departments for wheelchair users and changes can be made to and external agencies depending upon need. timetabling to ensure that all rooms are accessible Support meetings and workshops are also offered where students are not able to use stepped access. and in some instances a mentor can be provided There is also some Braille and tactile signage. for structured support. Dinwiddy House and Paul Robeson House Tel: +44 (0)20 7074 5013 (Sanctuary Housing) both have some accessible Email: [email protected] rooms. These halls are all adjacent to the Vernon Square campus. International and College Halls (University of London intercollegiate halls) have a

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number of accessible and adapted rooms and selling discount stationery, snacks and coffee – these are closer to the Russell Square campus. with a commitment to fair trade goods. There is the (See pages 44–45 for further details on these halls). refurbished SOAS Bar, which is a common meeting place for students between lectures and a refuge For further information contact the Student in the evening from studying. There is a separate Disability Advisors: Postgraduate Common Room in the Russell Square Tel: +44 (0)20 7074 5018 campus, and a Research Student Common Room Email: [email protected] in the nearby Faber Building. The SOAS Students’ Union is recognised as being Faith Provision one of the most active in the country. We get the largest proportional turnout in our elections in the SOAS has a lively faith community. There is a multi- UK, and have regular general meetings attended by faith space managed by the Students’ Union at students from very diverse backgrounds. We are a the Vernon Square campus. On the Russell Square key partner of the School in delivering the unique campus the University of London chaplaincy offers student experience SOAS offers, which comes from many services to students including opportunities empowering our students to be part of the active for prayer and worship. There is a chaplaincy office life of the college. in the Faber building and the Students’ Union has a Christian Union. For Muslims the School has two As 50 per cent of our students are postgraduates, single-sex prayer rooms, available for private use. it is the aim of the SU to actively represent the The women’s room is on the first floor of the Brunei postgraduate community as much as undergraduates. Gallery building and the men’s prayer room is in the Therefore, you should not think of the SU as merely basement of College buildings. The Islamic students’ an undergraduate organisation, and there are a society arranges Friday prayers. Jewish students number of ways in which we actively support, may wish to contact either the Rabbi who supports represent and facilitate postgraduate activities. University of London students or the SOAS Students’ Union Jewish Society. Other faith groups may be Representation formed under the Students’ Union in any given year, depending on students’ choices. The core of the SU is being able to represent students on all levels, and academically this is Faith groups are permitted to book rooms to achieved via a comprehensive network of student hold events on campus and these can range reps – ordinary students elected by their classmates. from religious services to academic discussions Reps attend departmental meetings and School of potentially controversial topics. For more committees, and raise any problems concerning the information on faith provision please contact teaching of the courses. The SU has representatives [email protected] all the way up to Governing Body level, including The Students’ Union clubs and societies usually a number of exclusively postgraduate posts. All include a variety of other groups, which reconstitute programmes have at least one rep, and we have themselves each year, including various faith- or a number of Research Reps per department. spirituality-based groups. For more information on The Research Reps have a regular Research Forum SU societies please contact [email protected] to feed into the School’s Research Strategy and have actively improved conditions for research Students’ Union students at SOAS over the past four years. Recent wins for reps include extending Library opening All SOAS students are members of the Students’ hours, improving feedback turnaround time Union (SU), an integral part of the School’s vibrant and getting a more suitable and reliable printing student community. The SU represents SOAS system in SOAS. students’ interests, supports them in their studies, promotes their general welfare and organises social events with a particular SOAS flavour. It has common rooms on both SOAS campuses, but its office is at Russell Square, where it also runs a shop

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SU Societies We also have a few specifically postgraduate groups. The Postgraduate Society is a social group Postgraduate students are welcome to set up and which puts on varied events. The Research Society join any of the 15 SOAS SU societies. Students can organises regular social events for research students also make use of the facilities at the University of and runs a number of interdisciplinary seminars for London Student Centre. sharing ideas. This is also an active group within the We have a wide range of sports and societies and Bloomsbury Colleges – arranging joint events with a large number of these are of a geographical and Birkbeck College, the Institute of Education and the political nature, which complement academic London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. courses. One distinctive aspect of SU societies is If you would like any further information on the SU, their political and social engagement combined check our website www.soasunion.org or email with their ability to set up small seminar groups, [email protected] and even large-scale academic conferences. In the past year SOAS SU societies have organised conferences, including one on the Cultural and Anthropological Impact of the Donkey, the largest debating tournament in the UK and the Thirteenth Annual Palestine Film Festival.

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Social life Academic Development Directorate There is a wealth of social facilities in and around The Academic Development Directorate provides London. In addition, the SOAS Students’ Union (SU) support to all students through the provision and the University of London Union (ULU) organise of academic skills development workshops, events and activities throughout the year. one-to-one tutorials and self-help resources, which cover topics such as dissertation writing, The SU runs a very popular and recently refurbished essay writing, presentation skills, critical reading bar at Russell Square, which hosts regular events, and exam strategies. Sessions are held every week, including live music, DJ nights and cultural and some are part of core courses. For more evenings. It also has one of only two vinyl record information, please visit www.soas.ac.uk/add jukeboxes still in use at a university in the UK. The common room at Vernon Square hosts regular Each faculty office houses a student support screenings of films from around the world, and team to help students access the information and other events include performances by SOAS music contacts they need. students and debates and talks on national and international politics. Visit us at www.soasunion.org SOAS students can also make use of the facilities at the University of London Union (ULU), located around the corner from the Russell Square campus on Malet Street. You will have automatic membership of ULU, which houses a range of services including bars and cafés, a live music venue, comprehensive multi-gym and an international-size swimming pool. ULU also has a student travel agency, a stationery shop, photocopying facilities, an optician and a sportswear shop. The Union provides a central meeting place for all students in London. ULU also runs many sports and societies not on offer at SOAS SU, and publishes a London-wide students’ newspaper, London Student, published bi-weekly. For more information email [email protected] or visit the website at www.ulu.co.uk

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Careers Service Student enterprise The Careers Service runs a full range of services Whether you have an idea for a social enterprise, dedicated to meeting the unique needs of our charity or business, or want to gain new skills to students. We research and produce specialist help you become a more enterprising individual, resources, including information sheets on working Student Enterprise is here to support you. in international development, region-specific careers, We offer a range of workshops, events, competitions, policy research and think tanks, and language jobs. signpost opportunities for funding and give friendly We also work closely with SOAS alumni and can put advice to enable you to achieve your full potential. you in touch with former students in a wide range One-to-one sessions are available weekly to talk of countries and job sectors. though your ideas, help write funding applications Our annual events programme includes four and for anything related to being enterprising. This large careers events at the beginning of the year: is not just for students who consider themselves Part-Time Work and Volunteering, Law, Business entrepreneurs – some of the projects we have and Finance and a Careers Summit. We have a supported include the production of the SOAS wide range of employer presentations and events recipe book, a language exchange website and throughout the year focusing on the special sectors teaching homeless people to cook. We also most in demand from SOAS students, including support students to enter national competitions. the charity and NGO sectors, international options SOAS Ventures is our student enterprise society and government work. We have dedicated weeks and we also organise the annual SOAS Student such as Alumni Networking and International Enterprise Boot Camp, a three-day event involving Development. We also run a series of sessions on apprentice-style challenges, raising money for topics such as job searching, effective applications charity and gaining valuable employability skills. and interview success. This is free to attend and all are welcome. We are responsible for the Volunteering Unit More information, location and contact details can at SOAS. We have a number of sessions from be found at www.soas.ac.uk/studententerprise volunteering providers and help support the London Volunteering Fortnight. Graduate Entrepreneur Visa Scheme We advertise vacancies (full-time, part-time, internships and volunteering) on our website, on The Tier 1 (Graduate Entrepreneur) category our Facebook page and on campus noticeboards. allows non-European MBA and other graduates to extend their stay after graduation to establish You can visit the Careers Service for one-to-one one or more businesses in the UK. In 2012 SOAS help on career options and decision-making, CV endorsed 9 graduates under the scheme and has feedback, interview coaching and a careers library 10 places available in 2013–14. Further details and which has information and resources covering a profiles of graduates can be found at: wide range of graduate careers. www.soas.ac.uk/studentservices/students/ The Careers Service is open from 10am–5pm immigration/psw/tier1ge/ and at Monday–Thursday and 11am–4pm Friday. www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/visas-immigration/ working/tier1/graduate-entrepreneur/ Please come and see us anytime during our opening hours to find out how we can support you during your time at SOAS. For our location, contact details and a full list of our services and upcoming events please see www.soas.ac.uk/careers SOAS Careers Service is part of The Careers Group, University of London, the largest higher education careers service in Europe.

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London is one of the world’s great SOAS is based in the centre of London – the West End and the City of London are within a two-mile capital cities. Wherever you come radius. You can walk to the British Museum, the from, spending a few years in British Library, the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, and Buckingham Palace, stopping for a coffee in London will be one of the most Soho or shopping in Covent Garden or Oxford exciting experiences of your life. Street. Further afield you will find the museums of South Kensington, or the London Eye and the galleries and theatres of the South Bank. The city attracts millions of visitors London has a large number of restaurants offering each year, drawn to its wealth of cuisine from around the world, and the range of theatres (West End and fringe), cinema, music, galleries, theatres and museums, clubs, pubs and events is without equal. palaces, parks and squares, restaurants and shops, not to mention famous and familiar landmarks such as the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham Palace and the Tower of London.

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Cost of living Working in the UK London is a capital city, and, as such, caters for Part-time jobs can help you earn extra money and many different budgets. It can be expensive, but gain useful, practical experience and transferable there are cafés and shops to suit the student budget, skills to boost your CV. However, if you plan to most museums and galleries are free and many take on a term-time job, do ensure that it will not places offer discounts for students. When you arrive affect your studies. The UK government permits at the School you will receive information from the international students with leave to remain in the UK SOAS Students’ Union about places to visit and what as a student (on a Tier 4 student visa) to work up to special offers and discounts are available. 20 hours per week during term time and full-time in vacations. For up-to-date information, please visit Our very general estimate of living costs in London www.ukcisa.org.uk (based on University of London estimates) is between £800 and £1,000 per month. This excludes tuition fees but does include accommodation. It is possible to live on less, but around £250 a week ensures a reasonable standard of living. We also recommend that overseas students coming to the UK for the first time budget a further amount to cover one-off costs (for example, deposits, insurance, books, travel and warm clothing).

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Moving to a major city like Intercollegiate halls London can be both exciting SOAS students may also apply for a place in one of the Intercollegiate Halls owned and maintained by and daunting, especially if this is the University of London (see page 260 for contact your first time away from home. details). This offers a valuable opportunity to mix with students from other colleges of the University. All provide catering, offering breakfast and evening The School does its best to meals on weekdays and all meals at weekends. guide you through the process Buildings tend to be older than those of the SOAS and to help you find the right residences and therefore many rooms do not have more modern conveniences, such as en-suite place to stay. You are advised facilities. However, personal telephones and data to apply for a place in a student points for internet connection are now offered. The fees vary but are inclusive of the vacation periods. residence as early as possible The Intercollegiate Halls vary considerably in age as accommodation is not and style of building. Students with special needs guaranteed for all new students. are advised to discuss them with the individual residence prior to application. Places have been reserved for SOAS students for SOAS halls of residence the 2014–15 session. For further information please go to www.soas.ac.uk/pgaccommodation and to SOAS students have exclusive access to two apply please visit www.smsstudent.co.uk residences – Dinwiddy House and Paul Robeson House – located on Pentonville Road adjacent Applying for rooms in SOAS and to Vernon Square and a 20-minute walk from Russell Square. Intercollegiate halls You are strongly advised to arrange your Paul Robeson House is for postgraduate students accommodation before starting your course or and has 259 en-suite rooms as well as a one- research programme. It can be difficult to find a bedroom flat. Dinwiddy House, which mainly place to stay in London, especially in September, houses undergraduate students, has 510 en-suite and places in student residences are limited. rooms. Both residences are managed by Sanctuary We cannot guarantee accommodation in halls Management Services (SMS). of residence for all our new students. Each residence offers purpose-built, self-catering If you are offered a place on a postgraduate degree accommodation, which features individual programme at SOAS, you will be sent information study bedrooms with en-suite facilities, and about accommodation in Paul Robeson House. a basic broadband internet service included in the accommodation fees. Five to seven rooms If you are a new student and wish to apply for a are clustered around a shared kitchen/diner. place in either Paul Robeson House or one of the Smoking is not allowed in any part of the buildings. Intercollegiate Halls please follow the instructions For further information go to www.soas.ac.uk/ on our website www.soas.ac.uk/pgaccommodation pgaccommodation and then apply at www.smsstudent.co.uk. We recommend you apply as early as possible; the earliest you can apply is 1 March. If you are interested in a place in one of the Intercollegiate Halls you should apply by 30 June at the latest.

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Independent halls Private accommodation London also has a range of independent halls, If you prefer to live in the private sector, the University many of which are close to SOAS. For example, of London Housing Services offers guidance to new the following offer accommodation for students. It maintains a database of private sector and postgraduate students: University-owned accommodation, including rooms in private homes, flat-shares, rooms with meals, flats • Ashwell House (Catholic ethos/Opus Dei, and houses for groups of two or more students and but open to female students of all faiths) couples, with or without families, whole blocks of www.ashwellhouse.org.uk self-catering flats for up to 136 students, and lists • Hillel House (For orthodox Jewish students) of hotels, hostels and accommodation agencies. www.ujshillel.co.uk For details, contact: • YMCA Indian Student Hostel (Christian ethos) University of London Housing Services (ULHS) www.indianymca.org 4th Floor ULU Building • International Students’ House Malet Street www.ish.org.uk London WC1E 7HY • Lee Abbey International Students Club (Christian Tel: +44 (0)20 7862 8880 ethos, but open to students of all faiths or none) Email: [email protected] www.leeabbeylondon.com The office is open to personal callers Monday– • Methodist International Centre (For full-time Friday, 10am–5pm. Information is also available at students aged 18 or over from the UK and overseas) www.housing.london.ac.uk and www.micentre.com http://housing.london.ac.uk/cms/university- managed-housing/head-leasing/soas/ • Netherhall House (run by lay members of the Catholic Church/Opus Dei, but open to male students of all faiths undertaking full-time study Accommodation for pre-sessional or research) IFCELS course www.nh.netherhall.org.uk Please note that if you are taking a pre-sessional • Newman House (Run by the Catholic Chaplaincy) academic English course with IFCELS (International www.universitycatholic.net Foundation Courses and English Language Studies) accommodation for the duration of this particular • Pickwick Hall course is arranged separately from your main www.pickwickhall.co.uk courses at SOAS. • Viridian Housing (Goldsmiths House for female To book accommodation for the pre-sessional students) course you should contact IFCELS: www.viridianhousing.org.uk/find_a_home/ short-stay-accommodation/hostels Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4800 Email: [email protected] • Victoria League Student House (For UK and Commonwealth students only, preference www.soas.ac.uk/ifcels given to students aged 18–30 years) www.victorialeague.co.uk/student-house You may also find the following websites useful: www.london-hostels.co.uk www.ymca.org.uk www.unite-students.com www.nidostudentliving.com

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To encourage cooperation Centre of African Studies between specialists within Since its establishment in 1965, the Centre of African Studies has evolved to meet the changing regional and across disciplinary needs of researchers on Africa. In recognition of boundaries, the School has an increasingly intercollegial membership, the Centre took on the role of helping to coordinate also developed a number of interdisciplinary research and study on Africa at area or country research units, the University of London as a whole from 1991. In addition to the department of the languages or Regional Centres. and cultures of Africa, SOAS has Africa specialists in the departments of Anthropology and Sociology, History of Art and Archaeology, Development These include: Studies, Diaspora Studies, Economics, History, Law, • Centre of African Studies Linguistics, Literature, Music, Study of Religions and • SOAS China Institute Politics and International Studies. • Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and The Centre members undertake research and the Caucasus teaching on Africa-related subjects at SOAS • Centre for the Study of Pakistan and at the other University of London colleges: • Centre of Korean Studies University College London, the London School • SOAS South Asia Institute of Economics and Political Science, the London • Centre of South East Asian Studies School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, • Japan Research Centre Goldsmith’s College, King’s College, Birkbeck • London Middle East Institute College, Royal Holloway College, Queen Mary Under their auspices, students and staff with College, the Institute of Commonwealth Studies different disciplinary backgrounds but common and the Institute of Education. regional interests are able to discuss, share and The Centre also actively seeks to promote relations advance their work in workshops, seminars, between Africanists, institutions and individual conferences and publications. scholars in Africa, and in European and American MA and research students are welcome members centres of African studies. It has run programmes of the Regional Centres. These Centres also have of visiting scholarships for academics from Nigeria, collaborative links with government bodies, the East Africa and the Horn of Africa. Recently, media, business and community sectors. the Centre has acquired a large fund from the prestigious Mo Ibrahim Foundation to fund PhD and MSc students from Africa on the topic of Governance and Development and to organise an annual Residential School on Governance in Africa. To facilitate and promote interdisciplinary research and teaching on Africa for its members, students and research associates, the Centre has run workshops, seminars, conferences and lectures for more than 40 years. The Centre’s Annual Lecture is given by distinguished invited speakers of international standing, and recent presentations have been made by Jane Goodall, Paul Berliner and Gus Casely-Hayford, Sokari Douglas OBE and Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah. The Centre also participates in knowledge transfer efforts at SOAS whereby Centre academics engage with industry practitioners, policy makers and other non-academic research users during seminars and

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workshops, thus providing an opportunity Centre of Contemporary Central Asia for managers from government departments and and The Caucasus NGOs based in Africa or working on Africa-related With the emergence of the independent states issues to focus on and discuss topical issues of Central Asia and the Caucasus, SOAS has affecting the African continent. Events are expanded its teaching and research resources publicised via the website and email distribution for these important regions. SOAS currently hosts lists, as well as publications such as the Annual a multidisciplinary team of scholars working on review and e-newsletter. Central Asia and the Caucasus, the largest grouping For details visit www.soas.ac.uk/cas in any single institution in Europe. Alongside those engaged in the study of contemporary problems SOAS China Institute of post-Soviet transition, there is a broader grouping of scholars involved in the study of neighbouring The SOAS China Institute (SCI) represents the areas (Iran and Afghanistan) and the archaeology, largest community of China scholars working religion, linguistics, pre-history and history of together under one roof in Europe. With more Central Asia and the Caucasus, lending breadth than 40 affiliated academics working across and depth to the study of the region. the various SOAS departments, the Institute The Centre was founded in 2001 in recognition promotes interdisciplinary, critically-informed of the School’s long-standing interest in the region research and teaching on China. The Institutes and its potential as a UK centre of excellence. showcases the strength of Chinese Studies at The principal role of the Centre is to promote, SOAS in the humanities and the social sciences, coordinate and disseminate information relating from ancient times to the present. The Institute’s to the academic study of Central Asia and the new, Master’s-level teaching programmes will Caucasus across the disciplines and to act as provide students with a balanced and rounded a resource for academic, governmental, non- set of highly competitive skills that are in high governmental and business constituencies with an demand for a broad range of careers. These skills interest in Central Asia and the Caucasus. It does include disciplinary rigour, language proficiency, this through the research and publications of its and wider knowledge of Chinese society, history, staff, new teaching programmes, an established economics and culture. seminar series and special events. The SOAS China Institute aims to be one of the The key activities of the Centre include organising world-leading centres for China expertise and bi-weekly public seminars during term time, holding pre-eminent in London. The SCI will channel the the annual Anthony Hyman Memorial Lecture on unrivalled breadth and depth of SOAS understanding a topic related to Afghanistan and organising and of China to the wider worlds of government, sponsoring regular conferences related to Central business, media, education, the arts, NGOs Asia, the Caucasus and Afghanistan. and beyond. For details visit www.soas.ac.uk/cccac or Working with SOAS alumni and excellent partners www.facebook.com/CentralAsia.SOAS in China and the surrounding region, the Institute is engaging actively in raising the SOAS profile in East Asia and fostering international collaboration. The Institute is also securing strategic philanthropic funding from a range of partners to expand the Institute’s reach and the impact of Chinese Studies at SOAS. The Institute delivers interdisciplinary research seminars and workshops; organises high-profile lecture events; facilitates roundtable meetings on current affairs; and provides specialist briefings, short courses and bespoke training opportunities. For details visit www.soas.ac.uk/sci

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Centre for the Study of Pakistan Centre of Korean Studies Pakistan contains one of the world’s oldest urban This has been the leading academic centre of its civilisations, Mohenjodaro, and the banks of the kind in the UK since it was created in 1987, with Indus have been a world centre of culture, warfare the support of the Korea Research Foundation and religion ever since. Described as one of the (subsequently the Korea Foundation). It coordinates most dangerous places in the world, Pakistan has work undertaken on Korea in various departments been in the news continuously for more than a of the School, and offers expert knowledge and decade. Public interest in Pakistan is perhaps at an advice on Korea to interested outside parties. all-time high, but this interest is often limited to a The Centre oversees programmes at the BA, MA, narrow account of politics and religious terrorism. and MPhil/PhD level in Korean Studies. With growing The Centre for the Study of Pakistan at SOAS liaises numbers of students and PhD candidates in Korean with, and acts as a resource for external relations Studies and studies related to Korea (also outside and collaborative links with, a number of institutions SOAS in other colleges of the University of London), in London, the UK and overseas. the Centre has become a forum where research in The Centre has driven an initiative for a new progress can be presented and discussed in front of MA in the Study of Contemporary Pakistan. We an informed audience. One of the main activities of host a fortnightly seminar series, public lectures, the Centre is the ongoing Seminar Series. Speakers round-table events, film screenings and academic and scholars from around the world who are conferences. In 2012 the Centre held its first engaged in diverse fields of work related to Korea successful Annual lecture in collaboration with the are invited to speak at the seminars, which are held Rangoonwala Foundation and the Pakistan High regularly during the academic year. Commission. In 2012 the Centre also became a The Centre also hosts workshops and conferences successful collaborator with a major RCUK project organised by Korean studies associations, such as on Trust, Muslims and Cultural Dialogue that will the British Association of Korean Studies (BAKS) run from 2012–2015. Centre members are actively and the Association of Korean Studies in Europe involved in new research initiatives across the (AKSE). In 2006, the Centre was selected as the first School, and the Centre works closely with CSAS. European beneficiary of the AKS Korean Studies The Centre supports new initiatives by doctoral Institution Grant programme. The SOAS-AKS research students working on the region. It aims Institution Grant Project has already promoted and to nurture ground-breaking research in the field supported a range of multi-disciplinary and cross- as well as to develop the study of Pakistan beyond national research output. To date, this includes a its territorial borders. range of seminar papers, workshop and conference For details visit www.soas.ac.uk/csp or proceedings, as well as forthcoming book and www.facebook.com/Pakistan.SOAS periodical publications. For details visit www.soas.ac.uk/koreanstudies or www.facebook.com/Korea.SOAS

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SOAS South Asia Institute The Institute is responsible for organising and publicizing academic activities on South Asia, Since its inception in 1916, SOAS has been an including collaborative research projects, seminars, important international centre for the study of South workshops, and conferences. It is a central point Asia. In 1966, the Centre of South Asian Studies was of contact between SOAS and the UK on issues established to coordinate the research of the South connected with South Asia, and between SOAS Asian specialists spread widely throughout SOAS. and universities in South Asia. In 2014 the Centre was expanded to create a new South Asia Institute. The Institute’s programmes are mostly open to the public and are advertised online. It publishes The Institute is the meeting place for over 50 an annual review at the start of the academic year full-time South Asian specialists in the teaching which gives an overview of recent activities of the staff of SOAS. They include academics focusing Institute and its members. on Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including those of anthropology, development studies, economics, history, languages, law, literature, media, music, political science and religious studies.

Hindu temple in China Town, Singapore

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Centre of South East Asian Studies Japan Research Centre South East Asian studies is one of the five main SOAS has one of the largest concentrations of regional postgraduate programmes in the School. specialists in Japanese Studies outside Japan itself, Some 30 members of staff, from all the disciplines in fields including anthropology, art, economics, represented at the School, are engaged in teaching history, language and literature, media, politics regional courses in a wide range of postgraduate and religion. The Japan Research Centre develops programmes and supervising doctoral students’ and coordinates teaching, research and outreach research degree projects. activities, drawing on the expertise of our academic staff, as well as a substantial number of research The research interests of the staff include cultural associates and academic visitors, from leading studies, gender and sexuality, cinema and film, universities in the UK and abroad, including traditional and modern literature, language pedagogy, Japan itself. linguistics, phonetics and sign languages in a variety of South East Asian contexts. The activities and responsibilities of the Centre include weekly research seminars during term The Centre of South East Asian Studies encourages time. There are two annual lectures, the Meiji Jingu and supports research by both staff and students. Autumn Lecture and the Kayoko Tsuda Annual It promotes joint, interdisciplinary and longer- Lecture, which are given by leading international term research, to which research for postgraduate figures in Japanese Studies. Recent lectures have degrees is often linked. been delivered from Norma Field, Joy Hendry, The Centre exists to stimulate a lively research Anne Walthall and Sepp Linhart. culture concerned with South East Asian issues. The Centre also carries out research workshops, Its seminars and programme of events promote on such topics as Sake tasting, calligraphy, tea interdisciplinary study, research and discussion ceremony and shunga. There are also occasional and disseminate a wider awareness of the region. film screenings, and a wide range of performances The Centre acts as a forum for the University of which have included kabuki and shinnai narration. London as a whole, and more generally for South The Centre produces: East Asianists in the universities of southern Britain, • an up-to-date website of Japan-related activities especially through its email network. It works in SOAS. It also provides studentships for PhD closely with the Association for South East Asian students, administers the Tsuda Bursary and Meiji Studies in the UK (ASEASUK) and with the European Jingu and maintaining close links with Japanese Association of South East Asian Studies (EUROSEAS), scholars and universities; as well as having special relations with a number of universities in South East Asia. More broadly, the • an annual review of the activities of the Centre, Centre seeks to link higher education, government its members and associates. and business, in part through the SOAS Research For details visit www.soas.ac.uk/jrc or and Enterprise Office. www.facebook.com/Japan.SOAS For details visit www.soas.ac.uk/cseas or www.facebook.com/SouthEastAsia.SOAS

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London Middle East Institute Recently, the LMEI has established two regional centres as catalysts to trigger a wide variety of The London Middle East Institute (LMEI) is a academic and cultural activities. Its Centre for leading resource that draws on both the unrivalled Iranian Studies has now been in existence for two academic expertise on the Middle East at SOAS and years and has been extremely productive, setting the capital’s connections with the region – whether up an MA in Iranian Studies, holding regular film political, social, cultural, commercial, scientific evenings and hosting a large number of cultural or educational. Through its extensive outreach events, especially concerts. The Centre for Palestine programme, the LMEI promotes knowledge of Studies is only just over a year old but it has already all aspects of the Middle East, serving the general organised several lectures and recently launched a public and those who have a special interest in new MA in Palestine Studies. the region alike. The Institute is happy to respond to requests An important feature of the Institute’s work is to from both the public and private sectors to organise conferences and seminars. In the 2012–13 provide tailored briefings on the Middle East and academic year for example it hosted the tenth ‘The undertakes consultancies and executive education. Idea of Iran’ series of seminars on Iranian history In conjunction with SOAS Research and Enterprise and also conferences on Egyptian education, Office, it offers annual executive education courses Yemen, Middle Eastern history, and contemporary on Political Islam. Summer 2013 marked another art. Its Tuesday Evening Lecture Programme on the departure when LMEI held its first Summer School Contemporary Middle East attracts large audiences in June and July. from SOAS and beyond. LMEI is a charitable organisation. Its activities are The Institute also sponsors seminars and exhibitions, guided by a Board of Trustees with the assistance conducts training and maintains a website. It has of an Advisory Council composed of distinguished an active publication programme and its monthly individuals knowledgeable about the Middle East. magazine, The Middle East in London, continues to be a vital source of information and commentary For details visit www.soas.ac.uk/lmei on Middle East matters – whether political or cultural – in London. In addition to its publishing series with Saqi Books, which is entitled SOAS Middle East Issues, LMEI has a further series on the Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa with Routledge. Qalqilya checkpoint in Palestine – Carole Reckinger

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Listed here are all the subjects On-campus Master’s Programmes currently available for research Interdisciplinary Area Studies and postgraduate study at • MA African Studies 59 SOAS. Please see the individual • MA Chinese Studies 60 entries for details and visit • MA Iranian Studies 62 www.soas.ac.uk/academic for • MA Islamic Societies and Cultures 63 the most up-to-date information • MA Israeli Studies 64 on Master’s and research degrees. • MA Japanese Studies 66 • MA Korean Studies 68 For details on the general structure of Master’s • MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies 69 and research degrees and related regulations and requirements please also refer to pages 80–228. • MA Pacific Asian tudiesS 72 • MA Study of Contemporary Pakistan 74 • MA South Asian Area Studies 75 • MA South East Asian Studies 78 • MA Taiwan Studies 80

Arts and Humanities • MA Anthropological Research Methods 89 • MA Anthropological Research Methods and Nepali 91 • MA Anthropology of Travel, Tourism and Pilgrimage 97 • MA Anthropology of Food 92 • MA Anthropology of Media 93 • MA Art and Archaeology of East Asia 104 • MA Arts of Asia and Africa 103 • MA Contemporary Art of Asia and Africa 106 • MA Critical Media and Cultural Studies 206 • MMus Ethnomusicology 119 • MA Global Creative and Cultural Industries 117 • MA Global Media and Postnational Communication 207 • MA History 165 • MA Historical Research Methods 167 • MA History of Art and/or Archaeology 102 • MA History of Art and Architecture of the Islamic Middle East 105 • MA Media in Development 209 • MA Media and the Middle East 211

52 For more information go to www.soas.ac.uk A–Z of Postgraduate Degrees

• MA Medical Anthropology 94 • MSc Comparative Political Thought 226 • MA Migration and Diaspora Studies 94 • MSc Development Economics 147 • MA Music in Development 120 • MSc Development Studies 136 • MMus Performance 119 • MSc Development Studies with special • MA Religion and Global Politics 245 reference to Central Asia 137 • MA Religions of Asia and Africa 241 • MA Dispute and Conflict Resolution 192 • MA Religious Arts of Asia 107 • MSc Economics Programmes 148 • MA Social Anthropology 95 • MSc Environment and Development Economics 151 • MA Social Anthropology of Development 96 • MSc Environment, Politics and Development 138 • MA Traditions of Yoga and Meditation 244 • MA in Environmental Law and Sustainable Development 191 Languages and Cultures • MSc Finance and Development 150 • MA African Literature 85 • MSc Finance and Financial Law 158 • MA Ancient Near Eastern Languages 214 • MA Gender Studies 162 • MA Applied Linguistics and Language • MSc Global Energy and Climate Policy 174 Pedagogy (Japanese, Korean, Chinese or Tibetan) 201 • MSc Globalisation and Development 139 • MA Arabic Language Teaching 202 • MA Globalisation and Multinational Corporations 173 • MA Arabic Literature 215 • MA Human Rights Law 193 • MA Chinese Literature 122 • MA in International and Comparative • MA Comparative Literature (Africa/Asia) 128 Commercial Law 193 • MA Cultural Studies 129 • MA in International and Comparative • MA Global Cinemas and the Transcultural 111 Legal Studies 192 • MA Film and History 113 • MA in International Law 193 • MA Islamic Studies 216 • MSc International Management (China) 156 • MA Japanese Literature 177 • MSc International Management (Japan) 156 • MA Korean Literature 179 • MSc International Management (Middle East • MA Languages and Cultures of South Asia 236 and North Africa) 157 • MA Language Documentation • MSc International Politics 228 and Description 199 • MA International Studies and Diplomacy 171 • MA Linguistics 197 • MA in Islamic Law 193 • MA Postcolonial Studies 132 • MSc Labour, Social Movements and • MA Sinology 123 Development 140 • MA Theory and Practice of Translation 200 • MA in Law, Culture and Society 193 • MA Turkish Studies 218 • MA in Law, Development and Globalisation 194 • MSc Middle East Politics 229 Law and Social Sciences • MSc Migration, Mobility and Development 141 • MSc African Politics 224 • MSc Politics of China 230 • MSc Asian Politics 225 • MSc Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice 227 • MA Chinese Law 192 • MSc Political Economy of Development 150

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• MSc Research for International Development 152 Research Degrees (MPhil/PhD) • MSc State, Society and Development 231 • Africa 84 • MSc Violence, Conflict and Development 142 • Anthropology and Sociology 87 • LLM (Master of Laws) 186 • School of Arts 99 • LLM Banking Law 188 • History of Art and Archaeology 100 • LLM in Chinese Law 188 • China and Inner Asia 121 • LLM in Dispute and Conflict Resolution 188 • Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies 125 • LLM in Environmental Law 188 • Development Studies 134 • LLM in Human Rights, Conflict and Justice 188 • Economics 145 • LLM in International and Comparative • Film and Screen Studies 110 Commercial Law 188 • Financial and Management Studies 154 • LLM in International Economic Law 189 • Gender Studies 160 • LLM in International Law 189 • History 164 • LLM in Islamic Law 189 • International Studies and Diplomacy 170 • LLM in Law and Gender 189 • Japan and Korea 176 • LLM in Law, Culture and Society 189 • Law 181 • LLM in Law, Development and Governance 190 • Linguistics 195 • LLM in Law in the Middle East and • Media and Film Studies 204 North Africa 190 • Music/Ethnomusicology 115 • LLM in South Asian law 190 • Near and Middle East 213 • MRES Politics with Language 232 • Politics and International Studies 221 On-Campus Diplomas and Certificates • South Asia 235 • South East Asia 238 • Diploma in Asian Art 108 • Study of Religions 240 • Diploma in Economics 152 • Certificate in Political Studies 233 • PGDip International Studies and Diplomacy 171

54 For more information go to www.soas.ac.uk New Programmes New Programmes

Arts and Humanities * For more information on this new programme visit www.soas.ac.uk/religions • MA Global Creative and Cultural Industries 117 • MA Media and the Middle East 211 ** Intensive language courses are planned to be offered in conjunction with all language Taught • MA Religion and Global Politics 245 Master’s programmes from 2014 • MA Religion and Media*

Languages and Cultures • MA … with Intensive language**

Law and Social Sciences • LLM Law and Gender 189 • MSc Environment, Politics and Development 138

Distance Learning • MSc International Business Administration 32 • MSc Public Financial Management 32

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Interdisciplinary Area Studies Master’s

Interdisciplinary degree programmes offer the exciting challenge of combining multiple perspectives with languages and regional studies

58 Introduction 59 MA African Studies 60 MA Chinese Studies 62 MA Iranian Studies 63 MA Islamic Societies and Cultures 64 MA Israeli Studies 66 MA Japanese Studies 68 MA Korean Studies 69 MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies 72 MA Pacific Asian tudiesS 74 MA Study of Contemporary Pakistan 75 MA South Asian Area Studies 78 MA South East Asian Studies 80 MA Taiwan Studies

56 For more information go to www.soas.ac.uk SOAS Postgraduate Prospectus 2014 Entry 57 Interdisciplinary Area Studies Master’s Introduction

Ours is a world of relentless, rapid SOAS is also the place to examine contemporary intellectual challenges of changes in gender relations, change. Meeting its challenges and globalisation and the resulting mix of ‘Eastern’ requires creative problem-solving and ‘Western’ cultures and ideologies. We offer trans-regional interdisciplinary MA programmes skills. Making the connections and in Gender Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Islamic reconciling disparate forces is the Societies and Cultures and Cultural Studies. key. It helps to think outside the The first provides training in contemporary gender theory and gender relations, and aims to re-focus box – and even entertain the idea issues of Western gender studies on the complex that there may be no box. specificities of Asia, Africa and the Middle East. The second examines the historical relationships of power, domination and practices of imperialism At SOAS you have the opportunity to pursue inquiry and colonialism in the modern period (late 19th outside traditional mainstream theories, not only century to the present) through the study of through our degrees within departments, but literature and culture. The third studies the many also through our range of interdisciplinary degree aspects of the world of Islam – its traditions, law programmes. The latter offers the exciting challenge and art, as well its place in modern politics and of combining multiple perspectives with languages alongside other religions – through a variety of and regional studies, while allowing you to deepen disciplines and in a variety of cultural contexts your knowledge of particular regions that have and periods. The pioneering MA in Cultural Studies become increasingly important global players in offers a rigorous training in and questioning of recent decades. Cultural Studies theories and methodologies in the cross-cultural and complex contexts of Africa, If you strive to become an expert on Africa, China, Asia and the Middle East. Korea, Japan, Taiwan, South Asia, South East Asia, Asia Pacific, Turkey or the Near and Middle East, Area Studies and other interdisciplinary degrees all for example, our Area Studies programmes are provide a focus in depth (one taught course and a ideal for you. related dissertation) plus a range of complementary courses chosen by each student to reflect their You can select from a rich mix of subject-based own interests. courses focusing on Asia, Africa and the Middle East, including language study. The range of options available is unrivalled in the UK – and rarely matched across the globe – due to the unique breadth and depth of regional expertise among our staff. For instance, the MA in Japanese Studies offers a choice of 40 courses from across 12 subject areas, including Art, Economics, Law, Religion and Politics. Or why not study African and Asian literature, even if you are unfamiliar with the relevant languages? At SOAS you can explore the literature of these regions through English by embarking on our cross- regional MA programme in Comparative Literature.

58 For more information go to www.soas.ac.uk MA African Studies Degree Programmes

Structure and requirements MA African Studies Students take three taught courses, one of which is designated the major, and complete a 10,000-word Department dissertation related to the major. As the emphasis MA programmes in the Department of the is on interdisciplinary study, the three selected Languages and Cultures of Africa courses need to be from more than one discipline. The two minor courses can be taken from the same Faculty discipline (but different to that of the major), or Languages and Cultures two different ones. Candidates who wish to take Convenor a language at other than introductory level will Dr Lutz Marten be assessed at the start of term to determine the appropriate level of study. Duration One calendar year (full-time) Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) Choosing your courses Start of programme Applicants are asked to specify their preferred September intake only major, and to give an alternative, as practical considerations such as timetabling and availability Entry requirements of courses may limit freedom of choice. Once Minimum upper second-class honours degree enrolled, students have two weeks to finalise their (or equivalent) choice of subjects and have the opportunity to See also sample a variety of subjects by attending lectures. -- MA programmes in the Department of the Not all courses listed below may be offered every Languages and Cultures of Africa (page 84) year, and new courses may become available. For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, please visit the relevant departmental website or The MA in African Studies provides an unrivalled contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be programme of excellent advanced courses taught in other departments of the School. on Africa, one of the world’s most fascinating and challenging regions. The opportunity for interdisciplinary study of the continent is a Course options particular advantage of this degree. Students can (Not all of these courses can be taken as a major) choose from about 30 courses in 12 disciplines. Art Our students have chosen to study Africa at this • Art and Society in Africa level for a wide range of reasons. For some, it is a • Painting and Architecture in Christian NE Africa: deep interest in the history and culture or political 2nd–17th Centuries economy of Africa, while others have chosen this Economics MA with the intention of furthering their graduate • Economic Development in Africa career options. History Some go on to work in Africa, or in related fields. • Colonialism and Development in East and The opportunity to combine study of particular Central Africa African subjects with an African language is very • Colonial Conquest and Social Change in Southern useful, although some evidence of competence Africa (half unit, term one) in learning a foreign language is usually required. • Social and Cultural Transformations in Southern SOAS also has its own interdisciplinary research Africa Since 1945 (half unit, term two) centre dedicated to Africa, the Centre of African • Warfare and the Military in African History Studies (page 46); students can benefit from its • Slavery in West Africa in the 19th and 20th wide range of seminars, lectures, and workshops. Centuries (half unit, term two) • Historical Perspectives in Gender in Africa (half unit, term one)

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Languages (minor only) Note: Higher level language courses may also be MA Chinese Studies available for appropriately qualified students. • Amharic I; Somali I; Swahili I; Swahili IIA; Yoruba I; Department Zulu I China and Inner Asia (page 121) Law Faculty • Islamic Law Languages and Cultures Linguistics Convenor • Practical Translation from and into Swahili Dr Cosima Bruno • The Structure of Bantu Languages Duration Literature One calendar year (full-time) • Literatures in African Languages Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) • Travelling Africa: Writing the Cape to Cairo Start of programme Media September intake only • Aspects of African Film and Video 1 Entry requirements (half unit, term one) Minimum upper second-class honours degree • Curating Africa: African Film and Video in the (or equivalent) Age of Festivals (half unit term two) See also Philosophy -- MA programmes in the China and Inner Asia • African Philosophy (half unit, term one) Department (page 121) • Afrophone Philosophies (half unit, term two) Politics • Government and Politics in Africa The MA in Chinese Studies offers an exceptional opportunity to take advantage of the wide range Religious Studies of disciplinary approaches to the study of Chinese • African Missionaries (half unit, term two) society available at SOAS. The main emphasis is • Preaching, Prayer and Politics: Independent on modern and contemporary China, although Christians in Southern Africa aspects of pre-modern China can also be studied. Social Anthropology (minor only) Students can develop their own particular area of • Culture and Society of East Africa specialisation by selecting from the courses on • Culture and Society of West Africa offer and by writing a dissertation in their major • African and Asian Diasporas in the Modern World discipline. They are exposed to a wide range of (half unit, term one) topics through their courses, and also through • African and Asian Cultures in Britain participation in the seminars, general lectures and (half unit, term two) specialised workshops organised by the SOAS China Institute, SOAS’s interdisciplinary centre dedicated to research on China (page 47). The students taking this degree come from many countries and diverse academic backgrounds. While some have already studied China and wish to broaden their knowledge, others approach the region through an academic discipline in which they have already been trained. The resulting diversity combines with specialist teaching to create a stimulating academic environment.

60 For more information go to www.soas.ac.uk MA Chinese Studies

Structure and requirements • Modern Chinese Film and Theatre (half unit) • Modern Chinese Literature Students take three taught courses, one of which is • Modern Chinese Literature in Translation considered as major, and complete a 10,000-word • Traditional Chinese Language and Literature dissertation on an approved topic related to the major. • Traditional Chinese Literature in Translation As the emphasis in the Regional Studies programmes • Ceramics in Chinese Culture: 10th–18th Centuries is on interdisciplinary study, students must select their (half unit) courses from different disciplines (one of which can • Chinese Culture and Society be languages). Language courses can only be taken as • Art and Archaeology of the Silk Road minors. The two minor courses can be selected from • Topics in Chinese Art and Archaeology (half unit) the same discipline or from two different ones but • Ancient Chinese Civilization must not be from the same discipline as the major. • Japanese Transnational Cinema: From Kurosawa Some disciplines such as Politics, Economics or Social to Asia Extreme and Studio Ghibli (half unit) Anthropology require an appropriate qualification • Japanese Post-War Film Genres and the (such as all or part of a first degree), if any of their Avant-garde (half unit) courses are to be taken as the major subject. • Economic Problems and Policies in Modern China • East Asia and Globalisation Choosing your courses • Government and Politics of Taiwan (half unit) • Society and Culture in Taiwan (half unit) When applying, applicants are asked to specify their • Economic Development of Modern Taiwan preferred major subject, and to give an alternative, (half unit) as practical considerations such as timetabling and • Economic Dynamics of the Asia-Pacific Region availability of courses may limit freedom of choice. • Modern Chinese Law and Human Rights Once enrolled, students have two weeks to finalise • Chinese Commercial Law their choice of subjects and have the opportunity • Foundations of Chinese Law of sampling a variety of subjects through attending • Pop and Politics in East Asia (half unit) lectures. For details on listed courses, please visit • Musical Traditions of East Asia (half unit) www.soas.ac.uk/cia • State and Society in the Chinese Political Process Not all courses listed below may be offered every • China and International Politics year, and new courses may become available. • International Politics of East Asia For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, • Northeast Asian Politics and Society: Japan, Korea, please visit the relevant departmental website or and Taiwan contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be • History of Religion in Imperial China taught in other departments of the School. • East Asian Buddhist Thought (half unit) • Chinese Buddhism in the Pre-modern Period • The Great Tradition of Taoism (half unit) Course options (majors and minors) • Chinese Religious Texts: A Reading Seminar • Special Course in Chinese I (half unit) • Special Course in Chinese II • History of Religion in Imperial China • Special Course in Chinese III • Locating China I: China and Other World Views • Special Course in Chinese IV before ‘Westernization’ (half unit) • Special Course in Chinese: Mandarin for • Locating China II: Missionaries and Misfits in the Cantonese Speakers British Construction of China (half unit) • Special Course in Chinese: Reading Classical • Government and Politics of Taiwan (half unit) and Literary Chinese • Society and Culture in Taiwan (half unit) • Special Course in Chinese: Elementary Spoken • Knowledge and Power in Early Modern China Hokkien (Minnanyu, Taiwanese) (half unit) • Practical Translation: Chinese to English (half unit) • Nationhood and Competing Identities in Modern • Practical Translation: English to Chinese (half unit) China (1898–1997) (half unit) • Modern Documentary Texts • History of Environment and Globalisation in Asia • Modern Film from Taiwan and the Chinese and Africa Diaspora (half unit)

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Students must take two full courses (or the MA Iranian Studies equivalent including half courses) as follows: ii) Compulsory course – at least one full course Department from the following list: Near and Middle East (page 213) • Zoroastrianism: Historical and Contemporary Faculty Perspectives Languages and Cultures • Text and Context in Zoroastrianism • Iranian Cinema Convenor • Classical Persian Poetry Dr Nima Mina • Elementary Persian Texts Duration • Persian Intermediate One calendar year (full-time) • either Avestan or Pahlavi Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) iii) Optional course – an additional course or Start of programme half-course from the list below or additional courses September intake only from list (ii) to bring the total to two full courses. Entry requirements • Modern Trends in Islam Minimum upper second-class honours degree • Gender in the Middle East (half unit) (or equivalent) • International Politics of the Middle East • Islam and Political Ideologies (half unit) See also • Culture and Society of the Near and Middle East -- MA programmes in the Near and Middle East • Modernity and the Transformation of the Middle Department (page 213) East, 1839–1958 • Central Asian Music (half unit) • Problems of Development in the Middle East and The MA in Iranian Studies enables students to North Africa (half unit) critically assess the historical development of • Migration and Mobility in the Middle East and Iranian society, economics and culture within North Africa (half unit) the context of the wider west Asian area and to appreciate the complexity of the history and iv) A 10,000-word dissertation on Iranian Studies. cultural make up of Iran. The dissertation relates to the field of study of the MA programme as a whole, and the programme The flexible study programme and interdisciplinary therefore does not have a major/minor structure. curriculum will enrich students’ knowledge about the religious and politico-cultural influences affecting contemporary Iran and the wider region. Students will develop a critical understanding of the literature of Iran and the diaspora. They will also gain an understanding of Iran in the context of the Middle East with respect to gender, politics, Islam, music and migration (minor course options). Persian language and literature will also be studied. The programme consists of the following: i) A core course on Iran: History, Culture, Society, co-convened by Nima Mina and Arshin Adib- Moghaddam, and co-taught by them and other staff at SOAS.

62 For more information go to www.soas.ac.uk MA Iranian Studies / MA Islamic Societies and Cultures

Structure and requirements MA Islamic Societies Candidates will take three taught courses (one and Cultures major and two minors) and write a 10,000-word dissertation for their major option. A single-unit course in a relevant language can be taken as one Department of the two minor options. This Master’s degree may Near and Middle East (page 213) be considered as a preparation for research or as a Faculty way of completing a liberal education. Languages and Cultures Convenor Choosing your courses Dr Kate Zebiri When applying, students need to specify their Duration preferred major and an alternative as practical One calendar year (full-time) considerations such as timetabling and course Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) availability may limit freedom of choice. Once enrolled, students have one week to finalise their Start of programme choice of subjects and, during that week, can also September intake only sample various subjects by attending lectures. Entry requirements Please note that anyone choosing three courses Students wishing to take certain options as their which are also on offer for the MA in Near and major will normally be expected to have their Middle Eastern Studies (see page 69) will be first degree in that discipline. This applies to required to register for this latter degree instead those wishing to have their major in Economics, of the MA Islamic Societies and Cultures. For details Politics (of the Middle East) or Law. on courses listed below, please visit our website www.soas.ac.uk/nme See also -- MA programmes in the Near and Middle East Department (page 213) Course options

List A: Major options This MA studies many aspects of the world of • Origins and Early Development of Islam in the Islam and its primary aim is to approach the Middle East: Problems and Perspectives study of Islam through a range of disciplines • Modern Trends in Islam and in a variety of cultural contexts and periods. • Islamic Law Applicants are not required to have previous • Law and Society in the Middle East and North Africa academic experience of the subject but an interest in Islamic societies and cultures will be expected. List B: Minor options Near and Middle East SOAS also has a special-purpose Centre of Islamic • Problems of Development in the Middle East Studies and an interdisciplinary centre dedicated and North Africa (half unit, term one) to research on the Middle East, the London Middle • Migration and Mobility in the Middle East and East Institute (see page 51). Students can benefit North Africa (half unit, term one) from the range of seminars, lectures and specialised • Human Rights and Islamic Law workshops organised by them. • Islamic Philosophical Theology: Studies in Muslim Doctrine and Heresiography • Economic Development of the Middle East • Islam and the West: Artistic and Cultural Contacts (half unit, term one) • Art and Architecture of the Fatimids (half unit, term one) • Art and Architecture of Egypt and Syria 13th–16th Centuries

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• Ottoman Art • Studies in Early Islamic Art and Archaeology MA Israeli Studies • Gender in the Middle East (half unit, term one) • Music of the Middle East and North Africa Department (Master’s) Near and Middle East (page 213) • Comparative Politics of the Middle East Faculty Central Asia Languages and Cultures • Politics and Society in Central Asia Convenor South Asia Dr Yair Wallach • Islam in South Asia Duration Languages One calendar year (full-time) Only one language course can be chosen, and Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) language courses are only available as minors. Start of programme NB: all courses designated ‘postgraduate’ require September intake only the student to attend an extra series of lectures and to write an essay or, for more advanced courses, Entry requirements possibly prepare a translation with commentary The usual qualification for entry is a good first which will count for 30 per cent of the overall mark degree in a relevant field. However, the School is of the course. keen to offer the course to those with a passion for the subject, who wish to develop a strong • Introduction to Standard Modern Arabic interest within an academic framework. • Intermediate Standard Modern Arabic • Arabic 300 (Postgraduate) See also • Arabic 2 (Postgraduate) -- MA programmes in the Near and Middle East • Arabic 3 (Postgraduate) Department (page 213) • Arabic 4 (Postgraduate) • Swahili 1 (Postgraduate) • Intermediate Swahili 2A (Postgraduate) The MA Israeli Studies explores the history, • Swahili 3 (Postgraduate) culture, politics, language and music of Israel. • Urdu Language 1 (Postgraduate) The programme is based on a modular system, • Urdu Language 2 (Postgraduate) so the subjects covered can be as diverse as the • Indonesian Language 1 (Postgraduate) political thought of Vladimir Jabotinsky, Christian • Indonesian Language 2 (Postgraduate) Zionism, the poetry of Yehuda Amichai, the rise • Indonesian Language 3 (Postgraduate) of Palestinian nationalism, the struggle of Soviet • Indonesian Language 4 (Postgraduate) Jews for emigration, the writings of Mendele Moykher-Sforim, the music of the hasidim, Palestinian Islamism, and the teachings of the Rambam and the Ramban. The programme consists of: • three courses – one major and two minor – which start in October and end in April • two essays – each to be completed by the end of the winter and spring terms • a three-hour examination in June • a dissertation in the major subject, to be completed by the following September.

64 For more information go to www.soas.ac.uk MA Israeli Studies

Not all courses listed below may be offered every year, and new courses may become available. For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, please visit the relevant departmental website or contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be taught in other departments of the School.

Course options Choose two courses (one major and one minor) from: • Zionist Ideology • Israel, the Arab World and the Palestinians • Modern Israel through its Culture • A Historical Approach to Israeli Literature • Modern Hebrew Poetry Choose the equivalent of one full unit as your second minor either from the above list or the following list*: • Music of the Jews • Religion, Nationhood and Ethnicity in Judaism (half unit) • The Holocaust in Theology, Literature and Art (half unit) • Modern Hebrew language courses (Master’s)* • Arabic language courses (Master’s)* • Family, Work and Leisure in Ancient Judaism (half unit) • Judaism and Gender (half unit) • African and Asian Diasporas in the Contemporary World • Social and Political Dimensions of Modern Arabic Literature • End of Empire in the Middle East and the Balkans * Courses are offered at different levels of competence

Al Aqsa, Jerusalem – Beverley Eleanor

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Asian areas and who wish to study Japan from the MA Japanese Studies perspective of a different culture and in a different academic tradition. The resulting diversity of background combines with specialist teaching to Department create a stimulating academic environment. Japan and Korea (page 176) SOAS has its own Japan Research Centre (JRC), Faculty and shares the Sainsbury Institute for the Study Languages and Cultures of Japanese Arts and Cultures (SISJAC) with the Convenor University of East Anglia. Neither is a teaching Dr Stephen Dodd institution but both are able to benefit students in many ways. The JRC holds weekly seminars where Duration scholars from outside SOAS are invited to talk on One calendar year (full-time) their research (page 50). Two or three years (part-time, daytime only)

Start of programme Structure and requirements September intake only Students take three taught courses, one of which Entry requirements is considered a major, and complete a 10,000- Minimum upper second-class honours degree word dissertation related to the major. As the (or equivalent) emphasis in the Regional Studies programmes is on See also interdisciplinary study, students are required to select -- MA programmes in the Japan and Korea their three courses from more than one discipline. Department (page 176) The two minor courses can be taken from the same discipline (but different to that of the major) or two different ones. Some disciplines such as Politics SOAS offers the most comprehensive MA in or Economics require an appropriate qualification Japanese Studies available anywhere in Europe. (such as all or part of a first degree) if any of their Courses available normally range from the social courses are to be taken as the major subject. and political sciences to humanities and cover all There is no Japanese language requirement. historical periods, from the earliest to the present. It is possible to take the MA using only English. Applicants are expected to have a BA degree Language courses, however, are popular options. of upper second-class level or above, or some Candidates who wish to take a language at other equivalent qualification in a relevant area. In than introductory level will be assessed at the start some cases, offers may be made to students with of term to determine which is the most appropriate lower levels or from backgrounds where there level of study. Part-time students (two years) will is some compensatory factor, such as pertinent take two courses in their first year (normally their work experience, a protracted period in Japan or minors) and the major and dissertation in the evidence of serious independent study. second year; part-time students (three years) take one course per year, and write their dissertation in The students who take this degree come from many the third year. countries and academic backgrounds, but tend to fall into four main categories. Some have already studied Japan and wish to deepen or broaden Choosing your courses their knowledge and understanding. Others have Applicants need to specify their preferred major come to recognise the country’s importance or and give an alternative as practical considerations its value for comparative study and approach it by such as timetabling and course availability may majoring in the academic discipline in which they limit freedom of choice. For details on departments have already been trained. Others come to the and courses listed, please refer to the relevant academic study of Japan after they have lived or sections in the prospectus or visit www.soas.ac.uk/ worked in the country because they wish to acquire japankorea a more systematic understanding of it. Finally, there are students who come from Japan or other East

66 For more information go to www.soas.ac.uk MA Japanese Studies

Not all courses listed below may be offered every Management year, and new courses may become available. • Management in Japan I (half unit, term one) For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, • Management in Japan II (half unit, term two) please visit the relevant departmental website or Media contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be • Japanese Transnational Cinema: From taught in other departments of the School. Kurosawa to Asia Extreme and Studio Ghibli (half unit, term one) Course options (majors and minors) • Japanese Post-War Film Genres and the Avant-garde (half unit, term two) Anthropology and Sociology • Japanese Television since 1953 Available as a minor only • Culture and Society of Japan Music Available as a minor only Art • Pop and Politics in East Asia (Master’s) • Japanese Ceramics Past and Present (half unit, term one) • Shogunal Iconography in the Edo Period • Musical Traditions of East Asia (Master’s) (half unit, term one) (half unit, term two) • Popular Practice in the Edo Period Arts (half unit, term two) Politics • International Politics of East Asia Economics • North East Asian Politics: Japan, Korea and Taiwan Available as a major only • Economic Dynamics of the Asia-Pacific Region Religion • Religious Practice in Japan: Texts, Rituals and History Believers • Japanese Modernity I (half unit, term one) • Japanese Modernity II (half unit, term two) Available as a minor only • East Asian Buddhist Thought (half unit, term two) Language • Readings in Japanese Religion (half unit, term one) Available as a minor only • Basic Japanese 1 (Postgraduate) • Basic Japanese 2 (Postgraduate) Graduate destinations • Intermediate Japanese 1 (Postgraduate) An MA in Japanese Studies can open many doors. • Intermediate Japanese 2 (Postgraduate) Those staying in London will be able to join one of • Intermediate Japanese 3 (Postgraduate) the numerous international bodies here, and those • Advanced Japanese: Readings in Modern with specialist areas of knowledge (Finance, Law, Japanese History Art) will easily find relevant posts. Many choose • Advanced Practical Japanese (Master’s) to spend a period in Japan, especially if they have • Practical Translation: Japanese into English not done so before, to put their skills into practice. (half unit, term one) It is possible, where the MA is of a high grade, to Linguistics progress to an MPhil or other research degree. • Syntactic Structure of Japanese 1 (half unit, term one) • Syntactic Structure of Japanese 2 (half unit, term one) Literature • Japanese Traditional Drama (Master’s) (half unit, term one) • Modern Japanese Literature (Master’s) (half unit, term one) • Readings in Pre-modern Japanese Literature (Master’s) • Readings in Modern Japanese Literature

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The MA in Korean Studies is designed either to MA Korean Studies prepare the student for advanced graduate work in a wide range of subjects related to Korea or as an end qualification in itself. SOAS also has its Department own interdisciplinary research centre dedicated Japan and Korea (page 176) to the region, the Centre of Korean Studies Faculty (page 48), and students can benefit from its Languages and Cultures wide range of seminars, general lectures and specialised workshops. Convenor Dr Anders Karlsson Structure and requirements Duration One calendar year (full-time) This programme consists of four elements: three Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) courses and a 10,000-word dissertation. Start of programme September intake only Choosing your courses Entry requirements Students must choose one major course and two Minimum upper second-class honours degree minors from the lists opposite. Those who plan to (or equivalent). Knowledge of an East Asian go on to further research can take a higher level language is an advantage Korean language as a minor. The dissertation must be within the major option. The ‘Directed Readings’ See also course must not cover the same subject matter as -- MA programmes in the Japan and Korea one of the topics. Department (page 176)

68 For more information go to www.soas.ac.uk MA Korean Studies / MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies

Not all courses listed below may be offered every year, and new courses may become available. MA Near and Middle For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, please visit the relevant departmental website or Eastern Studies contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be taught in other departments of the School. Department Near and Middle East (page 213) Students can choose all three units from List A or two units from List A and one from List B. No more Faculty than one course can be chosen from List B. Languages and Cultures Convenor Course options (majors and minors) Dr Yorgos Dedes List A Duration • Topics in Modern Korean History One calendar year (full-time) • Topics in the History of Traditional Korea Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) • Topics in the History and Structure of the Start of programme Korean Language September intake only • Readings in Korean Literature (Master’s) • Topics in Korean Material Culture Entry requirements • International Politics of East Asia Minimum upper second-class honours degree • North East Asian Politics: Japan, Korea and Taiwan (or equivalent). Majors together/minors individually See also (half-unit courses) -- MA Ancient Near Eastern Languages • Pop and Politics in East Asia (Master’s) -- MA Arabic Literature • Musical Traditions of East Asia (Master’s) -- MA Islamic Studies • Literary Traditions and Culture of Korea (Master’s) -- MA Turkish Studies • Trajectories of Modernity in 20th-Century Korean Literature (Master’s) The MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies provides exceptional opportunities for studying this diverse Course options (minors only) and fascinating area at the postgraduate level • Korean Advanced (Master’s) through a variety of disciplinary approaches. • Practical Translation from and into Korean The main emphasis of the programme is on • East Asia and Globalisation (half unit) the modern period through courses in History, • Directed Readings for Korean Studies Geography, Politics, Economics and Anthropology. Some exposure is provided, however, to the pre- modern culture and society of the area through Course options: languages (minors only) courses in Religious Studies, Islamic Art and List B Archaeology, and History. Courses based on Arabic • Elementary Korean (Postgraduate) are offered for those with an adequate knowledge • Intermediate Korean (Postgraduate) of the language, while courses in Arabic, Hebrew, • Introduction to Mixed Script Korean Persian and Turkish are available for those who (Postgraduate) wish to acquire or develop skills in these languages. • Special Course in Chinese I (Postgraduate) SOAS also has its own interdisciplinary research • Special Course in Chinese: Reading Classical centre dedicated to the region, the London Middle and Literary Chinese (Postgraduate) East Institute (see page 51), and students can benefit • Basic Japanese I (Postgraduate) from its wide range of seminars, general lectures and specialised workshops.

Left: Youth Day in Pyongyang, N Korea – Eleanor Anne Claire Mccall

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Structure and requirements Art and Archaeology Available as majors or minors. Students take three taught courses, one of which • Art and Architecture of Egypt and Syria is considered a major, and complete a 10,000- 13th–16th Centuries word dissertation related to the major. As the • Art and Architecture of the Fatimids emphasis in the Regional Studies programmes is on (half unit, term one) interdisciplinary study, students are required to select • Islam and the West: Artistic and Cultural Contacts their three courses from more than one discipline. (half unit, term one) The two minor courses can be taken from the • Studies in Early Islamic Art and Archaeology same discipline (but different from that of the Ottoman Art major) or two different ones. Only one language Economics may be selected as a minor. Some disciplines, such Available as major or minor. as politics (of the Middle East), economics or law, • Economic Development of the Middle East require an appropriate qualification (such as all or part of a first degree) if any of their courses are to History be taken as the major subject. In general, available as majors or minors. • The End of Empire in the Middle East and Choosing your courses the Balkans • Origins and Early Development of Islam in When applying, applicants are asked to specify the Middle East: Problems and Perspectives their preferred major and to give an alternative, as (also categorised under Religious Studies) practical considerations such as timetabling and • Modernity and Transformation in the Middle East: availability of courses may limit freedom of choice. 1839–1958 (available as a major only and to be Once enrolled, students have one week to finalise redesigned as two half unit courses) their choice of subjects and, during that week, can • Zionist Ideology (also categorised under also sample various subjects by attending lectures. Religious Studies) Please note that students choosing three taught • Israel, The Arab World and the Palestinians courses also on offer for the MA Israeli Studies (also categorised under Politics) (see page 64) will have to register for the latter • Modern Israel through its Culture programme instead of the MA Near and Middle • The Middle East, the Mongols and the Silk Road Eastern Studies. to China • Envisioning the Past: Arabic Perspectives on Not all courses listed below may be offered every History (half unit, term one) year and new courses may become available. • Outsiders in Medieval Middle Eastern Societies: For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, Minorities, Social Outcasts and Foreigners please visit the relevant departmental website or (half unit, term two) contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be • Turkey: Continuity and Change (also categorised taught in other departments of the School. under Politics) Languages Course options (majors and minors) Only one language course can be chosen, and Anthropology and Sociology language courses are only available as minors. Available as minors only. NB: all courses designated ‘Postgraduate’ require • Near and Middle Eastern Culture and Society the student to attend an extra series of lectures and • Issues in the Anthropology of Gender to write an essay or, for more advanced courses, (half unit, term two) possibly prepare a translation with commentary • Gender in the Middle East (half unit, term one) to count for 30 per cent of the overall mark for • Gendering Migration and Diasporas the course. (half unit, term two)

70 For more information go to www.soas.ac.uk MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies

• Introduction to Standard Modern Arabic Media and Film • Intermediate Standard Modern Arabic Media options are only available as minors. • Arabic 300 (Postgraduate) • Film and Society in the Middle East • Arabic 2 (Postgraduate) • Mediated Culture in the Middle East: Politics and • Arabic 3 (Postgraduate) Communication (half unit, term one) • Arabic 4 (Postgraduate) • The Transnational News Environment: Production, • Elementary Hebrew (Postgraduate) Representation and Use (half unit, term one) • Intermediate Hebrew (Postgraduate) • Studies in Global Media and Post-national • Intensive Modern Hebrew (Postgraduate) Communication (half unit, term one) • Advanced Hebrew • International Political Communication • Elementary Written Turkish (Postgraduate) (half unit, term two) • Intermediate Modern Turkish Language • Iranian Cinema (half unit, term one) (Postgraduate) • Arab Cinemas (half unit, term two) • Advanced Translation (Turkish) • Transnational Communities and Diasporic • Elementary Written Persian (Postgraduate) Media: Network, Connectivity, Identity • Practical Translation from and into Persian (half unit, term two) • Avestan I Politics Law The first two half units below together constitute Available as majors or minors. the major option for Politics of the Middle East. • Islamic Law • Political Society in the Middle East • Law and Society in the Middle East and (half unit, term one) (major only to be taken with North Africa State and Transformation in the Middle East) • Human Rights and Islamic Law • State and Transformation in the Middle East (half unit, term two) (major only to be taken Music with Political Society in the Middle East) Available as major or minor. • Comparative Politics of the Middle East • Music of the Middle East and North Africa (minor only) (Master’s) • Politics and Society of Central Asia Development Studies (two half unit courses) Available as major or minor. • Israel, the Arab World and the Palestinians • Problems of development in the Middle East and (also categorised under History) North Africa • Turkey: Continuity and Change • Religious Studies Literature • Religion, Nationhood and Ethnicity in Judaism In general, available as majors or minors. (half unit, term two) • Arabic/English/Arabic Translation (Minor only) • Modern Trends in Islam • Social and Political Dimensions of Modern • Origins and Early Development of Islam in Arabic Literature the Middle East: Problems and Perspectives • Arabic Popular Literature: Themes, Genres (also categorised under History) and Theory • Zionist Ideology (also categorised under History) • Arabic Poetry and Criticism • A Historical Approach to Israeli Literature • Modern Palestinian Literature • Reading Classical Arabic Historians: Themes and Trends in Islamic Historiography • Mediaeval Arabic Thought: The Philosophical and Theological Tradition (Master’s)

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Structure and requirements MA Pacific Asian Studies Students take three taught courses, one of which is considered a major, and complete a 10,000-word Department dissertation related to the major. South East Asia (page 238) Faculty Choosing your courses Languages and Cultures The Pacific Asian Studies programme will permit Convenor students to combine the courses below, although Dr David Smyth some courses have entry restrictions. For example, students wishing to major in Economics, Law, Politics Duration or Anthropology should normally have studies their One calendar year (full-time) chosen discipline at undergraduate level. Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) Also, it will not be possible to combine two Start of programme courses from the same discipline, where there is September intake only considerable overlap in content. Students must Entry requirements choose at least one minor subject from a different Minimum upper second-class honours degree discipline to their major. Courses selected must (or equivalent) cover at least three regions from China (plus Taiwan), Japan, Korea and South East Asia. See also Only one language may be chosen as a minor. -- MA programmes in the China and Inner Asia Department (page 121) The programme convenor will decide whether -- MA programmes in the Japan and Korea the courses chosen conform to the requirements Department (page 176) defined above. -- MA programmes in the South Asia Not all courses listed below may be offered every Department (page 235) year, and new courses may become available. -- MA programmes in the South East Asia For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, Department (page 238) please visit the relevant departmental website, contact the convenor, Dr David Smyth, or a member of the Department or contact the Faculty office. The region known as ‘Pacific Asia’ can be defined Some courses may be taught in other departments in various ways, but the ‘core’ countries are China of the School. (plus Taiwan), Japan, Korea and the ASEAN nations (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Burma/ Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Course options (majors and minors) Vietnam). SOAS has more expertise in this region Anthropology (minor only) than any other institution in Western Europe; • Chinese Culture and Society indeed there are very few places anywhere in the • Japanese Culture and Society world which can boast the same range of expertise. • South East Asian Culture and Society Our MA in Pacific Asian Studies offers a unique • Society and Culture in Taiwan (half unit) opportunity to study this important part of the world, Art and Archaeology and to choose from the large number of courses • Archaeology of the Japanese Archipelago (half unit) on Pacific Asia currently on offer in SOAS Master’s • Art and Religious Experience in Pre-modern Japan programmes for Chinese Studies, Japanese Studies, (half unit) South East Asian Studies and Korean Studies. • Ceramics in Chinese Culture: 10th–18th Centuries SOAS also has interdisciplinary research centres • Chinese Art History: Critical Writings dedicated to areas that are part of the Pacific Asia • Directed Readings in the History of East Asian Art region (page 49), and students can benefit from and Archaeology (half unit) their wide range of seminars, general lectures and • Japanese Calligraphy: History and Reading specialised workshops. Practice (half unit)

72 For more information go to www.soas.ac.uk MA Pacific Asian Studies

• Popular Practice in the Edo Period Arts (half unit) Law • Shogunal Iconography in the Edo Period (half unit) • Foundations of Chinese Law • Art of monumental Southeast Asia (half unit) • Modern Chinese Law and Human Rights • Contemporary and Modern Arts of Southeast Asia • Chinese Commercial Law (half unit) • Islamic Law 1 • Religious Art in Korea • Migration, Gender and the Law in South East Asia and Beyond (half unit) Cinema • Japanese Cinema: An Historical Overview Literature 1896–1952 (half unit) • War, Revolution and Independence in South East • Japanese Post-War Film Genres (half unit) Asian Literatures in Translation (half unit) • Modern Chinese Film and Theatre (half unit) • The Urban/Rural Divide in South East Asian • Modern Film from Taiwan and the Chinese Literatures in Translation (half unit) Diaspora (half unit) • Jawi and the Malay Manuscript Tradition (half unit) • Genders and Sexualities in South East Asian Film • Pre-modern Historical Texts of Java, Bali and the (half unit) Malay World in English Translation (half unit) • Post-crisis Thai Cinema (1997–2007) (half unit) Music Economics • Music of East Asia • Economic Development of Modern Taiwan • Aspects of South East Asian Music (minor only) (half unit) Politics • Economic Dynamics of the Asia-Pacific Region • State and Society in the Chinese Political Process (major only) • China and International Politics • Economic Problems and Policies in Modern China • Government and Politics of Modern South East Asia (minor only) • Taiwan’s Politics and Cross-Strait Relations • The Economic Development of South East Asia • International Politics of East Asia • Continuity and Change in Modern China, • North East Asian Politics: Japan, Korea and Taiwan 1840–1949 • Japanese Modernity • Society, Culture and Drugs in China 1700–1990 • Histories of Ethnicity and Conflict in South East Asia I (half unit) • Histories of Ethnicity and Conflict in South East Asia II (half unit) Language (one language option only as minor) • Special Course in Chinese I • Special Course in Chinese II • Special Course in Chinese III • Special Course in Chinese IV • Special Course in Chinese: Mandarin for Cantonese Speakers • Special Course in Chinese: Reading Classical and Literary Chinese • Elementary Korean • Intermediate Korean • Basic Japanese 1 (Postgraduate) • Basic Japanese 2 (Postgraduate) • Intermediate Japanese • Advanced Japanese (Master’s) • A South East Asian Language (Burmese, Indonesian, Khmer, Thai, Vietnamese) at an appropriate level

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Structure and requirements MA in the Study of The programme consists of three course units Contemporary Pakistan (two core and one option) and a dissertation. One core course (Imagining Pakistan) introduces Department the main topics, approaches and possible lines of South Asia (page 235) enquiry for a cultural history of Pakistan from 1947 to the present. The other core course (Politics, Faculty Development and Law in Pakistan) provides an Languages and Cultures outline of the economic development, legal Convenor controversies, and political patterns of Pakistan Dr Amina Yaqin from independence to the current period. It does this through a broad mix of applied political theory, Deputy Convenor empirical and historical analysis and comparison Dr James Caron with the other countries of South Asia. Both core Duration courses consist of lectures and seminars, and One calendar year (full-time) students are required to give presentations and Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) write essays on particular topics. Start of programme Students choose a third course from a list of options September intake only that includes courses on modern Muslim thinkers and Contemporary Islamism in South Asia, Law and Entry requirements Society in South Asia, Urdu language, and Urdu Minimum upper second-class honours degree literature in Pakistan. (or equivalent) Students write a 10,000-word dissertation on the See also Study of Contemporary Pakistan, applying and -- MA Languages and Cultures of South Asia developing the knowledge acquired in the core (page 235) courses to an independent topic of research. -- MA Anthropological Research Methods and Nepali (page 91) -- MA South Asian Area Studies (page 75) Course structure -- MA Comparative Literature (Africa/Asia) For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, (page 128) please visit the relevant departmental website or -- MSc in Asian Politics (page 225) contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be -- MRes Politics with Language (page 232) taught in other departments of the School.

This programme offers a comprehensive and Course options critical approach to Pakistan, its complex and vibrant cultural, political, economic and religious Core courses history, and current trends. This programme is • Imagining Pakistan: Culture, Politics, Gender designed both as a free-standing qualification for • Pakistan: Politics, Law, and Development students who want to enhance their understanding of Pakistan, and also as an excellent introduction Optional courses for those who want to go on to further research. • Modern Muslim Thinkers from South Asia It will introduce students to the latest research • Contemporary Islamism in South Asia: Readings topics and debates in the study of Pakistan at an in Sayyid Abu al-A’la Mawdudi advanced level and provide intensive research • Law and Society in South Asia (MA/LLM) and (optional) language training for those who • Urdu Language 1 (Postgraduate) wish to go on to prepare for a research degree • Urdu Language 2 (Postgraduate) focusing on Pakistan. • Urdu Literacy (Postgraduate) • The Politics of Culture in Contemporary South Asia

74 For more information go to www.soas.ac.uk MA in the Study of Contemporary Pakistan / MA South Asian Area Studies

• Directed Readings in the Literature of a Modern Asia Institute, SOAS’s interdisciplinary research South Asian Language centre dedicated to the region (see page 49 • other relevant courses by approval for details). The 10,000-word dissertation on the Study of Contemporary Pakistan is new and currently going Structure and requirements through approval. Students take three taught courses, one of which is designated a major, and complete a 10,000-word dissertation related to the major. Some disciplines, MA South Asian Area Studies such as politics, economics or social anthropology, require an appropriate qualification (such as all or part of a first degree) if any of their courses are to Department be taken as the major subject. Students are required South Asia (page 235) to attend general lectures and seminars hosted by Faculty the Centre of South Asian Studies. Languages and Cultures Convenor Choosing your courses Professor Michael Hutt When applying, applicants are asked to specify Deputy Convenor their preferred major subjects and asked to give Professor Rachel Dwyer an alternative, as practical considerations such as timetabling and availability of courses may limit Duration choices. For further information on departments One calendar year (full-time) and courses listed, please refer to the relevant Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) sections in the prospectus or visit www.soas.ac.uk Start of programme Not all courses listed below may be offered every September intake only year, and new courses may become available. Entry requirements For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, Minimum upper second-class honours degree please visit the relevant departmental website or (or equivalent) contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be taught in other departments of the School. See also -- MA programmes in the South Asia Department (page 235) Course options (majors and minors) -- MA Anthropological Research Methods and Anthropology Nepali (page 91) • Culture and Society in South Asia Art and Archaeology The MA in South Asian Area Studies provides a • The Arts of Tibet wide-ranging interdisciplinary analysis of South • The Indian Temple Asia: India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Pakistan, Nepal Cinema and Sri Lanka. Students can choose to concentrate • Indian Cinema: Its History and Social Context on pre-modern or modern South Asia. They (half unit) can also acquire a basic reading and speaking Must be taken with: knowledge of one of the languages of the area or • Indian cinema: Key Issues (half unit) build on their existing knowledge of a language. Cultural Studies An important part of the programme is the • Culture and Conflict in the Himalaya preparation of a 10,000-word dissertation on • Modern Bengal: The Evolution of Bengali Culture a topic in the student’s major field of interest. and Society From 1690 to the Present Day Each course has its own series of classes and (Master’s) seminars. Students are required to attend general • Pakistan: History, Culture, Islam lectures and seminars hosted by the SOAS South

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• Genders, Sexualities and the Study of Asian Law literature and Film • Law and Society in South Asia (MA/LLM) • Postcolonial Theory and Practice • Law, Multiculturalism and Intercultural Human • The Politics of Culture in Contemporary Rights (MA/LLM) South Asia Literature Economics • Literatures of South Asia • Economic Problems of South Asia • Directed Readings in the Literature of a Modern South Asian Language (Urdu/Hindi/Nepali/Bengali) Geography • Modern Hindi Texts (Master’s) • Water Resources and Water Policy (half unit) • Sanskrit Literature History • Sanskrit Texts from the Hindu Tradition • Problems and Debates in the Social History of • Readings in Sanskrit Systematic Thought Modern South Asia • Literature and Colonialism (Master’s) • History of Environment and Globalisation in Asia Must be taken with: and Africa (half unit, term two) • Narratives of Mobility in Contemporary Hindi • Gender, Law and the Family in the History of Literature (Master’s) Modern South Asia • Postcolonial Theory and Practice • Body, Power and Society in Early India (Master’s) • Theory and Techniques of Comparative Literature • Islam in South Asia Music • The Tibetan Historical and Biographical Tradition • Indian Classical Music Language • Music in South Asian Culture (Master’s) (one language option as minor only, subject Politics to availability) • Government and Politics of Modern South Asia • Bengali Language 1 • Bengali Language 2 Religious Studies • Advanced Bengali • History and Doctrines of Indian Buddhism • Gujarati Language 1 • Buddhist Rituals (half unit) • Hindi Language 1 • Jainism: History, Doctrine and the • Hindi Language 2 Contemporary World • Hindi Language 3 • Readings in Contemporary Hindi • Nepali Language 1 • Nepali Language 2 • Nepali Language 3 • Basic Pali • Pali: Intermediate Level • Sanskrit Language 1 • Sanskrit Language 2 • Buddhist Sanskrit Narrative Texts • Sinhalese Language 1 • Tamil Language 1 • Tamil Language 2 • Urdu Language 1 • Urdu Language 2 • Urdu Literacy • Elementary Written Persian • Persian Language 1 • Persian Language 2 • Persian Language 3 • Introduction to Classical Literary Tibetan

Right: Wedding, Pakistan – Noor Naina

76 For more information go to www.soas.ac.uk MA SouthDepartment Asian Area / Page Studies Title

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Structure and requirements MA South East Asian Studies Students choose three taught courses (one of them as their major) and complete a 10,000-word Department dissertation related to the major. The two minor South East Asia (page 238) courses can be taken from the same discipline (but different to that of the major) or two different ones. Faculty Some disciplines, such as Politics, Economics, Law Languages and Cultures and Social Anthropology, require an appropriate Convenor qualification (such as all or part of a first degree) Dr David Smyth if any of their courses are taken as the major. Duration One calendar year (full-time) Choosing your courses Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) When applying, applicants are asked to specify Start of programme their preferred major and to give an alternative, as September intake only practical considerations such as timetabling and availability of courses may limit freedom of choice. Entry requirements Once enrolled, students have two weeks to finalise Minimum upper second-class honours degree their choice of subjects and have the opportunity (or equivalent) of sampling a variety of subjects through attending See also lectures. For further information on departments -- MA Pacific Asian tudiesS (page 72) and courses listed, please refer to the relevant sections in the prospectus or visit www.soas.ac.uk Not all courses listed below may be offered every The MA in South East Asian Studies provides year, and new courses may become available. exceptional opportunities for advanced study of For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, one of the world’s most diverse and important please visit the relevant departmental website, regions. Students on the programme come from contact the convenor, Dr David Smyth, or a member a wide range of backgrounds. Some students come of the Department or contact the Faculty office. into the programme having acquired an interest in Courses may be taught in other departments of South East Asia during their undergraduate career the School. or as a result of travelling in the region. Anthropology The programme commonly attracts mature Available as a minor only students. Some take the MA as a partial preparation • Culture and Society of South East Asia for employment in the region; others, having lived in South East Asia for a number of years, seek Art and Archaeology to place their experience and impressions into • Art of monumental South East Asia (half unit, a more structured, analytical framework. Every term one) encouragement is given to students who wish • Contemporary and modern arts of South East Asia to take a South East Asian language as a minor, (half unit, term two) although some evidence of foreign language Cinema facility is clearly required. The language courses • Genders and Sexualities in South East Asian Film provide an excellent foundation in conversation, (half unit, term one) reading and writing. SOAS also has its own • Post-crisis Thai Cinema (1997–2007) interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to (half unit, term one) the region, the Centre of South East Asian Studies (see page 50), and students can benefit from its Economics wide range of seminars, general lectures and • Economic Development of South East Asia specialised workshops. Available as a major only • Economic Dynamics of the Asia-Pacific Region

78 For more information go to www.soas.ac.uk MA South East Asian Studies

History Available as a minor only • State and Culture in Mainland South East Asia in • Pre-modern Historical Texts of Java, Bali and the 16th–19th Centuries (half unit, term one) the Malay World in English Translation (Master’s) • Histories of Ethnicity and Conflict in South East (half-unit, term one) • Asia I – Making States and Building Nations Higher level literature course (half unit, term one) Available as a minor only • Histories of Ethnicity and Conflict in South East • Directed Readings in Burmese Asia II – Non-national Perspectives • Indonesian Literature up to 1942 (half unit, term one) • Modern Indonesian Literature (since 1942) Language • Directed Readings in Indonesian One language option as a minor only • Directed Readings in Thai Subject to availability • Contemporary Vietnamese Prose Fiction • Burmese Language 1 • Modern Vietnamese Poetry • Burmese Texts and Translation • Directed Readings in Vietnamese • Indonesian Language 1 Music • Indonesian Language 2 Available as a minor only • Indonesian Language 3 • Popular and Fusion Music in South East Asia • Indonesian Language 4 (Postgraduate) (half unit, term one) • Khmer (Cambodian) Language 1 • Vietnamese Language 1 Politics • Vietnamese Language 2 • Government and Politics of Modern South • Thai Language 1 East Asia • Thai Language 2 • Thai Language 3 • Thai Language 4 • Special Course in Chinese I • Special Course in Chinese II • Special Course in Chinese III • Special Course in Chinese IV Law • Islamic Law (MA/LLM) • Migration, Gender and the Law in South East Asia and Beyond (half unit, term one) Literature Appropriate language skills required • Traditional Malay Literature • Modern Literature in Malay • Jawi and the Malay Manuscript Tradition (Master’s) (half unit, term one) Literature No language requirement • The Urban/Rural Divide in South East Asian Literature (half unit, term one) • War, Revolution and Independence in South East Asia • Literatures in Translation (Master’s) (half-unit, term one)

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We manage the annual European Association of MA Taiwan Studies Taiwan Studies conference, the largest such event in Europe, and host at least one international Taiwan Studies conference a year. We are also able to offer Centre PhD supervision in a wide range of disciplines. Taiwan Studies For more information on the Centre of Taiwan Faculty Studies please visit www.soas.ac.uk/taiwanstudies Law and Social Sciences or contact Dr Dafydd Fell [email protected] Convenor Dr Dafydd Fell The MA programme Duration The MA in Taiwan Studies is the first postgraduate One calendar year (full-time) degree focusing on contemporary Taiwan in the Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) English-speaking world. It offers an unrivalled range of advanced interdisciplinary courses on Taiwan’s Start of programme society, culture, politics, language and economics. September intake only Entry requirements Minimum upper second-class honours degree Structure and requirements (or equivalent) Students are required to take the equivalent of three See also courses and complete a dissertation. They must -- MA programmes in the China and Inner Asia take Taiwan’s Politics and Cross-Strait Relations, Department (page 121) and at least two half-unit courses from List A, and -- MA programmes in the Japan and Korea either choose Elementary Spoken Hokkien or the Department (page 176) equivalent of one course unit from List B. The dissertation must be related to one of the courses on List A. Students may only take a language unit as a minor; admission to any language course and the SOAS offers a unique opportunity to study Taiwan, level of that language is subject to a placement test which occupies a critical geo-strategic position in and at the discretion of the course convenor. the Asia-Pacific region. The development of Taiwan’s relationship with mainland China and North East Not all courses listed below may be offered every and South East Asian countries is an important year, and new courses may become available. influence on economic and political developments For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, in the region. Analysis of the development of please visit the relevant departmental website or contemporary Taiwan serves to highlight a unique, contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be but transferable, model of economic growth, taught in other departments of the School. social transformation and political modernisation. List A: Core courses • Taiwan’s Politics and Cross-Strait Relations Centre of Taiwan Studies • Society and Culture of Taiwan (half unit, term one) Since the establishment of the Taiwan Studies • Economic Development of Modern Taiwan programme and centre in 1999, SOAS has become (half unit, term two) one of the world’s leading centres for Taiwan • Modern Film from Taiwan and the Chinese Studies. We have the largest collection of Taiwan Diaspora (half unit, term two) expertise in any institution outside Taiwan and also offer the only MA in Taiwan Studies outside Taiwan. List B: Course options SOAS has also become one of the world’s most • Anthropology and Sociology important centres for Taiwan Studies-related events. • Chinese Culture and Society • Japanese Culture and Society During term-time the Centre of Taiwan Studies holds regular public seminars, during which scholars working on Taiwan present their research. Right: Taiwan Confucian Temple in Taipei

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Economics Law • Economic Development of the Asia-Pacific Region • Chinese Law II: Modern Chinese Law History Literature • Continuity and Change in Modern China • Modern Chinese Literature in Translation 1840–1949 Film and Screen Studies • Japanese Modernity • Chinese Cinema and Media (half unit) Language • Japanese Post-War Film Genres • Taiwanese (Hokkien) (half unit, term two) • Basic Japanese 1 • Modern Chinese Film and Theatre • Basic Japanese 2 (Master’s) (half unit, term one) • Intermediate Japanese 3 Music • Advanced Japanese (Master’s) • Music of East Asia • Special Course in Chinese I • Special Course in Chinese II Politics • Special Course in Chinese III • International Politics of East Asia • Special Course in Chinese IV • North East Asian Politics: Japan, Korea and Taiwan • Special Course in Chinese: Reading • China and International Politics • Classical and Literary Chinese • State and Society in the Chinese Political Process

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Master’s and Research Degrees

SOAS off ers more than 120 postgraduate programmes in arts and humanities, languages and cultures and law and social sciences

By subject, including department descriptions and staff research areas

84 Africa 87 Anthropology and Sociology 99 School of Arts 100 History of Art and Archaeology 110 Film and Screen Studies 115 Music 121 China and Inner Asia 125 Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies 134 Development Studies 145 Economics 154 Financial and Management Studies 160 Gender Studies 164 History 170 International Studies and Diplomacy 176 Japan and Korea 181 School of Law 195 Linguistics 204 Media Studies 213 Near and Middle East 221 Politics and International Studies 235 South Asia 238 South East Asia 240 Study of Religions

* For full staff lists please visit www.soas.ac.uk

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Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa

Staff are engaged in their own research and www.soas.ac.uk/africa publish extensively, and also collectively edit the Journal of African Cultural Studies, which publishes ground-breaking and world-class research. Current Faculty staff research areas include orality and broadcast Languages and Cultures cultures in Africa; African language metrics and Number of staff traditional poetry; African language dictionaries Academic 9 and reference grammar; Afrophone philosophy; Teaching and Scholarship 2 contemporary African literature in English; travel Teaching and Scholarship (fractional) 10 writing and diaspora studies; and African film, video and film festivals. RAE Ninety per cent of the work of the Department Teaching and research go hand in hand, and with has been rated as world-leading, internationally around 40 per cent of our students registered for excellent or recognised internationally. postgraduate degrees, we encourage close links between staff and student research. Supervised Taught Master’s degrees work reflects staff interests and expertise, ranging -- MA African Literature from linguistic description to sociolinguistic issues Interdisciplinary in today’s Africa. These can range from traditional -- MA African Studies (page 59) literature in African languages to contemporary -- MA Comparative Literature (Africa/Asia) African writing in English; from text-based studies (page 128) of traditional philosophy and religion to African -- MA Gender Studies (page 162) aspects of worldwide religions; and from the history -- MA Postcolonial Studies (page 132) of African cinema to the rise of contemporary film industries across the continent. Staff are engaged in organising symposia, The Department of the Languages and Cultures conferences, film festivals and other events that of Africa is a vibrant place of research and learning. help to create a dynamic and active research culture. What makes the Department unique in the UK is the close interaction between African language study and work on African cultural, literary Research and postcolonial studies. A number of African In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise languages – Amharic, Swahili, Somali, Yoruba (2008), the Department of the Languages and and Zulu – are regularly taught in the Department, Cultures of Africa (assessed jointly with the but staff and student research covers a much Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies) wider range of languages. attained an excellent rating of 90 per cent overall Across the Department there is a prominent for quality of research activity, judged to be of interest in African literature in all its manifestations internationally recognised, internationally excellent – whether oral or written, and whether in African and world-leading standard. languages or languages such as English and French. Our research environment was judged to be 60 An important part of the Department’s research per cent four-star (world-leading), 30 per cent and teaching expertise is focused on poetry, song, three-star (internationally excellent) and 10 per cent dance, drama and music, and how these are two-star (internationally recognised). For esteem interlinked and used in contemporary art forms indicators, 70 per cent of our staff were judged to such as film and other visual media. be four-star, showing strong evidence of enjoying The fact that artistic forms in Africa are often world-leading and highest levels of esteem, imbued with political, philosophical and religious while 30 per cent were judged to be of three-star significance means that research and teaching in (internationally excellent) quality. the Department is profoundly interdisciplinary. Supervision is provided for research leading to MPhil and PhD degrees within the broad general area of African cultural studies. Research topics

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include the study of a language (from a descriptive, comparative, philological or textual point of view), Dr Akin Oyètádé BA (IFE) DIPLing PhD (London) or literature, or film and screen media. Dissertations Yoruba language and literature; Yoruba culture are supervised entirely in the Department but joint and linguistics with special reference to supervision with colleagues from other departments phonology; Yoruba in the diaspora. is possible and allows candidates to research an Dr Alena Rettová PhD (Prague) even wider range of topics. Swahili literature; African philosophy; Afrophone philosophical discourses; literatures in African languages. Academic staff research areas Dr Lindiwe Dovey BA (Harvard) PhD (Cantab) African film and video; literary adaptation in MA African Literature Africa; filmic mediations of African performance arts (music, dance, theatre); contemporary film Duration theory and ‘World Cinema’; representations One calendar year (full-time) of exile, immigration and violence; structures Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) of African film production, distribution and exhibition; African film festivals. Start of programme September intake only Dr Kai Easton BA (Gettysburg) MA PhD (London) Colonial and postcolonial studies; South Entry requirements African literature (the Cape, Wicomb, Coetzee); Minimum upper second-class honours degree gender and the cultures of travel; Indian Ocean (or equivalent) diasporas; intertextuality; fiction, history Convenor and biography. Dr Kwado Osei-Nyame Professor Graham Furniss BA PhD (London) See also African language literature; comparative -- MA African Studies (page 59) African literature; Hausa language, linguistics -- MA Comparative Literature (Africa/Asia) and literature. (page 128) Dr Chege Githiora BA (Mexico) PhD (Michigan) Swahili and Gikuyu language; linguistics; translation and lexicography; African diaspora The MA in African Literature enables students studies. to engage critically with varied aspects of oral and written literatures in Africa. The programme Professor Philip J Jaggar BA MPhil (London) is unique in the way it encourages exploration MA PhD (UCLA) of relationships between indigenous African Hausa language and linguistics; comparative aesthetics and contemporary literary theories. Chadic. The course ‘Theories and Techniques of Dr Lutz Marten MA PhD (London) Comparative Literature’ provides theoretical Bantu languages and linguistics; Herero; Swahili; and methodological skills while the programme’s syntax; semantics; pragmatics. other units focus on specific areas such as literatures in African languages and contemporary Dr Martin Orwin BA PhD (London) African literature in English. Somali and Amharic language and literature; metrics; music and language relations. All students are required to write a 10,000-word dissertation in the field of their major course, which Dr Kwadwo Osei-Nyame BA (Ghana) DPhil (Oxon) allows them to carry out a substantial piece of Postcolonial writing with special reference to independent academic work on a selected topic. anglophone and francophone African American The dissertation is taken in either the core course writing; comparative national literatures. or in another course taken as the major. Students must take the core course plus two courses from List A or B. List B courses assume a linguistic

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competence in the chosen language equivalent Graduate destinations to that acquired in a first degree. A postgraduate degree in African studies from SOAS provides students with competency in language Course structure skills, if they take a language, and intercultural awareness and understanding. Familiarity with the Not all courses listed below may be offered every region will have been developed through the study year, and new courses may become available. of a combination of Language, Literature, History, For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, Cinema, Politics, Economics or Law. Some graduates please visit the relevant departmental website or leave SOAS to pursue careers directly related to contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be their study area, while others have made use of the taught in other departments of the School. intellectual training for involvement in analysing and solving many of the problems that contemporary Core course societies now face. • Literatures in African languages Postgraduate students gain expertise in their chosen Choose two courses from either List A or List B below disciplinary areas, enabling them to continue in the field of research or seek careers in the business, List A: Pan-African Courses public and charity sectors. They leave SOAS with a • Travelling Africa: Writing the Cape to Cairo portfolio of widely transferable skills which employers (full year) seek, including written and oral communication skills; • Theory and Techniques of Comparative Literature attention to detail; analytical and problem-solving (one unit) skills; and the ability to research, amass and order • Aspects of African Film and Video 1 (term one) information from a variety of sources. A postgraduate • Curating Africa: African Film and Video in the Age degree is a valuable experience that provides of Festivals (term two) students with a body of work and a diverse range • Research Methods in Translation Studies (term two) of skills with which they can market themselves when they graduate. List B: Language-specific courses • The Novel in Swahili (one unit, full year) Examples of the type of careers graduates from • Practical Translation from and into Swahili this department have gone on to immediately after (full year) graduation include: Researcher (Shift Media Ltd.); Consultant (Africa Practice); Diplomat (Ministry of Foreign Affairs); Volunteer Coordinator (Leketh Malako); Event Organiser (Convention on Modern Liberty); Appeals Assistant (British Red Cross Society); Head of Research (Journeyman Pictures); Projects Officer (Build Africa); Learning and Development Administrator (CAFOD); Conference Coordinator (Canadian Council on Africa); EU Policy Assistant (Stop AIDS Alliance); Business Development Manager (Africa Matters Ltd.); Analyst (Control Risk Group); Research Assistant (United Nations); and Associate Analyst (Control Risks). Examples of research degrees include: PhD African History (SOAS), PhD Relations between Middle East and Africa (University of Athens), PhD Politics and Administration (Roskilde University Denmark), PhD African Literature (University of Bayreuth).

Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa – Stefano Di Gregorio

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Department of Anthropology and Sociology

All staff are simultaneously attached as www.soas.ac.uk/ anthropologists to this Department and as regional specialists to their appropriate Regional anthropology Centre within the School. There are several advantages to this but, most Faculty notably, individual researchers find themselves Arts and Humanities closely engaged in work with other regional Number of staff specialists. As a result, disciplinary boundaries with Academic 17 other departments tend to be extremely porous, Teaching and Scholarship (fractional) 10 resulting in a lively research culture. A narrow disciplinary viewpoint is not encouraged in staff or RAE students and we are open to what we can learn from Ninety-five per cent of the work of the one another. The range of seminars sponsored by Department was rated as world-leading, different departments and Regional Centres is also internationally excellent or internationally indicative of the integrated approach to regional recognised. studies that is enabled in such an environment. Taught Master’s degrees As a Department, we find that the general -- MA Anthropological Research Methods orientation of the School affects the way we -- MA Anthropological Research Methods approach anthropology. SOAS is, among other and Nepali things, a language-teaching institution, and our -- MA Anthropology of Food Department is known for its language-related work -- MA Anthropology of Media in fields such as African art, cultural studies, media, -- MA Medical Anthropology interpretive and poststructuralist anthropology -- MA Migration and Diaspora Studies and study of the diaspora. The application of -- MA Social Anthropology these perspectives has taken account of such -- MA Social Anthropology of Development varied subjects as gender, food, development, -- MA Anthropology of Travel, Tourism and consumption, films, photographs and tourism. Pilgrimage

Research The Department is among the largest and most SOAS was placed in the top three UK departments respected in the field of Social Anthropology in the in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise and has UK, and has more students enrolled for Master’s achieved a similar rank for its teaching in recent degrees than any other department in the country. university guides. It is recognised as an outlet for All staff engage in research and maintain a high research students by the Economic and Social level of publication. About half of our students are Research Council (ESRC). registered for postgraduate degrees, which creates Please note that students wishing to apply for ESRC a lively and supportive atmosphere. The Department funding to undertake a subsequent research degree cultivates several specialist strengths that distinguish must take the MA Anthropological Research Methods. it from other anthropology departments in the UK. The most obvious of these is that all our staff are Training and supervision are provided for students specialists on Africa and Asia (other areas of the registered for MPhil and PhD degrees. Teaching world will fall within the School’s brief only insofar is organised to focus on the regions selected by as peoples of African or Asian origin are found there) students and, in cooperation with staff and students and the Anthropology of Development. In addition specialising in other areas, considers general the SOAS Food Studies Centre and the Centre for problems of theory and method in a comparative Migration and Diaspora Studies host a large number approach to the study of contemporary cultures of research associates and hold extensive seminar and societies. In addition to supervision through and research programmes. tutorials, students receive training in research methods, fieldwork techniques and, where necessary, a vernacular language.

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Academic staff research areas Dr Magnus Marsden BA PhD (Cantab) Pakistan, Central Asia and the Middle East: Dr John R Campbell BSc (Oregon State) anthropology of religion (especially Islam); MA (New York) DPhil (Sussex) the interaction between religious and political Anthropology of law and the British asylum transformations within and beyond South Asia system; Eastern and NE Africa; development, and the Muslim world; the study of transnational ethnicity and nationalism. identity formation. Dr Christopher Davis BA (Sarah Lawrence) Professor David Mosse MA DPhil (Oxon) MA PhD (Chicago) India, especially Tamil Nadu: caste; religion; Central Africa: medical anthropology; ritual; vernacular Christianity; Adivasi identity; interpretive anthropology; ethnographic writing; environmental history; common property philosophical anthropology. resources; indigenous irrigation; participatory Professor Richard Fardon BSc (Econ) rural development; aid agencies; anthropology PhD (London) FBA of development. Nigeria and Cameroon: politics and religion in Dr Caroline Osella BA PhD (London) historical perspective; theory in anthropology; art. Kerala, South Asia, South Asian diaspora: Dr Stephen P Hughes BA (Lewiston) ethnophysiology; concepts of person; gender; MA PhD (Chicago) ethnicity; psychology and anthropology; India, especially the Tamil-speaking south, medical anthropology. and Sri Lanka: popular cinema; media theory; Dr Parvathi Raman BA PhD (London) historical anthropology and visual anthropology. South Africa, India and UK: Indian and South Dr Marloes Janson MA PhD (Leiden University) African identity; African and Asian communities West Africa (the Gambia, Senegal and Nigeria): in London; diaspora. anthropology of religion; religious reform Dr Kostas Retsikas BA (Athens) MA (Kent) (Islam and Pentecostalism); transnational PhD (Edinburgh) religious networks; faith-based development; South East Asia, notably Indonesia, Java: urban anthropology; popular culture; gender migration; ethnicity and the body; Islam. and youth. Dr Edward Simpson BSoc Sci (Manchester) Dr Jakob Klein BA (Lund) MA (Stockholm) PhD (London) MA PhD (London) South Asia, Indian Ocean: Gujarat; anthropology China (South): anthropology of food and eating; of natural disasters, including political economy, urban social relations. memorials, memory and nostalgia; Islam. Dr Kevin Latham BA (Oxon) PGDip (Zhangshan) Dr Gabriele Vom Bruck MSc PhD (London) MA PhD (London) Middle East with emphasis on the Arabian Hong Kong and Guangdong Province (PRC) Peninsular (especially Yemen): elites; memory; and migrant communities in Europe: journalism; gender; religion and politics. television and media, telecommunications and internet; Chinese theatre; popular culture; Professor Harry West BA (Virginia) MA PhD consumption. (Wisconsin-Madison) Southern Africa, especially Mozambique: Dr Trevor H J Marchand BSc (Arch) BArch (McGill) political anthropology; violence and the state; PhD (London) revolutionary socialism and post-socialist Arabia (Yemen), West Africa (Northern Nigeria societies; traditional authority; sorcery; and Mali) and England: craft, carpentry and healing; anthropology of food: agriculture, traditional building practices; apprenticeship, food, and state policy; food safety and learning and cognition; space, place and regulation; food and international trade; architecture; theory in anthropology. food and cultural heritage.

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issues of method and theory, and to understand MA Anthropological the epistemological issues involved in using Research Methods different methods. Students will also learn about a range of specific research methods and tools including: Duration One calendar year (full-time) • interviewing, collection and analysis of oral Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) sources, analysis and use of documents, participatory research methods including Start of programme focus groups, issues of triangulation, writing September intake only and analysing field notes, research validity Entry requirements and reliability Minimum upper second-class honours degree • social statistics (including chi-square tests, the in Social Anthropology (or equivalent) t-test, f-test and the rank correlation test) and Convenor applications for fieldwork and ethnographic Dr Jacob Klein data analysis See also • basic statistical packages (for example, SPSS). -- Other MA programmes in the Department of Discipline-specific training includes ethnographic Anthropology and Sociology methods and participant observation; ethical -- MSc Development Studies (page 134) and legal issues in anthropological research; the -- MA Migration and Diaspora Studies (page 94) logistics of long-term fieldwork; familiarisation with appropriate regional and theoretical literatures; writing up (in the field and producing ethnography) The MA in Anthropological Research Methods may and communicating research results; and language be taken either as a free-standing MA or as the first training and preparation. part of a PhD. In both instances the student must complete a programme of research training and submit a dissertation on an approved topic. Structure Candidates must also submit a number of research- A typical programme of study would be as outlined related assignments which, taken together with the and requires passing three full units. These would dissertation, are equivalent to approximately 30,000 include the two core half units on research methods words. For students progressing on to a PhD, the (Anthropological Research Methods, and Numerical MA dissertation will normally take the form of a Techniques and Statistics in Social Anthropology research proposal. plus submission of a dissertation. Students choose the equivalent of two full units Aims and outcomes from available special course options, which may include MA-level courses such as regional This programme is designed to train students ethnography courses; courses in social, media in research skills to the level prescribed by the and food anthropology; cultural, media, gender, ESRC’s research training guidelines. It is intended diaspora and religious studies; and of course for students with a good first degree in social language training (list available from the Faculty anthropology or with a taught MA degree in of Languages and Cultures). anthropology. Most students would be expected to progress to PhD registration at the end of the Students who do not already possess competence in degree, but it is also possible to take the MA as a the language required for fieldwork will be expected stand-alone programme. to enrol for language training. Some may wish to enrol for more advanced language training. The By the end of the programme students will have specific options will be decided with the supervisor practical competence in a range of qualitative and should be appropriate to the intended area of and quantitative research methods and tools. the student’s research. They will also have the ability to understand key

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Term One • Issues in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology • Generic Training (half unit, term one) • Language Training† and/or • New Media and Society (half unit, term one) • Special Course Option‡ • Religions on the Move: New Currents and • Anthropological Training Emerging Trends in Global Religion • Anthropological Research Methods* • Issues in the Anthropology of Gender • Research Seminar* (half unit, term two) • Work with supervisor* EITHER • African and Asian Cultures in Britain Term Two (half unit, term two) • Generic Training OR • Language Training† and/or • African and Asian Diasporas in the • Special Course Option‡ Contemporary World • Anthropological Training • African and Asian Diasporas in the Modern World • Numerical Techniques and Statistics in (half unit, term one) Social Anthropology* • Iranian Cinema (half unit, term one) • Research Seminar* • Chinese Cinema and Media (half unit, term one) • Work with supervisor* EITHER • Perspectives on Development (half unit, term one) Term Three OR • Anthropological Training • Anthropology of Development • Research Seminar: presentations to subject group • Culture and Society of China • Work with supervisor* • Culture and Society of Japan • Submission of dissertation/research proposal* • Culture and Society of South Asia • Culture and Society of South East Asia † Students who go on to the PhD programme are • Culture and Society of the Near and Middle East expected to study an African, Asian or Middle • Culture and Society of West Africa Eastern language normally available to students • Culture and Society of East Africa on taught Master’s programmes. Language • Anthropology of Tourism (half unit) training may be suspended if the student can • Anthropology of Urban Space, Place and prove adequate previous language training in Architecture (half unit) the proposed PhD research area. • Comparative Study of Islam: Anthropological * Required component of the degree Perspectives A (half unit) • Media Production Skills (half unit, term two) ‡ Special options may include courses such as: Not all courses listed above may be offered every • Theoretical Approaches to Social Anthropology year, and new courses may become available. • Comparative Studies of Society and Culture For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, • Cultural Understandings of Health please visit the departmental website or contact the EITHER Faculty office. Additional courses may be available • Comparative Media Studies in other departments of the School. OR • Comparative Media Theory (half unit, term one) Term one of the core course ‘Anthropological • Issues in the Anthropology of Film Research Methods’ focuses on ethnographic (half unit, term one) and qualitative methods. It introduces students EITHER to key disciplinary research methods involved • Issues in the Anthropology of Food C, Issues in in writing ethnography, including participant the Anthropology of Food A (half unit, term one) observation, interviewing, use of documentary OR sources, research on oral sources, participatory • Issues in the Anthropology of Food B methods, triangulation, taking and analysing field (half unit, term two) notes, writing up fieldwork, and issues of research • Issues in the Anthropology of Gender validity and credibility. The issues are explored (half unit, term two) through lectures and seminar discussions and,

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in part, through student assessment that involves undertaking a small ethnographic study. MA Anthropological Term two of the core course involves work on Research Methods and numerical techniques and statistics in Social Anthropology. This course is run as a workshop Nepali with the aim of balancing formal instruction with discussion of problems in data collection and Duration practical handling of quantitative field data. Students Two years (full-time) work through standard procedures, treating them Start of programme as models available for analysis in the process September intake only of research and considering the nature of the assumptions that have to be made in applying Entry requirements them. They are not required to memorise statistical Minimum upper second-class honours formulae or perform feats of arithmetic, but are degree (or equivalent) in Social Anthropology. expected to become familiar with the logic of Applicants also need to produce documented the procedures to interpret problems and arrive evidence of language learning ability (a language at solutions. A-level or equivalent, or successful completion of an undergraduate language course) Students registered for the MA Anthropological Research Methods and first-year MPhil or PhD Convenor students are required to attend the Research Professor Michael J Hutt Seminar. This focuses on the development of the thesis topic and leads to the presentation of the MA thesis or PhD research proposal as appropriate. Aims and outcomes Convened by the Departmental Research Tutor, This is the only Master’s-level programme offered it spends the first term addressing general research anywhere in the world that provides students who issues which confront students. This includes intend to proceed to conduct anthropological developing and using bibliographic and internet research (broadly defined) in Nepal with the necessary resources, ethical and legal issues of fieldwork, skills (disciplinary, linguistic and methodological). exploitation of research and intellectual property It is appropriate for students who wish to conduct rights and research management issues. Students doctoral-level research in Nepal or in preparation also look at specialist training needs (for example, for professional employment in, for example, a in visual anthropology). government agency or international NGO. In term two, students focus on the preparation and presentation of their dissertation or research Structure proposal to the seminar. This is a process that runs in parallel with the meetings and discussions they Year one have with their supervisors. In addition, students Students take a one unit Nepali language course will meet regularly throughout the year with their (either Nepali Language 1 or Nepali Language 2); supervisor to produce a systematic review of the one unit Culture and Conflict in the Himalaya; secondary and regional literature that will contribute one unit Theoretical Approaches in Social directly to their dissertation or research proposal. Anthropology (or other anthropology options, chosen in consultation with programme convenor, The dissertation (approximately 15,000 words) will for students with equivalent anthropology training); take the form of an extended research report that half units Media Production Skills; and half units of includes the following a review of the relevant anthropology options. theoretical and ethnographic literature. It will also include an outline of the specific questions to See the departmental website for a list of options. be addressed, methods to be employed, and the expected contribution of the study to anthropology.

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Summer break between Years one and two passage of food from plant to palate, and to Students undertake two weeks of intensive examine who benefits, and who suffers, from Nepali language tuition at SOAS after the June contemporary modes of food production, exams, followed by two months in Kathmandu, exchange, preparation and consumption. attached to the Nepal School of Social Sciences Students in the programme examine food policy at and Humanities and the Bishwo Bhasa Campus national and international levels, as well as the role of Tribhuvan University. At the end of the summer, played in its formation by the food industry. Focus students will be required to submit a 5,000-word is given to the study of famine and the controversial preliminary fieldwork report and research proposal, role of food aid in securing food supplies. Debates accompanied by a 500-word abstract written over the impact of agricultural biotechnology on in Nepali. agrarian livelihoods and knowledge systems, as well as on the natural environment, are assessed. Year two Movements toward organic agriculture, fair trade Students take the following courses: one and and slow food are also analysed in the programme. a half units Nepali for Researchers; one unit Anthropological Research Methods (half units An anthropological approach to the study of food Ethnographic Research Methods in term one and draws upon and challenges the perspectives of other half units in Introduction to Statistics in term two). disciplines, whether agronomy or nutritional science, They also attend the compulsory weekly MPhil economics or law, history or literature. Dependent Research Training Seminar in Anthropology and upon individual interests and experiences, graduates write a 15,000-word MA dissertation. of the programme may pursue research degrees in any number of academic disciplines, or find employment in food-related government ministries, international organisations, development agencies MA Anthropology of Food or non-governmental associations, as well as in the fields of public health, education, media or in Duration the catering industry. Apart from completing three One calendar year (full-time) course units (including the core courses), students Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) are required to write a 10,000-word dissertation on an approved topic. Start of programme September intake only Course structure Entry requirements Minimum upper second-class BA degree For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, (or equivalent) in the humanities or social or please visit the relevant departmental website or natural sciences, or significant experience in contact the Faculty office. Some course units may a relevant food or agriculture-related career be taught in other departments of the School. Convenor Core courses Professor Harry West • Issues in the Anthropology of Food See also • Theoretical Approaches to Social Anthropology* -- Other MA programmes in the Department * Compulsory only for students without a previous of Anthropology and Sociology (anthropology) degree; students exempted from -- MSc Development Studies (page 134) Theoretical Approaches to Social Anthropology take two units from the list of course options. The MA in the Anthropology of Food offers Course options students the opportunity to explore historically An up-to-date list of course options can be found and culturally variable foodways, from foraging on the departmental website. to industrial agriculture, from Europe and North America to Africa, Asia and South America. The programme asks students to trace the

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Students come to this programme to explore why MA Anthropology of Media understanding media matters. It is particularly suitable for people: Duration • with a degree in media or cultural studies One calendar year (full-time) • with a degree in the social sciences or humanities Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) wishing to acquire a broad understanding of Start of programme media and cultural studies with special reference September intake only to Asia or Africa Entry requirements • with professional experience in film, television, Minimum upper second-class BA degree journalism, advertising or public relations (or equivalent) or significant experience in • with a degree in social anthropology wishing to a relevant media-related career pursue more specialist media-related topics with Convenor regional or language-based study Dr Kevin Latham • wishing to take the degree as a conversion See also course before proceeding to a research degree -- Other MA programmes in the Department in anthropology of media. of Anthropology and Sociology The MA programme consists of three units of taught -- MA programmes in the Centre for Media coursework: the core courses plus the equivalent Studies (page 204) of one full unit from a range of options, which -- MSc Development Studies (page 134) may include regional ethnography, language, development, diaspora, film and media (see below). Students are also required to write a dissertation of Our world is inescapably and continuously 10,000 words or produce a multimedia presentation transformed by a proliferation of media. The MA on an approved topic of their choice and under in Anthropology of Media takes up the challenge the supervision of a member of the Department of understanding how and why media matter. of Anthropology and Sociology. The programme combines anthropology, media and cultural studies with specific regional expertise in Course structure Asia, Africa and the Middle East. It provides students with critical skills, research methods, a wide-ranging Not all courses listed below may be offered every understanding of media and a unique possibility to year, and new courses may become available. pursue research interests. For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, please visit the relevant departmental website or Anthropology of Media is a rapidly growing field contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be that challenges the well-established anthropological taught in other departments of the School. concerns with visual culture and ethnographic film through a more extensive examination of Core courses contemporary media practices. • Comparative Media Studies This programme is designed to provide a detailed • Theoretical Approaches to Social Anthropology introduction to the study of media in Asia, Africa, (mandatory for students without adequate training the Middle East and their diasporas. It stresses in anthropology; students exempted this course ethnographic approaches to media as cultural compensate with a unit of options) practices in social and political contexts where • Research Methods and Report Writing (half unit people inhabit, create and engage with media worlds. mandatory audit for all Anthropology MA students)

Course options An up-to-date list of course options can be found on the departmental website.

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The programme consists of four elements: MA Medical Anthropology three examined courses and a dissertation of 10,000 words on an approved topic. Duration Core course One calendar year (full-time) • Cultural Understanding of Health Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) Start of programme Course options September intake only An up-to-date list of options can be found on the departmental website. Entry requirements Minimum upper second-class honours degree (or equivalent) Convenor MA Migration and Diaspora Dr Christopher Davis Studies See also -- Other MA programmes in the Department Duration of Anthropology and Sociology One calendar year (full-time) -- MSc Development Studies (page 134) Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) Start of programme September intake only The MA Medical Anthropology comprises two pathways catering for candidates with Entry requirements or without anthropological training. Students Minimum upper second-class honours degree come to the course from all over the world, (or equivalent) following undergraduate study, work and travel Convenor experience in other fields. This combination Dr Parvathi Raman of diverse experience and skills makes for an intellectually exciting atmosphere for both See also teachers and students. -- Other MA programmes in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology The course is distinctive in its focus on medical -- MSc Migration, Mobility and Development and health issues relating to Africa, Asia and Latin (page 141) America, and covers anthropological theory, cultural -- MSc Development Studies (page 136) understandings of health, and various options. These include combinations of anthropology and development, food, gender, psychoanalysis, The MA in Migration and Diaspora Studies is a religion and healing in South Asia, China and in broad-based degree for students who want to Africa, and study of the language and ethnography receive specialised research training in the subject, of a particular region. including a relevant language, which will prepare The degree is suitable for students with an them to proceed to advanced postgraduate intellectual interest in anthropological approaches research at SOAS or elsewhere. to the study of health as well as for those who This MA is designed to appeal to students from a work in healthcare in Africa and Asia. The aim variety of backgrounds who: of the degree is to provide a phenomenological understanding of the body, which also implies • wish to know more of the transnational nature subjective attitudes to notions of health, sickness, of the modern world disease, recovery and personal vulnerability. • wish to continue their anthropological study It will also provide an understanding of these at a postgraduate level and engage in critical experiences within regional, political, economic contemporary theory and cultural contexts.

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• wish to understand cultural transformation from a global perspective MA Social Anthropology • come from other disciplines, such as Law or Politics, and now wish to incorporate an anthropological Duration perspective on issues of migration and diaspora. One calendar year (full-time) Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) The degree offers students a chance to pursue specialist interests by a considered selection of Start of programme courses to suit their individual needs. It provides a September intake only broad-based MA for students who wish to enhance Entry requirements their knowledge in light of continuing contemporary Minimum upper second-class honours degree research. It also provides a special-interest MA, (or equivalent) enabling students to study diaspora and migration issues in depth in relation to a particular discipline Convenor or region. Dr Caroline Osella Prospective students will be encouraged to contact See also the programme convenor (see the department -- Other MA programmes in the Department web pages for details) at an early stage of their of Anthropology and Sociology application to seek advice on the most appropriate -- MSc Development Studies (page 136) options for study. The programme consists of four elements: three examined courses and a 10,000-word dissertation on an approved topic. Students come to the MA in Social Anthropology from all over the world, following undergraduate Core course study, travel or work experience. Many have • African and Asian Diasporas in the not previously trained as anthropologists, and Contemporary World their diverse experience and skills makes for an intellectually exciting atmosphere for both Course options teachers and students. Students must take the equivalent of two full The programme is designed on a modular basis courses from Lists 1 and 2 of course options. offering different pathways to suit, broadly, three At least one full or half unit must be from List 1. categories of students: If fewer than two courses are chosen from List 1, students must take not more than one course from • students with a degree in Social Anthropology List 2. Up-to-date lists of options are available on wishing to pursue more specialist topics and/or the departmental website. more regional and language-based study • students with little or no previous knowledge of social anthropology wishing to acquire a broad knowledge of the discipline • students with little or no previous knowledge of social anthropology wishing to take the degree as a conversion course before proceeding to a research degree in anthropology. Students take three taught courses and complete a 10,000-word dissertation. For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, please visit the relevant departmental website or contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be taught in other departments of the School.

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Core courses on development issues and practice, its disciplinary • Comparative Studies of Society and Culture orientation remains anthropological. • Theoretical Approaches to Social Anthropology* Students explore the contribution of anthropology * Mandatory for students without adequate training to contemporary development debates, for example, in anthropology on poverty, scientific and indigenous knowledge, human rights, violence and complex emergencies, Course options and the market as a core metaphor for globalised An up-to-date list of options is available on the development. Anthropological studies provide department website. the basis for understanding issues of state and governance in development, as well as the meaning of community development, popular participation MA Social Anthropology of and empowerment. Development We also examine technology and development, environmental policy and resources management as well as the significance of local institutions, social Duration capital and NGOs. Throughout the programme, One calendar year (full-time) the role of, and opportunities for, anthropologists Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) as professionals in development are discussed. Start of programme The programme consists of three assessed course September intake only units and a dissertation of 10,000 words. Entry requirements The core course, Anthropology of Development, Minimum upper second-class honours degree provides an up-to-date, in-depth understanding (or equivalent) of anthropological views on policy and practice Convenor in contemporary international development. Dr Richard Axelby It gives a theoretical overview of the relationship between development and anthropology. We look See also at the politics of aid, shifting aid frameworks, and -- Other MA programmes in the Department intervention programmes, bridging the disparate of Anthropology and Sociology worlds of planners and beneficiaries. This involves -- MSc Development Studies (page 136) close reading of anthropological studies, throwing light on the nature of policy making, bureaucracy and programmes in a variety of sectors – health, The MA in Social Anthropology of Development agriculture, water and others – and paying attention provides an understanding of the ways in to the specific cultural contexts of intervention. which anthropological approaches and debates inform the study of concepts in development, Core course its priorities, policies and practice. It attracts • Anthropology of Development (terms one students with diverse backgrounds and study or and two) work experiences, which makes for a lively and challenging atmosphere. Compulsory courses • Theoretical Approaches to Social Anthropology* The degree is designed to acquaint students • Research Methods and Report Writing with anthropology, development issues, research (compulsory for all students in term one; methods and either an ethnographic region (or audit only) language) or thematic interest in health, gender, food and media. Advice will be given to match * Mandatory for students without adequate training the choice of optional components to the in anthropology requirements, interests and qualifications of individual students, whose background may be Course options in general social science, regional, language or An up-to-date list of options is available on the other studies. While the focus of the degree is departmental website.

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The teaching programme includes contributions MA Anthropology of Travel, from noted scholars in the field from Europe and beyond, including universities in Crete, Slovenia and Tourism and Pilgrimage Melbourne, as well as from pre- and post-doctoral colleagues at SOAS. It builds on the emerging Duration body of first-class tourism-related ethnographic One calendar year (full-time) work, recent research and development work in Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) the field (particularly in the Mediterranean region) by anthropologists sponsored by the European Start of programme Commission, and cooperative work between the September intake only SOAS Anthropology and Music departments. Entry requirements For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, Minimum upper second-class honours degree please visit the relevant departmental website or (or equivalent) contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be Convenor taught in other departments of the School. Professor Tom Selwyn Core course See also Two compulsory half-unit core courses: -- Other MA programmes in the Department • Anthropology of Travel and Tourism A of Anthropology and Sociology • Anthropology of Travel and Tourism B

Optional courses The Master’s degree in the Anthropology of Travel, An up-to-date list of options is available on the Tourism and Pilgrimage aims to study aspects departmental website. of medieval travel, pilgrimage and hospitality – including evidence from the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Japanese and Christian worlds – and contrast these with idioms of tourism today. It will identify the main anthropological and theoretical issues underpinning the field, and help students understand the global and local political economy of contemporary tourism. The degree will outline the range of applied and consultancy work in the field by anthropologists – particularly in the field of tourism and development, while exploring the relationships between tourism- related space and place, capital and resistance movements. It will look in detail at the symbolism and semiotics of tourism, and also • examine the role of museums and other branches of the cultural industries in tourist economies • make a contribution to the anthropology of aesthetics, erotics and pleasure more generally • give students an appreciation of how the study of tourism relates to studies of other forms of global mobility.

Right: A bus in Jaisalmer, India – Patricia Sauthoff

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Graduate destinations (Pnomh Penh Post), Broadcast Monitor (PNS Media Intelligence), Head of Department (Shanghai A postgraduate degree from the Anthropology International Television Channel), Museum Archivist and Sociology department at SOAS develops (Freud Museum), Producer/Researcher (Vidicom), students’ understanding of the world, other Anthropologist (self-employed, development peoples’ ways of life and how society is organised. consultant), Project Coordinator (European Over the years, the SOAS department has trained Sociological Association), Field worker (Peace numerous leading anthropologists who have gone Brigade International), Consultant (German on to occupy lectureships and professorships Development Agency, DFID), Project Coordinator throughout the world. Equally, students gain skills (Sudanese Organisation Against Torture), Project during their degree that transfer well to areas Adviser (Afghanistan Aid), Writer (Lahore Daily Times). such as information and technology, government, research, NGOs and development, and the media Examples of research degrees or further study and tourism. An Anthropology MA is globally include: PhD Development Studies (SOAS), PGCE recognised as a significant qualification for Sociology (Institute of Education), Osteopathy personal advancement. (British School of Osteopathy). Postgraduate students leave SOAS with a portfolio of widely transferable skills which employers seek, including analytical and critical skills; ability to gather, assess and interpret data; a high level of cultural awareness; and the ability to solve problems. A postgraduate degree is a valuable experience that provides students with a body of work and a diverse range of skills with which they can market themselves when they graduate. Examples of the type of careers graduates from this department have gone on to immediately after graduation include: Research Officer (Food Standards Agency, NGOs, Parliament), Professor (Webster University Geneva, Edinburgh, Harvard, Cambridge), Freelance Journalist, Business Editor

Shreya Ila Anasuya Sanghani MA Anthropology of Development, Felix Scholar

To me, SOAS is one of the last bastions of Beyond academia, there is a lot of opportunity to compassion. My teachers and the other SOAS participate in a wide variety of activities at SOAS. administrators I came into contact with provided I was part of the World Music Choir, the Drama tremendous amounts of support and inspiration. Society, and the Food Co-op – all immensely I always felt that at SOAS, my health and enjoyable, rewarding endeavours. happiness as a human being mattered much More than anything, I liked the radical spirit more than my assignments and marks. I don’t nurtured by the SOAS despite attacks on activists think there are many other universities that and the spirit of protest by all manner of socio- provide this kind of humble, beautiful friendship political and economic institutions. The faculty, between the students and faculty. in what and how they teach, enhanced the Besides, I was lucky enough to be in the fantastic analytical tools I have to make myself a better Anthropology Department, with its own library, person, trying to make what one of my favourite and some of the most enlightening and innovative philosophers, Judith Butler, has called ‘a more classes I’ve ever had the pleasure to take. livable world.’ Thank you SOAS.

98 For more information go to www.soas.ac.uk School of Arts School of Arts

The School of Arts incorporates two existing MA Arts of Asia and Africa departments and one centre. This programme draws on courses across the School of Arts, permitting students to specialise in, • Department of the History of Art and Archaeology for example: popular music and film in the Middle • Centre for Media and Film Studies East; art, archaeology and music of the Silk Road; • Department of Music music, media and development in Africa. The School of Arts is unique in the breadth of its Students must take one course from at least two coverage of the visual and sound arts, the material of the constituent departments, and will write a and intangible culture and the cultural industries supervised dissertation on a relevant topic. of Asia and Africa. Our postgraduate programmes encompass MA Global Creative and Cultural Industries historical perspectives on the art and music of Asia The MA Global Creative and Cultural Industries and Africa, alongside ethnographic and practice- offers a unique and tailored programme with based approaches to the contemporary expressive pathways that allow students to focus on music, cultures of those regions and their diasporas. art and archaeology, media or film. It offers a set of generic courses to develop an understanding of the We are one of the very few centres in the world creative and cultural industries (including Cultural which specialises in the vital and increasingly Theory and Cultural Studies perspectives), practical important developments taking place in the skills courses in multimedia, and regional courses cultural industries of the non-Western world. that build on the expertise of SOAS in Asia, Africa The School of Arts benefits from interaction with and the Middle East. Students may also elect the other disciplines in SOAS, such as Asian and African optional course Directed Study in Industry in order languages, Anthropology, Development Studies to make good use of the opportunities available and History. Our students have access to a range within London as a global creative capital city. of multimedia provision, including a media lab, For details visit www.soas.ac.uk/soa SOAS Radio and a recording studio, as well as the Brunei Gallery and the world-class SOAS Library. The location in central London gives our students access to an unparalleled range of concerts and festivals, galleries and museums, media and cultural enterprises. The School runs several discipline-specific MA programmes. For details, see the relevant departmental pages. For students wishing to bridge these disciplinary boundaries we offer:

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Department of the History of Art and Archaeology

An MA from this Department has two main purposes. www.soas.ac.uk/art It can be used as a training programme for those who hope to go on to further independent research (for an MPhil or PhD), especially if their BA background Faculty lies in another field (such as the History of Western Arts and Humanities Art, or Asian or African area or language studies). Number of staff For such students, the MA provides the necessary Academic 12 grounding in the material and techniques in the Teaching and scholarship (fractional) 19 study of Asian and African art or archaeology. For students who already have some background RAE in this field and for our many overseas students, Ninety per cent of the work of the Department the MA year provides an opportunity not only was rated as either world-leading, internationally to broaden and deepen their knowledge but excellent or internationally recognised also to familiarise themselves with the academic Taught Master’s degrees requirements of higher education in the UK as well -- MA History of Art and/or Archaeology as the distinctive community of SOAS. -- MA Art and Archaeology of East Asia -- MA History of Art and Architecture of the Research Islamic Middle East -- MA Contemporary Art of Asia and Africa Research topics may range from historical and -- MA Religious Arts of Asia contextual studies of the traditions, forms and artists of the past to contemporary and popular visual arts. Postgraduate Diploma They could also include the contribution of Asian -- Diploma in Asian Art (page 108) and African art studies to the development of a See also comparative philosophy of art and archaeology. -- MA Global Creative and Cultural Industries The opportunities for original and innovative (see Department of Music) research are, thus, extremely wide-ranging. This is, moreover, an area in which cooperation with scholars in Asia and Africa is possible to mutual The Department of the History of Art and advantage. All staff are simultaneously attached as Archaeology offers a unique range of courses in art historians or archaeologists to this Department the history of art, architecture and material culture and as regional specialists to their appropriate of Africa and Asia, from their origins to modern Regional Centre within the School. times. Students may take the general programme, The teachers of the Department offer supervision or may select courses so as to enter one of the in most aspects of the visual arts, architecture, four specialised MA programmes. material culture and archaeology of Asia, Africa The titles of all programmes reflect the fact that and the Middle East, leading to the MPhil or PhD. the conventional separation of Art History from Applicants are expected to be sufficiently familiar Archaeology and Architecture may have little with the subject and to have their own ideas relevance in the study of Asia and Africa. Courses about the research they wish to do. Students deal with painting, ceramics, sculpture, buildings without appropriate competence in the language(s) and planning, cultural landscapes and transcultural relevant to their research will normally be required museum display. to acquire this as a condition of their registration. It is expected that candidates will already have In addition to the three taught courses students completed postgraduate taught courses in the select, there is a fourth component of the degree form of a taught Master’s degree (an MA, MSc – a 10,000-word dissertation. Students undertake or LLM, for example) and obtained good results independent research on a topic of their own before starting a PhD programme. choosing, generally related to the area of one of their taught courses supervised by a member of the Department.

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Academic staff research areas Dr Stacey Pierson BA (Loyola) MA (London) PGDip (Ealing) DPhil (Sussex) Professor Doris Behrens-Abouseif BA PhD History and production of Chinese ceramics; (Hamburg) Habil (Freiburg) history and theory of collecting; history of Architecture of Cairo; the art and archaeology art history. of Turkey, Iran and the Near East. Professor Timon Screech MA (Oxon) AM PhD Dr Crispin Branfoot BA (Manchester) MA PhD (Harvard) (London) History of Japanese art; Edo painting; contacts Hindu, Buddhist and Jain architecture, sculpture between Japan and Europe in the early-modern and painting; pilgrimage and sacred geography, period; history of science in Japan; the theory archaeology and material religion; South India. of art history. Professor Anna Contadini Laurea (Venice) Dr Tania C Tribe MA (Fed Univ Rio) MD (USF Rio) PhD (London) PhD (Essex) Arab and early Persian painting and the arts Painting in Africa and the Americas; theory of art of the Islamic book in general, including the with special reference to North-eastern Africa. production of manuscripts of the Holy Qur’an; art and material culture of the Islamic world; Fatimid art and architecture; the arts of Islamic The MA History of Art and/or Archaeology, Spain; artistic contacts between the Islamic MA History of Art and Archaeology of East Asia, world and Europe. MA History of Art and Architecture of the Islamic Dr Charles Gore MA PhD (London) Middle East, MA Contemporary Art of Asia and Africa Visual culture of West Africa and the Caribbean. and MA Religious Arts of Asia offer a unique range of courses in the history of art, architecture and Dr Charlotte Horlyck BA MA PhD (London) material culture of Africa and Asia, from their origins Art and archaeology of Korea; funerary to modern times. Students tailor the degree to suit customs; architecture spatiality in pre-modern their interests by selecting three taught courses Korea; theories in the study of visual and from a list of course options tailored to each of material culture. the MA degrees. Dr Geoffrey R D King Dip Fine Art PGCE MPhil PhD (London) FSA Islamic art and archaeology in Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, UAE and Oman; late Antiquity, Umayyads, Abbasids, Ayyubids and Mamluks. Dr Shane McCausland PhD (Princeton) History of Chinese painting. Dr Elizabeth Howard Moore BA (Pomona) PhD (London) Art and archaeology of Cambodia, Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand; remote sensing and cultural landscapes, Iron Age to Hindu- Buddhist transitions and urbanisation; religious architecture and sculpture. Dr Lukas Nickel BA DiplSin (Berlin) Drdes (Heidelberg) Archaeology in China; early Buddhist art; traditional architecture of China and Japan.

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Africa MA History of Art and/or • Diaspora Contexts and Visual Culture (half unit, term two) Archaeology • Modern and Contemporary Arts in Africa (half unit, term two) Duration • Painting and Architecture in Christian NE Africa: One calendar year (full-time) 2nd–17th Centuries (one unit) – full year Two or three years (part-time, daytime with • Photography and the Image in Africa; and other some classes 5–7pm) Regional Perspectives (one unit) • Representing Conflict: A Cross-Cultural and Inter Start of programme Disciplinary Approach (half unit, term one) September intake only • The Art of the African Diaspora (one unit) Entry requirements – full year Minimum upper second-class honours degree Near and Middle East (or equivalent) • Arab Painting (half unit, term one) Convenor • Art and Architecture of Egypt and Syria 13th to Dr Crispin Branfoot 16th Centuries (one unit) – full year • Art and Architecture of the Fatimids (half unit, term two) The MA History of Art and/or Archaeology can • Islam and the West: Artistic and Cultural Contacts be used as a training programme for those who (half unit, term one) hope to go on to higher independent research • Ottoman Architecture in Istanbul: 15th–19th (for a PhD), especially if their BA background Century (half unit, term one) lies in another field (such as History of Western • Ottoman Art (one unit) – full year Art, or Asian/African area/language studies). • Persian Painting (half unit, term two) It also provides the necessary grounding in the South and South East Asia material and techniques in the study of Asian • Arts of contemporary and modern Southeast Asia and African art or archaeology. This programme (half unit, term two) may also appeal to those who already have some • Art of monumental Southeast Asia background in this field, providing an opportunity (half unit, term one) to broaden or deepen knowledge at a higher level. • Esoteric Buddhist Art of South and Southeast Asia (half unit, term one) Course structure • The Indian Temple (one unit) – full year Not all courses listed below may be offered every East Asia year, and new courses may become available. • Ancient Chinese Civilisation (one unit) – full year For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, • Art and Archaeology of the Silk Road (one unit) please visit the relevant departmental website or – full year contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be • Arts of Koryo and Chosen Korea taught in other departments of the School. (half unit, term one) • Ceramics in Chinese Culture: 10th–18th Centuries Compulsory (half unit, term two) • Dissertation in Art and Archaeology (one unit) • Japanese Ceramics Past and Present – full year (half unit, term one) General • Modern and Contemporary Korean Art • Approaches to Critical Interpretation & Aesthetic (half unit, term two) Theories (one unit) – full year • Painting and Visual Culture in China (one unit) • Asia and Africa on Display: Objects, Exhibitions – full year and Transculturism (half unit, term one) • Popular Practice in the Edo Period Arts • Understanding Art East and West: from Asmat (half unit, term two) Shields to Tate Modern (half unit, term one) • Sacred Art and Architecture of Ancient Korea (half unit, term one)

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• Shogunal Iconography in the Edo Period (half unit, term one) MA Arts of Asia and Africa • Visual Arts of Dynastic China (to 1800) (half unit, term one) Duration One calendar year (full-time) Minor Options in other Departments Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) • Modern Bengal: the Evolution of Bengali Culture and Society from 1690 to the Present Day (MA) Start of programme (one unit) – full year September intake only Anthropology Entry requirements • Culture and Society of China (one unit) – full year Minimum upper second-class honours degree • Culture and Society of East Africa (one unit) (or equivalent) – full year Convenor • Culture and Society of Japan (one unit) – full year Professor Timon Screech • Culture and Society of South Asia (one unit) – full year • Culture and Society of South East Asia (one unit) This programme, inaugurated in September – full year 2012, draws on courses across the School of Arts, • Culture and Society of West Africa (one unit) permitting student to specialise in, for example: – full year popular music and film in the Middle East; art, • Culture and Society of the Near & Middle East archaeology and music of the Silk Road; music, (one unit) – full year media and development in Africa. History • Origins and Development of Islam in the Middle Course structure East: Problems and Perspectives (one unit) – full year Students must take one course from at least two of • Islam in South Asia (one unit) – full year the constituent departments/centre, and will write a supervised dissertation on a relevant topic. Study of Religions • Readings in Japanese religion (half unit, term one) The following is a complete list of courses in the programme, not all of which are offered in any Music single year. • Indian Classical Music (one unit) – full year • Music in South Asian Culture (Master’s) (one unit) • Approaches to Critical Interpretation & Aesthetic – full year Theories (one unit) – full year • Pop and Politics in East Asia (Master’s) • Japanese Ceramics Past and Present (half unit, term one) (half unit, term one) • Music of the Near and Middle East and North Africa • Understanding Art East and West: from Asmat (one unit) – full year Shields to Tate Modern (half unit, term one) • Asia and Africa on Display: Objects, Exhibitions and Transculturism (half unit, term one) • Photography and the Image in Africa; and other Regional Perspectives (one unit) • Representing Conflict: A Cross-Cultural and Inter Disciplinary Approach (half unit, term one) • Diaspora Contexts and Visual Culture (half unit, term two) • Arts of Modern and Contemporary China (since 1800) (half unit, term two) • Arts of contemporary and modern Southeast Asia (half unit, term two)

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• The Transnational News Environment: Production, • Music in Selected Regions of Africa: Contexts and Representation and Use (half unit, term one) Structures (one unit) – full year • Dissertation in Art and Archaeology (one unit) • Analysing World Music: Transcription & Analysis – full year in Ethnomusicology (half unit, term two) • Transnational Communities and Diasporic • Dissertation in Music (one unit) – full year Media: Networking, Connectivity, Identity (half unit, term two) • Mediated Culture in the Middle East: Politics and MA Art and Archaeology of Communications (half unit, term one) • International Political Communication East Asia (half unit, term two) • Rethinking Audiences (half unit, term two) Duration • Theoretical Issues in Media and Cultural Studies One calendar year (full-time) (half unit, term one) Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) • Theoretical and Contemporary Issues in Media and Cultural Studies (one unit) – full year Start of programme • Japanese Transnational Cinema: From Kurosawa to September intake only Asia Extreme and Studio Ghibli (half unit, term one) Entry requirements • Iranian Cinema (half unit, term one) Minimum upper second-class honours degree • Arab Cinemas (half unit, term two) (or equivalent) • Japanese Post-War Film Genres and the Avant-Garde (half unit, term two) Convenor • Theoretical Issues in Media and Cultural Studies Dr Crispin Branfoot (half unit, term one) • Studies in Global Media and Post-National Communication (half unit, term one) This programme covers the arts of China, Korea • Aspects of Music and Religion in South East Asia and Japan and offers courses on a wide range of (half unit, term two) arts from each area, as well as on the links between • Atlantic Africa: (P)Layers of Mediation in African them. From Chinese archaeology to Japanese Popular Music (Postgraduate) (one unit) – full year prints, to contemporary Korean installation works, • Central Asian Music (half unit, term one) large areas of the artistic practice of East Asia are • Indian Classical Music (one unit) – full year presented to students. In many parts of East Asia • Music, Place and Politics in Cuba archaeological evidence is key to an understanding (half unit, term one) of early societies, and courses are also offered to • Musical Traditions of East Asia (Master’s) link excavated materials to the history of art. (half unit, term two) In addition to the three taught courses, the fourth • Pop and Politics in East Asia (Master’s) component of the degree is a 10,000-word (half unit, term one) dissertation. Students undertake independent • Popular and Fusion Music in South East Asia research on a topic of their own choosing, generally (Postgraduate) (half unit, term two) related to the area of one of their taught courses, • Analysing World Music: Transcription & Analysis and supervised by a member of the department. in Ethnomusicology (half unit, term two) • Composition (half unit) – full year • Ethnomusicology in Practice (one unit) – full year Course structure • Gender and Music (MMus) (half unit, term two) Students must select at least two units (or four • Music and Healing (half unit, term one) half units) from the following MA courses that are • Performance (one unit) – full year designated as belonging to the Art and Archaeology • Popular Music and Politics in Israel of East Asia programme: (half unit, term one) • Music in South Asian Culture (Master’s) Compulsory (one unit) – full year • Dissertation in History of Art and Archaeology: • Klezmer Music: Roots and Revival History of Art and Archaeology of East Asia (half unit, term two) (one unit) – full year

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General Music • Asia and Africa on Display: Objects, Exhibitions • Indian Classical Music (one unit) – full year and Transculturism (half unit, term one) • Music in South Asian Culture (Master’s) (one unit) – full year East Asia • Pop and Politics in East Asia (Master’s) • Ancient Chinese Civilisation (one unit) – full year (half unit, term one) • Art and Archaeology of the Silk Road (one unit) • Music of the Near and Middle East and North – full year Africa (one unit) – full year • Arts of Koryo and Chosen Korea (half unit, term one) • Arts of Modern and Contemporary China (since 1800) (half unit, term two) MA History of Art and • Ceramics in Chinese Culture: 10th–18th Centuries (half unit, term two) Architecture of the Islamic • Japanese Ceramics Past and Present Middle East (half unit, term one) • Modern and Contemporary Korean Art Duration (half unit, term two) One calendar year (full-time) • Painting and Visual Culture in China (one unit) Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) – full year • Popular Practice in the Edo Period Arts Start of programme (half unit, term two) September intake only • Sacred Art and Architecture of Ancient Korea Entry requirements (half unit, term one) Minimum upper second-class honours degree • Shogunal Iconography in the Edo Period (or equivalent) (half unit, term one) • Visual Arts of Dynastic China (to 1800) Convenor (half unit, term one) Dr Crispin Branfoot

Minor Options in other Departments Anthropology This is the only MA of its kind offered anywhere in • Culture and Society of China (one unit) – full year the world. Art and architecture from the dawn of • Culture and Society of East Africa (one unit) Islam up to the 19th century are covered, across – full year all the lands of the Middle East. Students write • Culture and Society of Japan (one unit) – full year their dissertation on a topic related to the Islamic • Culture and Society of South Asia (one unit) Middle East and they may also take a language as – full year part of the course. • Culture and Society of South East Asia (one unit) – full year Course structure • Culture and Society of West Africa (one unit) – full year Students select at least two units (or four half units) • Culture and Society of the Near & Middle East from among MA courses that are designated as (one unit) – full year belonging to the Art and Architecture of the Islamic Middle East programme. History • Origins and Development of Islam in the Middle Compulsory East: Problems and Perspectives (one unit) • Dissertation in History of Art and Archaeology: – full year History of Art and Archaeology of Islamic Middle • Islam in South Asia (one unit) – full year East (one unit) – full year Study of Religions General • Readings in Japanese religion (half unit, term one) • Approaches to Critical Interpretation & Aesthetic Theories (one unit) – full year

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• Asia and Africa on Display: Objects, Exhibitions and Transculturism (half unit, term one) MA Contemporary Art of • Understanding Art East and West: from Asmat Shields to Tate Modern (half unit, term one) Asia and Africa Near & Middle East Duration • Arab Painting (half unit, term one) One calendar year (full-time) • Art and Architecture of Egypt and Syria 13th–16th Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) Centuries (one unit) – full year • Art and Architecture of the Fatimids Start of programme (half unit, term two) September intake only • Islam and the West: Artistic and Cultural Contacts Entry requirements (half unit, term one) Minimum upper second-class honours degree • Ottoman Architecture in Istanbul: 15th–19th (or equivalent) Century (half unit, term one) • Ottoman Art (one unit) – full year Convenor • Persian Painting (half unit, term two) Dr Crispin Branfoot

Minor Options in other Departments Anthropology This MA allows students to engage with some of • Culture and Society of China (one unit) – full year the most dynamic but as yet little-studied aspects • Culture and Society of East Africa (one unit) of the art of Asia and Africa, working generally, or – full year focusing on, a region as they prefer. One course • Culture and Society of Japan (one unit) – full year is also offered on the theories of art study, and a • Culture and Society of South Asia (one unit) language may also be taken as part of the course. – full year Students write their dissertation on a topic related • Culture and Society of South East Asia (one unit) to contemporary art. – full year • Culture and Society of West Africa (one unit) Course structure – full year • Culture and Society of the Near & Middle East Students select at least two units (or four half units) (one unit) – full year from among the MA courses that are designated as belonging to the Contemporary Arts and Asia and History Africa programme. • Origins and Development of Islam in the Middle East: Problems and Perspectives (one unit) • Dissertation in History of Art and Archaeology: – full year Contemporary Art and Art Theory of Asia and • Islam in South Asia (one unit) – full year Africa (one unit) – full year Study of Religions General • Readings in Japanese Religion (half unit, term one) • Approaches to Critical Interpretation & Aesthetic Theories (one unit) Music • Asia and Africa on Display: Objects, Exhibitions • Indian Classical Music (one unit) – full year and Transculturism (half unit, term one) • Music in South Asian Culture (Master’s) (one unit) • Understanding Art East and West: from Asmat – full year Shields to Tate Modern (half unit, term one) • Pop and Politics in East Asia (Master’s) (half unit, term one) Regional Courses • Music of the Near and Middle East and North • Arts and Society in Sub-Saharan Africa Africa (one unit) – full year (half unit, term one) • The Art of the African Diaspora (one unit) – full year • Arts of Contemporary and Modern Southeast Asia (half unit, term two)

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• Arts of Modern and Contemporary China (since 1800) (half unit, term two) MA Religious Arts of Asia • Diaspora Contexts and Visual Culture (half unit, term two) Duration • Japanese Ceramics Past and Present One calendar year (full-time) (half unit, term one) Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) • Modern and Contemporary Korean Art (half unit, term two) Start of programme • Photography and the Image in Africa; and other September intake only Regional Perspectives (one unit) Entry requirements • Representing Conflict: A Cross-Cultural and Inter Minimum upper second-class honours degree Disciplinary Approach (half unit, term one) (or equivalent) Minor Options in other Departments Convenor Anthropology Dr Crispin Branfoot • Culture and Society of China (one unit) – full year • Culture and Society of East Africa (one unit) – full year This MA considers the impact of the religious arts • Culture and Society of Japan (one unit) – full year of Asia, from India to Japan. It focuses on the arts • Culture and Society of South Asia (one unit) of Buddhism, but Hindu and other traditions are – full year also addressed. Students can also take one course • Culture and Society of South East Asia (one unit) in the Department of Religions or a language. – full year They write their dissertation on a topic related • Culture and Society of West Africa (one unit) to Asian religious art, of any period or region. – full year • Culture and Society of the Near & Middle East Course structure (one unit) – full year Students select at least two units (or four half units) History from among MA courses that are designated as • Origins and Development of Islam in the Middle belonging to the Religious Arts of Asia programme. East: Problems and Perspectives (one unit) – full year • Dissertation in History of Art and Archaeology: • Islam in South Asia (one unit) – full year Religious Arts of Asia (one unit) – full year Study of Religions Regional Courses • Readings in Japanese Religion (half unit, term one) • Art and Architecture of Egypt and Syria 13th–16th Music Centuries (one unit) – full year • Indian Classical Music (one unit) – full year • Art and Archaeology of the Silk Road (one unit) • Music in South Asian Culture (Master’s) (one unit) – full year – full year • Art of monumental Southeast Asia • Pop and Politics in East Asia (Master’s) (half unit, term one) (half unit, term one) • Esoteric Buddhist Art of South and Southeast Asia • Music of the Near and Middle East and North Africa (half unit, term one) (one unit) – full year • Painting and Architecture in Christian NE Africa: 2nd–17th Centuries (one unit) – full year • Sacred Art and Architecture of Ancient Korea (half unit, term one) • Shogunal Iconography in the Edo Period (half unit, term one) • The Indian Temple (one unit) – full year

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Minor Options in other Departments Anthropology Postgraduate Diploma/ • Culture and Society of China (one unit) – full year • Culture and Society of East Africa (one unit) Certificate in Asian Art – full year • Culture and Society of Japan (one unit) – full year Department • Culture and Society of South Asia (one unit) School of Arts – full year Minimum entry requirements • Culture and Society of South East Asia (one unit) Normally BA degree or equivalent. Other – full year qualifications, for example published work • Culture and Society of West Africa (one unit) or relevant professional experience, may be – full year acceptable. Non-standard applications are • Culture and Society of the Near & Middle East considered on their merits, and applicants may (one unit) – full year be asked to submit written work for appraisal History and/or attend an interview. No knowledge • Origins and Development of Islam in the Middle of the arts of Asia is necessary, but serious East: Problems and Perspectives (one unit) interest in the area is desirable. Applications – full year from mature students are encouraged. • Islam in South Asia (one unit) – full year Start of programme Study of Religions September, January or April • Readings in Japanese religion (half unit, term one) Duration Music Five three-month full-time modules, any • Indian Classical Music (one unit) – full year number or combination of which can be taken. • Music in South Asian Culture (Master’s) (one unit) The Diploma is awarded to any student who – full year successfully completes three selected modules • Pop and Politics in East Asia (Master’s) within a period of four years. The Certificate is (half unit, term one) awarded for each single module. • Music of the Near and Middle East and North Mode of attendance Africa (one unit) – full year Full-time

This postgraduate programme offers a unique opportunity to study the arts of Asia and the Islamic world, with lectures by leading scholars in the field. The programme is designed for museum curators, collectors and others with an interest in the field and to prepare students for work in a variety of professions in the art and museums world. It also provides a pathway to a Master’s degree or PhD for those with no background in the subject. The fundamental aim of this programme is to provide students with a broad understanding of Asian art, covering all major periods and most media. Students will benefit from the guidance of museum curators and have direct access to the reserve collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the British Museum.

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Course structure have regular access to the study of objects in the reserve collections at the British Museum and the The syllabus is designed for the student to acquire Victoria and Albert Museum, and take guided visits a broad understanding of Asian art, setting each to other museums, as well as dealers and private culture in its historical and religious context. collectors. Field trips and tutorials are also part of Students will be trained in visual analysis and the the programme. acquisition of key object skills. Prior knowledge of Asian art is not a requirement, though candidates For further information visit are expected to have an interest in the study of www.soas.ac.uk/art/programmes/dipsart the area. Issues and themes dealt with in weekly lectures are developed further through frequent visits to museum collections, seminars and Course director revision sessions. Dr Heather Elgood BA MA PhD (London) Part of the learning experience is understanding Persian, Jain, Sultanate and Mughal manuscript how to assess the varied materials given in weekly painting; the ritual arts of India. lectures. Academic tutors give weekly review sessions and one-to-one tutorials. Students can choose one or more in combination of Academic staff research areas the three-month modules on offer annually, which Dr Meri Arichi MA PhD (London) are listed below. Those who successfully complete a Buddhist Art of Japan, Shinto and the combinatory single module will be awarded a certificate. Students religious practices of medieval Japan. successfully completing any three of the modules below will be awarded a SOAS, University of London Dr Fiona Buckee BA MA (Manchester) accredited Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art. PhD (Cardiff) History of Indian Temple Architecture The modules offered are: and Sculpture. • Indian Art (September to December) Dr Melanie Gibson BA (Oxon) MA PhD (London) • Chinese Art (January to March) History and production of ceramics and glass • Islamic Art (April to July) across the Islamic world; history of sculpture in • Japanese and Korean Art (April to July; Iran and the Near East; use of Islamic design in alternate years) 19th century European art. • South East Asian Art (April to July; alternate years) Dr Anna McSweeney MA PhD (London) The art and architecture of Islamic Spain, mudejar Aims art; the arts of the medieval Mediterranean; This programme aims to enable students to develop cross-cultural contacts with Europe. a range of skills, including methods for analysing Lesley Pullen MA (London) and documenting works of art, and visual skills, Material art culture of Southeast Asia: classical through the direct examination of objects. Students and ancestral textiles and body ornamentation; will also develop their research skills, using primary researching patterns on sculptures of Java from and secondary sources, and written and other 9th to 14th century. communication skills to formulate and structure an academic argument. Finally, students will gain Dr Peter D Sharrock BA (Cantab) PhD (London) an understanding of museum skills, such as the The art history of Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia cataloguing of objects and putting material objects and Thailand and the esoteric Buddhist art of in their cultural context. Asia; aesthetics and the theory of art. Lectures are given by SOAS academic staff, museum Dr. Elaine Buck MA PhD (London) curators external and international experts and are The role of art in orthodox and popular religion on four days a week (generally from 10am–3.30pm). in Imperial China. The weekly review sessions with course tutors involve revision, slide tests and seminars. Students

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Centre for Film and Screen Studies

working within the industry, to have an impact www.soas.ac.uk/cfss on practice and policy. The Centre also aims to promote critical thought and postgraduate research in critical methods derived from Asian, Faculty African and Near and Middle Eastern film and Languages and Cultures screen studies, aesthetic and cultural practices. Number of staff In practical terms, this is promoted through the 11 two existing MA degrees associated with the Centre: MA Global Cinemas and the Transcultural Taught Master’s degrees and MA Film and History. -- MA Film and History -- MA Global Cinemas and the Transcultural See also Academic Staff Research Areas -- MA programmes in the Centre for Media Studies (page 204) Dr Isolde Standish BA (Ballarat) BA PhD (London) Chair of the Centre for Film and Screen Studies Film and Media studies with specific reference The SOAS Centre for Film and Screen Studies was to Japan and Korea. formally launched in September 2012 to promote Professor Rachel Dwyer BA (London) the disciplines of Film and Screen Studies in MPhil (Oxon) PhD (London) relation to Asia, Africa and the Near and Middle Hindi cinema; Indian popular culture; Indian East. While the geographical focus is on film and film; Hinduism; new middle-classes; Mumbai/ screen industries beyond Hollywood and Europe, Bombay; Gujarati language and literature; the Centre also seeks to promote research and Gujarati diaspora, especially UK and East Africa; teaching on the transnational, transcultural and comparative Indian literature. multi-media nature of the image in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Centre is housed Dr Rachel V Harrison BA PhD (London) in, and administered by, the Faculty of Languages Modern Thai cinema and literature; culture and Cultures, but as a Centre dedicated to and gender studies with reference to Thailand; interdisciplinary study, it is not subordinate literary criticism and South East Asian literatures to any Department in the Faculty. in a comparative context; Western film set in South East Asia. In a global industry, film and media scholars and practitioners are increasingly recognising the need Dr Lindiwe Dovey BA (Harvard) PhD (Cantab) for a move toward the study of image cultures and African film and video; literary adaptation in industries beyond the historical hegemonies of the Africa; filmic mediations of African performance European and Hollywood industries. The range of arts (music, dance, theatre); contemporary film expertise in non-Western film and screen studies theory and ‘World Cinema’; representations and cultures offered at SOAS, provides a unique of exile, immigration and violence; structures opportunity to respond and contribute to current of African film production, distribution and critical and theoretical debates in these disciplines. exhibition; African film festivals. The Centre does this by providing an intellectual Dr Rossella Ferrari BA (Venice) MA PhD (London) home, open to all SOAS academics and students, Contemporary Chinese Drama and film, theory with an interest in film and screen studies. and practice of the avant-garde; transnational In line with the recent AHRC guidelines for the Chinese culture. Research Excellence Framework (REF), the mission Dr Ben Murtagh BA MA PhD (London) of the Centre is to promote research on centres Traditional Malay and modern Indonesian of film and screen production and visual cultures literature; history of Indonesia; film in Indonesia, beyond the dominant Hollywood and European Malaysia and the Philippines; gender and traditions. It does this with the aim of contributing sexuality in Indonesia. to current debates within the disciplines and interpolating these, through links with practitioners

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This programme offers the unique opportunity Dr Wen-Chin Ouyang BA BEd (Tripoli) MA MPhil to study in-depth regional cinemas outside the PhD (Columbia) now-standard research topographies, both Critical theory with special reference to film; the geographical and theoretical, of mainstream production of meaning located in semiological cinema studies. It therefore opens up avenues systems constructed around word, image for advanced research in as-yet-untapped areas and sound. and methodologies. Alternatively, it provides an Dr Xiaoning Lu BA (Nanjing) MA (Fudan) PhD avenue of study for those simply wishing to obtain (Stony Brook) a postgraduate qualification in Cinema Studies Chinese cinemas; film history and criticism; without being confined to a Euro- or American- literary theory. centric world-view. Dr Marlé Hammond BA MA MPhil PhD (Columbia) The degree is designed around a compulsory core Classical and Modern Arabic literature and course, Cinema, Nation and the Transcultural, that poetics; Egyptian and Arabic cinemas; challenges existing paradigms defining national women’s writing; folkloric narrative. cinema in the simplistic terms of geographical production and reception zones. It does this while Dr Stephen P Hughes BA (Lewiston) MA PhD also offering alternative approaches to the study (Chicago) of cinema within the intercultural contexts of the The study of south India in terms of the social post-modern world. Apart from this core course, and cultural history of silent cinema audiences; students take two options of their choice and write the historical conjuncture of sound and a 11,000-word dissertation. modernity; Tamil cinema, religion and politics. Through their course options, students have Dr Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad BA MA (Queensland) the opportunity to specialise in one or more of PhD (London) the many regional cinemas on offer at SOAS – The politics of Iranian cinema in relation to its Japanese, Chinese (including Hong Kong and post-revolutionary context. Taiwanese), South East Asian, Indian, Iranian, Middle Eastern and African. Specialist film studies can be combined with a minor course in an Asian or African MA Global Cinemas and the language or an ethnographic course deepening social and cultural knowledge of a given region. Transcultural Alternatively, students may choose from a selection of elective courses at one of the other colleges in Duration the University of London Screen Studies Group – One calendar year (full-time) Birkbeck, Goldsmiths, King’s, Queen Mary, UCL – Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) to further develop cross-cultural perspectives. Start of programme September intake only Course structure Entry requirements Not all courses listed overleaf may be offered Minimum upper second-class honours degree every year, and new courses may become available. (or equivalent) For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, please visit the relevant departmental website or Convenor contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be Dr Isolde Standish taught in other departments of the School. See also -- Other MA programmes in the Centre for Core course Media Studies (page 204) • Cinema, Nation and the Transcultural

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Course options List 3 Students are required to take the equivalent of two • Chinese Culture and Society full course units from the lists of course options, • Japanese Culture and Society at least one of which (one full or two half courses) • South Asian Culture and Society must be from List 2; the other units may be from • Near and Middle Eastern Culture and Society lists 2–7. • Studies in Global Media and Post-national Communications (half unit) List 2 • West African Culture and Society • Japanese Transnational Cinema: from • East African Culture and Society Kurosawa to Asia Extreme and Studio Ghibli • South East Asian Culture and Society (half unit) • African and Asian Diasporas in the • Japanese Post-War Genres and the Avant-garde Contemporary World (half unit) • Theoretical Issues in Media and Cultural Studies • Post-crisis Thai Cinema (half unit) (half unit) • Genders and Sexualities in South East Asian Film • Modern Bengal: the Evolution of Bengali Culture (half unit) and Society from 1690 to the Present Day • Indian Cinema: History and Social Context • New Media and Society (half unit) • Indian Cinema: Key Issues (half unit) List 4 • Chinese Cinema and Media (half unit) Courses from Birkbeck College; SOAS students may • Iranian Cinema (half unit) take up to two half units • Film and Society and the Middle East • Living Apart Together: British Film and Television, • Aspects of African Film and Video (half unit) 1960–82 • Modern Chinese Film and Theatre (Master’s) • Contemporary American Cinema (half unit) • European Cinema at the Crossroads: Post-war • Modern Film from Taiwan and the Chinese Directions Diaspora (half unit) • Melodrama: Hollywood and World Cinema • Approaches to the Other in Science Fiction • Avant-garde Film and Video and Horror Films (half unit) • When Old Media Were New: Exploring the Origins • Issues in the Anthropology of Film (half unit) of Audiovisual Media Culture

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List 5 Courses from Queen Mary; SOAS students may MA Film and History take up to two half units • Comedies of Desire Duration • History, Fiction, Memory in French Cinema One calendar year (full-time) • Hollywood and the 2nd World War Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) • Paris on the Screen • Sighting Gender and Sexuality in Latin Start of programme American Cinema September intake only • Soviet Montage Cinema Entry requirements List 6 Upper second-class honours degree (lower Courses from Goldsmiths College; SOAS students second-class may be considered along with may take up to two half units strong letters of recommendations) • Cinema and Society Convenor • Explorations in World Cinema Dr Marie Rodet and Dr Isolde Standish • First Film See also List 7 -- MA History (page 165) Courses from King’s College; SOAS students may take up to two half units • Exploitation Cinema This MA programme provides students with the • Media Aesthetics opportunity to acquire expert knowledge of film • Thinking Cinema with Emmanuel Levinas: in historical context as a means of mastering Theory, Philosophy, Ethics transferable analytical skills, and so prepare them • Contemporary French Cinema, 1990–2005: for a variety of professional or research careers. From Heritage Productions to the ‘New Extremism’ The programme can be adapted to meet a wide • London Film Culture range of interests. • Traditions of Post-War Contemporary British Cinema Its dual focus on the disciplines of film and history provides students with a flexible series of modules List 8 (University College London) from which to choose. The core course examines the SOAS students may take up to two half units representation of history in film, and film in history, • Cinema/Modernity/Government by placing filmic representations of the societies and • Documentary Cinema diasporas of Asia and Africa into historical context. • The French New Wave • The Latin American Cinematic Tradition Students will critically evaluate a range of issues • Spanish Cinema relating to the reliability of film as the grounds for making inferences about the national and transnational List 9 histories of Asia and Africa. They will also evaluate the • One language course (subject to availability) criteria for the critical evaluation of film as a source for, See the Faculty of Languages and Cultures and product of, the historian’s accounts of the past. for details Course structure Students must take taught courses totalling three units and a one-unit dissertation. Core course • Film as History (one unit) • dissertation in Film and History (one unit) • one course (or two half courses) from the list of approved courses in Screen and Film Studies • one course (or two half courses) from the list of Left: Filming in Africa – Chris Crudelli approved courses in History

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Optional courses Near and Middle East Africa • The End of Empire in the Middle East and • Aspects of African Film and Video 1 the Balkans (half unit, term one) • Modernity and the Transformation of the Middle East 1839–1958 Near and Middle East • Envisioning the Past: Arabic Perspectives on • Iranian Cinema (half unit, term one) History (half unit, term one) • Film and Society in the Middle East • Outsiders in Medieval Middle Eastern Societies: South Asia Minorities, Social Outcasts and Foreigners • Indian Cinema: Its History and Social Context (half unit, term two) (half unit, term one) • The Middle East, the Mongols and the Silk Road • Indian Cinema: Key Issues (half unit, term two) to China East Asia South Asia • Japanese Post-War Film Genres and the Avant- • Islam in South Asia garde (half unit, term two) • Body, Power and Society in Early India • Modern Film from Taiwan and the Chinese • Problems and Debates in the Social History of Diaspora (half unit, term two) Modern South Asia • Modern Chinese Film and Theatre (Master’s) • Lineages of the Medieval: Texts and Histories in (half unit, term one) the South Asian World I (half unit, term one) • Japanese Transnational Cinema: From Kurosawa to • A Seascape in Transformation: Themes in Indian Asia Extreme and Studio Ghibli (half unit, term one) Ocean History South East Asia East Asia • Genders and Sexualities in South East Asian Film • Japanese Modernity I (half unit, term one) (half unit, term one) • Japanese Modernity II (half unit, term two) • Post-crisis Thai Cinema (1997–2007) • Knowledge and Power in Early Modern China (half unit, term one) (half unit, term one) • Nationhood and Competing Identities in Modern Methodology China (half unit, term two) • Issues in the Anthropology of Film • Sex and Gender in the 20th Century: (half unit, term two) Contemporary Japan (half unit, term one) • Theoretical Issues in Media and Cultural Studies (half unit, term one) South East Asia • Rethinking Audiences (half unit, term two) • Society and Politics in Late Colonial South East Asia • Studies in Global Media and Post-national • The State and Art: Photography and Nation Communication (half unit, term one) Building in Burma (half unit, term one) • State and Culture in Mainland South East Asia in Approved courses in History the 16th to 19th Centuries (half unit, term one) Comparative/Global • World War II, Cold War and the ‘War On Terror’: • The International History of the Contemporary the United States and South East Asia World (half unit, term one) • Histories of Ethnicity and Conflict in South East • History of Environment and Globalisation in Asia Asia I: Making States and Building Nations and Africa (half unit, term two) (half unit, term one) Africa • Histories of Ethnicity and Conflict in South East • Social and Cultural Transformations in Southern Asia II: Non-national Perspectives Africa Since 1945 (half unit, term one) (half unit, term one) • Colonial Conquest and Social Change in Southern Methodology Africa (half unit, term one) • Research Methods in History with Special • Culture and Practice of Warfare in Pre-colonial Reference to Asia and Africa Sub-Saharan Africa (half unit, term two) • Congo Wars: A Century of Violence in Central Africa (half unit, term one)

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Department of Music

as research at MMus, PhD and post-doctoral levels, www.soas.ac.uk/music and by the SOAS concert series, World Music Summer School and the Bloomsbury Festival. Faculty The Department owns a large working collection of Arts and Humanities musical instruments, and we run several ensembles (including Cuban big band, Middle Eastern, Chinese Number of staff silk-and-bamboo, Javanese gamelan and Thai Academic 8 classical). The SOAS Library has a large collection Teaching and Scholarship (fractional) 7 of ethnomusicological publications and sound and RAE video recordings, and students also have access to Eighty-five per cent of the work of the a research archive and specialised audiovisual and Department was rated as world-leading, multimedia facilities, including a recording studio. internationally excellent or internationally Our students come from a wide variety of recognised backgrounds in the UK and overseas. Many are Taught Master’s degrees performers of music as well as researchers, and -- MMus Ethnomusicology there is a lively interchange of musical skills and -- MMus Performance interests. After graduating they go on to an equal -- MA Music in Development diversity of careers in music and other fields (see -- MA Global Creative and Cultural Industries Graduate destinations, on page 120). -- MA Arts of Asia and Africa (see Department of Art & Archaeology) Research Staff and students of the Department of Music pursue research on a wide range of subjects, mainly The Department of Music at SOAS is an but not exclusively focused on the music of Asia internationally respected centre for research and and Africa. Staff have special interests in the music teaching in Music. It is the only Music department of China and Central Asia, Korea, Japan, Indonesia in the UK devoted to the study of world music, and and Thailand, India and Nepal, the Islamic Middle is the largest centre of ethnomusicology in Europe. East the Jewish world, West Africa and Cuba and In ethnomusicology, students examine music as South and East Africa. But research is not limited a social phenomenon, and study its capacity for to these areas. Projects have been undertaken on expressing and defining social relationships, cultural American jazz, and on Caribbean, Mediterranean meanings and individual and group identities. and Eastern European music for example. Staff often We link the study of musical styles and structures have research interests in issues that cross regional (through performance and analysis) with that of boundaries. See the Department Staff page on the the social context (through fieldwork and reading SOAS website www.soas.ac.uk/music/staff for a the ethnographic and theoretical literature). summary of their interests. Staff of the Department offer regional expertise Whatever its regional origin, music is studied as in all the major music cultures of Asia and Africa, a cultural phenomenon, and also from analytical and a wide range of disciplinary specialities and historical perspectives. Instrumental and vocal, within Ethnomusicology, putting us ahead of sacred and secular, art and popular, traditional the competition everywhere in Europe. Students and modern musical forms are all of equal additionally benefit from access to other disciplines interest. Research methods employed include in SOAS (for example languages, anthropology, fieldwork, interview, archive research, recording arts and religion), to the SOAS radio station and and filming, performance, transcription and recording studio, and because of our central analysis, and composition. Extensive training is London location, to an unparalleled wealth of provided for research students in their first year, performance teachers, concerts and other parts of integral to which is participation in the Research the music industry. Performance is integral to our Seminar. In preparation for fieldwork, training is graduate programmes and extra-curricular activities, available in recording and editing techniques for as shown by our pioneering courses in performance sound and film.

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Academic staff research areas Professor Richard Widdess MA MusB PhD (Cantab) MA (Lond) Dr Lucy Durán BMus MMus PhD (Lond) History and theory of Indian classical music; Music in the Mande world; Music of Mali, dhrupad; Newar music of Nepal; historical Guinea, Guinea Bissau; gender and music in ethnomusicology; analysis of musical West Africa; popular musics of Atlantic Africa; performance; cognitive approaches to music; childhood music learning in West Africa; Cuban music and meaning; music and religion. music, especially son and rumba; radio as a medium; and the world music industry. Dr Abigail Wood MA MPhil PhD (Cantab) Joe Loss Lecturer in Jewish Music Dr Nicholas Gray MA MPhil (Cantab) PhD (Lond) Jewish Music, especially contemporary Music of South East Asia; Indonesia; Bali, Yiddish song and klezmer; the sounds of especially music for the Balinese shadowplay; urban Jerusalem; music among minority and composition; improvisation; analysis; music immigrant communities in Israel; music and and religion. religion; urban and internet-based fieldwork. Dr Rachel Harris BA (Oxon) MMus PhD (Lond) Professor Owen Wright BA (Leicester) Ethnomusicology; musics of China and Central BA PhD (London) Asia, especially Uyghur; recorded music; music Music of the Islamic Middle East; historical and ritual; music, identity and politics. musicology. Professor Keith D Howard BA (CNAA) MA (Durham) PhD (Belfast) PGCE LTCL FRSA Ethnomusicology; music of East Asia, especially Korea; Korean culture and society; composition; music education; shamanism; music in religion. Dr Angela Impey BA (Durban) BMus (Cape Town) PhD (Indiana) Music of southern Africa and the African Horn (Sudan); advocacy ethnomusicology; sound and music, memory and place; forced migration, cultural mapping and borderland identities; human rights and development.

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academic research in the creative and cultural MA Global Creative and sectors, and the intersections between industry, Cultural Industries cultural policy and international development. Structure and requirements Department School of Arts The MA has a core component comprising two half-unit courses, the first (Analytical Approaches Faculty to the Global Creative and Cultural Industries) taken Arts and Humanities by all students, and the second allowing students Convenor to develop their expertise in a pathway (chosen Professor Keith Howard from The Music Business, Asia and Africa on Display: Duration Objects, Exhibitions and Transculturation, Studies in One calendar year (full-time) Global Media and Post–National Communication, Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) Global Film Industries). Start of programme Practical skills courses can then be chosen in September intake only multimedia (film and editing), sound recording, and digital and broadcasting communications. Entry requirements While optional, one of these will be required if a Minimum upper second-class honours degree student elects to take the optional half-unit course (or equivalent) Directed Study in Industry but lacks appropriate See also skills training on entry. Directed Study in Industry -- MA programmes in the Department of Music allows students to undertake an internship with an (page 115) institution, organisation or enterprise. Additional regional and theoretical courses are available from existing School of Art and other SOAS MA and MMus The MA Global Creative and Cultural Industries is a programmes. The dissertation will be on a topic unique and tailored programme. Sitting within the relating to the creative and cultural industries. SOAS School of Arts, it allows students to benefit It may either be on a theoretical topic or develop from the combined expertise of the Department from the pathway chosen by the student, and it has of Music, the Department of the History of Art and the option to incorporate multimedia materials. Archaeology, and the Centre for Media and Film Studies, while also accessing regional courses, Core Courses that build on the world-renowned expertise of In addition to the core courses listed below, at least SOAS as a centre for the study of Asia, Africa and one further half unit Pathway course must be chosen. the Middle East. • Analytical Approaches to the Global Creative and Courses designed to develop a thorough Cultural Industries (half unit, term one) understanding of the creative and cultural industries • Dissertation in Global Creative and Cultural are supplemented with pathways that allow students Industries (one unit) – full year to focus on music, art and archaeology, media or Music Pathway Course film, and a set of practical multimedia skills courses. • The Music Business (Master’s) (half unit, term two) Students can also elect to take the optional Directed Study in Industry to take maximum advantage of Art Pathway Course the opportunities available in London as a global • Asia and Africa On Display: Objects, Exhibitions creative capital city. and Transculturism (half unit, term one) The MA is designed for two types of students. The Media/Film Pathway Course first will typically be interested in pursuing careers Students on the Media/Film pathway will take at as practitioners, managers, consultants, policy least one of these two courses. advisers and entrepreneurs in the creative and • Studies in Global Media and Post–National cultural industries across the world. The second Communication (half unit, term one) will typically be more concerned with developing • Global Film Industries (half unit, term two)

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Skills and Internship Courses • Popular and Fusion Music in South East Asia • Digital and Traditional Broadcasting (Postgraduate) (half unit, term two) Communication (half unit) • Music and Healing (half unit, term one) • Media Production Skills (half unit, term two) • Indian Classical Music (one unit) – full year • Sound Recording and Production • Music of the Near and Middle East and North (half unit, term one) Africa (one unit) – full year • Directed Study in Industry (half unit) • Music in Development (one unit) – full year • Approaches to Critical Interpretation and Aesthetic Optional Courses Theories (one unit) – full year Any remaining units may be chosen from this • Ottoman Art (one unit) – full year optional courses list. • The Art of the African Diaspora (one unit) – full year • Islam and the West: Artistic and Cultural Contacts • Japanese Post–war Film Genres and the (half unit, term one) Avant–garde (half unit) • Art and Architecture of the Fatimids • Mediated Culture in the Middle East: Politics and (half unit, term two) Communications (half unit, term one) • Photography and the Image in Africa; and other • Transnational Communities and Diasporic Media: Regional Perspectives (one unit) Networking, Connectivity, Identity • Diaspora Contexts and Visual Culture (half unit, term two) (half unit, term one) • The Transnational News Environment: Production, • Painting and Visual Culture in China (one unit) Representation and Use (half unit, term one) – full year • International Political Communication • Japanese Ceramics Past and Present (half unit, term two) (half unit, term one) • Iranian Cinema (half unit, term one) • Arts of Contemporary and Modern Southeast Asia • Rethinking Audiences (half unit, term two) (half unit, term two) • Arab Cinemas (half unit, term two) • Arts and Society in Sub–Saharan Africa • Japanese Transnational Cinema: from Kurosawa (half unit, term one) to Asia Extreme and Studio Ghibli (half unit) • Arab Painting (half unit, term one) • Emerging Digital Cultures in Asia and Africa • Arts of Modern and Contemporary China (since – Theory and Practice (half unit, term two) 1800) (half unit, term two) • Studies in Media, Information Communication • Understanding Art East and West: from Asmat Technologies and Development (half unit, term one) Shields to Tate Modern (half unit, term one) • Perspectives on Development (half unit, term one) • Modern and Contemporary Korean Art • Music in South Asian Culture (Master’s) (one unit) (half unit, term two) – full year • Culture and Society of West Africa (one unit) • Music in Selected Regions of Africa: Contexts and – full year Structures (one unit) – full year • Culture and Society of East Africa (one unit) • Central Asian Music (half unit, term one) – full year • Atlantic Africa: (P)Layers of Mediation in African • Culture and Society of Japan (one unit) – full year Popular Music (Postgraduate) (one unit) – full year • Culture and Society of South Asia (one unit) • Gender and Music (MMus) (half unit, term two) – full year • Popular Music and Politics in Israel • Culture and Society of South East Asia (one unit) (half unit, term one) – full year • Klezmer Music: Roots and Revival • Culture and Society of China (one unit) – full year (half unit, term two) • Culture and Society of the Near and Middle East • Pop and Politics in East Asia (Master’s) (one unit) – full year (half unit, term one) • Aspects of African Film and Video 1 • Music, Place and Politics in Cuba (half unit, term one) (half unit, term one) • Aspects of African Film and Video 2 • Aspects of Music and Religion in South East Asia (half unit, term two) (half unit, term two) • Genders and Sexualities in South East Asian Film • Musical Traditions of East Asia (Master’s) (half unit, term two) (half unit, term two)

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• Indian Cinema: Its History and Social Context Further course options (half unit, term one) Choose one full unit (or two half units) from • Indian Cinema: Key Issues (half unit, term one) Music options. Choice may include (as available) • Modern Chinese Film and Theatre (Master’s) Performance, Analysing World Music, Composition, (half unit, term two) further regional course(s), course(s) from the MA • Modern Film from Taiwan and the Chinese Area Studies syllabus, or a course offered by the Diaspora (half unit, term one) Department of Music at King’s College London; • Japanese Television since 1953 (one unit) – full year see website for full details.

MMus Ethnomusicology MMus Performance

Duration Duration One calendar year (full-time) One calendar year (full-time) Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) Start of programme Start of programme September intake only September intake only Entry requirements Entry requirements Minimum upper second-class honours degree Minimum upper second-class honours degree (or equivalent), usually in Music (or equivalent), usually in Music Convenor Convenor Professor Keith Howard Dr Nicholas Gray

The MMus Ethnomusicology enables students to This programme has been designed primarily study the musical traditions of a selected area in for practising musicians who wish to specialise their cultural context. Courses may be chosen in world music performance in the context of from the following regions: East Asia, South East an academic degree. Students study an African Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Central Asia, or Asian performance tradition in relation to its Cuba, Africa, or Jewish music. cultural and musical context, performance theory and practice-based research. In addition, the MMus introduces the aims and methods of Ethnomusicology as a discipline, In addition to practical performance tuition, students and offers options to pursue further issues in take one of the regional music courses offered ethnomusicology or to take non-Music courses at SOAS (taught through lectures and tutorials), relating to a student’s primary area of study. a Performance Theory course, Performance as It is suitable for anyone wishing to deepen their Research, and a course from a list of options. understanding of world music, and may be studied The programme includes a practice-based research as a stand-alone degree or as preparation for training component that may enable students to future research. continue to a practice-based MPhil or PhD.

Core courses Core course • Ethnomusicology in Practice • Performance Theory (half unit) • Dissertation of 11,000 words Performance Both must be taken. • Performance • Performance as Research Regional courses Choose one full unit. See website for list of options Regional courses (availability varies from year to year). See website for full list of options (availability varies).

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Further course options Course options One of the following half-unit courses: Open option courses to the value of one unit from • Analysing World Music the Department of Music or chosen from selected • Composition courses in Anthropology, Media Studies, Gender • Gender and Music Studies or Development Studies. See website for • The Music Business full details.

Graduate destinations MA Music in Development A postgraduate degree in Ethnomusicology, Performance or Music in Development from SOAS Duration gives students greater intercultural awareness, One calendar year (full-time) analytical, theoretical and vocational skills, Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) experience of world music performance, and a better understanding of the roles music plays in the Start of programme world. It will enable them to continue in the field of September intake only research, or engage in related work in performance, Entry requirements media and industry, teaching or development. Minimum upper second-class honours degree Students develop a portfolio of widely transferable (or equivalent), usually in Music or a social skills and personal qualities which employers seek in science many professional and creative capacities, including interpersonal skills, communication skills, focus, Convenor teamwork, passion and dedication. Dr Angela Impey Department graduates have gone on to a wide range of careers, including: music performance, The aim of the programme is to develop critical composition, music production, cultural understanding of music as a communication tool conservation, editorial work, marketing, teaching and process in a variety of development contexts. in an international school, music journalism, It looks at relevant theories in Ethnomusicology film-making, and music data-editing. They can and allied disciplines, participatory research be found working in museums and sound archives, methodologies and applications, and workshop schools, universities, recording companies, arts modelling and management skills. Students will management, and media including Songlines and also gain a critical knowledge of musical practices the BBC. Many of our Master’s graduates go on from select regions of the world. to complete PhDs, and SOAS PhD graduates now teach music in several universities and colleges The programme is designed to prepare students in the UK and overseas. for entry into a range of professional sectors. These include international development, social music therapies, cultural research and policy, sound and audiovisual archiving, media for development and intangible heritage programmes (see also Graduate destinations opposite).

Core course • Music in Development

Regional courses See website for full list of options (availability varies). The dissertation of 11,000 words is based on practice-based research (preferably based on a consultancy for a commissioning agency).

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Department of the Languages and Cultures of China and Inner Asia

www.soas.ac.uk/cia Academic staff research areas Dr Cosima Bruno BA (Venice) PhD (London) Contemporary Chinese poetry; translation Faculty studies; Sinophone literature. Languages and Cultures Dr Rossella Ferrari BA (Venice) MA PhD (London) Number of staff Contemporary Chinese drama and film; theory Academic 7 and practice of the avant-garde; transnational Teaching and Scholarship 6 Chinese culture. Teaching and Scholarship (fractional) 15 Professor Bernhard Fuehrer BA (National Taiwan) RAE PhD (Vienna) Eighty-five per cent of the work of the Department Classical Chinese philology, rhetoric, philosophy was rated as world-leading, internationally and literature; the history of Sinology in Europe; excellent or internationally recognised. reception of the canon with specific reference Taught Master’s degrees to the Analects. -- MA Chinese Literature Professor Michel Hockx DRS PhD (Leiden) -- MA Sinology Modern Chinese literature and language; Interdisciplinary Chinese writers and writings from the late -- MA Chinese Studies (page 60) imperial and republican periods, with emphasis -- MA Comparative Literature (Africa/Asia) on modern poetry and the sociology of modern (page 128) Chinese literature; internet literature. -- MA Pacific Asian tudiesS (page 72) Professor Andrew H-B Lo MA PhD (Princeton) -- MA Taiwan Studies (page 80) Chinese language (Cantonese and Mandarin); fiction and prose from the Ming-Qing periods; cultural activities of Ming and Qing scholars, The Department covers, through teaching and especially games. research, the language-based study of the cultures of China and Inner Asia, with a focus on materials Dr Xiaoning Lu BA (Nanjing) MA (Fudan) in modern and classical Chinese and modern and PhD (Stony Brook) classical Tibetan. Chinese-language cinemas; film history and criticism; global socialist culture; and Chinese Our alumni are found in academic and government popular culture. posts, the media, museums, art galleries, aid agencies, libraries, charities, medicine, and businesses of Dr Tian Yuan Tan BA MA (Singapore) many kinds across the world. PhD (Harvard) Traditional Chinese literature and culture, with emphasis on drama, songs and fiction in the Research later dynasties. The Department is able to supervise MPhil and PhD research in a wide range of cultural and linguistic MA programmes subjects. Prospective research students should not feel constrained to limit their choice of topics to Teaching at Master’s level is aimed at providing those research areas indicated against the names students with a comprehensive preparation for of current staff members. future language-based research in any discipline of Chinese Studies (through the MA Sinology), or with If necessary, arrangements can be made for joint focused training in the language-based and theory- supervision with teachers from other departments based study of Chinese literature (through the MA or institutions within SOAS or the University of Chinese Literature). London. Research undertaken at MPhil and PhD level is based on literary, documentary and archive Staff also contribute to the MA Comparative materials in the languages of the area or on Literature (Africa/Asia) and to the MA Taiwan Studies fieldwork conducted in those languages. (pages 128 and 80).

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Chinese will be encouraged to read the texts in the MA Chinese Literature original as well. Students electing this core course are recommended to choose a text-reading course in classical or literary Chinese as their minor option. Duration One calendar year (full-time) Modern Chinese Literature in Translation Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) This course aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills to read, interpret and analyse Start of programme modern and contemporary Chinese literary texts September intake only against cultural and historical contexts. Selected Entry requirements scholarly texts will be introduced to support and Minimum upper second-class honours degree guide discussion. The course will provide students (or equivalent) in Chinese (HSK Level 6). with a good basic knowledge of modern Chinese literary culture and a useful foundation for further Incoming students will be expected to have research. All texts are read in English translation but completed at least the equivalent of two years students with reading ability in modern Chinese of undergraduate Chinese language study will be encouraged to read the texts in the original (HSK Level 5). as well. Students electing this core course are Convenor recommended to choose a text-reading course Professor Michel Hockx in modern Chinese as their minor option. See also Compulsory course -- Other MA programmes in the China and Theory and Techniques of Comparative Literature Inner Asia Department (page 121) This course covers the historical development of -- MA Chinese Studies (page 60) comparative literature studies as an independent -- MA Comparative Literature (Africa/Asia) discipline and considers the main trends in (page 128) comparative literary studies. -- MA Pacific Asian tudiesS (page 72) Minor courses Students who do not have advanced or native- Students are required to write a 10,000-word speaker competence in Chinese must select dissertation on an approved topic and take one of the following two courses, which offer one of the two core courses, together with the advanced training in reading and translating compulsory course, Theory and Techniques of Chinese literary texts. Comparative Literature. They also select one minor course. • Traditional Chinese Language and Literature (Master’s) For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15 • Modern Chinese Literature (Master’s) please visit the relevant departmental website or contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be For students with advanced or native-speaker taught in other departments of the School. competence in Chinese, alternative minor units may be selected from the MA Sinology programme, or Core course the second core course may be selected as a minor, Traditional Chinese Literature in Translation with approval from the programme convenor. This course aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills to read, interpret and analyse classical and pre-modern Chinese literary texts against cultural and historical contexts. Selected scholarly texts will be introduced to support and guide discussion. The course will provide students with a good basic knowledge of traditional Chinese literary culture and a useful foundation for other research. All texts are read in English translation but students with reading ability in classical and literary

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Core course MA Sinology Sinological Methodology This compulsory course offers broad training in the essential tools and sources which must be mastered Duration if effective research is to be carried out in the fields One calendar year (full-time) of Chinese literary and cultural studies. There will Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) be no clear division between classical and modern Start of programme Chinese or between materials in full form and September intake only simplified script, it being assumed that competence over a full range of the culture underlies research Entry requirements in any one aspect of it. Minimum upper second-class honours (or equivalent) in Chinese (HSK Level 6). Course options Convenor Professor Michel Hockx Choose two courses from Lists A and B below. See also List A: Course options -- Other MA programmes in the China and Students must choose at least one course from Inner Asia Department (page 121) this list. -- MA Comparative Literature (Africa/Asia) (page 128) Classical Documentary Texts -- MA Chinese Studies (page 60) The aim of this course is to introduce the study of -- MA Pacific Asian tudiesS (page 72) representative genres in the classical corpus. The classics, diaries, gazetteers, legal texts, anecdotal writings, collected works and critical writings will be The MA in Sinology is designed either as an end covered as well as other materials, and students will qualification in itself or to prepare the student be expected to prepare annotated translations for for more advanced graduate work (MPhil/PhD). class discussion as well as essays on chosen topics. Students are expected to have a degree of at least Modern Documentary Texts upper second-class level or equivalent and to This course is designed to avoid word-for-word have proved that they have a competence in both translation and instead stress an understanding of modern and classical Chinese equivalent at least style and content, while dealing with scholarly and to the level reached by the end of our third year reference texts more than with literary works. Major BA Chinese course. twentieth century articles of influence on Chinese Please note that this Master’s programme does history, society and culture will be studied together not follow the major/minor pattern. Students must with academic articles from leading journals in the undertake the compulsory course (Sinological humanities and social sciences. Students will be Methodology) and select two other courses. At encouraged to introduce texts of relevance to their least one course must be chosen from List A and own special interests. students may choose a third option from List B. The 10,000-word dissertation must be related to List B: Course options either the compulsory course or one of the courses • Art and Archaeology of the Silk Road on List A (Classical Documentary Texts or Modern • Practical Translation: Chinese to English Documentary Texts) and not be related to any • Practical Translation: English to Chinese optional courses chosen from List B. Supervisors (half unit, term one only) will be assigned in consultation with the course • Modern Chinese Literature (Master’s) convenor according to the topic selected. • Traditional Chinese Literature in Translation • Modern Chinese Film and Theatre (Master’s) Not all courses listed opposite (and overleaf) may be (half unit, term one only) offered every year, and new courses may become • Modern Chinese Literature in Translation available. For an up-to-date list of courses on offer • Modern Film from Taiwan and the Chinese in 2014/15, please visit the relevant departmental Diaspora (half unit, term two only) website or contact the Faculty office. Some courses • Knowledge and Power in Early Modern China may be taught in other departments of the School.

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Graduate destinations Examples of the type of careers graduates from this department have gone on to immediately after A postgraduate degree in China and Inner Asia graduation include: Researcher (BBC), Editor and studies from SOAS equips students with essential Translator (High Peaks Pure Earth), Civil Servant skills such as competency in language skills (Home Office), Executive Director (Crossing and intercultural awareness and understanding. Mountains), Researcher (Middle Temple). Familiarity with the region will have been developed through a combination of the study Examples of research degrees or further study of language, literature, history, cinema, politics, include: Law Conversion Course (College of economics or law. Law), GDL (BPP Law School), Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (Cambridge University), Postgraduate students gain linguistic and cultural Diploma in Education (National Institute of Education) expertise enabling them to continue in the field of Singapore, Chinese Language (Tsinghua University) research or seek professional and management Chinese Intellectual History (Princeton University). careers in the business, public and charity sectors. They leave SOAS with a portfolio of widely transferable skills which employers seek, including written and oral communication skills; attention to detail; analytical and problem solving skills; and the ability to research, amass and order information from a variety of sources. A postgraduate degree is a valuable experience that provides students with a body of work and a diverse range of skills with which they can market themselves when they graduate.

Giulia Cibotti MA in Chinese Studies

When I first arrived in London, I didn’t know go several days without visiting the campus. many people but SOAS soon felt like home. As It might because of the daily Hare Krishna queue, the campus itself is quite small, students develop the Rebetiko live music on Monday nights, or the a strong sense of community, as if they were all various exhibitions, talks, film screenings, book part of a large eccentric family. Also, given the launches and all kinds of interesting events taking nature of our studies, people here are extremely place around the School. There is always so diverse, friendly and open-minded. You can much going on. Recently we had two wonderful tell that everyone is really passionate and Bactrian camels visiting as part of a conference enthusiastic about what they do. It’s very organised by the History Department. I can’t contagious and inspirational. really think of a better example to explain how unique this place is. After coming here I realised how tough a Master’s degree can be. The levels of pressure Yet, my opinion may be quite biased, as studying are constant and the workload may absorb here became my obsession since the second year most of your energies. To me, what makes of my undergraduate degree in Italy. One day, SOAS so special is that ‘SOASians’ can study my Chinese art history professor mentioned SOAS very hard but they also know how to have fun. during her class, and I later found myself looking It is very important to be around people like this it up on the internet. Since I was studying Chinese when deadlines are looming or when you’re language and culture, the School immediately overwhelmed by assignments and readings. struck me as ‘the place to be’. Years passed, but There is some sort of positive vibe that makes the interest stuck so I eventually applied and this place highly addictive. You feel bad if you earned my place at SOAS.

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Centre for Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies

in the disciplines of Comparative Literature, Cultural www.soas.ac.uk/cclps Studies and Postcolonial Studies, with the aim of having an impact on the debates and of eventually reinvigorating and pioneering certain dimensions Faculty of the disciplines. Languages and Cultures The SOAS CCLPS also aims to promote comparative Number of staff critical thought and postgraduate research in critical Academic staff 45 methods derived from the study of non-European Teaching and Scholarship 5 literatures and aesthetic and cultural practices, in Teaching and Scholarship (fractional) 6 addition to written literatures in European languages. RAE The SOAS CCLPS provides an administrative and We were judged to be the national leader in intellectual home for the School’s MA Comparative Asian Studies by a significant margin, with Literature (Africa/Asia), MA in Cultural Studies and 85 per cent of our research in the world-leading, MA in Postcolonial Studies, as well as the MPhil internationally excellent or internationally and PhD programmes in these three disciplines. recognised. The Centre places its emphasis on the acquisition Taught Master’s degrees of critical theoretical skills and in-depth regional -- MA Cultural Studies knowledge across disciplines. Members of the -- MA Postcolonial Studies Centre and current research students work on an exceptionally wide range of topics, both theoretical Interdisciplinary and critical. Supervision for research students can -- MA Comparative Literature (Africa/Asia) be provided across this wide range. MPhil and PhD See also students may register for a degree in Comparative -- MA African Literature (page 85) Literature, Cultural Studies or Postcolonial Studies -- MA Arabic Literature (page 215) while being supervised by an associate member -- MA Chinese Literature (page 122) based in a SOAS department. -- MA Gender Studies (page 162) The Centre organises a training programme in -- MA Japanese Literature (page 185) the three disciplines for research students, in -- MA Korean Literature (page 179) coordination with the faculty-wide Research Training Seminar, which is supported by regular Centre seminars. The Centre also liaises with other The SOAS Centre for Cultural, Literary and discipline-based centres and departments over the Postcolonial Studies (CCLPS) exists to promote following MA degree programmes offered faculty- the disciplines of Comparative Literature, Cultural wide: MA African Literature, MA Chinese Literature, Studies and Postcolonial Studies in relation to MA Japanese Literature, MA Korean Literature, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. MA Arabic Literature, MA Gender Studies, The Centre is housed in, and administered by, MA Theory and Practice of Translation. the Faculty of Languages and Cultures, but as a Centre dedicated to interdisciplinary study it is not subordinate to any single department in the Faculty. Many theorists and scholars in the different disciplines of Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Postcolonial Studies stress the need for a move toward the study of non- European literatures and non-European aesthetic and cultural practices. The range of expertise in non-European literatures and cultures offered at SOAS aims to respond and contribute to current critical and theoretical debates in these disciplines. The mission of the CCLPS is therefore to promote research on non-European cultures and literatures

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Academic staff research areas Dr Lindiwe Dovey BA (Harvard) PhD (Cantab) African film and video (particularly their Professor Nadje Al-Ali PhD (London) intersection); literary adaptation in Africa; Gender theory; feminist thought and activism; filmic mediations of African performance arts women, gender and feminisms in the Middle (music, dance, theatre); contemporary film East; secularism and Islamism; transnational theory and ‘World Cinema’; exile, immigration migration, diaspora mobilisation; gendering and violence in relation to African screen media; violence, war and peace; history of Iraqi women; structures of film production, distribution impact of sanctions, war and occupation on and exhibition in Africa; use of African Iraqi women; Iraq. languages in film. Dr Cosima Bruno BA (Venice) PhD (London) Professor Rachel M J Dwyer BA (London) Contemporary Chinese poetry; translation studies. MPhil (Oxon) PhD (London) Dr Whitney Cox BA (Virginia) MA PhD (Chicago) Hindi cinema; Indian popular culture; Indian Sanskrit literature and literary theory, Tamil film; Hinduism; new middle classes; Mumbai/ literature, intellectual and cultural history of Bombay; Gujarati language and literature; South India, history of Saivism. Gujarati diaspora, especially UK and East Africa; comparative Indian literature. Dr George Dedes BA MA PhD (Harvard) Early Anatolian Turkish; Ottoman language Dr Kai Easton BA (Gettysburg) MA PhD (London) and literature; Ottoman history; Turkish-Greek Colonial and postcolonial studies; South relations; modern Turkish culture. African literature (the Cape, Wicomb, Coetzee); gender and the cultures of travel; Indian Ocean Dr Stephen H Dodd BA (Oxon) MA PhD diasporas; intertextuality; fiction, history (Columbia) and autobiography. Modern Japanese literature, with particular interest in representations of the native place Dr Ayman El-Desouky BA (Cairo) (furusato), gender and sexuality and modernity. MA PhD (Austin) Comparative literature, nineteenth and Dr Igor Dorfmann-Lazarev PhD (EPHE, Sorbonne) twentieth-century Arabic literature, Transmission of intellectual traditions in the hermeneutics, modern philosophy and theory. Mediterranean region during Late Antiquity; Christian-Jewish relations; Armenian-Russian Dr Rossella Ferrari BA (Venice) MA PhD (London) cultural relations; Russian colonisation of Contemporary Chinese drama and film; theory the Caucasus and Central Asia; theological and practice of the avant-garde; transnational hermeneutics. Chinese culture.

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Professor Bernhard Fuehrer BA (National Taiwan) Dr Karima Laachir MA PhD (Leeds) PhD (Vienna) Literary and cultural studies; postcolonial studies; Classical Chinese philology, rhetoric, philosophy diaspora studies and comparative literature. and literature; the history of Sinology in Europe; Dr Defeng Li PhD (Alberta) reception of the canon with specific reference Cognitive approach to translation process; to the Analects. corpus-based translation studies; translation Professor Graham Furniss BA PhD (London) curriculum and material development; African language literature; comparative specialised translation (commercial, financial African literature; Hausa language, linguistics and journalistic); second language acquisition and literature. and teaching; experimental translation studies; qualitative research methodology. Professor Andrew Gerstle BA (Columbia) MA (Waseda) PhD (Harvard) Dr Andrew H-B Lo MA PhD (Princeton) Japanese literature, drama and thought, Chinese language (Cantonese and Mandarin); primarily of the Tokugawa period, with particular fiction and prose from the Ming-Qing periods; interest in Bunraku and Kabuki theatre and the cultural activities of Ming and Qing scholars, plays of Chikamatsu. especially games. Dr Rachel V Harrison BA PhD (London) Dr Nima Mina BA (Marburg) MMus PhD (Montreal) Modern Thai cinema and literature; culture Classical and Modern Persian literature; and gender studies with reference to Thailand; Orientalism in 18th– 20th century Europe; literary criticism and South East Asian literatures Middle Eastern minority writers in Europe; in a comparative context; Western film set in diaspora studies; music performance; South East Asia. translation studies. Dr Dana Healy PhD (Prague) Dr Ben Murtagh BA MA PhD (London) Vietnamese language and literature, language Traditional Malay and modern Indonesian teaching; folk literature; modern poetry; literature; history of Indonesia; film in Indonesia theatre; art. and Malaysia; gender and sexuality in Indonesia. Professor Michel Hockx DRS PhD (Leiden) Professor Francesca Orsini Laurea (Venice) PhD Modern Chinese literature and language; Hindi literature; North Indian literary culture; Chinese writers and writings from the late Hindi; Urdu. imperial and republican periods, with emphasis Dr Martin Orwin BA PhD (London) on modern poetry and on the sociology of Somali and Amharic language and literature; modern Chinese literature. metrics; Phonology. Professor Michael J Hutt BA PhD (London) Dr Kwadwo Osei-Nyame BA (Ghana) DPhil (Oxon) Nepali language and literature; textual Post-colonial writing with special reference to perspectives on change in the Himalayan anglophone and francophone African American region; Nepalese art. writing; comparative national literatures. Dr Griseldis Kirsch PhD (Trier) Dr Wen-Chin Ouyang BA BEd (Tripoli) MA MPhil Contemporary Japanese culture with particular PhD (Columbia) interest in Japanese media and popular culture, Classical and modern Arabic literature and representations of ‘otherness’, social phenomena culture with emphasis on narrative and and war memory. storytelling, comparative narratology and Dr Grace Koh BA (Paris) MSt DPhil (Oxon) critical theory, gendered thinking and discourse. Korean literature (pre-modern and early modern), with particular interest in Koryo prose; Korean literary history and thought; East Asian prose traditions.

Left: Shinto Wedding, Japan – George Tselios

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SOAS also has interdisciplinary research centres MA Comparative Literature dedicated to Africa and Asia (see pages 16–22), and students can benefit from their wide range of (Africa/Asia) seminars, general lectures and workshops.

Faculty Course requirements Languages and Cultures Prior knowledge of an African or Asian language is Duration not required for admission to this degree. Students One calendar year (full-time) with fluency in reading may however pursue the Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) study of African or Asian literature in the original Start of programme language through one of the options available September intake only alongside English-based courses. Entry requirements All students are required to take the core course, Minimum upper second-class honours degree Theory and Techniques of Comparative Literature (or equivalent) in their first year. One major and one minor course plus a 10,000-word dissertation must also be Convenor completed. For details on available course options, Dr Karima Laachir please refer to the list below and opposite. The core course on Theory and Techniques of This cross-regional programme offering training Comparative Literature covers both the historical in the comparative study of African and Asian development of the discipline and its main literatures draws upon the first-hand specialist contemporary trends. An important constituent expertise and the comparative and theoretical is the practical treatment of a selected range of interests of staff in the Languages and Cultures issues and themes in African and Asian literatures Faculty. It makes available SOAS’s expertise in this which have been or can be best understood field primarily to students interested in studying through a comparative perspective. these literatures through English. The subjects covered include English language literatures of Course structure Africa and Asia and, through English translations, literature written in African and Asian languages. Not all courses listed below may be offered every year, and new courses may become available. Students explore new horizons for the comparative For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, study of literature, breaking out of the Euro- please visit the relevant departmental website or centric space in which comparative literature has contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be developed so far. However, the course covers the taught in other departments of the School. major theoretical contributions to the comparative study of literature made by Western scholars. Core course It also draws on the wealth of literary production • Theory and Techniques of Comparative Literature in the West for purposes of comparative analysis. In doing so, it constructs a unique multicultural English-based course options domain and perspectives for the study of literature • Selected Topics in African Contemporary Literature and its location in culture and society. This shared • Literatures in African Languages faculty programme benefits from the expertise of • Japanese Traditional Drama (half unit, term one) top scholars in the field of Comparative Literature • Modern Japanese Literature I (half unit, term two) across the regions of Africa and Asia. SOAS ranked • Japanese Literature and Drama in Art among the best research institutions in the 2008 • Modern Chinese Literature in Translation Research Assessment Exercise, with Asian Studies • Traditional Chinese Literature in Translation scoring the highest points in the country. • Modern Film from Taiwan and the Chinese Diaspora (half unit, terms one and two) • Modern Chinese Film and Theatre Right: Chinguetti, Mauritania – Joris Leverink (half unit, terms one and two)

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• Survey of Korean Literature • Literatures of South Asia MA Cultural Studies • The Comparative Literature of South East Asia (half unit) Duration • Japanese Cinema: An Historical Overview One calendar year (full-time) 1896–1952 (half unit, term one)* Two years (part-time) • Japanese Post-War Film Genres (half unit, term two)* Start of programme • Social and Political Dimensions of Modern Arabic September intake only Literature Entry requirements • Postcolonial Theory and Practice Minimum upper second-class honours degree • Indian Cinema: Its History and Social Context (or equivalent) (half unit) • Genders and Sexualities in South East Asian Convenor Cinema (half unit) Dr Karima Laachir • War, Revolution, Independence in South East Asian Literatures in Translation (half unit) • Pre-modern Historical Texts of Java, Bali and SOAS’s MA in Cultural Studies is unique in that the Malay it brings to the field a distinctive focus on Africa • World in English Translation (half unit) and Asia which is unequalled. Drawing on the • Post-crisis Thai Cinema (1997–2007) (half unit) expertise of staff across all SOAS faculties, and using the interdisciplinarity of Cultural * These half-units must be taken jointly Studies methodologies, the programme offers Language-based course options a specialised focus on the regions of Africa and • Topics in Korean Literature Asia combined with a rigorous training in, and • A Modern Arabic Literary Genre: Themes and questioning of, Cultural Studies theories and Techniques methodologies. • Arabic Poetry and Criticism The range of options in diverse cultural and • Social and Political Trends in 19th-century geographical areas that SOAS offers complements Turkish Literature and enriches the programme. Moreover, this • Selected Topics in 20th-century Turkish Literature MA offers students the possibility to learn a new • Directed Readings in the Literature of a Modern language of Africa and Asia as an option. South Asian Language • Buddhist Sanskrit Narrative Texts (minor only) Course structure The programme has four components: students will take the core course and two options (other theory courses, regional literature, film and media courses, or language or language-use courses). They are also required to complete a dissertation. All students take the compulsory course Cultural Studies and the Study of Asia and Africa, which introduces a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches on Cultural Studies and their use, application and adaption in the cross-cultural contexts of Africa and Asia and their cultural products. This core course is designed to complement the Comparative Literature and Gender Studies programmes by focusing on anthropological, political, sociological, media, gender and cultural studies, as well as cultural literary theories.

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Further options include a wide range of theory • a broad MA programme for students with some and practice-based courses from a comprehensive background in Cultural Studies, Sociology, Politics, list offered by the Faculties of Languages and Gender Studies and Area Studies who wish to Cultures and Arts and Humanities. Students enhance their knowledge of cultural histories will write a 10,000-word dissertation based and theories in relation to cross-cultural issues, on either the compulsory course or one of the with or without language study component courses. • a special interest MA, which enables students to This MA programme offers students the possibility study in depth Cultural Studies-related issues in to learn (or further develop) an African or Asian relation to a particular regional or disciplinary language as a pathway. Language offerings are from specialisation. beginner to advanced stages. Full-time students are The programme consists of courses valued at allowed to enrol for four course units during term 3 units and a dissertation of 10,000-words. one (part-time students two or three), if one of the courses is a language acquisition unit (group B). Not all courses listed below may be available every By the end of term one, they will have to withdraw year. For courses being offered in 2014/15, please from one of the four, leaving courses to the value visit the MA Cultural Studies website or contact the of three units (pro rata for part-time students) and Faculty office. Some courses may be taught in other a dissertation. departments of the School. Students will have access to a wealth of study Core courses resources available in the SOAS Library and in • Cultural studies theories and the study of Asia, nearby institutions such as the British Library, Africa and the Middle East (one unit) University College London Library and Senate • Dissertation in Cultural Studies (one unit) House Library. The SOAS MA in Cultural Studies will appeal Optional courses to students with a variety of backgrounds and Choose two courses from the Lists below. No more objectives: than one unit can be taken from Group B or C. • those coming from a Cultural Studies background Group A (from the Faculty of Languages and who wish to engage more deeply with cultural Cultures) theory in relation to regional specialisation, • Travelling Africa: Writing the Cape to Cairo especially, but not exclusively, the societies (one unit) of Asia and Africa • Japanese Traditional Drama (Master’s) • those coming from Asian, African or Middle (half unit, term one) Eastern Studies who wish to incorporate the • Modern Japanese Literature (Master’s) study of cultural theories and histories into their (half unit, term two) own areas of expertise • Modern Chinese Literature in Translation (one unit) • Modern Chinese Film and Theatre (Master’s) • those having previously trained in particular (half unit, term one) disciplines, such as Anthropology, Cultural and • Modern Film from Taiwan and the Chinese Media Studies, Religious Studies, Comparative Diaspora (half unit, term two) Literature, History and Politics. • Traditional Chinese Literature in Translation By a selection of courses to suit the academic (one unit) needs of each student, this programme can provide: • Literatures in African languages (one unit) • Literatures of South Asia (one unit) • a specialised research training MA in • The Politics of Culture in Contemporary South Cultural Studies, perhaps including a relevant Asia (one unit) language. This pathway is suitable for students • Modern Arabic Literature and the West (one unit) contemplating advanced postgraduate research • Film and Society in the Middle East (one unit) in Cultural Studies with regard to regional • Post-crisis Thai Cinema (half unit, term two) specialisation • Genders and Sexualities in South East Asian (half unit, term one)

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• Aspects of African Film and Video 1 Department of the Study of Religions (half unit, term one) • Gender, Post-Colonialism and the Study of • Aspects of African Film and Video 2 Religions (one unit) (half unit, term two) • Myth and Mythmaking (one unit) • Japanese Television since 1953 (one unit) • Muslim Britain: Perspectives and Realities • Indian Cinema: Its History and Social Context (one unit) (half unit, term one) Department of History • Indian Cinema: Key Issues (half unit, term one) • Histories of Ethnicity and Conflict in South East • Research Methods In Translation Studies Asia I – Making States and Building Nations (half unit, term two) (half unit, term one) • Histories of Ethnicity and Conflict in South East Group A (from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities) Asia II – Non-National Perspectives Department of Anthropology and Sociology (half unit, term one) • Culture and Society of China (one unit) • Social and Cultural Transformations in Southern • Culture and Society of East Africa (one unit) Africa Since 1945 (half unit, term one) • Culture and Society of Japan (one unit) • The End of Empire in the Middle East and the • Culture and Society of South Asia (one unit) Balkans (one unit) • Culture and Society of South East Asia (one unit) • Modernity and the Transformation of the Middle • Culture and Society of the Near and Middle East East (one unit) (one unit) • Japanese Modernity I (half unit, term one) • African and Asian Diasporas in the Modern World • Japanese Modernity II (half unit, term two) (half unit, term one) • Knowledge and Power in Early Modern China • African and Asian Cultures in Britain (half unit, (half unit, term one) term two) • Nationhood and Competing Identities in Modern Centre for Film and Screen Studies China (half unit, term two) • Japanese Transnational Cinema: From Department of Art and Archaeology Kurosawa to Asia Extreme and Studio Ghibli • Diaspora Contexts and Visual Culture (half unit, term one) (half unit, term one) • Japanese Post-War Film Genres and the Avant- • Representing Conflict: A Cross-Cultural and Garde (half unit, term two) Inter-Disciplinary Approach (half unit, term two) Centre for Media and Film Studies • Islam and the West: Artistic and Cultural Contacts • The Transnational News Environment: Production, (half unit, term one) Representation and Use (half unit, term one) • Painting and Visual Culture in China (one unit) • Transnational Communities and Diasporic Media: Networking, Connectivity, Identity Group B (half unit, term two) One African or Asian postgraduate language unit • Rethinking Audiences (half unit, term two) or one language-based MA. A Literature, Film or • Mediated Culture in the Middle East: Politics Media unit may be included as one of the options. and Communications (half unit, term one) See the relevant language department website for • International Political Communication course lists. (half unit, term two) • Studies in Global Media and Post-National Group C Communication (half unit, term one) One theory unit may be included as an option. Department of Music • Gender theory and the study of Asia, Africa and • Atlantic Africa: (P)Layers of Mediation in African the Middle East (one unit) • Popular Music (Postgraduate) (one unit) • Postcolonial Theory and Practice (one unit) • Popular Music and Politics in Israel • Theory And Techniques Of Comparative Literature (half unit, term one) (one unit) • Pop and Politics in East Asia (Master’s) (half unit, term one) • Gender and Music (MMus) (half unit, term two)

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to understand and negotiate the field of postcolonial MA Postcolonial Studies studies with recourse to interdisciplinarity and to theoretical explications from the regions of Asia, Africa and the Middle East. SOAS offers a unique Duration range of regional expertise available among the One year (full-time) CCLPS’s faculty membership. The programme also Two years (part-time, daytime only) offers a timely intervention at a time when there is a Start of programme national and international crisis in the understanding September intake only of multiculturalism, race relations and religious and national affiliations. Entry requirements Minimum upper second-class honours degree (or equivalent) Course structure Convenor The programme consists of courses valued at three Dr Amina Yaqin units and a dissertation of 10,000 words. Students take three courses (one core, two options) and write a dissertation associated with the core course. The MA Postcolonial Studies programme offers Part-time students are required to take the core a focus on the historical relationships of power, course in year one of their study. domination and practices of imperialism and Students may take one language acquisition colonialism in the modern period (late nineteenth course at appropriate level as one of their options. century to the present) through the study of All postgraduate language courses offered by literature and culture. the departments of the Faculty of Languages and The core course will introduce a variety of Cultures are available; for details of course offerings theoretical and methodological approaches to the see the departmental websites (Africa, China and literature, film and media of these areas. A range Inner Asia, Japan and Korea, Near and Middle East, of literary, filmic and theoretical texts from Africa, South Asia, South East Asia). Asia, the Caribbean and the Near and Middle East will normally be included in the reading list. These Core course will address representations of colonialism and Postcolonial Theory and Practice decolonisation, neo-colonialism, nationalism in postcolonial societies and diasporic experiences, Course options (non-language courses) allowing us to explore the heterogeneous meanings, Regional Literatures and Cultures intersections and strategies of analysis that have • Travelling Africa: Writing the Cape to Cairo emerged with reference to postcolonial studies. • Modern Japanese Literature (Master’s) (half unit, term two) Attention will be paid to colonial and postcolonial • Modern Chinese Literature in Translation constructs such as: the Oriental, the Global, • Traditional Chinese Literature in Translation the Cosmopolitan, the Third World and the • Literatures in African Languages multicultural. The core course of the programme • Survey of Korean Literature introduces and analyses interdisciplinary theories • Literatures of South Asia and ideological practices around a set of historical • Imagining Pakistan: Culture, Politics, Gender and current issues from various regions of Asia and • Social and Political Dimensions of Modern Africa. The range of course options offers students Arabic Literature more opportunities to explore interdisciplinarity • War, Revolution, Independence in South East Asian and regional specificities. • Literatures in Translation (Master’s) Postcolonial Studies MA programmes offered (half unit, term two) in London and other UK institutions are located within the field of English Studies or the Social Sciences. The CCLPS is uniquely positioned to offer an interdisciplinary Postcolonial Studies MA programme which gives students an opportunity

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Media and Film Career opportunities • Japanese Transnational Cinema: From A postgraduate degree in Cultural, Literary and Kurosawa to Asia Extreme and Studio Ghibli Postcolonial Studies from SOAS provides its students (half unit, term one) with expertise in non-European literatures and AND cultures, in-depth regional knowledge and strong • Post-War Japanese Film Genres and the Avant- research and critical analysis skills. Postgraduate garde (half unit, term two) students are equipped with the expertise to continue • Indian Cinema: Its History and Social Context in research as well as the skills needed to enable (half unit, term one) them to find professional careers in the private AND and public sectors. • Indian Cinema: Key Issues (half unit, term two) • Modern Chinese Film and Theatre Postgraduate students leave SOAS with a portfolio (half unit, term one) of widely transferable skills which employers AND seek, including familiarity with methods of • Modern Film from Taiwan and the Chinese research; the ability to absorb and analyse large Diaspora (half unit, term two) quantities of information; and organisational skills. • Aspects of African Film and Video 1 A postgraduate degree is a valuable experience (half unit, term one) that provides students with a body of work and a AND diverse range of skills with which they can market • Aspects of African Film and Video 2 themselves when they graduate. (half unit, term two) Examples of the careers graduates from this • Film and Society in the Middle East department have gone on to after graduation • Post-crisis Thai Cinema (1997–2007) include: Researcher (Endemol UK), Reporter (half unit, term two) (Associated Press), Teacher in Chinese Language • Global Media and Postnational Communication: and Literature (Ministry of Education, Singapore), Theoretical and Contemporary Issues Editorial Assistant (Chang-Tsui Company), Lecturer Gender Studies (National Chinan University), Production Manager • Genders and Sexualities in South East Asian Film (Saqi Books), Freelance Writer, Assistant Professor (half unit, term two) (University of Modern Sciences). • Gendering Migration and Diasporas Examples of research degrees or further study (half unit, term two) include: PhD/MPhil Persian Literature (SOAS), Diaspora Studies MA Comparative Literature (SOAS), Comparative • African and Asian Diasporas in the Modern World Literature (Universita Degu Studi di Salerno). (half unit, term one) • African and Asian Cultures in Britain (half unit, term one) • Transnational Communities and Diasporic Media: Network, Connect Identity (half unit, term two)

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Department of Development Studies

organisations, bilateral aid donors, Asian and African www.soas.ac.uk/ as well as international NGOs, and Asian, Middle development Eastern, African and Latin American governments. Research Faculty Law and Social Sciences The Department currently has more than 78 research students working on a wide range of Number of staff research topics related to development in Asia, Academic 25 Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. Teaching and Scholarship (fractional) 1 We particularly welcome research students who wish RAE to work in one of the main departmental research 80 per cent of the work of the Department was clusters: agrarian political economy; globalisation; rated as world-leading, internationally excellent labour relations and markets; neoliberalism and the or internationally recognised. political economy of institutions; violence, peace Taught Master’s degrees and development; and migration. -- MSc Development Studies Research students attend weekly training sessions -- MSc Development Studies with Special to introduce them to a number of practical Reference to Central Asia techniques and analytical skills commonly -- MSc Environment, Politics and Development deployed in development research. They also -- MSc Globalisation and Development attend fortnightly seminars on topics relevant to -- MSc Labour, Social Movements and Development Studies and, where appropriate, Development post-experience workshops. -- MSc Migration, Mobility and Development -- MSc Violence, Conflict and Development -- MSc Research for International Development Academic staff research areas Professor Gilbert Achcar BA (Beirut/Lyons) The Department was established in 1996 to BA MA (Beirut) PhD (Paris) provide innovative and challenging teaching Political economy and sociology of in the field of development studies and to globalisation; empire and global power foster high-quality research on development structures; Middle East; North Africa; sociology processes in low and middle income countries. of religion; social change and social theory. It offers highly successful Master’s programmes Dr Dae-oup Chang BA (Sogang) MA PhD that attract students from around the world, (Warwick) and a dynamic research student (MPhil/PhD) East Asia, Korea, labour and globalisation, programme. political economy of development, social and The unparalleled regional specialisation across labour movement, TNCs and global value-chain. departments at SOAS is one of the key features Professor Christopher Cramer BA PhD (Cantab) of the distinctive character of Development Studies Africa: economics of Africa, political economy at the School. This specialisation means that of development, political economy of war Development Studies is taught, and researched, and peace in southern Africa, fair trade and with considerable historical, cultural and labour markets. context-specific depth, drawing on Asian and African languages, history and social science Dr Jonathan Di John BA (Harvard) PhD (Cantab) knowledge. The Department also has several Development economics, economic growth, Latin America specialists. institutional economics, taxation in less developed countries, the political economy Teaching in the Department is informed by the of oil states, political economy of industrial significant experience staff have in research and policy in Latin America, especially of Venezuela, in applied work, which has been undertaken for Colombia and Brazil. most of the leading UN and other international

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Professor Rosaleen Duffy MA (Manchester) Dr Thomas Marois BA MA (Alberta) PhD (York) PhD (Lancaster) Mexico/Turkey; political economy of banking, Global environmental politics; political ecology; finance and development; state-owned banks; environmental impact of criminalisation; privatisation; state-capital-labour relations; state conservation, transfrontier conservation, wildlife theory; internationalisation. politics; biodiversity conservation; tourism. Dr Zoe Marriage BA (Oxon) MSc PhD (London) Professor Jonathan Goodhand BA PGCE Sierra Leone, Rwanda, DR Congo, Sudan; (Birmingham) MSc PhD (Manchester) political and psychological processes of South and Central Asia; complex political violence; rural policy. emergencies, humanitarian aid; NGO capacity Dr Alessandra Mezzadri BA (Rome) building, aid, conflict and development. BA PhD (London) Dr Laura Hammond MA PhD (Wisconsin) Completed her PhD on the production of Horn of Africa; Ethiopia; Somalia; forced cheap labour in the Indian export-oriented migration; resettlement; returnees; remittances; garment industry. international assistance. Professor Terry McKinley BA (San Diego) MA Dr Adam Hanieh BSc (Adelaide) MA (Al Quds) PhD (California) PhD (York) Poverty reduction, growth, inequality, Political economy; labour migration; Middle East employment and human development; the politics; Gulf Cooperation Council; migration, implications for economic policies of linking development and remittances; class and state poverty reduction strategies to the Millennium formation; internationalisation; Palestine. Development Goals. Dr Colette Harris BA MA (London) Professor Peter Mollinga MSc PhD PhD (Amsterdam) (Wageningen) PD/Habil (Bonn) Violence and conflict, governance, post-colonial South Asia, Central Asia; comparative political state building, Muslim societies, sexualities, sociology of water resources and development; (reproductive) health, migration, and community technology and agrarian change; boundary development/transformative education – all work in natural resources management; explored through a gendered lens. Central Asia, interdisciplinary social theory. Latin America but currently focus mainly on Dr Paolo Novak MSc PhD (London) West and East Africa. Afghanistan; Pakistan; refugees; borders; Dr Michael Jennings BA MA (Oxon) PhD (London) governance; international intervention Politics and history of development processes Dr Carlos Oya Licenciatura (Madrid) in Sub-Saharan Africa, governance, civil society, MSc PhD (London) non-governmental organisations and faith- West Africa, Southern Africa, agrarian political based organisations, social aspects of health economy; poverty; rural labour; government- in Africa. donor relations; research methods. Dr Tania Kaiser BA (Bristol) MPhil DPhil (Oxon) Dr Tim Pringle BA (Leeds) PhD (Warwick) Uganda/Sudan, East and West Africa, Sri Lanka; China and Vietnam, labour movements and forced migration; refugees; humanitarian development, non-governmental organisations, interventions; anthropology of conflict and trade unions and trade union reform, internal development. migration. Dr Jens Lerche MA PhD (Copenhagen) Dr Matteo Rizzo BA (L’Orientale) South Asia; agrarian political economy; rural MSc PhD (London) labour relations; governance and development. Africa, Tanzania political economy of Dr Anna Lindley MA (Leeds) DPhil (Oxon) development, labour, trade unions and the Relationships between migration, conflict informal economy, urbanization, transport, and development; Horn of Africa. agrarian change.

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The MSc Research for International Development Professor Alfredo Saad-Filho PhD (London) includes three compulsory courses in Development Latin America; political economy of Studies and Economics research methods, two development; industrial policy; pro-poor options and a 13,000-word dissertation on an economic policy; neoliberalism; value theory. approved topic. Dr Subir Sinha BA (Delhi) MA PhD (Northwestern) South Asia: institutions of development, NGOs, MSc Development Studies social movements; the environment, common property institutions and resource use. Duration Professor Guy Standing BA (Sussex) MA (Illinois) One calendar year (full-time) PhD (Cantab) Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) Basic Income, Economic security/insecurity, labour and work, cash transfers, and the Start of programme ‘precariat’, Social Protection. September intake only Dr Leandro Vergara-Camus BA (Québec) Entry requirements MA (UNAM México) PhD (York) Minimum upper second-class honours degree Political economy of Latin America, social (or equivalent). Relevant work experience may and peasant movements, alter-globalisation also be considered movements and social change, alternative Convenor (to be confirmed) development, agrarian issues, and bio-fuels Dr Subir Sinha and energy politics. See also -- Other MSc programmes in the Department MSc programmes of Development Studies -- MA Social Anthropology (page 95) The MSc programmes are taught through a strong -- MA Social Anthropology of Development interdisciplinary social science-oriented approach, (page 96) incorporating key elements of Economics, Politics, -- MSc programmes in the Department of Social Anthropology and Sociology. Economics (page 145) They are not ‘vocational’ degrees in the sense that some MAs in Development are (for example, in Development Management or Project Planning). Course structure Rather, they provide students with the intellectual Not all courses listed below may be offered every tools they can apply to make their own analytical year, and new courses may become available. judgments in relation to development interventions For an up-to-date list of courses currently on offer, in a wide variety of contexts. please visit the relevant departmental website or MSc programmes include two compulsory courses, contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be two options and a 10,000-word dissertation on an taught in other departments of the School. approved topic. The structure permits students to choose courses from an approved list of options Core courses in the various social science or languages and • Theory, Policy and Practice of Development cultures departments, thereby allowing students to • Political Economy of Development take advantage of the broad thematic and regional expertise of SOAS staff. In the case of the MSc Course options in Development Studies Development Studies with Special Reference to • Agrarian Development, Food Policy and Central Asia, the optional course(s) and dissertation Rural Poverty must be taken in a Central Asian topic. • Aid and Development • Borders and Development • Civil Society, Social Movements and the Development Process

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• Contested Natural Resources, Rural Livelihoods and Globalisation MSc Development Studies • Critical Environmental Policy Analysis (to be confirmed) with Special Reference to • Development Practice Central Asia • East Asia and Globalisation • Extractive Industries, Energy, Biofuels and Duration Development in a Time of Climate Change One calendar year (full-time) • Famine and Food Security Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) • Fundamentals of Research Methods for Development Studies Start of programme • Gender and Development September intake only • Global commodity chains, production networks Entry requirements and informal work Minimum upper second-class honours degree • HIV and AIDS, Culture and Development (or equivalent). Relevant work experience may • Issues in Forced Migration also be considered • Migration and Policy • Problems of Development in the Middle East Convenor (to be confirmed) and North Africa Dr Subir Sinha • Security See also • The Working Poor and Development -- Other MSc programmes in the Department • Understanding Economic Migration: Theories, of Development Studies Patterns and Policies -- MA Social Anthropology (page 95) • Water and Development: Conflict and -- MA Social Anthropology of Development Governance (page 96) • Water Law: Justice and Governance -- MSc programmes in the Department of Economics (page 145) Course options in other departments • Food, Body and Society • Food, Development and the Global Economy Course structure • Therapy and Culture • Economic Development in Africa For the MSc Development Studies with Reference to • Economic Problems and Policies in Modern China Central Asia the optional course will be Politics and • Economic Dynamics of the Asia-Pacific Region Society in Central Asia, taught in the Department of • Economic Development of Modern Taiwan Politics and International Studies. • The Political Economy of Development in Africa Not all courses listed below may be offered every • State and Development in Asia and Africa year, and new courses may become available. • Government and Politics of Modern South Asia For an up-to-date list of courses currently on offer, • Government and Politics of Africa please visit the relevant departmental website or • Taiwan’s Political and Cross-Strait Relations contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be • Human Rights in the Developing World taught in other departments of the School. (School of Law) Core courses • Theory, Policy and Practice of Development • Political Economy of Development • Dissertation

Course options in Development Studies • Politics and Society in Central Asia.

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• Development Practice MSc Environment, Politics • East Asia and Globalisation • Extractive Industries, Energy, Biofuels and and Development Development in a Time of Climate Change • Famine and Food Security Duration • Fundamentals of Research Methods for One calendar year (full-time) Development Studies Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) • Gender and Development • Global Commodity Chains, Production Networks Entry requirements and Informal Work Minimum upper second-class honours degree • HIV and AIDS, Culture and Development (or equivalent). Relevant work experience may • Issues in Forced Migration also be considered • Migration and Policy Convenor • Problems of Development in the Middle East Professor Rosaleen Duffy and North Africa • Security See also • The Working Poor and Development -- Other MSc programmes in the Development • Understanding Economic Migration: Theories, Studies Department Patterns and Policies • Water and Development: Conflict and Course structure Governance • Water Law: Justice and Governance Not all courses listed below may be offered every year, and new courses may become available. Course options in other departments For an up-to-date list of courses currently on offer, • Government and Politics in Africa please visit the relevant departmental website or • Government and Politics of Modern South Asia contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be • Government and Politics of Taiwan taught in other departments of the School. • History of Environment and Globalisation in Asia and Africa Core courses • Human Rights in the Developing World • Political Ecology of Development (School of Law) EITHER • Food, Body and Society • Theory, Policy and Practice of Development • Food, Development and the Global Economy OR • Anthropological approaches to Agriculture, • Political Economy of Development Food and Nutrition OR • State and Development in Asia and Africa • Political Economy of Violence, Conflict and Development OR • Law and Natural Resources

Course options in Development Studies • Agrarian Development, Food Policy and Rural Poverty • Aid and Development • Borders and Development • Civil Society, Social Movements and the Development Process • Contested Natural Resources, Rural Livelihoods and Globalisation • Critical Environmental Policy Analysis (to be confirmed)

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• Fundamentals of Research Methods for MSc Globalisation and Development Studies • Gender and Development Development • Global commodity chains, production networks and informal work Duration • HIV and AIDS, Culture and Development One calendar year (full-time) • Issues in Forced Migration Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) • Migration and Policy • Problems of Development in the Middle East Start of programme and North Africa September intake only • Security Entry requirements • The Working Poor and Development Minimum upper second-class honours degree • Understanding Economic Migration: Theories, (or equivalent). Relevant work experience may Patterns and Policies also be considered • Water and Development: Conflict and Governance Convenor (to be confirmed) • Water Law: Justice and Governance Dr Thomas Marois See also Course options in other departments -- Other MSc programmes in the Development • Food, Body and Society of Studies Department • Food, Development and the Global Economy • Therapy and Culture • Economic Development in Africa Course structure • Economic Problems and Policies in Modern China • Economic Dynamics of the Asia-Pacific Region Not all courses listed below may be offered every • Economic Development of Modern Taiwan year, and new courses may become available. • The Political Economy of Development in Africa For an up-to-date list of courses currently on offer, • History of the Environment and Globalisation in please visit the relevant departmental website or Asia and Africa contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be • State and Development in Asia and Africa taught in other departments of the School. • Government and Politics of Modern South Asia • Government and Politics of Africa Core courses • Taiwan’s Politics and Cross-Strait Relations • Globalisation and Development • Human Rights in the Developing World EITHER (School of Law) • Theory, Policy and Practice of Development OR • Political Economy of Development

Course options in Development Studies • Agrarian Development, Food Policy and Rural Poverty • Aid and Development • Borders and Development • Civil Society, Social Movements and the Development Process • Contested Natural Resources, Rural Livelihoods and Globalisation • Critical Environmental Policy Analysis (to be confirmed) • Development Practice • East Asia and Globalisation • Famine and Food Security

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• East Asia and Globalisation MSc Labour, Social • Famine and Food Security • Fundamentals of Research Methods for Movements and Development Development • Gender and Development • Global Commodity Chains, Production Networks and Informal Work Duration • HIV and AIDS, Culture and Development One calendar year (full-time) • Issues in Forced Migration Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) • Migration and Policy Start of programme • Problems of Development in the Middle East September intake only and North Africa • Security Entry requirements • The Working Poor and Development Minimum upper second-class honours degree • Understanding Economic Migration: Theories, (or equivalent). Relevant work experience may Patterns and Policies also be considered • Water and Development: Conflict and Governance Convenor (to be confirmed) • Water Law: Justice and Governance Dr Tim Pringle Course options in other departments See also • Economic Development in Africa -- Other MSc programmes in the Development • Economic Problems and Policies in Modern China Studies Department • Economic Dynamics of the Asia-Pacific Region • Economic Development of Modern Taiwan Course structure • The Political Economy of Development in Africa • Government and Politics of Modern South Asia Not all courses listed below may be offered every • Government and Politics of Africa year, and new courses may become available. • Taiwan’s Politics and Cross-Strait Relations For an up-to-date list of courses currently on offer, please visit the relevant departmental website or contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be taught in other departments of the School.

Core courses • Labour, Social Movements and Development EITHER • Theory, Policy and Practice of Development OR • Political Economy of Development

Course options in Development Studies • Agrarian Development, Food Policy and Rural Poverty • Aid and Development • Borders and Development • Civil Society, Social Movements and the Development Process • Contested Natural Resources, Rural Livelihoods and Globalisation • Critical Environmental Policy Analysis (to be confirmed) • Development Practice

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• Fundamentals of Research Methods for MSc Migration, Mobility Development Studies • Gender and Development and Development • Global Commodity Chains, Production Networks and Informal Work Duration • HIV and AIDS, Culture and Development One calendar year (full-time) • Issues in Forced Migration Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) • Migration and Policy • Problems of Development in the Middle East Start of programme and North Africa September intake only • Security Entry requirements • The Working Poor and Development Minimum upper second-class honours degree • Understanding Economic Migration: Theories, (or equivalent). Relevant work experience may Patterns and Policies also be considered • Water and Development: Conflict and Governance Convenor (to be confirmed) • Water Law: Justice and Governance Dr Paolo Novak See also Course options in other departments -- Other MSc programmes in the Development • African and Asian Diasporas in the Modern World Studies Department • Food, Body and Society • Food, Development and the Global Economy • Gendering Migration and Diasporas Course structure • Therapy and Culture • Economic Development in Africa Not all courses listed below may be offered every • Economic Problems and Policies in Modern China year, and new courses may become available. • Economic Dynamics of the Asia-Pacific Region For an up-to-date list of courses currently on offer, • Economic Development of Modern Taiwan please visit the relevant departmental website or • The Political Economy of Development in Africa contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be • History of the Environment and Globalisation in taught in other departments of the School. Asia and Africa • State and Development in Asia and Africa Core courses • Government and Politics of Modern South Asia • Migration and Development • Government and Politics of Africa EITHER • Taiwan’s Politics and Cross-Strait Relations • Theory, Policy and Practice of Development • Human Rights in the Developing World OR (School of Law) • Political Economy of Development

Course options in Development Studies • Agrarian Development, Food Policy and Rural Poverty • Aid and Development • Borders and Development • Civil Society, Social Movements and the Development Process • Contested Natural Resources, Rural Livelihoods and Globalisation • Critical Environmental Policy Analysis (to be confirmed) • Development Practice • East Asia and Globalisation • Famine and Food Security Left: Coal Porter, Mozambique – Helena Perez-Nino

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• Development Practice MSc Violence, Conflict and • East Asia and Globalisation • Famine and Food Security Development • Fundamentals of Research Methods for Development Studies Duration • Gender and Development One calendar year (full-time) • Global commodity chains, production networks Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) and informal work • HIV and AIDS, Culture and Development Start of programme • Issues in Forced Migration September intake only • Migration and Policy Entry requirements • Problems of Development in the Middle East Minimum upper second-class honours degree and North Africa (or equivalent). Relevant work experience may • Security also be considered • The Working Poor and Development • Understanding Economic Migration: Theories, Convenor (to be confirmed) Patterns and Policies Dr Zoe Marriage • War to Peace Transitions See also • Water and Development: Conflict and -- Other MSc programmes in the Development Governance Studies Department • Water Law: Justice and Governance

Course options in other departments Course structure • Food, Body and Society • Food, Development and the Global Economy Not all courses listed below may be offered every • Therapy and Culture year, and new courses may become available. For • Economic Development in Africa an up-to-date list of courses currently on offer, • Economic Problems and Policies in Modern China please visit the relevant departmental website or • Economic Dynamics of the Asia-Pacific Region contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be • Economic Development of Modern Taiwan taught in other departments of the School. • The Political Economy of Development in Africa • History of the Environment and Globalisation in Core courses Asia and Africa • Political Economy of Violence, Conflict and • Culture and Conflict in the Himalaya Development • State and Development in Asia and Africa EITHER • Government and Politics of Modern South Asia • Theory, Policy and Practice of Development • Government and Politics of Africa OR • Taiwan’s Politics and Cross-Strait Relations • The Political Economy of Development • Human Rights in the Developing World OR (School of Law) • Anthropology of Development • Law and Governance in the Developing World • Alternative Dispute Resolution Course options in Development Studies • International Protection of Human Rights • Agrarian Development, Food Policy and Rural • Justice, Reconciliation and Reconstruction in Poverty Post-conflict Societies • Aid and Development • International Criminal Law in Practice • Borders and Development • Jurisprudence of International Criminal Tribunals • Civil Society, Social Movements and the Development Process • Contested Natural Resources, Rural Livelihoods and Globalisation • Critical Environmental Policy Analysis (to be confirmed)

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• Gender and International Development MSc Research for (MSc Research for International Development) • HIV/AIDS and Development (MSc Research for International Development International Development) • Rural Livelihoods, Contested Natural Resources Co-taught with the Department of Economics and Globalisation (MSc Research for International Development) Duration • Water Resources: Justice and Governance One calendar year (full-time) (MSc Research for International Development) Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) • Water Resources: Conflict and Governance Start of programme (MSc Research for International Development) September intake only • Social Movements, Civil Society and Development (MSc Research for International Development) Entry requirements • Security (MSc Research for International Minimum upper second-class honours degree Development) (or equivalent). Relevant work experience may also be considered Department of Economics Convenor (to be confirmed) • African Economic Development I Dr Matteo Rizzo (MSc Research for International Development) • African Economic Development II See also (MSc Research for International Development) -- Other MSc programmes in the Department • Macroeconomic Theories and Techniques of Development Studies (MSc Research for International Development) -- MSc programmes in the Department of • Microeconomic Theories and Techniques Economics (page 145) (MSc Research for International Development) • Economic Development in South Asia (a) Course structure The Macroeconomy (MSc Research for International Development) Not all courses listed below may be offered every • Economic Development in South Asia (b) year, and new courses may become available. Major Sectors and the International Economy For an up-to-date list of courses currently on offer, (MSc Research for International Development) please visit the relevant departmental website or • Themes and Approaches in the Political contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be Economy of Institutions (MSc Research for taught in other departments of the School. International Development) • Economic Issues of the Environment and Core courses Development (MSc Research for International • Battlefields of Method: Approaches to Development) International Development Research • Economic Development and Financial Systems (MSc Research for International Development) (MSc Research for International Development) • Statistical Research Techniques in International Development Centre for Gender Studies • Research Methods in International Development • Gender in the Middle East (MSc Research for International Development) Department of Development Studies • Theories, Trends and Policies in Economic Migration (MSc Research for International Development) • Agriculture and Rural Development in Developing Countries (MSc Research for International Development) • Extractive Industries, Energy, Biofuels and Development in a Time of Climate Change (MSc Research for International Development)

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Graduate destinations Examples of the careers graduates from this department have gone on to immediately after A postgraduate degree in Development Studies graduation include: Educational Policy Analyst from SOAS provides innovative and challenging (Economic and Social Council), Economist teaching in the field of development studies and (Economist Intelligence Unit), Industrial Economist fosters high-quality research on the development (Gambian Government), Policy Adviser (Department of poorer countries. Students are offered for Work and Pensions), Research Assistant (CARE), unrivalled regional specialisation and language Programme Officer (UN World Food Programme), combinations enabling them to gain expertise in Junior Consultant (The World Bank), Development social and economic changes in the developing Consultant (Asian Development Bank), Special Advisor world. This enables them to seek professional to the Secretary of State (Department for International careers in development in a range of international Development) Examples of research degrees or organisations, government agencies and NGOs. further study include: International Development Postgraduate students leave SOAS with a portfolio (SOAS), Economics (SOAS), Management of widely transferable skills which employers seek. (University of Cambridge), These include analytical skills, the ability to think French (La Sorbonne). laterally and employ critical reasoning, and knowing how to present materials and ideas effectively both orally and in writing. Equally, graduates are able to continue in the field of research, continuing their studies either at SOAS or other institutions. A postgraduate degree is a valuable experience that provides students with a body of work and a diverse range of skills with which they can market themselves when they graduate.

Joe Buckley MSc Labour, Social Movements and Development

I’ll come out and say it: SOAS is the greatest treat students as customers, but as worthwhile university in the world. Every day, you will hear and valuable individuals – “our new hopes,” as one dozens of different languages being spoken, and of my lecturers said to me when I was in a local encounter a fantastic array of different activities. pub with him. We are a community full of exciting people, and Academically, SOAS is at the top of its game. our heterogeneity is what makes us special. Do not In our studies and research, we particularly be surprised if you discover that you are drinking value our critical approach to orthodoxy, and coffee with a former Malaysian political prisoner, or the School has the highest concentration of sitting in a lecture next to a journalist who reported heterodox social scientists in Europe, if not the from Tahrir Square during the Arab Spring. Both world. Furthermore, as SOAS is a leader in its field, have happened to me. Every single person at SOAS the free evening lectures are phenomenal. Each has an interesting story to tell, and adds something department and centre has them, often weekly, unique and valuable to our community. So will you. and they are open to all students. Many of the All the staff at SOAS, from the academics and world’s greatest thinkers and actors come to cleaners to the librarians and counsellors, are speak. The Development Studies Department’s passionate and committed. They are as much a events are especially exciting, and are designed part of our wonderful diverse tapestry as are the to feed into our studies and enthusiasms. students. More specifically, the teachers in the Deciding to come here will be one of the greatest Development Studies Department truly care about decisions you ever make. You will find a warm, trying to ameliorate the world, and many of them welcoming second home in the centre of London. have been practitioners. Furthermore, they do not

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Department of Economics

Research www.soas.ac.uk/economics Students whose qualifications indicate that they are able to pursue independent research may be Faculty accepted to read for a research degree (MPhil or Law and Social Sciences PhD). Normally a Master’s degree in Economics is a prerequisite. An essential feature of the MPhil Number of staff and PhD work is the close relationship between Academic 25 research students and supervisors. Supervisors Teaching and Scholarship (fractional) 13 and students meet regularly and consult closely. RAE All research students have a supervisory committee Eighty per cent of the work of the Department to cover theoretical, empirical and regionally was rated as either world-leading, internationally specific supervision, as appropriate. There is a excellent or internationally recognised. Research Student Tutor with overall responsibility for research students, who is available to discuss Taught Master’s degrees general problems. -- MSc Development Economics -- MSc Economics (with reference to Africa All research students in Economics receive a copy or Asia-Pacific Region or the Middle East or of the manual Research Methods in Economics. South Asia) Students are required to participate in a workshop -- MSc Finance and Development or seminar in which research topics and results -- MSc Political Economy of Development are presented and discussed by staff and students. -- MSc Research for International Development In addition, there is a regular departmental Political -- MSc Environment and Development Economy of Development seminar, to which Economics members of the Department and visiting speakers present papers. There is a strong interdisciplinary basis for research and teaching. London, moreover, The Department is one of the country’s leading provides an unrivalled opportunity for students departments specialising in the economics of to hear papers being read by leading authorities development and growth. Research is pursued on in African and Asian studies. Research students a variety of topics and is unique in its depth and may choose from a wealth of seminars both range of regional coverage. A special feature of in the School (especially in the regional and the Department is its orientation towards Political interdisciplinary centres) and in other colleges Economy as well as Finance and Development. and institutes of the University. In addition, it majors on aspects of economic All academic staff are active researchers and publish theory that go beyond mainstream paradigms. in core journals such as American Economic Review, The teaching and research in the Department Economic Journal, Cambridge Journal of Economics, enable students to gain a close understanding Oxford Bulletin of Comparative Economics, of theoretical and analytical issues. They enable World Bank Economic Review, World Development, students to rigorously apply the relevant concepts, Journal of International Development, Journal of across a wide spectrum of problems, to the African Economies, China Quarterly, Food Policy countries of Asia, Africa and the Middle East and and Journal of Development Studies. to the global economy at large. Furthermore, they allow students to acquire a thorough familiarity with the conceptual apparatus of econometrics, including the necessary statistical tools. The Department includes regional specialists, with a broad range of theoretical and applied interests. Full computing facilities are available to all postgraduate students.

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Academic staff research areas Dr Hassan Hakimian BSc (London) MPhil DPhil (Sussex) Dr Ozlem Arpac Arconian PhD (Surrey) Human resources; demography; trade International finance and development; the policy and regional integration; energy and effectiveness of IMF and World Bank assisted natural resources with reference to the programmes; political economy of reform MENA region. in developing countries; discrete choice econometrics. Professor Jane Harrigan BA (Oxon) MPhil (Cantab) PhD (Manchester) Professor Robert F Ash BA MSc (Econ) International financial flows, IMF and World PhD (London) Bank programmes in developing countries, China’s economic development in the the political economy of economic liberalisation twentieth and twenty-first centuries (especially in the Middle East and North Africa, food agricultural and rural change, demographic policies in Sub-Saharan Africa. and employment issues, consumption and living standards); evolution of ‘Greater China’; Dr Deborah Johnston BA MPhil (Cantab) economic development of Taiwan and cross- PhD (London) Strait economic relations. Analysis and measurement of poverty; the working of rural labour markets; Dr Stephanie Blankenburg MA (Hamburg) agrarian change and rural development; MPhil (Cantab) the socio-economic impact of HIV and AIDS. Growth theory; economic institutions; history of economic analysis; development in Latin America. Professor Massoud Karshenas BSc (Econ) MSc (Econ) (London) PhD (Cantab) Professor Anne E Booth BA (Wellington) Middle East: oil and economic development; PhD (ANU) diffusion of new technologies; labour markets South East Asia: poverty measurement, and structural adjustment; intersectoral determinants and policy; economic history resource flows, environment. of South East Asia. Professor Mushtaq Khan BA (Oxon) Professor Chris Bramall BA MA PhD (Cantab) MPhil PhD (Cantab) Economic growth; income inequality; famine and South and South East Asia: institutional agricultural development in modern China; the economics and political economy; the political economy of Maoism; the development economics of rent-seeking, corruption and of the contemporary Chinese empire. patron-client networks; late industrialisation Dr Ourania Dimakou BSc (Athens) MSc (London) and the state. Monetary and fiscal policy interactions; Professor Costas Lapavitsas BSc (Econ) institutional economics; corruption; Central MSc (Econ) PhD (London) Bank independence. Japan: theory of banking and finance; Dr Paulo Dos Santos BSc BA (Econ) (Maryland) history of economic thought; the Japanese MSc PhD (London) financial system. Philippine banking sector; financial liberalisation; Dr Dic Lo BSc (Econ) (Chinese, H.K.) patterns and consequences of uneven economic MA (East Anglia) PhD (Leeds) development in South East Asia and Latin America. China: industry and trade in China; late Professor Ben Fine BA BPhil (Oxon) PhD industrialisation; the Soviet-type economic (London) system and transformation. Southern Africa: the mineral-energy complex Dr Satoshi Miyamura BA (Tokyo) in South Africa; the political economy of MA (Hitotsubashi) MSc PhD (London) consumption, particularly food; privatisation Institutional economics; labour economics; and industrial policy; political economy and political economy of collective bargaining; economic theory; labour market theory; economics of South Asia and Japan. economic imperialism; social capital.

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Dr Risa Morimoto BSc (Sheffield) MSc (Cantab) MSc Development PhD (Cantab) Environmental economics; development Economics economics; economics of hydropower development; energy economics; transport Duration economics; economics of sustainable business; One calendar year (full-time) sustainable economic development policy in Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) developing countries; climate change. Start of programme Professor Machiko K Nissanke MSc (Moscow) September intake only MSc (Econ) PhD (London) Africa and Asia: north-south economic relations, Entry requirements adjustment and development; finance and Minimum upper second-class honours degree development; international trade and finance. in Economics (or equivalent) Professor Duo Qin MA (London) DPhil (Oxon) Convenor History and methodology of econometrics; Professor Mushtaq Khan macroeconometrics applied to economic See also development. -- Other MSc programmes in the Department Dr Matteo Rizzo BA (L’Orientale) MSc PhD of Economics (London) Economics of Africa: agrarian change and rural development; urbanisation and informal The MSc Development Economics is a taught labour markets; privatisation and economic Master’s degree, delivered within a structured deregulation. programme consisting mainly of course modules and a dissertation. Dr Graham Smith BA (Durham) MA (Warwick) PhD (Manchester) It consists of eight course modules delivered Emerging stock markets; financial futures; through lectures, classes and tutorials and an the markets for gold and other metals; time 8,000-word dissertation. The degree is awarded series econometrics. on the basis of examinations written in May and a dissertation submitted in September. All students Professor Jan Toporowski BSc MSc (Econ) must complete and pass the Basic Mathematics and PhD (Birmingham) Statistics course which is taught over three weeks in Macroeconomics; monetary policy; Kalecki August and September before the start of the core and post-Keynesian economics; credit cycles; courses of the MSc. the Franc Zone. Dr Elisa Van Waeyenberge BA (KUL Belgium) Course structure MSc PhD (London) Political economy of aid and policy reform Not all courses listed below may be offered every in low-income countries; the international year, and new courses may become available. financial institutions; development policy For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, and theory; macroeconomics and research please visit the relevant departmental website or methods. contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be taught in other departments of the School. Dr Ulrich Volz MSc PhD (FU Berlin) International finance; open economy Core courses macroeconomics; financial market development • Macroeconomics and stability; development and transition • Microeconomics economics; global economic governance; • Growth and Development East Asian financial markets. • Quantitative Methods 1 • Quantitative Methods 2

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Course options Select any three, but not two from the same region MSc Economics Programmes • African Economies I • African Economies II Duration • Applied Economics of the Middle East I One calendar year (full-time) • Applied Economics of the Middle East II Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) • Capital Markets, Derivatives and Corporate Start of programme Finance September intake only • Comparative Political Economy • Economic Development of South Asia (a) Entry requirements • Economic Development of South Asia (b) Minimum upper second-class honours degree • Economic Development of the Asia-Pacific (or equivalent) in Economics Region I Convenor • Economic Development of the Asia-Pacific MSc Economics with Reference to Africa: Region II Dr Matteo Rizzo • Economics of Environment and Development • Financial Systems and Economic Development MSc Economics with Reference to the Asia- • Growth and Development Pacific Region: Professor Chris Bramall • International Economics I MSc Economics with Reference to the Middle • International Economics II East: Professor Massoud Karshenas • Marxist Political Economy and World Development MSc Economics with Reference to South Asia: • Political Economy of Agriculture and Food Professor Mushtaq Khan • Political Economy of Institutions • Theory of Financial Institutions and Policy See also -- Other MSc programmes in the Department of Economics Delhi, India – Radu Botez

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The Department runs four MScs which offer Course structure students the option of regional specialisation: Not all courses listed below may be offered every • MSc Economics with Reference to Africa year, and new courses may become available. • MSc Economics with Reference to the For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, Asia-Pacific Region please visit the relevant departmental website or • MSc Economics with Reference to the Middle East contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be • MSc Economics with Reference to South Asia taught in other departments of the School. Applicants without a first degree in Economics may Core courses be admitted to the Graduate Diploma in Economics • Macroeconomics (see page 152) in the first instance. On satisfactory • Microeconomics completion of the Diploma, at a level acceptable to • Growth and Development the School, students are eligible to take the MSc in • Quantitative Methods 1 the following year. • Quantitative Methods 2 The general objectives of the MSc programme are: Regional course options • to enable students to apply the principles of Choose two from the list below economic analysis to the design of economic policy with reference to the selected region MSc Economics with Reference to Africa • African Economies 1 • to teach students technical and analytical skills • African Economies 2 • to qualify them to practise as professional MSc Economics with Reference to the economists Asia-Pacific Region • to enable practising professional economists to • Economic Development of the Asia-Pacific improve and update their skills and knowledge Region 1 • Economic Development of the Asia-Pacific • to impart the skills and knowledge that enable Region 2 students to progress towards PhD research. MSc Economics with Reference to the Middle East The MSc Economics is taught within a structured • Applied Economics of the Middle East 1 programme rather than being obtained mainly • Applied Economics of the Middle East 2 by research and dissertation. It consists of eight course modules delivered through lectures, classes MSc Economics with Reference to South Asia and tutorials. Students take the core courses, and • Economic Development in South Asia (a) choose two regional options and one module from • Economic Development in South Asia (b) the list of further optional courses. They are also required to complete an 8,000-word dissertation. Further course options Choose one from the list below The degree is awarded on the basis of course work, written examinations in May and June, and • Capital Markets, Derivatives and Corporate Finance a dissertation submitted in September. Students • Economics of Environment and Development must complete and pass the Basic Mathematics • International Economics 1 and Statistics course taught over three weeks in • International Economics 2 September before the start of the MSc. • Marxist Political Economy and World Development • Political Economy of Institutions • Theory of Financial Institutions and Policy • Financial Systems and Economic Development • Comparative Political Economy • Economic Development of Modern Taiwan (half unit, term two) • Political Economy of Agriculture and Food

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Term 2 MSc Finance and • Macroeconomics • International Economics 2 Development • Quantitative Methods 2 • Theory of Financial Institutions and Policy Duration One calendar year (full-time) Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) MSc Political Economy Start of programme September intake only of Development Entry requirements Duration At least upper second class or equivalent One calendar year (full-time) in Economics or a joint degree containing Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) Economics plus work experience in financial markets and development. Start of programme September intake only Convenor Professor Costas Lapavitsas Entry Requirements At least upper second class or equivalent See also in Economics or a joint degree containing -- Other MSc programmes in the Department Economics plus work experience in financial of Economics markets and development. Programme Convenor This Master’s is designed for economists and Professor Mushtaq Khan financiers who are interested in exploring the See also relationship between national and international -- Other MSc programmes in the Department financial policies and practices and their impact of Economics on economic development. Anyone working, or wishing to work, for international organisations or in financial institutions with an interest in The MSc in the Political Economy of Development economic development would gain much from offers a great deal of flexibility in the study of this programme. advanced issues in economics and political The degree includes eight modules in economy. It is aimed at students who have already macroeconomics, microeconomics, quantitative done a lot of economics and want to specialise methods, international finance, corporate finance, in issues of political economy. It is also designed derivatives and capital markets, and financial for those who have completed joint degrees systems in the context of economic development. at undergraduate level with Economics as a Students are also required to complete an component and now want to study Economics 8,000-word dissertation. at an advanced level, without necessarily taking compulsory modules in microeconomics, Course structure macroeconomics and econometrics.

Compulsory courses Course structure Term 1 Not all courses listed opposite may be offered • Microeconomics every year, and new courses may become available. • Quantitative Methods 1 For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, • Capital Markets, Derivatives and Corporate please visit the relevant departmental website or Finance contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be • Financial Systems and Economic Development taught in other departments of the School.

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Compulsory courses This MSc focuses on the links between environment • Growth and Development and development and the role of environmental • Political Economy of Institutions resources and policy in the development process. • Research Methods in Political Economy 1 The core courses cover the key themes in this • Research Methods in Political Economy 2 arena: growth and the environment, sustainability, the resource curse, resource exploitation (for Course options example, deforestation), and property rights. Choose four from the list below Climate change is also discussed, with issues • African Economies 1 ranging from inter- versus intra-generational • Economic Development of South Asia (a) equity, and the role of international environmental • Economic Development of South Asia (b) agreements. In addition, the course covers the • Applied Economics of the Middle East 1 political economy of agriculture and food, which • Applied Economics of the Middle East 2 is one of the key resource questions for developing • Economic Development of the Asia-Pacific Region 1 countries. These issues are complemented by the • Economic Development of the Asia-Pacific Region 2 core theory and quantitative methods courses. • Macroeconomics Two further options can be taken. • Marxist Political Economy and World Development • Microeconomics Course structure • Quantitative Methods 1 • Quantitative Methods 2 Not all courses listed below may be offered every • Capital Markets, Derivatives and year, and new courses may become available. Corporate Finance For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, • Economics of Environment and Development please visit the relevant departmental website or • International Economics 1 contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be • International Economics 2 taught in other departments of the School. • Theory of Financial Institutions and Policy • Political Economy of Agriculture and Food • Financial Systems and Economic Development • Quantitative Methods I • Comparative Political Economy • Quantitative Methods II • Economic Development of Modern Taiwan (half unit, term two) Course options • Political Economy of Agriculture and Food Choose two from the list below • African Economies 1 • African Economies 2 MSc Environment and • Economic Development of South Asia (a) Development Economics • Economic Development of South Asia (b) • Applied Economics of the Middle East 1 • Applied Economics of the Middle East 2 Duration • Economic Development of the Asia-Pacific One calendar year (full-time) Region 1 Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) • Economic Development of the Asia-Pacific Start of programme Region 2 September intake only • Capital Markets, Derivatives and Corporate Finance • International Economics 1 Entry requirements • International Economics 2 At least upper second class or equivalent • Marxist Political Economy and World in Economics or a joint degree containing Development Economics plus work experience in financial • Theory of Financial Institutions and Policy markets and development. • Financial Systems and Economic Development Convenor • Comparative Political Economy -- Dr Risa Morimoto • Economic Development of Modern Taiwan (half unit, term two)

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• Economic Issues of the Environment and MSc Research for Development International Development • Economic Development and Financial Systems Department of Development Studies Co-taught with the Department of • Theories, Trends and Policies in Economic Migration Development Studies • Agriculture and Rural Development in Developing Countries Duration • Gender and International Development One calendar year (full-time) • HIV/AIDS and Development Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) • Rural Livelihoods, Contested Natural Resources Start of programme and Globalisation September intake only • Water in Asia: Law, Governance and Policy Reform • Water Resources Management in Asia: Policy, Entry requirements Politics and Reform Minimum upper second-class honours degree • Social Movements, Civil Society and Development (or equivalent). Relevant work experience may • Security (International Development) also be considered Joint Convenors Dr Matteo Rizzo Graduate Diploma in Dr Elisa van Waeyenberge Economics See also -- MSc programmes in the Department of Economics Convenor Dr Graham Smith This one-year graduate diploma is administered Course structure by the Department of Economics and provides Not all courses listed below may be offered every students with a solid understanding of the year, and new courses may become available. main topics in economics. It is a programme For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, largely at undergraduate level, designed both please visit the relevant departmental website or as an entry qualification for postgraduate study contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be and as a bridge between undergraduate and taught in other departments of the School. postgraduate work.

Core courses • Battlefields of Method: Approaches to The programme is suitable as a stand-alone International Development Research qualification for those wishing to change their career • Research Methods in Political Economy I path or develop within their present profession. • Research Methods in Political Economy II Alternatively, the Diploma acts as a conversion course for students without previous economics training Department of Economics who wish to take an MSc programme in Economics. • African Economic Development I The core prerequisites in economics and technical • African Economic Development II skills necessary for the Master’s degrees are covered • Macroeconomic Theories and Techniques in one year. Students take four courses: • Microeconomic Theories and Techniques • Economic Development in South Asia • Economic Principles: Microeconomics and (a) The Macroeconomy Macroeconomics • Economic Development in South Asia • Quantitative Techniques (b) Major Sectors and the International Economy • Development Economics • Themes and Approaches in the Political Economy • Foreign Trade and Developing Countries of Institutions OR • Money, Banking and Finance

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Assessment is in the form of written examinations and in many parts of the world, in international coursework. Completion of the Graduate Diploma development agencies and in a range of NGOs. at an acceptable level allows students to take one of A postgraduate degree is a valuable experience the MScs in Economics in the following year. that provides students with a body of work and a diverse range of skills with which they can market The programme starts in September. The entry themselves when they graduate. requirements are normally a first or upper second- class honours degree (or equivalent). Other relevant Examples of the careers graduates from this experience, including good qualifications in a less department have gone on to immediately relevant subject area, may be considered. after graduation include: Economic Adviser (Communities and Local Government Department), Career opportunities Assistant Economist (Department of Energy and Climate Change), Financial Development Worker A postgraduate degree in Economics from SOAS (ODI), Associate Analyst (Africa Research UK), equips students with a range of important skills to Analyst (Exclusive Analysis), Economist (Civil continue in the field of research as well as a portfolio Service), Economist (ODI). of widely transferable employability skills valued by a Examples of research wide range of employers. These include numeracy, degrees include: analytical thinking and general skills such as PhD Economics (SOAS); organisation and effective communication. In addition PhD Economics the study of Economics gives students particular (Cambridge). problem-solving skills such as abstraction, analysis, quantification, strategic thinking and adaptability. Postgraduate students from the SOAS MSc in Economics have followed successful careers in both academic work and in international banking and financial analysis, in national governments

Damian Burns MSc Political Economy of Development

Having completed an undergraduate degree in and the level of critique of both theory and empirics Economics at SOAS I, like many others, found it at which you are expected to engage makes the difficult to say my goodbyes to friends, lecturers and programme like no other in the UK. The variety of the ever welcoming Students’ Union bar to finally course options, from hard-core microeconomics enter the real world. So I enrolled in a Master’s to economics of the environment, means that all course. It was not only my personal connection interests are covered. This, for me, is truly special. with the institution, having been so heavily involved One of the most special things about SOAS is the in Student Union organisation and politics that led people. You do not have ‘colleagues’ or ‘course- me to the decision to stay, but I also felt that I had mates’; you have friends. We share knowledge, only scratched the surface of my potential level we do not compete, and that is a spirit which is of engagement and critique of economic theories valued by all here, from the lecturers to research within academia. I was left with a thirst to continue students, masters and undergraduates. I learn engaging with the debates within radical heterodox more from talking and engaging with people than economics and political economy. I could ever do out of any book. The Economics MSc offered by SOAS is unique SOAS is a place where people find a home, and in a number of ways. We house some of the most that is why so many, like myself, always seem to respected heterodox economists in the world, return; be it to study, protest, debate, or even just who respect and engage with every student. At have a cup of tea. SOAS you are encouraged to not play by the rules,

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Department of Financial and Management Studies

www.soas.ac.uk/defims Academic staff research areas Dr Richard Alexander MA (Cantab) Dip (City) PhD (London) Faculty Financial services law and regulation; control Law and Social Sciences of economic crime; human rights law; European Number of staff Union law. Academic 30 Professor Robert F Ash BA MSc (Econ) Teaching and Scholarship 1 PhD (London) Teaching and Scholarship (fractional) 11 China’s economic development in the twentieth RAE and twenty-first centuries; evolution of ‘Greater Ninety per cent of the work of the Department China’; economic development of Taiwan and was rated as world-leading, internationally cross-Strait economic relations. excellent or internationally recognised Dr Alberto Asquer Econ (Cagliari) MSc (London) Taught Master’s degrees PhD (Salerno) PhD (London) -- MSc International Management (China) Public policy and management, especially in the -- MSc International Management (Japan) political economy of regulation and regulatory -- MSc International Management (Middle East reforms; public policy implementation; public and North Africa) management. -- MSc Finance and Financial Law Dr Hong Bo BA MA (Laizhoo) PhD (Groningen) Firm investment decision under uncertainty; corporate finance; capital market imperfections; The Department of Financial and Management finance in China. Studies (DeFiMS) conducts research and postgraduate teaching in the fields of finance, Dr Senija Causevic M.Oecc (Croatia) management and related subjects. MA (Westminster) PhD (Strathclyde) Critical management; critical marketing; (contested) heritage marketing, management Research and interpretation; experiential marketing; destination marketing and representation; The Department gives a high priority to research. post-conflict cultural settings; Ottoman Ninety per cent of the Department’s return in Empire; India. the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) was rated as being of internationally recognised, Dr Ben Daley BSc (Sheffield) MSc (Birmingham) internationally excellent or world-leading quality. PhD (James Cook) The PhD programme offers advanced training Environmental management; sustainable and research supervision on topics in finance, development; air transport industry. management and development. Our current, Professor Andrew Dorward BA (Oxon) active research interests lie within four main areas: PhD (Reading) • comparative corporate governance, law Agricultural economics; sustainable development. and regulation Professor Ciaran Driver BE (NUI) MA (Lums) • finance, corporate finance and financial policy MSc (London) PhD (CNAA) • business management in China, Japan and the Theories of corporate governance; testing real- Middle East and North Africa options theory; capital investment studies; policy. • agribusiness, agricultural policy and water resource management. Dr Alberto Feduzi BA Doc (Rome) PhD (Cantab) Strategic and organisational decision making; project management under high uncertainty; behavioural economics and the behavioural foundations of strategy; the economics of the welfare state.

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Professor Bassam Fattouh BA (Beirut) Dr Nigel Poole BSc MSc PhD (London) MSc PhD (London) Agribusiness; supply-chain management. Finance, growth, nonlinear models and cycles; Mr Colin Poulton BA (Oxon) MSc (London) corporate finance; energy economics. Food policy, agricultural growth and Mr Norman Flynn BA (Econ) (Sussex) MA (Econ) poverty reduction. (Newcastle) Ms Sonja Ruehl BA PGCE (Oxon) MSc (Econ) Management in government; government-society (London) relationships; performance management. Financial sector development in Japan and Dr Matthew Haigh BCom MCom PhD Vietnam; gender issues in financing development; (Macquarie) CA CISA microfinance institutions in Vietnam. Accounting; social ecology; postcolonial Professor Pasquale Scaramozzino Laurea finance; cultural semiotics. (Rome) MSc (Econ) PhD (London) Professor Laurence Harris BSc (Econ) MSc Finance; development economics; (Econ) (London) applied econometrics. Corporate finance; ethics and finance; central Professor Bhavani Shankar BA (Madras) banking and macroeconomics. MA (New York) PhD (Illinois) Dr Eunsuk Hong BA BBA MBA (Korea) MSc PhD Integrative research in agriculture and health. (London) Dr Yoshikatsu Shinozawa BA (HOSEI) MBA Foreign direct investment; innovation and (London Business School) PhD (Nottingham) entrepreneurship firms; applied spatial Asset management firms and their products; econometrics; business management in corporate governance, and the banking industry China and South Korea. in Japan. Dr Yothin Jinjarak BA (Thammasat) Dr Laurence Smith BSc MSc (London) PhD (UC Santa Cruz) Water resource management and policy. International macroeconomics; finance. Professor Laixiang Sun BSc MSc (Peking) Dr Richard Mead BA (Durham) MA (Bangor) PhD (Inst Soc Studies) PhD (Birmingham) MM (Chulalongkorn) Corporate finance and governance; comparative Cross-cultural management. economics; integrated modeling; business Dr Helen Macnaughtan BA (Waikato) management; Chinese economy. MA PhD (London) Dr Damian Tobin BA MBS Econ (Limerick) Japanese economy; employment of women PhD (London) in Japan. Theory of the firm and China’s leading Dr Federico Mucciarelli Law (Bologna) corporations; stock market development in LLM (Heidelberg) PhD (Brescia) China; corporate governance and financial Takeover regulation; corporate and insolvency market regulation; public sector growth and law; international corporate law and freedom of economic development. establishment. Dr Frauke Urban BSc (Bayreuth) MSc (Edinburgh) Dr Mark Neal BA (Reading) PhD (Bournemouth) PhD (Groningen) Management and leadership in the Middle Low carbon development, energy policy East and South East Asia; corruption; tourism; and climate change mitigation in developing business education and poverty reduction; countries. sustainable development in MENA and SE Asia. Dr Huan Zou BA LLB (Peking) PhD (Manchester) Professor Christine Oughton BA (UEA) International market entry strategies; PhD (Cantab) international acquisitions; international Industrial organisation and policy; innovation; entrepreneurship; knowledge learning; regional innovation systems; sustainable venture capitals in emerging markets. development and corporate governance, including the governance and regulation of sport.

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Course structure MSc International Not all courses listed below may be offered every Management (China) year, and new courses may become available. For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, please visit the relevant departmental website or Duration contact the Faculty office or programme convenor. One calendar year (full-time) Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) Core modules Start of programme • International Management September intake only • Management in China 1: Domestic Perspectives • Management in China 2: International Entry requirements Perspectives Minimum first degree with good grades in • Research Methods in Management any subject equivalent to a UK upper second- class honours degree. Relevant professional Chinese managerial environment electives qualifications or experience will be considered • Chinese Language 1: Special Chinese Convenor (levels 1, 2, 3 or 4) Professor Laixiang Sun • Chinese Language 2: Advanced Chinese for Business Management • Chinese Law 3: Commercial Law This MSc focuses on management and its • Topics in the Chinese Economy environment in China and includes high-level courses in international management and finance General management electives disciplines. It draws upon China experts and • Corporate Finance management specialists within the School and • Corporate Governance from commerce, finance and government. It • Cross-cultural Management combines the study of China with close attention • E-business: Strategy and Policy to the business worlds of Hong Kong and Taiwan. • Economic Development of Modern Taiwan • International Business Strategy Students take four core and two elective courses • International Human Resource Management and write a 10,000-word dissertation on an • International Marketing approved topic. The core modules cover the • Risk Management: Principles and Applications principles and applications of international management and the interplay of global and local factors influencing management in China and international business management in relation to MSc International China. Students can use the elective modules to focus on globally relevant management skills, or to Management (Japan) specialise in understanding the Chinese business environment. They are encouraged to combine Duration courses from both to build an understanding of the One calendar year (full-time) local business and cultural environment. They also Two or three years (part-time) have the opportunity to learn Chinese at either an Start of programme introductory level or an advanced level for business September intake only purposes. No knowledge of Chinese is required to complete the MSc successfully since English Entry requirements language materials are used. Minimum first degree with good grades in any subject equivalent to a UK upper second-class honours degree Programme Convenor Ms Sonja Ruehl

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This MSc focuses on management and its • International Business Strategy environment in Japan and includes high-level • International Human Resource Management courses in international management and • International Marketing finance disciplines. It draws upon Japan experts • Risk Management: Principles and Applications within the School and from commerce, finance and government. Students take four core and two elective courses MSc International and write a 10,000-word dissertation on an approved topic. The core modules study the Management (Middle East principles and applications of international and North Africa) management and interplay of global and local factors influencing management in Japan. The Duration elective modules allow students to focus on globally One calendar year (full-time) relevant management skills and the Japanese Two or three years (part-time) business environment. Students are encouraged to take a mixture of both to build an understanding Start of programme of the local business and cultural environment. September intake only Students also have the opportunity to improve Entry requirements existing skills in Japanese and use them in Minimum first degree with good grades in studying data and source materials. No knowledge any subject equivalent to a UK upper second- of Japanese is required to complete the MSc class honours degree. Relevant professional successfully since English language materials qualifications or experience will be considered are available. Convenor Dr Mark Neal Course structure Not all courses listed below may be offered every This MSc covers management and its environment year, and new courses may become available. in the Middle East and North Africa through For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, high-level courses in international management please visit the relevant departmental website or and finance. It draws upon regional experts and contact the Faculty office or programme convenor. management specialists within the School and from commerce, finance and government. Core modules • International Management Students take four core and two elective • Management in Japan 1 courses and write a 10,000-word dissertation • Management in Japan 2 on an approved topic. The core courses cover • Research Methods in Management the principles and applications of international management and the interplay of global and local Japanese managerial environment electives factors influencing management in the Middle East • Economic Law 2: Foreign Trade and Investment and North Africa (MENA). Elective modules allow Law of Asia students to focus on globally relevant management • Japanese Financial System skills or the regional business environment. • Advanced Japanese for Business and Management (prerequisite: first degree or Special Japanese Course structure Level 2) Not all courses listed below may be offered every General management electives year, and new courses may become available. • Corporate Finance For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, • Corporate Governance please visit the relevant departmental website or • Cross-cultural Management contact the Faculty office or programme convenor. • E-business: Strategy and Policy

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Core courses Students take two pre-sessional introductory • International Management modules, the five compulsory modules and one • Management in MENA 1 elective module, and also write a dissertation. • Management in MENA 2 • Research Methods in Management Course structure MENA managerial electives Not all courses listed below may be offered every • Islamic Banking and Finance year, and new courses may become available. For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, International management electives please visit the relevant departmental website or • Corporate Finance contact the Faculty office or programme convenor. • Corporate Governance • Cross-cultural Management Introductory modules • E-business: Strategy and Policy • Introduction to Financial Analysis • International Business Strategy • Introduction to Law and Legal Method • International Human Resource Management • International Marketing Compulsory modules • Risk Management • Corporate Finance • Finance in the Global Market • Financial Law • Legal Aspects of Corporate Finance MSc Finance and • Legal Aspects of International Finance Financial Law Elective modules • Banking and Capital Markets Duration • Corporate Governance One calendar year (full-time) • Islamic Banking and Finance Two or three years (part-time) • Regulation of International Capital Markets Start of programme • Risk Management: Principles and Applications September (a three-week pre-sessional course in September is a requirement) Career opportunities Entry requirements A postgraduate degree from the Department of Minimum first degree with good grades in Financial and Management Studies at SOAS provides any subject equivalent to a UK upper second- students with a specialist international focus and class honours degree. Where an applicant the skills needed to work effectively in a global, has relevant professional qualifications or multicultural context. Graduates are equipped with experience this will also be considered advanced training and research expertise related Convenor to finance, management and development. This Dr Richard Alexander enables them to continue in the field of research or seek professional and management careers in both the business and public sectors. This MSc takes an integrated approach to finance Postgraduate students leave SOAS with a portfolio and financial law, including risk management, of widely transferable skills which employers seek. regulation, mergers and acquisitions, initial public These include analysing and selecting information; offerings, bond issues and loans. It provides the communicating effectively; understanding and specialist knowledge required in international banks interpreting numerical data; numeracy and and investment firms, legal practice, regulatory problem-solving. A postgraduate degree is a institutions and the academic world. The degree valuable experience that provides students with relates to both national and international finance, a body of work and a diverse range of skills with and considers how financial and legal principles which can market themselves when they graduate. apply in the context of case studies.

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Examples of the careers graduates from this Examples of research degrees or further study department have gone on to immediately after include: PhD Finance and Management (SOAS), graduation include: Analyst (Bloomberg, JP Morgan, Therapy (London Metropolitan University), Boston Consulting Group), Junior Researcher Population and Development (LSE). (UNIDO), Finance and Development Officer (UN), Bank Regulator (Ugandan Central Bank), Project Finance Officer (The International Trade Union Confederation), Financial Economist (State Bank of Vietnam), Senior Banking Officer (Bank of Uganda), Banking Consultant (African Development Bank), Exports Control Assistant (Mitsui and Co. UK plc), Assistant Director for Registration (Security and Exchange Commission), Analyst (Hana Bank), Government Advisor (Turkish Civil Service), Corporate Tax Analyst (HSBC), Legal Advisor (Kleinwort Benson).

Tariq Islam MSc Finance and Financial Law

I first came to SOAS as a study abroad student working for international institutions such as from the United States during my junior year of the International Monetary Fund or World Bank. my undergraduate degree. When I first arrived, This diversity has added to stimulating discussions I befriended people from all walks of life. The in tutorials. Additionally, it has built life-long classes I took during that time were challenging networks and friendships. and coerced me to think globally with my Part of the reason I chose SOAS over others public policy and law bachelor’s degree. I was is because it offered the Islamic Banking and surrounded by those who had real intellectual Finance elective module. This is a one-of-a-kind curiosity about the way the world works. I loved class and an interesting subject that only SOAS it so much that I ended up applying for the MSc offers. My hope is that the knowledge attained in Finance and Financial Law program. Although this class will make me more suited for international I’m an outlier from a ‘typical’ SOAS student in corporate jobs that deal with the states that are a that my interests are related to infrastructure part of the Gulf Cooperation Council. business, banking, and global financial regulation, I find there are like-minded people within the My dissertation will be on Islamic finance and its Department of Financial and Management Studies relation to infrastructure projects. My hope is that who, too, are fascinated with countries within the this piece of work will allow me to showcase this emerging market. to prospective employers in order to demonstrate my knowledge of such subject material. It is a way That was part of the reason I picked SOAS for my to combine my academic knowledge with practical postgraduate degree. The finance and financial knowledge skills needed for the workplace. law programme highlighted both the mechanics of finance in conjunction with the relevance of I would recommend SOAS for those who are the corporate law and their pivotal relationship interested in a mixed finance and law program to each other. Our program consisted of a mix which can dispense global knowledge about of lawyers, financiers, and economists both older the differences of finance within different world and younger. We have people that have worked jurisdictions. It is especially relevant to those who for major financial institutions such as KPMG seek to work or do some kind of business within and we have others who have their eyes set on the emerging market.

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Centre for Gender Studies

Research www.soas.ac.uk/ The MPhil and PhD in Gender Studies is a unique genderstudies programme combining cutting-edge theorising in Gender Studies with the special area expertise related to Asia, Africa and the Middle East which is Faculty a trademark of SOAS. Law and Social Sciences and Languages and Cultures The Centre places an emphasis on the acquisition of critical theoretical skills and in-depth regional Number of staff knowledge across disciplines. Members of the Academic 3 Centre and current research students work on an Teaching and Scholarship (Fractional) 1 exceptionally wide range of topics, both theoretical RAE and empirical. Supervision for research students can Ninety per cent of the work of the Department be provided across this wide range. MPhil and PhD was rated as world-leading, internationally students may register for a degree in Gender Studies excellent or internationally recognised. while being supervised by an associate member based in a SOAS department. Taught Master’s degrees -- MA Gender Studies The Centre organises a training programme in Gender Studies for research students, which is supported by regular Centre seminars. The Centre was established to promote the study of gender in relation to Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Its main aim is to encourage interdisciplinary Academic staff research areas research and teaching in Gender Studies with reference to the aforementioned regions. It also Professor Nadje Al-Ali BA (Tuscon) MA (Cairo) seeks to provide a forum for collaboration within PhD (London) SOAS and in conjunction with other institutions. Gender theory; feminist activism; women and gender in the Middle East; women’s movements The Centre provides an administrative and and feminism in the Middle East; secularism intellectual home for the School’s MA in Gender and Islamism; transnational migration, Studies as well as the MPhil and PhD in Gender diaspora mobilisation; gendering violence, Studies. It is responsible for the organisation of war and peace. regular seminars open to SOAS students and staff, academics and students of other institutions and the Dr Ruba Salih BA (Bologna) PhD (Sussex) general public. Gender, Islam and modernity in the Middle East and Europe; transnational migration and gender For details contact the co-chairs of the Centre for across the Mediterranean; multiculturalism and Gender Studies, Professor Nadje Al-Ali (na@soas.ac.uk) citizenship; gender, Islam and the public sphere; and Dr Gina Heathcote ([email protected]) or visit Islam in Europe; Palestine. www.soas.ac.uk/genderstudies Dr Gina Heathcote BA LLB (Australia) LLM (Westminster) PhD (London) International feminist legal theories; international law, especially laws on the use of force; women’s human rights; political and legal theories. Ms Katherine Natanel MA (London) Gender and feminist theory; political philosophy; domination, privilege and power; Israel-Palestine; gender in the Middle East; political violence; affect; feminist and women’s activism; critical pedagogy.

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Associate members (with department) Dr Dolores Martinez BA (Chicago) DipSocAnth DPhil (Oxon) Dr Fareda Banda BL LLB (Zimbabwe) DPhil (Oxon) Anthropology and Sociology Law Dr Dina Matar BSc (Jordan) Professor William G Clarence-Smith MSc PhD (London) MA (Cantab) DIPPOL (Paris) PhD (London) Media and Film Studies History Dr Alessandra Mezzadri BA (La Sapienza) Dr Stephen Dodd BA (Oxon) MA PhD (Columbia) MA PhD (London) Japan and Korea Development Studies Dr Lindiwe Dovey BA (Harvard) PhD (Cantab) Dr Ben Murtagh BA MA PhD (London) Africa South East Asia Dr Kai Easton BA (Gettysburg) MA PhD (London) Dr Eleanor Newbigin MA PhD (Cantab) Africa History Dr Ayman El-Dessouky BA (Cairo) MA PhD (Austin) Dr Caroline Osella BA PhD (London) Near and Middle East Studies Anthropology and Sociology Dr Christopher Gerteis BA (Santa Cruz) Dr Wen-chin Ouyang BA BEd (Tripoli) MA PhD (Iowa) MA MPhil PhD (Columbia) Japan Near and Middle East Dr Laura Hammond BA (Sarah Lawrence) Dr Parvathi Raman BA PhD (London) MA PhD (Wisconsin) Anthropology and Sociology Development Studies Dr Rahul Rao BA LLB (India) DPhil (Oxon) Dr Rachel Harrison BA PhD (London) Politics and International Studies South East Asia Professor Timon Screech MA (Oxon) Dr Sîan Hawthorne PhD (London) MA PhD (Harvard) Study of Religions Art and Archaeology Dr Angela Impey BA (Durban) BMus (Cape Town) Professor Annabelle Sreberny MA (Cantab) PhD (Indiana) PhD (Columbia) FRSA Music Media and Film Studies Professor Deniz Kandiyoti BA (Paris) MSc PhD Dr Anicee van Engeland LLM (Harvard Law (London) School) PhD (Sorbonne) Development Studies Law Dr Tanja Kaiser BA (Bristol) MPhil DPhil (Oxon) Dr Gabriele Vom Bruck MSc PhD (London) Development Studies Anthropology and Sociology Dr Sarah Keenan BA/LLB (ANU) PhD (Kent) Professor Lynn Welchman MA (Cantab) Queer and Feminist Legal Theory PhD (London) Dr Laleh Khalili BSc (Texas) MPhil PhD (Columbia) Law Politics and International Studies Dr Amina Yaqin BA (Punjab) BA (Sussex) Dr Karima Laachir MA PhD (Leeds) PGCE PhD (London) (Birmingham) South Asia Near and Middle East Dr Katherine Zebiri BA PhD (London) Dr Zoe Marriage BA (Oxon) MSc PhD (London) Near and Middle East Studies Development Studies

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• a broad MA programme for students with some MA Gender Studies background in Women’s Studies, Gender Studies and Area Studies who wish to enhance their knowledge of gender in relation to cross-cultural Duration issues, with or without language study One calendar year (full-time) Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) • a special-interest MA enabling students to examine gender issues in relation to a particular Start of programme regional or disciplinary specialisation. September intake only

Entry requirements Structure and requirements Minimum upper second-class or above honours degree (or equivalent) Students take three courses and complete a 10,000-word dissertation. Convenor Professor Nadje Al-Ali All students take the course Gender Theory and the Study of Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Further options include a range of gender and The MA in Gender Studies is unique in that it gender-related courses from a comprehensive list refocuses issues of Western gender studies on the offered by the three faculties. Only one language complex specificities of Asia, Africa and the Middle course may be taken. East. Drawing on the expertise of staff across all The dissertation must be based on the compulsory faculties, it offers the specialised study of gender course or one of the course options with relevance in relation to Asian, African and Middle Eastern to Gender Studies. cultures, with rigorous training and questioning of contemporary gender theory. Course structure The degree will particularly appeal to students with the following backgrounds: Not all courses listed below may be offered every year, and new courses may become available. • those coming from Women’s Studies or Gender For an up-to-date list of courses on offer, please Studies who wish to engage more deeply with visit the Centre for Gender Studies website. gender theory in relation to regional specialisation, especially, but not exclusively, within the societies Core course of Asia, Africa and the Middle East • Gender Theory and the Study of Asia, Africa and • those coming from Asian, African or Middle the Middle East Eastern Studies who wish to incorporate the study of gender into their areas of expertise Course options Students must choose the equivalent of two full units • those having previously trained in particular from the two lists below; only one language course disciplines, such as Anthropology, Cultural and may be taken (see Faculty of Languages and Cultures). Media Studies, Religious Studies, Comparative Literature, History and Politics. List 1 By selecting courses to suit the academic needs of At least one unit (one or two courses) must be each student, the programme can provide: chosen from this list • specialised research training, perhaps including a • Gender in the Middle East (half unit, term one) relevant language. This is a suitable pathway for • Queer Politics in Asia, Africa and the Middle East students contemplating advanced postgraduate (half unit, term one) research in Gender Studies with regard to regional • Gendering Migration and Diasporas specialisation (half unit, term two) • Gender and Development (half unit, term two) • Issues in the Anthropology of Gender (half unit, term two)

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• Feminist Legal Theory • Cinema, Nation and the Transcultural (full unit, term one and term two) • Indian Cinema: Key Issues • Gender, Armed Conflict and International Law • South Asian Cinema and the Diaspora (half unit, term two) • Theory and Techniques of Comparative Literature • Migration, Gender and the Law in South East Asia • Social and Political Dimensions of Modern and Beyond (half unit, term one) Arabic Literature • Critical Theory and the Study of Religions • Literatures of South Asia (full unit, term one and term two) • Violence, Justice and the Politics of Memory • Imagining Pakistan: Culture, Politics, Gender • HIV, AIDS and Development (full unit, term one and term two) • one language acquisition course taught at SOAS • Historical Perspectives on Gender in Africa (half unit, term one) Graduate destinations • Gender and Music (half unit, term two) • Gender and Christianity (half unit, term one) SOAS’s MA Gender Studies provides an • Judaism and Gender (half unit, term two) innovative perspective on the study of Gender • Orthodoxy and Gender in Indian Traditions in important regional and cultural dimensions. (full unit, term one and term two) The interdisciplinary potential of the degree, • Genders and Sexualities in South East Asian Film including language study, offers a unique insight (half unit, term two) into contemporary gender theory in vital areas • Gender Policy and Planning (UCL, Development of the world. Skills gained from studying Gender Planning Unit) (half unit, term one and term two) Studies include analytic skills, the ability to think laterally and employ critical reasoning, and knowing List 2 how to present materials and ideas effectively both Remaining units must be taken from this list orally and in writing. • Civil Society, Social Movements and the Examples of the type of careers and further study Development Process undertaken by our graduates include development, • Comparative Politics of the Middle East media and journalism, publishing, advocacy, policy • Postcolonial Theory and Practice and education. Our students have obtained research • African and Asian Diasporas in the or advocacy posts in think tanks, academic research Contemporary World centres, NGOs working on women’s rights and • African and Asian Cultures in Britain gender justice, and international organisations, • Culture and Society of China for example the United Nations and Amnesty • Culture and Society of East Africa International. Several of our graduates have • Culture and Society of Japan continued to do PhDs in relevant fields and have • Culture and Society of the Near and Middle East obtained academic positions in various Universities. • Culture and Society of South Asia • Culture and Society of South East Asia • Culture and Society of West Africa • Food, Body and Society (cannot be taken with Food, Development and the Global Economy) • Food, Development and the Global Economy (cannot be taken with Food, Body and Society) • Law and Social Movements • Law and Society in South Asia • Law and Society in the Middle East and North Africa • Law, Human Rights and Peace Building: The Israeli-Palestinian Case • African and Asian Diasporas in the Modern World • Modern Trends in Islam • Film and Society in the Middle East • Travelling Africa: Writing the Cape to Cairo Kenya – Bianca Notarbartolo

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Department of History

Institute of Historical Research and the Institute www.soas.ac.uk/history of Commonwealth Studies, which run their own research seminars. Faculty While some theses rely mainly on materials in Arts and Humanities English and other European languages, a major advantage of taking a research degree in History at Number of staff SOAS is that we provide instruction in many African Academic 20 and Asian languages. Students requiring such Teaching and Scholarship (fractional) 9 instruction should mention it when applying, and RAE discuss arrangements with prospective supervisors Ninety per cent of the work of the Department soon after receiving an offer. Research students in was rated as either world-leading, internationally History whose work extends into other disciplines excellent or internationally recognised. are encouraged to seek advice from staff in other departments, such as Anthropology and Sociology Taught Master’s degrees and the Study of Religions. -- MA History -- MA Historical Research Methods In addition to the resources of the SOAS Library, our students benefit from easy access to the British See also Library (including the India Office and Oriental -- MA Film and History (page 113) Collections), the British Library Newspaper Archive at Colindale, the National Archives at Kew, and many central London archives and libraries. The Department is recognised internationally as a centre of excellence for postgraduate studies in the history of Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Academic staff research areas Research Dr Teresa Bernheimer BA (London) MPhil DPhil (Oxon) In recent Research Assessment Exercises (1996, Islamic history to 1200; social history of elites 2001 and 2008), the Department achieved in early Islam, especially ‘Alid family. consistently impressive results. With 20 full-time staff – and a diverse corps of research associates Professor Ian Brown BA (Bristol) and distinguished visiting scholars – it provides MA PhD (London) a rich research environment, much of it centred The modern economic and political history of on its research seminar series on African, South South East Asia; the economic impact of the Asian, Middle Eastern, East Asian and South East inter-war depression on South East Asia. Asian history. Professor William Gervase Clarence-Smith With around 20 students a year joining the History MA (Cantab) DIPPOL (Paris) PhD (London) PhD, it has a large and active research community. The modern economic history of the Third Research supervision is provided for a wide range World; South East Asian history; tree crops; of topics within Africa and Asia’s vast past, although Asian trading diasporas; alternative transport it has particular strength in cultural, social, religious technologies. and political history. Dr Michael Charney BA (Michigan-Flint) Research students are required to attend, during MA (Michigan and Ohio) PhD (Michigan) their first year, a weekly seminar which provides The social and cultural history of early training for research methods specifically in the modern South East Asia, with particular history of Africa and Asia. In addition, research reference to Burma. students attend a weekly regional history seminar Dr Wayne Dooling BA MA (Cape Town) – on Africa, South Asia, the Near and Middle East, PhD (Cantab) East Asia or South East Asia – and often special Early colonial South African history; slavery workshops on themes related to their research. and emancipation in the Cape Colony. Close links are maintained with the nearby

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Professor Benjamin Fortna BA (Yale) Dr Marie Rodet MA (Rennes) PhD (Vienna) MA (Columbia) Migration, gender and slavery in West Africa. Modern Middle Eastern history; the late Dr Mandy Sadan MA (Oxon) PhD (London) Ottoman Empire, late Ottoman education Colonial and post-colonial South East Asia, and literature. especially Burma; ethnicity; material, visual Dr Nelida Fuccaro MA (Venice) PhD (Durham) and oral cultures. Modern Middle Eastern history, especially Iraq, Dr Shabnum Tejani BA (Oberlin) MA MPhil PhD Persian Gulf and Syria; colonialism, ethnicity (Columbia) and nationalism; Kurdish history. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century social and Dr Christopher Gerteis BA (UC Santa Cruz) intellectual history of India, particularly of the MA PhD (Iowa) Bombay Presidency; communalism, secularism Modern and contemporary Japanese history, and nationalism in India. especially the intersection of consumer Dr Heidi Walcher BA (Tübingen) MA PhD (Yale) capitalism and historical memory; social Political and social history of nineteenth-century and cultural history of the twentieth-century; Iran; Qajar urban history. work and gender. Dr Konrad Hirschler MA PhD (London) History of the Middle East; Islam in the Middle East. MA History Dr Andrea Janku MA PhD (Heidelberg) Duration China, social and cultural history; the early press and the history of communication; One calendar year (full-time) environmental history. Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) Dr Lars Laaman BA (Freiburg) PhD (London) Start of programme Social and cultural history of modern China. September intake only Dr George Lane BA MA PhD (London) Entry requirements Mongol history; the Ilkhanate; Iran’s relations Minimum upper second-class honours degree with Yuan China; Toluid Mongol rule. (or equivalent) Dr Angus Lockyer BA (Cantab) MA (Washington) Convenor PhD (Stanford) Dr Andrea Janku Modernisation and modernity in Japan; world’s See also fairs, international and industrial exhibitions; -- MA Historical Research Methods (page 167) history of golf. Dr Eleanor Newbigin BA MPhil PhD (Cantab) Modern South Asia, particularly the transition Many students choosing this MA have recently to independence; gender, family and law in completed a first degree focusing on the history colonial and post-colonial India. of the Western world but have come to realise, correctly, that there lies beyond Europe a vast, rich Dr John Parker BA PhD (London) historical experience to be explored. Others take West African history, especially social, cultural the MA to prepare for a higher degree such as an and religious history of Ghana. MPhil or PhD in History. Professor Richard Reid BA (Stirling) PhD (London) Each student is required to choose three courses Warfare in Eastern Africa; politics of the Horn. from a wide range of options. One of these courses Professor Peter Robb BA (Wellington) will be the student’s major course. The degree is PhD (London) completed by the writing, after the examinations, History of modern South Asia; early Calcutta; of a 10,000-word dissertation on a topic which has Indian agrarian history. evolved over the year from the major course.

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In choosing their courses most students focus • The History and Politics of Portuguese-speaking either on a particular region – Africa, the Near and Africa Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia or East Asia • Warfare and the Military in African History – or on a specific theme, for example, the rise of Near and Middle East nationalism in colonial Africa or Asia; economic and • Origins and Development of Islam in the Middle social change in the colonial world; the history of East: Problems and Perspectives Islam. One history course may be substituted with • The End of Empire in the Middle East and an approved course from another MA programme the Balkans – for example, a language course – an option that • The Middle East, the Mongols and the Silk Road may be of particular interest to those contemplating to China (half unit) future research or wishing to broaden the • Modernity and the Transformation of the Middle disciplinary scope of the programme. East, 1839–1958 It is also possible to select one course (minor only) • Outsiders in Mediaeval Middle Eastern Societies: from a list of History courses offered by other Minorities, Social Outcasts and Foreigners (half unit) University of London colleges. One of the three East Asia taught courses may be Research Methods in • Japanese Modernity I (half unit) History with Special Reference to Asia and Africa. • Japanese Modernity II (half unit) It is particularly valuable to those intending to • Locating China I: China and Other World Views proceed to a higher research degree. Before ‘Westernisation’ (half unit) • Locating China II: Missionaries and Misfits in the Course structure British Construction of China (half unit) • History of Religion in Imperial China Not all courses listed may be offered every year, and • Sex and Gender in the 20th Century: new courses may become available. For an up-to- Contemporary Japan in Context (half unit) date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, please visit • Society, Culture and Drugs in China 1700–1990 the relevant departmental website or contact the • Topics in the History of Traditional Korea Faculty office. Some courses may be taught in other • Topics in Modern Korean History departments of the School. • Knowledge and Power in Late Imperial China Choose one major and two minor courses from South Asia below (the dissertation must be linked to the • Islam in South Asia selected major). • Gender, Law and the Family in the History of Methodology Modern South Asia • Research Methods in History with Special • Problems and Debates in the Social History of Reference to Asia and Africa Modern South Asia • Pakistan: History, Culture, Islam Comparative/Global • Modern Bengal: the Evolution of Bengali Culture • The International History of the Contemporary and Society from 1690 to the Present Day World (half unit, term one) • The Indian Temple • History of Environment and Globalisation in Asia and Africa (half unit, term two) South East Asia • Society and Politics in Late Colonial South East Asia Africa • World War II, Cold War and the ‘War on Terror’: • Colonial Conquest and Social Change in Southern The United States and South East Asia, from 1942 Africa (half unit) to Present • Historical Perspectives on Gender in Africa (half unit) • The Rise and Fall of South East Asian Empires, • Slavery in West Africa in the Nineteenth and 16th–19th Centuries Twentieth Centuries (half unit) • Jawi and the Malay Manuscript Tradition • History, People and Cultures of Ethiopia • Pre-modern Historical Texts of Java, Bali and • Painting and Architecture in the Christian the Malay World in English Translation North-Eastern Africa: 2nd–18th Centuries • State and Culture in Mainland South East Asia • Social and Cultural Transformations in Southern in the 16th–19th Centuries (half unit) Africa since 1945 (half unit)

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• The State and the Art: Photography and Nation- The MA in Historical Research Methods is designed Building in Burma (half unit) to train students in research skills to the level • Histories of Ethnicity and Conflict in South East prescribed by the various funding councils. It is Asia I: Making States and Building Nations (half unit) intended for students with a good first degree in • Histories of Ethnicity and Conflict in South East History or who possess a taught Master’s degree Asia II: Non-national Perspectives (half unit) in History. Most students would be expected to progress to a research degree in History at the end An approved Asian, African or Middle Eastern of the course, but it is also possible to take it as a Language (Minor Only) stand-alone Master’s programme. See departments of the Faculty of Languages and Cultures for details www.soas.ac.uk/ Students are required to complete a programme languagecultures of research training and submit a 10,000-word dissertation on an approved topic. Candidates Courses from other colleges must also submit a number of research-related Students may take up to one full unit course from assignments which, taken together with the the list below – availability should be checked with dissertation, are equivalent to approximately the appropriate college. 30,000 words. For students progressing to a PhD, the MA dissertation will normally take the form • Goldsmiths College – Islam and Christianity in of a research proposal. Modern Africa (half unit) • Goldsmiths College – A Visual History of Buddhism (half unit) Course structure • Royal Holloway College – The Growth of Muslim • Research Methods in History with Special Communities in Britain, 1879–1950 Reference to Asia and Africa • Royal Holloway College – Gender and Society in • Sources and Research Design in Historical the Modern Islamic World Research (core course, one-to-one supervision) • University College London – Nationalism and EITHER National Identity in 20th Century Latin America • language training from the Faculty of Languages • University College London – Thinking and Cultures for students who do not have the Postcolonially: Britain and the Empire in the appropriate language skills 19th Century OR • one course listed for the MA History (page 165) to be selected with advice from the dissertation MA Historical Research supervisor Methods Methodology • Research Methods in History with Special Reference to Asia and Africa Duration One calendar year (full-time) Comparative/Global Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) • The Making of the Contemporary World (half unit, term one) Start of programme • History of Environment and Globalisation in Asia September intake only and Africa (half unit, term two) Entry requirements Africa Minimum upper second-class honours degree • Colonial Conquest and Social Change in Southern (or equivalent); relevant background in the Africa (half unit) region of specialism • Historical Perspectives on Gender in Africa Convenor (half unit) Dr Wayne Dooling • Slavery in West Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries (half unit) See also • Painting and Architecture in the Christian -- MA History (page 165) North- Eastern Africa: 2nd–18th Centuries

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• Social and Cultural Transformations in Southern An Approved Asian, African or Middle Eastern Africa since 1945 (half unit) Language (Minor Only) • Warfare and the Military in African History See departments of the Faculty of Languages and Cultures for details www.soas.ac.uk/ Near and Middle East languagecultures • Origins and Development of Islam in the Middle East: Problems and Perspectives • The End of Empire in the Middle East and Graduate destinations the Balkans A postgraduate degree from the Department • The Middle East, the Mongols and the Silk Road of History at SOAS provides students with an to China (half unit) understanding of the world, giving them specialised • Modernity and the Transformation of the Middle historical knowledge and an understanding of East, 1839–1958 the cultural sensibilities of a region. Postgraduate • Outsiders in Mediaeval Middle Eastern Societies: students are equipped with the expertise to Minorities, Social Outcasts and Foreigners continue in research as well as the skills needed (half unit) to enable them to find professional careers in the East Asia private and public sectors. • Japanese Modernity I (half unit) Postgraduate students leave SOAS with a portfolio • Japanese Modernity II (half unit) of widely transferable skills which employers seek, • Topics in the History of Traditional Korea including familiarity with methods of research, • Topics in Modern Korean History the competence to manage large quantities of • Knowledge and Power in Early Modern China information, the ability to select and organise • Nationhood and Competing Identities in information, and analytical skills. A postgraduate Modern China degree is a valuable experience that provides South Asia students with a body of work and a diverse range • Islam in South Asia of skills with which they can market themselves • Gender, Law and the Family in the History of when they graduate. Modern South Asia (half unit) Examples of the careers graduates from this • The Body and the Making of Colonial Difference department have gone on to immediately after in British India (half unit) graduation include: History Teacher (Conflict • Colonialism and Nationalism in South Asia Centre Education), Civil Servant (Home Office), • Pakistan: History, Culture, Islam Researcher on Historical Documentary (BBC), • Modern Bengal: the Evolution of Bengali Culture Project Coordinator (Labour Friends of Palestine/ and Society from 1690 to the Present Day Martin Linton MP), Archivist (British Library), • The Indian Temple Freelance Trainer (Conflict and Change). South East Asia Examples of research degrees include: PhD • Society and Politics in Late Colonial South Archaeology (SOAS), PhD History (SOAS), East Asia PhD History (University of Oxford). • World War II, Cold War and the ‘War on Terror’: The United States and South East Asia, from 1942 to Present • Jawi and the Malay Manuscript Tradition (half unit) • Pre-modern Historical Texts of Java, Bali and the Malay World in English Translation (half unit) • Histories of Ethnicity and Conflict in South East Asia I: Making States and Building Nations (half unit) • Histories of Ethnicity and Conflict in South East Asia II: Non-national Perspectives (half unit)

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Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy

of Politics, Law and Economics within the Faculty www.cisd.soas.ac.uk of Law and Social Sciences. CISD Master’s programmes are rare in combining Faculty applied skills training in such topics as negotiation, Law and Social Sciences mediation, policy analysis and speech writing with rigorous theoretical analysis – an integrated Number of staff approach hard to find elsewhere. The programme Academic 6 fee also includes media training and a study tour to Teaching and Scholarship (fractional) 5 continental Europe. The student body is drawn from RAE dozens of countries and includes recent graduates Ninety per cent of the work of the Politics and seasoned professionals. Department was rated as world-leading, The Centre builds on the MA International Studies internationally excellent or internationally and Diplomacy, a programme devoted to providing recognised. students with the skills and training necessary for Taught Master’s degrees an international career in government, business -- MA International Studies and Diplomacy and NGOs. The MA Globalisation and Multinational -- MA Globalisation and Multinational Corporations critiques corporate behaviours Corporations from legal and political-economy perspectives, -- MSc Global Energy and Climate Policy discusses the regulation of multinational enterprises and includes project management and advanced Postgraduate diploma media skills. In addition, the MSc Global Energy -- PGDIP International Studies and Diplomacy and Climate Policy is the world’s first integrated Research programme Master’s programme addressing energy concerns -- MPhil/PhD Global Studies and climate change as inextricably linked. Nuclear power, renewable energy and fossil fuels in the context of climate change are considered together The Centre for International Studies and with issues of conflict and geopolitics, corporate Diplomacy (CISD) at SOAS is committed to the monopoly, regulatory change and the rise of promotion of excellence in teaching, scholarship countries such as China, India and Brazil. and research, the development of applied international studies and to ensuring that its General information work impacts key international debates. The mission of CISD is to promote cross-disciplinary Study tours are included in the course fee and teaching that combines the distinctive expertise are distinct for each degree. For example, the of SOAS with cutting-edge research and public MA International Studies and Diplomacy students discussion of international politics in a globalising visit the UN organisation in Geneva, while those world. The Centre’s research on corporate on the MSc Global Energy and Climate Policy visit governance, on disarmament and globalisation Paris and Brussels. and on the origins and future of the United Nations exemplify this approach. Research Opportunities SOAS offers an education that goes beyond the CISD is involved in a number of interdisciplinary Euro-centric approach which has dominated such research programmes. Students are actively programmes in the past. It is able to do this because encouraged to contribute to our research, whether the breadth and depth of its scholarly resources by taking part in events or pursuing research in make it the leading centre for the study of Asia, these areas as dissertation topics. We are active in Africa and the Middle East in Europe. our Disarmament and Globalisation programme, These programmes have a multidisciplinary which includes our conference series on a Middle structure based in the Centre for International East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone Studies and Diplomacy. They draw on the teaching and a global disarmament initiative called SCRAP and research strengths of the SOAS departments (a Strategic Concept for the Removal of Arms and

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Proliferation). We also run a War Crimes project examining the UN War Crimes Commission from Dr J Simon Rofe BA MA (Keele) PhD (Wales) 1943–48 and a project on economic fairness Diploma Distinction (London) focusing specifically on corporate accountability US Diplomatic and foreign relations in and limited liability. Further information about the twentieth century with a focus on US these projects and others are available on the national security. CISD website. Dr Rahul Rao BA LLB (India) DPhil (Oxon) International normative theory (with a focus on cosmopolitanism); postcolonial theory; empire; Academic staff research areas globalisation; social movements; international law; human rights (particularly gay rights). Dr Stephanie Blankenburg MA (Hamburg) MPhil (Cantab) Dr Leslie Vinjamuri BA (Wesleyan) MSc (Econ) Growth theory; economic institutions; history of PhD (Columbia) economic analysis; development in Latin America. International politics; the politics of international justice; the politics of human rights and Dr Catriona Drew LLB (Aberdeen) PhD (London) humanitarianism; international organisation; the Public international law; international legal international politics of secularism and religion. history (particularly self-determination of peoples) and legal theory. Dr Harald Heubaum MA (Dresden) PhD (London) MA/PGDIP International Environmental politics and policy, climate change mitigation and energy security; strategic Studies and Diplomacy framing and argumentation theory; international relations theory. Duration Dr Stephen Hopgood BSc (Bristol) DPhil (Oxon) One calendar year (full-time) International relations theory; international politics Two or three years (part-time) in the twentieth century; theories of the state. Start of programme Dr Mark Laffey BA MA (Canterbury, NZ) September intake only PhD (Minnesota) Entry requirements International theory; international security; Normally a first-class or upper second-class historical sociology; foreign policy analysis; honours degree (or equivalent). Relevant work US foreign policy; north-south relations; experience or good qualifications in a less culture and ideology. relevant subject area may be considered Professor Peter Muchlinski LLB (London) Special features LLM (Cantab) Barrister FRSA Practical and academic emphasis plus media International Commercial Law, Multinational training and a European study tour Enterprises in a Globalising World. Dr Suthaharan Nadarajah MA PhD (London) International relations theory; international The MA and PG Diploma International Studies security; global governance; north-south and Diplomacy programme is designed for relations; politics of the ‘War on Terror’. those engaged in or planning to embark upon a professional career requiring international Dr Dan Plesch BA (Nottingham) PhD (Keele) expertise in government, not-for-profit, corporate Applied international relations: weapons of or academic environments. mass destruction; diplomacy, globalisation and corporate accountability; globalisation and The degree aims to prepare students for a wide democracy; globalisation and energy; role of range of roles. For example, within a Foreign Service international non-governmental organisations; or other government department, international civil the United Nations and the Nazis. service (such as the United Nations or European Union), international NGOs (working in fields such

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as development, humanitarian assistance and interest in the international field. Candidates whose conflict resolution), multinational corporations first language is not English must have acquired a and international media. level of written and spoken English satisfactory to the School. The programme suits those engaged in or considering research roles such as within a policy All MA and MSc students must complete a think tank, risk analysis organisation or doctoral 10,000-word dissertation valued at 25 per cent programme. It also suits those seeking to deepen of the overall assessment for their degrees. their academic and practical understanding of international affairs and contemporary Course structure diplomatic practice. MA students take taught courses to the value of Structure and requirements three full units plus a 10,000-word dissertation • One unit from List 1 Not all courses listed below may be offered every • One unit from List 1 or 2 year, and new courses may become available. For • One unit from List 1, 2 or 3 an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, • Dissertation (compulsory) on a topic related to please visit the Centre website or contact the the programme’s core themes Faculty office. Postgraduate Diploma candidates take courses as The schedule is designed to allow participation the MA but excluding the dissertation. by those in full-time employment. The duration of study is one calendar year full-time, or two or List 1 three years part-time. The duration of study for the International Studies and Diplomacy courses Postgraduate Diploma in International Studies and • General Diplomatic Studies and Practice (one unit) Diplomacy is one academic year full-time or two • International Relations 1: Foundation in World academic years part-time. Attendance for full-time Politics (half unit) students is typically three hours on three evenings • International Relations 2: Contemporary World each week during term time. Additional seminars Politics (half unit) and one-day events may be scheduled. • International Law 1: Foundation (half unit) Participants may choose a combination of courses to • International Law 2: Contemporary Problems meet their professional needs and personal interests. of World Order (half unit) The programme is convened on a multidisciplinary • International Economics (one unit) basis, and teaching is through lectures and seminars • International Security (one unit) and additional workshops conducted by SOAS • The United Nations in the World (half unit) faculty staff and visiting specialists. • Sport and Diplomacy (half unit) The award of the MA degree or of the Postgraduate List 2 Diploma is made on successful completion of Additional courses available within CISD an examination in the appropriate number of • Global Energy and Climate Policy (one unit) courses and – in case of the MA and MSc – also a • Multinational Enterprises in a Globalising World dissertation. Each course is examined by a two- or – Economic and Legal Perspectives (one unit) three-hour written paper and written coursework. We welcome applications from academically strong List 3 individuals (first or upper second-class equivalent) Electives from a wide variety of fields and backgrounds. An elective course can be chosen from a wide However, it is not necessary to have a first degree variety available at SOAS dependent upon in a discipline directly related to the programme. permission being granted by the course convenor and the student’s prior academic qualifications. Each application is assessed on its individual merits and entry requirements may be modified in light of relevant professional experience and where the applicant can demonstrate a sustained practical

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List 1 MA Globalisation and Globalisation and Multinational Corporations Courses Multinational Corporations • Multinational Enterprises in a Globalising World – Economic and Legal perspectives (one unit) Duration • Global Public Policy (half unit) One calendar year (full-time) • Project Management (half unit) Two or three years (part-time) List 2 Start of programme Additional courses available within CISD September intake only • International Relations 1: Foundation in World Entry requirements Politics (half unit) Normally a first-class or upper second-class • International Relations 2: Contemporary World honours degree (or equivalent). Relevant work Politics (half unit) experience or good qualifications in a less • International Law 1: Foundation (half unit) relevant subject area may be considered • International Law 2: Contemporary Problems of World Order (half unit) Special features • International Economics (one unit) Practical and academic emphasis plus media • International Security (one unit) training and a European study tour • The United Nations in the World (half unit) • Sport and Diplomacy (half unit) • Global Energy and Climate Policy (one unit) The MA Globalisation and Multinational Corporations programme is designed for those List 3 engaged in or aspiring to professional careers in Electives the public, corporate or not-for-profit sectors An elective course can be chosen from a wide related to the political and economic management variety available at SOAS dependent upon and regulation of multinational corporations. permission being granted by the course convenor The interdisciplinary programme specifically and the student’s prior academic qualifications. addresses the requirements of those seeking a comprehensive theoretical and practical understanding of the role and dynamics of large corporations in the global economy and international affairs. It aims to prepare students for roles, such as advisors, managers, researchers or project professionals with multinational corporations, government departments, regulatory agencies, international organisations (such as the OECD or WTO), industry bodies, NGOs, trade unions and advocacy organisations. Students take taught courses to the value of three full units plus a 10,000-word dissertation. • Two units from List 1 (compulsory) • One unit from List 2 or 3 • Dissertation (compulsory) on a topic related to the programme’s core themes

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Students take taught courses to the value of three MSc Global Energy and full-units plus a 10,000-word dissertation Climate Policy • Two units from List 1 (compulsory) • One unit from List 2 or 3 • Dissertation (compulsory) on a topic related to Duration the programme’s core themes One calendar year (full-time) Two or three years (part-time) List 1 Start of programme Global Energy and Climate Policy courses September intake only • Global Energy and Climate Policy (one unit) • Global Public Policy (half unit) Entry requirements • Applied Energy and Climate Studies (half unit) Normally a first-class or upper second-class honours degree (or equivalent). Relevant work List 2 experience or good qualifications in a less Additional courses available within CISD relevant subject area may be considered • Multinational Enterprises in a Globalising World Special features – Economic and Legal Perspectives (half unit) Practical and academic emphasis plus media • International Relations 1: Foundation in World training and a European study tour Politics (half unit) • International Relations 2: Contemporary World Politics (half unit) The MSc Global Energy and Climate Policy is • International Law 1: Foundation (half unit) the first Master’s programme to jointly address • International Law 2: Contemporary Problems the issues of climate and energy policy in an of World Order (half unit) interdisciplinary fashion. It tackles policy and • International Economics (one unit) regulatory change, the historical and technological • International Security (one unit) evolution of energy sources, energy markets and • The United Nations in the World (half unit) their participants, the global governance of climate • Sport and Diplomacy (half unit) change as well as the challenges associated with transitioning to a low-carbon economy. List 3 Electives The programme specifically addresses the An elective course can be chosen from a wide requirements of those wishing to deepen their variety available at SOAS, dependent upon theoretical and practical understanding of how permission being granted by the course convenor energy and climate policies are designed, shaped, and the student’s prior academic qualifications. advocated and implemented and by whom. It uses a multitude of cases drawn from the global North and South and across different levels of political Graduate destinations organisation, from local to global. The MA in International Studies and Diplomacy is The MSc is designed for those engaged with, or a programme aimed at those intending to pursue a planning a career in, professional contexts relating to career in global civil society and traditional diplomacy. energy or climate policy. It prepares for a multitude The MA programme Globalisation and Multinational of careers in public and private contexts, including in Corporations is designed for those engaged with, public administration and government departments, or who are planning for, a career in international strategic policy and risk advisory, government professional contexts relating to the political relations and public affairs, policy advocacy, think and economic management and regulation of tanks and academia. multinational enterprises. The MSc in Global Energy and Climate Policy is the first such degree to integrate both the study of traditional energy policy with issues of security and climate change on a global scale.

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Skills gained from Development Studies include analytical skills, the ability to think laterally and employ critical reasoning, and knowing how to present materials and ideas effectively both orally and in writing. Examples of the careers and further study graduates from this department have immediately undertaken include: Humanitarian Affairs Analyst (United Nations), Media Specialist (Government of Kuwait), Civil Servant – Protocol Officer (Thai Government), Strategic Analyst (Central Office of Information), Consultant (Deloitte), Senior Policy Advisor (Ministry of Justice), Graduate Trainee (European Commission), Events Manager (Amnesty International), Special Programs Coordinator, Council on American-Islamic Relations (BBC), Research Analyst (Good Governance Group), Diplomat (Sudanese Embassy in London). A number of students have undertaken PhDs in areas such as Chinese Politics, Philosophy of Education and Population and Development. Other graduates have taken professional qualifications including legal conversions, journalism courses and language study.

Cornelia Rottenmoser MSc in Global Energy and Climate Policy

As a student at the Centre for International Being a foreign student and not being familiar Studies and Diplomacy (CISD) I am exposed to with the British educational system I found open many different ways of thinking, evaluating history ears and helpful hands whenever I needed support and leaving the Euro-centric path of looking from my lecturers and tutors. at historic and current events from a different SOAS is not only located in one of the most angle. The whole community of students fascinating cities of Europe but lies in the heart and researchers benefits from the School’s of it. Access to other University of London libraries specialisations in these broad but incredibly is easy, the provision of study rooms is plentiful interesting fields of studies by focusing on Africa and the service provided by professors and and the Middle East, regions which rarely stand administration is of high value. In the beating in the focus of academic orientation. heart of the school, the JCR, where everyone The quality of education and the reputation comes together, no one ever stands alone but is of the School are excellent and the teaching part of the community of SOASians. Most people excels by far what I expected before becoming at the school are very internationally oriented, a ‘SOASian’. SOAS is incredibly diverse yet and the networks I have established during my specialised in its approaches to studying the time at SOAS will conveniently travel with me social sciences and the arts. anywhere I will venture to in the future. The abbreviation SOAS stands for School of Oriental Having been part of SOAS is something I never and African Studies but to me it also could stand want to miss in my life and whenever passing for school of openness and awareness in society through London I will come back “home” to or school of otherness and association in sociology. SOAS for a visit.

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Department of the Languages and Cultures of Japan and Korea

The Department is part of the Faculty of Languages www.soas.ac.uk/japankorea and Cultures and covers, through teaching and research, a broad range of studies relating to Japan and Korea. Faculty Languages and Cultures As many as 150 students are registered with the Department at any time and up to a quarter are Number of staff postgraduates working on taught or research Academic 9 degrees. While most come from Britain and the Teaching and Scholarship 6 EU, a significant number are from other countries, Teaching and Scholarship (fractional) 10 including Japan, Korea and the United States. RAE Our graduates take advantage of a wide range of Eighty-five per cent of the work of the work opportunities. These range from academic Department was rated as world-leading, positions, museums, art galleries, charities and aid internationally excellent or internationally agencies to employment in international businesses recognised, an assessment that ranked the where they are able to make full use of the cultural Department first in the UK in Asian Studies background and language they acquired at SOAS. Taught Master’s degrees -- MA Japanese Literature (opposite) Research -- MA Korean Literature (page 189) The Department is able to supervise MPhil and Interdisciplinary PhD research and theses in a wide range of cultural -- MA Comparative Literature (Africa/Asia) and linguistic subjects. Applicants should not feel (page 128) constrained to limit their choice of topic to those -- MA Cultural Studies (page 129) research areas indicated against the names of -- MA Japanese Studies (page 66) current staff. Postgraduate students have recently -- MA Korean Studies (page 68) been working on a range of topics that include -- MA Pacific Asian tudiesS (page 72) Japanese cinema and television, Kabuki texts, -- MA Theory and Practice of Translation modern Japanese linguistics and literature, Meiji (page 200) historical texts, Korean linguistics and literature, See also Korean colonial and eighteenth-century history, -- MA Applied Linguistics and Language and North Korea. Research undertaken at MPhil Pedagogy (Japanese or Korean) (page 201) and PhD level is based on literary, documentary and archive material available at SOAS and also gathered during fieldwork in Japan and Korea. The Department is planning to introduce from 2014/15 a Master’s Intensive Japanese Language programme (two-years) in combination with Academic staff research areas a range of MA and MSc programmes across Dr Stephen H Dodd BA (Oxon) MA PhD (Columbia) SOAS. This programme will allow students to Modern Japanese literature, with particular study Japanese intensively to an advanced level interest in representations of the native place along with a discipline, and to achieve the ability (furusato); gender and sexuality and modernity. to use Japanese for research or professional purposes. The programme will include a short Professor Andrew Gerstle BA (Columbia) intensive course in Japanese. Please see the MA (Waseda) PhD (Harvard) website for further information. Japanese literature, drama, art and thought, primarily of the Tokugawa period, with particular interest in Bunraku and Kabuki theatre. Dr Anders Karlsson MA PhD (Stockholm) Korean language; literature and society; history of nineteenth-century Korea.

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Dr Griseldis Kirsch MA PhD (Trier) MA Japanese Literature Contemporary Japanese culture; Japanese media, mainly television and television drama, with particular interest in representations Duration of China and the memory of the Second One calendar year (full-time) World War. Two or three years (part-time) Dr Mika Kizu BA (Nanzan) MA (California) Start of programme PhD (McGill) September intake only Theoretical linguistics; syntax; Japanese Entry requirements linguistics; second language acquisition. Minimum upper second-class honours degree Dr Grace Koh BA (Paris) MSt DPhil (Oxon) (or equivalent), plus linguistic competence Korean and East Asian literary traditions in Japanese (prose and fiction); literary and intellectual Convenor history; travel literature and cultural encounters; Dr Stephen Dodd critical theory and comparative literature. See also Dr Owen Miller BA MA PhD (London) -- MA Japanese Studies (page 166) Modern Korean history and society; Korean -- MA Pacific Asian tudiesS (page 72) historiography; social and economic history -- MA Comparative Literature (Africa/Asia) of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Korea. (page 128) Dr Barbara Pizziconi BA (Rome) MA (Tokyo) -- MA Theory and Practice of Translation PhD (Naples) (page 200) Japanese applied linguistics; language teaching methodology; second language acquisition with emphasis on pragmatic aspects; linguistic This MA is designed as an end qualification in itself politeness. or as preparation for an MPhil or PhD. Applicants will be expected to have completed at least the Dr Isolde Standish BA (Ballarat) BA PhD (London) equivalent of the first two years of undergraduate Film and media studies. study at SOAS in Japanese. Professor Jae Hoon Yeon BA MA (Seoul) PhD (London) Course structure Korean language and linguistics, especially morpho-syntax and linguistic typology; Students take three compulsory courses: Japanese structure and history of Korean language; Traditional Drama, Modern Japanese Literature, and Korean language teaching and translation; Theory and Techniques of Comparative Literature. modern Korean literature. They also choose one literature or language course from the list below and write a 10,000- word dissertation based on Japanese and Western sources on a topic agreed with the advisor.

Compulsory courses Japanese Traditional Drama (half unit) This course aims to provide students with a working awareness of the main texts and underlying aesthetic principles of pre-modern Japanese drama from the earliest times to the mid-nineteenth century. The course will be taught in English and involves close reading and discussion of both dramatic and theoretical texts, as well as examination of visual materials including videos and prints. The primary

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textual focus will be upon the dramatic genres of noh, jôruri and kabuki. A major theme will be the ways in which these genres recast and recycle plots, structures and thematic elements from older prose and poetry canons. In addition to looking at genre transformation and interaction, the course aims to examine how pre-modern Japanese dramatists, actors and associated practitioners conceptualised their own working practices. Modern Japanese Literature (half unit) This course will cover literary writings from 1868 to the present day. The texts will be used to discuss the wider social and economic developments in modern Japan. Topics covered will build on pre- modern themes already raised in the Japanese Traditional Drama course, but attention will be given to the distinct social and economic context of modern Japan that led to a very different literary articulation of the relationship between people and their environment. An important question to be addressed is whether modern Japanese literary forms can be attributed mainly to the introduction of Western paradigms, or to a more native-based literary and cultural set of circumstances. Students will read background critical and theoretical writings from Japanese and non-Japanese perspectives. Students should be able to make useful comparisons with similar problems that have arisen in the field of pre-modern Japanese literature. Theory and Techniques of Comparative Literature This is the core course for MA students majoring in Comparative Literature. However, it is also a compulsory supportive course for all MA students of Literature in the Faculty of Languages and Cultures, including MA African Literature, MA Chinese Literature, MA Japanese Literature and others. It aims to develop critical understandings of the nature of comparative literature and its place in the general context of contemporary theoretical approaches to the study of literature. It is also designed to introduce and examine appropriate methods for the study of African and Asian literatures. The course places its emphasis on the comprehension of the basics of modern theories, but also on the problematics in applying those theories to the research of Asian and African literature. This course is taught by a team in order to provide the necessary variety in critical stance and an appropriate range of African and Asian literary

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texts for expert presentation. Its linked modules Course structure will vary somewhat from year to year, depending Students are required to take three taught course partly upon availability of staff, but a similar overall units and write a dissertation of 10,000-words. pattern of presentation is maintained. Not all courses listed below may be offered every Literature language courses year, and new courses may become available. Choose one of the options below For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, • Readings in Pre-modern Japanese Literature please visit the relevant departmental website or (Master’s) contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be • Readings in Modern Japanese Literature (Master’s) taught in other departments of the School. • Practical Translation From and Into Japanese Compulsory courses Each course will cover selected readings in Readings in Korean Literature (Master’s) Japanese and discussion of critical studies. Students This one unit course is designed to provide MA with advanced or native-speaker competence in Korean Literature students with comprehensive Japanese may select an alternative minor unit with training in advanced reading, analytical and critical the approval of the programme convenor. skills in the study of Korean literature. It also aims to complement Literary Traditions and Culture of Korea (Master’s) and Trajectories of Modernity in MA Korean Literature 20th-century Korean Literature (Master’s). While those courses provide students with a critical understanding and overview of Korean literature Duration with consideration to socio-historical context One calendar year (full-time) and cultural developments, this course focuses Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) on developing skills in close readings and analysis Start of programme of literary language and texts in Korean. September intake only The course consists of lectures and seminars. Entry requirements In the lectures, specific topics related to literary Minimum upper second-class honours degree style, genre, and methodology will be examined, (or equivalent) and students will be assigned tasks or questions for discussion each week. The seminar sessions Convenor will be directed readings of prescribed texts from Dr Grace Koh different periods of Korean literary history. Students See also are expected to prepare English translations and an -- MA Korean Studies (page 68) analysis of assigned passages prior to each seminar -- MA Pacific Asian tudiesS (page 72) session, and make presentations of their work in -- MA Comparative Literature (Africa/Asia) finished form. (page 128) Literary Traditions and Culture of Korea (Master’s) -- MA Theory and Practice of Translation This half unit course is designed to develop a (page 200) student’s understanding of Korean literary traditions from the earliest times up to the late 19th-century, with consideration to socio-historical context and This degree is designed as an end qualification cultural developments through diverse source in itself or as preparation for more advanced materials. It aims to provide students with a critical graduate work (MPhil or PhD). Applicants will overview of the history and development of be expected to have completed at least two traditional Korean literary culture within the East years of undergraduate Korean language study, Asian context, with reference to the Chinese and or the equivalent. Japanese traditions for comparative purposes. Students are encouraged to consider the question of genre, taking into account how literature was perceived and defined differently in earlier times.

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The course also aims to provide students with Graduate destinations the knowledge and skills to read, analyse, and A postgraduate degree from the Department interpret traditional Korean literature against the of the Languages and Cultures of Japan and contemporary socio-historical and cultural context, Korea provides its students with competency in as well as against present day academic contexts. language skills and intercultural awareness and Trajectories of Modernity in 20th-century Korean understanding. Postgraduate students develop Literature (Master’s) linguistic and cultural expertise that will enable This half unit course is designed to develop a them to continue in the field of research. Equally, student’s understanding of modern Korean literature they develop a portfolio of widely transferable with consideration to socio-historical context and skills which employers seek in many professional cultural developments through diverse source and management careers. These include written materials. It aims to provide students with a critical and oral communication skills; attention to detail; overview of the history and development of modern analytical and problem solving skills; and the ability Korean literature since the early twentieth-century. to research, amass and order information from In the process, issues surrounding representation, a variety of sources. A postgraduate degree is reception, modernity, and cultural memory will be a valuable experience that provides students examined in relation to ideology and theory. It also with a body of work and a diverse range of skills aims to provide students with the knowledge and with which they can market themselves when skills to read, analyse, and interpret modern Korean they graduate. literature against the contemporary socio-historical Examples of the careers graduates from this and cultural context, as well as against present day department have gone on to immediately after academic contexts. graduation include: Research Fellow (SOAS Centre for Korean Studies), Researcher (Al-Jazeera English), Minor options Academic Programmer (Reykjavik University), One minor course unit must be selected from the Creative Director (Konnichiwa-Japan, Inc.), list below. Students with no prior background in Investor Relations Officer (Mitsibushi Securities), literary studies are strongly advised to select the Publisher (La Martiniere), Hotei Publishers (Holland). first option. Examples of research degrees or further study • Theories and Techniques of Comparative include: Japanese History (SOAS), Japanese Studies Literature (University of Warsaw), Gender Studies (Japanese • Korean Advanced (Master’s) Topics in the History Centre for Gender Studies), Art History (Harvard, and Structure of the Korean Language SOAS), Korean Studies (SOAS), Comparative • Practical Translation from and into Korean Literature (Seoul National University). • Directed Readings for Korean Studies In very exceptional circumstances, students with sufficient background in Korean language and literary studies may select a minor option in Chinese or Japanese literature, provided that the course is directly relevant to the student’s dissertation topic.

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The School of Law has long been renowned as a www.soas.ac.uk/law world-class centre for the study of, and research into, transnational and international law, and comparative law in South, Central and East Asia, Africa and the Faculty Middle East. Today its staff carry on that tradition Law and Social Sciences in a new, globalised context and contribute to the Number of staff development of the vital disciplines of twenty- Academic 34 first-century law, such as international economic Teaching and Scholarship 2 and commercial law, law and governance, law and Teaching and Scholarship (fractional) 29 conflict and human rights law. RAE In every area, SOAS courses are designed not only Eighty-five per cent of the School’s RAE to introduce students to the general fields of law submissions were rated as either world leading, that relate to the developing world, but also to internationally excellent or internationally give them an understanding of how generic legal recognised structures and processes may operate in non- Western social and cultural settings. Taught Master’s degrees -- LLM (Master of Laws) – General Degree The School has an unrivalled concentration of specialists in the laws of Asian and African countries, Specialist LLMs with additional areas of expertise in the areas of -- LLM in Banking Law comparative law, human rights, transnational -- LLM in Chinese Law commercial law, environmental law, international -- LLM in Dispute and Conflict Resolution law and socio-legal method. The School attracts -- LLM in Environmental Law students from all over the world who wish to -- LLM in Human Rights, Conflict and Justice pursue advanced study in these fields, whether for -- LLM in International and Comparative a one-year taught Master’s degree, research for Commercial Law an MPhil or PhD, or for special courses and non- -- LLM in International Economic Law degree research. Lecturers in the School of Law are -- LLM in International Law acknowledged experts in their fields and remain -- LLM in Islamic Law at the forefront of fostering both professional and -- LLM in Law and Gender interdisciplinary study. They maintain close links with -- LLM in Law, Culture and Society professional practice and frequently have first-hand -- LLM in Law, Development and Governance knowledge of the latest developments in business, -- LLM in Law in the Middle East and North Africa government and international organisations. Each -- LLM in South Asian Law year, the School attracts a number of distinguished MA Law programmes lawyers as research fellows or visiting instructors. -- MA Chinese Law The School of Law leads and edits a number of -- MA in Dispute and Conflict Resolution publications, such as the Journal of African Law and -- MA in Environmental Law and Sustainable the Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, Development and has established thematic or regional research -- MA in Human Rights Law centres that reflect our specialist research themes. -- MA in International and Comparative Commercial Law Our research and teaching programmes revolve -- MA in International and Comparative around human rights, international law, economic Legal Studies and commercial law, law and development, dispute -- MA in International Law resolution, environmental law, law and gender, -- MA in Islamic Law regional and religious laws, and law, culture and -- MA in Law, Culture and Society society. Principal themes include the following: -- MA in Law, Development and Globalisation Development and Pluralism We have unmatched expertise in national legal systems of the developing world. This core expertise

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is combined with critical perspectives (post-colonial, Law and Colonialism gender, political economy) on the role of law and The School of Law has long been concerned with legal institutions in development policy; culturally the legal dimensions of colonial and postcolonial informed analysis of legal functions and institutions discourse. It offers a range of courses associated in African and Asian jurisdictions; knowledge and with examining the relationship between law, awareness of the continuing prestige of religiously globalisation and the enduring colonial heritage. derived legal traditions (especially Islamic); and These include Colonialism, Empire and International interest in the field of alternative dispute resolution. Law; Law and Globalisation; Law and International Inequality; Human Rights in the Developing World; Global Commercial Law and Law, Institutions and the Political Economy The School of Law has a unique concentration of Transition. of relevant expertise in global commercial trade, comparative copyright law, corporate and financial Departmental Centres law (including the Law of Islamic Finance); the law relating to multinational corporations; and WTO law. Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (CIMEL) We benefit from our excellent position in London, CIMEL promotes the study and understanding of one of the commercial and financial law capitals Islamic and modern Middle Eastern legal systems by of the world. encouraging research, guest lectures, publications and academic exchanges. It maintains strong Globalisation, Governance and Transition ties with lawyers, diplomats and international The School of Law commands research and organisations interested, or based, in the wider teaching expertise in the norms, institutions and Muslim world. At a historical juncture where Islam processes governing the global economy and and the Middle East are subjects of extensive but transnational relations. There is a particular focus sometimes poorly informed discussion, CIMEL on how they affect the legal and constitutional furnishes an indispensable scholarly and policy systems and social and economic policies of the resource base. emerging, developing and transition economies of South, South East and Central Asia, China, and Centre for Law and Conflict Sub-Saharan Africa. We offer critical perspectives The Centre addresses the question of the legal on international economic law and related fields. framework for the prevention, control and resolution These include trade law and the WTO, and law and of regional conflict in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. governance reform as promoted by the World Bank, It explores issues ranging from the legal basis for International Monetary Fund, and other regional, peace settlements to accountability for gross human mulitilateral and bilateral actors. rights violations and post-conflict reconstruction of political, social, economic, and legal institutions. Human Rights, Conflict and Environment We have an established reputation as a centre Centre for Ethnic Minority Studies (CEMS) of expertise in human rights law, environmental CEMS affords a singular platform for the scholarly protection and conflict (including armed forces, consideration of issues relating to the legal status humanitarian law and legal dimensions of conflict and concerns of persons from ethnic minorities in resolution and post-conflict reconstruction). Britain and abroad. It has published a major series Specialist areas include: economic and social of books on issues such as the primary purpose rule rights; justice and reconciliation; conflict and in British immigration, immigration and adoption, globalisation; gender equity and women’s role in refugees and carrier rights and the effects of the conflict resolution; international and comparative return of Hong Kong to China. environmental law in the context of development (sustainability); interrelation of national, regional, and international protection regimes; and natural resources. We co-sponsor the Law, Environment and Development Journal (LEAD) published online at www.lead-journal.org

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Centre for the Study of Colonialism, Empire and Research International Law (CCEIL) The School of Law accepts students for research CCEIL is concerned with promoting research work leading to a PhD degree. The central feature interrogating the contemporary and historical of PhD work is the close relationship between relationship between international law and forms the research student and his or her supervisor, of colonialism (postcolonialism, neo-colonialism in which they meet regularly and consult closely. and imperialism). It promotes research in the This relationship is supported and strengthened in history of international law, in the application various ways. Every research student has an adjunct of postcolonial discourse to the contemporary supervisor, another member of staff with a close world and the development of critical theoretical interest in the student’s region or sub-field of the perspectives on the role played by international law discipline. They are joined by the School of Law’s in the developing world. The Centre has an active research tutor in the individual research committees student membership composed of both doctoral that oversee the research student’s progress students and postgraduate MA students. towards the PhD degree. The research tutor oversees the PhD programme as a whole. Centre of East Asian Law (CEAL) CEAL promotes the study and understanding of All first-year research students must attend the laws and legal traditions in East Asia. It has played Research Methods Seminar in which all are required a central role in promoting legal reform in post- to present draft papers that constitute part of Mao China through its involvement over a number their upgrade document. Research students in of years as the academic host for training and the School of Law may also be expected to take research programmes, jointly organised with UK doctoral research training at the Faculty level. and European institutions, for lawyers, procurators, Research students are encouraged to contribute to judges, legislators and senior civil servants as well the research activities of the Department, including as academics from the People’s Republic of China. the activities of the various research centres and conferences and other projects organised by the Human Rights Law Centre School of Law. In addition, after being upgraded, The Human Rights Law Centre aims to provide a they must present their work at least once in the forum for scholarship and collaborative approaches Postgraduate Research Student Seminar Series. on human rights law in practice. The goals of the Many SOAS research students spend time doing Centre are to advance research and the teaching of fieldwork in the region of their research. The School, human rights law and related areas, with particular and other members of SOAS, facilitate this work reference to Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and with personal contacts and introductions. The to foster collaboration between academics and School’s language training facilities are also available practitioners worldwide. to students to develop their facility in an appropriate language for research purposes. Applicants for PhD Law, Environment and Development Centre (LEDC) admission must normally have an advanced degree The Law, Environment and Development Centre equivalent in level and content to the School of seeks to provide a focal point for the growing Law’s LLM or MA. interest in the dynamic relationships between law, environment and development. The main goal of the LEDC is to advance research and teaching, and explore the role each of these disciplines plays in realising sustainable development and natural resource use, particularly in the global South. The Centre adopts multidisciplinary approaches in researching key issues in environmental law and development today including water, land use, forests, climate change, intellectual property and indigenous people’s rights.

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Academic staff research areas Professor Philippe Cullet LLM MA (London) JSD (Stanford) Professor Diamond Ashiagbor BA MA (Oxon) Law and environment; law and natural PhD (European University Institute) resources; intellectual property; water; Labour law; equality and anti-discrimination human rights; international law, India. law; human rights, equality and multiculturalism; European Union law; the law and economics Dr Catriona Drew LLB (Aberdeen) PhD (London) of labour market regulation; labour law, trade Public international law; international legal and development. history (particularly self-determination of peoples), legal theory. Professor Mashood Baderin LLB (Hons) BL (Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court Mr Ian D Edge MA LLB (Cantab) Barrister-at-Law of Nigeria) LLM PhD (Nottingham) PGCE Islamic law; the general law of Egypt and the Islamic law; public international law; Gulf; commercial law in the Middle East; international and comparative human rights conflict of laws and international transactions. law; human rights and Islamic law, especially Dr Jonathan Ercanbrack BA (Utah) Vordiplom interaction between international law, human (Heidelberg) MSc (London) rights law and Islamic law in Muslim states. Classical Islamic jurisprudence; Islamic Professor Fareda Banda BL LLB (Zimbabwe) commercial law; the Law of Islamic finance; DPhil (Oxon) financial services law; Islamic economics; Comparative family law; alternative dispute Islamic banking and finance. resolution; law and society in Africa. Mr Alexander Fischer BA LLM (London) Dr Samia Bano BA (Oxford Brookes) MA MA (Heidelberg) (Greenwich) PhD (Warwick) Constitutional and comparative public law; Family law, Gender and law, Social and Political constitutional theory; federalism; law and Theory, Socio-Legal Studies and Research courts; law and politics; laws of South Asia. Methods in Law. Mr Nicholas H D Foster MA (Cantab) Desu Dr Brenna Bhandar BA (Toronto) LLB (British (Marseille) Columbia) PhD (London) Comparative commercial and comparative Equity law, Indigenous Rights and Settler corporate law, with special reference to Islamic Colonialism, Post-colonial Legal Theory, law and the laws of the Middle East, in particular Property Law, Multiculturalism and Secularism. the UAE; Islamic finance. Dr Gunnar Beck MA (Heidelberg) MPhil DPhil Dr Kate O’Grady LLB (Leeds) LLM PhD (Bristol) (Oxon) Barrister-at-Law PGDip (UWE) European Union law, legal theory; legal International criminal law, public international law. reasoning and method in common law and civil Dr Vanja Hamzić BDes (Sarajevo) BFA (Sarajevo) law jurisdictions; moral and political philosophy. LLM (Nottingham) PhD (London) Mr Ernest Caldwell BA (Alabama) MA (Kansas) Islamic law and philosophy; family law; tort; LLM (Singapore) human rights; global law and governance; social Traditional Chinese Law; Chinese constitutional and legal theory; legal history; legal anthropology; law; legal history; comparative constitutional post-colonial theory; law and society in South law; interdisciplinary methodologies. Asia (esp. Pakistan), South East Asia (esp. Indonesia) and the Middle East; theory of art; Professor Matthew Craven BA LLM PhD critical approaches to law and personhood. (Nottingham) DipEd Public international law; human rights Dr Gina Heathcote BA LLB (Australia) LLM (particularly economic; social and cultural (Westminster) PhD (London) rights); international legal theory; international International feminist legal theories; international legal history. law, especially law on the use of force; women’s human rights; political and legal theories.

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Professor Kevin Heller JD (Stanford) Dr Paul O’Connell LLB (Dublin) LLM PhD (NUI) PhD (Leiden) Public Law, Human Rights (particularly Socio- Criminal Law, comparative criminal law, Economic Rights), Legal Theory, Comparative international criminal law, international Law and International Law. humanitarian law, legal theory. Dr Lutz Oette First State Exam (Koeln) Dr Catherine Jenkins LLM (London) MA (Oxon) LLM (London) Dr Jur (Koeln) Desu (Aix-Marseille III) Solicitor Public international law; human rights law; Human rights; civil liberties; European law; law implementation of international standards; and conflict. victims’ rights and reparation. Professor David Kennedy AB MALD JD (Harvard) Dr Emilia Onyema LLB (Nigeria) LLM (London) PhD (Fletcher/Tufts) International trade law; comparative commercial International law; social thought; law and law; alternative conflict resolution. development; American legal thought. Dr Nimer Sultany LLB (College of Management) Mr Paul Kohler MA (Cantab) LLM (Tel Aviv) LLM (Virginia) S.J.D (Harvard) Property including land, personal and trusts; Public Law; Legal and Political Theory; jurisprudence. Comparative Constitutionalism; Public International Law and Human Rights Law. Professor Martin W Lau MA PhD (London) Barrister-at-Law Dr Carol Tan LLB (London) LLM (London) Laws of South Asia; comparative environmental PhD (London) Barrister-at-Law law, Islamic law. Contract; legal history; British overseas rule and the law, especially in relation to the leased Dr Makeen F Makeen LLB (Cairo) LLM PhD territory of Weihaiwei and to ethnic Chinese (London) Advocate, Court of Appeal, Egypt communities in Hong Kong and South East Asia; Intellectual property (particularly comparative law and society in South East Asia; traditional copyright law); information technology law; Chinese law. international construction arbitration; contract law; commercial law in the Middle East. Professor Lynn Welchman MA (Cantab) PhD (London) Professor Werner F Menski MA (Kiel) PhD Islamic law; law of the Middle East and North (London) Africa, especially comparative family law, Classical and modern Hindu law; laws of South human rights, gender and law. Asia; family law; comparative law; South Asians in the UK; immigration law; ethnic minorities. Dr Sanzhu Zhu BA (Shanxi) LLM (South Central College of Political Science and Law, Wuhan) Professor Peter Muchlinski LLB (London) LLM PhD (London) (Cantab) Barrister FRSA Chinese law; law and institutions in contemporary The regulation of multinational enterprises; China; comparative commercial and corporate international corporate governance and law with reference to China; legal aspects of corporate social responsibility; foreign Chinese financial and futures markets; civil investment law; WTO law and practice; procedure and dispute resolution in China, international commercial law and development. particularly securities disputes. Dr Scott Newton BA (Calif) JD MPA (Harvard) Law and the political economy of post- socialism (Eurasia including Central Asia and the Caucasus); legal and institutional reform processes in governance discourse and practice; law markets and globalisation in developing and transitional states; law, governance and post-conflict reconstruction; critical approaches to human rights.

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close to a range of libraries (including that of the Master of Laws (LLM) Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, to which all postgraduate law students have access), and is ideally positioned for students to enjoy the range Duration of academic activities on offer in the city. One calendar year (full-time) Two, three or four years (part-time, daytime only) The LLM is designed to be flexible, permitting students to tailor a degree to their own particular Start of programme professional requirements or career interests. September intake only Once accepted on to the programme and having Entry requirements registered for their degree, students have the Minimum upper second-class honours degree option of selecting their courses from across the (or equivalent) in Law programme as a whole and graduating with the general LLM degree. Alternatively, they may select See also courses from designated subject groupings that, -- MA Law Programmes (page 190) in accordance with the regulations, entitle them to graduate with a specialist LLM. The SOAS LLM is designed mainly for students with Law degrees (or other relevant qualifications Admission or expertise) who are looking to develop skills in Candidates must normally have obtained at least specialised areas relating to law in a global and an upper second-class honours degree in Law developing world context. from a UK university, or an equivalent degree. It offers a unique opportunity for individuals Applications from lawyers with other qualifications broadly interested in international, comparative and professional experience can be considered or transnational law as it relates to the developing and are welcome. Queries relating to qualifications world. It also combines newer areas of research or suitability for this course should be directed and practice with more traditional offerings in the to the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences. field of law (for example, banking law, trade law, the Follow the link below for all faculty contacts law of finance and investment). Whether you are www.soas.ac.uk/lawsocialsciences a student looking for a specialist course in Islamic law or transnational regulation or a human rights Structure clinic, or a student looking for a solid grounding in international business law or commercial practice, The programme, which starts in late September SOAS has something to offer you. each year, is a 12-month full-time programme. Alternatively, it can be studied part-time over two, For recent graduates, the LLM offers an advanced three or four years. Students registered for the LLM qualification, which in many cases has proved select four full unit courses (or their equivalent in invaluable for a successful career in law. For half unit courses) to study during the programme professionals, it provides an opportunity to refresh from those on offer each year. Certain non-Law expertise and encounter knowledge and ideas at courses (such as specialist languages or courses the forefront of legal research. Due to the specialist in Politics or Development Studies) may be taken, nature of the institution, the student population with approval, if these clearly complement the attending the SOAS LLM is extraordinarily diverse; chosen Law subjects. Every student is required to people from all over the world come to study undertake a 15,000-word dissertation as the mode law at SOAS, bringing with them a unique range of assessment for one of the full unit courses taken of experience and expertise which enlivens the in the School of Law. Most courses are taught in learning experience. weekly seminars or lectures of two hours’ duration At the same time, the SOAS LLM programme and the teaching programme usually finishes in is relatively small by London standards, and April or May. Examinations are normally held over students can therefore enjoy its strong collegiate a four-week period in May and June of each year. atmosphere. The School of Law is located in the The compulsory dissertation must be submitted in heart of the university district in central London September following the year of registration.

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Course structure • Intellectual Property Rights and Development • International and Comparative Copyright Law Not all courses listed below may be offered every • International and Comparative Corporate Law year, and new courses may become available. • International Commercial Arbitration For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, • International Criminal Law in Context please visit www.soas.ac.uk/law. Some courses may • International Economic Law (half unit) be taught in other departments of the School. • International Environmental Law Students take four courses. General LLM students • International Human Rights Clinic take at least three (or the equivalent in half units, • International Labour Law and Equality Rights with the dissertation element taken in a full unit • International Law and Global Orders (half unit) School of Law course) from List 1 below. Specialist • International Law and the Use of Force (half unit) LLM students take at least three courses (or the • International Protection of Human Rights equivalent in half units) from the relevant specialist • International Trade Law subject list (see List 2), the dissertation element • Islamic Law to be taken in a full unit course from this list. • Islamic Law 2: Succession The remaining full unit (or two half units) may be • Jurisprudence of International Criminal Tribunals selected from List 1 or from courses offered by • Justice, Reconciliation and Reconstruction in our partner institutions (see website), and certain Post-conflict Societies non-Law subjects (such as languages, Politics or • Law and Development in Africa Development Studies) may also be taken if these • Law and Governance in the Developing World complement the chosen Law subjects (subject to (half unit) availability and approval by the LLM tutor). • Law and International Inequality: Critical Legal Analysis of Political Economy from Colonialism List 1 to Globalisation General LLM courses • Law and Natural Resources Courses on offer will vary for each academic • Law and Policy of International Courts and session. For up-to-date course information please Tribunals (half unit) visit our website www.soas.ac.uk/law • Law and Society in South Asia • Law and Society in the Middle East and North Africa • Access to Justice and Dispute Resolution: • Law of International Finance Special Applications • Law, Human Rights and Peace Building: • Affirmative Action Law (half unit) The Israeli-Palestinian Case • Alternative Dispute Resolution • Law, Institutions and Political Economy • Arab Comparative Commercial Law of Transition • Banking Law • Law, Multiculturalism and Intercultural Human • Chinese Commercial Law Rights • Chinese Constitutionalism (half unit) • Law of Islamic Finance • Climate Change Law and Policy • Legal Aspects of Commercial Fraud • Colonialism, Empire and International Law • Migration, Gender and Law in South East Asia (half unit) (half unit) • Commercial Law • Modern Chinese Law and Human Rights • Company Law • Multinational Enterprises and the Law • Comparative Constitutional Law (half unit) • Procedural Principles and Ethical Standards • Development, Environment and Law in the South • Sociological Approaches to Law (half unit) • Economic Approaches to Law (half unit) • Water Law: Justice and Governance (half unit) • Feminist Legal Theory • World Trade Organisation Law • Foundations of Chinese Law (half unit) • Foundations of Comparative Law (half unit) • Foundations of International Law (half unit) • Human Rights and Islamic Law • Human Rights in the Developing World • Human Rights of Women • Indigenous Land Rights

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List 2 • Law and Policy of International Courts and Specialist LLM courses Tribunals (half unit) The LLM is awarded as a general LLM degree, or • Procedural Principles and Ethical Standards as an LLM in a specialised area. Those who wish to • The Law of Armed Conflict obtain an LLM in a specialised area may do so by • An approved language choosing three full unit courses – or their equivalent LLM in Environmental Law in half unit courses – from the relevant subject • Climate Change Law and Policy groupings below. The student must undertake a • Development, Environment and the Law in dissertation in that subject grouping. Further details the South as to which subjects qualify for particular groupings • Economic Approaches to Law may be obtained from the admissions tutor. See link • Foundations of Comparative Law (half unit) for a full staff list www.soas.ac.uk/law/staff • International Environmental Law LLM in Banking Law • Intellectual Property Rights and Development • Arab Comparative Commercial Law • Law and Natural Resources • Banking Law • Water Law: Justice and Governance (half unit) • Chinese Commercial Law • An approved language • Commercial Law LLM in Human Rights, Conflict and Justice • Company Law • Foundations of Comparative Law (half unit) • Foundations of Comparative Law (half unit) • Foundations of International Law (half unit) • Economic Approaches to Law • Human Rights and Islamic Law • International Commercial Arbitration • Human Rights of Women • International Economic Law • Human Rights in the Developing World • International Trade Law • International Criminal Law in Practice • Law of International Finance • International Human Rights Clinic • Law of Islamic Finance • International Labour Law and Equality Rights • Multinational Enterprises and the Law • International Law and the Use of Force (half unit) • An approved language • International Law and Global Orders (half unit) LLM in Chinese Law • International Law and International Relations • Chinese Commercial Law • International Protection of Human Rights, • Chinese Constitutionalism (half unit) • Jurisprudence of International Criminal Tribunals • Foundations of Chinese Law (half unit) • Justice, Reconciliation and Reconstruction in • Foundations of Comparative Law (half unit) Post-conflict Societies • Modern Chinese Law and Human Rights • Law and International Inequality: Critical Legal • An approved language Analysis of Political Economy from Colonialism to Globalisation LLM in Dispute and Conflict Resolution • Law and Policy of International Courts and • Access to Justice and Dispute Resolution: Tribunals (half unit) Special Applications • Law, Human Rights and Peace Building: • Alternative Dispute Resolution The Israeli-Palestinian Case • Economic Approaches to Law • Modern Chinese Law and Human Rights • Foundations of Comparative Law (half unit) • Sociological Approaches to Law • Foundations of International law • The Law of Armed Conflict (half unit) • International Commercial Arbitration • An approved language • International Criminal Law in Practice • International Law and Global Orders LLM in International and Comparative • International Law and International Relations Commercial Law • International Law and the Use of Force (half unit) • International Economic Law (half unit) • Justice, Reconciliation and Reconstruction in • Arab Comparative Commercial Law Post-conflict Societies • Banking Law • Jurisprudence of International Criminal Tribunals • Chinese Commercial Law • Law, Human Rights and Peace Building: • Commercial Law the Israel-Palestinian case • Company Law

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• Comparative Commercial Law • International Protection of Human Rights • Economic Approaches to Law • International Environmental Law • Foundations of Comparative Law • Justice, Reconciliation and Reconstruction in • Human Rights in the Developing World Post-conflict Societies • Intellectual Property Rights and Development • Law and Natural Resources • International and Comparative Copyright Law: • Law and Policy of International Courts and Tribunals Copyright in the Global Village • Law, Human Rights and Peace Building: • International and Comparative Corporate Law The Israeli-Palestinian Case • International Commercial Arbitration • Multinational Enterprises and the Law • International Labour Law and Equality Rights • An approved language • International Trade Law LLM in Islamic Law • Law of International Finance • Arab Comparative Commercial Law • Law of Islamic Finance • Foundations of Comparative Law (half unit) • Legal Regulation of the Music Industry • Human Rights and Islamic Law • Multinational Enterprises and the Law • Islamic Law of Succession • Procedural Principles and Ethical Standards • Islamic Law (MA/LLM) • An approved language • Law and Society in South Asia LLM in International Economic Law • Law and Society in the Middle East and North Africa • International Economic Law • Law of Islamic Finance • Commercial Law LLM in Law and Gender • Company Law • Feminist Legal Theory • Comparative Commercial Law • Gender, Armed Conflict and International Law • Economic Approaches to Law (half unit) • Foundations of Comparative Law (half unit) • Human Rights and Women • Intellectual Property Rights and Development • Migration, Gender and the Law in South East Asia • International and Comparative Copyright Law: and Beyond (half unit) Copyright in the Global Village • An approved language • International Commercial Arbitration • International and Comparative Corporate Law LLM in Law, Culture and Society • International Economic Law • Affirmative Action Law (half unit) • International Labour Law and Equality Rights • Comparative Commercial Law • International Trade Law • Comparative Constitutional Law (half unit) • Law and International Inequality: Critical Legal • Feminist Legal Theory Analysis of Political Economy from Colonialism to • Foundations of Chinese Law Globalisation • Foundations of Comparative Law (half unit) • Law of International Finance • Foundations of International Law (half unit) • Multinational Enterprises and the Law • International and Comparative Copyright Law: • The Law of Islamic Finance Copyright in the Global Village • An approved language • International and Comparative Corporate Law • International Labour Law and Equality Rights LLM in International Law • International Law and Global Orders (half unit) • International Economic Law • Islamic Law (MA/LLM) • Climate Change Law and Policy • Law, Institutions and Political Economy • Colonialism, Empire and International Law (half unit) of Transition • Foundations of Comparative Law (half unit) • Law and Governance in the Developing World • Foundations of International Law (half unit) (half unit) • Human Rights in the Developing World • Law and Society in the Middle East and North Africa • International Commercial Arbitration • Law and Society in South Asia (MA/LLM) • International Economic Law • Law, Multiculturalism and Intercultural • International Labour Law and Equality Rights Human Rights • International Law and the Use of Force (half unit) • Migration, Gender and Law in South East Asia • International Law and Global Orders (half unit) (half unit)

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• Modern Chinese Law and Human Rights LLM South Asian Law • Sociological Approaches to Law • Development, Environment and the Law in • An approved language the South • Foundations of Comparative Law (half unit) LLM in Law, Development and Governance • Islamic Law (MA or LLM) • Affirmative Action Law (half unit) • Law and Society in South Asia (MA or LLM) • Comparative Constitutional Law (half unit) • Law, Multiculturalism and Intercultural • Comparative Commercial Law Human Rights • Development, Environment and the Law in • Sociological Approaches to Law the South • Water Law: Justice and Governance • Economic Approaches to Law (half unit) • An approved language • Foundations of Comparative Law • Foundations of International Law (half unit) • Human Rights in the Developing World • Intellectual Property Rights and Development MA Law programmes • International Commercial Arbitration • International and Comparative Copyright Law: Copyright in the Global Village For up-to-date course information please visit • International and Comparative Corporate Law our website www.soas.ac.uk/law • International Economic Law (half unit) Duration • International Environmental Law One calendar year (full-time) • International Labour Law and Equality Rights Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) • International Law and Global Orders (half unit) • International Law and International Relations Start of programme (half unit) September intake only • Justice, Reconciliation and Reconstruction in Entry requirements Post-conflict Societies Upper second-class honours degree • Law and Governance in the Developing World (half unit) • Law and International Inequality: Critical Legal The SOAS MA Law programmes are designed Analysis of Political Economy from Colonialism primarily for those wishing to study law at to Globalisation a postgraduate level but who do not already • Law and Natural Resources possess an undergraduate Law degree. • Law, Institutions and Political Economy of Transition In particular, the MA Law programmes address • Migration, Gender and Law in South East Asia the needs of professionals with non-Law degrees (half unit) who wish to further their understanding of the • Multinational Enterprises and the Law legal issues encountered in their working lives. • Sociological Approaches to Law While work experience is not essential for entry, • Water Law and Governance in Asia many students have spent time with international • An approved language and government institutions or NGOs concerned with human rights, environment or development LLM in Law in the Middle East and North Africa issues. Others may have experience in corporate • Arab Comparative Commercial Law responsibility or dispute resolution. Some come • Foundations of Comparative Law (half unit) to SOAS simply to take advantage of its unrivalled • Human Rights and Islamic Law expertise in the laws of Asian and African countries • Islamic Law 2: Succession and subjects such as Islamic Law, International Law, • Islamic Law or Law and Development. • Law, Human Rights and Peace Building: The Israeli-Palestinian Case The MA Law programmes are open to people • Law and Society in the Middle East and North Africa from any background with a good first degree in a • Sociological Approaches to Law non-Law discipline who have the motivation and • An approved language ability to rise to the challenges of studying law at

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postgraduate level. Students come from all over • Access to Justice and Dispute Resolution: the world, making the experience of studying law Special Applications at SOAS particularly enriching and enjoyable. • Affirmative Action Law The MA does not entitle graduates to practice • Alternative Dispute Resolution as lawyers, but may help with making a move • International Economic Law (half unit) into legally orientated work. According to figures • Banking Law released by the Law Society, 20 per cent of all • Chinese Commercial Law active solicitors in England and Wales are qualified • Chinese Constitutionalism (half unit) through a non-law route and there is anecdotal • Climate Change, Law and Policy evidence to suggest that an increasing number • Colonialism, Empire and International Law of law firms are looking beyond traditional law (half unit) qualifications in their recruitment drive. • Comparative Constitutional Law (half unit) • Development, Environment and the Law in For many students the MA Law programme is an the South important first step towards a law conversion course. • Economic Approaches to Law (half unit) The degree allows students to choose between a • Feminist Legal Theory generic MA in International and Comparative Legal • Foundations of Chinese Law (half unit) Studies or an MA in a specific legal area. • Intellectual Property of Rights and Development • Human Rights and Islamic Law Structure • Human Rights in the Developing World • Human Rights of Women The basic structure of each of the MA programmes • Intellectual Property Rights and Development is identical. Whichever programme they register for, • International and Comparative Copyright Law students will be required (in addition to attendance • International and Comparative Corporate Law on the pre-sessional course below) to take three • International Commercial Arbitration full courses (or their equivalent in half unit courses) • International Criminal Law in Context and undertake a 10,000-word dissertation on a • International Economic Law topic related to the specialism of the degree. Most • International Environmental Law subjects are taught in weekly two-hour seminars. • International Labour Law and Equality Rights Teaching ends in April or May. Exams are held over a • International Law and Global Orders (half unit) four-week period in May and June. The dissertation • International Laws on the Use of Force (half unit) must be submitted in September following the year • International Law and International Relations of registration. • Islamic Law Every MA student without a prior degree in law • Islamic Law 2: Succession must attend an intensive two-week Introduction • Jurisprudence of International Criminal Tribunals to Law and Legal Method course in September, • Justice, Reconciliation and Reconstruction in prior to registration. This compulsory preparatory Post-conflict Societies course helps non-law students get accustomed • Law and Development in Africa to postgraduate study of law, and make the • Law and Governance in the Developing World most of their studies. It introduces students to (half unit) English, international and comparative law, legal • Law and International Inequality: Critical Legal methods and skills, research techniques, essay Analysis of Political Economy from Colonialism and dissertation writing and the use of library and to Globalisation online resources. • Law and Natural Resources • Law and Policy of International Courts and General list of MA Law courses Tribunals (half unit) Not all courses listed below may be offered every • Law and Social Movements year, and new courses may become available. • Law and Society in the Middle East and For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, North Africa please visit the relevant departmental website or • Law and Society in South Asia contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be • Law, Human Rights and Peace Building: taught in other departments of the School. The Israeli-Palestinian Case

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• Law, Institutions and Political Economy Specialist MA Law programmes of Transition All the specialist MA Law programmes listed below • Law of International Finance are built around subject groupings. Students are • Law of Islamic Finance required to take taught courses to the value of • Legal Aspects of Commercial Fraud three full units. Of these, a minimum of two taught • Migration, Gender and the Law in South East courses (or the equivalent in half unit courses) are Asia and Beyond (half unit) taken from the subject specialism groupings listed • Modern Chinese Law and Human Rights below, with the option of a maximum of one other • Multinational Enterprises and the Law full unit (or two half unit) taught law course(s) • Procedural Principles and Ethical Standards (see the general list of MA Law courses above and • Sociological Approaches to Law (half unit) for specific programme details please check our • Water Law: Justice and Governance website). Following the procedure and restrictions • World Trade Organisation Law outlined above, students may also choose a maximum of one full unit (or two half unit) non- Non-Law courses and language courses Law taught postgraduate course from any other In addition to the postgraduate Law courses listed SOAS department or one language course. Students above, prospective MA Law students can also undertake a 10,000-word dissertation related to consider other postgraduate courses from other their specialism. Further details and programme SOAS departments or can combine their legal specifications may be obtained from the website or studies with learning an African or Asian language. admissions tutor. All MA Law students may be permitted to select MA in International and Comparative Legal Studies one full course, or one half course, or two half Students are required to take taught courses to the courses in place of the equivalent number of Law value of three full units and undertake a 10,000- course(s) as follows: word dissertation. Students can choose their taught • a complementary non-Law SOAS Master’s-level courses from the general list of MA Law courses course from any other SOAS department above. Following the procedure and restrictions outlined above, students may also choose one • a complementary SOAS language course at non-Law taught postgraduate course from any the appropriate level. The choice of non-Law other SOAS department or one language course. courses and language courses is always subject to approval by the MA Law convenor, the course MA in Chinese Law convenor for the complementary course, a • Chinese Commercial Law language level test if prescribed and availability • Chinese Constitutionalism (half unit) of places. • Economic Approaches to Law (half unit) • Foundations of Chinese Law (half unit) Programme structures and courses • Foundations of Comparative Law • Modern Chinese Law and Human Rights Nine of the MA Law programmes listed opposite • Sociological Approaches to Law are specialist programmes centred upon clusters MA in Dispute and Conflict Resolution of expertise and research interests within the • Alternative Dispute Resolution School of Law. These specialist programmes • Access to Justice and Dispute Resolution: are built around specific subject groupings and Special Applications students must write their dissertation on a topic • Economic Approaches to Law related to their specialism. The MA in International • Foundations of Comparative Law (half unit) and Comparative Legal Studies takes a more • Foundations of International Law (half unit) general approach and is for those who want • International Commercial Arbitration to study a variety of different subjects which do not fall within the scope of any one particular Regional Perspectives in Dispute and specialist programme. Conflict Resolution • International Criminal Law in Practice • International Law and Global Orders (half unit) • International Laws on the Use of Force (half unit)

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• Jurisprudence of International Criminal Tribunals MA in International Law • Justice, Reconciliation and Reconstruction in • Climate Change, Law and Policy Post-conflict Societies • Colonialism, Empire and International Law • Law and Policy of International Courts and (half unit) Tribunals (half unit) • Economic Approaches to Law (half unit) • Law, Human Rights and Peace Building: • Foundations of International Law (half unit) The Israeli-Palestinian Case • International Criminal Law in Practice • Procedural Principles and Ethical Standards • International Economic Law • International Environmental Law Sustainable Development in Dispute and • The Law of Armed Conflict Conflict Resolution • International Labour Law and Equality Rights • Climate Change Law and Policy • International Law and Global Orders (half unit) • Development, Environment and the Law in • International Law and International Relations the South • International Law and the Use of Force (half unit) • Intellectual Property Rights and Development • International Protection of Human Rights • International Environmental Law • Jurisprudence of International Criminal Tribunals • Law of Natural Resources (half unit) • Water Law: Justice and Governance (half unit) • Justice, Reconciliation and Reconstruction in MA in Human Rights Law Post-conflict Societies (half unit) • Economic Approaches to Law • Law and Policy of International Courts and • Foundations of Comparative Law Tribunals (half unit) • Human Rights and Islamic Law • Law, Human Rights and Peace Building: • Human Rights in the Developing World The Israeli-Palestinian Case • Human Rights of Women • Law of International Finance • International Criminal Law in Practice (half unit) • Multinational Enterprises and the Law • International Human Rights Clinic MA in Islamic Law • International Labour Law and Equality Rights • Economic Approaches to Law • International Law and Global Orders (half unit) • Foundations of Comparative Law (half unit) • International Protection of Human Rights • Human Rights and Islamic Law • Jurisprudence of International Criminal Tribunals • Islamic Law (MA/LLM) • Justice, Reconciliation and Reconstruction in • Islamic Law 2: Succession Post-conflict Societies • Law and Society in the Middle East and North Africa • Law, Human Rights and Peace Building: • Law of Islamic Finance The Israeli-Palestinian Case • Sociological Approaches to Law • Migration, Gender and Law in South East Asia (half unit) MA in Law, Culture and Society • Modern Chinese Law and Human Rights • Affirmative Action Law (half unit) • The Law of Armed Conflict (half unit) • Alternative Dispute Resolution • Comparative Constitutional Law (half unit) MA in International and Comparative • Chinese Constitutionalism (half unit) Commercial Law • Economic Approaches to Law • Banking Law • Feminist Legal Theory • Chinese Commercial Law • Foundations of Comparative Law (half unit) • Economic Approaches to Law • International and Comparative Copyright Law: • Foundations to Comparative Law Copyright in the Global Village • International and Comparative Copyright Law: • International and Comparative Corporate Law Copyright in the Global Village • International Labour Law and Equality Rights • International and Comparative Corporate Law • Law and Development in Africa • International Economic Law • Law and Governance in the Developing World • International Labour Law and Equality Rights (half unit) • Law of International Finance • Law, Institutions and Political Economy • Law of Islamic Finance of Transition • Multinational Enterprises and the Law

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• Law, Multiculturalism and Intercultural Career opportunities Human Rights A postgraduate degree in Law from SOAS gives • Law and Society in the Middle East and students a thorough, specialist knowledge of North Africa comparative law, human rights, environmental law • Law and Society in South Asia and international law, which they can continue to • Law of Islamic Finance utilise in research or in a professional career. On • Migration, Gender and Law in South East Asia leaving SOAS, some postgraduate students pursue (half unit) careers directly related to law, while others use their • Multinational Enterprises and the Law skills and expertise to get involved with analysing • Sociological Approaches to Law and solving issues in contemporary society. For MA in Law, Development and Globalisation some students, the SOAS postgraduate law degrees • Affirmative Action Law (half unit) are often the first step towards a PhD project, in • Comparative Constitutional Law (half unit) particular making use of the School’s unrivalled • Colonialism, Empire and International Law concentration of specialists in the laws of Asian and (half unit) African countries. • Development, Environment and the Law in Postgraduates develop a range of other skills valued the South by many employers, including critical judgement • Foundations of Comparative Law (half unit) skills, problem-solving skills, the ability to formulate • Foundations of International Law (half unit) sound arguments, and the ability to interpret and • Human Rights in the Developing World explain complex information clearly. A postgraduate • International and Comparative Copyright Law: degree is a valuable experience that provides Copyright in the Global Village students with a body of work and a diverse range of • International and Comparative Corporate Law skills with which they can market themselves when • International Economic Law they graduate. • International Labour Law and Equality Rights • International Law and Global Orders (half unit) Examples of the professional careers graduates from • International Law and the Use of Force (half unit) this department have gone on to immediately after • Law and Development in Africa graduation include: Legal Researcher (Foreign and • Law and Governance in the Developing World Commonwealth Office), Project Manager Analyst (half unit) (UNDP), Consultant in FAO (Food and Agriculture • Human Rights in the Developing World Organization of the UN), Legal Analyst (UN), • Law and International Inequality: Critical Legal Roaming Eligibility Protection Officer (UNHCR), Analysis of Political Economy from Colonialism Junior Programme Officer (Oxfam), Policy Officer to Globalisation (Australian Agency for International Development), • Law of Islamic Finance Legal Counsel (Statoil UK). • Migration, Gender and Law in South East Asia Other recent graduates from the School of (half unit) Law’s LLM and MA programmes have gone on to • Multinational Enterprises and the Law positions with, inter alia, Clifford Chance, Norton • Sociological Approaches to Law (half unit) Rose, Freshfields; the African Development Bank, the Intellectual Property Office, the Scottish Government and the German Parliament; Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation; Amnesty International, the Norwegian Refugee Council and Lawyers for Justice in Libya; the BBC, Hastings Law School and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (Singapore).

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The Department’s rich and varied expertise www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics combined with access to the vast language and regional expertise in other SOAS departments, provides a unique environment for the study of Faculty theoretical, comparative, descriptive, applied and Languages and Cultures documentary linguistics, as well as translation studies. Number of staff We offer a range of MA degrees and a PhD Academic 8 in Linguistics. Teaching and Scholarship (fractional) 8 Our MA in Linguistics provides students with a RAE sound knowledge of current concepts and theories Seventy per cent of the Linguistics research at in the foundational areas of phonology, syntax SOAS was rated as world-leading, internationally and semantics. Optional courses are available in a excellent or internationally recognised. variety of areas, including field linguistics, historical Taught Master’s degrees linguistics, phonetics, psycholinguistics and -- MA Linguistics sociolinguistics. -- MA Language Documentation and Description Based on our strengths in the study of endangered -- MA Theory and Practice of Translation languages, we offer two postgraduate programmes -- MA Applied Linguistics and Language in Language Documentation and Description Pedagogy (LDD). The MA in LDD (Language Support and -- MA Arabic Language Teaching Revitalisation) provides an introductory overview of the study of language, as well as courses geared at enabling students to support endangered and The Department of Linguistics at SOAS was minority language communities in a number of founded in 1932 as the first department of ways. The MA in LDD (Field Linguistics) is open to general linguistics in Britain. The research students with a BA in Linguistics or equivalent and carried out within the department has made a provides students with a sound knowledge of state- significant and lasting impact on the development of-the-art theory, methods and information, media of linguistic theory, the description and analysis and communication technologies for language of African and Asian languages, and on language documentation and description, with an emphasis documentation and description. Since 2002 on endangered languages. we have been the home of the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, a leading The Department offers an MA in Theory and international project for the description, Practice of Translation. The curriculum is formed documentation and valorisation of endangered around a core of courses aimed to provide both languages, comprising an academic programme, a theoretical and an applied introduction to a grant-giving documentation programme translation, with specialised courses for particular and an archive. languages (currently for Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Persian and Swahili). The Department is a centre for linguistic study in an unparalleled range of languages, many of which We also offer an MA in Applied Linguistics and we are documenting for the first time. Our primary Language Pedagogy and MA Arabic Language areas of research are linguistic theory, language Teaching. The core course of Language Pedagogy documentation and description, sociolinguistics, is complemented by units regarding the teaching translation studies and language pedagogy. and learning of languages, and the structure Through these activities, our Department has of those languages, with current streams in close academic ties to the languages and cultures Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Tibetan (and departments in our Faculty, and other departments more in preparation). throughout SOAS. Our PhD in Linguistics programme provides The research interests of the Department are broad students with rigorous training in research skills and and span the world’s languages, with a focus on methodology and access to excellent state-of-the- languages from Africa, Asia and the Pacific region. art research facilities for linguistic data processing

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and analysis, and to the world-renowned SOAS Library. Our PhD students conduct primary research Dr Wynn Chao BA (New York) PhD (Mass) all over the world in description, documentation, Formal and comparative syntax; semantics; sociolinguistics, language revitalisation, language the syntax-semantics interface; language pedagogy and translation studies. We welcome universals and typology; psycholinguistics; applications from research students wishing Chinese; Romance languages. to specialise in all areas of the linguistics of the Dr Monik Charette BA (UQAM) PhD (McGill) world’s languages. Phonology; morpho-phonology; stress systems; The Department promotes a wide range of activities vowel harmony; syllabic structure; Altaic throughout the year, including seminars, workshops, languages; Turkish; French. a public lecture, a summer school, Endangered Dr Maria Flouraki BA (Athens) MA PhD (Essex) Languages Week, specialist conferences, and a Syntax; syntax-semantics interface; formal biennial conference on Language Documentation semantics; lexical semantics; constraint-based and Linguistic Theory. See our website at frameworks (LFG and HPSG); lexical aspect; www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics for more information. negation; argument structure; Romance languages; Greek; South Asian languages. Research Dr Nathan Hill BA MA PhD (Harvard) Old Tibetan to Modern Standard Tibetan as well MPhil and PhD supervision is offered in as Tibetan historical and biographical literature; theoretical, descriptive and comparative linguistics, languages and cultures of Mongolian and other sociolinguistics, translation studies and language minorities of today’s PRC. variation and change. The MPhil and PhD courses include a research training component with Dr Noriko Iwasaki PhD (Arizona) foundational and advanced courses in linguistics, Second language acquisition (grammatical training in research methods, optional courses in and pragmatic development, impact of study Field Methods and in Linguistic Documentation and abroad); language pedagogy; psycholinguistics research studies leading to a dissertation. Through (language production, cognition and language); a combination of courses, advanced seminars Japanese linguistics. and individual supervision, the MPhil and PhD Dr Defeng Li PhD (Alberta) course aims to provide the intellectual discipline, Cognitive approach to translation process; knowledge and skills required to be a well-rounded corpus- based translation studies; translation researcher. The Department hosts a weekly seminar, curriculum and material development; as well as research presentations by staff, students specialised translation; second language and affiliates within our research community. acquisition and teaching; experimental translation studies; qualitative research Academic staff research areas methodology. Dr Christopher Lucas BA (London) MPhil PhD Professor Peter K Austin BA (AS) Hons PhD (ANU) (Cantab) Typology; morpho-syntax; language Historical linguistics; pragmatics; philosophy documentation and description; historical of language; Dynamic Syntax; Relevance linguistics; Lexical-Functional Grammar; Theory; Arabic; Afro-Asiatic. computer-aided linguistic analysis; Austronesian languages; Australian Aboriginal languages. Dr Friederike Lüpke MA (Köln) PhD (Nijmegen) Language documentation and description; Dr Aicha Belkadi BA (Westminster) MA PhD contact linguistics; anthropological linguistics; (London) syntax-semantics interface; argument structure; Syntax; morphology-syntax-semantics interfaces; Ajami writing in Africa; Mande languages; grammaticalisation; aspectual systems; verb Atlantic languages; Jalonke (Guinea); semantics and directionality; cartographic Bainouk (Senegal). approaches; LFG, Berber languages; French.

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Professor Lutz Marten MA PhD (London) Dr Mandana Seyfeddinipur MA (Berlin) Theoretical and African linguistics; syntax PhD (Nijmehen) and semantics and pragmatics, in particular Language documentation; cultural and linguistic on the interfaces between these modules; diversity in language use; video in language Dynamic Syntax; historical linguistics; language documentation; multimodality with a focus and society in Eastern and Southern Africa; on gesture; visual mode of language; language comparative Bantu, Bemba, Herero, Swahili. use and language documentation; pragmatics; psycholinguistics; language production. Professor Irina Nikolaeva MA Candidate (Moscow) PhD (Leiden) Dr Candide Simard PhD (Manchester) Syntax; morphology; information structure; Prosody; information structure and languages typology; lexicalist theories of grammar; in contact; Construction Grammar; Australian Construction Grammar; documentation Aboriginal languages; Austronesian languages; of endangered languages; Palaeosiberian language documentation and description. linguistics; Uralic languages; Altaic languages; Dr Justin Watkins BA (Leeds) MA PhD (London) Tundra Nenets (northwestern Siberia). Burmese language and literature; Mon-Khmer Professor Anne Pauwels PhD (Monash) and Tibeto-Burman languages; phonetics and Social and sociolinguistic aspects of language speech acoustics; computer lexicography; and communication, with particular attention sign languages in South East Asia. to multilingual and transnational settings; multilingualism; language maintenance and shift; language policy in relation to language MA Linguistics learning in schools and universities as well as various aspects of the relationship between gender and language. Duration One calendar year (full-time) Dr Kirsty Rowan MA PhD (London) Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) Comparative and theoretical phonology; Ancient Egyptian and Meroitic phonology; Start of programme writing systems; Afro-Caribbean ritual September intake only languages. Entry requirements Professor Itesh Sachdev BSc (Bristol) Minimum upper second-class honours PhD (McMaster) (or equivalent) Social psychology of language and intergroup Convenor relations; intercultural communication; identity Professor Itesh Sachdev (minority and majority); bi-multilingualism; multiculturalism; language attitudes and See also motivations. -- Other MA programmes in the Department of Linguistics Dr Sophie Salffner MA (Bielefeld) MA PhD (London) Phonetics and phonology; tone; prosody; The MA Linguistics integrates taught and research language documentation; fieldwork; Niger- components to offer postgraduate-level training in Congo languages; Ikaan. theoretical and descriptive linguistics, either as an Dr Julia Sallabank PhD (Lancaster) end in itself or as preparation for further training Sociolinguistics; language support; language and research. policy; revitalisation methods; literacy practices The programme is run on a modular basis to suit in endangered languages; Guernesiais. the following four categories of students: • those with a degree in Linguistics who wish to pursue more regional and language-based study

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• those with a degree in Linguistics who wish to The programme provides students with a sound pursue more research-oriented topics before knowledge of current concepts and theories in proceeding to a research degree the foundational areas of phonology, syntax and semantics. One-and-a-half units are taken from • those with little or no linguistics training who the courses listed below, with at least a half unit wish to acquire knowledge of the discipline at the Advanced level: • those with little or no training in linguistics who • MA Syntax (half unit) wish to take the degree as a conversion course • MA Phonology (half unit) before proceeding to a research degree. • Advanced Syntax (half unit) The MA Linguistics attracts applicants from a wide • Dynamic Syntax (half unit) variety of countries, backgrounds and experiences • Issues in Semantics (half unit) (graduates in linguistics, languages and other • Advanced Phonology (half unit) subjects, professionals in language teaching and In addition, students have a variety of options within other disciplines, and people with an interest in which to develop their linguistic knowledge, and Asian and African languages). Students are not one-and-a-half units can be taken from the courses necessarily expected to have a first Bachelor’s listed above, or from the other options available degree in Linguistics or Modern Languages with each year. Students have the opportunity to study a strong linguistics component. However, they a language in other departments. are normally expected to have some previous interest in, or experience with, languages or related fields (for example, translation, language Course options teaching, psychology, philosophy, computing • Applied Language Documentation and and anthropology). Description (half unit) The entry requirement for the Master’s degree • Directed Readings in Linguistics/the Structure is a upper second-class Bachelor’s degree of Language A (half unit) (or equivalent). • Directed Readings in Linguistics/the Structure of Language B (half unit) A significant proportion of students go on to • Phonetics (Master’s) (half unit) research in linguistics and related disciplines. Many • Field Methods of the graduates already hold faculty positions in • Historical Linguistics (Master’s) (half unit) their countries and return to them, while others • Introduction to the Study of Language take on a variety of teaching, academic or research- • Language Pedagogy related posts or further training. • Language Typology (Master’s) (half unit) • Language, Society and Communication (Master’s) Structure (half unit) • Morphology (Master’s) (half unit) Not all courses listed opposite may be offered • Translation Theory and Practice every year, and new courses may become available. • Syntactic Structure of Japanese 1 (half unit) For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, • Structure of Chinese (half unit) please visit the relevant departmental website or • Topics in the History and Structure of the Korean contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be Language (half unit) taught in other departments of the School. Students attend a combination of core and optional courses, and write a 10,000-word dissertation on an approved topic. All students attend the weekly Research Foundations Seminar. All students take the equivalent of three full units as courses, and submit the Master’s dissertation at the end of the year. The MA may be taken part-time, over two or three years.

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programme is formulated with two different MA Language Documentation pathways; one specialising in Language Support and Revitalisation and the other specialising in and Description Field Linguistics. Regardless of the pathway they choose, all students Duration take the equivalent of two full units as core courses, One calendar year (full-time) and the equivalent of one full unit as option Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) courses and submit a Master’s dissertation at the Start of programme end of the year. All students attend the weekly September intake only Research Foundations Seminar. The MA may be taken part-time, over two or three years, and there Entry requirements is a possibility for transferring between the two Upper second-class honours degree pathways for part-time students. (or equivalent) Convenor MA Language Documentation and Description Professor Itesh Sachdev (Language Support and Revitalisation) This pathway is open to full-time students with See also or without a background in linguistics. It provides -- Other MA programmes in the Department an introductory overview of the study of language, of Linguistics as well as courses geared at enabling students to support endangered and minority language communities in a number of ways. The core This MA offers students a solid grounding not courses for this pathway are: only in linguistic analysis, but also in fieldwork methodology, technology and applied aspects • Issues in Language Documentation and of language documentation in collaboration Description (half unit) with speaker communities. With this background, • Applied Language Documentation and students will be able to contribute to the urgently Description (half unit) needed documentation of endangered languages. • Introduction to the Study of Language It is widely agreed that about half of the world’s This pathway is open to students with a BA in 6,500 languages are endangered to some degree. Linguistics or equivalent and provides students with This course is part of the Endangered Languages a sound knowledge of state-of-the-art methods Academic Programme (ELAP), which specifically and technology for language documentation aims to advance the documentation and and description with an emphasis on endangered description of endangered languages. ELAP also and minority languages. runs seminars, workshops and intensive courses The core courses for this pathway are: on the documentation of endangered languages. The programme forms part of the Hans Rausing • Issues in Language Documentation and Endangered Languages Project. Description (half unit) • Technology and Language Documentation Structure (half unit) • Field Methods Not all option courses listed below may be For optional courses, see Course options for offered every year, and new courses may become MA Linguistics on pages 197–198. available. For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, please visit the relevant departmental website or contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be taught in other departments of the School. The MA Language Documentation and Description consists of three components: core courses, option courses and dissertation research. This degree

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Applicants without a relevant degree will need MA Theory and Practice to provide evidence of their proficiency at a level acceptable to the School. Where possible, of Translation international applicants will be required to supply the result of a proficiency test taken in their home Duration country. Students claiming proficiency who (after One calendar year (full-time) registration) prove not to be sufficiently fluent will Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) be required to take in-sessional language courses, possibly at their own expense. All applicants must Start of programme satisfy the School’s requirements with regard to September intake only competence in the English language. Entry requirements Minimum upper second-class honours degree Structure (or equivalent). Fluency in the specified African or Asian language at least to the level of that Not all courses listed below may be available every imparted by a first degree in that language year. For courses being offered in 2014/15, please visit the relevant departmental website or contact Convenor the Faculty office. Some courses may be taught in Dr Defeng Li other departments of the School. See also Students take three full taught courses or equivalent -- Other MA programmes in the Department (the half unit course Translation Theory and a one of Linguistics unit course or two half unit courses of Practical Translation are compulsory). Students may choose from a wide range of optional courses and write a The MA Theory and Practice of Translation 10,000-word dissertation (either a theoretical essay (Asian and African Languages) combines training or a 6,000-word translation accompanied by a of practical translation skills with teaching of 4,000-word commentary). translation theories. It is unique in the range of Asian and African language specialisations For detailed description of core courses visit and subject areas, its scope and flexibility and www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/programmes/ collaboration with other universities. mathepratrans The aim of the programme is to enhance students’ methodological and practical skills in translation. Courses This will prepare them for the professional market as translators or other language professionals, Core courses while providing an intellectual perspective on the All students must take: discipline of translation studies, which could be • Translation Theory (half unit) the foundation for further MPhil and PhD research. Students have access to a wealth of resources for All students must take one full unit or two half unit the study and practice of translation available in the courses from the following: SOAS Library and nearby institutions, such as the • Arabic/ English/ Arabic Translation University of London Library, the UCL Library, the • Practical Translation: Chinese to English (half unit) British Library and many others. AND Drawing on the expertise of highly-qualified teachers • Practical Translation: English to Chinese (half unit) and researchers at SOAS, the programme offers • Practical Translation: Japanese into English a range of languages, including Arabic, Chinese, (half unit) Japanese, Korean, Persian and Swahili. It considers AND such issues as contrastive linguistics, translation • Practical Translation: English into Japanese theory and translation technology. Training is (half unit) provided in translating both into and from English. • Practical Translation from and into Korean Students are also able to select options to suit their • Practical Translation from and into Persian own preferences and intended career paths. • Practical Translation from and into Swahili

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Optional Courses Full-unit courses MA Applied Linguistics • Translation Technology • The Qur’an: Language, Style and Translation and Language Pedagogy in English (Japanese, Korean, Chinese • Language Pedagogy • Introduction to the Study of Language or Tibetan) • Modern Chinese Literature in Translation • Modern Chinese Literature (Master’s) Duration • Modern Documentary Texts One calendar year (full-time) • Classical Documentary Texts Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) • Traditional Chinese Literature in Translation Start of programme • Culture and Society of Japan September intake only • Survey of Korean Literature • Topics in the History and Structure of the Entry requirements Korean Language Upper second-class or equivalent in a BA in • Topics in Modern Korean History a relevant discipline (Linguistics or Applied Linguistics), or a BA in another discipline including Half-unit courses some relevant units, and relevant professional • Research Methods in Translation Studies qualifications (for example, teacher training • Translation of Journalistic Texts from and qualifications), or exceptional and documented into Chinese experience in language teaching. Native or native- • Language, Society and Communication (Master’s) like proficiency in the language of the chosen path • Modern Film from Taiwan and the Chinese Diaspora Convenor • Modern Chinese Film and Theatre (Master’s) Dr Noriko Iwasaki • Syntactic Structure of Japanese 1 See also • Syntactic Structure of Japanese 2 -- MA Japanese Studies (page 66) • Topics in the Structure of Chinese (Master’s) -- MA Korean Studies (page 68) • Modern Japanese Literature (Master’s) -- MA Chinese Studies (page 60) • Morphology (Master’s) -- MA Linguistics (page 197) • Issues in Semantics (Master’s) • Historical Linguistics (Master’s) • Directed Readings in Linguistics/the Structure This MA offers advanced training in the field of Language A of Language Pedagogy with a specialisation in • Directed Readings in Linguistics/the Structure Japanese, Korean, Chinese or Tibetan. of Language B The programme provides an appreciation of the concepts, modes of analysis and theoretical approaches in the area of Language Pedagogy, including second language learning theories and teaching methodologies. Students will also be familiarised with the general areas of linguistic inquiry (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics and discourse structure) and how they are relevant to the study of second language acquisition. As a practical component, students will also become familiar with the intent and design of instructional material and teaching and testing techniques, and will evaluate second language learners’ performance through the analysis of empirical data and adequate descriptive terminology. They will also be able to design appropriate lesson plans, and will have

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carried out a certain amount of practice in the language of their chosen pathway. MA Arabic Language Graduates will be qualified and well-prepared for Teaching teaching the target language in higher education in the UK and other parts of the world; teaching Duration at a private institution or at a company; for Two years (one calendar year full-time and one administrative or consultative roles in educational calendar year part-time) organisations; and for editing roles with publishers Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) related to language teaching. Start of programme Structure September intake only Entry requirements Entering students who already hold an undergraduate Upper second-class or equivalent in a BA in a major in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics or an relevant discipline (Linguistics, Applied Linguistics MA in Linguistics take one unit of core courses listed or Arabic language), or a BA in another discipline below and two options, and write a 10,000-word including some relevant units, and relevant dissertation on an approved topic. Students with professional qualifications (for example, teacher no background in linguistics must take the core training qualifications), or exceptional and courses plus Introduction to the Study of Language documented experience in language teaching. and a dissertation. Native or native-like proficiency in Arabic

Course structure Programme Convenor Dr Noriko Iwasaki Not all courses listed below may be offered every year, and new courses may become available. For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, This MA offers advanced training in theory and please visit the relevant departmental website or practice specific to teaching the Arabic language contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be as a foreign or second language and of the broader taught in other departments of the School. issues and approaches related to language learning and teaching in general. Core courses It enables students to develop the capacity to • Language Pedagogy conduct research related to the learning and • Chinese Applied Linguistics (Chinese Pathway) teaching of a second language. As a practical • Korean Linguistics and Language Pedagogy component, students will also become familiar (Korean Pathway) (half unit) with the intent and design of instructional material • Tibetan Linguistics and Language Pedagogy and teaching and testing techniques, and will (Tibetan Pathway) (half unit) evaluate second language learners’ performance • Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism through the analysis of empirical data and adequate (Korean and Tibetan Pathways) (half unit) descriptive terminology. They will also be able to design appropriate lesson plans, and will have Course options carried out a certain amount of practice in the • Introduction to the Study of Language language of their chosen pathway. • Syntactic Structure of Japanese 1 (Japanese Pathway) (half unit) Graduates will be qualified and well-prepared • Structure of Chinese (Chinese Pathway) (half unit) for teaching Arabic in higher education in the UK • Second Language Acquisition in Japanese and other parts of the world; teaching at a private (Japanese Pathway) (half unit) institution or at a company; for administrative or • Topics in the History and Structure of the Korean consultative roles in educational organisations; Language (Korean Pathway) and for editing roles with publishers related to • Directed Readings in Linguistics/the Structure of language teaching. Language A, B (half unit) • any linguistics course approved by the convenor

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Structure Graduate destinations The programme can be taken either in a two-year A postgraduate degree in Linguistics from SOAS structure (one year full-time spanning over three gives students the ability to engage in analytical terms of 36 weeks followed by one year part-time thought, to carry out research-like work on of two core units) or in a three-year structure unfamiliar data and to control and understand the (entirely part-time mode: two academic years of 36 use of language. Postgraduates develop linguistic weeks each followed by one year of two core units). expertise that enables them to continue in the field of research or pursue professional careers. Core courses They are equipped with a portfolio of widely • Language Awareness, Methods and Practice transferable skills which employers seek in many in Teaching Arabic (first year) professional and management careers in business, • Language Teaching and Learning public and non government and charity sectors. (first year, half unit) These include the ability to understand and analyse • Arabic Applied Linguistics – Theory and Practice the form and functions of language in its social and (first year, half unit) cultural context, transcribe and analyse language, • Language Teaching and Professional Development present linguistic data in different formats, and (first year) research analysis techniques. A postgraduate • Language Pedagogy (second year) degree is a valuable experience that provides • Dissertation (second year) students with a body of work and a diverse range of skills with which they can market themselves when they graduate. Examples of the careers graduates from this department have gone on to immediately after graduation include: Freelance Translator, Tutor (Rainbow Language in Business), Post-doctoral Researcher (SOAS), Assistant Professor (IIT Kampur), Assistant Professor (Taiba University Madina Saudi Arabia), Video Producer (BBC), Advertisement Localiser (London), Community Radio (Indonesia), Teacher of English for Academic Purposes (London). Examples of research degrees or further study include: PhD in Linguistics (College of William and Mary), Translation (Lund University, Sweden), Interpreter Course (University of Latvia).

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Centre for Media Studies

three MAs, a lively doctoral research programme www.soas.ac.uk/media and post-doctoral research. The members of the teaching faculty are recognised Faculty international specialists in their fields, and provide Arts and Humanities unparalleled coverage of the different aspects of media and film in their region. They see the four Number of staff MAs as an overlapping family. Some courses (or Academic 5 course components) are common to more than Teaching and Scholarship (fractional) 5 one degree, while others are available only within RAE a particular degree programme. Work in Media Studies has been judged within Throughout, the intention is to combine an Area Studies or Anthropology. Ninety-five obligatory and rigorous formation in the skills basic percent of the research and writing has been to the degree under study with an expression of rated as world-leading, internationally excellent a student’s individual interests. Particular emphasis or internationally recognised. is put on the latter element, and so each degree Taught Master’s degrees encourages students to undertake original -- MA Critical Media and Cultural Studies project work and research, including use of -- MA Global Media and Postnational our multimedia facilities. Communication -- MA Media in Development Doctoral Research -- MA Media and the Middle East Media Studies at SOAS has an expanding programme of doctoral research with some 30 The Centre for Media Studies is a major initiative research students currently enrolled. Our research in the study of non-Western media and film. It is students work on an exceptionally wide range of unique in the UK and worldwide for concentrating topics, both theoretical and empirical, with about on media and film in the non-Western world – half coming from Asia, Africa and the Middle East, especially Asia, Africa and the Middle East, as well and half from Europe and North America. as their diasporas. The Centre puts emphasis on the acquisition of The programme teaches the discipline of Media and critical theoretical skills and in-depth regional, Communication Studies with special reference to linguistic and cultural knowledge of media and contemporary and historical trends in Asia, Africa film forms and practices. and the Middle East, but invites a multidisciplinary The PhD in Media Studies is a research degree, approach to understanding the relationship between involving original research on some aspect of communications, politics, culture and society. Since, contemporary theoretical and global issues in by its nature, media is not geographically bounded, media and communication. Our approach to the programme considers media in Asia, Africa media studies involves a developed critique of and the Middle East within the broader context of Eurocentrism. Our speciality is the analysis of the media and cultural production and reception in film and cultural industries, their contents and the global South, and in their increasingly complex audiences in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and their relationships with Europe and North America. diasporas. This is an approach equally well-suited The emphasis given to particular regions, themes to research on Latin American, East European and and approaches varies with current trends in the mainstream ‘Western’ media. disciplines, broader global developments and the evolving research specialisations and interests of In 2007, we opened a PhD stream designed to the Centre’s academic staff and research students. integrate and interrogate the relationships between theory and practice. The submitted work comprises The programme recognises a special responsibility 60,000 words of written work and up to one hour to complement the provision of skills in the of audio-visual materials. languages and the cultural, political, economic and social affairs of Africa, Asia and the Middle East A research degree in media normally takes three provided in other departments at SOAS. It offers years, or up to a maximum of four years should

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extensive periods of fieldwork be required. Part-time registration is also possible. Dr Jaeho Kang MA (Korea) PhD (Cantab) East Asia; Korea, China and Japan; critical The Centre stresses interdisciplinarity and draws theory; media theory; East Asian cultural studies; upon expertise right across the School. So the PhD political communication; media and urban Programme is equally suited to researchers who spaces in East Asian cities; new media and wish to engage in detailed study of media and film democracy; media spectacle and global in Asia or Africa and to those who wish to combine mega-events. media and film studies with other disciplines, ranging from the study of language and culture through the humanities to the social sciences. Associate Members We consider research students to be one of our Professor Stephen Chan BA MA (Auckland) MA main research strengths and advise them to (London) PHD (Kent) develop a portfolio of projects, whether individual Professor of International Relations or collaborative, which will be relevant to their future careers. In their final year, we also encourage Dr Lindiwe Dovey BA (Harvard) PhD (Cantab) them to organise symposia and film festivals based Senior Lecturer in African Film and on their fields of special expertise and aimed at a Performance Arts broader audience. For example, the student-led Professor Rachel Dwyer BA PhD (London) ‘Sacredmediacow Collective’ organised a conference MPhil (Oxon) on media in India and produced an edited book, Professor of Indian Cultures and Cinema Indian Mass Media and the Politics of Change, which was published by Routledge. Other students have Ms Narguess Farzad BA (London) become involved with the organisation of the Small Senior Fellow, Persian Language and Literature Media Initiative (smallmediainitiative.com) events Professor Andrew Gerstle BA (Columbia) every autumn. Many students also give papers at MA (Waseda) PhD (Harvard) national and international conferences and some Professor of Japanese Studies publish in academic journals. Dr Sian Hawthorne BA PhD (London) Lecturer in Critical Theory and the Study Staff Members of Religions Professor Annabelle Sreberny MA (Cantab) Dr Dana Healy PhD (Prague) PhD (Columbia) FRSA Senior Lecturer in Vietnamese Middle East, especially Iran; gender and Professor Michel Hockx DRS PhD (Leiden) democratisation; diasporic cultures; small media Professor of Chinese and political change. Dr Stephen Hughes BA (Bates Coll., Lewiston) Dr Dina Matar MSc PhD (London) MA PhD (Chicago) Middle East, especially the Arab world; Lecturer in Social Anthropology international political communication; Arab cultural politics; Arab cultural studies; memory Dr Kevin Latham BA (Oxon) PGDip (Zhangshan) studies and oral history; Islamist movements; MA PhD (London) social movements and media; diasporas; Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology ethnic minorities; transnational movements Dr Dolores Martinez AB (Chicago) DipSocAnth and communications. DPhil (Oxon) Dr Somnath Batabyal MA (London) PhD Reader in Anthropology with reference to Japan (London) Dr Nima Mina BA (Marburg) MMus PhD Southeast Asia, with a focus on India; (Montreal) transnational news spheres with a special focus Senior Lecturer in Persian and Iranian Studies on India; development discourses in India and its articulation in mainstream and alternate news Dr Parvathi Raman BA PhD (London) forums; environmental politics. Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology

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also provides opportunities to engage directly in Isolde Standish BA (Ballarat) BA PhD (London) research on an aspect of these media. Students Reader in Film and Media Studies are required to take the compulsory course, two Dr Justin Watkins BA (Leeds) MA PhD (London) options and write a 10,000-word dissertation. Senior Lecturer in the Languages and Linguistics The optional courses offer access to various of South East Asia approaches to the critical study of Asian and African discourses, ranging from cinema to music, comparative literature, gender, religion, art, archaeology and African and Asian cultures, MA Critical Media and societies, languages and diasporas. Cultural Studies Course structure Duration Not all courses listed below may be offered every One calendar year (full-time) year, and new courses may become available. Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, Start of programme please visit the relevant departmental website or September intake only contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be taught in other departments of the School. Entry requirements Minimum upper second-class honours degree Core courses (or equivalent) • Theoretical and Contemporary Issues in Media Convenor and Cultural Studies Dr Jaeho Kang • Dissertation in Media Studies

Course options Most Media Studies degrees concentrate on work Students take two half courses from List 2, which in English on media production, distribution and are courses in Media Studies offered by Centre reception in North America, Britain and Australia staff. The remaining course(s) are selected from while ignoring the contemporary mass media in the other lists. Asia, Africa and Latin America. This is despite the List 2 (courses in Media Studies) emergence of many of the largest film, TV, music • The Transnational News Environment: Issues in and print industries in those parts of the world. Production, Representation and Use (half unit) For example, terrestrial and satellite TV has become • Transnational Communities and Diasporic Media: politically and culturally crucial from Japan and Networking, Connectivity, Identity (half unit) China to Indonesia, India and the Middle East. • Studies in Global Media and Post-national However, the preoccupation with the domestic Communication (half unit) concerns of the British and US media industries • International Political Communication (half unit) disguises the realities of our living in a multi-centred • Mediated Culture in the Middle East: Politics and world – realities conventional media and cultural Communication (half unit) theory fails to study. • Rethinking Audiences (half unit) • Media Production Skills (half unit) This SOAS MA addresses this double deficiency. • Studies in Media, Information Communication It considers critical issues in media and cultural Technologies and Development (half unit) studies in their full global complexity and provides • Emerging Digital Cultures in Asia and Africa: an in-depth theoretical and cultural background Theory and Practice (half unit) to contemporary media processes. List 3 (courses in the Cinemas of Asia and Africa) It offers frames of analysis critical of this theoretical • Japanese Transnational Cinema: From Kurosawa and geographical closure, studying non-Western to Asia Extreme and Studio Ghibli (half unit) media production, distribution, reception and • Japanese Post-war Film Genres and the commentary. It introduces key contemporary Avant-garde (half unit) issues discussed in Asian and African media and

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• Japanese Television since 1953 Other course options available in the Department • Critical Approaches to the Study of Regional of Politics and International Studies. Cinemas Full-unit options: • Post-crisis Thai Cinema (half unit) • Government and Politics in Africa • Genders and Sexualities in South East Asian Film • Comparative Politics of the Middle East (half unit) • State and Development in Asia and Africa • Indian Cinema: History and Social Context (half unit) List 7 • Indian Cinema: Key Issues (half unit) • Theory and Method in the Study of Religion • Iranian Cinema (half unit) • Buddhist Arts in Context (half unit) • Film and Society in the Middle East • Readings in French Feminism and Religion • Aspects of African Film and Video (half unit) (half unit, term one) • Readings in Derrida on Religion (half unit) • Modern Chinese Film and Theatre (Master’s) • Central Concepts and Tenets of Indian Buddhism (half unit) (half unit) • Modern Film from Taiwan and the Chinese • Christianity and Social Change in Sub-Saharan Diaspora (half unit) Africa • Critical Approaches to the Study of Regional • Gender, Postcolonialism and the Study of Cinemas (half unit) Religions • Approaches to the Other in Horror and Science • Gender, Theory and the Study of Asia, Africa Fiction Films (half unit) and the Middle East • Arab Cinemas (half unit) List 8 • Iranian cinemas (half unit) • One language course (subject to availability) • Issues in the Anthropology of Film Please see departments of the Faculty of Languages List 4 and Cultures for details • Theory and Techniques of Comparative Literature • Literatures in African Languages • Modern Arabic Literature and the West • Literatures of South Asia MA Global Media • Postcolonial Theory and Practice • Gender Theory and the Study of Asia, Africa and Postnational and the Middle East Communication List 5 • Aspects of South East Asian Music Duration • Music in South Asian Culture One calendar year (full-time) • Music of the Near and Middle East and Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) North Africa Start of programme • Music in Selected Regions of Africa: September intake only Contexts and Structures • Pop and Politics in East Asia (Master’s) Entry requirements (half unit, term one) Minimum upper second-class honours degree (or equivalent) List 6 • Art and Society in Africa Convenor • Culture and Society of China Dr Saeed Zeydebadi-Nejad • Culture and Society of Japan • Culture and Society of South East Asia • Culture and Society of South Asia This MA starts from three premises. The first is that • Culture and Society of the Near and Middle East globalisation is a set of complex processes with • Culture and Society of West Africa unequal effects in different parts of the world, but • Culture and Society of East Africa strong enough to invite analysis of a post-national spatiality of global social relations. The second

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is that central to these processes is the role of Course options communications technologies as infrastructure Students take two half unit courses from List 2, and threads of connectivity, and the circulation which are available within the Centre. The remaining of mediated products that structure competing course(s) are selected from the other lists. social imaginaries. The third is the growing List 2 convergence of the previously separable areas • The Transnational News Environment: Issues in of broadcasting, telecommunications and the Production, Representation and Use internet, so that study of the current moment • Transnational Communities and Diasporic Media: needs to address not just conventional media Networking, Connectivity, Identity (press, radio, TV) but also new communication • Mediated Culture in the Middle East: Politics and technologies, including the internet, satellite Communications technologies and mobile telephony. • International Political Communication The MA thus studies globalisation dynamics and • Theoretical Issues in Media and Cultural Studies critiques the roles and nature of communications • Rethinking Audiences technologies and mediated content and changing • Arab Cinemas the political, economic, social and cultural activity. • Iranian Cinemas The focus is on responses to globalisation in • Media Production Skills the South and the developments in media and • Emerging Digital Cultures in Asia and Africa: communications in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Theory and Practice Students examine the growing significance of those • Studies in Media, Information Communication regions in terms of new media players and cultural Technologies and Development genres; complex audience involvements with List 3 mediated communication; and critical and creative • Japanese Post-War Film Genres and the Avant- responses to globalisation. garde (half unit) Not only does media content circulate, people move • Japanese Television since 1953 too; so this MA looks into the development and use • Japanese Transnational Cinema: From Kurosawa of mediated forms by minority television channels, to Asia Extreme and Studio Ghibli deterritorialised political action or other forms of • Indian Cinema: Its History and Social Context cultural and political representation. As reactions (half unit) to globalisation and its problematic outcomes • Indian Cinema: Key Issues increasingly take on post-national forms, the course • Post-crisis Thai Cinema (half unit) also explores the dynamics of global civil society • Genders and Sexualities in South East Asian Film and the use of information and communication (half unit) channels (ICTs) to build movements of solidarity. • Film and Society in the Middle East • Aspects of African Film and Video 1 Course structure (half unit, term one) • Aspects of African Film and Video 2 Not all courses listed below may be offered every (half unit, term one) year, and new courses may become available. • Modern Chinese Film and Theatre (Master’s) For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, (half unit) please visit the relevant departmental website or • Modern Film from Taiwan and the Chinese contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be Diaspora (half unit) taught in other departments of the School. • Critical Approaches to the Study of Regional Cinemas (half unit) Students are required to take the compulsory • Chinese Cinema and Media (half unit) course and two options of their choice and also write a 10,000-word dissertation. List 4 • Anthropology of Development Core courses • Perspectives on Development (half unit) • Global Media and Post-national Communication: • Culture and Society of the Near and Middle East Theoretical and Contemporary Issues • Culture and Society of China • Dissertation in Media Studies • Culture and Society of East Africa

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• Culture and Society of Japan The programme draws on media theory, practical • Culture and Society of West Africa knowledge and experience, and an awareness of • Culture and Society of South Asia the critical debates within and about development • Culture and Society of South East Asia itself, to challenge assumptions about the role of media and development industries. The approach List 5 thus balances critical theoretical analysis of the • Civil Society, Social Movements and Development hegemonic perspectives about the role of media in Processes (half unit) development with practical issues surrounding the List 6 use of media, notably including digital technologies. • Economic Development of South East Asia The programme differs from other degrees in • Economic Development of the Middle East media and development as it critically interrogates • Economic Dynamics of the Asia-Pacific Region the presuppositions behind the role of media in • Economic Problems of South Asia development which can legitimise a particular, • Economic Problems and Policies in Modern China hierarchical vision of the world. It critically examines • Economic Development of Modern Taiwan economic, social and cultural change, in which the List 7 media are not just instruments of furthering the • Politics and Society in Central Asia agenda of modernisation, but also constitute vibrant • Comparative Politics of the Middle East II public spaces and commentary outside of the • Government and Politics of Modern South Asia formal public sphere and civil society. • Government and Politics of modern South East Asia • Government and Politics in Africa Course structure • State and Development in Asia and Africa Not all courses listed below may be offered every List 8 year, and new courses may become available. • Christianity and Social Change in Sub-Saharan Africa For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, • Gender, Postcolonialism and the Study of Religions please visit the relevant departmental website or • Theory and Method in the Study of Religions contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be • Photography and the Image in Africa; and Other taught in other departments of the School. Regional Perspectives Students are required to take the compulsory course and two options of their choice and also MA Media in Development write a 10,000-word dissertation. Core courses Duration • Theoretical and Contemporary Issues in Media, One calendar year (full-time) Information Communication Technologies Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) and Development • Dissertation in Media Studies Start of programme September intake only Course options Entry requirements Students take two half-unit courses from List 2 Minimum good second-class honours degree offered by the Centre. The remaining course(s) (or equivalent) are selected from the other lists. Programme Convenor List 2 Dr Somnath Batabyal • Emerging Digital Cultures in Asia and Africa: Theory and Practice • The Transnational News Environment: Issues in The degree engages with practical and theoretically Production, Representation and Use critical approaches to addressing the different • Transnational Communities and Diasporic Media; ways in which media can engage with, be used, and Networking, Connectivity, Identity constitute sources of contestation over economic, • Mediated Culture in the Middle East: Politics socio-cultural and political development. and Communication

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• International Political Communication List 7 • Theoretical Issues in Media and Cultural Studies • Politics and Society in Central Asia • Rethinking Audiences • Comparative Politics of the Middle East • Studies in Global Media and Post-national • Government and Politics of Modern South Asia Communication (term one) • Government and Politics of Modern South East Asia • Iranian Cinema Half-unit options: • Arab Cinema (half unit) • Anthropology of Development: Perspectives on • Media Production Skills Development List 3 EITHER • Japanese Post-War Film Genres and the • Anthropology of Tourism (A) Avant-garde (half unit) OR • Indian Cinema: History and Social Context • Anthropology of Tourism (B) (half unit) • Anthropology of Urban Space, Place and • Indian Cinema: Key Issues Architecture • Post-crisis Thai Cinema (half unit) • Cultural Understandings of Health: Therapy and • Genders and Sexualities in South East Asian Film Culture (half unit) Full-unit options: • Film and Society in the Middle East • Culture and Society of East Africa • Aspects of African Film and Video 1 • Culture and Society of West Africa (half unit, term one) • Aspects of African Film and Video 2 Options available in Department of Politics (half unit, term one) and International Studies • Modern Chinese Film and Theatre (Master’s) Full-unit options: (half unit) • Government and Politics in Africa • Modern Film from Taiwan and the Chinese • Comparative Politics of the Middle East Diaspora (half unit) • State and Development in Asia and Africa • Critical Approaches to the Study of Regional Options available in Department of Cinemas (half unit) Development Studies • Chinese Cinema and Media (half unit) Half-unit options: • Approaches to the Other in Horror and Science • HIV and AIDS, Culture and Development Fiction Films (half unit) • Aid and Development List 4 • Civil Society, Social Movements and the • Anthropology of Development Development Process • Perspectives on Development (half unit) • Gender and Development • Culture and Society of the Near and Middle East Options available in Department of Music • Culture and Society of China Full-unit option: • Culture and Society of Japan • Music and Development • Culture and Society of South East Asia NB part-time students take the core course in their List 5 first year • Civil Society, Social Movements and Development Processes (half unit) List 6 • Economic Development of South East Asia • Economic Development of the Middle East • Economic Dynamics of the Asia-Pacific Region • Economic Problems of South Asia • Economic Problems and Policies in Modern China • Economic Development of Modern Taiwan

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website or contact the Faculty office. Some MA Media and the courses may be taught in other departments Middle East of the School. Students are required to take the compulsory course and two options of their choice and also Duration write a 10,000-word dissertation. One calendar year (full-time) Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) Core courses Start of programme • Communication, Culture and Politics in the Middle September intake only East: Theoretical and Analytical Approaches • Dissertation in Media and the Middle East Entry requirements Minimum upper second-class honours degree List 2 (or equivalent) • Emerging Digital Cultures in Asia and Africa: Theory and Practice Programme Convenor • The Transnational News Environment: Issues in Dr Dina Matar Production, Representation and Use • Transnational Communities and Diasporic Media; Networking, Connectivity, Identity This programme takes up the study of the • Mediated Culture in the Middle East: Politics relationship between politics, culture and and Communication communication in the Middle East through • International Political Communication two inter-related approaches, the first thematic • Theoretical Issues in Media and Cultural Studies and the second through comparative analyses • Rethinking Audiences of case studies. • Studies in Global Media and Post-national The degree draws on theoretical approaches central Communication (term one) to the study of culture, politics and communication, • Iranian Cinema as well as theoretical frameworks used in other • Arab Cinema (half unit) disciplines, to critically assess the changing media • Media Production Skills and cultural landscape in the Middle East and the List 3 relationship between media, cultural production • Japanese Post-War Film Genres and the and politics. Given the fluid situation in most Middle Avant-garde (half unit) East countries and the pertinence of media for • Indian Cinema: History and Social Context social and political change, the degree critically (half unit) explores diverse theoretical perspectives that help • Indian Cinema: Key Issues to make sense of the changes and link them to • Post-crisis Thai Cinema (half unit) specific case studies. The overall thrust, as in other • Genders and Sexualities in South East Asian Film degrees in the centre, is aimed at encouraging (half unit) new ways of understanding the region that move • Film and Society in the Middle East out of old Euro-centric debates and approaches • Aspects of African Film and Video 1 that have often defined the Middle East as a (half unit, term one) monolithic ‘Other’. • Aspects of African Film and Video 2 The programme provides the basis from which (half unit, term one) students may proceed to (MPhil and PhD) • Modern Chinese Film and Theatre (Master’s) graduate research. (half unit) • Modern Film from Taiwan and the Chinese Course structure Diaspora (half unit) • Critical Approaches to the Study of Regional Not all courses listed below may be offered every Cinemas (half unit) year, and new courses may become available. • Chinese Cinema and Media (half unit) For an up-to-date list of courses on offer for • Approaches to the Other in Horror and Science 2014/15, please visit the relevant departmental Fiction Films (half unit)

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List 4 Options available in Department of • Anthropology of Development Development Studies • Perspectives on Development (half unit) Half-unit options: • Culture and Society of the Near and Middle East • HIV and AIDS, Culture and Development • Culture and Society of China • Aid and Development • Culture and Society of Japan • Civil Society, Social Movements and the • Culture and Society of South East Asia Development Process • Gender and Development List 5 • Civil Society, Social Movements and Development Options available in Department of Music Processes (half unit) Full-unit option: • Music and Development List 6 • Economic Development of South East Asia NB part-time students take the core course in • Economic Development of the Middle East their first year • Economic Dynamics of the Asia-Pacific Region • Economic Problems of South Asia Graduate destinations • Economic Problems and Policies in Modern China • Economic Development of Modern Taiwan A postgraduate degree in Media Studies from SOAS gives students expertise in media, communications List 7 and film production within a global framework. • Politics and Society in Central Asia It is a valuable experience that provides students • Comparative Politics of the Middle East with a body of work and a diverse range of skills • Government and Politics of Modern South Asia with which they can market themselves when • Government and Politics of Modern South East Asia they graduate. Half-unit options: Media Studies students develop a portfolio of • Anthropology of Development: Perspectives on transferable skills which employers seek in many Development professional and creative capacities, including EITHER communication skills, interpersonal skills, team • Anthropology of Tourism (A) work, flexibility and dedication. Department OR graduates have gone into a wide range of careers • Anthropology of Tourism (B) and to complete research degrees. • Anthropology of Urban Space, Place and Architecture Examples of the careers graduates from this • Cultural Understandings of Health: Therapy department have gone on to after graduation include: and Culture Media Consultancy, Lecturer (Institute of Ismaili Studies), Journalist (Finnish Broadcasting Company), Full-unit options: Screen Writer, Director (Urchin Press), Assistant • Culture and Society of East Africa Producer (Screen Dip Productions), Accountant • Culture and Society of West Africa (Alliance Films), News Writer (Commonwealth Options available in Department of Politics Secretariat), Teacher (London’s Learning). and International Studies Full-unit options: • Government and Politics in Africa • Comparative Politics of the Middle East • State and Development in Asia and Africa Half-unit options: • Islam and Politics (term two) • Politics and Violence (term one)

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While linguistic and literary studies form the core www.soas.ac.uk/nme of the Department’s work, some of its staff also specialise in the study of religions, and others have particular interests in such fields as cinema Faculty and music. Their expertise is complemented by Languages and Cultures that of Middle Eastern specialists in other SOAS Number of staff departments, such as Art and Archaeology, History, Academic 17 and Politics and International Studies, the whole Teaching and Scholarship 7 adding up to a unique concentration of world-class Teaching and Scholarship (fractional) 21 teaching and research. RAE The wide range of subjects studied within the Eighty per cent of the work of the Department Department reflects not only the present economic was rated as world-leading, internationally and political importance of the region, but also excellent or internationally recognised. the diversity and historical depth of culture within an area that stretches from North Africa to China’s Taught Master’s degrees borders and includes ancient cradles of civilisation -- MA Ancient Near Eastern Languages and birthplaces of several of the world’s great -- MA Arabic Literature religions. The Department has received excellent -- MA Islamic Studies rankings for teaching and research, including a Interdisciplinary five-star rating in the 2001 Research Assessment -- MA Iranian Studies (page 62) Exercise. This ranking was confirmed in the 2008 -- MA Islamic Societies and Cultures (page 63) Research Assessment, which found the majority of -- MA Israeli Studies (page 64) the Department’s output to be of world-leading and -- MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies (page 69) of internationally excellent quality. Staff members -- MA Turkish Studies (page 218) have been awarded major grants by funding bodies such as the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust. Master’s degrees and research supervision The Department offers a unique concentration are offered in a broad range of fields, spanning the of world-class teaching and research on 5,000 languages, literatures and cultures of the Ancient years of culture, from cuneiform and ziggurats to Near East, medieval and modern Iran, the Arab Arabic and Islamic revolution. It is the UK’s largest Middle East, Central Asia and the Caucasus, the university department specialising in the languages Jewish tradition, and the Islamic world. and cultures of the Middle East, with a long and distinguished track record in teaching and research in the region’s modern and ancient languages. Academic staff research areas In the Near and Middle East Department you will Professor Muhammad A S Abdel Haleem find a truly diverse and international student body, BA (Cairo) PhD (Cantab) FCIL (London) including students from many countries of the Qur’an, Hadith, Tafsir; Islam in society; classical Middle East. After completing their postgraduate and modern Arabic literature. studies, many have gone on to pursue an academic career at home or abroad, while others find an Dr Yorgos Dedes BA MA PhD (Harvard) outlet for their newly acquired skills in publishing Early Anatolian Turkish; Ottoman language and other media. and literature; Ottoman history; Turkish-Greek relations; modern Turkish culture. Research Dr Ayman El-Desouky BA (Cairo) MA PhD (Austin) Staff are engaged full-time in research into Comparative literature; nineteenth- and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Arabic and Islamic twentieth-century Arabic literature; Studies, Caucasian languages, Central Asian Studies, hermeneutics; modern philosophy and theory. Hebrew and Israeli Studies, Persian and Iranian, and Turkish.

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Professor Andrew R George BA PhD Dr Ayman Shihadeh BA (London) MSt (Oxon) (Birmingham) FBA DPhil (Oxon) Cuneiform and Ancient Mesopotamian studies. Arabic philosophy; Islamic theology; ethical theory in Islam; Arabic paleography and Professor B George Hewitt MA PhD (Cantab) FBA codicology. Caucasian languages (especially South and North West Caucasian) and linguistics; Dr Stefan Sperl BA (Oxon) PhD (London) language work. Classical Arabic literature, medieval Arabic popular literature; court poetry and oral Dr. Marlé Hammond BA MA PhD (Columbia literature; refugee studies. University) Classical and Modern Arabic literature and Dr Yair Wallach BSc MA PhD (London) poetics; Egyptian and Arabic cinemas; women’s Culture, society and history of modern Israel writing; folkloric narrative. and Palestine; visual and material culture; urban studies; Israel-Palestine conflict. Professor Hugh N Kennedy PhD (Cantab) Medieval history of Arabic-speaking lands. Dr Mark Weeden MA (Oxon) MA PhD (London) Hittite, Akkadian language and literature in Syria. Dr Karima Laachir BA (Tetouan, Morocco) MA PhD (Leeds) PGCHE (Birmingham) Dr Kate Zebiri BA PhD (London) Comparative postcolonial literature (Arabophone, Modern Islamic studies; contemporary Sufism. Francophone and Anglophone); Arabic popular culture; diasporic cultural productions; literature of the North African diaspora (Beur); exclusion MA Ancient Near Eastern of ethnic minorities in Europe with a specific focus on France; postcolonialism and colonial Languages legacies; Islam and Islamophobia. Dr Chris Lucas BA (London) MA PhD (Cantab) Duration Grammatical change and the interface between Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) syntax, semantics and pragmatics in Arabic and Start of programme other Afro-Asiatic languages, and in English and September intake only other (Indo-) European languages. Entry requirements Dr Nima Mina BA (Marburg) MMus PhD Minimum upper second-class honours degree (Montreal) (or equivalent), plus knowledge of Akkadian Classical and Modern Persian literature; orientalism in eighteenth–twentieth century Programme Convenor Europe; Middle Eastern minority writers in Professor Andrew George Europe; diaspora studies; music performance; See also translation studies. -- Other programmes in the Near and Middle Dr Wen-Chin Ouyang BA BEd (Tripoli) MA MPhil East Department PhD (Columbia University) -- MA Islamic Societies and Cultures (page 63) Classical and modern Arabic literature; The -- MA Turkish Studies (page 218) 1001 Nights and Arabic popular epics; classical -- MA Linguistics (page 197) and modern Arabic critical thought and theory; networks of circulation and world literature; semiotics of the visual. The MA in Ancient Near Eastern Languages offers an intensive programme of text reading and Dr Mustafa Shah BA PhD (London) language learning for those who already have The early Arabic linguistic tradition; classical a good knowledge of the Akkadian language – Islamic theology and jurisprudence. usually at least two years’ experience. The degree is intended to widen the student’s experience in the vast legacy of written

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documentation in Akkadian and other languages from ancient Mesopotamia and Anatolia. MA Arabic Literature The programme is tailor-made to serve as an intermediate year between SOAS’s three-year BA Duration in Ancient Near Eastern Studies (or an equivalent One calendar year (full-time) qualification) and postgraduate Assyriological Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) research at the level of MPhil and PhD. It can, Start of programme of course, be taken for its own sake. September intake only Students take three courses from below and write Entry requirements a 10,000-word dissertation on an approved topic. Minimum upper second-class honours degree or overseas equivalent in Arabic or another Course structure relevant subject, with good knowledge of Arabic Not all courses listed below may be offered every Programme Convenor year, and new courses may become available. Dr Wen-chin Ouyang For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, See also please visit the relevant departmental website or -- Other programmes in the Near and Middle contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be East Department taught in other departments of the School. -- MA Islamic Studies (page 216) -- MA Islamic Societies and Cultures (page 63) Course options -- MA Turkish Studies (page 218) Choose three courses from below: -- MA Linguistics (page 197) • Mesopotamian Languages and Literature A: The Third Millennium • Mesopotamian Languages and Literature B: This advanced Master’s programme provides an The Second Millennium insight into the Arab world through the in-depth • Mesopotamian Languages and Literature C: study of Arabic literature and training in the study of The First Millennium literature. The degree combines the approaches of • Sumerian Language comparative literature with close reading of classical • Hittite Language and modern Arabic texts. Topics explored include literary theory, translation techniques, sociology of Instead of one of the options above, it may be literature, social and political dimensions of modern possible to take one of the courses below taught Arabic literature, medieval popular literature, and at University College London: different genres and themes of classical and modern • Hebrew and Other North-West Semitic Languages Arabic literature. (MA in Hebrew and Jewish Studies) Courses are taught in English but all involve reading • Ancient History, currently Change and Continuity original Arabic texts. All courses apart from Theories in the Ancient Near East (MA in Ancient History) and Techniques of Comparative Literature involve • Archaeology (MA in Archaeology of the Eastern reading original Arabic texts. Mediterranean and Middle East) Students take three courses, one major and two minors. The major must be an Arabic literature course chosen from either List A or List B. Of the two other taught courses, one must be chosen from the list that does not include the major. The third can be taken from either list.

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Course structure This MA allows students to concentrate on the Qur’an, the Hadith and other Islamic texts, and so Not all courses listed below may be offered every provides an in-depth understanding of these texts year, and new courses may become available. and a unique training in the translation of Islamic For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, religious material. please visit the relevant departmental website or contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be The programme will benefit university staff, teachers taught in other departments of the School. of Islam in other institutions, translators of Islamic material into English in research centres, government Course options departments, and da’wa centres. It provides excellent Choose three courses (one major from List B and research training, and is a useful qualification for two minors) from Lists A or B below. One of the those who wish to progress to an MPhil or PhD. minors must be from the list that does not include a student’s chosen major. Course structure List A Not all courses listed below may be offered every • Theory and Techniques of Comparative Literature year, and new courses may become available. • Social and Political Dimensions of Modern For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, Arabic Literature please visit the relevant departmental website or List B contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be • A Modern Arabic Literary Genre: Themes taught in other departments of the School. and Techniques Students take three courses (one major and two • Arabic Critical Theory and Thought minors) and write a 10,000-word dissertation. The • Arabic Poetry and Criticism major and one minor course must be from List A. • Arabic Popular Literature: Themes, Genres The second minor course may be from List A or and Theory List B. Normally no more than two translation items • Classical Arabic Prose Literature and Adab may be taken. • Modern Palestinian Literature Course options List A MA Islamic Studies • Qur’an and Hadith Studies (Master’s) • Islamic Texts • Translation of Islamic Texts (a project) Duration • The Hadith: Language, Style and Translation One calendar year (full-time) into English Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) • Medieval Arabic Thought: The Philosophical Start of programme and Theological Traditions September intake only • Sufism Entry requirements List B Minimum upper second-class honours degree • Modern Trends in Islam or overseas equivalent in Arabic or Islamic • Studies in Early Islamic Art and Archaeology Studies or any other subject, but there must be • Origins and Early Development of Islam in the advanced knowledge of Arabic and an interest Middle East in Islamic Studies • Islam in South Asia • Islamic Law I Programme Convenor • Music of the Middle East and North Africa (Master’s) Professor Muhammad A S Abdel Haleem • Ottoman Art See also • Art and Architecture of the Fatimids -- Other programmes in the Near and Middle • Islam and the West: Artistic and Cultural Contacts East Department -- MA Islamic Societies and Cultures (page 63) Right: Tehran, Iran – Elif Sipahioglu

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An upper second-class honours degree or equivalent MA Turkish Studies in a social science or humanities subject is required. Knowledge of Turkish will be necessary for some of the course units, including the courses on Duration Turkish literature. One calendar year (full-time) Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) Structure Start of programme September intake only MA Turkish Studies has two streams, where students can specialise in either history and politics or in Entry requirements language and literature. Students take three courses, Minimum upper second-class honours degree one major, which must be selected from List A1, and (or equivalent) two minors. An important component of the degree is Convenor a compulsory 10,000-word dissertation on a selected Dr George Dedes topic normally related to the student’s major course. See also Not all courses are available every year. Students are -- MA Islamic Societies and Cultures (page 63) advised to consult the Turkish Studies tutors before -- MA Near and Middle Eastern Studies (page 69) selecting units. For courses being offered in any -- MA programmes in the Near and Middle East particular year, please visit the relevant departmental Department website or contact the MA convenor George Dedes, [email protected]

The programme is intended to be either an end List A1 (major) qualification in its own right or to prepare the • Social and Political Trends in 19th Century Turkish student for more advanced graduate work (MPhil Literature (Turkish Studies) or PhD) through developing skills in research. • Selected Topics in 20th Century Turkish Literature (Turkish Studies) The programme allows students to study key aspects • Classical Ottoman Literature (Master’s) of Turkish Studies (including Ottoman Studies) (Turkish Studies) through a variety of disciplines. The combination • Turkey: Continuity and Change (Turkish Studies) of courses enables students to deepen their • The End of Empire in the Middle East and the knowledge in the areas of Ottoman and Turkish Balkans (History) literature and culture (including film studies), history (including art history), politics and anthropology. List A2 (minor) Given the importance of the Ottoman Empire • Ottoman Architecture in Istanbul (half unit) and Turkey for the whole of the Middle East, and (Art and Archaeology) the importance of Islam (and therefore Persian • Ottoman Art (Art and Archaeology) and Arabic) for the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, the programme allows and indeed encourages List A3 (minor) comparative study of the Middle Eastern context • Elementary Written Turkish (Postgraduate) in the different fields mentioned above. Likewise, • Intensive Turkish Language (Postgraduate) the programme allows students to begin or further • Intermediate Modern Turkish Language their study of Turkish and Ottoman, as well as any (Postgraduate) of the languages of the former provinces of the • Advanced Translation (Turkish) Ottoman empire and current neighbours of Turkey. • Ottoman Turkish language (Postgraduate) Drawing on SOAS’s wide resources in the field, it allows students to combine a course of study List B (minor) according to their interests. It serves as excellent Department of the Languages and Cultures of the preparation for further research. Near and Middle East • Theory and Techniques of Comparative Literature • Arabic Popular Literature: Themes, Genres and Theory

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• Modern Arabic Literature and the West List C (minor) • Classical Arabic Prose Literature and Adab • Introduction to Standard Modern Arabic • A Modern Arabic Literary Genre: Themes • Arabic 200 (Postgraduate) and Techniques • Arabic 300 (Postgraduate) • Film and Society in the Middle East • Elementary Georgian (Postgraduate) • Modern Trends in Islam • Intermediate Georgian (Postgraduate) • Classical Persian Poetry (Master’s) (one unit) • Elementary Hebrew (Postgraduate) • Intermediate Hebrew (Postgraduate) Department of Anthropology and Sociology • Advanced Hebrew • Culture and Society of the Near and Middle East • Elementary Written Persian (Postgraduate) • African and Asian Cultures in Britain (half unit) • Elementary Persian Texts (Postgraduate) • Issues in the Anthropology of Film • Elementary Western Armenian (Postgraduate) • Comparative Study of Islam: Anthropological Perspectives A (Master’s) (half unit) MUST BE TAKEN WITH: • Comparative Study of Islam: Anthropological Perspectives B (Master’s) (half unit) New Year in Istanbul, Turkey – Aleksandra Ziemiszewska • Issues in the Anthropology of Gender (half unit) Department of History: • Outsiders in Medieval Middle Eastern Societies: Minorities, Social Outcasts and Foreigners (half unit) • Modernity and the Transformation of the Middle East 1839–1958 • The Middle East, the Mongols and the Silk Road to China Centre for Film and Screen Studies: • Iranian Cinema • Critical Approaches to the Study of Regional Cinemas Department of Music: • Music of the Middle East and North Africa Department of Politics and International Studies: • Comparative Politics of the Middle East • Politics and Society in Central Asia • International Politics of the Middle East • Political Society in the Middle East (half unit, term one) • Political Violence (half unit, term one) • The Politics of Resistance in the Middle East (half unit, term one) • State and Transformation in the Middle East (half unit, term two) • Islam and Political Ideologies (half unit, term two) • Violence, justice and the Politics of Memory (half unit, term two) • Islam and Politics (half unit, term two) Centre for Gender Studies: • Gender in the Middle East (half unit) School of Law: • Law and Society in the Middle East and North Africa

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Graduate destinations Examples of the careers graduates from this Department have gone on to immediately after A postgraduate degree in the Near and Middle graduation include: Security Trainee (European Eastern studies from SOAS gives students Commission), Regional Reporting Officer (Actod), competency in language skills and intercultural Analyst (Aegis Specialist), Political Researcher (Simon awareness and understanding. Familiarity with Hughes MP), TV Journalist (Freelance), Research the region will have been developed through a Fellow (The Royal Institute of International Affairs), combination of the study of language, literature, Intelligence Analyst (Janusian Risk Advisory Ltd.). history, cinema, politics, economics or law. Postgraduate students leave SOAS with the Examples of research degrees or further study linguistic and cultural expertise needed to continue include: International Journalism (Institute of Global in the field of research. They also gain a portfolio Studies), International Relations (King’s College of widely transferable skills which employers seek London), Sociology-Muslim Migrants in Greece in many professional and management careers in (Oxford University), History of Jewish Cultures business, public or charity sectors. These include (University of Heidelberg). written and oral communication skills; attention to detail; analytical and problem-solving skills; and the ability to research, amass and order information from a variety of sources. A postgraduate degree is a valuable experience that provides students with a body of work and a diverse range of skills with which they can market themselves when they graduate.

Samuel Lammi MA Middle Eastern Studies

I came to SOAS with high expectations. Having Living and breathing SOAS ensures you not only lived in five Asian countries in 22 years, I thought see and understand the complexities of our global I knew much of the world. The very first day, world, but that you actually feel it, realising that I realised I was in the right place, at the heart you and I are inextricably linked in every way. of understanding the countries I had lived in. This organic awakening to holistically see infinitely I had found my tribe; those with backgrounds complex global situations is something found similar and different to mine and with the endless nowhere else. curiosity to comprehend and connect seemingly The interdisciplinary approach to Middle Eastern disparate worlds. As my year is closing, I realise Studies has been excellent as it connects my SOAS has exceeded all my expectations by various familiarities and intellect to understand redefining them. I came thinking I knew much this fascinating part of the world in all its cultural about Asia, and I leave realising how much beauty, lively history and present complexity. I can yet learn. Sharing of our contact with the region has made SOAS is truly a microcosm in the heart of London. the academically abstract come to life through Students bring their unique backgrounds to the intelligent and informed discussions. Conversing learning environment where they engage contexts with colleagues studying similar topics in other and circumstances of their personal experiences. regions has also served to build a comprehensive Everyone here is studying about their passion as understanding of contemporary themes and much as the academics and, alongside their area challenges facing Asia, Africa and the Middle of study, learn from friends and their interests. East today.

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Department of Politics and International Studies

fosters a close community of research scholars www.soas.ac.uk/politics through its research methods training, regular seminars, annual Research Student Conference and intellectually vibrant research atmosphere. Faculty The research degree programme is administered Law and Social Sciences by the Politics Research Tutor, Dr Matthew Nelson. Number of staff Every research student has a primary supervisor Academic 21 Teaching and Scholarship 2 as well as an adjunct supervisor – another staff Teaching and Scholarship (fractional) 15 member with a close interest in the student’s region or sub-field of the discipline. All incoming PhD RAE students are required to take a research methods Ninety per cent of the work of the Department training course in their first year. This consists of was rated as world-leading, internationally training in the philosophy of social science, research excellent or internationally recognised. design, and research ethics, as well as qualitative, Taught Master’s degrees quantitative and interpretive methods. -- MSc African Politics Methods employed by students in the Department -- MSc Asian Politics range from ethnographic and archival research to -- MSc Comparative Political Thought interviews and statistical analysis. The Department -- MSc Conflict, Rights and Justice is a member of the ESRC Bloomsbury Doctoral -- MSc International Politics Training Centre, and students in the Department -- MSc Middle East Politics have access to a variety of training courses through -- MSc Politics of China this consortium. The Department is also a member -- MSc State, Society and Development of the Consortium on Qualitative Research Methods -- MRes Politics with [Language] – run jointly (CQRM) and the European Consortium for Political with Birkbeck, University of London Research (ECPR), providing students with full access -- Certificate in Political Studies to these networks and training resources. The Department holds a regular research seminar The Department of Politics and International Studies in which both members of the Department and is globally renowned for its expertise in the politics of external scholars present their work. PhD students Asia, Africa and the Middle East, as well as its strengths are encouraged to attend the seminars and become in international relations. The Department is home to involved in the intellectual life of the Department. the Centre for the International Politics of Conflict, During term-time, a range of seminars on a variety Rights and Justice. It also has vibrant research clusters of topics are held at SOAS and are open to the in areas such as migration, comparative political broader SOAS community. New PhD students are thought, Southeast Asia regional security, and the also encouraged to associate themselves with politics of resistance, combining disciplinary expertise one or more of the thematic and regional centres in Political Sociology, Political Economy, Political housed at SOAS. In addition, they are encouraged Theory, International Relations and Comparative to attend MSc courses relevant to their research. Politics with regional and country expertise. The The School’s language training facilities are also Department is a unique place for the study of Politics. available to students in order to develop their facility It has approximately 70 MPhil and PhD students in an appropriate language for research purposes. and more than 100 MSc students at any one time. Most SOAS research students spend some time doing fieldwork in the regions of their research. Research degrees The Department and the School facilitate this through training but also by integrating students The Department offers advanced research degrees into broader academic networks through personal (MPhil or PhD) in Politics and International Studies. contacts and introductions. Departmental staff have A central feature of PhD work is the close both disciplinary and regional interests and the relationship between the research student and his majority have a command of one or more of the or her supervisor. However, the Department also languages of the regions they study, having spent

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substantial periods doing research in the countries of their expertise. Applicants to the MPhil or PhD Professor Salwa Ismail PhD (McGill) programmes must normally have an advanced Urban politics and state-society relations degree equivalent in level and content to the in the Middle East; the study of Islamism; Department’s MSc degrees. Application guidance, Islamist movements; modern Arab and Islamic including advice on research proposal writing, can political thought; political ethnography. be found in the Department’s Research Handbook: Dr Laleh Khalili PhD (Columbia) www.soas.ac.uk/politics/file52352.pdf Policing and incarceration; gender; nationalism; political and social movements; refugees and diasporas in the Middle East. Academic staff research areas Dr Tat Yan Kong PhD (Oxon) Dr Fiona B Adamson PhD (Columbia) Korea and Taiwan: government-business labour International relations theory; international relations; comparative political economy; security; migration and diaspora politics; late industrialisation; development theory. globalisation and global governance; Dr Yuka Kobayashi PhD (Oxon) transnational identity movements. China and international politics; WTO; Dr Arshin Adib-Moghaddan PhD (Cantab) human rights; environment. International politics of West Asia; Iranian Dr Mark Laffey PhD (Minnesota) foreign and domestic politics; critical theories International relations theory; international of international relations; US foreign policy security; foreign policy analysis; ideas, culture and in the ‘third world’; Islamic political and ideology; post-colonial theory; US foreign policy. intellectual history. Dr Matthew J Nelson PhD (Columbia) Dr Rochana Bajpai PhD (Oxon) South Asia (Pakistan, Bangladesh and India); Contemporary political theory, particularly Islamic institutions; comparative politics; multiculturalism; methodology, particularly democracy. political ideologies; modern Indian politics. Professor Lawrence Sáez PhD (Chicago) Dr Felix Berenskoetter MA (Rutgers) PhD (London) Comparative and international politics: International Relations. international political economy; fiscal policy; Professor Stephen Chan PhD (Kent) energy security; quantitative research methods; Politics of southern Africa; normative values South Asia. and non-Western methodologies. Dr Julia C Strauss PhD (Berkeley) Dr Phil Clark BInst PhD (Oxon) China and Taiwan: public administration; History, politics and law of the African Great Lakes; civil service; regulation; state and society; transitional justice theory and practice; the politics environmental politics. of violence; community-based and customary law. Professor Charles R H Tripp PhD (London) Dr Bhavna Davé PhD (Syracuse) Middle East: states and ideologies; war; Islamic Kazakhstan: politics of language, ethnicity and political thought. nationalism in post-Soviet countries. Dr Leslie Vinjamuri BA (Wesleyan) MSc (London) Dr Dafydd Fell PhD (London) PhD (Columbia) Taiwanese political parties; election advertising; International relations theory; international social welfare; political corruption; public organisation; the politics of international opinion; voting behaviour; gender equality; criminal justice; the international politics candidate selection; democratisation. of human rights and humanitarianism; the international politics of religion and secularism. Dr Stephen Hopgood PhD (Oxon) International relations theory; anthropology Dr Tom Young PhD (London) of the international; international politics of Southern Africa: international politics; South human rights. African domestic politics; political theory.

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Postgraduate taught programmes MSc International Politics: Dr Mark Laffey The Department offers eight linked Master’s MSc Middle East Politics: Professor Charles Tripp degrees in Politics and International Studies. MSc Politics of China: Dr Dafydd Fell These cover the range of intellectual approaches to politics, and combine disciplinary and area MSc State, Society and Development: studies training. Dr Tat Yan Kong and Dr Julia Strauss The MSc International Politics and MSc State, MRes in Politics with [Language]: Society and Development are general disciplinary Dr Matthew Nelson degrees and they provide a rigorous training in Dr Leslie Vinjamuri administers the MSc international relations theory (International Politics) programmes and is the postgraduate tutor. and comparative politics and political sociology (State, Society and Development), with special reference to politics outside Europe and America. Programme duration and structure The MSc Comparative Political Thought is a The MScs can be taken full-time over one year, disciplinary degree that studies political thought or part-time over two or three years. Students across the world, as ideas and as practice, take three taught courses and write a 10,000- incorporating all regions with bias towards none. word dissertation. Apart from disciplinary modules, regional ones can be chosen from The MSc Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice other departments, especially the Interdisciplinary looks theoretically and empirically at the politics Master’s and Development Studies programmes. of international norms, especially human rights The MRes can be taken full-time over two years and humanitarian norms, in conflict and post- and involves a combination of taught courses conflict states. in politics and research methods and language The other four MScs are regional specialist degrees, training, along with a 25,000-word dissertation. focusing on the domestic and international politics of a particular region or country – with a focus on Entry requirements the regional and international politics of Asia, Africa and the Middle East and China. The qualification for entry is normally a first or upper-second class honours degree (or equivalent) The Department also offers, in conjunction in Politics or International Relations, or a related with the Department of Politics at neighbouring social science discipline. Applicants without such Birkbeck College, a two-year MRes in Politics with a background may be considered for admission a Language, designed to provide methodological depending on their academic training, undergraduate and language training for area studies scholars with performance and relevant experience. plans to conduct further PhD research in Politics. The courses all introduce relevant theory and Students applying without a relevant background require students to confront a range of theoretical should make a case for admission in their issues with respect to the study of politics in a truly application, based on the relevance of the academic global context. experience they have for the study of Politics or International Relations. In some circumstances, Programme convenors for the taught students may be asked to undertake a one- year qualifying course leading to a Certificate in Master’s programmes: Political Studies (see page 233). Completion of this MSc African Politics: Dr Phil Clark Certificate does not guarantee entry to the MSc. Application advice and further information can be MSc Asian Politics: Dr Dafydd Fell found in the Department’s Postgraduate Handbook: MSc Comparative Political Thought: www.soas.ac.uk/politics/student-handbooks/ Dr Rochana Bajpai, Dr Matthew Nelson and postgraduate Professor Charles Tripp MSc Conflict, Rights and Justice: Dr Stephen Hopgood and Dr Leslie Vinjamuri

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Examinations and assessment The MSc African Politics is a regional specialist MSc, aiming to provide students with a detailed The MSc degree will be awarded on successful specialist understanding of both domestic and completion of an examination in three taught international politics (and of the implications courses and a 10,000-word dissertation. Exams of one for the other) in Africa. At Master’s level are normally held in May and June. there is particular emphasis on seminar work. The MRes degree will be awarded on successful Students make full-scale presentations for each completion of 270 CATS points worth of taught unit that they take, and are expected to write courses (equivalent to six taught courses at Master’s substantial papers that often require significant level) and a 25,000-word dissertation. Exams are independent work. normally held in May and June of each year in Students take three full-unit courses, or the which the programme is taken. Please note that, as equivalent in half-unit courses, and write a this programme is run jointly with Birkbeck College, 10,000-word dissertation on an approved topic. methods of examination may vary between courses. Not all courses listed below may be offered every At Master’s level, emphasis is placed on seminar work year, and new courses may become available. and lecture attendance; a significant component For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, (30–60 per cent) of the mark therefore comes please visit the relevant departmental website or from assessed coursework submitted during terms contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be one and two. Students will also be expected to taught in other departments of the School. make presentations. The dissertation topic is chosen in consultation with Compulsory course academic staff in term two, and then developed in List A conjunction with the student’s appointed supervisor. • Government and Politics in Africa Students are encouraged to take up topics which relate the study of a particular region to a body of Course options theory, although they may also do more general Two courses from Lists B, C or D below: theoretical dissertations (in international relations List B theory, for example). Dissertations must be submitted • International Politics of Africa by September of the year following admission. List C: Disciplinary courses (up to one) • State and Development in Asia and Africa • State and Society in Asia and Africa MSc African Politics • Violence, Justice and the Politics of Memory (half unit) Duration • Queer Politics in Asia, Africa and the Middle East One year (full-time) (half unit) Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) • Comparative International Political Thought (half unit) Start of programme • Geopolitics: Space and Power (half unit) September intake only • African Political Thought (half unit) Entry requirements • Political Thought on the Just Rebellion (half unit) Minimum upper second-class honours degree • Approaches to Comparative Political Thought (or equivalent) in Politics or International (half unit) Relations, or a related social science discipline List D: Courses focused on Africa in cognate Convenor disciplines (up to one) Dr Phil Clark • Economic Development of Africa • a language course: Hausa, Amharic, Somali, See also Yoruba or Swahili -- Other MSc programmes in the Department • 10,000-word dissertation in politics on some of Politics and International Studies aspect of African politics raised by the compulsory course Government and Politics in Africa.

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Not all courses listed below may be offered every MSc Asian Politics year, and new courses may become available. For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, please visit the relevant department website or Duration contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be One year (full-time) taught in other departments of the School. Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) Start of programme Compulsory course options September intake only List A One of the following regional courses (or two half- Entry requirements: unit courses): Minimum upper second-class honours degree (or equivalent) in Politics or International • State and Society in Central Asia and the Caucasus Relations, or a related social science discipline (half unit) • Geopolitics and Security in Central Asia and the Convenor Caucasus (half unit) Dr Dafydd Fell • Government and Politics of Modern South Asia See also • Government and Politics of Modern South East Asia -- Other MSc programmes in the Department • North East Asian Politics: Japan, Korea and Taiwan of Politics and International Studies • State and Society in the Chinese Political Process* * Students on this programme may only take one China-focused unit. Containing 60 per cent of the world’s population, Asia is the setting for many of the most important Course options political issues in the world today. Two courses from Lists B, C or D below: These issues include the rise of China and India, List B: economic dynamism of the Asian-Pacific area, • Regional Politics Courses (one or two) regional integration (ASEAN, SAARC, Shanghai • International Politics of East Asia Cooperation Organization), security hotspots • China and International Politics* (Korean Peninsula, Taiwan Straits, India-Pakistan, • Taiwan’s Politics and Cross-Strait Relations* the global ‘war on terror’), democratic transition • Pakistan: Politics, Law, and Development and consolidation, the survival of non-democratic (if Government and Politics of Modern South regimes, and identity conflicts of ethnicity, religion Asia is not taken from List A) and language. To understand these and other political processes, this MSc programme draws upon the List C: Disciplinary courses (up to one) concepts and methods of the sub-disciplines of • State and Development in Asia and Africa comparative politics (political sociology and political • State and Society in Asia and Africa economy) and international relations. The evidence • Queer Politics in Asia, Africa and the Middle East from Asia will also reveal the relevance and limitations (half unit) of the concepts and methods derived from North • Comparative International Political Thought American and European settings and suggest ways (half unit) in which they may be modified. • Geopolitics: Space and Power (half unit) • Political Thought on the Just Rebellion (half unit) The expertise available in the Department enables • Approaches to Comparative Political Thought students to concentrate on one of the sub-regions of (half unit) Asia (East Asia, South Asia, South East Asia and Central Asia) should they choose to do so. Alternatively, they List D: Courses focused on Asia in cognate may follow a more comparative approach by selecting disciplines (up to one) a mixture of units covering different sub-regions. • Modern Chinese Law and Human Rights • Culture and Conflict in the Himalayas Students take three full-unit courses, or the • Economic Development of South East Asia equivalent in half-unit courses, and write a • Economic Problems and Policies in Modern China 10,000-word dissertation on an approved topic. • Economic Problems of South Asia

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• Islam in South Asia areas. It is also relevant for practitioners working in, • Japanese Modernity 1 (half unit) or intending to work in, governments, international • Japanese Modernity 2 (half unit) organisations, think tanks and advocacy groups • one language: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, who wish to acquire deeper knowledge of ideas Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Bengali, Hindi, and values that inform political practices in Asia, Nepali, Urdu Africa and the Middle East. • 10,000-word dissertation in politics on some The MSc Comparative Political Thought has two aspect of Asian Politics. core compulsory half-unit courses that all students registered for the degree will take. Students then choose courses equivalent to two full courses MSc Comparative Political from a list of optional courses, and complete a 10,000-word dissertation based on independent Thought study and research. Not all courses listed below may be offered every Duration year, and new courses may become available. One year (full-time) For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) please visit the relevant departmental website or Start of programme contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be September intake only taught in other departments of the School. Entry requirements Compulsory courses Minimum upper second-class honours degree List A (or equivalent) in Politics or International • Approaches to Comparative Political Thought Relations, or a related social science discipline (half unit) Convenors • Themes in Comparative Political Thought Dr Rochana Bajpai, Dr Matthew Nelson and (half unit) Professor Charles Tripp Course options See also Two full courses or four half-unit from Lists B or -- Other MSc programmes in the Department C below: of Politics and International Studies List B: Courses offered by the Department of Politics and International Studies (one or two) The MSc Comparative Political Thought offers a • Islamic Political Ideologies (half unit) new approach to the study of political thought in • Political Violence (half unit) Asia, Africa and the Middle East. • Politics of Resistance in the Middle East (half unit) • Violence, Justice and the Politics of Memory Students will gain an advanced understanding of (half unit) the philosophical, historical, political and linguistic • Queer Politics in Asia, Africa and the Middle East issues that arise in the study of non-Western (half unit) political thought. They will also gain an in-depth • Islam and the Democratic Tradition knowledge of key political concepts (for example, • African Political Thought (half unit) state, authority, individual and community) as • Political Thought on the Just Rebellion (half unit) understood by political thinkers in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. This will involve the study of List C: Courses in cognate disciplines (up to one) political thought not simply as produced by elite • Orthodoxy and Gender in Indian Traditions intellectuals, but also as ideas in action, manifested • Non-Violence in Jain Scriptures, Philosophy in political practices at different levels of society. and Law • Oriental Religions in European Academia and The programme is designed for students who Imagination, 1815–1945 wish to learn about the diverse strands of political • Modern Muslim Thinkers in South Asia thinking in Asia, Africa and the Middle East and who • Human Rights and Islamic Law may wish to embark on doctoral studies in these

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• Locating China I: Other Worldviews before and transitional justice in situations of conflict. ‘Westernisation’ (half unit) It is highly relevant to anyone working, or intending • Locating China II: Missions and Misfits in British to work, in international NGOs, international Constructions of China (half unit) organisations, think tanks or advocacy groups • Knowledge and Power in Early Modern China in the areas of conflict, rights, humanitarian (half unit) assistance and transitional justice. • Genders and Sexualities in Southeast Asian Film The MSc Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice has (half unit) four compulsory half-unit courses that all students • 10,000-word dissertation in comparative registered for the degree will take. Students then political thought choose two further half-unit courses from a list of optional courses, and complete a 10,000-word dissertation based on independent study and MSc Politics of Conflict, research in the areas of conflict, rights and justice. Rights and Justice Not all courses listed below may be offered every year, and new courses may become available. For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, Duration please visit the relevant departmental website or One year (full-time) contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) taught in other departments of the School. Start of programme September intake only Compulsory courses List A Entry requirements • Conflict, Rights and Justice (half unit) Minimum upper second-class honours degree – core course (or equivalent) in Politics or International • Violence, Justice and the Politics of Memory Relations, or a related social science discipline (half unit) Convenors • Sociology of International Norms (half unit) Dr Stephen Hopgood and Dr Leslie Vinjamuri • The International Politics of Human Rights (half unit) See also -- Other MSc programmes in the Department Course options of Politics and International Studies Two courses from Lists B or C below: List B: Half-unit offered by the Department of The MSc Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice Politics and International Studies (one to three) looks theoretically and empirically at the politics • Foreign Policy Analysis of international norms, especially in relation to • International Migration and Diaspora Politics human rights, humanitarianism and transitional • Security Governance justice in conflict and post-conflict states. It • Power in World Politics considers international, transnational, regional • Comparative International Political Thought and local efforts to manage, govern, and regulate • Islam and Politics conflict. Students will also consider the nature • Queer Politics in Asia, Africa and the Middle East of norms governing international politics more • Geopolitics: Space and Power generally and the ways in which these norms are • International Theory contested. The course also examines the role • Political Violence of memory in the politics of human rights and List C: Half-unit offered by the School of Law transitional justice and the culture of international (up to two) humanism more widely. • Gender, Armed Conflict and International Law The programme is designed for students with • Law on the Use of Force an academic or applied interest in the politics of • Security human rights, humanitarianism and international • 10,000-word dissertation in politics

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Course options MSc International Politics One half-unit course from List B, and two full courses from each of Lists C and D below: Duration List B: One of the following half-unit One year (full-time) • Conflict, Rights and Justice Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) • Foreign Policy Analysis • International Migration and Diaspora Politics Start of programme • Power in World Politics September intake only • Security Governance Entry requirements • Violence, Justice and the Politics of Memory Minimum upper second-class honours degree • Queer Politics in Asia, Africa and the Middle East (or equivalent) in Politics or International • Comparative International Political Thought Relations, or a related social science discipline • Islam and Politics • Sociology of International Norms Convenors • Geopolitics: Space and Power Dr Stephen Hopgood/Dr Mark Laffey List C: One of the following regional international See also politics courses -- Other MSc programmes in the Department • China and International Politics of Politics and International Studies • International Politics of Africa • International Politics of East Asia • International Politics of the Middle East The MSc in International Politics might be classified as a disciplinary MSc. In it, the objective List D: One of the following regional politics is to give the student the opportunity to undertake courses (or two half-unit courses) a rigorous training in political theory, with special • State and Society in Asia and Africa reference to the study of politics outside Europe • State and Development in Asia and Africa and America. At Master’s level there is particular • Government and Politics in Africa emphasis on seminar work. Students make full- • Government and Politics of Modern South Asia scale presentations for each unit that they take, • Government and Politics of Modern South East Asia and are expected to write substantial papers that • State and Society in the Chinese Political Process often require significant independent work. • Taiwan’s Politics and Cross-Strait Relations • Northeast Asian Politics: Japan, Korea and Taiwan Students take three full-unit courses, or the • State and Society in Central Asia and the Caucasus equivalent in half unit courses, and write a (half unit) 10,000-word dissertation on an approved topic. • Geopolitics and Security in Central Asia and Not all courses listed below may be offered every the Caucasus (half unit) year, and new courses may become available. • Political Society in the Middle East (half unit) For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, • State and Transformation in the Middle East please visit the relevant departmental website or (half unit) contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be • 10,000-word dissertation in politics on some taught in other departments of the School. aspect of International Politics raised by the compulsory course International Theory. Compulsory course List A • International Theory (half unit) – core course

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contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be MSc Middle East Politics taught in other departments of the School.

Compulsory course options Duration List A One year (full-time) or Either the following term one half-unit course: Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) • Political Society in the Middle East Start of programme Combined with one of the following term two September intake only half-unit courses: Entry requirements • State and Transformation in the Middle East Minimum upper second-class honours degree • Islam and Politics (or equivalent) in Politics or International • Islamic Political Ideologies Relations, or a related social science discipline Or the following term two half-unit course: Convenor • State and Transformation in the Middle East Professor Charles Tripp Combined with one of the following term one See also half-unit courses: -- Other MSc programmes in the Department • Political Society in the Middle East of Politics and International Studies • The Politics of Resistance in the Middle East • Political Violence

The MSc in Middle East Politics offers students Course options an opportunity to study politics in the region One full course, or two half-unit courses, from each through a number of disciplinary approaches, of Lists B and C below: such as political sociology (class, gender, ethnicity List B (one full course or two half-unit courses) and sect), comparative politics (state power, Either a Regional Politics course (or two half-unit political economy of development, democratic courses): openings and nationalism) and international • International Politics of the Middle East politics (war, international political economy, • State and Society in Central Asia and the Caucasus regionalism and dependency). At the same time, (half unit) it provides thematic courses that encourage • Geopolitics and Security in Central Asia and the students to look at political processes in the region Caucasus (half unit) from distinct perspectives, such as the study of political violence, the examination of the politics Or two of the following half-unit courses (if not of resistance and the understanding of Islamic already chosen under List A): political ideologies and political movements. • Islamic Political Ideologies • Political Violence At Master’s level there is particular emphasis on • The Politics of Resistance in the Middle East seminar work. Students are expected to read • Islam and Politics extensively, to make a number of presentations • Geopolitics: Space and Power and to engage actively in seminar discussions. They are also expected to write substantial papers, Or a Disciplinary Politics course (or two half-unit guided by their course tutors, but requiring courses): significant independent work. • State and Development in Asia and Africa • State and Society in Asia and Africa Students take three full-unit courses, or the • Queer Politics in Asia, Africa and the Middle East equivalent in half-unit courses, and write a (half unit) 10,000-word dissertation on an approved topic. • Comparative International Political Thought Not all courses listed opposite may be offered (half unit) every year, and new courses may become available. • Political Thought on the Just Rebellion (half unit) For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, please visit the relevant departmental website or

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List C (one full course or two half-unit courses) China has the world’s biggest population and the Either a Disciplinary Politics course (or two half-unit second largest economy in the world. As part of courses), if a Disciplinary Course has not already the BRICS and BASIC groups, China has a large been chosen under List B: impact in world affairs. Therefore, understanding • State and Development in Asia and Africa China is increasingly becoming essential to • State and Society in Asia and Africa understanding the world. • Queer Politics in Asia, Africa and the Middle East MSc Politics of China provides a fascinating (half unit) opportunity to examine issues and themes in • Comparative International Political Thought modern politics. From dynastic rule to the fall of (half unit) the Qing, unequal treaties and their legacies in • Political Thought on the Just Rebellion (half unit) the form of Hong Kong and Macau, China offers • Approaches to Comparative Political Thought an example for examining and analysing long- (half unit) standing questions of territory, border, identity Or one of the following courses focusing on the and sovereignty. From these historical origins to Middle East in a cognate discipline: the more recent ‘Rise of China’, the buzzword of • Islamic Law I the twenty-first century, this MSc degree brings • Turkey – Continuity and Change together elements required to fully appreciate and • Economic Development of the Middle East understand China’s rise, its origins, and its current • Modernity and the Transformation of the Middle position in the world. East 1839–1958 The MSc covers China’s domestic and international • Israel, the Arab World and the Palestinians politics, and the historical and theoretical issues • Gender in the Middle East (half unit) through the Chinese Politics courses of State • Mediated Culture in the Middle East (half unit) and Society in the Chinese Political Process Or one of the following Language courses: (domestic politics), China and International Politics • Elementary Hebrew, Elementary Written Persian, (international relations) and Taiwan’s Politics and Elementary Written Turkish, or Introduction to Cross-Strait Relations. Each Chinese Politics course Modern Standard Arabic combines empirical and theoretical material in a • 10,000-word dissertation in politics on some historically sensitive manner. The courses aim to aspect of Middle East Politics. establish thematic groupings for the purposes of considering and debating the government and politics of China, and further examining the relations between the government and politics of China MSc Politics of China and regional developments, international pressures, and the global political economy. Duration Students take three full-unit courses, or the One year (full-time) equivalent in half-unit courses and write a Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) 10,000-word dissertation on an approved topic. Start of programme Not all courses listed below may be offered every September intake only year, and new courses may become available. Entry requirements For an up-to-date list of courses on offer please Minimum upper second-class honours degree visit the relevant departmental website or contact (or equivalent) in Politics or International the Faculty office. Some courses may be taught in Relations, or a related social science discipline other departments of the School. Convenor Compulsory course options Dr Dafydd Fell List A: At least two of the following Chinese See also Politics courses: -- Other MSc programmes in the Department • China and International Politics of Politics and International Studies • State and Society in the Chinese Political Process • Taiwan’s Politics and Cross-Strait Relations

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Course options One additional course from Lists A, B or C: MSc State, Society and List B: Politics courses (up to one, or up to two Development half-unit courses) • International Politics of East Asia Duration • State and Development in Asia and Africa One year (full-time) • State and Society in Asia and Africa Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) • North East Asian Politics and Society: Japan, Korea and Taiwan Start of programme • State and Society in Central Asia and the September intake only Caucasus (half unit) Entry requirements • Geopolitics and Security in Central Asia and Minimum upper second-class honours degree the Caucasus (half unit) (or equivalent) in Politics or International • Government and Politics of Modern South East Asia Relations, or a related social science discipline • Geopolitics: Space and Power (half unit) • Political Thought on the Just Rebellion (half unit) Convenors Dr Tat Yan Kong and Dr Julia Strauss List C: Courses in cognate disciplines (up to one, or up to two half-unit courses) See also • language course (one from Chinese, Cantonese, -- Other MSc programmes in the Department Hokkein, or Tibetan) of Politics and International Studies • Economic Problems and Policies in Modern China • Society and Culture of China • Knowledge and Power in Early Modern China This MSc programme seeks to explain state- (half unit) society relations and development in Asia, Africa • Nationhood and Competing Identities in Modern and, where appropriate, Latin America through the China (half unit) sub-disciplines of comparative political sociology • Foundations of Chinese Law and comparative international political economy. • Chinese Commercial Law Students will study the core concepts of these • Modern Chinese Law and Human Rights sub-disciplines, such as state, civil society, class, • Culture and Conflict in the Himalayas bureaucracy, hegemony, good governance and • 10,000-word dissertation in politics on some globalisation. They will also be exposed to the aspect of Chinese Politics. principal analytical perspectives of political science, such as historical institutionalism, rational choice Guards Parade, China – Jan Heidrich theory and Marxism.

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These intellectual foundations will enable students to gain a better understanding of the shaping MRes Politics with [Language] factors behind phenomena such as state collapse and criminalisation in Africa, cronyism in South East Duration Asia and Latin America, economic take-off in East Two years (full-time) Asia and global financial instability. Students will also come to understand the usefulness of cross- Start of programme regional comparison by seeing how the study of September intake only one region can illuminate similar issues elsewhere, Entry requirements despite differing cultural contexts. Minimum upper second-class honours degree Students follow one of the disciplinary pathways (or equivalent) in Politics or International below and write a thesis from that perspective: Relations, or a related social science discipline • Political Economy Convenor • Political Sociology Dr Matthew Nelson Not all courses listed below may be offered every See also year, and new courses may become available. -- Other MSc programmes in the Department For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, of Politics and International Studies please visit the relevant departmental website or contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be taught in other departments of the School. The MRes Politics with [Language] is a two-year degree designed to prepare students for further Course options research, particularly PhD research, in politics with Students take three courses from Lists A and B an area specialism. below: Either two disciplinary courses (List A) and This degree programme allows students to combine one regional course (List B), or one disciplinary the study of politics with advanced methodological course and two regional courses. Two half-unit training in the social sciences and extensive study in courses may be taken to constitute one full course. one of the African, Asian or Middle Eastern languages List A: Disciplinary courses (one to two) listed below. As such, the programme provides • State and Development in Asia and Africa two years of intensive language study at SOAS (for • State and Society in Asia and Africa example Arabic, Chinese, Hindi or Swahili) along with two years of high-level social science methodology List B: Regional courses (one to two) training at neighbouring Birkbeck College. Applicants • State and Society in the Chinese Political Process are also invited to apply for ESRC funding to support • Government and Politics in Africa a two plus three programme of Mres or PhD study. • Government and Politics of Modern South Asia • Government and Politics of Modern South East Asia Not all courses listed below may be offered every • State and Society in Central Asia and the Caucasus year, and new courses may become available. (half unit) For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in 2014/15, • Geopolitics and Security in Central Asia and the please visit the relevant departmental website or Caucasus (half unit) contact the Faculty office. Some courses may be • North East Asian Politics: Japan, Korea and Taiwan taught in other departments of the School. • Taiwan’s Politics and Cross-Strait Relations • Political Society of the Middle East (half unit) Core compulsory courses • State and Transformation in the Middle East Taught at Birkbeck College during year one of (half unit) the course. • 10,000-word dissertation in politics following the • Qualitative Methods disciplinary perspective of the chosen pathway • Quantitative Methods (State and Development or State and Society). • Research Methods Masterclass Two language classes, taught at SOAS during years one and two of the course. The year one course

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may be chosen from any of the languages offered by the Faculty of Languages and Cultures. The year Certificate in Political two course will follow on from the year one course. Studies Course options Any two full courses offered by the Department of This one-year certificate is intended as a Politics and International Studies, taught at SOAS bridging course for students without adequate during years one and two of the course respectively. background at first degree level in the study Two half-unit courses may be offered in lieu of one of Politics but who are keen to study politics full course if desired. at Master’s level. It is especially suitable for students who, for example, have obtained a • Government and Politics of Modern South Asia good first degree in an Asian or African language • State and Society in Asia and Africa or related subject and wish to apply this to the • International Politics of Africa study of a particular country or region. • State and Society in the Chinese Political Process • State and Development in Asia and Africa • China and International Politics The minimum qualification for entry is normally an • Comparative Politics of the Middle East upper second-class honours degree. In exceptional • International Politics of the Middle East circumstances, the Department may consider other • Government and Politics in Africa applications if significant relevant work or personal • Government and Politics of Modern South East Asia experience can be demonstrated. Normally the • International Politics of East Asia programme is formed from four undergraduate • Taiwan’s Politics and Cross-Strait Relations courses (two introductory units, one unit of a • North East Asian Politics: Japan, Korea and Taiwan disciplinary nature and one of a regional nature). • Islamic and Politics (half unit) • Islamic Political Ideologies (half unit) Below is a list of available courses; not every one • Political Society in the Middle East (half unit) may be running every year. • Political Violence (half unit) • Politics of Resistance in the Middle East (half unit) Introductory units • State and Transformation in the Middle East • Introduction to Political Study (half unit) • Comparative and International Politics • International Migration and Diaspora Politics • States, People and Power in Asia and Africa (half unit) • Foreign Policy Analysis (half unit) Disciplinary units • Security Governance (half unit) • International Politics • Identity in international Relations (half unit) • Political Theory • Power in World Politics (half unit) • Politics of Development • Conflict, Rights and Justice (half unit) • State and Society in Asia and Africa • Violence, Justice and the Politics of Memory (half unit) Regional units • Queer Politics in Asia, Africa and the Middle East • Government and Politics of the Middle East (half unit) • Taiwan’s Political and Economic Development • Comparative International Political Thought • Government and Politics of South Asia (half unit) • South East Asian Government and Politics • Violence, Justice and the Politics of Memory • Chinese Politics of the 20th Century (half unit) Passing the certificate at an upper second-class • Geopolitics and Security in Central Asia and the level normally makes students eligible for admission Caucasus (half unit) to the SOAS MSc Politics programmes. For further • State and Society in Central Asia and the Caucasus details see www.soas.ac.uk/politics (half unit) • Geopolitics: Space and Power (half unit) • Sociology of International Norms (half unit) • 25,000-word dissertation in politics

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Graduate destinations (Ministry of Justice), Consultant (Deloitte), Strategic Analyst (Central Office of Information), Protocol A postgraduate degree in Politics and International Officer (Thailand Government), Media Specialist Studies from SOAS prepares students to follow (Government of Kuwait), Humanitarian Affairs many different careers in business, government, Analyst (UN Ocha), Junior Researcher (Synovate), international organisations and NGOs. Postgraduate Legal Researcher (UN), Reporter (The Toronto Star), students leave SOAS with a knowledge and Project Officer (Africans Unite Against Child Abuse). understanding of the complex political and cultural issues of global politics and also with a portfolio Our graduates have also gone on to pursue of widely transferable skills which employers seek research degrees and further study in areas such in many professional and management careers as: International Economics (University of Milan), in business, public and charity sectors. These International Studies/International Relations include research and analytical skills; written and (University of Macedonia), Public Administration oral communication skills; and presentation skills. (University of Iceland), GDL (BPP Law School). A postgraduate degree is a valuable experience that provides students with a body of work and a diverse range of skills with which they can market themselves when they graduate. Graduates from this Department have gone on to a wide variety of careers immediately after graduation including: Events Manager (Amnesty International), Special Programs Coordinator (Council on American- Islamic Relations), Journalist (BBC), Journalist (Wall Street Journal), Senior Policy Advisor

Judith Nubold MSc Middle East Politics

It is the unique SOAS community that makes The studying during my year here was intense, studying here so special. From my first days at challenging as well as stimulating. I learned a lot SOAS I felt that I had found a social, political in and outside the classroom, from outstanding and intellectual home. The friendliness of its staff, but also my very committed fellow students. staff and the open-mindedness of its students It was a great experience to meet people who are extraordinary and make you feel part of the shared my questions and concerns and added adventure immediately. You get to meet many new ones. Activism is never very far at SOAS. interesting people from diverse backgrounds and As the saying goes “You learn for life“! I made friends here that I would not want to miss. The MSc in Middle East Politics allowed me Before I applied to SOAS, I contacted the Course to take both Politics courses and a language Convenor and Admissions and they were very helpful option, all of which I enjoyed. The lecturers and kind. With all the good things that I had heard were fantastic! My favourite class was Politics from alumni about the school, my expectations were of Resistance in the Middle East which was clearly very high, but I have never felt disappointed. On the helpful for understanding contemporary politics contrary, I feel a daily excitement about being a part of the region. of SOAS. When I finally arrived in London, I was really Away from my studies, I got to explore London – happy to learn that the campuses were right in the as a resident and not just as a tourist. It is a great heart of the city. The SOAS campus was all so lively place to be! Being a student has allowed me and colourful – the Junior Common Room (JCR) to take advantage of great offers for theatre, is a perfect example of that. The Students’ Union concerts and public lectures. is very active as well, and each week there are numerous events in and around the school.

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Department of the Languages and Cultures of South Asia

interests include: Sanskrit literature; nineteenth- www.soas.ac.uk/southasia and twentieth-century literature in South Asian languages; literature and gender; post-colonial literatures, the literature of Pakistan; Indian cinema Faculty (including ‘Bollywood’) and popular cultures. These Languages and Cultures interests are increasingly reflected in the teaching Number of staff the Department contributes to its MA degrees and Academic 6 the work undertaken by our research students. Teaching and Scholarship 3 The research training offered by the Department Teaching and Scholarship (fractional) 9 is supported by the department research seminar, RAE and the training seminars run by the Faculty of Eighty-five per cent of the work of the Languages and Cultures and the Centre for Cultural, Department was rated as world-leading, Literary and Postcolonial Studies. Research students internationally excellent or internationally are required to participate in a research seminar in recognised, an assessment that ranked SOAS their first year. first in the UK for Asian Studies Taught Master’s degree -- MA Languages and Cultures of South Asia Academic staff research areas Interdisciplinary Dr James Caron BA (Temple) PhD (UPenn) -- MA Comparative Literature (Africa/Asia) Modern and early-modern South Asia; Islam (page 128) in South Asia; Afghanistan and Pakistan; Indo- -- MA South Asian Area Studies (page 75) Persianate sociocultural history; activism and -- MA in the Study of Contemporary Pakistan social movements; methods in social history (page 74) beyond the archive. Dr Whitney Cox BA (Virginia) MA PhD (Chicago) Sanskrit literature and literary theory; Tamil The Department offers the widest coverage in literature; intellectual and cultural history of Europe of research and teaching related to the South India; history of Saivism. languages, literatures and cultures of the principal countries of South Asia: India, Nepal, Pakistan and Professor Rachel Dwyer BA PhD (London) to a lesser extent of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. MPhil (Oxon) Hindi Cinema; Indian popular culture; Indian The Department’s primary commitment is to six film; Hinduism; new middle classes; Mumbai/ languages (Bengali, Hindi, Nepali, Pali, Sanskrit Bombay; Gujarati language and literature; and Urdu) and their literatures and cultures. It also Gujarati diaspora, especially UK and East Africa; offers language instruction in Punjabi, Gujarati, comparative Indian literature. Sinhala and Tamil. Several of these languages are not available as degree subjects elsewhere in Britain. Professor Michael J Hutt BA PhD (London) The teaching at MA level also includes courses in Nepali language and literature; textual South Asian cinema and literature that require no perspectives on change in the Himalayan knowledge of a South Asian language. Research region; Nepalese art. and teaching draw heavily upon the resources Dr Francesca Orsini Laurea (Venice) PhD (London) of the Library’s extensive South Asia collection Hindi literature; North Indian literary culture; and are closely connected with the work of other Hindi; Urdu. SOAS departments. Dr Amina Yaqin BA (Punjab) BA (Sussex) PhD (London) Research Urdu language and literature; post-colonial The Department of the Languages and Cultures of literature and theory; gender studies; South South Asia was awarded an excellent rating in the Asian literatures in English; feminism in a Third 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Staff research World context; gender and politics in Pakistan.

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MA programmes The MA also provides appropriate training for those wishing to proceed to research in South There are three Master’s programmes to choose Asian studies. Its focus on South Asian languages, from. Applicants looking for a multidisciplinary cultures and literatures distinguishes it from the approach to South Asia should choose MA South interdisciplinary perspective of the MA in South Asian Area Studies (page 72), which is convened by Asian Area Studies and from the broader focus of the South Asia Department but features courses the MA in Comparative Literature (Africa/Asia). from many different parts of SOAS. Those wanting a greater concentration on South Asian languages and literatures should choose the departmental Structure and requirements degree MA Languages and Cultures of South Asia. Students take three taught courses, one of which is Students wishing to study South Asian literatures in a designated a major, and complete a 10,000-word more comparative perspective should choose the MA dissertation related to the major. The major and Comparative Literature (Africa/Asia) (page 121). Those one minor course must be taken from List A, and interested in Indian cinema may include it in the one minor from List B. Candidates who wish to take South Asian Area Studies or South Asian Languages a language at other than introductory level will be and Cultures MAs, or as part of one of the MAs offered assessed at the start of the term to determine the by the Centre for Media and Film Studies (page 201). most appropriate level of study.

Choosing your courses Applicants are asked to specify their preferred MA Languages and Cultures major subject and to give an alternative, as not of South Asia all courses are available every year and practical considerations such as timetabling may limit choices. Once enrolled, students have two weeks Duration to finalise their choice of subjects, during which One calendar year (full-time) time they may sample different subjects through Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) attending lectures and/or seminars. Start of programme September intake only Course structure Entry requirements For an up-to-date list of courses on offer in Minimum upper second-class honours degree 2014/15, please visit the departmental website (or equivalent) www.soas.ac.uk/southasia/programmes or contact the Faculty office. Some courses may Convenor be taught in other departments of the School. Professor Michael Hutt Deputy Convenor Course options Professor Rachel Dwyer List A (majors or minors) Choose one course from below as your major, See also and one as your first minor -- MA Anthropological Research Methods and • Literatures of South Asia Nepali (page 91) • Modern Bengal: The Evolution of Bengali Culture -- MA Comparative Literature (Africa/Asia) and Society from 1690 to the Present Day (Master’s) (page 128) • Directed Readings in the Literature of a -- MA South Asian Area Studies (page 75) South Asian Language (Urdu/Hindi/Nepali/ Bengali/Sanskrit) • Sanskrit Literature This degree provides a coherent combination • Sanskrit Texts from the Hindu Tradition of courses in South Asian languages and their • Culture and Conflict in the Himalaya associated literatures and cultures. The Directed Readings courses, available in several languages, This course is available as a minor only have a flexible curriculum that accommodates • South Asian Cinema and the Diaspora (Master’s) the interests of individual or groups of students. (half unit, term one)

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The following are half-unit courses and must be Graduate destinations taken jointly A postgraduate degree in South Asian studies • Indian Cinema: Its History and Social Context from SOAS provides students with competency MUST BE TAKEN JOINTLY WITH: in language skills and intercultural awareness and • Indian Cinema: Key Issues understanding. Familiarity with the region will have • Literature and Colonialism in North India (Master’s) been developed through a combination of the study MUST BE TAKEN WITH: of language, literature, history, cinema, politics, • Narratives of Mobility in Contemporary Hindi economics or law. Literature (Master’s) Postgraduate students are equipped with linguistic List B and cultural expertise enabling them to continue Choose one language option as a minor only in the field of research, along with a portfolio of • Bengali Language 1 widely transferable skills which employers seek • Bengali Language 2 in many professional and management careers in • Gujarati Language 1 business, public or charity sectors. These include • Hindi Language 1 written and oral communication skills; attention • Hindi Language 2 to detail; analytical and problem-solving skills; and • Hindi Language 3 the ability to research, amass and order information • Hindi Language 4 from a variety of sources. A postgraduate degree • Readings in Contemporary Hindi (Master’s) is a valuable experience that provides students • Nepali Language 1 with a body of work and a diverse range of skills • Nepali Language 2 with which they can market themselves when • Basic Pali they graduate. • Pali: Intermediate Level • Sanskrit Language 1 Examples of the careers graduates from this • Sanskrit Language 2 department have gone on to immediately after • Sinhala Language 1 graduation include: Database Project Manager • Tamil Language 1 (Multiple Sclerosis Society), Politics Teacher (Capita • Urdu Language 1 Education), Media Co-ordinator (BBC Worldwide), • Urdu Language 2 Freelance Interpreter, Programme Co-ordinator • Urdu Literacy (John Hopkins University), Researcher (International • Elementary Written Persian Crises Group), Researcher/Translator (International • Persian Language 2 Committee of the Red Cross), Yoga Teacher, Hindi • Persian Language 3 Teacher in Foreign Language School (New Delhi), UK High Commission (New Delhi), Nursing, Sub- editor (The Express Tribune, Karachi), Foreign Rights Department (HarperCollins). Examples of research degrees or further study include: Law, Gender Studies (SOAS), History (Goldsmiths), Adult Education (London South Bank University), South Asian Languages and Literatures (University of Washington).

India – Sonum Sumaria

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Department of the Languages and Cultures of South East Asia Research www.soas.ac.uk/ The research interests of the Department’s staff southeastasia include cinema in South East Asia; modern literature in Malay, Indonesian, Thai and Vietnamese; Islam in South East Asia; language pedagogy; linguistics, See department degree programmes in the phonetics and lexicography of Tibeto-Burman and Interdisciplinary Area Studies section Mon-Khmer languages; sign languages; gender (pages 56–81) studies; and translation. These interests are reflected Faculty in the work undertaken by the Department’s Languages and Cultures research students. The research training in the Department has been enhanced in recent years Number of staff by the introduction of inter-departmental research Academic 6 seminars organised within the Faculty of Languages Teaching and Scholarship 2 and Cultures. Teaching and Scholarship (fractional) 2 RAE Eighty-five per cent of the work of the Academic staff research areas Department was rated as world-leading, internationally excellent or internationally Dr Rachel V Harrison BA PhD (London) recognised, an assessment that ranked SOAS Modern Thai cinema and literature; culture first in the UK for Asian Studies and gender studies with reference to Thailand; literary criticism and South East Asian literatures Interdisciplinary in a comparative context; Western film set in -- MA Comparative Literature (Africa/Asia) South East Asia. (page 128) -- MA Pacific Asian tudiesS (page 72) Dr Dana Healy PhD (Prague) -- MA South East Asian Studies (page 78) Vietnamese language; literature and cinema; language teaching; folk literature; modern poetry; theatre; art. The Department offers the widest coverage in Dr Ben Murtagh BA MA PhD (London) Europe of research and teaching related to the Traditional Malay and modern Indonesian languages, literatures and cultures of the principal literature; history of Indonesia; film in Indonesia, countries of South East Asia, and is the only Malaysia and the Philippines; gender and department of a UK university within which these sexuality in Indonesia. subjects can be studied as part of a named South East Asian Studies degree. Dr David A Smyth BA PhD (London) The Thai novel; Thai literary historiography; Its primary commitment is to the Burmese, Thai language; modern Thai history. Indonesian/Malay, Thai and Vietnamese languages and their literatures, cinemas and associated Dr Justin Watkins BA (Leeds) MA PhD (London) cultures. Khmer (Cambodian) language is also Burmese language and literature; Mon-Khmer taught at a basic level. The research and teaching and Tibeto-Burman languages; linguistics in the Department draw heavily upon the resources and phonetics; computer lexicography; of the SOAS Library’s extensive South East Asia sign languages. collection, and are closely connected with the work of other SOAS departments and the Centre The Department of the Languages and Cultures of South East Asian Studies (CSEAS), which groups of South East Asia MA programmes accommodate together South East Asia scholars from all the the needs of students with a range of interests in subject disciplines across the School. South East Asia. In particular, students with prior knowledge of a South East Asian language may take advantage of the chance to study that language alongside a discipline relating to the South East

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Asian region, or to gain a broader understanding Examples of the careers graduates from this of the region by studying a second South East department have gone on to immediately after Asian language. The Directed Readings courses graduation include: Officer (Yunman Local in Burmese, Indonesian, Thai and Vietnamese are Government), Research Associate (Institute of flexible and may be adapted to accommodate Southeast Asian Studies), Associate Consultant students’ interests. (Odgers Ray and Berndtson), Lecturer (Thammasat University), Trader (Samvo Entertainment), Marine Graduate destinations Conservationist (Sempora Islands Project, Borneo), Journalist (Al-Jazeera), Teacher (International A postgraduate degree in South East Asian studies School Kuala Lumpur), Journalist (Mizzima Burmese from SOAS provides students with competency News Agency), Development Officer (Burma Poverty in language skills and intercultural awareness and Eradication NGO), Research Fellow (Cambodian understanding. Familiarity with the region will have Institute for Cooperation and Peace), Finance been developed through a combination of the study Analyst (Reuters), Manager (Aviva Insurance, of language, literature, history, cinema, politics, Thailand), Tesco Lotus (Thailand). economics or law. Examples of research degrees or further study Postgraduate students are equipped with linguistic include: Darmasiswa One Year Regular Programme, and cultural expertise enabling them to continue Indonesian Scholarship (Universitas Padjadjaran); in the field of research, along with a portfolio of Vietnamese Cinema (SOAS); PhD Researching widely transferable skills which employers seek Nationalist Projects in Cambodia (Cambridge). in many professional and management careers in business, public or charity sectors. These include written and oral communication skills; attention to detail; analytical and problem-solving skills; and the ability to research, amass and order information from a variety of sources. A postgraduate degree is a valuable experience that provides students with a body of work and a diverse range of skills with which they can market themselves when they graduate. Inle Lake, Burma – Kerry Taylor

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Department of the Study of Religions

The study of religions is invariably a multidisciplinary www.soas.ac.uk/religions undertaking and often involves the use of special linguistic and interdisciplinary skills. This is why our students are able to register for courses in Faculty the School’s regional departments, which specialise Arts and Humanities in the languages and literatures of various parts Number of staff of Asia and Africa. As a Department we also have Academic 14 strong links with the Departments of History of Teaching and Scholarship (fractional) 13 Art and Archaeology, History, and Anthropology and Sociology. RAE Eighty per cent of the work of the Department Our MA programmes attract an average of 30 to was rated as world-leading, internationally 40 new Master’s students per year, while MPhil excellent or internationally recognised. and PhD enrolment ranks among the strongest in the country, with a research community close to Taught Master’s degrees 100. Much of the Department’s intellectual and -- MA Religions of Asia and Africa social activities centre on the courses and seminars -- MA Traditions of Yoga and Meditation connected with postgraduate studies. -- MA Religion and Global Politics (subject to approval) Research The Department of the Study of Religions was MA in Religion and Media is currently going awarded an excellent rating in the 2008 Research through the approval process and should be Assessment Exercise with 65 per cent of its staff running from September 2014. For further rated four- or three-star. details please refer to the departmental website. Our courses and staff maintain a balance between expertise in a particular religious The Department has unrivalled expertise in the tradition (for example, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, religions and philosophies of Asia, Africa and the Christianity and Zoroastrianism) and the fields Middle East. Our interest in these religions is not of Comparative Religion and the theories and limited to their presence in Asia and Africa, but methods of Religious Studies. Most of our research extends to all areas of the world where they are students are working on a particular religious now represented. tradition but we welcome applications from those wishing to work in the comparative and Our teaching is research-driven and interdisciplinary. methodological fields. In addition to providing This means that whether at undergraduate or research supervision, the Department runs a postgraduate level, our courses offer: research training programme in the Study • study of a wider range of religious traditions and of Religions to equip year one MPhil and PhD in more depth than any other programme in the students with the necessary research skills. field, anywhere in the world There is a weekly Postgraduate Seminar at which students meet to discuss work-in-progress or • strongly multi-disciplinary, methodologically present draft chapters of their theses. Students diverse, and intellectually rigorous approaches, are also strongly encouraged to attend other ensuring advanced and comprehensive learning in seminars and conferences relating to their theoretical approaches to religion, as well as specialist fields. • in historical, anthropological, philosophical, The Department hosts a number of specialist sociological and textual approaches to the study research centres, which run regular seminars of particular religious traditions and workshops and host visiting speakers, and • a unique opportunity to access cutting-edge research students are welcome to be involved in academic expertise and unrivalled resources on their activities. The progress of each postgraduate Asian and African religions as part of a spirited, student is supported by a supervisory committee, cosmopolitan student community and within the made up of their supervisor and two other members vibrant religious and cultural scene of London. of staff familiar with their area of research.

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Academic staff research areas Dr Antonello Palumbo Laurea PhD (Naples) Ideological history of pre-modern China; Dr Lucia Dolce Laurea MA (Venice) PhD (Leiden) Taoism; Buddhism; Manichaeism; Chinese Japanese religious history, especially the relations with Central Asia; religious exchange medieval period; East Asian Buddhism, including in pre-modern Eurasia; Oriental religions in Tiantai/Tendai and Tantric Buddhism; Shinto- modern European culture. Buddhist associations; millenarian writings and prophecy; ritual and ritual studies; religious art Dr Theodore Proferes BA (New York) MA PhD and iconography. (Harvard) Vedic language and religion; Indian philosophy. Dr Peter Flügel MA DPhil (Mainz) Jaina Studies, religion and society; social Dr Sarah Stewart BA (ANU) PGCE MA PhD anthropology; sociology; indology; philosophy. (London) Zoroastrianism, with particular reference to the Dr Jan-Peter Hartung MA (Leipzig) PhD (Erfurt) modern period in Iran and India; oral texts and DHabil (Bonn) testimony; Muslim communities in Britain. Muslim philosophical and theological thought in the Indo-Persian world since Early Modernity; Vincent Tournier MA (Strasbourg) PhD (Paris) political Islam; Muslim intellectual history. The development of Indian Buddhist doctrines and practices. Dr Jörg Haustein MA PhD (Heidelberg) Religion and Christianity history of Ethiopia; Dr Cosimo Zene BA MA PhD (London) Islam in Tanzania (German East Africa, colonial); Anthropology of religion; theory in the study Pentecostal / charismatic movements; of religions; continental philosophy; Gramsci Theoretical and methodological problems and religion; intercultural and inter-religious of the study of religion. dialogue; minorities (Dalits and Subalterns); non-Western Christianities; South-Asia (India, Dr Sîan Hawthorne PhD (London) Bangladesh), Sardinia. Critical theory; narrativity and myth; religion and gender; intellectual history in the study of religions; post-secularism; religion and politics. MA Religions of Asia Professor Catherine Hezser Dr Theol (Heidelberg) PhD (JTS New York) DHabil (Berlin) and Africa Judaism in Hellenistic and Roman times; rabbinic literature; social history of Jews in late Duration antiquity; American Jewish history and literature. One calendar year (full-time) Professor Almut Hintze BA (Heidelberg) Two or three years (part-time, daytime only) MPhil (Oxon) DPhil (Erlangen) DHabil (Berlin) Start of programme Zoroastrian religious beliefs and practice, September intake only Avestan, Pahlavi and Indo-Iranian philology. Entry requirements Dr Erica Hunter BA MA DPhil PhD (Melbourne) Normally, minimum upper second-class Eastern Christianity: the Chalcedonian and honours degree from a UK university, or non- Chalcedonian churches of the Middle East, equivalent. Applicants with qualifications with particular reference to Iraq. obtained at private or monastic institutions Dr Ulrich Pagel BA PhD (London) should enquire about the School’s position Tibetan language and literature; Buddhism in on such qualifications Central Asia; Vinaya studies. Convenor Dr Antonello Palumbo See also -- Interdisciplinary Area Studies programmes

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Programmes be packaged together for specific purposes, whether doctoral research or careers in teaching, The MA Religions of Asia and Africa is the premier for example. postgraduate curriculum in the UK for the study of the religions of Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Structure This programme is intended to provide students with advanced training in the history and Students are generally required to follow taught contemporary practices of one or more of the units to the equivalent of three full courses (which religious traditions taught in the Department may include one language course) and submit a (Buddhism in nearly all its doctrinal and regional dissertation of 10,000 words. The dissertation topic varieties, Asian, African and Middle Eastern must be linked with a taught course from those Christianities, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, listed below. Shinto, Taoism, Zoroastrianism as well as the local religious cultures of Asia and Africa). Students are Assessment also able to study advanced philosophical and theoretical approaches and methods in the study Each taught course in the MA has its own approved of religions and to undertake thematic analyses method of assessment, designed to address the of broader themes important to various religious particular learning outcomes of that course. traditions, such as mysticism, death, gender Assessment methods may include essays, unseen and mythology. examinations, research projects, individual or group presentations, translations, research journals, The MA Religions of Asia and Africa is designed language tests and others, as appropriate. An overall both to offer an end qualification in itself and to percentage mark is awarded for each course, based provide a rigorous foundation for more advanced on the marks awarded for individual assessment postgraduate work. items within the course. The MA may be awarded The programme typically suits students falling into at Distinction, Merit or Pass level in accordance with one of the following three categories: the common regulations for MA and MSc at SOAS. • students planning to pursue further research, which may involve, at a subsequent stage, the Course options acquisition of a doctoral degree and a career in Students take taught courses (half or full units) higher education equivalent to three units (which may include one • students willing to pursue a career or professional language) from the list of MA-level courses listed activity, for which advanced knowledge of the below. The fourth and final unit is the dissertation. religions of Asia and Africa and of the theoretical Depending on their area of specialisation, students and practical issues involved in their study is will choose one of the following six dissertations: essential. For example, the media, teaching, NGOs and charities, interfaith dialogue, and consultancy • Dissertation in the Study of Religions for governmental agencies or the private sector • Dissertation in Buddhist Studies • Dissertation in the Religions of Asia and Africa • students who wish to pursue the academic • Dissertation in Gender Studies and Religion study of religions to complement their personal • Dissertation in Indian Religions experience and commitments. For example, • Dissertation in Japanese Religions religious ministers and clerics from all confessions, believers, yoga and meditation practitioners, and Not all courses listed opposite will be taught every anyone interested in specific religious traditions year. A list of the available courses available for or in religion as an essential dimension of life. 2014/15 is published on the School’s website as well as in the Study of Religions Departmental The degree permits students to focus on one MA Handbook. specific religion or region or to study more than one religious tradition. Such flexibility in the choice of courses provides applicants with a variety of options and ways in which different courses may

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Students will choose courses equivalent to three Indian Religions units from the following lists: • Historical and Contemporary Perspectives of Hinduism Buddhism • Islam in South Asia • Buddhism in Tibet • Non-violence in Jain Scriptures, Philosophy and Law • Buddhist Meditation in India and Tibet • The Origins and Development of Yoga in • Buddhism: Theravadin Traditions Ancient India • Buddhist Arts in Context • Religious and Philosophical Ideas of Ancient and • Central Concepts and Tenets of Indian Buddhism Medieval India • Chinese Buddhism in the Pre-modern Period • Text and Context in Classical Hinduism • East Asian Buddhist Thought • Vedic Interpretations • Esoteric Buddhism in India and Tibet • Zoroastrianism: Historical and Contemporary • Features of Buddhist Monasticism Perspectives • History and Doctrines of Indian Buddhism • Avestan • Independent Research Project on Buddhism • Independent Translation of Buddhist Texts Islam • Oriental Religions in European Academia and • The Origins and Development of Islam in the Imagination, 1815–1945 Middle East • Pali: Intermediate Level • Islam in South Asia • Religious Practice in Japan: Texts, Rituals and • Muslim Britain: Perspectives and Realities Believers Jainism • Studies in Buddhist Literature in Pali • Jainism: History, Doctrine and the • The Buddhist Conquest of Central Asia Contemporary World • The Buddhism of South East Asia • Non-violence in Jain Scriptures, Philosophy • Topical Lectures and Seminars in Buddhist Studies and Law • Women in Buddhism Japanese Religions Chinese Religions • East Asian Buddhist Thought • Chinese Buddhism in the Pre-modern Period • Readings in Japanese Religions • East Asian Buddhist Thought • Religious Practice in Japan: Texts, Rituals • East Asian Traditions of Meditation: From Taoism and Believers to Zen • The Great Tradition of Taoism Judaism • Chinese Religious Texts: A Reading Seminar • Family, Work and Leisure in Ancient Judaism • Jewishness on Screen Christianity • Judaism and Gender • African Missionaries • Judaism in the Hellenistic and Roman Period • Preaching, Prayer and Politics in Southern Africa • Religion, Nationhood and Ethnicity in Judaism • Eastern and Orthodox Christianity • The Holocaust in Theology, Literature and Art • Eastern Christian Texts on Martyrs and Monks • Syriac for Beginners Multi-religious/Comparative Courses • Themes in the Study of Christianity • Religion in Britain: Faith Communities and Civil Society East Asian Religions • Death and Religion • East Asian Buddhist Thought • Mystical Traditions • East Asian Traditions of Meditation: From Taoism • Myth and Mythmaking to Zen • The Great Tradition of Taoism Mysticism • Religious Practice in Japan: Texts, Rituals and • Mystical Traditions Believers Theoretical Approaches Gender and Religion • Critical Theory and the Study of Religions • Gender, Postcolonialism and the Study of Religions • Oriental Religions in European Academia and • Judaism and Gender Imagination, 1815–1945 • Women in Buddhism • Theory and Method in the Study of Religion

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Zoroastrianism • Modern Bengal: The Evolution of Bengali Culture • Zoroastrianism: Historical and Contemporary and Society from 1690 to the Present Day (Master’s) Perspectives • Modern Israel through its Culture • Text and Context in Zoroastrianism • Modern Trends in Islam • Avestan • Modernity and the Transformation of the Middle • Middle Persian East 1839–1958 • Music and Healing Languages • Origins and Development of Islam in the Middle Students may take a unit in any of the languages East: Problems and Perspectives taught at SOAS. Please consult the course offerings • Painting and Architecture in Christian NE Africa: in the Faculty of Languages and Cultures for details. 2nd–17th Centuries Applicants considering further research are strongly • Prakrit Language 1 (Postgraduate) encouraged to take a relevant language as one of • Queer Politics in Asia, Africa and the Middle East their courses. • Sanskrit Language 1 Courses taught outside the Department of the • Sex and Gender in the 20th Century: Study of Religions Contemporary Japan Students are allowed to take courses taught outside the Department of the Study of Religions up to one unit, which may or may not include a language. A list of permitted options is given below; it does MA Traditions of Yoga not include all language courses. and Meditation • Advanced Hebrew • African and Asian Diasporas in the Modern World Duration • Art and Archaeology of the Silk Road One calendar year (full-time) • Body, Power and Society in Early India Two or three years (part-time) • Comparative Media Theory Start of programme • Comparative Politics of the Middle East September intake only • Culture and Society of Japan • Economic Development in Africa Entry requirements • Elementary Hebrew Normally, minimum upper second-class • Gender and Development honours degree from a UK university, or • Gender and Music (MMus) equivalent. Applicants with qualifications • Gender in the Middle East obtained at private or monastic institutions • Gender, Law and the Family in the History of should enquire about the School’s position on Modern South Asia such qualifications • Gendering African History Convenor • Gendering Migration and Diasporas Dr Ulrich Pagel • Genders and Sexualities in South East Asian Film • Government and Politics in Africa • An Historical Approach to Israeli Literature The MA Yoga and Meditation offers an in-depth • The Indian Temple introduction to the yogic and meditational techniques • Intensive Modern Hebrew and doctrines of India, Tibet, China and Japan within • Intermediate Hebrew the historical and cultural context of their formation. • Islam and Politics Furthermore, it explores the nature of spiritual • Islam in South Asia experience that arises from yoga and meditation • Israel, the Arab World and the Palestinians through a cross-cultural, inter-regional perspective. • Issues in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology • Issues in the Anthropology of Gender The specialist components integrated within this • Japanese Modernity I MA are organised to serve as platform for further • Japanese Modernity II (MPhil and PhD) graduate research. The more • Migration, Gender and the Law in South East Asia general components of the programme provide and Beyond those students who do not intend to pursue doctoral

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research with an advanced introduction to the at Distinction, Merit or Pass level in accordance with physiological dynamics, doctrinal foundations, history, the common regulations for MA and MSc at SOAS. regional context and theoretical presuppositions that shaped the traditions of yoga and meditation. Course options This MA is taught through evening classes, typically Students take taught courses (half or full units) running between 6pm and 8pm on weekdays, at the equivalent to three units from the list of MA-level SOAS Russell Square Campus in Central London. courses listed below. The fourth and final unit is a The reading materials connected to all four courses Dissertation in the Traditions of Yoga and Meditation. of this MA programme are largely disseminated • Yoga and Meditation: Perspectives, Context and through online resources. Essay submission takes Methodologies (half unit) place either in hard copy or electronically. • The Origins and Development of Yoga in This MA typically suits students falling into one of Ancient India the following categories: • Buddhist Meditation in India and Tibet • East Asian Traditions of Meditation: From Taoism • experienced practitioners of yoga and meditation to Zen (half unit) who wish to gain a deeper understanding of • Dissertation in Traditions of Yoga and Meditation the historical and cultural contexts that shaped their traditions • students with a background in psychology seeking MA Religion and to gain knowledge of meditation and mindfulness for their clinical work Global Politics • students planning to pursue further research, which may involve at a subsequent stage the Subject to approval acquisition of a doctoral degree and a career Duration in higher education One calendar year (full-time) • students seeking to pursue a career or professional Two or three years (part-time) activity for which advanced knowledge of the yoga Start of programme and meditation traditions of Asia is required September intake only • students who wish to pursue the academic Entry requirements study of these traditions to complement their Normally, minimum upper second-class personal experience. honours degree from a UK university or equivalent. Applicants with qualifications Structure obtained at private or monastic institutions should enquire about the School’s position Students are required to follow taught units to on such qualifications. the equivalent of three full courses and to submit a 10,000-word dissertation. Convenor Dr Sîan Hawthorne Assessment Each taught course in the MA has its own approved The MA Religion and Global Politics will examine method of assessment, designed to address the the increasingly central role of religion in shaping particular learning outcomes of that course. contemporary global politics. While religion has Assessment methods may include essays, unseen always been interconnected with political systems, examinations, research projects, individual or whether contributing to their formation, legitimising group presentations, translations, research journals, their power, or challenging their reach and authority, language tests and others, as appropriate. An overall the last decades have seen a resurgence in the public percentage mark is awarded for each course, based presence of religion globally. This has been seen on the marks awarded for individual assessment in policy debates within states, in inter-communal, items within the course. The MA may be awarded national and transnational conflicts, or as a marker of

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national or communal identity that necessitates Structure public recognition and legislative management. Students are required to follow taught units to Despite predictions of the decline of religion in a the equivalent of three full courses and submit a secular age, questions regarding the role, value, and 10,000-word dissertation. function of religion in the public sphere have never been more pressing. The MA in Religion and Global Assessment Politics will thus offer an advanced examination of the complex relationship between religion and Each taught course in the MA has its own approved politics in the histories and contemporary political method of assessment, designed to address the contexts of Asia, Africa and the Middle East. particular learning outcomes of that course. Assessment methods may include essays, unseen A core objective of the programme is to challenge examinations, research projects, individual or the Eurocentrism of current debates around group presentations, translations, research journals, secularism, secularisation and the nature of the language tests and others, as appropriate. An overall public sphere within modernity. It will do this by percentage mark is awarded for each course, based indicating the plurality and contested nature of on the marks awarded for individual assessment conceptions of both religion and the secular when items within the course. The MA may be awarded considered in an international frame. The core at Distinction, Merit or Pass level in accordance with course, Religion and Global Politics: Theories and the common regulations for MA and MSc at SOAS. Themes, will provide both a rigorous introduction to the academic literature (historical and sociological) that has analysed religion’s intersection with politics Course options under modernity, alongside the major thematic All students will take the programme core course dimensions of the relationship as they play out in Religion and Global Politics: Theories and Themes the global South and diaspora contexts. (one unit) and write a dissertation (one unit) in the The structure of the degree is designed to ensure that area of religion and politics combining a regional students combine regional specialism with training focus with a theoretical and thematic analysis. in conceptual, historical, and theoretical debates Students will take further taught courses (half or full regarding the role of religion in contemporary global units) equivalent to two units from an approved list politics. There is a particular focus on the regions of of MA-level courses. Courses options will include, Asia, Africa and the Middle East, but western contexts but are not limited to: are referred to as a means of comparison. • Muslim Britain (one unit) The programme aims to enable professional and • Oriental Religions in European Academia and vocational development, as well provide pre- Imagination, 1815–1945 (one unit) doctoral research training in social scientific analyses • Modern Muslim Thinkers from South Asia of Religion and Politics in an international frame. (half unit) • Religion, Nationhood and Ethnicity in Judaism This MA will typically suit students falling into one (half unit) of the following categories: • Preaching Prayer and Politics: Independent • policy-makers, analysts, journalists and Christians in Southern Africa (half unit) researchers in either international, national or • Religion in Britain: Faith Communities and Civil regional institutions and organisations engaged Society (one unit) in policy formation • Contemporary Islamism in South Asia: Readings in Sayyid Abu al-A’la Mawdudi (half unit) • individuals working in the areas of inter-religious • Religions on the Move: New Currents and dialogue and community development, social work, Emerging Trends in Global Religion (one unit) international development, conflict resolution, peace-building or diversity management • students planning to pursue further research, which may involve at a subsequent stage the acquisition of a doctoral degree and a career in higher education.

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Graduate destinations Examples of the careers graduates from this department have gone on to immediately after A postgraduate degree in the Study of Religions graduation include: Editor (Islamic Publishing from SOAS equips students to follow many different House), Project Worker (Broadway London), careers. Postgraduates are provided with important Solicitor (Traymans), Freelance Translator, knowledge and understanding of peoples’ different Co-ordinating Editor (SOAS), PA to CEO (Chain culture, history and beliefs concerning fundamental of Hope). issues which they can develop in the field of research or utilise in a professional career. Students Examples of research degrees or further study also develop a portfolio of widely transferable skills include: PhD Study of Religions (SOAS), PhD which employers seek in many professional and Buddhist Language (University of Cambridge), management careers in business, public and charity Psychology (UCL), Arabic (University of Damascus), sectors. These include: the ability to research, amass Traditional Arts (Prince’s School of Traditional Arts). and order information from a variety of sources analytical skills; written and oral communication skills to present, discuss and debate opinions and conclusions; and problem-solving skills. A postgraduate degree is a valuable experience that provides students with a body of work and a diverse range of skills with which they can market themselves when they graduate.

Avani Sood MA Study of Religions: Indian Religions Pathway

I came to SOAS because it was the only college The people here are so passionate about that offered such a specific course but also what they teach and they have helped me because of the diverse range of specialised unearth an interest in things I never would have courses on offer. As a postgraduate I have imagined I’d be interested in. They have been been looking for something that gave me a source of continuous support, which has more focus and direction, and SOAS has done made the entire learning experience even more that brilliantly. worthwhile. Moreover, they have been extremely approachable and their painstaking efforts in I was pursuing arts in India and SOAS was always organising additional seminars and lectures for a well-known and much coveted option for all must be commended. Ultimately they have kept students like me. When I got here, I knew exactly us interested and above all wanting more. why it was so sought after. The expertise of the faculty and the extremely dynamic atmosphere To summarise SOAS I would say that it is a of the School in general is something that made melting pot of cultures – an unforgettable place, me fall in love with SOAS almost instantly. that becomes part of you!

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Coming to SOAS

All you need to know about joining our academic community

250 Making your Application 254 Fees 255 Equality and Diversity 256 Freedom of Expression: Statement of Principles 257 Your SOAS Alumni Network 258 Term Dates and Open Days 259 Useful Contacts 261 Address and Principal Officers 262 Campus Map 263 Index

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SOAS welcomes applications Consideration of applications from students with a variety of We assess applications as a whole and take into consideration applications including transcript qualifications and experience. (where required), references, supporting statement Our specialist degrees have and relevant experience before reaching a decision. Applications will not be forwarded to the relevant increasing relevance in today’s academic department for consideration unless they world, and our research and are complete, with all the necessary supporting documentation, including references. An incomplete expertise shape policies and application will delay the decision-making process. debates across the globe. Mature and disabled students Online Application We welcome applications from mature and disabled students. Each application will be considered You can apply for on-campus postgraduate and individually on its own merits, and experience, research degrees using the online application form if relevant, may be considered in place of formal at https://app.hobsons.co.uk/AYApplicantLogin/ qualifications. Applications from disabled students fl_ApplicantLogin.asp?id=soas. All the instructions are considered using the School’s standard to help you complete the application are also entry criteria regardless of any disability. Any available on this page. related information that is supplied is treated as confidential. You are encouraged to tell us about Note for research students any disabilities you may have (for example, a Please be advised that, in common with other sensory, mobility or dexterity impairment), or a British universities, research students at SOAS are specific learning difficulty (such as dyslexia or initially registered for an MPhil and, usually by the dyspraxia), or a chronic medical condition (for end of June in the first full-time year, are transferred example, epilepsy, asthma or diabetes) so that to PhD registration if their progress is satisfactory. we can identify and plan with you for any support needs. For details on support services for disabled Closing dates and timings students offered at SOAS see pages 37–38. All applications for postgraduate studies beginning Documentary evidence in September 2014 must be submitted and reach the Admissions Office no later than 30 June 2014. Please be advised that evidence of your first degree, late applications can be considered if places are if available, needs to be included in your application. available. All taught Master’s programmes start Documents must be in English. in September each year. If you are applying for If it is necessary for documents to be translated, scholarships or grants from SOAS, you should please send a certified hard copy of the original submit your application as early as possible and document as well as a certified translation from a no later than six weeks before the scholarships legally approved translator. Applicants who have deadlines. The deadline for most SOAS scholarships graduated from UK institutions should provide a is 31 January 2014. photocopy of their degree certificate. Applications for the forthcoming academic year If your application is based on degree-level studies will be accepted from November onwards. or qualifications obtained from outside the UK you Each application is carefully considered and we must also obtain a transcript, and submit it with your hope to make a decision within three weeks of a application form. A transcript is a detailed marksheet complete application being received. At some times which confirms the award of your qualification of the year processing of applications may take and lists all subjects studied and grades obtained. longer. Applications should therefore be made as If you have not completed your degree at the time early as possible. of applying, you should send a transcript of your marks so far.

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Please do not send original diplomas and certificates. We only accept certified hard copies of supporting documentation – photocopies of certified documents are not acceptable as final evidence but can be considered to start the process of assessing your application. All UK and overseas candidates applying for LLM, MSc Finance and Financial Law, MSc Finance and Development, MA International Studies and Diplomacy and any of the MSc International Management, Politics and Economics programmes must submit a full transcript of courses undertaken at undergraduate level and, if relevant, at Master’s level.

Minimum entry requirements (for taught Master’s) Applicants should have a first or upper second-class honours Bachelor’s degree from a UK university, or equivalent, in a subject appropriate to that of the programme to be followed. As an approximate comparison, an equivalent BA from a US university with a selective entry policy would have a CGPA of 3.3, and a CGPA of 3.5 from a US university with a non-selective entry policy. If an applicant does not have a Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate field, he or she may be required to complete a qualifying year or a one-year diploma before entering the Master’s programme. Relevant work experience may also be taken into consideration. Individual courses may have specific entry requirements, so you are advised to check the degree entries on pages 82–246 in this prospectus for further information. For minimum entry requirements for research go to page 18.

English language requirements To ensure that SOAS students have a sufficient standard of English to study effectively, we require students whose first language (mother tongue) is not English to submit evidence of their current level of English language proficiency. Details on acceptable qualifications and test scores for entry to a postgraduate or research programme can be found on page 19.

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Help with your application Language Centre Diplomas and If you need any guidance on the application Certificates process please contact the Student Recruitment If you are interested in Language Centre Office at [email protected] or Postgraduate Diplomas and Certificates (Modern Chinese, Research Section (for research degrees) at Modern Japanese, Modern Standard Arabic), [email protected] please download an application form from www.soas.ac.uk/languagecentre and send the Any queries about an application, after it completed form back to: has been made, should be addressed to the Course Secretary, SOAS Language Centre, Admissions Office (for Master’s send your email to SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, [email protected] and for research Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG. degrees to [email protected]). Applications for Pre-Master’s and English Language Visiting Research Students (VRS) Programmes should be made directly to IFCELS at SOAS. Application forms and further details are We welcome applications from Visiting Research available at www.soas.ac.uk/ifcels Students. Applications can be made online at Applications for Postgraduate Distance https://app.hobsons.co.uk/AYApplicantLogin/ Learning degrees (see page 30) have separate fl_ApplicantLogin.asp?id=soas application forms. There are no specific entry qualifications to fulfil To download these, and for details on application but SOAS will wish to be satisfied that the research procedures and entry requirements, please visit the to be undertaken is practicable and that applicants relevant centre websites – www.cefims.ac.uk and have the academic background and the experience www.soas.ac.uk/cedep and www.soas.ac.uk/cisd/ necessary to undertake research work, and also programmes/maglobaldiplomacy, depending on a sufficient command of the English language. the programme selected. In these respects, similar considerations apply to VRS applications as to research student applications. Admissions Policy Erasmus Students should complete the form which can found at www.soas.ac.uk/erasmus/file72359. The nature of the School places diversity at the pdf and Associate Students should complete the centre of life at SOAS. As such we are committed form which can be found at www.soas.ac.uk/ to providing high-quality education to all, regardless admissions/pg/associate-students/file72357.pdf of age, disability, ethnicity, nationality or national origin, gender, religion or belief, sexual identity, Completed applications for these programmes must sexual orientation, or any other factor not relevant be returned with a reference and any other relevant to academic achievement. documents to [email protected] or Admissions Office, SOAS, University of London, Policy on admissions and entry to SOAS Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London postgraduate programmes WC1H 0XG. 1. The School aims to provide accurate information Applicants for a Certificates or Diplomas, including and advice to prospective students concerning the Graduate Diploma in Economics should complete the opportunities for postgraduate study at the online form at https://app.hobsons.co.uk/ SOAS. The Postgraduate Prospectus is prepared AYApplicantLogin/fl_ApplicantLogin.asp?id=soas more than 12 months prior to entry; whilst every effort is made to ensure its accuracy Applications for the Diploma and Certificate in some changes in the subsequent period are Asian Art can be found at www.soas.ac.uk/art/ inevitable. Up-to-date advice is available from programmes/dipasart/file39296.pdf They should the Admissions Office. be returned directly to: Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art Administrator, 2. The School facilitates swift responses to History of Art and Archaeology Department, enquiries and applications, and ensures that SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, all necessary documentation is sent at the Russell Square, London WC1H OXG. earliest possible time.

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3. The admissions decision rests primarily on disability-related admissions information only the qualifications, needs and aspirations of the amongst relevant admissions and disability staff. applicant, and the educational opportunities Applicants may speak to the Student Disability available. Applicants selected for admission Advisor in confidence if they prefer. should be suitably qualified and capable of 8. Students are only admitted to a research benefiting from the programme of study. degree where an appropriate supervisor can 4. Applicants for a taught Master’s degree should be identified and provision can be made for normally possess at least a 2:1 (upper second) regular supervision throughout the period class honours degree from a UK university, or a of registration. qualification deemed equivalent by the School. 9. The School reserves the right to reject Applicants for research degrees should normally applications to study at the School on academic possess a UK Master’s degree or a qualification grounds or if places are no longer available, deemed equivalent by the School. Applicants and to give no reasons to such applicants save who do not possess this level of qualification at its own discretion. may be eligible for consideration for admisto postgraduate programmes on the basis of 10. Offers of admission will include information previous work experience or training. The School on the duration of the programme for which welcomes applications for taught Master’s from the applicant has been accepted and the fee students enrolled on International Foundation required; all conditions attached to the offer Programmes for postgraduate study. will be specified. An offer of a place is not a guarantee of funding. 5. Criteria for entry to individual programmes of study are in addition to the above and may vary. 11. Decisions on applications are valid only if Achievement or predicted achievement of the communicated by the Director of Student required qualifications does not guarantee an and Registry Services or authorised deputy. offer of a place. Each application is considered 12. If a candidate has any questions or needs on its merits and in competition with others. clarification regarding the School’s Policy on The School may take into account examination Admissions, he or she is welcome to contact the results already achieved, predicted grades in Admissions Office, SOAS, University of London, forthcoming examinations, research project Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London proposals, personal statements and academic WC1H 0XG. references. Any applicant may be asked to attend an interview and/or to submit additional application materials. 6. All applicants whose first language is not English must meet the School’s English language requirements. The School accepts a range of English language qualifications to satisfy the minimum level of competence required. For further details please refer to: www.soas.ac.uk/englishrequirements 7. Applications from students with disabilities are considered on the same academic grounds as all other applicants. Applicants are invited to disclose their disability at the point of application. Applicants can obtain advice concerning the suitability of the campus, the degree programme, equipment or support available from the School’s Student Disability Advisor. Information regarding disability is sensitive personal data and is subject to the Data Protection Act. SOAS will share

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The tuition fee rates for each following academic To find out about our complete range of awards year are posted on the website in February. Please (including deadlines, criteria and application see www.soas.ac.uk/fees for the current fee rates instructions) and for links to external funding and information on ways to pay. Fees are charged bodies please see: www.soas.ac.uk/scholarships at the Home and European or Overseas rate For information about educational loans, such as depending on the fees status of the student. The Federal Direct Loans for US citizens and Professional main criterion for Home and European fee status and Career Development Loans for UK residents, is settled residency in the UK or the relevant EU please see: www.soas.ac.uk/registry/funding country for the three years preceding the start of the course. Your fee status will not normally change during your degree. For information on fee status Applications for scholarships and loans regulations please see www.ukcisa.org.uk Please note that the application for funding Please ensure that you state your proposed source (including application for SOAS awards) is a separate of funds when applying for postgraduate study process from the application to SOAS for a place or research at SOAS. Fees for the full year should on a programme of study. Scholarship application be paid by the start of the academic year. Fees deadlines can be nine months before the start of payment is part of the enrolment process and must your programme so please apply early. be completed in order to complete enrolment. Self- funded students paying tuition fees of more than Advice for international students £1,500 may sign an instalment agreement and pay It is recommended that, in the first instance, in two instalments plus an administration charge. you contact your own Ministry of Education or Fee payment is the responsibility of the student. Education Department, which will have details of most scholarship schemes and be able to advise you A guarantee of payment from a sponsoring agency of your own government’s conditions for studying recognised by the School will be accepted as proof abroad. You should also get in touch with the British of payment but the student remains responsible for Council office in your home country, or visit the the fees should the sponsor not pay. British Council website (www.educationuk.orgUK/ For further information please consult Fees, Article/Scholarships-for-international- Payments, Scholarships and Loans FAQs on the postgraduate-students), for details of scholarship website www.soas.ac.uk/admissions/pg/faqs/fees schemes, educational programmes and living in the and the Fees Information Pages on www.soas.ac.uk/ UK. If there is no British Council office, then contact fees. Please contact [email protected] if you have a the nearest British Embassy, High Commission or query not answered in the FAQs or on the fees pages. Consulate for advice. Contact the Scholarships Officer for details Awards and Funding on scholarships, bursaries and other funding opportunities available to SOAS students. SOAS offers studentships and scholarships to help students finance their Master’s studies and Tel: 020 7074 5105 postgraduate research. Email: [email protected] A number of these awards have been made possible www.soas.ac.uk/scholarships by generous donations to our awards programme. New opportunities sometimes become available, please check the website regularly for the latest information. The range of awards on offer is diverse – some support students from specific countries, while others focus on particular programmes of study and research. The awards are distributed through a competitive application process and on the basis of academic merit. Most scholarship application deadlines are in the January preceding the academic year of entry.

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SOAS entertains a diverse population of students For the full text of the School’s Equality and and staff. This diversity is one of our greatest Diversity statement please see www.soas.ac.uk/ strengths and in order to consolidate and build equalitydiversity/statement upon it, equality of opportunity and the absence Members or prospective members of the of unfair discrimination must be at the core of all School community are welcome to contact the our activities. School’s Diversity Advisor, Deb Viney (email: The School recognises the link between quality and [email protected], tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4957) equality and will not discriminate in the recruitment to discuss any issues relating to diversity, equality, or treatment of students or staff on the basis of: harassment or discrimination. age, disability, ethnicity/race, gender, marital status, nationality, religion/belief, sexual identity, sexual orientation or any other factor which is not relevant to their academic development. The School is committed to promoting and developing equality of opportunity in all its functions. We seek to do this by: • communicating our commitment to equality and diversity to all members of the community • communicating where lies the responsibility for equality issues • providing training for decision-makers and briefing for staff and students • treating any act of discrimination as a disciplinary offence • consulting with individuals and internal and external interested groups. The governing body and senior staff have responsibility for implementing this policy among staff and students. However, each member of the SOAS community is responsible for preventing (and, if necessary, challenging or at least reporting) unfair discrimination which is within their control or experience.

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SOAS, University of London is committed to the Furthermore, SOAS, University of London does not pursuit and dissemination of knowledge. This can tolerate any form of discrimination, victimisation, only be conducted effectively in an atmosphere intimidation or harassment based upon: of open enquiry, mutual tolerance and intellectual • age freedom. In practice this means that we acknowledge • contractual status the paramount importance of freedom of expression. • disability or disfigurement Freedom of expression may not be exercised to • ethnicity (ethnic origin, colour or race) threaten the safety or freedom of expression of • gender (including pregnancy and maternity) others. In making this assertion, the School endorses • gender identity or gender reassignment the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human • language Rights and related international covenants. • marriage or civil partnership • national origin or nationality • political or other opinion • religion or other philosophical belief (or absence of such beliefs) • sexual orientation • social origin or socio-economic status • trade union membership or non-membership • or intellectual conviction.

256 For more information go to www.soas.ac.uk Freedom of Expression: Statement of Principles / Your SOAS Alumni Network Your SOAS Alumni Network

The Alumni Relations team is your www.soasalumni.org – Your dedicated alumni website, including an online alumni and careers continuing link with the School, directory, job postings and news and events at SOAS. and we endeavour to make your Events – Receive invitations to SOAS events taking connection with SOAS exciting, place both on campus and around the world, including lectures, exhibitions, social gatherings lifelong and one of mutual benefit. and guest presentations. Professional networking – Benefit from the After completing your studies at professional knowledge and experience of other SOAS, you will be part of a global SOAS alumni, as well as continued access to careers services. network of over 53,000 SOAS International alumni – If you are returning home or alumni across 190 countries are travelling abroad, you can get in touch with your worldwide. You will also have regional alumni group, a valuable source for social and professional networking. access to a wide range of benefits, Alumni and Friends Fund – Alumni provide valuable as detailed here. financial support to the next generation of SOAS students through the Alumni and Friends Fund, supporting scholarships, the SOAS Library, hardship grants and student projects at SOAS. Discounts – You are entitled to exclusive alumni discounts on Library membership, Language Centre courses, books, travel packages and more. Volunteering – Volunteer activity lies at the core of the Alumni Relations programme at SOAS, and our alumni volunteers offer a valuable contribution. Volunteering opportunities include speaking to current students about your work experience, becoming an alumni contact in your part of the world, and sharing your expertise with fellow alumni. In the news – Stay connected with the news from in and around SOAS with SOAS World, the topical alumni magazine, and monthly e-bulletins and event invitations. For more information, contact the Alumni Relations team on [email protected], phone +44 (0)20 7898 4041 or visit www.soasalumni.org. Whatever your plans and wherever life may take you after graduation, we look forward to helping you to stay connected with SOAS through your alumni network.

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School terms 2014–2015 Open Days 2013–2014 First term To find out more about SOAS, come along Term dates: to one of the Postgraduate Open Evenings Monday 22 September – Friday 12 December 2014 (5pm–8.30pm) held in the Brunei Gallery at the Reading week: Russell Square campus. You get the chance to: Monday 3 – Friday 7 November 2014 • speak to academic members of staff to get information and advice on our courses Second term • meet current students Term dates: • tour the campus and view our facilities Monday 5 January – Friday 20 March 2015 • visit the halls of residence. Reading week: Postgraduate Open Days are planned for the Monday 9 – Friday 13 February 2015 following dates: Third term • 27 November 2013 Term dates: • 14 February 2014 Monday 20 April – Friday 12 June 2015 • 29 May 2014 Up-to-date information and further details can be found on www.soas.ac.uk/admissions/ pg/openevenings. Booking is essential for these events. To reserve your place please complete the booking form at www.soas.ac.uk/admissions/ pg/openevenings

258 For more information go to www.soas.ac.uk Term Dates and Open Days / Useful Contacts Useful Contacts

Important contacts at SOAS Careers Service For information on graduate destinations, Student Recruitment Office careers advice, and work experience For general enquiries on studying and applying Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4115 to SOAS, prior to submission of applications. Email: [email protected] Based in Russell Square www.soas.ac.uk/careers Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4034 Fax: +44 (0)20 7898 4039 Diversity Adviser Email: [email protected] For equality and diversity issues Admissions Office Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4957 Email: [email protected] For Postgraduate and Taught Master’s application www.soas.ac.uk/soasnet/adminservices/ enquiries after submission equalitydiversity Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4300 Fax: +44 (0)20 7898 4039 Faculty Offices Email: [email protected] Your first point of contact with the Faculty For enquiries about non-degree programmes during your studies Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4322 Faculty of Arts and Humanities Fax: +44 (0)20 7898 4039 Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4020 Email: [email protected] For research admissions (MPhil and PhD, Visiting www.soas.ac.uk/artshumanities Research) contact the Postgraduate Research Section in Vernon Square Faculty of Languages and Cultures Tel: +44 (0)20 7074 5102 Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4044 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.soas.ac.uk/languagecultures

A–Z of further contacts at SOAS Faculty of Law and Social Sciences Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4402 Academic Development Directorate Email: [email protected] www.soas.ac.uk/lawsocialsciences For academic skills development and help with your studies International Foundation Courses and English Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4550 Language Studies (IFCELS) Email: [email protected] www.soas.ac.uk/add For details on foundation and English language programmes for international students, including the Pre-Master’s course/ Foundation Diploma for Alumni Relations Postgraduate Students For details on services available to SOAS graduates Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4800 and our worldwide alumni associations Email: [email protected] Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4041 www.soas.ac.uk/ifcels Email: [email protected] www.soas.ac.uk/alumni

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Language Centre Student Welfare Advisers For general welfare advice, including visas and immigration For non-degree language courses Tel: +44 (0)20 7074 5014/5015 Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4888 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.soas.ac.uk/welfare www.soas.ac.uk/languagecentre

SOAS Students’ Union Library Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4996 www.soas.ac.uk/library Email: [email protected] www.soasunion.org Membership Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4190 Email: [email protected] External contacts Opening hours King’s College London Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4790 Tel: +44 (0)20 7836 5454 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.kcl.ac.uk Catalogue and general enquiries Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4163 UKCISA – UK Council Email: [email protected] For International Student Affairs Advice for international students including on Scholarships Office immigration; living, working and studying in the UK; For details on scholarships, bursaries and other fees and funding funding opportunities available to SOAS students. 9–17 St Alban’s Place, London N1 0NX Tel: +44 (0)20 7074 5105 Tel: +44 (0)20 7107 9922 Email: [email protected] (Advice line – Monday to Friday 1pm–4pm UK time) www.soas.ac.uk/scholarships www.ukcisa.org.uk

Student Counselling Service University College London For support with personal problems Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 5016/5017 Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 2000 (Main switchboard) Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.soas.ac.uk/counselling www.ucl.ac.uk Student Disability Advisers Advice and support for students with a disability/impairment/ University of London learning difficulty Accommodation Office Tel: +44 (0)20 7074 5018 For enquiries about intercollegiate halls of residence Email: [email protected] and private accommodation www.soas.ac.uk/disability Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1 7HU Tel: +44 (0)20 7862 8880 Email: [email protected] www.lon.ac.uk/accom

260 For more information go to www.soas.ac.uk Address and Principal Officers Address and Principal Officers

University address Principal officers SOAS, University of London Director Thornaugh Street Professor Paul Webley Russell Square London WC1H 0XG Pro-Director (Research and Enterprise) Professor Richard Black Tel: +44 (0)20 7637 2388 (switchboard) www.soas.ac.uk Pro-Director (Learning and Teaching) Professor Nirmala Rao Dean of Faculty of Arts and Humanities Professor Gurharpal Singh Dean of Faculty of Languages and Cultures Professor Anne Pauwels Dean of Faculty of Law and Social Sciences Professor Matthew Craven Registrar and Secretary Mr Donald Beaton Director of Student and Registry Services Mr David Christmas

SOAS Postgraduate Prospectus 2014 Entry 261 Coming to SOAS Campus Map

EUSTON ST. PANCRAS/ BRITISH KING’S CROSS WARREN LIBRARY STREET EUSTON SQUARE Pentonville Road

Euston Road PAUL

Gray’s Inn Road Inn Gray’s ROBESON UNIVERSITY HUGHES PARRY HALL DINWIDDY HOUSE

Gower Street COLLEGE HOUSE LONDON CANTERBURY HALL

COMMONWEALTH HALL Swinton Street LIDC UNITE Cromer Street HALL OF RESIDENCE SOAS 53 GORDON SQUARE VERNON

Upper Woburn Place SQUARE Marchmont Street Marchmont Tavistock Place GOODGE ULU STREET COLLEGE HALL

BIRKBECK COLLEGE INTERNATIONAL HALL BRUNEI GALLERY RUSSELL Tottenham Court Road Court Tottenham SENATE HOUSE: RUSSELL BUILDING SQUARE NORTH BLOCK SQUARE Guilford Street

Southampton Row

BRITISH MUSEUM

New Oxford Street

TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD

HOLBORN

Key: SOAS Buildings Associated Buildings Halls Of Residence

262 For more information go to www.soas.ac.uk Campus Map / Index Index

Academic Development Chinese Law 188, 192 Finance 32 Directorate 40 Chinese Literature 122 Finance and Development 150 Accommodation 44 Chinese Studies 60 Finance and Financial Law 32, 158 Address 261 Comparative Literature Financial and Management Admissions policy 252 (Africa/Asia) 128 Studies 32, 154 Africa, Languages and Comparative Political Thought 226 Foundation Diploma for Cultures of 84 Contact details 259 Postgraduate Studies 33 African Literature 85 Contemporary Art of Asia Freedom of Expression: African Politics 224 and Africa 106 Statement of Principles 256 African Studies 59 Contemporary Central Asia and Funding 254 African Studies, Centre of 46 The Caucasus, Centre of 47 Gender Studies 160, 162 Agricultural Economics 30 Contemporary Pakistan 74 Global Cinemas and the Transcultural 111 Alumni Network 257 Cost of living 43 Global Creative and Cultural Ancient Near Eastern Critical Media and Cultural Industries 117 Languages 214 Studies 206 Global Diplomacy 30 Anthropological Research Cultural Studies 129 Methods 89 Cultural, Literary and Global Energy and Climate Policy 174 Anthropological Research Postcolonial Studies 125 Methods and Nepali 91 Degree programmes 59 Global Media and Postnational Communication 207 Anthropology and Sociology 87 Degrees by distance learning 30 Globalisation and Development 139 Anthropology of Food 92 Development Economics 147 Globalisation and Multinational Anthropology of Media 93 Development Studies 134, 136 Corporations 173 Anthropology of Travel, Tourism Development Studies with Graduate Entrepreneur Visa and Pilgrimage 97 Special Reference to Scheme 41 Applications 250 Central Asia 137 Halls of residence 44 Applied Environmental Development, Environment Historical Research Methods 167 Economics 30 and Policy 30 History 164, 165 Applied Linguistics and Language Disability Advice 37 Pedagogy (Japanese, Dispute and Conflict Resolution History of Art and Archaeology 100 Korean, Chinese or Tibetan) 201 188, 192 History of Art and/or Arabic Language Teaching 202 Distance learning degrees 30 Archaeology 102 Arabic Literature 215 Economics 145, 148, 152 History of Art and Architecture of the Islamic Middle East 105 Art and Archaeology of English language requirements 251 Human Rights, Conflict and East Asia 104 Entry requirements 251 Justice 188 Arts and Humanities, Faculty of 12 Environment and Development Human Rights Law 193 Arts of Asia and Africa 103 Economics 151 Information Services 34 Arts, School of 99 Environment, Politics and International and Comparative Asian Art 108 Development 138 Commercial Law 188, 193 Asian Politics 225 Environmental Law 188 International and Comparative Environmental Management 30 Associate Student programme 33 Legal Studies 192 Equality and Diversity 255 Awards 254 International Business Banking 32 Ethnomusicology 119 Administration 32 Banking Law 188 Faculties and departments 12 International Economic Law 189 Brunei Gallery, The 36 Faculty and International Foundation Departmental Centres 15 Campus Map 262 Courses and English Faith Provision 38 Language Studies 33 Careers Service 41 Fees 254 International Law 189, 193 China and Inner Asia, Languages and Cultures of 121 Film and History 113 International Management (China) 156 China Institute 47 Film and Screen Studies 110

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International Management Managing Rural Development 31 Research 20 (Japan) 156 Master of Laws (LLM) 186 Research Degrees 54 International Management Master’s Programmes 16 Research fellowships 24 (Middle East and Mature and disabled students 250 Research for International North Africa) 157 Media and the Middle East 211 Development 143, 152 International Politics 228 Media in Development 209 School of Arts 99 International Studies and School of Law 181 Diplomacy 30, 170, 171 Media services 36 Sinology 123 Iranian Studies 62 Media Studies 204 Social Anthropology 95 Islamic Law 189, 193 Medical Anthropology 94 Social Anthropology of Islamic Societies and Cultures 63 Mental Health and Wellbeing 37 Development 96 Islamic Studies 216 Middle East Politics 229 Social life 40 Israeli Studies 64 Migration and Diaspora Studies 94 Societies 39 IT facilities 35 Migration, Mobility and Development 141 South Asia Institute 49 Japan and Korea, Languages South Asia, Languages and and Cultures of 176 Music 115 Cultures of 235, 236 Japan Research Centre 50 Music in Development 120 South Asian Area Studies 75 Japanese Literature 177 Near and Middle East, Languages and Cultures of 213 South Asian Law 190 Japanese Studies 66 Near and Middle Eastern Studies 69 South East Asia, Languages Korean Literature 179 and Cultures of 238 New programmes 55 Korean Studies 68 South East Asian Studies 78 On-campus Diplomas and Korean Studies, Centre of 48 Certificates 54 South East Asian Studies, Labour, Social Movements and Centre of 50 On-campus Master’s Development 140 Programmes 52 State, Society and Language Centre 28 Development 231 Open days 258 Language Centre Diplomas Student Advice and Wellbeing 37 Pacific Asian tudiesS 72 and Certificates 252 Student enterprise 41 Performance 119 Language Documentation and Students’ Union 38 Description 199 PhD Degrees 22 Study of Pakistan, Centre for the 48 Language labs 36 Political Economy of Development 150 Study of Religions 240 Language study 17 Political Studies 233 Support services 37 Languages and Cultures, Sustainable Development 31 Faculty of 13 Politics and International Studies 221 Taiwan Studies 80 Law and Gender 189 Politics of China 230 Taught Master’s Programmes 16 Law and Social Sciences, Faculty of 14 Politics of Conflict, Rights Teaching Chinese 28 and Justice 227 Law, Culture and Society 189, 193 Term dates 258 Politics with [Language] 232 Law degrees 17 Theory and Practice of Postcolonial Studies 132 Translation 200 Law, Development and Globalisation 194 Postgraduate degrees 52 Traditions of Yoga and Meditation 244 Law, Development and Poverty Reduction: Policy and Governance 190 Practise 31 Turkish Studies 218 Law in the Middle East and North Principal Officers 261 Violence, Conflict and Africa 190 Public Financial Management 32 Development 142 Law programmes 190 Public Policy and Management 32 Visiting Research Students 24, 252 Law, School of 181 Regional Centres 46 Welfare and International Student Advice 37 Library 34 Regional studies 16 Working in the UK 43 Linguistics 195, 197 Religion and Global Politics 245 London 42 Religions of Asia and Africa 241 London Middle East Institute 51 Religious Arts of Asia 107

264 For more information go to www.soas.ac.uk This prospectus is a guide for applicants for degree programmes who intend to enter SOAS in 2014, and it has been produced as early as possible for this purpose. Inevitably, the matters covered by the prospectus are subject to change from time to time, although every effort is made to ensure that information is accurate and up-to-date. If applicants require further information or confirmation of any matter, they should contact the Student Recruitment Office. SOAS reserves the right to alter or withdraw any degrees, courses or parts of courses. All offers of admission to pursue a programme of study as a registered student of the School are made by the Director of Student and Registry Services or his officially authorised deputy. No promise or purported offer made otherwise than in accordance with this regulation has any validity. Issued November 2013

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