City University London University City Academic excellence for business and the professions Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Prospectus Postgraduate
www.city.ac.uk Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 www.city.ac.uk Introduction Welcome 3 Why City? Research impact 4 Enterprise and entrepreneurship 8 London location 10 History of excellence 12 Postgraduate study at City Taught postgraduate degrees 14 Research postgraduate degrees 16 Supporting research and education 18 Life at City Campus 20 Sport 22 Learning experience 24 Learning facilities 26 Accommodation 28 International students 30 Life after City Employability 32 Alumni 34 What next? Finance 36 Degrees at City School of Arts & Social Sciences 38 Cass Business School 82 School of Health Sciences 114 The City Law School 148 School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering 164 Information Maps 200 Indices 203
From left: Eloise Turnnidge (Bar Professional Training Course), Vincent Morris (MA Ethnomusicology), Nimisha Sodha (MSc Actuarial Science). Course index City University London’s five Schools offer an outstanding range of inspiring, relevant and challenging taught and research postgraduate courses.
School of Arts & Social Sciences Music Real Estate Culture & Creative Industries Music MA 68 Real Estate MSc 100 Creative Writing (Non-Fiction) MA 41 Ethnomusicology MA 69 Real Estate Investment MSc 101 Creative Writing (Novels) MA 42 Composition MA 70 Shipping & Energy Creative Writing (Playwriting Psychology Energy, Trade & Finance MSc 102 and Screenwriting) MA 43 Behavioural Economics MSc 71 Shipping, Trade & Finance MSc 103 Creative Writing and Publishing MA 44 Counselling Psychology Graduate Certificate 72 Supply chain Culture, Policy and Management MA 45 Professional Doctorate in Counselling Global Supply Chain Management MSc 104 Publishing/International Publishing MA 46 Psychology DPsych 73 Charities courses Audiovisual Translation and Popular Organisational Psychology MSc 74 Charity Accounting & Financial Management Culture MA 47 Clinical, Social and Cognitive MSc 75 Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 105 Economics Research Methods with Psychology MSc 76 Charity Marketing & Fundraising Business Economics/International Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 106 Sociology Business Economics MSc 48 Grantmaking, Philanthropy & Social Criminology and Criminal Justice MSc Development Economics MSc 49 77 Investment Postgraduate Diploma/ Food Policy MSc Postgraduate Certificate/MSc 107 Economic Evaluation in Healthcare MSc 50 78 International Communications NGO Management Economics MSc 51 and Development MA 79 Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 108 Financial Economics MSc 52 Media and Communications MA 80 Voluntary Sector Management Health Economics MSc 53 Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 109 Research Degrees International Politics MBA Research Degrees MPhil/PhD/DPsych 81 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy MA 54 MBA 110 Global Political Economy MA 56 Cass Business School Research Degrees International Politics MA 57 Actuarial Research Degrees Executive PhD 112 International Politics and Human Rights MA 58 Actuarial Management MSc 85 Research Degrees MPhil/PhD 113 Journalism Actuarial Science MSc 86 School of Health Sciences Broadcast Journalism/ Finance Television Journalism MA 59 Graduate entry conversion courses Banking & International Finance MSc 87 Erasmus Mundus: Journalism, Adult Nursing Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 117 Corporate Finance MSc 88 MA 60 Media and Globalisation Child Nursing Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 118 Finance MSc 89 MA 61 Financial Journalism Mental Health Nursing Investment Management MSc 90 Interactive Journalism MA 62 Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 119 International Accounting & Finance MSc 92 International Journalism MA 63 Midwifery (78-week shortened course) Finance & Investment (part-time) MSc 93 Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 120 Investigative Journalism MA 64 Insurance & Risk Management Public Health (School Nursing, Magazine Journalism MA 65 Health Visiting and District Nursing) Insurance & Risk Management MSc 94 Newspaper Journalism MA 6 6 Postgraduate Diploma /MSc 121 Management Science Journalism MA 67 Speech and Language Therapy Management MSc 95 Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 122 Marketing Health Management, Policy, Psychology, Research and Public Health Marketing Strategy & Innovation MSc 96 Clinical Research MRes 123 Quantitative Analysis The entry requirements and course information Health Management MSc 124 listed in this Prospectus are accurate at the time of Mathematical Trading & Finance MSc 97 going to press. However, changes can occur in the Health Policy MSc 125 interval between publication and the academic year Financial Mathematics MSc 98 Health Psychology/Psychology to which this Prospectus relates. Applicants should Quantitative Finance MSc 99 and Health MSc 126 visit www.city.ac.uk for further information, updates or changes to postgraduate courses at City.
City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Professional Doctorate in Health The City Law School Engineering with Management Psychology DPsych 127 Graduate courses Construction Management MSc 179 Health Services Research MSc 128 Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) 151 Project Management, Finance and Risk MSc 180 Public Health MSc 129 Graduate Entry LLB (Hons) 153 Human-Centred Computing Interprofessional courses Professional legal skills courses Human-Centred Systems MSc 181 Advanced Practice in Health Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) 154 Innovation, Creativity and Leadership and Social Care MSc 130 Legal Practice Course (LPC) 155 Innovation, Creativity and Leadership Advanced Practice in Health and Social MSc/MA/MInnov 183 Care (Adult Mental Health) MSc 131 Masters courses Library and Information Science Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care LLM and specialist LLMs 156 (Child and Adolescent Mental Health) MSc2 13 Information Science MSc 184 International Business Law LLM 158 Advanced Practice in Health and Library Science MSc/MA 185 Social Care (Long Term Conditions Legal Practice LLM 160 Maritime Operations and Management and Long Term Care) MSc 133 Maritime Law (Greece) LLM 161 Maritime Operations and Management MSc 186 Language and Communication Science Professional Legal Skills LLM 162 Maritime Operations and Management Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care Research Degrees (Speech, Language and Communication) MSc 134 (Greece) MSc 187 Research Degrees MPhil/PhD 163 Speech, Language and Communication Needs Mechanical and Automotive Engineering in Schools: Advanced Practice MSc 135 Mechanical Engineering MSc 190 School of Mathematics, Midwifery Computer Science & Engineering Technical Computing Advanced Practice in Health and Aviation Management Computer Games Technology MSc 191 Social Care (Midwifery) MSc 136 Air Safety Management MSc 167 Cyber Security MSc 192 Nursing Air Transport Management MSc 168 Data Science MSc 193 Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Advanced Nurse Practitioner: Aircraft Maintenance Management MSc 169 Health Informatics MSc 195 Adult, Child or Neonatal) MSc 137 Biomedical Engineering Management of Information Security and Risk MSc 196 Advanced Practice in Health and Biomedical Engineering with Healthcare Social Care (Advanced Ophthalmic Technology Management MSc 170 Software Engineering MSc 197 Nurse Practitioner) MSc 138 Business Computing Research Degrees Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Nursing) MSc 139 Business Systems Analysis and Design MSc 171 Research Degrees MPhil/PhD 198 Advanced Practice in Health and Information Systems and Technology MSc 172 Social Care (Ophthalmic Nursing) MSc 140 Civil Engineering Optometry Civil Engineering Structures MSc 173 Clinical Optometry MSc 141 Professional Engineering Advanced Practice in Health and (Civil Engineering) MSc 174 Social Care (Clinical Optometry) MSc 142 Decision Sciences Radiography Decision Sciences MSc 176 Medical Ultrasound MSc 143 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Radiography (Computed Tomography, Renewable Energy and Power Medical Magnetic Resonance and Systems Management MSc 177 Radiotherapy) MSc 144 Energy and the Environment Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Radiotherapy) MSc 145 Energy and Environmental Technology and Economics MSc 178 Research Degrees Research Degrees MPhil/PhD 146
www.city.ac.uk From left: Vincent Morris (MA Ethnomusicology), Nimisha Sodha (MSc Actuarial Science), Eloise Turnnidge (Bar Professional Training Course), Maggie Miller (MSc Health Management), Alessio Inama (MSc Decision Sciences).
www.city.ac.uk 1 2 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 choose City? choose Why Welcome students, our community and the world. enterprise to transformthe lives of our a century, education, used research and skillWith and dedication we have, for over University LondonCity is aspecial place. www.city.ac.uk the University. enriching theintellectual culture of research postgraduate degrees and universities) are following taught or (one ofthehighest proportions inUK sixpercentThirty ofourstudents academic stafffrom over 50 countries. from more than150countries and We around attract 19,500 students pound, thananyother UK university. research quality, perFundingCouncil a greaterimprovementinresearch In lessthanthreeyears,wehavemade leading orinternationallyexcellent. are producingresearchthatisworld- that 40percentofourtotal academics Framework (REF2014)resultsshowed The latestResearchExcellence starting salaries. the toptenuniversitiesinUKfor and theprofessions.Weareamong excellence andfocusedonbusiness to bebothcommittedacademic and theonlyuniversityinLondon cent ofuniversitiesintheworld) university (amongthetopfiveper City isnowaleadingglobal
cities, Iinvite you to choose City. of onetheworld’s mostexciting horizons while studying intheheart your academicandprofessional environment inwhich to expand If you are looking foracosmopolitan estate andourinformationsystems. our world-leading academicstaff, significant investment in over280 progress towards ourgoal with in theworld andwe have madegreat the top two percent ofuniversities global university positionedamong We have aVision to bealeading Vice-Chancellor Vice-Chancellor Curran Paul Professor Find out more at www.city.ac.uk.
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Welcome Why City? The City Law School Why City? Research with real-world impact
The December 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF2014) results were exceptionally important for City. In less than three years, we made a greater improvement in research quality, per Funding Council research pound, than any other UK university.
4 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 This leap has taken the Assessing research published University to a position from 2008 to 2013, REF2014 was the successor to the Research where 40 per cent of our Assessment Exercise (RAE), total academics are producing a comprehensive and highly research that is world-leading respected method of assessing or internationally excellent, research quality at British higher education institutions.
up from 20 per cent in 2010. Research impact The implementation of City’s The REF2014 results show a Strategic Plan for 2012-2016 significant improvement in City’s has included appointing 280 research standing. Some 75 per research excellent academics. cent of City’s submission was rated Why City? as being of world-leading 4* or internationally excellent 3* quality. This represents a marked increase compared to the last RAE in 2008, when 51 per cent of research at City was rated as 4* or 3* quality.
The REF2014 gave more weight to the ‘impact’ of research than ever before. A large proportion of research at City seeks to have tangible effects beyond the institution, with the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s focus on impact leading to greater recognition for the University’s output.
Some 20 per cent of the criteria for assessing REF2014 were based on impact, with the submitted Impact Case Studies being assessed for their ‘reach’ and ‘significance’. The two case studies featured here and on the following page give a flavour of the outstanding work that City academics are producing and the wide-ranging impact they are having beyond the University.
To find out more about the impact of our research, visit www.city. ac.uk/research-publication to view our Research Impact publication showcasing a wide range of the As specialists in making sense of vast REF2014-submitted Impact Case quantities of geographic information, Studies that played a key role Professors Jo Wood (left) and Jason Dykes in City’s outstanding results. (right) at the University’s giCentre are skilled purveyors of intelligent, creative and elegant visualizations. Working with Transport for You can also visit the Research London, they created data visualizations section of City’s website: mapping the hundreds of thousands of www.city.ac.uk/research. London Cycle Hire ‘Boris Bike’ journeys.
www.city.ac.uk 5 Why City? An opportunity to change lives Characterised by excellence, creativity, innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration, City’s research pedigree spans more than a century. During that time, the University has made notable contributions, through basic and applied research, to a wide range of fields.
The My Home Life study helps policy-makers at local and national levels gain a better understanding of the issues facing care homes for older people, providing them with a framework for best practice and giving older people more choice and control over their lives. In recognition of her work as the driving force behind My Home Life, City’s Professor Julienne Meyer was awarded a CBE in the 2015 New Year Honours list for her services to nursing and older people.
6 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 By choosing City, you are Crucially, the University’s research Groundbreaking research takes choosing to study at the heart outlook is truly global: to work place within City’s Schools to international levels of research and Departments, in specialist of the action, in a place where excellence and cultivate a network Research Centres and in strategic world-changing research is of international research partnerships. Interdisciplinary Centres. Since taking place and where you Academic staff engage with their 2011, the University has invested in will benefit from working with subjects through high-quality research research-excellent academics whose and enterprise, using the knowledge work has a wider impact on society.
academics who are leaders in Research impact and enthusiasm generated by their their fields. Today, our research research to enrich the education of and enterprise activities are their students. more exciting and diverse than ever and our staff are Why City? passionate about the vital role To find out more about REF2014, that research plays in exploring visit www.city.ac.uk/research/ and disseminating new ideas. ref-2014.
A commitment to quality Proportions of 4* and 3* research at City
+29% The latest Research Excellence Cass Business School Framework (REF2014) results revealed an impressive increase in 19: Business and Management Studies† the proportion of 4* and 3* research +17% taking place across City’s five Schools School of Arts & Social Sciences and 12 subject areas, referred to as 4: Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience† +1% Units of Assessment (UoAs).
Our performance in REF2014 18: Economics and Econometrics demonstrates that City is now a university whose research has both 21: Politics and International Studies +29% strength and breadth. Many of our Schools and Departments are now in the top 20 or 30 in the UK, with Cass 23: Sociology +22% Business School rated sixth for 4* and 3* Business and Management research 35: Music, Drama, Dance and Performing Arts† +12% and seventh overall. 36: Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, The effects of our research are felt Library and Information Management† +27% around the world and this impact is School of Health Sciences a major contributor to City’s excellent REF2014 results. There will be much 3: Allied Health Professions, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy† work ahead to sustain and improve upon REF2014, but we now have School of Mathematics, +55% a platform on which to build our Computer Science & Engineering research strength in the years to come. You can be a part of this story. 10: Mathematical Sciences† +7%
11: Computer Science and Informatics +34%
15: General Engineering +30% The City Law School
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Increase from RAE2008 to REF2014 †REF2014 saw a change in methodology from RAE2008, with the number of UoAs reduced and therefore those UoAs indicated may not be directly comparable.
www.city.ac.uk 7 Why City? An appetite for enterprise The University is located between the City of London and Tech City, Europe’s largest cluster of digital and technology startup companies. Whether your ambition is professional or entrepreneurial, we will encourage and support you every step of the way.
Frank Milani MSc Innovation, Creativity and Leadership
City has given me the support needed to launch Popcord, the first product of our company, Powergoat Ltd. Popcord is an elegant key ring that can be used as a charging cable for smartphones. Through global crowdfunding platform Kickstarter, I was able to raise approximately £50,000 and attract over 2,000 customers in the first two months. With City’s guidance and support, Popcord is capturing the attention of high-end retailers, mobile companies and independent fashion stores. One of my greatest experiences at City came at the CitySpark Marketplace last year, where I was able to show an early prototype of Popcord to potential customers and industry experts. The product won the CitySpark competition and enabled us to move forward with developing the product.
8 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Our unique location enables us Drawing on its heritage as a Find out more to offer wide-ranging support to university established to provide Follow @CityStarters on Twitter, enterprising students, during their visit the CityStarters website at academic excellence to business studies and beyond. and the professions, City is www.citystarters.co.uk or email [email protected]. committed to developing the next The benefits of being on the doorstep of generation of entrepreneurial Tech City include student employability, talent within the student and research relationships and business collaboration. EC1V, the University’s graduate community. postcode, is the top UK postcode for starting a business (UHY Hacker Young research). Over 15,000 new businesses were started in 2013, three times as many as in any other postcode. Startup City Enterprise and entrepreneurship
CityStarters CitySpark Why City? The CityStarters team runs a wide range of extracurricular CitySpark is a “business design and doing” Enterprise Education events, programmes and activities competition where City students can win up to which are free of charge and accessible to all students and £3,000 to develop a new business idea, test it out graduates studying at City, regardless of their course. with potential customers and then make it happen.
www.citystarters.co.uk www.citystarters.co.uk/cityspark
Made@City Cass Entrepreneurship Fund Peter Cullum Centre of Entrepreneurship (PCCE) Made@City is an end-of-year The Cass Entrepreneurship Fund celebration to showcase and reward is a £10 million venture capital The Peter Cullum Centre of final-year student project work from fund, providing growth equity to Entrepreneurship is a focal point within the University demonstrating startup and early-stage companies for budding and established creativity, technology and design from across the Cass Business entrepreneurs across the Cass excellence. The event brings School network. Established with network. It brings together the together students, staff and alumni the generous support of Peter skills, experience and networks from City and members of the local Cullum CBE, one of Cass’s most of successful entrepreneurs, Tech City community. successful alumni and the founder financiers and business leaders of Towergate Insurance, the Fund and offers a range of short www.citystarters.co.uk/made-at-city has financed several high-growth courses and support services to businesses since inception in 2010. entrepreneurs.
City Unrulyversity The Hangout City Unrulyversity is a free pop-up The Hangout is a specially designed incubation space that provides free university in the heart of Tech City desk space and business mentoring support for student and graduate with a mission to inform, inspire entrepreneurs from the University. and empower the next generation of Tech City entrepreneurs. Delivered www.citystarters.co.uk/hangout by leading City academics, City Unrulyversity combines professional relevance with academic rigour, theoretical underpinnings and the latest research. Start-Ed Start-Ed is a free walk-in centre offering assistance for small businesses www.citystarters.co.uk/cityunruly and technology startups. Run by law students of The City Law School and supervised by local legal professionals, the service provides advice on a range of business and legal matters.
www.citystarters.co.uk/legal-advice
www.city.ac.uk 9 Why City? London location, global connections City is located in the heart of London, positioning our students close to the capital’s leading financial, legal, media and medical institutions. Professionally and personally, you will have the opportunity to benefit from all that London has to offer.
10 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 From shops, cafés and But this is only half the story. International partnerships restaurants to museums, Far-reaching connections and galleries and arts venues; from close ties with institutions around The University’s International the world mean City is a truly Office works to support and sports clubs to nightclubs; and international university. strengthen City’s global profile by from cityscapes to green spaces, developing strategic international London is a city for everyone. City’s location in the centre of one links and activities relating to of the most diverse and fast-paced education and research. These Celebrated as a truly global London location cities in the world, combined with strong links allow us to create city, with a diverse cultural mix, its highly international community opportunities for students iconic landmarks and a unique of students and staff, means the to study abroad and take up energy, it is an exuberant and University has developed close international internships and exciting place to live. links with an extensive network enable us to welcome visiting Why City? of global academic partners. academics and speakers.
With our reputation for academic excellence for business and the professions, we also have excellent relationships with international World Cities World Class industries and organisations. These The World Cities World Class ties ensure that our students enjoy (WC2) University Network was exceptional global employment founded by City in 2010 to prospects once they graduate. address cultural, environmental and political issues of common City is one of the most popular interest to world cities and their universities in the UK for universities. The WC2 network international students and has 11 members, including the staff: our students come from City University of New York and over 150 countries, while our the University of São Paulo, academic staff span more than 50 united by their location in the nationalities. This international heart of major world cities, their community makes City a vibrant excellence in research and their and cosmopolitan place for commitment to strategic and postgraduate study. academic links.
To find out more about life as an international postgraduate student at City, turn to page 31 or visit www.city.ac.uk/international- students.
www.city.ac.uk 11 Why City? A history of excellence Whether you want to broaden your employment options, advance in your chosen career or prepare for further study, a postgraduate degree from City will challenge, inspire and open doors.
12 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 City has a strong tradition of City has five academic Schools: the Whether taught or research, a postgraduate education Our School of Arts & Social Sciences, Cass postgraduate degree from City has Business School, the School of Health the potential to transform your close links to business and the Sciences, The City Law School and life. You will develop a specialist professions, which developed the School of Mathematics, Computer understanding of your chosen from our establishment as the Science & Engineering. subject, while honing critical Northampton Institute in 1894, transferable skills and advanced meant that, when the University The Schools offer over 150 taught research techniques. postgraduate courses, in disciplines was created by Royal Charter in that range from Investigative You will study alongside peers 1966, postgraduate students Journalism to Investment Management; who share a passion for your History of excellence already played a central role Automotive Engineering to Adult chosen discipline and academic A history of in the City community. Today, Mental Health; and Library Science staff who are leaders in their fields 36 per cent of our student to Legal Practice. We are the largest of expertise. These colleagues provider of taught postgraduate will form an essential part of your Why City? body is studying for a taught or courses in the disciplines of Journalism professional network during and research postgraduate degree. and Law and the third largest in the after your time at City. discipline of Health Professions (The Guardian Postgraduate Guide 2015). Crucially, a City postgraduate degree will allow you to take the The City Graduate School exists to next step in your career. City’s excellence support and enrich the learning reputation for postgraduate experience of research postgraduate education and research, combined students, providing opportunities with its exceptional career and to share research across disciplines, skills development resources, has receive peer feedback and gain ensured that our graduates are invaluable transferable skills. highly employable in the UK and around the world.
If you are trying to decide whether a taught or research postgraduate degree is right for you, turn to page 14 for more information.
For details of all postgraduate degrees offered at City, see the course index on the inside front cover of this Prospectus.
www.city.ac.uk 13 Postgraduate study at City Postgraduate study at City City offers a wide range of taught and research postgraduate degrees, with every member of our postgraduate community benefiting from outstanding research-focused academic staff, comprehensive student support and tailored careers guidance.
A postgraduate degree, whether Many students choose postgraduate taught or research, will give study as a way of enhancing their employability in a particular you the opportunity to deepen industry or profession, as employers your understanding of your often look for the breadth of skills chosen subject and explore acquired through a postgraduate particular areas of interest, education. If you have already while developing valuable gained employment experience in your chosen field, a postgraduate transferable skills, including degree can be an excellent way to analytical thinking and research accelerate your career development. and presentation techniques. Postgraduate study will expand your skills base and equip you with specialist knowledge relevant to your profession, while working with academic staff who lead the way in research and policy will equip you to address the wider issues that shape debate in your area.
In keeping with City’s close links with business and the professions, many of our postgraduate degrees are offered on a part-time and flexible basis, allowing you to manage your study around employment commitments.
14 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Taught postgraduate degrees postgraduateTaught degrees
City offers over 150 taught postgraduate Course directors work closely with potential employers to ensure the courses, each developed by academic staff relevance of City’s postgraduate who are experts in their fields and who degrees and courses are also possess an in-depth understanding of the shaped by feedback from Postgraduate study at City former and current students. graduate employment marketplace. Many postgraduate degrees are designed to meet particular industry standards, with over 40 per cent of City’s postgraduate taught courses accredited by professional bodies.
A taught postgraduate degree usually involves the study of one or more core modules, combined with several elective modules and a substantial piece of individual work, which may 96% 4(and take the form of a dissertation or Ninety six per cent of City counting) research project. 10 graduates are in work or Taught postgraduate degrees at City Four former allow you to study a subject in depth further study within six British Prime and tailor your module choices to your months of graduating Ministers are area of interest and future plans. You will learn alongside a cohort of peers (Which? University) City alumni who share your interests and you will benefit from lectures, seminars and research supervision from academics who are leaders in their fields. City’s diverse student population includes students from over 150 Most taught postgraduate degrees at City are designed to be completed by countries around the world full-time students over the course of 150 one academic year, or by part-time students (where a part-time option is available) over two years. Thirty six per cent of City students are studying For a full list of taught postgraduate on postgraduate or courses at City, see the course index research programmes on the inside front cover of this 36% Prospectus.
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Postgraduate study at City Research postgraduate degrees
Undertaking a research degree is both challenging and rewarding. At City, you will join a community of research students who share a desire to broaden their skills and push the boundaries of knowledge in their discipline.
Areas of academic activity where City’s research was assessed as being of a quality 75% 12 comparable with Seventy five per cent of City’s the best in the REF 2014 submission was world by the rated as ‘world-leading’ or 2014 Research ‘internationally excellent’ Excellence Framework (REF). 41% Forty one 609 per cent of City students There were a total of 609 research postgraduate students at City during 2013/14 (HESA Student are aged 25 Return 2013/14) and above
16 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Each of City’s Schools benefits Doctoral study, which can lead to a Funding your research degree from a community of research PhD or an alternative research degree such as a professional doctorate, Funding for doctoral study in students and early career generally involves between three the United Kingdom is highly researchers who enrich the and four years (for full-time students) competitive. The City Graduate life of the University while of original research on a specific School (see page 19) can advise on conducting their own research, topic, working under expert scholarships and bursaries from academic supervision. external sources. In addition, working in close collaboration there are funds available for with supervisors and colleagues. For academic and research-based students to present their work both careers, a doctorate is highly desirable nationally and internationally. and is often a requisite. Indeed, in virtually all sectors of employment a The City Graduate School doctoral degree is recognised as the Conference Attendance Fund and pinnacle of academic achievement, City Future Fund Travel Bursaries (funded through donations from
demonstrating in-depth knowledge Research postgraduate degrees of a particular subject and a range alumni, staff, students and friends of key transferable skills, including of the University) offer awards to those relevant to research, enterprise doctoral students at various stages and business. of their research to enable them to regularly present, promote A doctorate gives you the opportunity and publicise their research at to work independently or as part of a conferences, colloquia and symposia. research group, under the supervision of members of academic staff who bring their research expertise to support you. You will need to be organised, disciplined and, above Postgraduate study at City all, fascinated by your field of research. Success at doctoral level requires a significant investment of time and there is strong competition for places and funding. However, the rewards can be significant and life-changing: a doctorate offers you the chance to dedicate yourself to research that inspires you, while contributing to the development of knowledge in your subject.
If you are interested in studying for a research degree at City, visit our website to explore our areas of research expertise and find out whether we can support doctoral research in your area of interest. You can also find out more about research degrees at each of City’s five Schools on pages 38 to 199.
www.city.ac.uk 17 Postgraduate study at City Supporting research and education
City’s commitment to excellence in research and education ensures that there is a wealth of support available for research postgraduate students.
18 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 The City Graduate School and The City Graduate School LEaD also supports exemplary Learning Enhancement and academic practice across the Providing a focus for the University’s University through its continuous Development, in collaboration research degree provision, the professional development provision with academic Schools, Graduate School works in partnership for staff and through two academic Departments and Research with City’s academic Schools and programmes: MA Academic Practice Centres across the University, Professional Services to strengthen and MPhil/PhD Professional the research student community, Education. For more information play a key role in fostering this support the provision of research about these programmes, visit vibrant and dynamic community. skills training and meet the wider www.city.ac.uk/lead. needs of our research student body. In particular, the Graduate School Each year, LEaD organises a provides opportunities for our programme of events relating to research students to: learning and education practice. • interact with other students The annual Learning at City and academic staff across the Conference is a chance for academic University through regular events staff from across the University to and activities; share their expertise in learning and Supporting research and education • gain experience in communicating education. Researcher Development and promoting their work nationally Days, run in collaboration with the and internationally; City Graduate School, are a chance • build networks as part of the for research postgraduate students challenge and excitement of research. and early career academic staff to learn from senior academic staff. The Graduate School can provide There is also an annual research guidance on funding your research symposium for doctoral students degree, whether you plan to apply for to present their work to peers and funding through your School or from academic staff and gain feedback
an external agency or organisation. and experience, helping them to Postgraduate study at City For research students already prepare for conferences. enrolled, the Graduate School has a Conference Attendance Fund, which assists students with the cost of attending conferences to present research. It can also advise on travel bursaries (funded by the City Future Fund) and the City University London Hardship Fund.
Learning Enhancement What next? and Development For a full list of taught All postgraduate students at City benefit from the work of Learning postgraduate courses at Enhancement and Development City, see the course index (LEaD), which supports academic on the inside front cover excellence and the student experience of this Prospectus. through a range of academic and professional development programmes, events and learning technologies You can find out more about available throughout the University. research degrees at each of City’s five Schools on pages 38 to 199. The learning technologies that it supports complement course delivery For more information on funding, and aid communication among turn to page 37. students and staff. For example, Moodle (City’s Virtual Learning To find out more about the MA Environment) allows staff to share Academic Practice and MPhil/PhD learning resources and students to receive prompt assessment and Professional Education, visit feedback. LEaD staff also facilitate www.city.ac.uk/lead. staff and student use of audio-visual, podcasting and video facilities and they are involved in the design of new lecture spaces across the campus.
www.city.ac.uk 19 Life at City The student experience With central London as your campus and excellent support for postgraduate students, there is something for everyone at City.
London is one of the most vibrant cities in the world and City is perfectly located to enable you to enjoy all that it has to offer. The University has a lively social and cultural scene, with clubs and societies, sporting facilities and opportunities for paid employment and volunteering. We also offer comprehensive support to all our students from day one, with staff on hand to provide help with learning, health and well-being, accommodation and careers.
Eating and socialising Students’ Union Volunteering There is a range of places to eat City University London Students’ There are numerous opportunities and meet friends at the University, Union (CULSU) works to improve for volunteering at City. It’s a great including coffee shops and sandwich the experience of City students: way to help others while developing bars, the student refectory and the • It provides independent advice skills for your future career. University’s social venue, CityBar. on academic issues through the During the day, CityBar is a great Union Support Service (USS). Find out more by visiting place to eat or relax between • It organises events and supports http://volunteering.city.ac.uk. lectures. In the evening it becomes student clubs and societies, such a vibrant social space, hosting a as Raising And Giving (RAG) and range of events organised by the student media activities, so that Students’ Union and student clubs you can play a full part in the and societies. City community and make the The Student Centre most of your time here. If you are considering applying to • Elected student officers represent City, have been accepted on one you before the University and of our courses or you are a current Clubs and societies nationally, ensuring that your student, our award-winning The Students’ Union supports voice is heard on key student Student Centre exists to answer social,academic, political, sporting issues and lobbying to make sure your questions. From practical and cultural clubs and societies you have the support you need help with your finances, finding that reflect the diverse interests to excel. somewhere to live and travelling and origins of the City student • It supports University academic around London, to advice about body. From Amnesty to Anime and representation by training and your course, medical support musical theatre to mountaineering, supporting student course and just about anything else, the there is something for everyone. If representatives. Student Centre can help. your interest is not catered for, the Students’ Union can help you to To find out more about CULSU, create a new club or society. visit www.culsu.co.uk.
20 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 are in place. in are appropriate arrangements that to ensure Services Professional and departments academic with liaison including learning, toyour help adjustments for recommendations make can and funding to how on claim advice and support individual offer We difficulties. health mental with those including students, disabled for services of a range provides Service Disability Our arrangements. examination including adjustments, to recommend Services Professional and departments academic with liaison and funding on advice support, one-to-one assessments, diagnostic and screenings offer We dyslexia. as such differences learning specific with students to support team We adedicated have Disability support Disability differencesupport learning and specific Dyslexia www.city.ac.uk sessions are available. are sessions Individual and group counselling depression. and sexuality worries, study loneliness, relationships, as such have, may they problems any to discuss needing students to all available are services counselling Professional and confidential Counselling service part in social events. social in part speak confidentially; and take worship; religions; world about learn purpose; and meaning faith, of questions explore can you Here belief. religious of irrespective staff, and students to all open Team is Advisory Faith and Chaplaincy The (GP) close to your home. (GP) to your close doctor a with register and find you help can and vaccinations MMR and C Meningitis offers It also information. health general and injuries and illnesses minor on advice for clinic drop-in adaily provides It students. to all available service advisory a nurse-led is Service Health Student The Chaplaincy Health andHealth well-being 21
Life at City Campus The City Law School Life at City
Sport at City Take advantage of our new, high-tech sports centre and the wide choice of team and individual sports on offer.
22 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Sport plays an important role CitySport TeamCity at City and whether you want to CitySport, our brand new sports TeamCity staff are friendly and continue with a favourite sport, centre, is the largest student down-to-earth fitness professionals, Sport work out, set new goals, try sports facility in central London. on hand to help you feel at home something new or join a team, Fitted with the latest and most and, most importantly, achieve sophisticated fitness equipment your goals. the University offers a large across 3,000m2 of floor space, and varied range of activities. CitySport provides leading-edge There is an active sporting calendar Life City at sport and well-being facilities for and everyone is welcome to take our students at competitive rates. part. Play tennis or football, join a Zumba class, represent the With 100 stations of gym equipment University in competitive sport or spread over two floors, including build a new fitness programme, the latest consoles with tablet-style whatever you would like to try, screens, internet access and device TeamCity’s experienced personnel connectivity are available at the touch and excellent facilities will help you of a finger. Both gym floors are fitted realise your ambitions. with bespoke training rigs designed to allow an almost limitless choice There are plenty of opportunities to of body weight exercises – a match take part competitively in sport at for any high-end gym in London. For City. Many of the University’s sports those who prefer group exercise, there teams compete in either the British are purpose-built studios for mind and Universities & Colleges Sport (BUCS) body classes, indoor studio cycling, or the London Universities Sport martial arts and student team sports. Leagues (LUSL), playing against teams from other universities on At the heart of the centre is the Saddlers Wednesday afternoons. Sports Hall, an elite, Olympic-standard competition space adapted to Sport TeamCity is keen to support City England standards and able to students in whatever sport they accommodate basketball, badminton, are passionate about. Visit www. five-a-side football, volleyball, cricket, city.ac.uk/sport to find out more netball and other court sports. With about representing City, training bespoke seating for up to 400 spectators sessions, venues, fixtures and our and separate team changing captains’ profiles. rooms, the Hall is a hub for City’s representational sports teams and Individual sports social sport. If you have an interest in a particular sport and you are not part of a team, the Sport and Leisure Service Team can offer support with competition The Take entry, travel costs and coaching benefits of the tour advice. You will need to present any qualifications, competition records membership Check out the leading-edge and relevant UK or international equipment and inspiring rankings, if required. With prices starting at surroundings of CitySport just £22.50 per month Campus physical activity programme by taking the virtual tour. for students, CitySport You’ll discover a refreshing We have a dynamic programme membership grants you of fitness classes and well-being alternative to traditional free access to our fitness activities for all staff and students, gym chains and a great classes and state-of-the-art with plenty of opportunities for you place to compete, keep fit to stay healthy and fit, have fun facilities*. and meet friends. and make new friends. Qualified trainers are available to help you We also offer Pay as you inject new energy into your daily www.citysport.org.uk Go passes, which, like routine and change your lifestyle memberships, are available for the better. to students, staff, alumni To register for CitySport, visit and the public. www.citysport.org.uk.
* Does not include court hire or well-being For more information about sport and dance classes at City and the impressive facilities at CitySport, visit www.city.ac.uk/sport.
www.city.ac.uk 23 Life at City Studying Our aim is to provide an excellent educational environment to help at City you achieve your ambitions.
24 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 We do everything we can to Flexible approaches to learning Work placements and internships ensure you have a rich and We provide an integrated learning There is a growing demand among varied learning experience experience for our students, combining employers for graduates who at City. We deliver high- physical and virtual learning spaces have completed a period of work quality courses, communicate for lectures, seminars, tutorials and experience and many courses at personal study. You will have access City offer students the opportunity effectively and listen to your to a wide range of online materials, to undertake a work placement as views. We are committed to tools and activities, including your part of their degree. Although it is Studying at City treating you in a professional, own personal learning spaces. Many your responsibility to find a suitable courteous and helpful way and courses are structured to facilitate work placement, the Departmental achieving equal opportunities flexible learning. Placement Officer or Industry Placement Advisor in your School Life City at for all our students. Studying abroad will be able to advise you. Many postgraduate students can undertake an international study Methods of assessment or work placement as part of their Assessment methods vary from studies. International exchanges course to course, with most courses and placements can be from three to combining examinations with twelve months’ duration, depending written coursework, projects or group on the academic requirements of your work. The course descriptions in School or Department. this Prospectus and online provide further information on assessment, how marks contribute to final degree classifications and about regular feedback, which supports learning.
Share your views Students have a valuable role to play in developing courses and shaping the learning experience at City, both for themselves and for future cohorts. In addition to listening to feedback, we encourage you to express your views in more formal settings and to complete course surveys, which provide invaluable insights that help us fine-tune and improve the learning experience.
Quality-assured education The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) is responsible for safeguarding the standards of learning in UK higher education and for encouraging continuous improvement. QAA reports consistently recognise the quality and standards of education at City. The majority of our courses are also recognised by relevant professional bodies, providing further endorsement of our educational standards.
www.city.ac.uk 25 Life at City Information at your fingertips As part of our commitment to academic excellence, we recently carried out a multi-million pound refit of our learning spaces, library and IT infrastructure. Many of the changes were informed by our students’ comments and they now enjoy the use of the latest facilities and equipment.
26 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 The recently refurbished main Assistive technology University library occupies five The library provides several types of floors in the Northampton Square support for users with disabilities. building and there are specialist Facilities include software for libraries for students at Cass students with visual impairments, inspiration mind mapping software Business School and The City and voice recognition software. The Law School. You are welcome equipment is available in specialist to use any of our libraries, rooms within the main library at which together contain more Northampton Square. than 280,000 volumes and IT services over 50,000 titles that can be accessed electronically, on and off Cutting-edge technology, 24-hour Life City at Learning facilities IT support via telephone and widely campus. City also boasts excellent available wireless access ensure Information Technology services that City students enjoy excellent throughout the University and the connectivity. The IT Service Centre IT Service Centre provides support is open from 8am to 8pm, Monday to Friday, providing a one-stop source for students.Libr of expert help and advice, whether you are configuring your device to Library facilities connect to the wireless network or Along with books and access to purchasing print credit. Students electronic material, our libraries also benefit from the ability to contain an impressive collection of download Microsoft Office 2013 for software, DVDs, musical scores and free and, upon completion of their CDs. Facilities include 1,400 individual course, they can keep their email study spaces, group study rooms, address for life. equipment to help you prepare presentations and print and Workstations and PC laboratories photocopy facilities. We provide over 1,000 PCs, 200 Apple Macs and 57 Linux workstations, Helping you find what you need located in accessible areas around Our dedicated library staff will help the campus, with 24-hour access for you navigate our extensive collection specific areas. Printers are enabled of information sources so you can for wireless printing, allowing locate, access and evaluate the students to print documents from resources you need. The library at a range of their own wireless Northampton Square is open until devices. There are also specialist midnight on weekdays and until labs available for students in the 10pm at weekends during term time. Departments of Journalism, Music and Computer Science, where specialist iMac video/audio editing and programming applications and resources are provided.
To find out more about our library facilities, visit www.city.ac.uk/library.
For information about technology and IT provision, visit www.city.ac.uk/is.
www.city.ac.uk 27 Life at City A place to live City’s Accommodation team, based in the Student Centre, can help you to find suitable accommodation for the duration of your postgraduate study.
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Life at City Accommodation The City Law School Life at City Welcoming the world
With a diverse student population drawn from over 150 countries, our vibrant, cosmopolitan atmosphere makes City a special place to live and study. We understand that choosing a university and studying overseas is one of the biggest decisions you will make, so we offer all the advice and support you will need during your time here.
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Life at City International students The City Law School Life after City Committed to your career At City, you will find everything you need to plan your career, build your skills and take the next step in your chosen field.
Max Benwell MA Magazine Journalism, graduated 2014, from United Kingdom
I work as a Writer and Commissioning Editor for The Independent’s online comment section, a job that was offered to me after completing work experience a few months earlier. My job is to find the strongest opinions I can on the biggest news events and get people talking. I enjoy working in comment because it’s a very creative type of journalism and never lacks purpose. Before I attended City, I didn’t feel confident about my journalism skills, but the course helped me get over this. This was crucial when I was on work experience, as I was able to do everything and make an impression.
32 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Postgraduate students at City With professionally accredited Industry insight panel events benefit from exceptional support courses and close links with industry, our students enjoy excellent prospects CityCareers regularly hosts and advice when it comes to of finding work when they leave panel events, giving students the finding a job after university. City. Our reputation for producing opportunity to investigate the From applying for jobs and highly employable graduates is well career options available to them. established. Ninety six per cent of Each event consists of a series of attending interviews, to gaining talks followed by a networking Employability experience in your chosen field, City graduates are in work or further study within six months of graduating reception with employers and our CityCareers service can (Which? University) and we are among recent graduates, often featuring help from the first day of your the top 10 universities in the UK for City alumni. postgraduate studies. graduate starting salaries. Student volunteering Life after City Specialist careers advice Improve your employment The friendly and helpful staff at chances by developing new skills CityCareers are on hand to help you through volunteering. Recent evaluate your life and career goals volunteers have worked with a and plan the steps you need to take broad range of organisations, to achieve your aims. Discuss your both on and off campus. Once plans at one-to-one appointments you have completed a placement, and discover our extensive careers we will help you articulate your resources, which include computer- newly found skills through your aided guidance packages and cv and during interviews. aptitude testing systems.
Careers workshops and presentations Find out about potential employers’ recruitment arrangements and polish your job search techniques. Major employers visit City regularly throughout the year to give presentations, attend careers fairs and run skills sessions, while careers consultants and employers frequently hold workshops on subjects such as successful interviews and presentation skills.
Graduate, internship and placement opportunities With City CareersHub, our specialist online service, you can discover internship opportunities available during your studies and line up graduate opportunities for life after City. All City students and graduates are registered on the site, along with more than 5,000 employers such as the BBC, Bloomberg, Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Macfarlanes LLP, PwC, Santander and The Times.
To find out more about how the Careers, Student Development & Outreach service and CityCareers can help you, visit www.city.ac.uk/careers.
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Join a global community Your time with City does not end with graduation. City’s Alumni Network provides opportunities to stay in touch with friends and colleagues around the world, build professional contacts and support future generations of students.
Charlotte Proudman (Bar Professional Training Course, 2010) is a human rights lawyer who has worked in Pakistan, the Middle East and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
34 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2015/162016/17 Attracting students and staff from more than 150 countries has enabled us to build a dynamic international community Alumni of alumni – former students who continue to be involved with City and who are willing to give their time, share their knowledge and Life after City support our students.
With their help, you can gain a taste of the workplace, a greater understanding of how an industry works and take advantage of opportunities to build your own professional network. Once you graduate, you will join City’s impressive global alumni community, alongside individuals including Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, Director of easyGroup PLC, Professor Dame Wendy Hall, one of the most influential women in UK IT and Richard Klein, Director of Factual at ITV.
Insight into Industry scheme This scheme offers proactive students the opportunity to meet and shadow professionals working in the profession or industry they are hoping to enter.
Industry Insight panels Alumni and other professional contributors visit the University and give short talks to groups of students about their career paths.
Professional mentoring This scheme matches enthusiastic postgraduate students with professionals who can provide tailored advice and support to help them develop the skills and confidence to compete in the employment marketplace. In 2014/15, over 400 relationships between City students and mentors were established. Find out more at www.city.ac.uk/mentoring.
Ask Alumni Ask Alumni is an online mentoring tool which enables alumni around the world to share their experiences of breaking into a particular industry or profession, or suggest ways a student can develop his or her career. Each of To find out more about the benefits our alumni mentors has an entry in of being a City alumnus and how an online database, which includes City’s Alumni Network can help you searchable information on their while you are a student, visit education at City and subsequent www.city.ac.uk/alumni. career experience.
www.city.ac.uk 35 What next? Funding your studies Postgraduate study at City is an affordable option for students from a wide range of backgrounds. Although you will usually have to pay for postgraduate study yourself, many sources of funding exist, including scholarships, studentships and professional and career development loans.
36 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 During your time at City, you US loans can get financial advice and City participates in the William D support from our award-winning Ford Federal Direct Loan Program
Student Centre. (Direct Loans), which can provide Finance funding to cover the tuition fees Postgraduate scholarships and living expenses of students from the United States, subject to City has a wide range of scholarship approval by the Student Centre. For opportunities available for students information, visit www.city.ac.uk/ What next? in all five of its Schools. Visit study/postgraduate/funding the University website for more -and-financial-support. information. www.city.ac.uk. Disabled Students’ Allowances (DSAs) Research Council studentships DSAs are available to UK students Research Councils may be able to who are studying a course provide financial assistance for that lasts for at least one year UK, EU and overseas postgraduate and leads to a Masters degree, students. It is best to contact the Doctorate, Postgraduate Diploma or Council relevant to your area of study Postgraduate Certificate and who directly to enquire about eligibility incur additional study-related costs and application. as a direct result of a disability, mental health condition or specific NHS-funded courses learning difficulty. If you are studying Nursing or Speech and Language Therapy, then fees for To find out more about DSAs, please UK and EU students will normally call +44 (0) 800 731 9133 or visit be paid by the NHS and you can www.direct.gov.uk/studentfinance, apply for an NHS Bursary. For more where you can download a copy information, visit of Bridging the Gap: A Guide to the www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/students. Disabled Students’ Allowances (DSAs) in Higher Education. Charities and trusts Professional and career There may be funding for development loans postgraduate study available from charities and trusts. The British City is registered with the Professional Council has a scholarship search Career and Development Loan database that you might find useful. Register to provide loans for Visit www.educationuk.org or tuition fees and living costs for UK www.britishcouncil.org. postgraduates. For more information, visit www.direct.gov.uk/pcdl. International students Hardship fund The UK Council for International Student Affairs (UKCISA) provides The City University London Hardship information and advice for Fund provides discretionary financial international students planning to assistance for students experiencing study in the UK. Visit www.ukcisa. unexpected financial hardship to help org.uk for more information. them remain in higher education. The fund is intended to act as a safety net for those in financial difficulty, rather than a main source of income. It is administered by the Student Centre.
For more information, visit www.city.ac.uk/study/ postgraduate/funding-and- financial-support.
www.city.ac.uk 37 School of Arts & Social Sciences
Professor Petros Iosifidis Professor in Media and Communications Policy, Head of the Centre for International Communications & Society
In his research, Professor Petros Iosifidis explores the social, political and economic aspects of the media industry. He has published research into topics including broadcasting policy and Evdokia Gerasimou Linda Gresseth regulation in Europe and around the world; the MA Media and Communications, from Greece MA Media and Communications, from Norway impact of technological convergence on regulatory frameworks; digital television and digital exclusion; As an international student, I feel I have benefited My career aspiration is to work within corporate television and sport; and media governance a lot from studying in London; it is a diverse and communications. I feel it is important to treat and social networks. As Head of the Centre for vibrant city and the multicultural environment has your time at university as an investment in your International Communications & Society at City, helped me to develop personally. I have made future and I’ve found that City shares that ethos: Professor Iosifidis leads colleagues in national, some great friends at City and gained many skills academic staff inspire me to work hard and there comparative and multi-disciplinary research into to help me on my career path: once I graduate, are lots of opportunities for building skills beyond sociology and media; media policy and regulation; I hope to work in social media or advertising. the taught modules. and media and internationalisation.
38 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 The School’s strengths in research The School of Arts & Social Sciences has a and education lie in the following world class reputation for dynamic, inspiring disciplines: Cultural and Creative Industries (including creative and rigorous postgraduate education. Academic writing, translation, cultural policy and management and publishing); staff at the School are highly regarded in their Economics; International Politics; fields and the research they undertake regularly Journalism; Music; Psychology; and Sociology. Over 1,000 postgraduate informs academic debate and political policy at students from around the world join the School each year, creating a lively a national, regional and international level. and stimulating environment for studying and socialising. Students
undertaking both taught and School of Arts & Social Sciences research postgraduate degrees play a key role in the life of the School, through their participation in seminar series, their research activities, their contribution tostudent media and their involvement in student politics and representation.
Courses at the School of Arts & Social Sciences are renowned for their professional relevance. Academic staff enjoy close links with industry and the professions, which means that when designing and updating courses, they ensure that the needs of graduating students and their potential employers are met. These close links and City’s location in central London ensure that students benefit from regular lectures, seminars and networking opportunities led by prominent speakers and visiting lecturers. The School’s vibrant alumni network, which postgraduate students automatically join upon graduation, has among its members leading figures in the worlds of journalism, culture and creative practice and the social sciences.
City’s location, its outstanding academic staff and the professional orientation of its postgraduate degrees mean that graduates of the Ms Ana Gaio School of Arts & Social Sciences are Senior Lecturer in Culture successful in securing employment and Creative Industries once they graduate from City. Many Ms Ana Gaio’s current research is concerned with of our graduates also move on to the formation of public policy (specifically, cultural doctoral-level study, both within policy) in the European Union. She has also Sukchang Lee the School and at other leading undertaken research into the management of MA Culture, Policy and Management, institutions around the world. creative and cultural organisations, with a particular from South Korea focus on organisational performance and evaluation. Ms Gaio has extensive experience in the cultural The modules I’ve taken as part of my MA are sector, acting as a consultant and researcher for excellent preparation for my future career. I national and international cultural organisations and have developed skills in marketing, fundraising institutions such as Arts & Business. She was part of and managing cultural organisations. City is a the team which researched and wrote the Creative very socially diverse university; it is a fantastic Industries Mapping Document for the UK Department place to learn about cultural politics. I feel that Professor Iosifidis, Ms Gaio and students from the for Culture, Media & Sport. my time at City will help to secure my future job. School of Arts & Social Sciences are in the recently refurbished Social Sciences Building, next to the University’s main Northampton Square campus.
www.city.ac.uk 39 Course listing Psychology Culture & Creative Industries Behavioural Economics MSc 71 Creative Writing (Non-Fiction) MA 41 Counselling Psychology Graduate Certificate 72 Creative Writing (Novels) MA 42 Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology Creative Writing (Playwriting and Screenwriting) MA 43 DPsych 73 Creative Writing and Publishing MA 44 Organisational Psychology MSc 74 Culture, Policy and Management MA 45 Clinical, Social and Cognitive Neuroscience MSc 75 Publishing/International Publishing MA 46 Research Methods with Psychology MSc 76 Audiovisual Translation and Popular Culture MA7 4 Sociology Economics Criminology and Criminal Justice MSc 77 Business Economics/International Business Food Policy MSc 78 Economics MSc 48 International Communications and Development Economics MSc 49 Development MA 79 Economic Evaluation in Healthcare MSc 50 Media and Communications MA 80 Economics MSc 51 Research Degrees Financial Economics MSc 52 Research Degrees MPhil/PhD/DPsych 81 Health Economics MSc 53 International Politics Diplomacy and Foreign Policy MA 54 Global Political Economy MA 56 International Politics MA 57 International Politics and Human Rights MA 58 Journalism Broadcast Journalism/Television Journalism MA 59 Erasmus Mundus MA: Journalism, Media and Globalisation MA 60 Financial Journalism MA 61 Interactive Journalism MA 62 International Journalism MA 63 Investigative Journalism MA 64 Magazine Journalism MA 65 Newspaper Journalism MA 66 Science Journalism MA 67 Music Music MA 68 Ethnomusicology MA 69 Composition MA 70
40 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Culture & Creative Industries Creative Writing (Non-Fiction) MA The MA in Creative Writing (Non-Fiction) was the first course of its kind in the UK and it exploits the flourishing narrative non-fiction publishing market.
Duration This highly focused, practical writing The course ethos is excellence course appeals to journalists, and diversity, with domestic and Full-time: two years (evenings). academics, subject experts, those international students of different Entry requirements wanting to write a memoir or family ages, experiences and backgrounds history and others wishing to explore and a definition of narrative non- Applicants should hold an honours this form of narrative non-fiction. fiction that includes biography, travel, degree in any subject or the equivalent history, life writing, true crime, sports from an international institution. The course encourages students and other forms of sustained and Applicants are required to submit to be ambitious and imaginative. structured non-fiction storytelling. 5,000 words of non-fiction and may The unifying factor for all writers be required to attend an interview accepted onto the course is their Modules include: School of Arts & Social Sciences Culture & Creative Industries as part of the application process intention to deliver information • Complete book (international applicants may be through a narrative structure. • Literary criticism interviewed by telephone). • The fundamentals of non-fiction Students graduate having completed English language requirements • The process of writing a full-length non-fiction book, rather IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum than a dissertation or other academic • Storytelling. of 7.0 in the writing component. piece of work. Our students benefit from a close proximity to London’s Career opportunities authors, publishers and agents, Alumni of the MA in Creative Writing research libraries, archives and major (Non-Fiction) have gone on to win media organisations. prizes and have work published. Some examples include: The course has a strong track record • Peter Moore’s second book, The of publication with an average of Weather Experiment, is published two students winning publishing by Chatto and Windus and has been contracts per year. Book of the Week on BBC Radio Four • Gary Boustead’s memoir about Course content the South African war in Angola, The course focuses on writing and Zero One: Secret Operations over research skills including identifying Angolan Airspace, is published by a subject, using archives, exploring Zebra Books genres and structuring material. • Anne H Putnam’s Navel Gazing, Students also learn how to prepare a witty reflection on her gastric a manuscript for publishers and bypass surgery, was published agents. It offers a taught component, by Faber in 2012. one-to-one-tutoring, workshops and opportunities to hear guest speakers. The course advisors, comprising leading authors, provide students with expert advice and direct exposure to the publishing industry.
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www.city.ac.uk 41 Culture & Creative Industries Creative Writing (Novels) MA This course is designed to provide a supportive, thought-provoking and challenging environment for novelists who want to finish a complete novel.
Duration This popular course (which receives Modules include: over six applications for every place) • Experiments in style Full-time: two years (evenings). allows novelists to develop their • Fundamentals of fiction Entry requirements skills, experiment with approaches • Reading as a writer to writing, reflect on their own work Applicants should hold an honours • Storytelling and that of other writers, learn about degree in any subject or the equivalent the industry and most importantly, • Complete novel. from an international institution. The complete a polished novel ready to prime criteria are proven writing ability send to publishers and agents. Career opportunities and a commitment to devoting two Alumni of the MA in Creative Writing years to completing a novel. At the core of the course is the (Novels) have gone on to publish Applicants are required to submit up experience of established writers their work. Some examples include: to 5,000 words of fiction (short story and it is designed for writers with • The Outer Lands by Hannah Kohler or novel excerpt) and will be required some experience who now feel driven (Picador and St Martin’s) to attend an interview as part of the to go on and complete their novel. • Shtum by Jem Lester application process (international (Orion) applicants will be interviewed by This MA has two pathways: Literary • The Dark Inside by Rod Reynolds telephone). Novels or Crime Thriller Novels. (Faber) English language requirements Although identical in structure, the • Stasi Child by David Young two pathways are taught separately IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum (Bonnier) and so applicants must state which of 7.0 in the writing component. • In Between Dreams by Iman Verjee pathway they are applying for in (OneWorld) their application. All workshops and lectures on this MA take place • The Defections by Hannah Michell during evening hours; tutorials are (Quercus) fixed at times convenient to the • She Rises by Kate Worsley student and the tutor. (Bloomsbury) • The Last Telegram by Liz Trenow Course content (Avon at Harper Collins). This course focuses either on the Literary Novel or the Crime Thriller Novel (students are enrolled into one or other pathway). Within the field of Literary, there are many possible styles, approaches and forms; within Crime, everything from the police procedural to the combat thriller and from the psychological to the cyber thriller is addressed.
Our ethos is excellence and diversity, with an emphasis on recruiting students of different ages and from a wide range of backgrounds. This approach to the MA starts with workshops and seminars and then Find out more leads to the completion of a full-length literary or crime thriller novel. [email protected] +44 (0)20 7040 8753
42 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Culture & Creative Industries Creative Writing (Playwriting and Screenwriting) MA Creatively stimulating, challenging and professionally oriented, this innovative MA provides a supportive and thought-provoking environment for playwrights and screenwriters to develop their craft.
Duration City’s central London location places us Accreditation right in the heart of one of the world’s The MA in Creative Writing Full-time: two years (evenings). most vibrant cities, just minutes away (Playwriting and Screenwriting) is Entry requirements from some of its most exciting theatres. accredited by Skillset, the industry Applicants should hold an honours body for the Creative Industries. The course is Skillset accredited degree in any subject or the equivalent andled by professional working from an international institution. Career opportunities writers. Students write drama for Successful completion of a certificate Graduates of the course have film, television and theatre, thereby course in creative writing, professional had plays performed, scripts increasing their employability qualifications or relevant experience, commissioned and film and School of Arts & Social Sciences Culture & Creative Industries following graduation. such as acting or directing, may also television scripts produced. Some be acceptable. The prime criteria are work in script development and in the proven ability and commitment to Course content film, TV or theatre industries. Some completing a play or screenplay. In the first year, students participate have formed theatre and production in twice-weekly workshops led Applicants are required to submit a companies. Some have moved into by practising screenwriters and writing sample which is a 20 page associated areas such as working for playwrights. These are designed play, screenplay or radio play extract literary agencies or drama teaching. to extend understanding of specific and attend an interview as part of forms and foster awareness of the application process (international creative possibilities. applicants may be interviewed by telephone). In the second year, students develop a English language requirements full-length play, screenplay or pilot IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum for an original television series. of 7.0 in the writing component. In addition, students participate in workshops led by practising screenwriters and playwrights and have the opportunity to work with actors and to experience a professional script development process.
Each year we welcome leading writers in the worlds of film, television and theatre as guest speakers. Our visiting lecturers also have extensive experience developing plays and screenplays in the drama industries and there is a showcase of work at the end of the course to which industry professionals are invited.
Modules include: • Dramatic writing • Own play or screenplay Other courses you may like • Storytelling Find out more MA Creative Writing (Novels) • The production business [email protected] MA Creative Writing (Non-Fiction) • Writing workshop. +44 (0)20 7040 8753
www.city.ac.uk 43 Culture & Creative Industries Creative Writing and Publishing MA
This joint award builds on City’s longstanding expertise in creative writing and publishing. The course can be taken as a one year full-time or two-year part-time taught Masters programme and shares modules with our MA courses in Publishing and Creative Writing.
Duration This course is designed for students Modules include: with experience of writing or Term one Full-time: one year. working in publishing (or a related Core modules include: Part-time: two years. field) who would like to develop • Creating and managing their skills further. intellectual property Entry requirements • Digitisation and publishing. Applicants should hold an upper The MA in Creative Writing and second class honours degree or the Publishing enables students to move The following core modules equivalent from an international into professional roles that match their begin in term one and extend institution. interests and draw upon their talents. into term two: All candidates are required to submit a • Storytelling creative writing sample of up to 5,000 This course appeals to both • Creative writing workshop. words with their application. experienced and aspiring writers who wish to gain the knowledge and skills English language requirements Term two relevant to professional practice in Students choose from elective IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum of 7.0 commercial settings which produce modules which include: in the writing component. creative content for both print and • Professional placement digital formats. • Developing creative content Course content • Designing interactive media. Students on this course acquire Students also complete a major knowledge and understanding project, which can focus on creative through a combination of formal writing, a publishing project or an lectures, writing workshops, analytical study of an aspect of individual tutorials, group project professional publishing practice. work, seminar contributions, study Students also submit a portion visits, work attachments, project of their writing in progress to an work and independent learning and anthology which is published in research. Several strategies are used the summer term. to encourage students to reflect on professional practice and professional Career opportunities frameworks during their applied work. Aspiring writers on the course enjoy exposure to agents, editors and others within both traditional and electronic publishing. We have a growing reputation for fostering professional writers and several of our recent graduate students have gone on to win publishing contracts.
Other courses you may like MA Creative Writing (Non-Fiction) MA Creative Writing (Novels) Find out more MA Creative Writing (Playwriting & Screenwriting) [email protected] MA Publishing/International Publishing +44 (0)20 7040 8753
44 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Culture & Creative Industries Culture, Policy and Management MA
The MA in Culture, Policy and Management is for individuals who are keen to inform policy and practice in the arts, heritage and creative industries. This course was the first of its kind to be offered in the UK. Culture & Creative Industries
Duration The MA has been developed in Modules include: close consultation with key cultural • Culture Full-time: one year. institutions and professionals to shape • Management Part-time: two years. a curriculum that is informed by • Cultural policy research and responds to the demands Entry requirements • Research of the sector. It allows students to Applicants should hold a lower second negotiate a course of study to support • Digital cultures class honours degree or the equivalent their specific career aspirations. • Audiences and marketing from an international institution and • Global creative industries have an understanding of the cultural Our tutors include academics and and social responsibility sector, relevant government policies or eminent professional associates • Placement. School of Arts & Social Sciences cultural organisations. who have many years of experience Applicants with relevant employment in the sector: together they give Career opportunities experience are particularly welcomed. participants access to the latest ideas Graduates of the MA in Culture, and developments and provide links English language requirements Policy and Management find with the sector. employment across all sub-sectors IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum and occupational areas of the of 7.0 in the writing component and Course content creative and cultural sector (UK and 6.5 in other categories. Students can focus on their area of international), from orchestras to interest in coursework and research, the art market; from film to event whether this be cultural policy, management, museums, fashion fundraising or management in the or consultancy; and from marketing context of the creative and cultural to policy, management, outreach/ sector in general or a specific art/ education, production or fundraising. cultural form such as performing arts, film, fashion, digital art or heritage. Over 80 per cent of our 2012/13 graduates were in employment The course is well known for its or further study six months after integration of both theoretical and completing the course. Graduates practical elements. Students take have moved into employment three core modules and then choose with organisations that include from a rich selection of elective Barbican Centre (London), UNESCO modules. One of the electives (Paris), Ullens Contemporary Art provides experiential, work-based Centre (Beijing), Royal Opera House learning and offers the opportunity to (London), Dongdaemun Design Plaza do a placement in a creative/cultural (South Korea), National Art Gallery institution. The dissertation allows ‘Astana’ (Kazakhstan), Culture students to carry out a small-scale Ministry (Turkey), Qatar Museums research project. Authority (Qatar), Christian Dior (Paris), Arts Streaming TV (London) The curriculum is supported by an and Arts Council of Singapore. advisory group that includes senior figures from Arts Council England, the Barbican, the Independent Theatre Council, the Museums Association, Shakespeare’s Globe Find out more and the Victoria and Albert Museum. [email protected] +44 (0)20 7040 8753
www.city.ac.uk 45 Culture & Creative Industries Publishing/International Publishing MA
Students on the MA in Publishing/International Publishing benefit from our location on the doorstep of the world capital of publishing, which provides unrivalled access to the industry, both during and after the course.
Duration These MAs enable students to encouraged to develop a final major enhance their career prospects project that furthers their career goals. Full-time: one year. in the highly competitive world Part-time: two years. of publishing, while gaining a Core modules include: top-quality analytical MA in the • Business and marketing Entry requirements heart of London. in publishing Applicants should hold an upper • Creating and managing second class honours degree or the The MAs in Publishing/International intellectual property equivalent from an international Publishing provide the highest • Digitisation and publishing institution and be able to demonstrate standards of professional education: • Publishing history and culture evidence of research into current this is reflected in the prizes our industry conditions or a commitment students have won, the industry • International publishing case to a career in publishing. placements they secure and the studies (for MA International Publishing) English language requirements participation of industry practitioners in MA projects and dissertations. • Major project. IELTS: 7.0. Course content Elective modules include: • Professional placement City’s Publishing MAs cover all types of publishing, from trade and • Developing creative content specialist publications to novels and • Managing the publishing non-fiction. Students complete core value chain modules in term one, with options • Designing interactive media in term two including commercial • Digital cultures and creative publishing projects, an • Libraries and publishing interactive media module, a libraries in an information society. and publishing module and a digital culture option. The MAs provide a Career opportunities thorough grounding in the drivers of commercial success for print and Graduates of this course have digital media, with a focus on the moved into editorial, marketing, evolving implications of digital content production, digital, rights and and e-delivery. Students are taught sales positions in companies both by expert scholars with up-to-date including Faber & Faber, Hachette, industry knowledge and publishing HarperCollins, Macmillan, practitioners, who together support Oxford University Press, Pearson students to develop confidence and Education, Random House, Sage, skills in the critical analysis of current Waterstones and The Wylie Agency. global publishing conditions.
Work placements and industry- focused projects are an integral part of publishing at City, providing students with experience, contacts and enhanced publishing skills. MA Publishers are encouraged to complete a 15-credit professional Find out more placement option and many of the MA Internationals’ case studies are based [email protected] on live projects. All students are also +44 (0)20 7040 8284
46 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Culture & Creative Industries Audiovisual Translation and Popular Culture MA This unique course is the only degree which offers students the opportunity to specialise as a translation expert in audiovisual translation and in the translation of popular culture.
Duration The course aims to give students The course offers a unique range a secure foundation in theoretical of modules which provide a Full-time: one year. strategies underpinning and supporting comprehensive set of knowledge Part-time: two years. the practice of translation, working and skills in audiovisual translation, with a wide range of source texts from popular literary translation, Entry requirements different popular genres and media. professional skills and publishing. Applicants should hold an upper It develops awareness of professional second class honours degree or the standards, norms and translational Core modules include: equivalent from an international ethics while helping students establish • Applied translation theory institution in a relevant subject such a professional identity in relation to • Translating children’s fiction School of Arts & Social Sciences Culture & Creative Industries as translation, linguistics, literary the role of translation in the publishing • Subtitling studies (philology), english studies, process. The Audiovisual Translation • Translating crime fiction modern foreign languages, film and Popular Culture MA is one of the studies, media studies, theatre & most popular audiovisual translation • Translating science fiction drama or related. courses in the UK and suitable for and fantasy. Extensive relevant professional anyone wishing to have a career as an audiovisual translator. Elective modules include: experience may be acceptable, • Dubbing and voice over where candidates can demonstrate graduate-level skills. They should This MA is available in a wide range of • Translating multimodal texts also be able to demonstrate languages in combination with English (comics, manga, graphic novels) linguistic competence at a level (as a native or foreign language) • Screenplay translation equivalent to either a first degree or including Arabic, Chinese, French, • Translation project management minimum IELTS 7.0 (reading, writing German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, • Setting up as a literary translator and listening components) in their Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. • International publishing chosen foreign language. Please contact the course office for information about other languages. • Creating and managing English language requirements intellectual property. IELTS: 7.0 in the reading, writing and Course content Career opportunities listening components and a minimum The MA in Audiovisual Translation of 6.5 in the speaking component. and Popular Culture provides students This MA is designed to make with training in audiovisual translation students fit for the market as highly techniques (using industry-standard qualified translation experts. Career software) and an understanding of options cover a wide range of jobs the different conventions and styles in the translation industry. associated with popular culture in Naomi Colmer Recent graduate destinations Graduated 2012, from the United Kingdom its varied forms and genres: how they are shaped historically and include: The MA in Audiovisual Translation and Popular culturally and the impact this has • Video game translation: Sega, Culture at City is the perfect combination of theory Testronics Labs and practice. It sharpened my awareness of the on translation strategies. problems the translator can face and I now feel • Dubbing/subtitling: VSI, Deluxe equipped to make informed decisions. Seminars Students take five core modules • Translator: World Health were excellent and animated, while invited literary Organisation, Translate Plus. translators grounded the theory in solid practical which combine theory with advice and discussions. A year very well spent! translation practice, before preparing a 15,000-word dissertation which Don Bartlett can be a discussion on an aspect of Translator of bestselling crime author Jo Nesbo popular culture in popular literary Find out more translation/audiovisual translation This is a unique course and much needed. [email protected] or an extended translation with reflective commentary. +44 (0)20 7040 8266
www.city.ac.uk 47 Economics Business Economics/ International Business Economics MSc The globalisation of the world economy and increasing competition among businesses has created a need for highly skilled economists able to work in complex business environments.
Duration The standard tools of economic All students must complete either analysis are no longer sufficient an economics literature survey Full-time: one year. forcorporate executives, for or an economics dissertation. Entry requirements whom applied strategic business Students who choose to complete and financial techniques are the literature survey must take four Applicants should have some becoming essential. elective modules; students who mathematical background (A Level, choose the dissertation must take IB, AP or any other equivalent These courses are designed to meet three elective modules. secondary school qualification) the high demand for economics and an upper second class honours postgraduates who have the ability degree or the equivalent from an Career opportunities to apply economic analysis and international institution in either: There are excellent employment quantitative skills to economic and economics or related discipline (e.g. opportunities for economists business policy issues. They build finance); business, management, in economic and management upon knowledge and skills acquired politics, law, accounting, psychology, consultancies, multinationals, at undergraduate level and apply quantitative sociology or financial government agencies and in the them to real-world economic and journalism; or a quantitative business and finance sectors, business problems. discipline (such as mathematics, particularly in the City of London. engineering, computer science or a natural science). Course content Students have the opportunity to Students with a good lower second extend their previous education by class honours degree in one of focusing on business and economic the above disciplines might be policy issues. There is a high demand considered on a case-by-case basis. for economics postgraduates who, English language requirements by developing specialised skills on IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum this course, have the ability to apply of 6.0 in each category. economic analysis and quantitative skills to business and economic policy issues.
Core modules include: • Business economics • Either quantitative methods or econometrics • Financial markets • Research methods training • Dissertation or literature survey.
Elective modules include: • Competition and regulation • Corporate finance • E-commerce • Econometric time series • Economics and business strategy • International business economics. Find out more [email protected] +44 (0)20 7040 0157
48 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Economics Development Economics MSc
This Masters course is designed to bridge the gap between economics and development, providing comprehensive education in quantitative and policy analysis in development economics.
Duration This Masters course is designed to Elective modules offered by the
bridge the gap between economics Department of International School of Arts & Social Sciences Economics Full-time: one year. and development, providing a strong Politics include: Part-time: two years. education in quantitative and policy • Development and analysis in development economics. international politics Entry requirements • Global political economy Applicants should hold an upper It provides students with an • Political economy of second class honours degree or the understanding of the key issues global finance equivalent from an international in economic development with • The politics of forced institution in economics or in a rigorous economic theory and displacement and resettlement. quantitative discipline with either statistical tools to be able to analyse some economics component or policies and assess their impact on In addition, students must supplemented by economics-related economic and human development. work experience. complete either a dissertation or an economics literature survey. Knowledge of basic statistics, calculus Course content Students who choose to complete and probability theory is required. This course is unique in the link it the literature survey must take English language requirements establishes between the main fields four elective modules. Students of economics and their application who choose the dissertation IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum to development issues. of 6.0 in each category. must take two elective modules. The course draws upon the Career opportunities Department’s expertise in the areas This course provides students with of economic theory (both micro- and the skills to work in consulting macro-economics), econometrics, firms specialising in development, development economics, health governmental bodies such as economics, regulatory economics the Department for International and financial economics. Development (DFID) or in major international financial and Core modules include: development institutions. • Development economics • Economics of microfinance The MSc also provides a solid • Microeconomics academic foundation for students • Econometrics/quantitative wishing to pursue doctoral research methods. in economics.
Elective modules offered by the Department of Economics include: • International money and finance • Economics of regulation and competition • Experimental economics and game theory • Macroeconomics • Welfare economics Other courses you may like • Health economics. Find out more MSc Economics [email protected] MSc Health Economics +44 (0)20 7040 0157
www.city.ac.uk 49 Economics Economic Evaluation in Healthcare MSc
Economic issues in healthcare are universally recognised as being critically important. This course is designed to meet the demand for quantitative and analytical skills in the healthcare sector.
Duration The growth of both the public and Students take modules during 10 private healthcare sectors in recent weeks of the first term and 10 weeks Full-time: one year. years means that there is a large of the second term. The dissertation Part-time: two years. and growing demand for health is written over the three months of economics expertise. summer (full-time students) or over Entry requirements six months for part-time students. Applicants should hold an honours Moreover, understanding the degree or the equivalent from an resource issues and the ways in which Career opportunities international institution in social economics can help to analyse them The MSc in Economic Evaluation in sciences, medicine or science. is increasingly necessary for health Healthcare has an excellent record of Applicants with degrees in other professionals, whether clinical, in graduate employment. Many of our disciplines supplemented by health services management or in students come to the course without relevant professional experience industries related to healthcare. a background in economics but as are also considered. graduates have nevertheless been English language requirements Course content successful in securing positions as The MSc in Economic Evaluation in health economists. IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum Healthcare is designed to meet the of 6.0 in each category. increased demand for quantitative Recent graduate destinations for and analytical skills in the process this course include: of decision-making in the healthcare • Economic consultancies sector. The course prepares students • National Institute for Clinical for career opportunities in areas Excellence (NICE) such as policy analysis for industry • Pharmaceutical companies and professional associations; • University College London research positions in academic and Clinical Trials Unit. governmental environments; NGOs and economic consultancies; and the pharmaceutical industry.
Modules include: • Health economics • Economic evaluation in healthcare • Advanced economic evaluation in healthcare • Economic evaluation workshops • Epidemiology • Welfare economics • Quantitative methods • Economic evaluation • Economics research project.
The course can be taken part-time (Thursdays only the first year and Fridays only the second year) or full- time (Thursdays and Fridays). There Find out more Other courses you may like are seven core modules. [email protected] MSc Health Economics +44 (0)20 7040 4183
50 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Economics Economics MSc
The MSc in Economics is designed for students wanting to follow a pure Economics Masters degree, rather than a specialised course.
Duration Students can choose modules from Elective modules are offered in
fields including health economics, a variety of fields as detailed School of Arts & Social Sciences Economics Full-time: one year. financial economics, economic below. Students may take up to Part-time: two years. regulation and competition and two modules from the same field. development economics to build their Entry requirements own ‘tailor-made’ degree. The course Elective modules include: Applicants should hold an upper also serves as a stepping stone to an • Development economics second class honours degree or the Economics PhD. • Economics of regulation equivalent from an international • Economics of asset pricing institution in economics, or in Students learn with a research-active • Economics of financial markets a quantitative discipline with team of academic staff, with many some economics component, or appearing at conferences or writing • Financial derivatives supplemented by economics-related articles in their areas of expertise. • Health economics work experience. • Welfare economics. English language requirements Course content This course is designed to give In addition, all students must IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum complete either an economics of 6.0 in each category. students a solid foundation in economics while allowing them to literature survey or an economics undertake modules across different dissertation. Students who choose specialisations. This combination to complete the literature survey creates a range of career options in must take eight modules (four fields including industry, government core modules and four elective and academia. The course also offers modules); students who choose the option to write a dissertation the dissertation must take seven during the summer months. modules (four core modules and three elective modules). The course is led by a team of academic staff who are leading Career opportunities experts in their field of research. Depending on the electives chosen, graduates of this course enjoy a wide Core modules include: range of employment possibilities • Econometrics including consultancy and financial • Game theory analysis in many different industries. • Macroeconomics Recent graduate destinations for • Microeconomics. this course include: • BlackRock, Economic Analyst • Department for Transport, Assistant Economist • Mizuho International, Cash Funding Analyst.
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www.city.ac.uk 51 Economics Financial Economics MSc
In a steadily globalising world, the demand for specialists in finance and economics continues to grow. The course's combination of theory and practical exposure to finance will prepare students for a successful career.
Duration This demand exists across many Elective modules include: institutions, ranging from policy- • Macroeconomics one year. Full-time: making authorities, such as • Econometrics Part-time: two years. central banks and international • Financial regulation organisations, to commercial banks Entry requirements • Game theory and brokerages. Applicants should have an upper • International money and finance second class honours degree or the The MSc in Financial Economics • Numerical methods for financial equivalent from an international is designed to meet an increasing economic analysis institution in either economics or demand for specialists in finance • The economics of microfinance related discipline (e.g. finance); or and economics by combining solid • Topics in corporate finance engineering, applied mathematics, education in economic theory with • Topics in mathematical finance. mathematics, theoretical computer practical exposure to the field of science, statistics, physics or any finance through several specialised In addition, students must complete other quantitative natural science. options. The course is especially either a literature survey or a Students with a good lower second distinctive in the three-way link dissertation. Students who choose class honours degree in one of it establishes between economic to complete a literature survey must the above disciplines might be theory, quantitative finance and take eight modules (five core and considered on a case-by-case basis. financial regulation. three elective); students who choose We also consider applications a dissertation must take seven which do not meet these criteria but Course content modules (five core and two elective). demonstrate a high degree of relevant This course has been designed professional experience. If you have following extensive consultation Career opportunities not previously taken economics, we with alumni currently employed in Recent graduates have found offer a free pre-sessional course in several finance sector occupations. positions in financial institutions, economic analysis. The course’s design and delivery private companies and governmental also draws upon the Department’s English language requirements agencies including Algorithmics, expertise in the areas of economic American Express, Central Bank of IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum theory, econometrics, financial China, Ecobank Group, Financial of 6.0 in each category. mathematics, corporate finance Services Authority, HSBC, IBM and regulatory economics. Amro IBD, KPMG and Montpellier Asset Management. The MSc also provides a solid academic foundation for students wishing to pursue doctoral research in financial economics and guidance is readily available for those considering further study.
Core modules include: • Asset pricing • Economics of financial markets • Financial derivatives • Financial econometrics • Microeconomics for financial Find out more economics. [email protected] +44 (0)20 7040 4183
52 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Economics Health Economics MSc Economics
The demand for specialists in health economics continues to increase as more advanced and expensive healthcare puts pressure on policy decision-makers and healthcare industry managers.
Duration The MSc in Health Economics is In addition, all students must
designed to meet this demand by complete either an economics School of Arts & Social Sciences Full-time: one year. introducing students to the way in literature survey or an economics Part-time: two years. which microeconomic principles can research project. Students who be used to understand decisions by choose to complete the literature Entry requirements consumers, firms and governments survey must take three elective Applicants should hold an upper regarding health and healthcare. It modules; students who choose the second class honours degree or also provides a strong quantitative research project must take two. the equivalent from an international background to analyse these institution in economics, or a decisions empirically. This MSc Career opportunities relevant discipline complemented also gives an understanding of the The MSc in Health Economics with economics, or in any discipline economic context within which prepares students for careers supplemented by relevant economic evaluation takes place in areas such as policy analysis work experience. and it familiarises students with for industry, professional Applicants without an honours key economic issues confronting associations and governmental degree may be considered based health systems. bodies, teaching and research on appropriate professional positions in academic institutions qualifications or experience. Course content and economic evaluation of products English language requirements This course is aimed at students in the pharmaceutical industry. who have an economics background, IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum as econometrics and microeconomics Recent graduate destinations for of 6.0 in each category. modules are both core parts of the this course include: course. Elective module choices • Matrix Knowledge, are subject to availability and Assistant Economist timetabling constraints. • Optum, Research Analyst • University of Sheffield, Core modules include: PhD student. • Econometrics • Economic evaluation in healthcare • Advanced economic evaluation in healthcare • Health economics • Microeconomics.
Elective modules include: • Applied competition policy • Development economics • Economic evaluation workshops • Economics of competition • Economics of microfinance • Economics of regulation • Epidemiology • Experimental economics and game theory (subject to Find out more Other courses you may like University approval) [email protected] MSc Economic Evaluation • Game theory in Healthcare • Welfare economics. +44 (0)20 7040 4183
www.city.ac.uk 53 International Politics Diplomacy and Foreign Policy MA
Diplomacy and foreign policy are central features of international politics. This course will provide you with a research-led education in this dynamic field.
Duration They capture our imagination Career opportunities and their conduct affects our lives The MA in Diplomacy and Foreign Full-time: one year. through their impact on war, peace, Policy is designed for those planning, Part-time: two years. the global economy, human rights, or already engaged in, a career in international law, global institutions Entry requirements the diplomatic service, journalism, and the norms that govern relations international organisations (such as Applicants should hold an upper second between states. the UN or the EU) or NGOs (such as class honours degree or the equivalent Amnesty International and Oxfam). from an international institution in a The MA in Diplomacy and Foreign It also prepares students for a career social sciences, law, business studies or Policy provides students with the in political risk, international finance humanities discipline. necessary academic background and think tanks. English language requirements and tools to pursue careers in several fields including international IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum organisations, government, diplomacy, of 6.0 in each category. journalism, the NGO sector, political risk analysis and the private sector.
Course content The degree explores issues and problems in the study of foreign policy by engagement with the theoretical and practical dimensions of foreign policy analysis, a salient strand of International Relations Theory. It focuses on strategy, diplomacy and decision-making, foreign policy analysis and economic diplomacy.
The course offers a mix of subjects tackling the economic, political and practical dimensions of diplomacy and foreign policy with reference to key regions.
Modules include: • Economic diplomacy • Foreign policy analysis • International politics of the Middle East • Strategy diplomacy and decision-making • US foreign policy.
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Professor Anastasia Nesvetailova, Programme Director of MA Global Political Economy, with students in a seminar on the political economy of global finance.
www.city.ac.uk 55 International Politics Global Political Economy MA
City’s MA in Global Political Economy (GPE) provides a contemporary take on the analysis of global economic relations, the workings of the global financial system, state strategies, processes of global change and mechanisms of governance.
Duration Students benefit from our There are three core modules: internationally renowned expertise • Global political economy: Full-time: one year. in the field of global political contemporary approaches Part-time: two years. economy, exemplified by the • Global capitalism: past, leading academic staff who deliver Entry requirements present, future the course, the vibrant research • GPE dissertation. Applicants should hold an upper culture centred around City Political second class honours degree or the Economy Research Centre and the Elective modules include: equivalent from an international University’s central London location. • History of economic thought institution in social sciences, • International financial institutions humanities, law, business studies Students of the MA in GPE have the or another related discipline. option of pursuing the international • Global civil society Applicants with relevant work double degree (two MA degrees in • Political economy of global finance and voluntary experience are two years) as a result of collaboration • Strategy, diplomacy and also considered. between City and the Department decision-making of World Politics and International English language requirements • The global politics of development Affairs at the Higher School of • US foreign policy. IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum Economics, Moscow. Under the of 6.0 in each category. double degree scheme, students Career opportunities spend their first year pursuing the This is a specialised degree MA in GPE or the MA in International enabling graduates both with Politics at City University London and without prior knowledge of and their second year in Moscow, economics to engage competently pursuing the second MA degree in the and confidently with economic and International Relations of Eurasia. financial developments and pursue professional careers in the public Course content and private sectors, international The MA in GPE provides students organisations or the media. with analytical skills and conceptual knowledge of the key debates around the role of states, markets, societies, economic ideas and financial structures and international organisations in shaping the global economic system.
The course focuses on contemporary approaches to the global political economy in the context of the broader changes associated with globalisation, change, crises and transformation. Students consider conceptual and policy debates around issues such as economic and financial crises; economic institutions and diplomacy; poverty, migration and inequality; Find out more regionalisation and globalisation; states and sovereignty; and the rise [email protected] of new economic powers. +44 (0)20 7040 0157
56 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 International Politics International Politics MA
At the heart of contemporary international politics are new challenges to enduring problems. This course offers an opportunity to examine and evaluate critical issues of the contemporary world.
Duration Increasing concerns, such as poverty, Modules include: terrorism, conflict, human rights, • Theories of international Full-time: one year. economic development, displacement politics (core) Part-time: two years. and the global environment, make • Development and the study of international politics Entry requirements international politics a unique and exciting challenge. • Global capitalism: past, Applicants should hold at least an present and future School of Arts & Social Sciences International Politics upper second class honours degree City’s MA in International Politics • Human rights and the or the equivalent in politics, the social focuses on the study of global transformation of world politics sciences, law, business studies or policy-making using theoretical and humanities from an internationally practical approaches and modules • International organisations in recognised institution. that allow students to analyse a global politics range of actors involved in global • Understanding security in the Applicants who hold honours degrees st in other subjects and have significant policy-making, from governments 21 century professional experience in a related to international institutions, civil • US foreign policy field of employment or research are society, social movements and • Political Islam in global politics also considered. private actors. Students also have • The politics of forced migration the opportunity to study the different English language requirements • Foreign policy analysis ways in which global social and IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum political relationships affect and • Strategy, diplomacy and of 6.0 in each category. are affected by local and global, decision-making economic, cultural, religious and • International politics of the political differences. Middle East • Dissertation. Students of the MA in International Politics have the option of pursuing Career opportunities the international double degree (two The MA in International Politics MA degrees in two years) as a result is of relevance for those planning, of collaboration between City and or already engaged in, a wide the Department of World Politics and range of professions including International Affairs at the Higher teaching, research, the civil service, School of Economics, Moscow. Under politics, media communications, the double degree scheme, students journalism, international spend their first year pursuing the organisations, NGOs, international MA in GPE or the MA in International finance and the private sector. Politics at City University London and their second year in Moscow, pursuing the second MA degree in the International Relations of Eurasia.
Course content Students complete one core (taught) module and have the opportunity Other courses you may like to choose from a range of elective MA Global Political Economy (taught) modules. Students also take part in dissertation workshops and Find out more MA International Politics and write a dissertation. Human Rights [email protected] MA Diplomacy and Foreign Policy +44 (0)20 7040 0157
www.city.ac.uk 57 International Politics International Politics and Human Rights MA The MA in International Politics and Human Rights gives students the opportunity to explore the development of human rights, the way they have altered international politics and how rights influence current events.
Duration The course gives students a Students complete six taught theoretically and historically informed modules: two core modules and four Full-time: one year. understanding of the role of human electives. Students also take part in a Part-time: two years. rights in contemporary politics. dissertation workshop and produce a Students develop a strong grasp of dissertation over the summer. Entry requirements contemporary global issues, enabling Applicants should hold an upper them to view world events from an Modules include: second class honours degree or the informed and knowledgeable position. • Global ethics: principles, power equivalent from an international and politics institution in politics, the social Course content • Human rights and the sciences, humanities or law. This course, along with other transformation of world politics However, we also welcome international politics courses at City, • Dissertation. applications from those with has expanded rapidly, recruiting a substantial experience in human rights diverse range of students from all Career opportunities organisations, NGOs, social services, corners of the world. The course prepares students for a journalism and other related sectors. career in human rights organisations, English language requirements The MA places human rights in the NGOs, government agencies, context of a constellation of changes international organisations, IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum th in international politics in the 20 journalism and other fields which of 6.0 in each category. st and 21 centuries and students are require a critical understanding of introduced to the historical and international politics. political controversies that human rights generate: Eighty per cent of City’s 2011 • Do human rights offer universal International Politics graduates were protections or do they provide in employment or further study six ideological cover for neo- months after graduation. Employers imperialist powers? included UNESCO, the Open Rights • Can human rights provide Group, the Grass Roots Group and protection to individuals in a way the UN. that supersedes the nation-state or do they serve the interests of powerful states? • Should human rights be concerned with the minimalist needs of security and subsistence or should they aspire to grander visions of global justice?
Given the research expertise of the academic staff leading the course, it is particularly appropriate for those who are interested in debates about the importance of human rights in contemporary politics, including issues of humanitarian intervention, aid and development assistance and Find out more Other courses you may like international law. [email protected] MA International Politics +44 (0)20 7040 0254
58 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 MA Television Journalism Journalism/Broadcast Journalism of are the UK’s two leading courses in this field. journalists since 1982 in Broadcast and and the MAs Television broadcast aspiring training been has London University City Journalism for furtherdetails. outside of theUK.Please see page 63 designed specifically for students from International Journalism which MA, is English are advised to apply for the Applicants whose first language is not English language requirements professional experience. Consideration is also given to from aninternational institution. class honours degree ortheequivalent Applicants should hold anupper second Entry requirements Full-time: Duration ten months. www.city.ac.uk one and two. one and terms in Wednesday every industry television the in placement a weekly undertake can students journalism Television journalism. TV lifestyle and documentaries affairs, current news, covers journalism Television vacations. Easter and Christmas the during usually placements, work two undertake can students journalism Broadcast simulation. broadcast and workshops lectures, through taught are journalism radio and television Newswriting, television. and radio in education professional offers journalism Broadcast content Course booths. recording audio digital two and newsrooms radio two stations, radio two newsrooms, television two studio, television high-definition built apurpose- including at City, facilities state-of-the-art from benefit Students to documentaries. news only, from television cover students journalism Television and simulation broadcast and workshops lectures, through learn students journalism Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC). Broadcast the by accredited are Both journalism. television or radio in job afirst for students prepare courses The News. Sky of Joseph Gillian and Raworth Sophie BBC’s the include degrees of these Graduates
Modules include: Modules • • the UK and internationally. and UK the in both media, the in employment securing in successful are at City courses journalism of Graduates opportunities Career • • • • • • •
+44 (0)2070408221 [email protected] Find out more Final project Final standards and rules Ethics, Political headlines. law media UK Social and digital journalism innovation Journalism radio or TV for production Studio production Newsdays radio and TV for Newsgathering
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School of Arts & Social Sciences Journalism Journalism Erasmus Mundus MA: Journalism, Media and Globalisation MA The Erasmus Mundus MA in Journalism, Media and Globalisation explores the practice and performance of journalism and the media in the context of a new environment brought about by globalisation, modernisation, commercialisation and professional developments.
Duration It is a unique two year Masters Modules offered by the Danish course and part of the prestigious School of Journalism/Aarhus Full-time: two years. Erasmus Mundus programme University include: Entry requirements (www.mundusjournalism.com). • Analytical journalism Students study as part of a diverse Applicants should hold an honours • Globalisation: reporting cohort of individuals from around degree or the equivalent from an global change the world. In the last three years, international institution and should • Globalisation and the world order students have come from the USA, have the equivalent of at least three • Globalisation, culture and Brazil, Thailand, China, Malaysia, months’ journalism work experience the roles of the media Norway, Kyrgyzstan, Peru, Canada, (including student journalism). Cambodia, Ukraine, Italy, Mexico, • Researching journalism English language requirements Czech Republic, Malta, India, • Social science methods IELTS: 7.0 in all categories. Germany and Azerbaijan. for journalists. Course content Modules offered by City University London include: The Erasmus Mundus MA in • Journalistic storytelling Journalism, Media and Globalisation brings together five leading European • Introduction to data reporting institutions in journalism and media • Reporting business education, combining the best • Reporting finance academic research and education • Dissertation. from the participating universities. Career opportunities A broad range of national and Students on the Erasmus Mundus international guest lecturers from Journalism programme are highly media and research institutions valued by major media organisations. features. The first year is spent in Students from the programme have the University of Aarhus, Denmark, gone on to work for Bloomberg, The the second at City University Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones, the London or at the University of BBC, the Financial Times, Reuters, Swansea (Wales), Hamburg China Daily, Danish Broadcasting University (Germany) or University Corporation, Helsingin Sanomat, of Amsterdam (Netherlands). TV 2 Norway, Xinhua News Agency, Bangkok Post, Associated Press and The course also offers some Platts. Other students are working exchange opportunities for students for international organisations, to travel to one of the following three including the Organisation of institutions in the spring of the Petroleum Exporting Companies first year: University of California, and the European Commission Berkeley, USA; Pontificia Universidad and for international corporations Católica de Chile; or University of including Morgan Stanley. Technology, Sydney, Australia.
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60 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Journalism Financial Journalism MA Journalism
The global economy affects us all. In this MA, students learn how to cover a wide range of business and finance stories in ways that are accessible to the public and include the wider social and political context.
Duration The course benefits from close Modules include:
collaboration with many media • Journalism portfolio School of Arts & Social Sciences one year. Full-time: organisations and is led by an • Editorial production Part-time: two years. outstanding faculty, all of whom • Ethics, rules and standards have years of professional experience Entry requirements • Final project as financial journalists, working Applicants should hold an upper second for organisations such as the BBC, • Reporting the global economy class honours degree or the equivalent Reuters and Sky News. Students also • Introduction to data reporting from an international institution. benefit from close proximity to the City • Journalism innovation Consideration is also given to of London, one of the world’s leading • Key issues in financial journalism professional experience. financial centres, with guest lecturers • Reporting business drawn from the world of banking and English language requirements • Reporting finance. major media organisations. IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum Career opportunities of 7.0 in the writing component. This course is provided in collaboration with Cass Business School. Students on the MA in Financial Journalism are highly valued by Course content major media organisations which cover business and finance. Students The MA in Financial Journalism from the course have gone on to aims to develop the professional work for Bloomberg, the Financial skills and knowledge needed to work Times, the BBC, The Wall Street in a full multimedia environment Journal/Dow Jones, CNBC, The New and the analytical understanding York Times and the International of the key concepts and issues in Herald Tribune. Other students financial journalism. By the end get jobs with specialised business of the course, students have had publications such as Citywire and extensive education in the best Interactive Investor, while a few have professional practice of reporting gone into financial public relations. business and financial news. Outside London, students are working as financial journalists in Students develop professional skills, other major financial centres such such as interviewing, researching as Hong Kong, Paris, New York, and writing news stories and Tokyo, Dubai and Mumbai. features. They understand how to obtain and use key economic and financial data, using state-of-the art Bloomberg and Reuters terminals. Students also gain a firm grounding in key concepts in finance and economics and the ability to understand and manipulate financial data and critically analyse the context and assumptions within statements by key policy-makers.
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www.city.ac.uk 61 Journalism Interactive Journalism MA
The MA in Interactive Journalism prepares students to work in the rapidly changing environment of digital journalism, with a focus on key areas including social media, multimedia storytelling and data journalism.
Duration Students develop these online Modules include: specialisations alongside essential • Journalism portfolio Full-time: ten months. journalistic skills of writing, • Ethics, rules and standards Entry requirements reporting, newsgathering, • Final project interviewing and feature writing: Applicants should hold an upper • Advanced data and coding core elements of City’s renowned second class honours degree or the MA in Journalism course. • Social, community and equivalent from an international multimedia management institution in any subject. Consideration Journalism is changing to engage • Introduction to data reporting is also given to professional experience. people more as active participants • UK media law A high level of numeracy and and less as passive consumers. This • Political headlines. familiarity with computers and course prepares students for roles software is expected. that reflect this change to a more Career opportunities English language requirements participatory, interactive approach. Graduates have moved into Multimedia work is geared to IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum roles in data journalism, web online publication. More and more of 7.0 in the writing component. analytics, content and community journalism alumni from City are coordination, social media, moving into these areas, including subediting, social insight, coding, data, social media and community PR and agency work. Employers roles at The Guardian, the Financial include The Guardian, Daily Mail, Times, the BBC and The Daily Bauer Media, Manchester Evening Telegraph. News, Wunderman, Transport for London, CityAM, BBC, BuzzFeed, Course content Vice News and The Economist. The Data journalism module is led by James Ball, Data Editor of The Guardian. The modules offered involve expert input from leading practitioners at news organisations such as The Daily Telegraph, Reuters, the BBC, The Guardian, BreakingNews and Reed Business Information.
Work placements are an integral part of the Interactive Journalism course, giving students the chance to put learning into practice, develop expertise further and widen contacts and experience in the industry. Students undertake at least two placements.
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62 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Journalism International Journalism MA Journalism
The MA in International Journalism helps students to develop capabilities in print, broadcast and online journalism in a global context.
Duration Students graduate with insight into Modules include:
international news and with a more • Global journalism School of Arts & Social Sciences one year. Full-time: profound understanding of global • Journalistic storytelling Entry requirements journalism. The course recruits • International news students from all over the world and Applicants should hold an upper second • Production enables students to embark on careers class honours degree or the equivalent in international journalism or return • International online journalism from an international institution. to careers with enhanced knowledge • Ethics, rules and standards In exceptional circumstances substantial and skills. • Final project. practice in journalism may be considered alongside or in lieu of formal academic The course has excellent employment Career opportunities qualifications. rates and students benefit from City’s Typically, more than 97 per cent Consideration is also given to location. In the heart of London’s of graduates from this course are professional experience. huge and diverse media district, in employment six months after English language requirements students have unrivalled access to completing the course. Some go on industry internships and contacts. to further study. Graduates work IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum in both global and national media of 7.0 in the writing component. This course has been running since and in allied occupations around 1982 and has well over 1,000 alumni the world. Most recently, these have working in journalism all over included roles from researchers to the world. editors in media such as the BBC World Service, Al Jazeera, Deutsche Course content Welle, CNN, France24, Bloomberg, Students practise journalism Sky, Fox, Thomson Reuters, (broadcast, print and online) and Associated Press and Dow Jones think about what it means to be a and major newspapers and journalist by exploring critical work magazines including The New and reflecting on their practice. York Times, the Financial Times, Students gain insights into the nature The Hindu, Politiken and GQ. of journalism in its global context.
There is enormous benefit in being located in one of the world’s most significant cities in terms of the media, with access to thousands of international journalists and sources. Students explore both old and new journalism tools, acquire skills which have currency and develop a mind- set for the 21st century.
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www.city.ac.uk 63 Journalism Investigative Journalism MA
City’s pioneering MA in Investigative Journalism provides students with the essential skills for a first job in print or broadcast journalism, combined with innovative and in-depth research and investigation techniques.
Duration Students learn advanced research This course is provided by leading skills, including computer-assisted investigative journalists, including Full-time: ten months. reporting to analyse data to find David Leigh, former Investigations Entry requirements stories, the effective use of public Editor of The Guardian; David Lloyd, records and databases and the former Head of News & Current Applicants should hold an upper second Freedom of Information Act. Affairs at Channel 4; and Rosie class honours degree or the equivalent Waterhouse, formerly of the The from an international institution. The course provides case studies Sunday Times Insight team, The Consideration is also given to of high-profile investigations and Independent and BBC Newsnight. professional experience. helps students develop the skills English language requirements to investigate issues of public Modules include: concern, miscarriages of justice • Journalism Portfolio IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum and companies, organisations of 7.0 in the writing component. • Editorial Production and individuals within an ethical • Ethics, Rules & Standards framework. It also offers students • Final Project the opportunity to complete an investigation suitable for • Investigative Reporting publication or broadcast. Students • UK Media Law and graduates of this course have • Political Headlines. worked as interns at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, based at Career opportunities City University London. Graduates move into employment across the range of print, online and Course content broadcast media, from The Times, Topics range from business The Daily Telegraph and The Guardian and financial journalism and and quality regionals, trade and investigations into individuals, current affairs magazines including organisations and corporations The Spectator and New Statesman, to to miscarriages of justice. Sky News, Bloomberg TV, regional BBC TV, CNN, independent TV Students also learn the essential skills production companies and the Bureau required by the media industry such as of Investigative Journalism. Graduates producing news and feature material, also work for media organisations interviewing, production, law, structure overseas and for charities. of government and ethics.
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64 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Journalism Magazine Journalism MA
The MA in Magazine Journalism has an exceptional reputation and is one of the leading magazine journalism courses in the UK.
Duration Graduates are found in every part Modules include:
of the industry, from consumer • Journalism portfolio School of Arts & Social Sciences Journalism ten months. Full-time: glossies and national newspapers to • Editorial production Entry requirements specialist and business-to-business • Ethics, rules and standards publications. They work as editors, Applicants should hold an upper second • Social and digital journalism. reporters, feature writers, reviewers class honours degree or the equivalent and production staff. The MA has from an international institution. an outstanding employment record Career opportunities Consideration is also given to and is highly regarded by industry Graduates from the course have professional experience. professionals who actively seek out won the Professional Publishers English language requirements its graduates. It is accredited by the Association’s ‘Most Promising Periodicals Training Council. Postgraduate Student of the The MA in Magazine Journalism Year’ for the last eight years. focuses primarily on journalism in This course prepares students for Journalism alumni occupy top the UK. a broad range of scenarios, from positions in magazines and writing a feature for a glossy men’s newspaper supplements including magazine or researching and crafting Grazia, Harper’s Bazaar, Sunday a story for an online business-to- Times Magazine and Guardian business publication to reviewing a Weekend magazine. play for a national newspaper. Graduates from the last three Course content years now work on a wide range of consumer magazines (Marie Claire, This course gives students a thorough FHM, Stylist, Esquire, The Debrief, grounding in print and multimedia Radio Times, New Statesman, journalism. Students develop Prospect), B2B magazines (Pulse, professional skills in reporting, Architects’ Journal, Estates Gazette, interviewing, research, feature Chemist & Druggist, Travel Weekly), writing and production (print and customer magazines (IKEA online). They produce print and Magazine, Waitrose Kitchen, online magazines and benefit from BA High Life), news agencies the experience of leading magazine (Press Association) and national and specialist journalists and around newspapers (Daily Mail, The Daily 30 visiting editors, commissioning Telegraph, The Sunday Times, The editors and editorial directors from Observer, The Sun, The Independent, the UK’s leading publishing houses. Evening Standard).
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www.city.ac.uk 65 Journalism Newspaper Journalism MA
City’s MA Newspaper Journalism course is a fast-paced, exciting degree designed to train the future reporters, correspondents and editors of the world’s leading media organisations.
Duration The course has an exceptional Career opportunities reputation and an outstanding Recent graduates have gone on Full-time: ten months. graduate employment record. The to work on national newspapers Entry requirements degree has been helping aspiring (including The Guardian, The journalists into employment since 1982. Applicants should hold an upper second Independent, The Daily Telegraph, class honours degree or the equivalent Daily Mail, The Times, The Sun, Students benefit from a central from an international institution. The Sunday Times); regional London location, unrivalled industry press (London Evening Standard, Consideration is also given to contacts and a thorough grounding Manchester Evening News, Ham & professional experience. in the best practices of professional High); newspapers overseas (The English language requirements journalism. The course combines Daily Star [Beirut], China Daily professional skills training in The MA in Newspaper Journalism [Beijing]); news agencies (Press reporting, interviewing, writing, focuses primarily on journalism in the Association, Bloomberg, Dow Jones); editing, research and newspaper UK, although applicants from outside and magazines (New Statesman, production (in print and online) with the UK are very welcome to apply for Prospect). An increasing number a concern for professional standards this course. of graduates are working in online and critical and ethical reflection. roles, either as their main focus or alongside print journalism. The Department includes former Managing Editor of The Times Professor George Brock, Professor David Leigh of The Guardian, ITN’s chief lawyer John Battle and award- winning Freedom of Information expert Heather Brooke.
Course content The course offers students a thorough grounding in the best practices of professional journalism. It delivers knowledge and skills and nurtures a concern for the highest journalistic standards.
Modules include: • Journalism portfolio • Editorial production • Ethics, rules and standards • Social and digital journalism • UK media law • Political headlines • Specialisms • Final project.
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66 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Journalism Science Journalism MA
The MA in Science Journalism at City University London gives students a thorough grounding in the best practices in health, science and environmental journalism.
Duration This course has been designed in Modules include:
consultation with the world’s leading • Journalism portfolio School of Arts & Social Sciences Journalism ten months. Full-time: science journalists and aims to improve • Editorial production Entry requirements science journalism by educating • Ethics, rules and standards students to be critical consumers Applicants should hold an upper second • Final project of scientific information, while class honours degree or the equivalent ensuring that they receive an excellent • Social and digital journalism from an international institution. multi-platform professional education. • Introduction to data reporting Consideration is also given to • Science reporting professional experience. It takes full advantage of City’s • Science journalism, English language requirements central London location by drawing administration and society on the rich heritage of the capital’s IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum • UK media law scientific and medical institutions, of 7.0 in the writing component. • Dissertation project. helping students to forge links, build contact networks and enjoy Career opportunities unrivalled access to leading experts. It offers a range of opportunities Recent graduates have gone on to to report on science, health, the work for broadcasters including BBC environment, technology and food. TV and BBC Radio, ITN, Al Jazeera; publications including Climate Wire, Course content Research Fortnight and Discover; and in-house publications for major The course offers a thorough scientific organisations such as CERN, grounding in the best practices in WHO and Cancer Research UK. professional science, environmental and health journalism. It develops skills in science reporting, interviewing, science writing, research and broadcast, online and print production. The course also enables critical reflection on legal, ethical and societal responsibilities and provides a foundation for putting those skills and that knowledge into practice.
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www.city.ac.uk 67 Music Music MA
The MA in Music offers a range of options and allows students to focus on a substantial piece of written research in an area of specific individual interest.
Duration Our MA courses in music aim to Modules include: develop both critical and creative Core modules Full-time: one year. approaches to musical practice and • Researching music in Part-time: two years. study. Students have the opportunity contemporary culture to consider current issues and debates Entry requirements • Critical readings in musicology. in music studies and to explore the Applicants should hold an honours complex interrelationships between Elective modules degree or the equivalent from an music and other subjects and • Popular music and society international institution. between theory and creative practice. • Music special project The course also trains students in English language requirements • Professional placement fundamental research skills which may IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum also be useful in later doctoral study. • Audiences and marketing of 6.0 in each category. • Digital cultures. We have a vibrant postgraduate community and there are plenty of Dissertation opportunities for students to become • Students have the option of involved in our many departmental undertaking a shorter (60 credit) ensembles including the choir, or more substantial (90 credit) experimental music ensemble and dissertation component. jazz ensemble. We host a regular departmental concert series and a Examples of previous projects summer music festival in May and June include: each year. In addition, there are regular • Hybridity, Afro-modernism and workshops, visiting speakers and double consciousness in the music postgraduate research seminars and of Kanye West we also host occasional conferences. • The rise of cross-dressing and male impersonation in the music The Department of Music offers halls of Victorian London exceptional support for students and • Searching for Satori: Psychedelia outstanding education, as reflected in in the music of Bauhaus. the most recent national Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey. We also Career opportunities have excellent employment statistics. Alumni of the MA in Music have gone on to teach, compose and perform Course content music in several different settings Students take two core modules (60 and are also employed in music credits), one or more elective modules publishing, broadcasting, music (30 or 60 credits) and also produce management, arts administration, a dissertation. The course provides music retailing and further musical exceptional education in research study at MPhil or PhD level. skills and introduces students to the latest critical thinking in music studies and musicology. Delivery is through a combination of lectures, group seminars and individual tutorials. Find out more Other courses you may like [email protected] MA Ethnomusicology +44 (0)20 7040 8284
68 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Music Ethnomusicology MA Music
This MA introduces students to current thinking within ethnomusicology, with a particular focus on ethnographic work in urban contexts. School of Arts & Social Sciences
Duration The MA Ethnomusicology course recital and accompanying written develops students’ knowledge commentary). The course is Full-time: one year. and skills within the broad field of delivered through lectures, group Part-time: two years. ethnomusicology. There is a strong seminars and individual tutorials. focus on urban ethnomusicology Entry requirements and the course includes many Modules include: Applicants should hold an honours opportunities to undertake fieldwork. Core modules degree or the equivalent from an • Researching music in international institution. Our MA courses aim to develop both contemporary culture English language requirements critical and creative approaches to • Critical readings in musicology. musical practice and study. Students IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum have the opportunity to consider of 6.0 in each category. Elective modules current issues and debates in music • Popular music and society studies and to explore the complex • Music special project interrelationships between music • Professional placement and other subjects and between theory and creative practice. The • Audiences and marketing course also trains students in • Digital cultures. fundamental research skills which may be useful in later doctoral study. There is also a range of elective options in the Departments of There are plenty of opportunities Sociology and International Politics. for students to become involved in our many departmental ensembles, Major project including Javanese and Balinese • Students have the option of gamelans, Middle Eastern ensemble undertaking a shorter (60 credit) and Latin ensemble. or more substantial (90 credit) major project component. We host a regular departmental concert series and a summer music Examples of previous projects include: festival in May and June each • Grassroots Music Making in year. In addition, there are regular Southeast Coastal Towns: The workshops, visiting speakers and Fourth Wave of Ska in Hastings research seminars. and Brighton • Representing Traditional Music The Department of Music offers as World Music: Maltese Identity exceptional support for students and in a Mediterranean Soundscape outstanding education, as reflected in • Music In/Of the City: Music on the most recent national Postgraduate the London Underground. Taught Experience Survey. We also have excellent employment statistics. Career opportunities Alumni have gone on to teach, Other courses you may like Course content compose and perform music in a MA Music Students take two core modules, two wide variety of settings and are also or three electives (total 60 credits) employed in music publishing, Find out more and produce an ethnomusicology broadcasting, music management, major project (dissertation, arts administration, music retailing [email protected] ethnographic film and accompanying and further musical study at MPhil +44 (0)20 7040 8284 written commentary or lecture- or PhD level.
www.city.ac.uk 69 Music Composition MA
This course provides exceptional grounding in contemporary music composition. Uniquely, students have the opportunity to learn from internationally renowned composers external to the Department, who support them in realising their creative vision.
Duration The MA Composition course develops reflected in the most recent national students’ skills within the broad Postgraduate Taught Experience Full-time: one year. field of contemporary composition, Survey. We also have excellent Part-time: two years. encompassing notated and digital employment statistics. music, sound arts, improvisation Entry requirements and interdisciplinary practices. Course content Applicants should hold an honours Students take three core modules degree or the equivalent from an Engagement with professional in which they enhance their international institution. creative practice is at the core of understanding of creative practice English language requirements the MA Composition. Uniquely, and engage critically with students receive individual tuition compositional techniques, theoretical IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum from world-renowned composers of 6.0 in each category. concepts and current issues in external to the Department. There contemporary composition. The are also opportunities to work with major composition portfolio (worth City’s professional ensembles-in- 90 credits) brings together the residence, Plus Minus and EXAUDI. knowledge, research and composition The Composition Forum features a skills developed in the taught module programme of visiting composers elements of the course and applies and sound artists and provides a them to the creation of original critical context for participating in works reflecting students' individual discussion and debate on key topics interests. The course is delivered in contemporary composition. It also through a combination of lectures, offers a platform for students to present group seminars and a high level of their own work to an audience of peers. individual tuition.
The Department of Music provides Core modules include: a stimulating environment with • Studio/composition techniques abundant opportunities for composers • Contexts of composition and sound artists. The Department of Music’s concert series features • Composition forum contemporary classical music, • Major composition portfolio. world music, electronic music and multimedia work and an annual Career opportunities music festival in May and June Alumni have gone on to teach, provides opportunities for students compose and perform music in to give public performances of several different settings and their work. MA Composers are also are also employed in music encouraged to join the Department’s publishing, broadcasting, music experimental music ensemble management, media production, CUEE (City University Experimental arts administration and further Ensemble), which performs regularly musical study at MPhil or PhD level. at the University and external venues across London.
Students have access to outstanding studio facilities for recording and Find out more composing. The Department of Music Other courses you may like offers exceptional support for students [email protected] MA Music and outstanding education, as +44 (0)20 7040 8284
70 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Psychology Behavioural Economics MSc Psychology
Behavioural economics applies psychological insights into human behaviour to investigate how people make economic decisions under various conditions of constraint (for example, time and knowledge) and influence (for example, social pressure).
Duration This field has emerged as an important Modules include: area of modern economics and Term one Full-time: one year. the social sciences more generally • Principles of economics School of Arts & Social Sciences Part-time: two years. and its importance is now widely • Cognitive and economic recognised by governments and Entry requirements science of rational choice commercial organisations. The • Psychological processes: Applicants must hold a first or practical implications of behavioural individual and social upper second class degree or the economics are varied and significant • Behavioural research methods: equivalent from an international and acknowledged to provide a design and analysis. institution in psychology, economics powerful and cost-effective approach or a related discipline. Selection to improving human welfare. will be by application form, references Term two and interview. It is not a prerequisite • Experimental economics Course content and game theory to have a background in economics The major aim of this course is or psychology. • Cognitive psychology to provide students with a thorough and decision-making English language requirements grounding in the psychological and • Applied econometric and economic sciences that underpin Cambridge ESOL CPE (Certificate of psychological research methods Proficiency in English): grade C or above. the field of behavioural economics. Understanding how real people • Professional aspects of IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum make real decisions is of utmost behavioural economics. of 6.5 in each category. importance to theoretical economic Satisfactory standard in the verbal understanding (preferences and Term three section of the Princeton Test (GMAT). utility), the practical application Research dissertation. US SAT with 500 in verbal performance. of models of human behaviour (e.g. government polices) and individual Career opportunities Warwick English Language Test (WELT) economic welfare (e.g. health and The knowledge and skills acquired with pass grades of BBC minimum. financial) which, for example, can during this course are highly valuable Other evidence of proficiency in the be diminished by overweighting the in a range of sectors including: English language which satisfies the present and underweighting the general economic consultancy; board of studies concerned. future (i.e. hyperbolic temporal health economics consultancy; discounting). Consumer psychology public policy specialists who is also dependent on the principles advise on the choice architecture of of behavioural economics (e.g. decision-making; political campaigns techniques of influence used in and public relations; consumer marketing and advertising), as psychology; brand awareness; are consultancies of various kinds financial trading and risk assessment; (e.g. branding and public relations). and design consultancies.
The course would be valuable to individuals already working in related professions and those who want to progress to doctoral level study.
Find out more [email protected] +44 (0)20 7040 8535
www.city.ac.uk 71 Psychology Counselling Psychology Graduate Certificate
The Graduate Certificate in Counselling Psychology is a one year part-time course that provides an excellent foundation for further advanced study in counselling psychology.
Duration The course gives students the Modules include: opportunity to learn about the • Counselling across the lifespan one year. Part-time: interpersonal and therapeutic • Counselling skills Entry requirements skills which are the foundation of • Personal and professional the counselling process and also Applicants should hold an honours development provides a range of theoretical degree. Relevant experience or a • Theoretical models in frameworks, linking psychological recognised professional qualification counselling psychology theory and counselling technique are also considered. and acting as a template for model- • Understanding mental health English language requirements based counselling practice. • Project. English Language GCSE grade C. The Graduate Certificate is designed Career opportunities IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum for graduates who have little or The Graduate Certificate in of 6.0 in each category. no professional experience but Counselling Psychology has wish to extend their knowledge of proved an excellent pathway to counselling psychology skills and future careers. Upon completion theory prior to undertaking more of our Graduate Certificate course, advanced training. It may also be of many of our graduates have been interest to healthcare professionals, successful in gaining places on teachers, social workers, managers related Masters and Doctoral level and others who wish to enhance courses in areas including counselling their psychological knowledge and psychology, child psychology, counselling skills and apply them counselling and psychotherapy. within their professional practice.
Course content The Graduate Certificate is not a professional training programme and is not intended to train students to be independent counselling practitioners. It is, however, an excellent foundation if students want to extend their knowledge and experience of counselling psychology prior to undertaking more advanced professional training in counselling psychology or a related discipline.
Students undertake four modules which explore the relationship between counselling and psychology. Experiential learning and skills practice are central to this course. Modules are undertaken one day per week over the autumn and spring terms. The summer term is used Find out more Other courses you may like for personal development and [email protected] Professional Doctorate in Counselling project work. Psychology DPsych +44 (0)20 7040 4564
72 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Psychology Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology DPsych Psychology The Professional Doctorate in Counselling Psychology is a professional programme, approved by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and accredited by the British Psychological Society (BPS).
Duration The Professional Doctorate in Counselling Students learn to work with a wide Psychology (DPsych) is an applied range of complex presenting issues; Full-time: one year. professional training programme with individual adults and children; School of Arts & Social Sciences Entry requirements designed to provide a doctoral level couples; families; groups and education leading to professional organisations; short and long term; Applicants should hold an upper registration. It is designed to equip in single and multi-professional second class honours degree students with a rigorous education contexts; and through transferring and Graduate Basis for Chartered in clinical practice and professional psychological skills to others in Membership (GBC), as defined research skills at doctoral level, to multidisciplinary teams. by the BPS. enable them to become an effective and Applicants should have successfully competent practitioner psychologist. Career opportunities completed introductory training in This professional and academic therapeutic/counselling skills or other Course content course enables students to work in a relevant therapeutic training, such as Counselling Psychology at City has broad range of settings including the that offered by various levels of the NHS a long-established tradition and NHS, forensic settings, third sector IAPT programme (e.g. for psychological was one of the first courses to be (voluntary), industry, government, well-being practitioners). Alternatively accredited by the BPS in 1995. We private practice, academic and applicants may have other appropriate have retained our accreditation research settings. counselling training undertaken since then, constantly keeping as a health or social care worker. pace with developments both Applicants should also have substantial nationally and internationally experience with face-to-face mental and maintaining our reputation health/counselling work and must for innovation and excellence. demonstrate the capacity to undertake research at doctoral level. The course content includes studying: English language requirements three main models of psychological English Language GCSE grade C. therapy; research methods and the doctoral thesis; working with clinical IELTS: 7.5 overall with a minimum populations; the requirements of of 7.0 in each category. professional practice; preparation for supervising and leadership; and clinical practice components.
Find out more [email protected] +44 (0)20 7040 4564
www.city.ac.uk 73 Psychology Organisational Psychology MSc
City’s MSc in Organisational Psychology aims to provide students with knowledge and understanding of the core areas of organisational and occupational psychology.
Duration The field of organisational Modules include: psychology focuses on enhancing our • Employee well-being one year. Full-time: understanding of human behaviour • Psychological assessment Part-time: two years. within the workplace. The discipline • Learning, training incorporates several knowledge Entry requirements and development areas including: organisational • Research in organisations Applicants should hold an upper development and change; second class honours degree or performance appraisal; employee • Leadership and organisational the equivalent from an international motivation and engagement; group behaviours institution. For students wishing to processes and dynamics; managing • Work design, organisational use the MSc as the first step to work-related stress and improving change and development becoming a chartered occupational employees’ well-being; human- • Professional skills psychologist, Graduate Basis for computer interaction and work • Research design and statistics Chartered Membership (GBC) with design; recruitment and selection; • Dissertation. the BPS is required. and training and coaching. City’s It is helpful if applicants for this course long-standing and award-winning Career opportunities MSc in Organisational Psychology are able to demonstrate some work Graduates of this course have provides students with in-depth experience, but this does not have to demonstrated high levels of theoretical and research knowledge be in the occupational psychology or employability within the field, in these and related areas. In human resources field. securing roles within public and addition, students on this course have English language requirements private sector organisations, large opportunities to develop a range and small occupational/business IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum of organisational consulting skills psychology consultancies and of 6.5 in each category. such as managing client relationships, human resources departments. facilitating participative decision- Because of the focus on high- making, negotiating access into quality research within the course, organisations, facilitating employee some graduates go on to complete focus groups and providing feedback PhDs. Many of our recent graduates to groups and individuals. return to share their work experiences with current students on the course. Course content The MSc seeks to provide a rich combination of theoretical, research and professional knowledge and skills. The course covers the new five knowledge areas for occupational psychology, as outlined by the British Psychological Society (BPS). The course is delivered by a dedicated team of research-active and chartered occupational psychologists, who benefit from extensive academic and consultancy experience. In addition, the course benefits from the involvement of a pool of external consultants and experts who provide Find out more students with a unique insight into how psychological theories are [email protected] applied in workplace settings. +44 (0)20 7040 4567
74 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Psychology Clinical, Social and Cognitive Neuroscience MSc Neuroscience is one of the fastest expanding areas of scientific enquiry. The knowledge and skills students will gain on this course are highly valued in the clinical and health professions as well as in academic research.
Duration This course bridges three closely related The MSc in Clinical, Social and fields of contemporary neuroscience: Cognitive Neuroscience comprises Full-time: one year. cognitive neuroscience (the study of eight taught modules worth 15 School of Arts & Social Sciences Psychology Part-time: two years. how the brain gives rise to complex credits each: functions such as memory, perception • Principles of neuroscience: Entry requirements and language), clinical neuroscience brain anatomy, techniques and Applicants for this course should hold (understanding the neurological basis paradigms (term one) a first or upper second-class degree of health, well-being and psychiatric • Developmental cognitive in psychology, biology or a related illness) and social neuroscience neuroscience (term one) discipline. An equivalent qualification (the investigation of the neural • Research methods and from an overseas university will also underpinnings of social behaviour). programming (term one) be considered. The Department of Psychology has • Fundamental processes in a high level of research expertise English language requirements cognitive neuroscience and and academic excellence in clinical, neuropsychology I (term one) Cambridge ESOL CPE (Certificate of social and cognitive neuroscience. Proficiency in English): grade C or We continuously strive to provide • Social cognition and the social above. a supportive, vibrant research brain (term two) IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum of environment and excellent research-led • Statistical models (term two) 6.5 in each category. learning, delivered by internationally • Mental health, well-being and recognised experts. neuroscience (term two) Satisfactory standard in the verbal • Fundamental processes in section of the Princeton Test (GMAT). The Centre for Psychological Wellbeing cognitive neuroscience and US SAT with 500 in verbal and Neuroscience, recently established neuropsychology II (term two). performance. between City University London and City & Hackney Mind (a local mental In addition to the taught modules, Warwick English Language Test (WELT) health charity), provides opportunities students complete a research project with pass grades of BBC minimum. for some students to gain experience in in term three (worth 60 credits), Other evidence of proficiency in the clinical settings. addressing a question in clinical, English language which satisfies the social and cognitive neuroscience. board of studies concerned. Course content Students gain a deep understanding Career opportunities of how different brain functions • A springboard into academic contribute to cognition, mediate research: The MSc provides social interaction and determine an ideal platform from which mental health, well-being and to progress to PhD studies, psychiatric illness. Students learn particularly in cognitive or about the latest advances in clinical, social neuroscience. social and cognitive neuroscience • A gateway to the clinical and develop an appreciation of professions: Students will also the reciprocal nature of research be well placed should they wish and practice in these domains. to undertake further professional The MSc draws upon a broad training in clinical psychology, range of perspectives on mental or a related discipline. health (neurodevelopmental, • Opening many other doors: The ageing, biological psychiatry, knowledge and skills students Find out more social neuroscience) across various will acquire are sought after in complementary modules. [email protected] many sectors (neuro-marketing, media and the arts, business +44 (0)20 7040 8908 and education).
www.city.ac.uk 75 Psychology Research Methods with Psychology MSc This course provides training in psychological research methods, including research design, statistical methods and relevant software. It offers a range of supplementary options from several other psychology Masters courses.
Duration The course draws on our other MSc There are a wide range of electives to programmes, especially the MSc in choose from (which may vary slightly Full-time: one year. Behavioural Economics (particularly from year to year) such as: Entry requirements for generalised linear model/regression • Fundamentals of cognitive science training, undertaken using R software), Applicants should hold a first or upper • Lifespan, gender and culture the MSc in Clinical, Social and second-class honours degree (or • Developmental cognitive Cognitive Neuroscience (particularly the equivalent from an international neuroscience for programming/ computational institution) with psychology or a related modelling training, undertaken using • Research in organisations discipline as a main field of study. Matlab software) and our DPsych • Epidemiology. Applications are also welcome from Counselling Psychology course those with experience of working in a (particularly for qualitative methods Career opportunities relevant area. training including phenomenological, This course covers an array of English language requirements narrative and discourse approaches). methodological content which Applicants who have previously studied Elective modules introduce provides students with the skills a degree in a language other than psychological content with a less necessary to engage in research in English typically require one of the methodological focus in order to public or private sector organisations following qualifications: provide a broader context for the (e.g. local government or market methods that are being taught. They research firms) or alternatively The Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency come from the courses mentioned continue on to a PhD in preparation in English: minimum grade C. above and also our other MSc courses for an academic research career. IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum of 6.5 in Organisational Psychology and in each category. Health Psychology. TOEFL (internet based): 120. Course content This course comprises five taught core modules, three taught elective modules (from a wide range of choices) and a research dissertation.
The five core modules are: • Behavioural research methods: design and analysis • Applied econometrics and psychological research methods • Research methods and programming • Statistical models • Research design and analysis: intra-subject approaches.
Other courses you may like MSc Clinical, Social and Cognitive Find out more Neuroscience [email protected] MSc Behavioural Economics +44 (0)20 7040 0254
76 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Sociology Criminology and Criminal Justice MSc
Criminology at City combines conceptual and methodological rigour with applied policy analysis.
Duration Understanding crime causation Modules include:
st School of Arts & Social Sciences Sociology and crime control in the 21 • Analysing crime Full-time: one year. century requires academics • Researching criminal justice Part-time: two years. and professionals to be able to think creatively and work across • Criminal minds Entry requirements traditional disciplinary boundaries. • Victims: policy and politics Applicants should hold an upper • The penal system second class honours degree or the The innovative, interdisciplinary • Crime news and media justice equivalent from an international MSc in Criminology and Criminal • Dissertation. institution in a discipline appropriate Justice enables students to develop the to the study of criminology and analytical skills required to research Career opportunities criminal justice. criminal behaviour and crime control. This course prepares graduates This MSc locates key developments We also consider applications for careers in research, policy in criminological thinking and crime from candidates with other relevant development, the criminal justice control within an interdisciplinary qualifications and professional system and related professions. and global context. We have particular work experience. Recent graduates are currently expertise in the areas of policing English language requirements working in organisations including and crime control, quantitative the Metropolitan Police Service IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum criminology, crime victims, media and the Foreign Office and in fields of 6.0 in each category. justice and criminal justice. including education, mental health and the voluntary sector. The MSc is delivered by a group of internationally recognised academics with whom students work closely during the course of their studies. Students are actively involved in our two core research centres – the Centre for Crime and Justice Research and the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism. Our most successful students may be awarded scholarships to conduct doctoral research in one of these centres.
Course content The inclusive course ethos encourages staff-student interaction. Within our modules students study topics such as torture, serial killers, desistance, cyber bullying, male rape, trial by media, ‘ideal’ victims and offenders, theories of justice and key debates around policy and professional practice.
Find out more [email protected] +44 (0)20 7040 0254
www.city.ac.uk 77 Sociology Food Policy MSc
The MSc in Food Policy provides students with a strong and critical grasp of both the theoretical and empirical aspects of food policy. The Centre for Food Policy is globally renowned for its education and research.
Duration Students gain an in-depth knowledge The course is flexible to accommodate and understanding of the breadth employment commitments: students Full-time: one year. of food policy in the UK within a can study on a full-time, part-time or Part-time: two years taught or through European and international context. distance learning basis. The course distance learning. consists of four double-weighted Entry requirements The course was the first of its modules, research methods and a kind anywhere in the world. Its dissertation with a research methods Applicants should hold an upper reputation extends beyond academia component. The dissertation provides second class honours degree or the to international bodies including the opportunity for a detailed equivalent from an international international institutions (e.g. examination of a research question institution and have a background the UN and the EU) and national of relevance to food policy. or interest in a food-related area of institutions (e.g. central government, employment or study. departments and agencies). We also All students must take four English language requirements work closely with non-departmental core modules: bodies, regional agencies, local • Food and public policy IELTS: 7.0. governments and NGOs. • Food, culture and society • Food, public health and The course prepares students for a the environment range of policy and management roles • The political economy of food. in varying food policy-related sectors. Our existing students have come from backgrounds such as environmental Career opportunities health, local and central government, Many students embark on this NGOs, trading standards, food degree following some years of manufacturing, retail and catering experience in policy-related work and health and social care, both in and others following undergraduate the UK and internationally. study. The course enables students to deepen their understanding of the Course content food sector and is of value to anyone who wishes to embark in a career The MSc in Food Policy explores with a food-related policy focus. the entire food supply chain, from agriculture to consumption, in order to Recent graduate destinations for widen students’ understanding of the this course include: dynamics of the modern food world. • E uropean Commission, It explores who makes the decisions research officer which have major impacts on public • US food skills campaigner health, society, environment and • Groundwork, Community consumers and addresses the major Project Manager food questions of modern times: how can we feed people well, sustainably, • Oxfam, Policy Advisor equitably and affordably? And why • University of Leeds, is this not happening? It explores Research Assistant. the role of policy-makers struggling to address the complex demands of the structures and processes through Other courses you may like which decisions are made. Find out more MSc International Politics [email protected] MSc Health Policy +44 (0)20 7040 8512
78 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Sociology International Communications and Development MA The MA in International Communications and Development explores the relationship between communication, development and democracy.
Duration At a time when ideas about freedom of The course appeals to students with expression, democracy, human rights a general interest in communication School of Arts & Social Sciences Sociology Full-time: one year. and access to natural and material studies and cross-disciplinary Entry requirements resources guide development projects interests in development studies, across the world, questions on the sociology and politics. Students Applicants should hold an upper role of media and communications undertake six modules, combining second class honours degree or the for social change become ever three core modules with a further equivalent from an international more pertinent. three elective modules. They are also institution in a social sciences- required to complete a dissertation related subject, but we also The MA in International based on a topic of their own choice. welcome applications from those Communications and Development with substantial experience in provides an interdisciplinary Modules include: development, politics and gender framework to understand and critically • Democratisation and studies, NGOs, social services, assess the role of communications networked communication journalism/media, information and for and in development projects. communication services or other • Communication, culture Development is taken as a contested related sectors. and development concept that translates into courses • Developments in English language requirements for advocating democratic forms communications policy of participation, policy initiatives IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum • Transnational media and and training activities in media and of 6.0 in each category. communication communications sectors in different geographical regions. • Crime news • Celebrity Course content • Global civil society The course focuses on the • Developments in international relationship between communication, politics development and democracy. Through • Political Islam in global politics the range of options available, students • Human rights and the also gain a general understanding of: transformation of world politics • Communications policy and • Global political economy: transnational media systems contemporary approaches • Gender and development • Evaluation politics and advocacy. • Media and communication studies within the context of globalisation Career opportunities • Media audiences This course can lead to careers • Media and development in broadcasting, press and • Political communication social media networks, NGOs, • The work of international development projects, marketing, organisations and NGOs in politics, journalism, media development communication. management and regulation.
Find out more [email protected] +44 (0)20 7040 0254
www.city.ac.uk 79 Sociology Media and Communications MA
City’s MA in Media and Communications offers a contemporary overview of the field of media and communications studies.
Duration Delivered by leading specialists in Modules include: these fields, the course provides • Media and communication School of Arts & Social Sciences Sociology Full-time: one year. students with an advanced grounding theories Entry requirements in the social and political context • Transnational media of communications sociology, Applicants should hold an upper and communication methodological approaches to second class honours degree or the • Developments in researching the field and advanced equivalent from an international communications policy discussion of current media and institution in a social sciences- • Political communication: theories communications debates. related subject, but we also • Democratisation and welcome applications from those This course appeals to students who networked communication with substantial experience in the wish to undertake a broad study of • Communication, culture media, information services or the media and communications, either and development communication sectors. as preparation for a research degree, • Global cultural industries, English language requirements entry into employment in the realms ethics and social responsibility. IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum of media and communications or as a of 6.0 in each category. means for those already working in Career opportunities the field to further their expertise. This course can lead to careers in broadcasting, press and Course content telecommunications networks, The MA in Media and Communications NGOs, advertising, marketing, covers the most significant recent politics, journalism, media developments in media and management and regulation. communications and enables students to specialise in particular areas of interest, develop critical skills and advance their knowledge.
Students explore how media and communications work, develop skills in critical social understanding and techniques of social enquiry and communication through varied learning methods. The Department of Sociology at City is particularly strong in the range of options it can offer students taking this course.
The course is well-suited to individuals who wish to extend, deepen, update and sharpen their knowledge, understand current developments in media and communications and to undertake an extended piece of original research. Find out more [email protected] +44 (0)20 7040 8908
80 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Research Degrees Research Degrees MPhil/PhD/DPsych
The School of Arts & Social Sciences welcomes applications for DegreesResearch research degrees from students whose interests fall anywhere within the research areas of its departments.
Duration Course content ethics, law and regulation, practices Students hoping to undertake a PhD and processes in a digital context, Full-time: four years. must generally enrol for an MPhil globalisation, representation and Part-time: seven years. research degree and transfer to the democratisation, business and leadership and journalism education. Entry requirements PhD after one year of satisfactory School of Arts & Social Sciences progress. In some cases, students are Entry requirements vary by subject required to complete some taught Department of Music area and applicants should consult modules in the MPhil year: please The Department of Music is Department webpages and identify or visit www.city.ac.uk/arts-social- a renowned research-driven approach academic staff working in sciences for more information. environment for musical study and their area of interest to discuss their practice. We benefit from outstanding proposal ahead of submitting MPhil/PhD/DPsych candidates facilities and a world leading research an application. study within each of the School’s environment. We welcome applicants Applicants should normally hold an departments or centres: in: ethnomusicology, particularly of upper second class honours degree or the urban environment; musicology; the equivalent from an international Department of Culture composition, including the interface institution and a Masters degree in a & Creative Industries between music and technology; and relevant field. Principal research areas are culture, the various relationships between Substantial employment or research cultural policy and policy-making musical scholarship and performance. experience may also be considered and the management of culture and for some subject areas alongside or in cultural organisations. Research Department of Psychology place of academic qualifications. students work in fields including Research in the Department is theoretical approaches to translation generally focused on the areas of studies, discourse analysis, translation cognitive neuroscience, counselling and gender or identity, translation psychology, health psychology, and cultural history, translation decision-making and behavioural pedagogics, applied translation economics, developmental psychology theory and audiovisual translation. including work on Autism Spectrum Disorder, human memory and Department of Economics organisational psychology. There is wide-ranging expertise within the Department, both Department of Sociology theoretical and applied. There are Expertise lies in the fields of media thriving groups of PhD students and communications, media policy, in health economics, regulation, culture, media and globalisation, financial economics and in monetary, crime and criminology, gender fiscal and macroprudential policy. and social change, policing, research methods, social theory and Department of International Politics victimology and youth studies. The Principal research areas are Department of Sociology also houses development and globalisation, the Centre for Food Policy, which civil society and social movements, accepts several PhD students each history and religion, global political year. The Centre focuses particularly economy and governance and on how policy-making processes international institutions. work at local, national, European Find out more and global levels and how they [email protected] Department of Journalism reflect and shape the nature of food supply and consumption. +44 (0)20 7040 0144 Research areas include history,
www.city.ac.uk 81 Cass Business School
Harsh Agarwal Dr Sinéad Roden MSc Management, from India Senior Lecturer in Operations & Supply Management; Co-Director of MSc in City appealed to me because I really liked the Global Supply Chain Management course structure and the focus on employment prospects. Studying at City has made it easy to In her research in the field of supply management, make new friends and I like the fact that London Dr Sinéad Roden examines strategic inter- is such a multicultural place to study. organisational relationships. She is particularly interested in the governance and development of strategic buyer-supplier relationships and the role of environmental factors: in one area of her current research, she explores the impact of uncertainty and governance arrangements on the performance of supplier exchange relationships. Dr Roden is also engaged in research on supply chain disruption management: she is interested in the role of supplier management in mitigating supply chain risk and the impact of supply base characteristics Dr Roden and students from the MSc Management on supply chain disruption recovery. and MSc Real Estate Investment are in Cass Business School’s premises in Bunhill Row, minutes from the City of London.
82 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Sir John Cass Business School has been at the forefront of business education for almost 50 years. Located in the heart
of one of the world’s leading financial Cass Business School centres, Cass is part of an elite group of business schools to have been awarded
Jinhu Yang triple accreditation by The Association to MSc Real Estate Investment, from China Advance Collegiate Schools of Business This summer, I will be undertaking an internship with a well-known investment management firm, (AACSB); the Association of MBAs (AMBA); focusing on real estate lending: I received a lot of support from Cass in securing this opportunity. The and the European Quality Improvement firm manages commercial real estate debt for some of the world’s largest and most credible institutional System (EQUIS). investors. I will meet experienced real estate professionals and gain valuable experience on the property lending sector in a well-respected firm. Nonso Osakwe MSc Real Estate Investment, from Nigeria
The MSc in Real Estate Investment allows students to select from a range of modules, so I’ve been able to fine tune my knowledge in line with my future career aspirations. I am Co-Chairman of The Cass Real Estate Club. I have also been responsible for developing corporate ties with existing and new sponsors and other real estate programmes in business schools globally. The funds we have raised will go towards a scholarship for a student to undertake a Masters in Real Estate at Cass next year.
Academic staff at Cass are world- and Insurance, one of the leading The specialist Masters, MBA and leading experts in their fields of departments of its kind, undertakes PhD programmes offered at Cass academic and applied research: theoretical and applied research into are consistently judged to be they are highly sought-after by pensions, life and general insurance among the best in the world in companies, governments and and healthcare. UK and international rankings. international bodies for their Courses are academically specialist knowledge and their work The Research Excellence Framework rigorous and characterised by a shapes policy, debate and business (REF) 2014 rated 84 per cent of real-world approach that ensures practice at the highest levels. The Cass Business and Management graduates are prepared for Faculty of Finance at Cass is one research as within the top two top-flight careers in their chosen of the largest and most respected categories of ‘world-leading’ (4*) fields, whether business, finance, in the world and it is renowned or ‘internationally excellent’ (3*). entrepreneurship or academia. for its expertise in accounting, Each year, around 2,000 students asset pricing, corporate finance, This places Cass in the top six in the from all over the world choose financial markets and regulation, UK, out of the 101 institutions to have Cass for their postgraduate international finance and shipping entered research in this category. The courses, creating a uniquely finance. Academic staff in the outcome of this independent review international environment in Faculty of Management specialise highlights the world class quality which to study, socialise and in all areas of management of Cass research and recognises build networks that remain in studies, including strategy, the impact it has on business, the place beyond graduation. entrepreneurship, corporate professions and policy-makers. social responsibility, marketing, Postgraduate students at Cass benefit information management, from the instruction and supervision organisational behaviour and by these pre-eminent academics, human resource management. who make great contributions in The Faculty of Actuarial Science advancing their specialist fields.
www.city.ac.uk 83 Course listing MSc courses: Actuarial Actuarial Management MSc 85 Actuarial Science MSc 86 MSc courses: Finance Banking & International Finance MSc 87 Eleftherios Kostis MSc Management, from Greece Corporate Finance MSc 88 Before coming to London, I studied Economics Finance MSc 89 at Paris-Sorbonne University, France. I chose City because of the University’s great global Investment Management MSc 90 connections and the opportunities I would have to interact with diverse groups of people. The International Accounting & Finance MSc 92 course itself has given me a lot of new and interesting insights. Once I graduate, I plan to return Finance & Investment (part-time) MSc 93 to France to work in management consultancy. MSc courses: Insurance & Risk Management Insurance & Risk Management MSc 94 MSc courses: Management Management MSc 95 MSc courses: Marketing Marketing Strategy & Innovation MSc 96 MSc courses: Quantitative Analysis Mathematical Trading & Finance MSc 97 Financial Mathematics MSc 98 Quantitative Finance MSc 99 MSc courses: Real Estate Real Estate MSc 100 Real Estate Investment MSc 101 MSc courses: Shipping & Energy Energy, Trade & Finance MSc 102 Shipping, Trade & Finance MSc 103 MSc courses: Supply Chain Global Supply Chain Management MSc 104 Charities courses Charity Accounting & Financial Management Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 105 Charity Marketing & Fundraising Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 106 Grantmaking, Philanthropy & Social Investment Postgraduate Diploma/Postgraduate Certificate/MSc 107 NGO Management Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 108 Voluntary Sector Management Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 109 Kamila Omarova MSc Management, from Kazakhstan MBA During my year at Cass, I took the opportunity MBA 110 to participate in an international field trip to Research Degrees Argentina. We were involved in a consultation project, helping Argentinian start up companies Research Degrees Executive PhD 112 to develop their businesses. We worked for one week in a government-supported incubator in Research Degrees MPhil/PhD 113 Buenos Aires which supports start-ups. It was an incredible experience!
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84 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 MSc courses: Actuarial Actuarial Management MSc
This course is aimed at those who wish to study material relevant to the second and third stage examinations of the Institute and MSc courses: Actuarial Faculty of Actuaries.
Duration Students emerge as highly valued • Pensions and other benefits professionals equipped with (Subject ST4) Full-time: one year. the latest technical tools and • Research methods for actuarial Cass Business School Part-time: two years. industry knowledge. professionals Entry requirements • Statistical methods (Subject CT6) The course enables students to • Strategic management and Applicants should hold an upper gain exemptions from Actuarial marketing. second class Bachelors honours degree Risk Management (Subject CA1), and/or a Masters degree/Postgraduate Communications (Subject CA3) There is also a wide range of elective Diploma or equivalent overseas and the Specialist Technical (ST) modules in term three. institution in a related subject and have subjects of the Institute and Faculty of already covered the fundamentals of Actuaries. The flexible course structure actuarial science at university degree also allows students to gain exemptions Accreditation or professional level. In addition, from outstanding Core Technical In addition to Cass’s ‘triple-crown’ applicants are required to have passed Subjects CT2, 4, 5, 6 and 8. The accreditation from the AACSB, AMBA and/or as a result of previous studies, part-time option is ideal for actuarial and EQUIS, the MSc in Actuarial are exempted from a minimum of five trainees in full-time employment, as it Management is accredited by the of the Core Technical (CT) examinations allows students to attend lectures and Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries benefit from a dedicated and virtual (or equivalent from recognised overseas learning environment. Career opportunities actuarial professional bodies). There is a strong demand for Applicants who have another degree Course content graduates educated to a postgraduate and who have passed all or most of The one year, full-time course is degree level in actuarial management the CT subjects of the Institute and spread over three terms, commencing and members of the actuarial Faculty of Actuaries’ examinations in the autumn. Part-time students profession are among the highest may also be considered. complete the same course over two paid in the UK. They work in fields including insurance, consulting, English language requirements academic years. government, banking and IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum Modules include: investment and academia. of 6.5 in the writing component. • Actuarial risk management (Subject CA1) Recent graduate destinations for • Contingencies (Subject CT5) this course include: • Aviva Life, Singapore: Actuarial • Finance and financial reporting Executive, Pricing (Subject CT2) • PwC, United Kingdom: Actuarial • Finance and investment A Analyst, Actuarial & Insurance (Subject ST5) Management Solutions • Finance and investment B • Willis, United Kingdom (Subject ST6) and India: Actuarial Analyst, • Financial economics (Subject CT8) Global Solutions. • General insurance: pricing (Subject ST8) • General insurance: reserving and capital modelling (Subject ST7) Find out more • Health and care (Subject ST1) • Life insurance (Subject ST2) [email protected] Other courses you may like • Modelling (Subject CT4) +44 (0)20 7040 8600 MSc Actuarial Science www.cass.city.ac.uk/actman
www.city.ac.uk 85 MSc courses: Actuarial Actuarial Science MSc
This course is aimed at highly numerate individuals who wish to pursue actuarial careers in insurance, finance, consultancy and related areas.
Duration This fast-track study route allows Career opportunities students to gain professional There is a strong demand for Full-time: one year. qualifications before embarking graduates educated to a postgraduate Entry requirements upon their careers, but is also aimed degree level in Actuarial Science at actuarial trainees and associates. Applicants should hold an upper and members of the actuarial second class honours degree from a profession are among the highest Students can gain up to eight leading UK university or international paid in the UK. They work in fields exemptions from the current equivalent in a subject with an including insurance, consulting, examination system of the Institute adequate mathematical content, government, banking and investment and Faculty of Actuaries, which is such as mathematics, statistics, and academia. just over half of the examinations economics or physics. required for Fellowship, thereby Recent graduate destinations for English language requirements saving several years of study. this course include: IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum • Brunei Investment Agency, of 6.5 in the writing component. Course content Brunei: Internal Fund The course consists of tuition spread Management, Rates Strategist over three terms, commencing in • KPMG, India: Actuarial Life, the autumn. Actuarial Analyst • Legal & General, United Kingdom: Modules include: Solvency II Group Protection, • Business economics (Subject CT7) Actuarial Trainee. • Contingencies (Subject CT5) • Finance and financial reporting (Subject CT2) • Financial economics (Subject CT8) • Financial mathematics (Subject CT1) • Modelling (Subject CT4) • Probability and mathematical statistics (Subject CT3) • Research methods for actuarial professionals • Statistical methods (Subject CT6).
There is also a wide range of elective modules.
Accreditation In addition to Cass’s ‘triple-crown’ accreditation from the AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS, the MSc in Actuarial Science is accredited by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. Find out more Other courses you may like [email protected] MSc Insurance & Risk Management +44 (0)20 7040 8600 MSc Actuarial Management www.cass.city.ac.uk/actscience
86 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 MSc courses: Finance Banking & International Finance MSc
This course reflects the wide and sophisticated range of MSc courses: Finance activities within banking, a sector which has experienced dramatic development and change in recent years.
Duration Students acquire a key skills set and Workshop sessions and City real-world knowledge vital to achieving practitioner contributions focus on Full-time: one year. success in their chosen career and key applications of knowledge in Cass Business School Entry requirements graduate with a comprehensive the professional environment and understanding of the principles and further increase the intensity and Applicants should hold an upper applications of essential business professional relevance of the course. second class honours degree or the areas including fixed income, equivalent from an international foreign exchange, derivatives, institution, preferably in mathematics, Accreditation asset management, mergers and economics, accounting or an In addition to Cass’s ‘triple-crown’ acquisitions and hedge funds. appropriate science. accreditation from the AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS, this course has The GMAT test may also be required The CFA, the global association of been awarded partner status by the in some cases. investment professionals, recognises CFA and is recognised as strong English language requirements the rigour and relevance of the MSc in preparation for their professional Banking & International Finance and IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum examinations. Students also have the has awarded this degree partner status. of 6.5 in the writing component. option of some additional preparatory classes for the CFA examinations. Course content The course is also accredited by This course comprises induction, ICAEW (Institute of Chartered core modules and either a Business Accountants of England and Wales). Research Project with one elective, or five electives. Career opportunities Graduates from the MSc in Banking Core modules include: & International Finance move • Commercial and investment banking into a diverse range of careers in • Corporate finance the financial sector: investment • Finance and investments banking, securities sales and • Financial statement analysis trading, foreign exchange, hedge • Fixed income and currency funds, private banking, credit derivatives products, financial and credit risk management and consultancy. • International finance • Quantitative methods for finance Recent graduate destinations for • Research methods for finance this course include: professionals • Bloomberg, United Kingdom: • Risk management. Financial Analytics, Financial Analyst (Equity Specialist) There is also a wide range of elective • PineBridge Investments, China: modules. A Business Research Project Private Equity, Trainee Analyst. provides an opportunity to specialise in a contemporary finance topic related to students’ future careers.
The course is delivered through Other courses you may like interactive lectures and seminars and Find out more MSc Corporate Finance a proportion of the assessed work is based on team assignments. [email protected] MSc International Accounting & Finance +44 (0)20 7040 8600
www.city.ac.uk 87 MSc courses: Finance Corporate Finance MSc
The MSc in Corporate Finance is based on our highly ranked MSc in Finance and gives students the opportunity to specialise in corporate finance, one of the most popular sectors of financial services.
Duration The MSc in Corporate Finance allows Workshop sessions and City students to develop their financial practitioner contributions focus on Full-time: one year. expertise to a high level and equips key applications of knowledge in Entry requirements graduates with the knowledge to the professional environment and navigate successfully the rapidly further increase the intensity and Applicants should hold an upper changing global landscape of corporate professional relevance of the course. second class honours degree or the finance. The CFA, the global association equivalent from an international of investment professionals, recognises Students on the MSc in Corporate institution, preferably in business the rigour and relevance of the MSc in Finance and the MSc in Investment studies, economics, accounting or Corporate Finance and has awarded Management can apply for an an appropriate science. this degree partner status. additional year of studies at Bocconi The GMAT test may also be required or LUISS universities in Italy to obtain in some cases. Our international body of graduates a degree from that institution, English language requirements has moved into a range of roles such subject to meeting specific entry as financial analysts, risk management requirements. Every year two places IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum and consultants, within areas such as are available at each university. of 6.5 in the writing component. corporate finance, fund management and banking. Accreditation In addition to Cass’s ‘triple-crown’ Course content accreditation from the AACSB, This course comprises induction, AMBA and EQUIS, this course has core modules and either a Business been awarded partner status by Research Project with one elective, the CFA, the global association of or two additional core modules with investment professionals. three electives. Students who complete the MSc in Core modules include: Corporate Finance can apply for • Advanced corporate finance exemptions from some CIMA and • Corporate finance and valuation ACCA modules. • Corporate risk management • Financial reporting Career opportunities • Financial statement analysis Graduates from the MSc in Corporate Finance move into a diverse range • Research methods for finance of financial sector careers including professionals investment banking, securities • Statistics in finance sales and trading, foreign exchange, • Theory of finance hedge funds, private banking, • Topics in mergers and acquisitions. assetmanagement, credit products, financial and credit risk management There is also a wide range of elective and consultancy. modules. A Business Research Project Other courses you may like provides students with an opportunity to specialise in a contemporary finance MSc Banking & International Finance topic related to their future careers. MSc Finance The course is delivered through Find out more MSc International Accounting interactive lectures and seminars and & Finance a proportion of the assessed work is [email protected] based on team assignments. MSc Investment Management +44 (0)20 7040 8600
88 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 MSc courses: Finance Finance MSc
The MSc in Finance can open up attractive global career MSc courses: Finance opportunities for top-calibre students. Our proximity to London’s financial district enhances the practical, real world nature of the educational experience.
Duration The MSc in Finance addresses a Workshop sessions and City wide range of financial issues practitioner contributions focus Full-time: one year. including portfolio management, on key applications of knowledge Cass Business School Entry requirements asset allocation and mergers and in the professional environment. Applicants should hold an upper acquisitions. Students also acquire second class honours degree or the in-depth knowledge of statistics, Accreditation equivalent from an international accounting and financial reporting. In addition to Cass’s ‘triple-crown’ institution, preferably in business accreditation from the AACSB, studies, economics, accounting or Our international body of graduates AMBA and EQUIS, this course has an appropriate science. has moved into a range of roles been awarded partner status by covering financial analysis, risk The GMAT test may also be required the CFA, the global association management and consultancy, within of investment professionals. in some cases. areas such as corporate finance, English language requirements fund management and banking. Students who complete the MSc in IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum Finance can apply for exemptions of 6.5 in the writing component. Course content from some CIMA and ACCA modules. This course comprises induction, core modules and either a Business Cass Business School is a Chartered Research Project with one elective, Institute for Securities & Investment or two additional core modules with (CISI) Centre of Excellence. Students three electives. who complete the MSc in Finance are also eligible for the award of Core modules include: the CISI Diploma without the need • Asset management to take CISI examinations. • Corporate finance and valuation • Derivatives and risk management Career opportunities • Financial reporting Graduates from the MSc in Finance • Research methods for finance move into a diverse range of careers professionals in the financial sector including investment banking, securities • Statistics in finance sales and trading, foreign exchange, • Theory of finance. hedge funds, private banking, credit products, financial and credit risk In term two students may management and consultancy. choose two out of three modules covering Advanced corporate Recent graduate destinations for finance, International finance this course include: and Fixed income. • Nomura, United Kingdom: Fixed Income Division, Structured There is also a wide range of elective Sales Analyst modules. A Business Research Project • Renaissance Capital, Russia: provides students with an opportunity Other courses you may like Investment Banking, Analyst. to specialise in a contemporary finance MSc Banking & International Finance topic related to their future careers. MSc Corporate Finance The course is delivered through interactive lectures, seminars and a Find out more MSc International Accounting proportion of team based assignments. & Finance [email protected] MSc Investment Management +44 (0)20 7040 8600
www.city.ac.uk 89 MSc courses: Finance Investment Management MSc
This course covers the traditional syllabus of a general Masters degree in finance and encompasses the key fundamentals of investment management including risk management, equity and fixed-income analysis and alternative investments.
Duration Students acquire theoretical specific entry requirements. Every principles and gain hands-on year two places are available at Full-time: one year. experience through case study work each university. Entry requirements and the use of our Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters dealing rooms. Applicants should hold an upper Accreditation second class honours degree or the In addition to Cass’s ‘triple-crown’ equivalent from an international Course content accreditation from the AACSB, AMBA institution. Some level of previous This course comprises induction, and EQUIS, this course has been study in finance or quantitative core modules and either a Business awarded partner status by the CFA, methods is preferred. Research Project with one elective, the global association of investment or five electives. professionals. It is also recognised The GMAT test may also be required by the Chartered Alternative in some cases. Core modules include: Investment Analysts Association English language requirements • Advanced financial (CAIA) and the Chartered Insurance IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum statement analysis Institute (CII). of 6.5 in the writing component. • Alternative investments • Equity analysis Cass Business School is a Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment • Fixed income (CISI) Centre of Excellence. Students • Portfolio management who complete the MSc in Investment • Portfolio theory Management are also eligible for the • Quantitative methods for award of the CISI Diploma without investment management the need to take CISI examinations. • Research methods for finance professionals Career opportunities • Structured products. The MSc in Investment Management has graduates working in positions There is also a wide range of elective such as portfolio managers, hedge modules. A Business Research Project fund specialists, traders, risk provides students with an opportunity managers, security analysts, brokers to specialise in a contemporary finance and corporate treasurers. topic related to their future careers. The course is delivered through Recent graduate destinations for interactive lectures and seminars and this course include: a proportion of the assessed work is • Citigroup, United States: Financial based on team assignments. Services – Hedge Funds/Other Investments, Analyst Workshop sessions and City • CNODC, China: Financial and practitioner contributions focus on Capital Operation, Mergers & key applications of knowledge in Acquisitions, Associate the professional environment. • Threadneedle, United Kingdom: Equity Investments, Analyst. Students on the MSc in Corporate Finance and the MSc in Investment Management can apply for an Other courses you may like additional year of studies at Bocconi Find out more MSc Finance or LUISS universities in Italy to [email protected] obtain a degree from one of those MSc Corporate Finance institutions, subject to meeting +44 (0)20 7040 8600
90 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 MSc courses: Finance Cass Business School
www.city.ac.uk 91 MSc courses: Finance International Accounting & Finance MSc
This course, which meets the international accounting standards, prepares students for leading roles in the global investment community and within commercial entities. It provides students with combined expertise in accounting and corporate finance.
Duration Starting with basic principles of The course is delivered through accounting and finance, students interactive lectures and seminars Full-time: one year. learn how to assess performance and a proportion of the assessed Entry requirements and conduct valuations of firms work is based on team assignments. using complex financial accounting Workshop sessions and City Applicants should hold an upper information. In addition, the course practitioner contributions focus on second class honours degree or the provides insights into company key applications of knowledge in equivalent from an international strategies and how to manage cost the professional environment and institution, preferably in mathematics, systems. Students also acquire the further increase the intensity and economics, accounting or an research skills necessary professional relevance of the course. appropriate science. to undertake valuation. The GMAT test may also be required Accreditation in some cases. Course content In addition to Cass’s ‘triple-crown’ English language requirements This course comprises induction, accreditation from the AACSB, IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum core modules and either a Business AMBA and EQUIS, this course has of 6.5 in the writing component. Research Project with one elective, been awarded partner status by or five electives, or the International the CFA, the global association of Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) investment professionals. certificate and two electives. Students who complete the MSc in Core modules include: International Accounting & Finance • Accounting information and can apply for exemptions from some capital markets CIMA and ACCA modules. • Applied empirical accounting • Finance 1: corporate finance Career opportunities and valuation Graduates from the MSc in • Finance 2: advanced International Accounting & Finance corporate finance move into a diverse range of careers • Financial reporting in the financial sector, particularly roles as analysts in accounting • Financial statement analysis firms, corporate finance, auditing, • International financial regulatory bodies and consultancies. management • Research methods for finance Recent graduate destinations for professionals this course include: • Strategic cost management. • Deloitte, United Kingdom: Audit Energy & Resources, A Business Research Project provides Associate students with an opportunity to • EY, Germany: Transaction specialise in a contemporary finance Advisory Services, Consultant topic related to their future careers. • PwC, Norway: Mergers & Acquisitions, Senior Associate.
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92 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 MSc courses: Finance Finance & Investment (part-time) MSc
This course is designed specifically for professionals working within the financial services sector, in particular those looking either to extend the scope of their current responsibilities or to make a career change.
Duration An innovative curriculum allows Workshop sessions and City students to choose from several practitioner contributions focus on Part-time: two years. elective modules, ensuring that the key applications of knowledge in Cass Business School MSc courses: Finance Entry requirements course is tailored to career aspirations the professional environment and and equips students with the tools further increase the intensity and Applicants should hold an upper required for success. professional relevance of the course. second class honours degree or the equivalent from an international This course appeals to those who institution, preferably in business Accreditation wish to extend the scope of current studies, economics, accounting or an In addition to Cass’s ‘triple-crown’ responsibilities or make a career appropriate science. accreditation from the AACSB, change into an area such as portfolio AMBA and EQUIS, this course has Applicants are strongly encouraged management, security analysis, been awarded partner status by to take the GMAT test. A good GMAT risk management, mergers and the CFA, the global association of score can considerably strengthen acquisitions or financial consultancy. investment professionals. an application. The course is designed for working Course content Cass Business School is a Chartered professionals and students are expected The course comprises core modules Institute for Securities & Investment to be in full-time employment for the and either a Business Research (CISI) Centre of Excellence. Students duration of the programme. Candidates Project with two electives, or five who complete the MSc in Finance & with less than two years of work electives with Research methods Investment are also eligible for the experience should speak directly with for finance professionals. award of the CISI Diploma without an admissions officer before applying. the need to take CISI examinations. Most students on the course work Core modules include: in a financial role or for a financial • Alternative investments Career opportunities services company. While this is not a • Financial risk management Many of our part-time students use requirement, a basic understanding • Financial statement analysis their MSc to enhance their prospects of financial services is required. • Portfolio management with their current employer, or see Candidates may be required to • Quantitative methods of finance it as an opportunity to change their attend an interview as part career direction. of the admissions process. • Securities • Structured products English language requirements Recent graduate destinations for • Theory of finance. this course include: IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum • Bloomberg: Senior Account of 6.5 in the writing component. There is also a wide range of elective Manager, Electronic Trading modules. A Business Research • Deutsche Bank AG: Associate, Project provides students with Emerging Markets, Global an opportunity to specialise in a Structured Credit Exotics contemporary finance topic related • Newton Investment Management: to their future careers. The course Senior Analyst is delivered through interactive lectures and seminars and a • Sumitomo Mitsui Banking proportion of the assessed work Corporation: Manager, is based on team assignments. Structured Finance.
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www.city.ac.uk 93 MSc courses: Insurance & Risk Management Insurance & Risk Management MSc
This course explores the world of risk and the growing relationship between insurance, risk management and financial services.
Duration The strong professional orientation of ‘Fast-Track’ scheme for ACII the course is enhanced by contributions holders: Applicants who already Full-time: one year. from leading practitioners within hold a CII Advanced Diploma Part-time: two years. London’s financial district. Students completed in the past five years graduate with a rounded skill base, may apply for the ‘fast track’ Entry requirements solidly positioned to build a successful scheme, which gives exemptions Applicants should hold an upper second career in an exciting and complex from some core courses of the MSc class honours degree or the equivalent business world. For applicants with and begins in January. from an international institution. a Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) Candidates with significant and Advanced Diploma, there is a fast- Students have the opportunity to relevant work experience in insurance track January start. earn substantial exemptions from or risk management who hold an ACII professional examinations in the field professional qualification may be The course equips students with of insurance and risk management, considered on their merits. the skills necessary to succeed as including 205–210 credits towards risk managers, financial advisors, the 290 required for the CII Advanced The GMAT test may also be required in consultants, underwriters, financial Diploma. Exemptions are also given some cases. analysts and insurance analysts. from some examinations of the English language requirements Institute of Risk Management. IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum Course content of 6.5 in the writing component. This course comprises induction, Career opportunities core modules, a Business Research Graduates from this course enjoy Project and three electives. senior positions across the world in businesses, including international Modules include: insurance, reinsurance and • Accounting and financial insurance broking firms, Lloyd’s management in insurance of London, leading investment • Business organisation and and retail banks, leading corporate strategy in insurance accountancy firms, management and financial services consultancies, risk management • General insurance departments of major corporations and regulatory authorities. • Insurance law and regulation • Principles of finance and Recent graduate destinations financial analysis for this course include: • Risk analysis and modelling • AXA Insurance • Risk management • China Life Insurance • Theory of risk and • Credit Suisse insurance markets. • Deloitte • Goldman Sachs There is also a wide range of elective modules in term three. • PwC • Tokyo Marine & Fire Accreditation Insurance Company. Cass Business School is among the global elite of business schools that hold the gold standard of Find out more Other courses you may like ‘triple-crown’ accreditation from [email protected] the AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS. MSc Management +44 (0)20 7040 8600
94 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 MSc courses: Management Management MSc
This course is academically rigorous and professionally oriented, giving graduates from different backgrounds the opportunity to develop knowledge and skills in key areas of modern management.
Duration The course is based on an MBA style Optional: curriculum and is academically • Business plan competition. Full-time: one year. rigorous without neglecting the applied, Entry requirements practical aspects of management International electives
education. Students come from We offer a range of international Cass Business School MSc courses: Management Applicants should hold an upper different backgrounds to experience electives. In 2015, for example, we second class honours degree or the the unique Cass environment of delivered international electives equivalent from an international learning, teamwork and collaboration. for MSc in Management students institution in any discipline and a desire in Buenos Aires, Mannheim, Rennes, to prepare for a career in management. The MSc in Management equips Dubai and Singapore. The GMAT test may also be required students with the foundations of in some cases. business management and the Accreditation English language requirements most advanced tools and theories. In addition to Cass’s ‘triple-crown’ These often come directly from the IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum accreditation from the AACSB, research carried out by Cass’s world of 6.5 in the writing component. AMBA and EQUIS, the MSc in renowned faculty. Management is ranked in the UK’s top three by the Financial Course content Times Masters in Management This course comprises 17 core ranking (September 2014). modules, a Business Research Project and two electives. Career opportunities Graduates from the MSc in Term one: Management move into a diverse • Accounting and finance range of careers including consulting, • Organisational behaviour and HRM marketing, advertising, luxury goods, • Principles of marketing and strategy wealth management, working for a • Quantitative methods for business. family business or setting up their own business. Term two: • Business and managerial economics Recent graduate destinations for • Research methods for business. this course include: • Deloitte, United Kingdom: Two out of five: Enterprise Risk Services, • Supply chain management Consultant • Leadership and change • Google, Ireland: Online Advertising, Advertising • International finance Operations Associate • Advanced strategy analysis • HSBC, United Arab • Entrepreneurship. Emirates: Private Banking, International Manager Term three: • Nestlé, Germany: Business Research Project and three Marketing, Trainee. Other courses you may like electives, including at least one of these four: The MSc in Management is designed for • Business and society graduates with less than three years of • Consulting project Find out more work experience. Applicants with more • Practice of management [email protected] than three years of work experience may wish to consider the MBA. • Global strategy. +44 (0)20 7040 8600
www.city.ac.uk 95 MSc courses: Marketing Marketing Strategy & Innovation MSc
This course equips students with the analytical capabilities needed to deal with complex marketing issues and become a proactive member of the dynamic and constantly changing marketing industry.
Duration The MSc in Marketing Strategy Term two: & Innovation instils essential • Brand management and Full-time: one year. ‘soft’ skills – including creativity, communication Entry requirements initiative, persistence, team • Consumer behaviour working, communication and Applicants should hold an upper second • Digital marketing and social leadership – required to influence class honours degree or the equivalent media people and organisations. from an international institution in any • Customer insights and market discipline and have a desire to prepare research. Providing an academically for a career in management. rigorous and professionally relevant Term three: English language requirements education, this course combines • Product innovation management sound theoretical foundations in IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum • Business sustainability of 6.5 in the writing component. marketing and innovation with a deeper examination of key topics • Three electives or a Business such as brand management, digital Research Project. marketing and consumer behaviour. Accreditation Crucially, the course enables Cass Business School is among students to harness the latest digital the global elite of business schools technology in the pursuit of effective that hold the gold standard of solutions. A strong practical ‘triple-crown’ accreditation from dimension includes opportunities to the AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS. tackle real-world marketing problems, enter competitions and undertake Career opportunities an international trip. This is a new course and therefore no employability statistics are The new MSc in Marketing Strategy available yet. Examples of where & Innovation is designed as a recent Cass graduates are now conversion course for people with working in the field of marketing are: no or little marketing education • Google, Ireland: Online and experience. Advertising, Advertising Operations Associate Course content • Nestle, Germany: This course comprises 12 core Marketing, Trainee. modules and either three elective modules or a Business Find out more by searching “What Research Project in term three. makes a great marketer” on YouTube.
Term one: • Marketing fundamentals • Marketing strategy and practice • Analytical methods for marketing • Creativity, innovation, design • Essentials of accounting and finance. Find out more Other courses you may like [email protected] MSc Management +44 (0)20 7040 8600
96 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 MSc courses: Quantitative Analysis Mathematical Trading & Finance MSc
This course offers students who already have excellent mathematical skills a solid foundation in financial mathematical theory and practice. MSc courses: Quantitative Analysis
Duration The course combines academic rigour Accreditation with strong professional application. Cass Business School has Full-time: one year. This enables students to participate ‘triple-crown’ accreditation from Part-time: two years. fully in the ever-changing derivatives the AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS. markets, where financial innovation Entry requirements and globalisation have created new Career opportunities Applicants should hold an upper second investment opportunities, risks and Graduates from the MSc in class honours degree or the equivalent instruments.
from an international institution in a Mathematical Trading & Finance Cass Business School move into a range of careers in quantitative subject. Part-time students Students acquire a sound knowledge the financial sector – careers in normally require some work experience. of mathematical finance, stochastic trading are particularly popular calculus, derivatives valuation, English language requirements with our alumni. financial engineering, quantitative IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum risk modelling, numerical methods Recent graduate destinations for of 6.5 in the writing component. and econometric techniques. this course include: • American Express, United Leading practitioners from quantitative Kingdom: Investment and trading departments of financial Optimisation, Financial Analyst institutions deliver the course, complementing theory with current • Citigroup, United Kingdom: Multi market practice. Our unique Bloomberg Asset Structuring, Vice President and Thomson Reuters dealing rooms • HeXin Securities, China: Equity provide the best possible facilities for Research, Investment Analyst hands-on learning. • IS Asset Management, Turkey: Alternative Investment Products, Students go on to pursue a wide range Portfolio Manager. of careers in derivatives trading and risk management, with many of the world’s leading financial institutions.
Course content This course comprises induction, core modules and a Business Research Project with one elective, or five electives.
Core modules include: • Advanced financial econometrics • Derivatives 1 and 2 • Mathematical finance • Numerical methods • Quantitative asset pricing • Research methods for quantitative professionals Other courses you may like • Risk analysis and modelling Find out more • Structured equity and MSc Financial Mathematics [email protected] energy derivatives. MSc Quantitative Finance +44 (0)20 7040 8600
www.city.ac.uk 97 MSc courses: Quantitative Analysis Financial Mathematics MSc
This course concentrates on the mathematical theory required to develop new products and involved in hedging and risk management.
Duration The course is mainly intended Accreditation to provide the tools required to Cass Business School has Full-time: one year. undertake high-quality research in ‘triple-crown’ accreditation from Entry requirements financial and academic institutions. the AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS. Applicants should hold an upper second Students acquire an in-depth class honours degree or the equivalent Career opportunities knowledge and understanding of from an international institution in Graduates of the MSc in Financial financial mathematics. This includes mathematics, statistics, physics, Mathematics frequently progress financial theory and mathematical actuarial science or engineering to one of two fields: modelling, along with probability (the latter two only if the degree has • Derivatives valuation and theory and programming. These sufficient mathematics content). portfolio management within are then applied for asset pricing, investment houses English language requirements interest rates modelling and risk • Research departments within IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum management. The course shares banks and consultancy firms. of 6.5 in the writing component. several core modules with the MSc in Quantitative Finance. Recent graduate destinations for Graduates are suited for jobs in this course include: investment houses involved in • Algorithmics, an IBM company, derivatives valuation and portfolio United Kingdom: Global Support, management, research departments Financial Engineer within banks and consultancy firms. • Orient Futures, China: Trading They are also equipped for careers Department, Trader involving the development of pricing • PT. Sukajadi Sawit Mekar HO, and risk management models and Indonesia: Strategy and their testing, or as risk analysts or Planning Analyst quantitative analysts. • Deutsche Bank Asset and Wealth Management, Geneva: Course content Graduate Trainee. This course comprises induction, core modules and either a Business Research Project with one elective, or five electives.
Modules include: • Advanced stochastic modelling methods in finance • Asset pricing • Fixed income securities • Mathematical models for financial derivatives • Numerical methods 1: foundations • Numerical methods 2: applications to finance Other courses you may like • Research methods for quantitative Find out more professionals MSc Mathematical Trading & Finance [email protected] • Risk analysis MSc Quantitative Finance • Stochastic calculus. +44 (0)20 7040 8600
98 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 MSc courses: Quantitative Analysis Quantitative Finance MSc
This course focuses on the implementation and testing of financial models. It is designed to give students a sound understanding of the quantitative aspects of finance used by both practitioners and academics.
Duration The MSc in Quantitative Finance There is also a range of elective explores topics such as econometrics, modules, which in recent years have Full-time: one year. forecasting and risk modelling and included: Visual basic, Exotic options, Entry requirements covers financial instruments and Weather and energy derivatives, financial theory from a mathematical Trading and hedging in the forex Applicants should hold an upper second and practical point of view. The market and Advanced financial class honours degree or the equivalent course also provides students with engineering and credit. from an international institution in knowledge of various computer
mathematics, statistics, physics, Cass Business School MSc courses: Quantitative Analysis software and programming actuarial science, computer science, Accreditation languages such as Matlab. engineering or economics (the latter two Cass Business School has only if the degree has sufficient applied ‘triple-crown’ accreditation from Graduates of this course are mathematics content). the AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS. prepared for career paths in financial English language requirements institutions which require advanced Career opportunities technical skills in quantitative IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum Although investment and hedge analysis, financial research, of 6.5 in the writing component. funds remain the biggest users and quantitative asset management, innovators in quantitative finance, derivatives structuring, financial other financial sectors, such as programming, quantitative commercial banking, insurance and strategies implementation and fund management, are now keenly risk management. interested in graduates from the MSc in Quantitative Finance. Course content This course comprises: induction, Recent graduate destinations for core modules and either a Business this course include: Research Project with one elective, • Deutsche Bank Risk Centre, or five electives. Germany: Risk Analytics and Instruments, Quant Analyst Core modules include: • Mitsubishi UFJ, Thailand: Global • Asset pricing Sales and Trading, Interest Rate • Derivatives Derivatives Trader • Econometrics of financial markets • Standard & Poor’s, United • Fixed income securities Kingdom: Analytic Development • Foundations of econometrics Group, Risk Analyst • Numerical methods 1: foundations • The Bank of Tokyo, Japan. • Numerical methods 2: applications to finance • Research methods for quantitative professionals • Risk analysis.
Other courses you may like Find out more MSc Financial Mathematics [email protected] MSc Mathematical Trading & Finance +44 (0)20 7040 8600
www.city.ac.uk 99 MSc courses: Real Estate Real Estate MSc
This course is aimed at students who are looking to develop a career in the real estate industry but may be unsure of the direction they wish to take.
Duration The MSc in Real Estate applies the Accreditation utmost rigour in the analysis of real In addition to Cass’s ‘triple-crown’ Full-time: one year. estate and allows entry into a several accreditation from the AACSB, Entry requirements different career paths. AMBA and EQUIS, the MSc in Real Applicants should hold an upper second Estate is accredited by the Royal The course is designed to provide class honours degree or the equivalent Institution of Chartered Surveyors a broad background in real from an international institution. (RICS). This enables graduates estate investment, appraisal and to enter the RICS Assessment of English language requirements development. The core modules Professional Competence. IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum cover a wide range of areas in real of 6.5 in the writing component. estate including real estate finance, Career opportunities valuation, development, market Graduates from the MSc in Real analysis and economics. Estate are highly sought-after and are well-placed to take up positions Alumni of the course have gone in many areas within real estate. on to roles in a range of property These include valuation, investment, management and consultancy finance and asset management. businesses. Recent graduate destinations for Course content this course include: This course has a three-term • Cushman & Wakefield: structure. The first two terms contain Development, Development the core and core elective modules, Consultant while the third term contains • DTZ: Valuation and Advisory, Valuer three electives and a Business Research Project. The course starts • EC Harris: Corporate Real Estate, with an induction programme to Project Manager bring students up-to-date with the • Societe Generale: Real Estate knowledge requirements. Fundraising Group, Analyst.
Modules include: • Applied valuation and taxation • International real estate markets • Landlord and tenant law • Property valuation • Quantitative techniques in investment • Real estate asset management • Real estate development and planning • Real estate economics • Real estate finance • Real estate investment and market analysis. Find out more Other courses you may like [email protected] MSc Real Estate Investment +44 (0)20 7040 8600
100 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 MSc courses: Real Estate Real Estate Investment MSc
This course is aimed at those wishing to enter or advance their
careers in the fields of real estate investment management, real MSc courses: Real Estate estate finance and the securitised real estate markets.
Duration The MSc in Real Estate Investment Accreditation combines the rigour of a mainstream In addition to Cass’s ‘triple-crown’ Full-time: one year. finance course with financial theory accreditation from the AACSB, AMBA
Entry requirements and techniques in a real estate and EQUIS, the MSc in Real Estate Cass Business School context. The course is designed for Applicants should hold an upper Investment is accredited by the Royal those with relevant undergraduate second class honours degree or the Institution of Chartered Surveyors degrees or work experience and strong equivalent from an international (RICS). This enables graduates quantitative skills. It provides an institution. Applicants are required to enter the RICS Assessment of ideal foundation for those wishing to to have a broader background in Professional Competence. study for the Investment Management quantitative techniques and finance. Certificate or the Chartered Financial Career opportunities English language requirements Analyst examinations. It also offers Graduates from the MSc in Real a route of entry to the UK Investment IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum Estate Investment are highly Property Forum. of 6.5 in the writing component. sought-after and are well-placed to take up positions in many areas Alumni of the course have gone within real estate. These include on to roles in a range of property investment, research, finance management and consultancy and portfolio management. businesses. Recent graduate destinations Course content for this course include: This course has a three-term • Jones Lang LaSalle, structure. The first two terms contain UK: Strategic Consulting, the core modules, while the third Global Performance Manager term contains three electives and a • Standard Life Investment, Business Research Project. It starts UK: Real Estate, Graduate with an induction programme to Portfolio Manager bring students up-to-date with the knowledge requirements for the • The Royal Bank of Scotland, course. UK: Corporate Coverage Germany, Analyst. Modules include: • Investment markets • Portfolio risk management • Quantitative techniques • Real estate capital markets • Real estate debt markets • Real estate economics • Real estate investment and financial analysis • Real estate modelling and market dynamics.
Other courses you may like Find out more MSc Real Estate [email protected] MSc Finance & Investment (part-time) +44 (0)20 7040 8600
www.city.ac.uk 101 MSc courses: Shipping & Energy Energy, Trade & Finance MSc
This course offers a unique approach to global business. Students are equipped with key skills in the areas of commodity finance, logistics and supply chain management.
Duration The aim of this course is to enable Accreditation students to operate at the highest In addition to Cass’s ‘triple-crown’ Full-time: one year. levels of international business. accreditation from the AACSB, Entry requirements Lectures and seminars are given by AMBA and EQUIS, the MSc in highly qualified practitioners from the Applicants should hold an upper Energy, Trade & Finance is accredited business and finance communities. second class honours degree, the by the Energy Institute. equivalent from an international institution, or an equivalent Course content Career opportunities professional qualification. This course comprises induction, Graduates from the MSc in Energy, core modules and either a Business English language requirements Trade & Finance hold key positions Research Project with one elective, and have eminent careers in over IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum or five electives. 70 countries in fields such as of 6.5 in the writing component. commercial banking, commodity Core modules include: trading, government, investment • Advanced quantitative methods banking, law, logistics management, • Corporate finance management consultancy, • Energy economics manufacturing, shipping, finance, • Financial markets shipping operations, stockbroking • Managerial accounting and academia. • Oil and energy trading economics Recent graduate destinations for and finance this course include: • Oil and energy transportation • DenizBank A.S., Turkey: Project and logistics Finance, Associate • Power, agriculture and metals • Glencore, United Kingdom: Oil, markets Light Distillers, Analyst • Principles of finance • Inge Steensland Shipbrokers AS, • Quantitative methods Norway: Clean Tankers, • Research methods for trade Trainee Shipbroker. and finance professionals.
There is also a wide range of elective modules.
Other courses you may like MSc Shipping, Trade & Finance
MSc Energy and Environmental Find out more Technology and Economics [email protected] MSc Renewable Energy and Power Systems Management +44 (0)20 7040 8600
102 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 MSc courses: Shipping & Energy Shipping, Trade & Finance MSc
This course offers a unique approach to global business. Students are equipped with key skills in the areas of shipping finance, commodity finance, logistics and supply chain management, commodity trade,
financial and commodity risk modelling and management. MSc courses: & Energy Shipping
Duration Lectures and seminars are led by Accreditation academics and professionals from the In addition to Cass’s ‘triple-crown’ Full-time: one year. business and finance communities. accreditation from the AACSB, AMBA Entry requirements and EQUIS, the MSc in Shipping, The course is validated by the Applicants should hold an upper Trade & Finance is validated by the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers. second class honours degree, the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers. Students successful in certain equivalent from an international Cass Business School modules on the MSc may apply for institution or an equivalent Career opportunities exemption from examinations of the professional qualification. Some Graduates from the MSc in Shipping, Institute: please visit the Institute’s level of previous study in finance or Trade & Finance hold key positions website for further information. quantitative methods is preferred. and have eminent careers in over 70 countries in fields such as Relevant work experience is Course content considered an advantage. commercial banking, commodity This course comprises induction, trading, government, investment English language requirements core modules and either a Business banking, law, logistics management, IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum Research Project with one elective, management consultancy, of 6.5 in the writing component. or five electives. manufacturing, shipping, finance, shipping operations, stockbroking Modules include: and academia. • Advanced quantitative methods • Corporate finance Recent graduate destinations for • Financial markets this course include: • International commodity trade • DenizBank A.S., Turkey: Project • International economics Finance, Associate • Managerial accounting • ENI Trading & Shipping, United Kingdom: Front Office Trading/ • Principles of finance Sour Crude Desk, Trading Analyst • Quantitative methods • Inge Steensland Shipbrokers AS, • Research methods for trade and Norway: Clean Tankers, finance professionals. Trainee Shipbroker. • Shipping economics* • Shipping investment and finance**.
Other courses you may like Find out more MSc Energy, Trade & Finance [email protected] MSc Maritime Operations and * Sponsored by Thanassis and Marina Martinos +44 (0)20 7040 8600 Management ** Sponsored by the American Bureau of Shipping (ABS)
www.city.ac.uk 103 MSc courses: Supply Chain Global Supply Chain Management MSc
This course is designed to create knowledgeable, confident and connected supply chain professionals, whose skill sets are attractive across industry sectors.
Duration Combining a deep understanding Accreditation of core theories and concepts in Cass Business School is among the Full-time: one year. international supply chain and global elite of business schools that Entry requirements operations management, the course hold the gold standard of ‘triple- offers an emphasis on analytical Applicants should hold an upper second crown’ accreditation from the AACSB, and decision-making frameworks. class honours degree or the equivalent AMBA and EQUIS. from an international institution in any Students develop key business discipline and have a desire to prepare Career opportunities and critical thinking skills needed for a career in management. This is a new course and therefore no to operate effectively when making employability statistics are available English language requirements decisions at specialist level. yet. Examples of where recent IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum graduates are now working in the of 6.5 in the writing component. Course content field of supply chain management are: This course comprises 12 core modules • Danske Bank and either a Business Research Project • Danone and one elective, or four electives in term three. • Ecobank Nigeria Ltd • UBS Term one: • Yusen logistics (Thailand). • Essentials of accounting and finance Find out more by searching ‘Cass • Strategy for delivering value Global Supply Chain Management’ • Quantitative methods for business on YouTube. • Managing operations • Supply chain management.
Term two: • Research design • Project management • Global procurement • Supply chain finance • Supply chain forecasting and decision analysis.
Term three: • Business sustainability • Consulting skills for global supply chain management With either: • Business Research Project and one elective Or • Four electives. Find out more Other courses you may like [email protected] MSc Management +44 (0)20 7040 8600
104 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Postgraduate Diploma/MSc Postgraduate Management Financial & Accounting Charity or financial advisors to charities and nonprofit organisations. nonprofit and charities to advisors financial or department finance organisation’s an in working managers This is an advanced course aimed at experienced finance courses Charities Part-time: six to eight months. MSc conversion one year.Part-time: Sector Management PgDip/MSc Voluntary PgDip/MSc NGOManagement Philanthropy & Social Investment PgCert/PgDip/MSc Grantmaking, Fundraising & PgDip/MSc Charity Marketing Other courses you may like IELTS: 7.0. in English: minimum grade C. The Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency English language requirements professional qualification. normally have adegree orequivalent for at least three years. Applicants have typically beeninarelevant post The course is aimed at people who Entry requirements Postgraduate Diploma Part-time: ninemonths. (exemption route) Postgraduate Diploma Duration
modules: Students alsotakethreespecialist • • • • • • • Core modulesinclude: underpinning ofmanagementskills. courses, whichprovidetheessential Charity Effectivenesspostgraduate modules, commontoallCentrefor The Diplomaconsistsoffourcore action learningandexaminations. per monthandadditionaltimefor a FridayandSaturdayoneweekend one year.Thisrequiresattendanceon on apart-timebasisoverperiodof The PostgraduateDiplomaisoffered Course content completing theMasters. area (Taughtoption)when (Dissertation) orasecondsubject want tocoveronesubjectindepth of qualificationandwhetherthey the flexibilityofchoosinglevel part-time structureallowsstudents within thesector.Thetwoyear areas primarilyforthoseworking covers auniquebreadthofspecialist Masters programme.Theprogramme courses offeredintheCharities This courseisoneoffivepostgraduate financial accountingpractice. of charitytaxationanddistinctive equips studentswithknowledge Accounting &FinancialManagement The PostgraduateDiploma/MScinCharity www.city.ac.uk
audit andtaxation Shadowing/fieldwork exercise. Shadowing/fieldwork management Voluntary sectorfinancial Advanced charityaccounting, Strategy, diversityandgovernance. Resource management Marketing andfundraising voluntary sector Learning andunderstandingthe
organisation orthesector. for amoreseniorroleintheir formalise theirexperienceorprepare sector-specific qualification, degree inordertogainarecognised, They undertakethispostgraduate or trustees,overseveralyears. for exampleashonorarytreasurers significant experienceasvolunteers, sector. Othershavegained in arelatedrolethecommercial are alreadyworkinginthesectoror in theCharitiesMastersprogramme Students whoapplyforthecourses Career opportunities Diploma inCharityManagement. Secretaries andAdministrators (DChA) andtheInstituteofChartered Diploma inCharityAccounting are eligibletoapplyfortheICAEW Postgraduate Diploma,students On successfulcompletionofthe and EQUIS. The courseisaccreditedbyAACSB Accreditation social enterprise). option (includingamoduleon through aDissertationorTaught continue tocompletetheMSc of theDiploma,studentsmay Upon successfulcompletion qualification whichstartsinApril. ICAEW memberswithanACA Diploma (exemptionroute)for We alsorunaPostgraduate +44 (0)20 7040 5114 +44 (0)2070405114 [email protected] Find out more
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Cass Business School Charities courses Charities courses Charity Marketing & Fundraising Postgraduate Diploma/MSc
Marketing and fundraising within charitable and nonprofit organisations are particularly complex, especially as there is an increasing demand for more resources.
Duration This course aims to develop a broad, Students also take three informed and critical understanding specialist modules: Postgraduate Diploma of the complex issues surrounding • Fundraising one year. Part-time: fundraising, the use of marketing as • Strategic charity making MSc conversion a strategic tool and its importance to • Shadowing/fieldwork exercise. Part-time: six to eight months. an organisation’s long-term planning Entry requirements and sustainable future. Upon successful completion of the Diploma, students may continue The course is aimed at people who This is one of five postgraduate have typically been in a relevant post to the MSc through a Dissertation courses offered in the Charities or Taught option. for at least three years. Applicants Masters programme. The programme normally have a degree or equivalent covers a unique breadth of specialist professional qualification. For those taking the Taught option areas primarily for those working in the second year, there is also the English language requirements within the sector. The two year opportunity to complete a module The Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency part-time structure allows students on social enterprise. in English: minimum grade C. the flexibility of choosing the level of qualification and whether they Accreditation IELTS: 7.0. want to cover one subject in depth (Dissertation) or a second subject The course is accredited by (Taught option) when completing AACSB and EQUIS. the Masters. On successful completion of the core modules, students may apply for the Course content Institute of Chartered Secretaries The Postgraduate Diploma is offered and Administrators Diploma on a part-time basis over a period of in Charity Management. one year. This requires attendance on a Friday and a Saturday one weekend Career opportunities per month and additional time for action learning and examinations. Students who apply for the courses in the Charities Masters programme The Diploma consists of four core are already working in the sector or modules, common to all Centre for in a related role in the commercial Charity Effectiveness postgraduate sector. Others have gained significant courses, which provide the essential experience as volunteers, for example underpinning of management skills. as honorary treasurers or trustees, over several years. Core modules include: • Learning and understanding the They undertake this postgraduate voluntary sector degree in order to gain a recognised, sector-specific qualification, • Marketing and fundraising Other courses you may like formalise their experience or • Resource management prepare for a more senior role in PgDip/MSc Charity Accounting • Strategy, diversity and governance. their organisation or the sector. & Financial Management PgCert/PgDip/MSc Grantmaking, Philanthropy & Social Investment Find out more PgDip/MSc NGO Management [email protected] PgDip/MSc Voluntary Sector Management +44 (0)20 7040 5114
106 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Charities courses Grantmaking, Philanthropy & Social Investment Postgraduate Diploma/Postgraduate Certificate/MSc This course is designed for those with established careers in grantmaking and other forms of social funding and students looking to formalise and develop their knowledge and skills in this area. Cass Business School Charities courses Duration The course focuses on all types of Students also take three ‘giving and funding’ where the objective specialist modules: Postgraduate Certificate is social benefit rather than financial • Management of grantmaking Part-time: six months. return. It covers both grants and other • Principles and practices Postgraduate Diploma forms of investment such as loans, of grantmaking Part-time: one year. endowments, contracts and service • Shadowing/fieldwork exercise. MSc conversion level agreements. Part-time: six to eight months. Upon successful completion of This is one of five postgraduate courses Entry requirements the Certificate, students can opt offered in the Charities Masters to continue to undertake the The Certificate is aimed at individuals programme. The programme covers outstanding modules for the Diploma. with some experience of social funding. a unique breadth of specialist areas Upon successful completion of the The Diploma is for people with at least primarily for those working within the Diploma, students may continue to three years’ experience in the area. sector. The course structure allows the MSc through a Dissertation or Applicants normally have a degree or students the flexibility of choosing the Taught option (including a module equivalent professional qualification. focus and level of qualification. on social enterprise). English language requirements Course content The Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency Accreditation in English: minimum grade C. The course runs on a Friday and The course is accredited by Saturday one weekend each month AACSB and EQUIS. IELTS: 7.0. and additional time is required for action learning and examinations. On successful completion of the core modules, students may apply for the The Postgraduate Certificate starts Institute of Chartered Secretaries in April and combines one core and Administrators Diploma in and three specialist modules. Charity Management.
The Postgraduate Diploma consists Career opportunities of four core modules, common to all Centre for Charity Effectiveness Students who apply for the courses postgraduate courses. These cover in the Charities Masters programme the essential skills that underpin are already working in the sector or grantmaking and other types of in a related role in the commercial social funding. sector. Others have gained significant experience as volunteers. Core modules include: • Learning and understanding the They undertake this postgraduate voluntary sector degree in order to gain a recognised, sector-specific qualification, • Marketing and fundraising formalise their experience or Other courses you may like • Resource management prepare for a more senior role in • Strategy, diversity and governance. their organisation or the sector. PgDip/MSc Charity Accounting & Financial Management PgDip/MSc Charity Marketing & Fundraising Find out more PgDip/MSc NGO Management [email protected] PgDip/MSc Voluntary Sector Management +44 (0)20 7040 5114
www.city.ac.uk 107 Charities courses NGO Management Postgraduate Diploma/MSc
International NGOs play an increasingly important role in addressing the challenges and consequences of extreme poverty and humanitarian emergencies.
Duration NGO managers face complex Students also take three management issues at a personal and specialist modules: Postgraduate Diploma organisational level. This course has • NGO management: the Part-time: one year. been designed to develop and improve strategic issues MSc conversion the management competencies • Managing NGOs: people Part-time: six to eight months. and strategic capabilities of a new and practices Entry requirements generation of NGO managers to enable • Shadowing/fieldwork exercise. them to address these challenges. The course is aimed at people who Upon successful completion of the have typically been in a management Students learn to recognise the post for at least three years. Applicants Diploma, students have the option strategic challenges and dilemmas to continue to the MSc through normally have a degree or equivalent facing NGO managers, identify professional qualification. a Dissertation or Taught option appropriate strategies in order (the taught specialist modules English language requirements to address them and gain an of one of the other courses The Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency appreciation of the issues in managing within the Charities Masters in English: minimum grade C. change in NGOs. They develop skills programme, including a module in the area of marketing, fundraising on social enterprise). IELTS: 7.0. and the effective management of scarce organisational resources. Accreditation They are also introduced to best practice in how to develop strategies, The course is accredited by interpret financial reports and manage AACSB and EQUIS. international teams effectively. Career opportunities Course content Students who apply for the courses The course commences in October in the Charities Masters programme and runs on a Friday and a Saturday are already working in the sector or one weekend each month. Students in a related role in the commercial should also be prepared to commit sector. Others have gained additional time for action learning significant experience as volunteers, and examinations. for example as honorary treasurers or trustees, over several years. The Postgraduate Diploma consists of four core modules, which cover They undertake this postgraduate essential skills that also underpin degree in order to gain a recognised, NGO management. sector-specific qualification, formalise their experience or Core modules include: prepare for a more senior role in • Learning and understanding the their organisation or the sector. Other courses you may like voluntary sector PgDip/MSc Charity Accounting • Marketing and fundraising & Financial Management • Resource management PgDip/MSc Charity Marketing • Strategy, diversity and governance. & Fundraising PgCert/PgDip/MSc Grantmaking, Find out more Philanthropy & Social Investment [email protected] PgDip/MSc Voluntary Sector Management +44 (0)20 7040 5114
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This well-established course was originally developed in partnership with nine leading charities and is based on research into nonprofit sector managers’ needs. Cass Business School Charities courses Duration This course has been designed as Upon successful completion of the a complete development course for Diploma, students have the option Postgraduate Diploma managers who want to gain a sound to continue to the MSc through Part-time: one year. understanding of the management a Dissertation or Taught option MSc conversion of people and finances in the sector. (the taught specialist modules Part-time: six to eight months. Theory and practice are interwoven of one of the other courses Entry requirements around subjects such as strategy, within the Charities Masters marketing, fundraising, diversity, programme including a module Those undertaking the course are finance and leadership. on social enterprise). normally managers with three or more years of management experience, This is one of five postgraduate Accreditation working in a nonprofit organisation. courses offered in the Charities The course is accredited by It is particularly useful to general Masters programme. The programme AACSB and EQUIS. managers in small to medium-sized covers a unique breadth of specialist organisations and middle or senior areas for those working within Completion of the core modules managers in large organisations. the sector. The two year part-time gives entitlement and complete Applicants normally have a degree or structure allows students the exemption for the Institute equivalent professional qualification. flexibility of choosing the focus of Chartered Secretaries and English language requirements and level of qualification. Administrators Diploma in Charity Management. The Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency Course content in English: minimum grade C. The Postgraduate Diploma is offered Career opportunities IELTS: 7.0. on a part-time basis over a period of Students who apply for the courses one year. This requires attendance on in the Charities Masters programme a Friday and Saturday one weekend per are already working in the sector or month and additional time is required in a related role in the commercial for action learning and examinations. sector. Others have gained significant experience as volunteers, for example The Diploma consists of four core as honorary treasurers or trustees, modules, common to all Centre for over several years. Charity Effectiveness postgraduate courses, which provide the essential They undertake this postgraduate underpinning of management skills. degree in order to gain a recognised, sector-specific qualification, Core modules include: formalise their experience or • Learning and understanding prepare for a more senior role in the voluntary sector their organisation or the sector. • Marketing and fundraising • Resource management Other courses you may like • Strategy, diversity and governance.
PgDip/MSc Charity Accounting Students also take three & Financial Management specialist modules: PgDip/MSc Charity Marketing • Organisations, leadership & Fundraising and change Find out more PgCert/PgDip/MSc Grantmaking, • Managing people and quality Philanthropy & Social Investment • Shadowing/fieldwork exercise. [email protected] PgDip/MSc NGO Management +44 (0)20 7040 5114
www.city.ac.uk 109 MBA MBA
An exhilarating combination of intensive learning, professional application and personal development provides students with theskills and experience needed to boost performance, enhance employability and plot their next decisive career move.
Duration With a highly successful balance Creating management advantage between theory and practice, • Human resource management Full-time: one year. The Cass MBA immerses students • Operations management Evening Executive: two years. in real-world business issues from • Marketing. day one, while allowing them to Weekend Executive: two years. tailor their MBA through a choice Knowledge and policy Executive MBA in Dubai: two years. of electives and development. • Governance Entry requirements • Corporate finance This is an opportunity to join a diverse Applicants should hold an upper community of equally enthusiastic • Digital technologies and second class honours degree, the and focused professionals, educated business innovation. equivalent from an international by an international faculty in the heart institution, or at least six years’ of one of the most vibrant and well- Projects relevant business experience for connected business cities in the world. • Strategy project applicants without a degree. • International Consultancy Week Full-time: Course content • Business Mastery project. A minimum of three years’ full-time The full-time MBA is an intensive, There is also a wide range of professional experience, gained 12 month journey that fundamentally elective modules. after graduation. transforms the way students approach business and their career. During the A well-balanced score of at least 600 The core modules are taken by in the GMAT. Applicants can apply year students acquire the professional skills, tools and insights to deliver and all students before they take their before taking the GMAT if a GMAT choice of electives and then begin booking confirmation is also supplied. create value in a range of sectors. There is a focus on collaborative projects with their Business Mastery Project. Personal statement. real business clients to plan, strategise Two supporting references from and deliver practical solutions. Career opportunities suitable sources. Cass’s employability experts help The Cass Executive MBA is a Cass MBA students to pursue and Evening and Weekend Executive professionally oriented, dynamic achieve their individual career goals and Executive MBA Dubai: and flexible two year part- based on their past experience, A minimum of five years’ relevant and time programme. This elite, desired career direction and appropriate, full-time work experience, internationally focused course individual long-term career goals. gained after graduation (four years’ allows students to tailor their skills for Dubai). and learn around their career and Graduates of the MBA go on to Personal statement (approx. 1,000 words). professional development. achieve a range of career successes across many different industries. Two supporting references from Some Cass alumni have set up their suitable sources. Sample of core modules (for full-time MBA): own businesses while others have English language requirements Strategy and organisations gone on to senior roles within the IELTS: 7.0. • Organisational behaviour same organisation or, having gained • Accounting and financial reporting confidence and new skills, changed • Strategy. their career direction completely.
The financial environment Find out more • Business in the global economy • Markets and investments Cass MBA: +44 (0)20 7040 0286 • Analytics for business. [email protected] www.cassmbalondon.com
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Roly Clark MBA, from the United Kingdom
Working alongside the other MBA students has undoubtedly been one of the highlights of my time here. We are from over 30 countries and arrived at Cass with diverse professional backgrounds, so both socially and academically, the environment has been great. I chose Cass because of its reputation and its location in the City; once I graduate, I plan to stay in London and work in executive management.
Ebru Ergun Marta Magani Jonathan Gomez MBA, from Turkey MSc Corporate Finance, from Italy MBA, from Trinidad & Tobago
My background is in finance and accounting – I studied Finance as an undergraduate at Bocconi If I could give one piece of advice to professionals before coming to Cass I worked as a financial University in Milan and when I decided to specialise thinking of undertaking an MBA at Cass, it controller in Istanbul. The MBA experience has been in Corporate Finance at postgraduate level, Cass would be to come with an open mind – the MBA quite intense, but I have found it intellectually very was an attractive option both for its location in provides an unparalleled opportunity to explore satisfying. I particularly enjoyed the modules I took the City and for the course content. One of the subjects and sectors that may be unfamiliar in business strategy and in the future, I hope to be highlights of my year here has been the chance to and those who focus too closely on their career able to combine my professional background with work closely with other MSc students: we spend path miss the chance to broaden their horizons this area. My advice to prospective MBA students? a lot of time in the library together and I’ve also and skills. I plan to move into management Even though the course is demanding, make the served as Vice-President of the Student Mergers consulting once I leave Cass, but in the longer most of the social and networking opportunities and Acquisitions Society, which has involved term, I am interested in strategic planning and available at Cass. coordinating conferences and networking events. business development.
www.city.ac.uk 111 Research Degrees Research Degrees Executive PhD
Offering all the academic rigour of a traditional PhD, the Executive PhD is a key career development tool for senior executives working in the public, governmental, nonprofit and commercial sectors.
Duration The Executive PhD focuses on • Cross-cultural management research that makes an impact on • Gender differences and Part-time: four years. professional practice and broader behavioural finance Entry requirements business and society issues. • Private equity in shipping Applicants should hold an excellent • Optimisation of the intellectual Delivered by Cass Business School MSc, MBA or equivalent business- property model and TIAS School for Business and related degree with a minimum of Society, the programme combines • SMEs and job creation. five years’ managerial experience and expertise in a range of business topics must be able to make a credible time including management, finance, Accreditation commitment to independent study, in accounting and actuarial science. Students graduate with a joint addition to the training weeks. doctorate from City University English language requirements Candidates explore a wide range of London and Tilburg University. Evidence of English language ability subjects, including the latest scientific Both are accredited by the AACSB might be required. insights, theoretical frameworks and and AMBA. Cass has additional practical applications, all set in an accreditation from EQUIS. international context. Career opportunities Course content The Executive PhD supports The programme comprises ten, the career development of high- 40-hour residential weeks, divided profile, research-orientated between the UK and the Netherlands, business professionals who with additional private study. It use research to enhance the includes a thesis presentation in understanding of the organisations year four. and processes they manage.
Indicative list of research topics: It enhances the career and skills of • Corporate social responsibility the individual, while providing the • Organisational sustainability organisations they work for with • Social movements valuable research input. • Entrepreneurial decision-making; The programme is for individuals who strategic information systems are at a critical point in their career, • Organisational innovation by helping them to change course • Pricing in competitive or secure more senior positions. insurance markets • The capital market effects of firm disclosure • Investment banking relations • Investment strategies and asset pricing • Securitisation and bank credit risk • Pricing in commodity and shipping markets • Asset valuation in Find out more commodity markets • Public shipping companies www.cass.city.ac.uk/execphd performance +44 (0)20 7040 5030
112 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 MPhil/PhD Research Degrees heavyweight within his or her field. her his or within heavyweight study, the letters PhD mark an individual out aresearch as to become an acknowledged in their chosen expert area of For those with the intellectual capacity, dedication and ambition Degrees Research IELTS: 7.0. English language requirements online via Applications should besubmitted to thewebsite for theexact deadline. is normally theend of May. Please refer admission. The deadline for application academic year before they wish to gain to apply as early as possible inthe Prospective candidates are encouraged A top GMAT score. university with atop grade. leading a from MastersA degree of being accepted: desirable and enhance your likelihood The following qualifications are highly research topic. a subject related to theproposed from aninternational institution in class honours degree ortheequivalent Students must hold anupper second Entry requirements Full-time:four years. Duration www.cass.city.ac.uk/phd. www.city.ac.uk the University. University. the to external be will whom of one least at examiners, two at of least front in voce at aviva attendance and thesis PhD the of submission with conclude Studies conferences. and at workshops them present and articles research finish research, their deepen students four and three years During status. PhD to progression four: and three Years research. future for plan adetailed providing and results research their summarising Report aTransfer submit candidates two, year of end the At thesis. MRes the in outlined research the of out details to fleshing devoted is two Year status. to MPhil admitted are students MRes, the of completion On two: Year degree. MRes of award an by marked is Completion pursued. to be hypotheses and questions research formulates topic and the of areview contains thesis The thesis. a and examinations coursework, by assessed programme training level aPhD- attend students Year one: content Course thinking. other’s each enrich and leaders and policy-makers can share academics, industry experts, business students, where research and of ideas apowerhouse It is learning. business for specifically created environment an and perspective international atruly has Cass remuneration. international careers and competitive ideas, to explore freedom the enjoy recognition, professors school business Top-tier schools. business in career academic a successful to build aim who We people welcome progression to MPhil status. status. to MPhil progression examination examination
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Cass Business School Research Degrees School of Health Sciences The School of Health Sciences is a leading provider of postgraduate education in healthcare and health and social care policy and practice. Postgraduate students learn with academic staff who are clinical practitioners and engaged in interdisciplinary research across the fields of nursing, midwifery, long- term care, health policy, management and research, optometry, public health, radiography and language Dr Rachael-Anne Knight and communication Associate Dean for Education Technology and Innovation; Associate Professor of Phonetics
science. Their work is Dr Rachael-Anne Knight, a member of academic staff in City’s Division of Language and Communication transforming the provision Science, is an expert in the areas of intonation, rhythm, rhotics, clinical phonetics and accent Alexia Charpentier of healthcare services in perception. She recently published an article in the MSc Advanced Practice in Health and Social International Journal of Language & Communica- Care (Speech, Language and Communication), the UK and internationally. tion Disorders which examines the ways in which from Greece and France children with speech-sound disorders are classified, highlighting the need for a robust, reliable and I really enjoy the course structure and the module valid classification system appropriate for use by content of the MSc Advanced Practice. The course clinicians and researchers. Dr Knight is the author is very self-directed and has encouraged me to of the Bloomsbury Companion to Phonetics (2013, build my critical thinking skills. In my free time, Bloomsbury), a comprehensive reference resource I volunteer for a local society that assists children for advanced students, academics and practitioners. with learning and physical disabilities. Dr Knight and students from the School of Health Sciences are in the Myddelton Street Building, close to Northampton Square.
114114 CityCity University University London London Postgraduate Postgraduate Prospectus Prospectus 2016/17 2016/17 The School of Health Sciences is a world- our graduates to have a direct impact on Our research is often leading centre for healthcare education healthcare policy, services and practice. interdisciplinary involving and applied healthcare research. The partnership with service users, School offers a comprehensive range Graduate entry courses in Nursing and NHS Trusts, local authorities, of academic and professional courses Speech and Language Therapy offer government bodies, non- for postgraduate students working (or a ‘fast-track’ route to a Postgraduate governmental and third sector planning to work) in the healthcare Diploma or MSc for students who have organisations. Examples of our School of sector or researching (or planning previously gained an undergraduate research include: nursing and to conduct research) in healthcare. degree, while the Midwifery and midwifery investigations into Courses are designed for students with Public Health (School Nursing, Health nurses’ clinical leadership; service appropriate first degrees and for those Visiting and District Nursing) courses change and reform in maternity at pre-registration, post-registration or allow registered nurses to gain a and women’s health; and service School of Health Sciences Continuing Personal and Professional second registration. user involvement in mental Development (CPPD) levels. Over 1,000 healthcare. In health services students, including over 100 research Scholarships for postgraduate study research, academic staff are Health students, are enrolled in postgraduate are available for several courses in engaged in studies that examine degrees at the School. the School, including the Dean’s health psychology, telehealth Scholarship for the MSc Advanced and self-management, care of the The range of MSc degrees in Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care elderly and dementia and long- Practice in Health and Social Care allow degrees and the SHS International term conditions. Research within healthcare professionals to develop their Excellence Scholarship, available the area of optometry and visual research skills, evidence-based practice to overseas students. Further science includes the early detection Sciences and leadership alongside healthcare information on funding is available at of glaucoma, development of practitioners from different professional www.city.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/ retinal imaging and ophthalmic backgrounds. Specialist MSc degrees funding-and-financial-support. public health. Within language in the fields of Clinical Research, and communication sciences we Optometry, Health Management, Health The School delivers world-leading have conducted groundbreaking Policy, Health Services Research, healthcare research that impacts research into new forms of therapy Public Health, Speech, Language and policy, service delivery, practice and for people with aphasia, innovative Communication, Nursing, Midwifery and education in the UK and overseas. collaborative work in education Radiography provide an opportunity for In the 2014 Research Excellence with adolescents with language graduates and practitioners to develop Framework (REF) 82% of our research and communication difficulties and their specialist skills and advance their activity, 100% of our research the development of language and careers. The School of Health Sciences is environment and 100% of research communication skills among deaf committed to offering research degrees impact was rated as either ‘world- and hearing-impaired children. at Masters and PhD levels which enable leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’.
Jennifer Middleton Postgraduate Diploma in Speech and Language Therapy, from the United Kingdom
I wanted to study at a university with a reputation for excellence in both research and clinical practice. At City, the academic staff are practising clinicians who are influential in their fields and enthusiastic about their subjects. I have undertaken a clinical placement in a community clinic, specialising in paediatric dysphagia and another placement working in a stammer group for teenagers. I also work part-time with a toddler with cerebral palsy. I aspire to become a speech and language therapist, using the creative and evidence-based techniques I’m developing here.
www.city.ac.ukwww.city.ac.uk 115115 Course listing Masters courses: Language and Communication Science Graduate entry conversion courses Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Speech, Language and Communication) MSc 134 Adult Nursing Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 117 Speech, Language and Communication Needs Child Nursing Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 118 in Schools: Advanced Practice MSc 135 Mental Health Nursing Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 119 Masters course: Midwifery Midwifery (78-week shortened course) Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 120 (Midwifery) MSc 136 Public Health (School Nursing, Health Visiting Masters courses: Nursing and District Nursing) Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 121 Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care Speech and Language Therapy (Advanced Nurse Practitioner: Adult, Child Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 122 or Neonatal) MSc 137 Masters courses: Health Management, Policy, Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care Psychology, Research and Public Health (Advanced Ophthalmic Nurse Practitioner) MSc 138 Clinical Research MRes 123 Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care Health Management MSc 124 (Nursing) MSc 139 Health Policy MSc 125 Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care Health Psychology/Psychology and Health MSc 126 (Ophthalmic Nursing) MSc 140 Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology DPsych7 12 Masters courses: Optometry Health Services Research MSc 128 Clinical Optometry MSc 141 Public Health MSc 129 Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Clinical Optometry) MSc 142 Masters courses: Interprofessional courses Masters courses: Radiography Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care MSc0 13 Medical Ultrasound MSc 143 Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Adult Mental Health) MSc 131 Radiography (Computed Tomography, Medical Magnetic Resonance and Radiotherapy) MSc 144 Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Child and Adolescent Mental Health) MSc 132 Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Radiotherapy) MSc 145 Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Long Term Conditions and Long Term Care) MSc3 13 Research Degrees Research Degrees MPhil/PhD 146
116 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Graduate entry conversion courses Adult Nursing Postgraduate Diploma/MSc
The Postgraduate Diploma in Adult Nursing prepares students for a challenging and fulfilling profession caring for adults of all ages who may have gained injuries, suffered accidents, acquired diseases or have a range of healthcare needs. Graduate entry conversion courses
Duration The Postgraduate Diploma offers a Fifty per cent of course time is spent fast-track route to a career in adult on clinical placement. Placements Full-time: two years or two years and nursing for graduates who are can be in settings such as acute and 14 weeks depending upon previous committed and dedicated, with the critical care, GP surgeries, nursing clinical experience. willingness to give time to others homes, private hospitals, patients’ The course is a fast-track route for with care and compassion. Students homes and the community, mostly graduates through the standard three need to be compassionate, caring, within City’s community of practice year BSc Nursing course. resilient and capable of empowering areas in north east London. Entry requirements individuals of all ages. On successful completion of the
Applicants should hold a second class Our staff are at the forefront of the Postgraduate Diploma students may School of HealthSciences honours degree or the equivalent from latest healthcare developments have the opportunity to upgrade to an international institution. through their academic, clinical and an MSc by undertaking a research Applicants should also demonstrate an research activity. Students prepare project and dissertation. awareness of health or health-related for the clinical environment in City’s care issues and previous relevant work state-of-the-art simulated ward, Accreditation experience is taken into consideration. while clinical placements take place Successful graduates will be GCSE: English Language and in City’s ‘community of practice’, registered by the NMC which Mathematics Grade C. a partnership of leading hospitals provides an internationally and healthcare providers in north recognised professional qualification. Applicants are required to have east London. Graduates enjoy occupational health and enhanced excellent career prospects and gain Career opportunities Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) registration with the Nursing and Ninety three per cent of nursing checks. Academic and character Midwifery Council (NMC). references are also required. graduates go on to employment or further study after graduation. Successful completion of Assessment Tuition fees for home and EU of Prior Learning (APL) is required. students studying this course Nursing is a life-long career where English language requirements are paid by the NHS. graduates can develop their skills IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum and interests within a range of of 7.0 in each category. Course content specialisms. Graduates also have Students combine theoretical the opportunity to progress to further study with clinical experience. advanced practice MSc study in a The course emphasises the specialist area at City. development of clinical, leadership and communication skills and ethics alongside knowledge in the principles and application of biology, physiology and pathology. Students take modules directly related to adult nursing and also share modules with the fields of mental health and child nursing. Enquiries for Postgraduate Diploma courses should be directed to [email protected]
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www.city.ac.uk 117 Graduate entry conversion courses Child Nursing Postgraduate Diploma/MSc
The Postgraduate Diploma in Child Nursing prepares students for a fulfilling and rewarding career in supporting and caring for children, young people and their families through periods of ill-health, rehabilitation and recovery.
Duration The Postgraduate Diploma offers a Fifty per cent of course time is spent fast-track route to a career in child on clinical placement. Placements can Full-time: two years or two years and nursing. The course allows students be in settings such as acute care, GP 14 weeks depending upon previous to make a real difference to the lives surgeries, nurseries, private hospitals, clinical experience. of children, young people and their schools and the community, mostly The course is a fast-track route for families. Students need to be versatile, within City’s community of practice graduates through the standard three resilient and capable of empowering in north east London. year BSc Nursing course. children of all ages. Entry requirements On successful completion of the Our staff are at the forefront of the Postgraduate Diploma students may Applicants should hold a second class latest healthcare developments have the opportunity to upgrade to honours degree or the equivalent from through their academic, clinical and an MSc by undertaking a research an international institution. research activity. Students prepare project and dissertation. Applicants should also demonstrate for the clinical environment in City’s an awareness of health or health- state-of-the-art simulated ward, Accreditation related care issues and previous while clinical placements take place Successful graduates will be relevant work experience is taken in City’s ‘community of practice’, registered by the NMC which provides into consideration. a partnership of world-leading an internationally recognised GCSE: English Language and hospitals and healthcare providers professional qualification. Mathematics Grade C. in north east London including Barts and The London Children’s Hospital. Career opportunities Applicants are required to have Graduates enjoy excellent career Ninety three per cent of nursing occupational health and enhanced prospects and gain registration graduates go on to employment Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) with the Nursing and Midwifery or further study after graduation, checks. Academic and character Council (NMC). references are also required. with our nursing graduates starting their careers with an annual average Successful completion of Assessment Tuition fees for home and EU salary of £25,000. of Prior Learning (APL) is required. students studying this course are English language requirements paid by the NHS. Nursing is a life-long career where IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum graduates can develop their skills of 7.0 in each category. Course content and interests within a range of Students combine theoretical study specialisms. Graduates also have with clinical experience. The course the opportunity to progress to emphasises the development of further advanced practice MSc clinical and communication skills study in a specialist area at City. and ethics alongside knowledge in the principles and application of biology, physiology and pathology. Students take modules directly related to child nursing and also share modules with the fields of mental health and adult nursing. Enquiries for Postgraduate Diploma courses should be directed to [email protected]
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118 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Graduate entry conversion courses Mental Health Nursing Postgraduate Diploma/MSc
The Postgraduate Diploma in Mental Health Nursing prepares students for a rewarding career in mental health nursing. Graduate entry conversion courses
Duration The Postgraduate Diploma offers a covering the diverse communities fast-track route to a career in mental of Newham, Tower Hamlets and Full-time: two years or two years and health nursing for students who Hackney. Placements can take place 14 weeks depending upon previous wish to make a real difference to within different care environments. clinical experience. the lives of people of all ages who These include acute care wards The course is a fast-track route for experience mental health problems. for users that present with acute graduates through the standard three Mental health nursing focuses on mental illness, services for the year BSc Nursing course. the provision of holistic care that care of older persons within the Entry requirements enables people with mental health community and secure settings and problems to be physically safe specialist services such as child and
Applicants should hold a second class and emotionally secure. Students adolescent mental health services. School of HealthSciences honours degree or the equivalent from need to be compassionate, caring, an international institution. resilient and capable of empowering The clinical experience supports Applicants should also demonstrate an individuals of all ages. students to explore the service user’s awareness of health or health-related journey and their recovery from care issues and previous relevant work Our award-winning staff are at the mental illness. experience is taken into consideration. forefront of the latest healthcare GCSE: English Language and developments through their academic, On successful completion of the Mathematics Grade C. clinical and research activity. Students Postgraduate Diploma students may prepare for the clinical environment have the opportunity to upgrade to Applicants are required to have in City’s state-of-the-art simulated an MSc by undertaking a research occupational health and enhanced ward, while clinical placements take project and dissertation. Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) place within the East London NHS checks. Academic and character Foundation Trust. Graduates enjoy references are also required. Accreditation excellent career prospects and gain Successful graduates will be Successful completion of Assessment registration with the Nursing and of Prior Learning (APL) is required. registered by the NMC which provides Midwifery Council (NMC). an internationally recognised English language requirements professional qualification. IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum Tuition fees for home and EU of 7.0 in each category. students studying this course Career opportunities are paid by the NHS. Ninety three per cent of nursing graduates go on to employment or Course content further study after graduation, with Students combine theoretical study our nursing graduates starting their with clinical experience. The course careers with an annual average salary emphasises the development of of £25,000. clinical and communication skills and ethics alongside knowledge in Nursing is a life-long career where the principles and application of graduates can develop their skills biology, psychology, sociology and and interests within a range of nursing. Students take modules specialisms. Graduates also have Enquiries for Postgraduate Diploma directly related to mental health the opportunity to progress to further courses should be directed to nursing and also share modules with advanced practice MSc study in a [email protected] the fields of child and adult nursing. specialist area at City.
Find out more Fifty per cent of course time is spent on clinical placement. Placements [email protected] mainly take place within the East +44 (0)20 7040 5790 London NHS Foundation Trust
www.city.ac.uk 119 Graduate entry conversion courses Midwifery (78-week shortened course) Postgraduate Diploma/MSc Midwives work with families and parents at one of the most important times of their lives. Midwives care and support women and their partners during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period.
Duration The Postgraduate Diploma in Course modules relate to Midwifery (78-week shortened the following themes: Full-time: 78 weeks over three terms. course) offers a fast-track route to a • Applied biological sciences Start dates in March and September. rewarding and challenging career • Fundamental aspects of care Entry requirements in midwifery. It prepares qualified • Professional midwifery knowledge adult nurses who have at least six Applicants must be registered with the • Psychosocial sciences and months’ practice experience to Nursing and Midwifery Council as adult public health. nurses and should have at least six become qualified midwives. Students months’ clinical experience. can upgrade the Postgraduate Diploma to an MSc following their Career opportunities Applicants should hold a lower second final year through the completion Midwives enjoy excellent career class honours degree or the equivalent of a dissertation. It is recommended opportunities within the NHS and from an international institution. that students do not progress to the private organisations both in the Applicants are required to have MSc until they have completed a year UK and overseas. occupational health and enhanced in post-qualification practice, as they Disclosure and Barring Service need to consolidate practice. Graduates can work in the (DBS) checks. community, birth centres or hospitals or independently. English language requirements Our staff are at the forefront of the latest healthcare developments IELTS: 7.0 overall. through their academic, clinical and City also offers further opportunities research activity. Students prepare for study at MSc level. for the clinical environment in City’s state-of-the-art simulated ward, while clinical placements take place in some of the busiest and most diverse maternity units in the country.
This salaried course is funded by the NHS.
Course content Students combine theoretical study with clinical experience, with a theory/practice split of 40/60.
Students are allocated to a clinical area, where they take on a small caseload of women, supported by mentors and midwife supervisors. Clinical placements are based in all areas of maternity services including community clinics, birthing centres, Enquiries for Postgraduate Diploma antenatal clinics, delivery suites, courses should be directed to antenatal/postnatal wards and [email protected] women’s homes. Find out more [email protected] +44 (0)20 7040 5790
120 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Graduate entry conversion courses Public Health (School Nursing, Health Visiting and District Nursing) Postgraduate Diploma/MSc The Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health (School Nursing, Health Visiting and District Nursing) offers qualified and registered nurses and midwives an opportunity to enhance their knowledge and broaden their skills to improve health within communities. Graduate entry conversion courses
Duration There is an increased focus on When on placement in a community public health and community care setting, students work with the Full-time: one year. in nursing today. This means that support of a practice teacher (a Part-time: two years. specialist nursing practitioners who qualified practitioner and educator) have clinical, research and leadership within their sponsoring NHS Trust. Entry requirements knowledge are in demand. This course This practice teacher facilitates The course is only available to students responds to that need by offering three reflection and learning. seconded by the NHS. specialist community practitioner Applicants should hold an upper second routes: School Nursing, Health Visiting Accreditation class honours degree or the equivalent or District Nursing. Students who This course is approved by the from an international institution. complete the Postgraduate Diploma Nursing and Midwifery Council School of HealthSciences may upgrade to an MSc through the (NMC), which means that it aligns Applicants for the District Nursing completion of a dissertation. route should be registered with the with NMC standards of proficiency for specialist community public NMC as adult nurses. Applicants for Course content the School Nursing or Health Visiting health nurses (School Nursing should be registered on Part 1 or Part 2 The course is 50 per cent practice and and Health Visiting routes). It is of the NMC register. 50 per cent theory. It promotes shared also aligned to V100 standards professional learning about clinical (Community prescribing) and English language requirements practice, evidence-based practice specialist professional qualification IELTS: 7.5. and leadership and it reflects current standards for District Nursing. public health and community care policy agendas. Graduates of the School Nursing and Health Visiting routes can Students undertaking the register as a Specialist Community Postgraduate Diploma study Public Health Nurse with the NMC. seven modules. This is an integrated District Nursing graduates can course where learning is shared record their specialist practice between routes so students can qualification with the NMC. exchange ideas and gain a deeper knowledge and insight about their Career opportunities practice. Route specific learning is Previous graduates have taken up offered within particular modules. posts as school nurses, health visitors and district nurses in local Trusts. Key areas addressed within the course include: After a period of consolidation • Philosophy and politics of and sometimes further study, our primary healthcare graduates can take up specialist or • Innovations in healthcare: management posts within the NHS. leadership and management perspectives • Public health and society • Research methods Enquiries for Postgraduate Diploma • Practice-based learning, including courses should be directed to nurse prescriber course V100 [email protected] • Assessment in primary care Find out more • Evidence for practice. [email protected] +44 (0)20 7040 5790
www.city.ac.uk 121 Graduate entry conversion courses Speech and Language Therapy Postgraduate Diploma/MSc
The Postgraduate Diploma in Speech and Language Therapy prepares graduates for employment in a challenging and varied field.
Duration The course has an excellent health centres, schools, children’s reputation and is offered by the centres, hospitals and private Full-time: two years. An additional largest teaching, research and clinical practices across London. Students six months to one year is required division in the UK for language and work with diverse client groups, to convert the Postgraduate Diploma communication science. Students observing a range of communication to an MSc. learn from staff who are leaders in the disabilities and applying theoretical Entry requirements field of speech and language therapy. understanding to clinical practice. Applicants should hold an upper second The innovative and research-informed class honours degree or the equivalent curriculum is supported by a busy On successful completion of the from an international institution. in-house speech and language therapy Postgraduate Diploma, students may clinic led by specialist staff. City have the opportunity to upgrade to English language requirements also has close links with speech and an MSc by undertaking a research IELTS: 7.5 overall with a minimum of language therapy services throughout project and dissertation. 7.5 in spoken and written components London, with many practitioners from and a minimum of 7.0 in listening and these services acting as clinical tutors Career opportunities reading components. on our courses. After completing the Postgraduate Diploma, students can register with Tuition fees for home and EU the Health and Care Professions students studying the Postgraduate Council and practise as a speech and Diploma are paid by the NHS. language therapist in the NHS and other settings. Speech and language Course content therapists work with a range of A typical week for a Postgraduate clients at different ages, including Diploma student consists of three days children with speech and language at City, one day on clinical placement difficulties, children and adults who and one day of private study. During stammer, stroke patients, head and their time at City, students learn the neck cancer patients, deaf children foundations of speech and language, and adults and children and adults how children learn to talk and about with learning difficulties. A career in disorders that affect communication. speech and language therapy offers Students prepare to analyse a range opportunities to work in settings of speech, language and hearing including health centres, hospitals, difficulties by applying their skills and day centres, schools, charities, knowledge in a range of areas including universities and independent phonetics, linguistics, audiology and practice. Students can also work psychology. Students also develop abroad or follow career paths in research skills and the ability to apply management, research or education. evidence-based practice.
Students undertake weekly and block clinical placements in both years of the course, working under the Enquiries for Postgraduate Diploma supervision of a qualified therapist. courses should be directed to Clinical placements are essential [email protected] for developing the professional and interpersonal skills necessary to Find out more practise as a speech and language therapist. Placements are based [email protected] in a range of settings including +44 (0)20 7040 5790
122 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Masters courses: Health Management, Policy, Psychology, Research and Public Health Clinical Research MRes
The MRes in Clinical Research provides students with training in quantitative and qualitative research methods and applied data analysis from basic to advanced levels. The course also provides opportunities to apply this research knowledge to clinical settings.
Duration Knowledge and critical understanding Career opportunities of clinical research methods is The course gives students the Full-time: one year. becoming increasingly important for research and academic training Part-time: two years. all professionals in the health, social to become a clinical academic care and private sectors, where an Entry requirements researcher across all health service evidence-based approach, supported settings including the NHS, Applicants should hold an upper second by academic rigour, is crucial to charities, industry, government, class honours degree or the equivalent decision-making, clinical practice private practice and academic and from an international institution with an and delivery of integrated services. research settings. Graduates gain upper second class mark or international vital transferable skills which are equivalent in a dissertation. This course enables students to applicable to all health and medical- Applicants should also be registered independently design, develop related careers where attention to with a relevant professional body, have and conduct research relevant to detail, conducting research and at least one year of experience working clinical practice, appraise current evaluation for evidence-based as a clinician in the health sector research (evidence-based healthcare), practice and report writing is a and be currently working in a clinical apply findings to the delivery of career advantage. healthcare environment. health services in clinical practice and develop a collaborative, Applicants who do not have relevant NIHR-Funded Studentships interdisciplinary and ethical employment experience but have NIHR-funded studentships are approach to research and work. plans for a future career path in available for students taking the clinical academic research may also MRes Clinical Research course, The course is suitable for healthcare be considered. starting in the 2016/17 academic professionals from primary care or year. The studentships cover Masters courses: Health Management, Policy, Psychology, Research and Public Health English language requirements allied health disciplines working in successful applicants’ salary and clinical research. It is also suitable for IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum course/tuition fees. The MRes students aspiring to work in this field. of 6.5 in each category. Clinical Research supports non- medical healthcare professionals to Twelve bursaries funded by pursue a clinical academic pathway. the National Institute of Health Discover more information about Research are available. HEE/NIHR funding at www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/nihr- Course content hee-cat-programme-mres.htm. Core modules include: • Introduction to research methods and applied data analysis School of Health Sciences (30 credits) • Advanced research methods (15 credits) • Advanced data analysis (15 credits) • Work-based clinical placement (15 credits) • The application of research in clinical settings (15 credits) • Dissertation (90 credits). Find out more [email protected] +44 (0)20 7040 5790
www.city.ac.uk 123 Masters courses: Health Management, Policy, Psychology, Research and Public Health Health Management MSc
The MSc in Health Management provides strategic insights, critical management perspectives and integrative thinking for leading innovation and change in international healthcare and business.
Duration The course brings the latest academic performance of others and the thinking and business strategies influence of international global Full-time: one year. into healthcare practice to help healthcare contexts. Part-time: two years. leaders transform business models and health systems; encourage Core modules include: Start dates in January and September. organisational renewal, collaboration • Strategic management in healthcare Entry requirements and learning; and create value, • Health innovation and change Applicants should hold an upper redesign service delivery and care • Management and leadership second class degree in any pathways to achieve strategic goals in healthcare and generate system efficiencies. discipline or the equivalent from • Health management consultancy an international institution. The course is tailored to respond • Health economics For applicants with relevant to the challenges and issues faced • Research methods and applied experience in healthcare with clinical by managers and leaders in health data analysis qualifications and membership of systems worldwide. It combines • Dissertation. professional bodies a lower second academic rigour, current theoretical class degree may be accepted. models and professional experience. Elective modules include: English language requirements Unlike courses that focus on managing • International health systems IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum technical systems and functions • Strategic commissioning of 6.5 in each category. we emphasise integrative thinking, • Pharma enterprise and management of people, cultures and economic evaluation. meanings, which are highly relevant in the professional settings of healthcare. Career opportunities MSc Health Management graduates Learning is experiential and work globally across many sectors interactive and emphasises the as highly regarded managers and application of management concepts leaders in healthcare, often with in healthcare practice. Relevant case dual clinical and management studies relating to real-life examples responsibilities. This includes: are used in learning and we regularly care providers, NGOs and social welcome practitioners as guest speakers. enterprises, private enterprise, health insurance, pharmaceutical Course content companies, medical devices and This course emphasises integrative biotechnologies; health policy and thinking combining intuition, regulatory organisations; and health analytic reason and imagination management consultancy. and transformational leadership capabilities. It develops key The course is suitable for clinicians competencies and capabilities, and managers with prior experience drawing on diverse organisational in healthcare wishing to take their and management perspectives. careers to the next level and for graduates with health-related or Graduates develop the capacity to business degrees preparing for work effectively with others within careers in global healthcare. organisations and across health systems, to think broadly and deeply Find out more about challenges in healthcare and to reflect critically on one’s [email protected] own leadership style, the +44 (0)20 7040 5790
124 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Masters courses: Health Management, Policy, Psychology, Research and Public Health Health Policy MSc
The MSc in Health Policy aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills they need to understand, analyse and influence the health policy process in the 21st century.
Duration The UK and global healthcare Core modules include: landscape is becoming increasingly • The health policy process, Full-time: one year. complex. Significant shifts, such as politics and power Part-time: two years. advances in health technologies, • Social determinants of health rising consumer expectations, Start dates in January and September. • International health systems increasing longevity and prevalence • Health economics Entry requirements of chronic illness, present growing challenges for healthcare systems, • Foundations in research Applicants should hold a lower second methods and data analysis. class honours degree or the equivalent ensuring that healthcare and health from an international institution. policy are at the top of political agendas across the world. Elective modules include: Applicants who do not hold a degree • Global health but do have relevant employment The course equips students with the • Public health experience in the health sector may knowledge and skills they need to • Health policy in Britain be considered. understand, analyse and influence • Health innovation and change st We also consider applications from the health policy process in the 21 • Management and leadership individuals who may not have prior century, the social, political and in healthcare experience of working within the economic factors that affect it at • Strategic commissioning health sector but who have plans for local, national and international level a career in health policy. and its impact on health systems • Food and public policy • Strategic management English language requirements and services and wider society. It combines an international focus and in healthcare IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum academic rigour with the development • Economic evaluation in Masters courses: Health Management, Policy, Psychology, Research and Public Health of 6.5 in each category. of practical policy analysis and related healthcare. skills which can be applied in real- world health policy, planning and Career opportunities management settings. Health and healthcare are key priorities for the public and Graduates from any academic government alike and it is highly discipline with an interest in health likely that demand for health policy policy-related issues can apply for experts will remain high. Graduates the course. The course is also of this course working or with a suitable for professionals from desire to work within a health- a wide range of backgrounds related organisation in the public, including the medical, nursing private or third sector are equipped School of Health Sciences and allied health professions; with a range of key transferable public health, national and local health policy skills. government; NGOs; international agencies; research institutions; and the private sector.
Course content Lectures, workshops and seminars are led by academic staff from the Schools of Health Sciences and Arts & Social Sciences and there is Find out more a range of distinguished honorary and guest speakers. [email protected] +44 (0)20 7040 5790
www.city.ac.uk 125 Masters courses: Health Management, Policy, Psychology, Research and Public Health Health Psychology/ Psychology and Health MSc City’s MSc in Health Psychology/Psychology and Health aims to give students a thorough understanding of health psychology theory and research and to develop relevant academic and communication skills.
Duration Health psychology is devoted to Modules include: furthering understanding of the • Behavioural medicine one year. Full-time: scientific relationships between the • Communication in a Part-time: two years. social and psychological dimensions healthcare context of health and illness. These include: Entry requirements • Health promotion • Environmental factors • Health psychology research project MSc in Health Psychology applicants • Psychosocial and sociocultural • Lifespan, gender and culture should hold an upper second class factors that may contribute honours degree or the equivalent from to disease or its prevention • Professional and contextual issues in health psychology an international institution and GBC, as • Behavioural methods used defined by the BPS. in the diagnosis, treatment • Research design and statistics MSc in Psychology and Health or rehabilitation of individuals • Research in action applicants should hold a lower living with physical disorders • Theoretical foundations second class honours degree (or the • Techniques that could reduce of health psychology. international equivalent) in psychology disease risk by modifying or a relevant subject. health beliefs Accreditation English language requirements • Attitudes or behaviours This degree is accredited by the IELTS: 7.0 in all categories. including decisions about British Psychological Society (BPS). using professional services. Career opportunities Course content This MSc constitutes stage one of The MSc in Health Psychology professional health psychology aims to enable students to develop training. Upon successful an awareness of professional and completion of the course, graduates contextual issues relevant to the are eligible to apply for stage two practice of health psychology. training or may seek employment.
The MSc in Psychology and Health was established in 1999 for applicants who do not have Graduate Basis for Chartered Membership (GBC) but who have an interest in psychological issues related to health.
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126 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Masters courses: Health Management, Policy, Psychology, Research and Public Health Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology DPsych City University London’s Professional Doctorate in Health Psychology is the stage two component of a health psychology programme to be completed by aspiring health psychologists with the view of pursuing a career in health psychology.
Duration The course provides students with The candidate must have been the all of the competencies of the health primary participant in the case Full-time: two years. psychologist and the development of studies. Emphasis is placed on the Part-time: four years. individual skills and experience. skills and knowledge required to be a scientist-practitioner. Video, audio Entry requirements The aim of the course is for students or other evidence of examples of Applicants should hold an upper to be able to practise competently practice are required as part of the second class honours degree or the and confidently in health psychology appendices to the case studies. equivalent from an international and produce an original piece institution, an MSc in Health of research that contributes to Career opportunities Psychology, Graduate Basis for the knowledge of applied health On completion of this degree, Chartered Membership (GBC) as psychology. It is accredited by the graduates are eligible to become defined by the BPS and one year’s British Psychological Society (BPS) registered psychologists with the professional experience in research and approved by the Health and BPS and can register with the HCPC. or a health psychology-related area. Care Professions Council (HCPC). Graduates of this course go on to English language requirements senior positions in the healthcare Course content IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum field including the NHS, charities of 6.0 in each category. Students can apply to become and private companies. Trainees registered psychologists or health learn consultancy skills which has psychologists under the HCPC led several graduates to set up their following completion of all practice own consultancy services. and research components and once
they have passed their viva voce Masters courses: Health Management, Policy, Psychology, Research and Public Health examinations within a minimum of two years (full-time students; four years, pro-rata for part-time students). The portfolio of competence must include: • A supervision log • A supplementary report summarising the practice and supervision log (3,000 words) • A research thesis (30,000 words)
and publishable paper(s) School of Health Sciences (10,000 words) • A systematic review (6,000 words) • Four case studies (approximately 3,000 words each) with relevant appendices.
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www.city.ac.uk 127 Masters courses: Health Management, Policy, Psychology, Research and Public Health Health Services Research MSc
The MSc in Health Services Research offers advanced research training to enable graduates to conduct and evaluate research to understand and improve service delivery, quality of care and patient outcomes.
Duration Health services research explores the Elective modules include: multifactorial causes of healthcare • International health systems Full-time: one year. outcomes to develop and evaluate (15 credits) Part-time: two years. complex interventions to improve • Health policy in Britain (15 credits) these outcomes. Health services Start date in September. • Health policy process, politics and research addresses questions such as: power (15 credits) Entry requirements Why are there still quality gaps in care? • Health innovation and change How can we speed up the translation Applicants should hold an upper (15 credits) second class honours degree in a of evidence into healthcare practice? How can we apply evidence to improve • Management and leadership medical, health or social sciences in healthcare (15 credits). discipline or the equivalent from an patients’ self-management of long- international institution. term conditions? The MSc in Health Services Research equips students with The dissertation provides an Applicants who do not hold a degree the research knowledge, skills and opportunity for students to design and but do have equivalent professional experience to consume and generate conduct a substantial empirical study qualifications or substantial relevant primary and secondary research which that addresses an important research employment experience in health addresses these questions. question in health services research. services may be considered. English language requirements The course is suitable for Career opportunities IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum professionals from clinical and Graduates have a thorough of 6.5 in each category. non-clinical backgrounds, including grounding in professional research those who have worked in medical and statistical skills, enabling them and allied health professions, to seek employment in management, local government, NGOs, research service provision and practice roles. institutions and consultancies and Graduates can go on to develop pharmaceutical and healthcare careers across a range of health industries. The course also provides service settings including the NHS, a foundation for MPhil or PhD-level charities, industry, government, study in health services research. private practice and academic and research environments. Course content Core modules include: Graduates gain vital transferable • Introduction to research methods skills which are applicable to all and applied data analysis health and healthcare-related (30 credits) careers where attention to detail, conducting research and evaluation • Advanced research methods for evidence-based practice and (15 credits) report writing is a career advantage. • Advanced data analysis • Dissertation (60 credits).
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128 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Masters courses: Health Management, Policy, Psychology, Research and Public Health Masters courses: Health Management, Policy, Psychology, Research and Public Health Public Health MSc
The MSc in Public Health (MPH) provides cutting-edge knowledge on evidence-based practice and research methods for leading public health initiatives.
Duration The MPH is unique as it combines Core modules: study in public health research Students are required to undertake Full-time: one year. methods, applied epidemiology and all seven taught modules and a Part-time: two years. identification and assessment of the dissertation: challenges in public health from a • Public health (15 credits) Start date in September. global perspective. It also provides • Epidemiology (15 credits) Entry requirements students with an understanding • Global health (15 credits) of the processes through which the Applicants should hold an upper • Social determinants of health social environment influences health. second class honours degree or the (15 credits) equivalent from an international The degree provides a thorough professional and theoretical • Introduction to research methods institution in a health or social and applied data analysis sciences discipline. grounding in public health sciences, enabling students to further the (30 credits) Applicants who do not hold a protection and improvement of • Advanced applied data analysis degree but do have equivalent population health at the local, (15 credits) professional qualifications or national and international level. • Advanced research methods substantial experience in the (15 credits) health sector may be considered. Students gain the skills and confidence • Dissertation (60 credits). English language requirements to independently lead public health IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum projects and investigations in public Career opportunities of 6.5 in each category. or private sector settings such as MPH is the most widely recognised health and social care, international professional qualification for agencies, pharmaceutical companies, leadership in public health. Our Masters courses: Health Management, Policy, Psychology, Research and Public Health NGOs and research institutions and graduates work globally in both consultancies. Students are expected private and public sectors including to be working in or wish to start a the NHS, international agencies, career as a clinical or non-clinical charities, industry, local government, public health consultant where an private practice and academic and in-depth knowledge of evidence-based research environments. public health theory and practice is an advantage. Students gain vital transferable skills which are applicable to all Course content health and medical-related careers The course provides comprehensive where attention to detail, conducting School of Health Sciences theoretical and professional training research and evaluation for evidence- in research methods and applied data based practice and report writing are analysis. In addition, modules on an advantage. In addition, students epidemiology, global health and social can use the strong foundation in determinants of health enable students public health theory and research to develop competencies in public methods gained on the course to health theories and practice. The final facilitate entry to professional bodies dissertation provides an opportunity and pursue doctoral level study at City. for students to design and carry out a major research project in public health.
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www.city.ac.uk 129 Masters courses: Interprofessional courses Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care MSc The MSc Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care is for healthcare professionals working in clinical and social care contexts.
Duration This multi-professional course Students can select elective modules provides flexible study and supports from the wide range offered by Full-time: one year (two days a week). practitioners in achieving an the School of Health Sciences. For Part-time: two years (one day a week). advanced level of practice, clinical example students may choose to excellence and innovation by study leadership and management, Plus up to one year for the dissertation. undertaking high-quality evidence- infection control, teaching and Start dates in January and September. based research. learning or psychology. As the course Entry requirements is so flexible it is important to seek The course is for all practitioners advice from the Programme Director Applicants should hold a second working in health and social and the academic team to ensure that class honours degree or the equivalent care contexts, including medical the wealth of learning opportunities from an international institution in a practitioners, nurses, midwives, all available is maximised. relevant subject. allied health professionals, social English language requirements workers, psychologists, managers Students must gain 60 credits in IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum and administrators, physiotherapists, order to be awarded a Postgraduate of 6.5 in each category. paramedics and other healthcare Certificate and 120 credits for a practitioners. Postgraduate Diploma. The addition of a dissertation leads to an MSc. Course content There are only two core modules In addition to this generic route, (and a dissertation) taken within this eleven further specialist routes course. These modules are taken by are available. all students studying on health and social care courses in the School. Career opportunities Graduates can go on to posts in Core modules: administration, management and • Introduction to research methods health research, in public and and applied data analysis private settings. Graduates can (30 credits) also apply for research posts and • Critical approaches to advanced undertake research. practice (15 credits) • Dissertation (60 credits).
The course is mainly made up from elective modules, which students choose to suit their own professional and personal development goals.
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130 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Masters courses: Interprofessional courses Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Adult Mental Health) MSc The MSc Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Adult Mental Health) is for healthcare professionals working in mental health services.
Duration The course provides the skills, Alternatively, students may complete knowledge and awareness in the a module from the MSc Advanced Full-time: four modules per term
assessment and formulation of mental Practice in Health and Social Care Masters courses: Interprofessional courses over one year. health problems, evidence-based (Child and Adolescent Mental Health). Part-time: two modules per term psychosocial interventions and of over two years. contemporary issues in mental health. Students must gain 60 credits for Plus up to one year for a dissertation. a Postgraduate Certificate and 120 The course is for all healthcare credits for a Postgraduate Diploma. Start dates in January and September. professionals working in mental The addition of a dissertation leads Entry requirements health services including nurses, to an MSc. social workers, psychologists and Applicants should hold a second class practitioners from a range of allied Career opportunities honours degree or the equivalent statutory and voluntary agencies. from an international institution in a Graduates gain an understanding and knowledge of adult mental relevant subject. School of HealthSciences Course content health and the ability to work Applicants with a professional Core modules include: effectively and collaboratively across qualification and at least a year of • Introduction to research methods professional agencies. Graduates experience in health and social care and applied data analysis (30 credits) have gone on to secure roles in are preferred. • Critical approaches to advanced mental health, social care, the English language requirements practice (15 credits) voluntary sector and health policy IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum • Dissertation (60 credits). and management. Graduates can of 6.5 in each category. also apply for research posts and Core elective modules include: undertake research. • Assessment and identification of mental health problems (15 credits) • Evidence-based psychosocial interventions in mental health (15 credits) • Contemporary issues in mental health (15 credits).
Elective modules include: • Child protection: working together, managing risk and resilience (15 credits) • Promoting child and adolescent psychological development (15 credits) • Child and adolescent mental health: early identification and assessment (15 credits) • Psychology in health and social care (15 credits) Other courses you may like • Liaison in mental healthcare (15 credits) Find out more MSc Advanced Practice in Health • Evidence-based dementia care [email protected] and Social Care (Child and Adolescent (15 credits). Mental Health) +44 (0)20 7040 5790
www.city.ac.uk 131 Masters courses: Interprofessional courses Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Child and Adolescent Mental Health) MSc The MSc Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Child and Adolescent Mental Health) is for healthcare professionals working in child and adolescent mental health services.
Duration The course has been developed in Core elective modules include: consultation with national charity • Child protection: working Full-time: one year (two days a week). YoungMinds. It provides the skills, together, managing risk and Part-time: two years (one day a week). knowledge and awareness in resilience (15 credits) promoting child and adolescent Plus up to one year for the dissertation. • Promoting child and adolescent psychological development, psychological development Start dates in January and September. managing risk and resilience, (15 credits) Entry requirements early identification, assessment and • Child and adolescent mental formulation of child and adolescent Applicants should hold a second class health: early identification mental health problems, evidence- and assessment (15 credits) honours degree or the equivalent based psychosocial interventions • Child and adolescent mental from an international institution in a and contemporary issues in child health: therapeutic approaches relevant subject. and adolescent mental health. and the evidence-base (15 credits). Exceptional applicants without a first degree are considered if they have The course uses a sound evidence Elective modules include: professional training and at least five base to prepare students to participate • Assessment and formulation of years practice experience. In such cases, in a specialist workforce where the mental health problems (15 credits) a brief sample essay is also required. development of ethical and culturally sensitive practice and the placement • Evidence-based psychosocial Applicants should also have a interventions in mental health professional qualification. of the service user and carer at the centre of decision-making and service (15 credits) English language requirements re-design are core values. Students • Contemporary issues in mental IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum enhance their ability to critically health (15 credits) of 6.5 in each category. evaluate their work or the work of • Mental health across health and others who care for individuals and social care settings (15 credits) families where there are significant • Work-based learning (15 credits) concerns and vulnerability. They • Partnership in practice (15 credits). also develop capacities to maintain the balance between working Students must gain 60 credits for collaboratively while maintaining a Postgraduate Certificate and 120 safe professional boundaries. credits for a Postgraduate Diploma. The addition of a dissertation leads The course is for professionals from to an MSc. several sectors including healthcare, education, emergency services, social Career opportunities care, nursing, allied health professions Graduates can go on to influence or the voluntary sector. the mental health of children and young people at a direct Course content and indirect level through the Core modules include: development of services and the • Introduction to research methods application of interprofessional and applied data analysis (30 credits) practice and research. • Critical approaches to advanced practice (15 credits) • Dissertation (60 credits). Find out more Other courses you may like [email protected] MSc Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Adult Mental Health) +44 (0)20 7040 5790
132 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Masters courses: Interprofessional courses Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Long Term Conditions and Long Term Care) MSc This degree is for health, social work and social care professionals working with people with long-term conditions, across the lifespan in their own homes, care homes or in the acute sector.
Duration This course addresses the general Elective modules include: and mental health and social care • Evidence-based dementia care Full-time: one year (two days a week).
needs of people at all stages of the (15 credits) Masters courses: Interprofessional courses Part-time: two years (one day a week). lifespan. It shares learning from both • Making a difference: research the public and private sectors and Plus up to one year for the dissertation. and development in care for is ideally suited for those working older people (15 credits) Start dates in January and September. in management, practice and • Dysphagia and disorders of eating Entry requirements commissioning across health and and drinking (15 credits) social care. Applicants should hold a second class • Health promotion (15 credits) honours degree or the equivalent Course content • Health and society (15 credits) from an international institution in a • Leadership in health management Students study core and discipline- relevant subject. (15 credits) specific modules, one elective Applicants should also have a module and complete a dissertation. • Medicines management (15 credits) professional qualification and at • Psychology at work (15 credits) School of HealthSciences least one year’s clinical experience. The range of modules available • Psychology for health and social English language requirements ensures that students can tailor the care (15 credits) IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum MSc to their career and personal • Quality management and action of 6.5 in each category. development needs. evaluation (15 credits) • Work-based projects (15 credits). Core and discipline-specific modules include: Students must gain 120 credits for a • Introduction to research methods Postgraduate Diploma. The addition and applied data analysis (30 credits) of a dissertation leads to an MSc. • Critical approaches in advanced practice (15 credits) Career opportunities • Balancing risk and safety The course prepares health, social (15 credits) work and social care professionals • Facilitating self-management for leadership careers and innovative (15 credits) practice in long-term conditions • Promoting physical, mental and (specialist practitioners, facilitators social well-being (15 credits) of self management, health and • Engaging technology (15 credits) social care managers) and in long- • Dissertation (60 credits). term care (specialist social workers, registered care home managers and district nurses). It is also suitable for commissioners of health and social care and those entering academic careers in teaching and research in long-term conditions and long- term care.
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www.city.ac.uk 133 Masters courses: Language and Communication Science Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Speech, Language and Communication) MSc This MSc offers a flexible, professionally orientated course for speech and language therapists and other graduates with a specific interest in communication disorders.
Duration Students learn in an open, dynamic Elective modules include: and supportive atmosphere which • Acquired language impairment Full-time: one year (two days a week encourages an exchange of experience (15 credits) or equivalent). and collaboration in studies and • Case-based clinical management Part-time: two years (one day a week research. Students develop the skills (15 credits) or equivalent). and knowledge needed to undertake • Cognitive communication Plus up to one year for dissertation. independent research and learn about impairments (15 credits) the latest theoretical and clinical • Developmental language Start dates in January and September. developments in the field. impairment (15 credits) Entry requirements The course is for qualified speech and • Dysphagia and disorders of eating Applicants should hold a first or language therapists seeking to gain and drinking (15 credits) second class honours degree or the specialist knowledge and high-level • Habilitative audiology (15 credits) equivalent from an international research skills in their field. It is also • Language learning and institution in an appropriate subject. suitable for other graduates with a development (15 credits) Alternatively, applicants should hold the background and special interest in • Instrumental techniques in speech Licentiate Diploma of the Royal College children and adults with speech, sciences (15 credits). of Speech and Language Therapists. language, communication and English language requirements associated difficulties. Students can also choose modules IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum from the School of Health Sciences’ of 6.5 in each category. Course content broader Continuing Professional The course comprises a taught Development (CPD) portfolio. Other evidence of proficiency in the component and a supervised research English language, which satisfies the dissertation. For the taught component, Students must gain 60 credits for board of studies concerned. students study seven modules. a Postgraduate Certificate and 120 credits for a Postgraduate Diploma; Core modules include: 120 credits and the dissertation leads • Introduction to research methods to an MSc. and applied data analysis (30 credits) Career opportunities • Critical approaches to advanced Successful completion of the MSc practice (15 credits). fulfils the requirements for some higher-grade senior speech and language therapy posts. Students are also eligible to apply for a research degree (MPhil/PhD) and for some research posts.
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134 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Masters courses: Language and Communication Science Speech, Language and Communication Needs in Schools: Advanced Practice MSc This course, run jointly with Unversity College London Institute of Education (UCL-IOE), is a flexible, professionally orientated course suitable for practitioners with a specific interest in speech, language and communication needs within education.
Duration Students gain up-to-date and UCL-IOE elective modules include: advanced knowledge in specific • Literacy development (30 credits) Full-time: one year (two days a week clinical areas, education and related • Autism: research and practice or equivalent). subjects, while collaborating with (30 credits) Part-time: two years (one day a week fellow students and practitioners • Inclusive pedagogy (30 credits) or equivalent). and outstanding academic staff. • Literacy practice in writing and Plus up to one year for dissertation. comprehension (30 credits) This MSc is for speech and language Entry requirements therapists, teachers and other • Reading and spelling difficulties (30 credits) Masters courses: Language and Communication Science Applicants should hold a second graduates experienced in working class honours degree or the equivalent with children with speech, language • Psychology for special needs from an international institution. and communication needs in schools, (30 credits) • Understanding specific learning Applicants should also hold a from the UK and overseas. difficulties (dyslexia) (30 credits). professional qualification in teaching or speech and language therapy or Course content Students can also choose other at least two years’ experience in an Core modules include: Masters level modules offered educational setting working with • Concepts and contexts of at the School of Health Sciences children with speech, language and special and inclusive education and UCL-IOE. communication needs. (30 credits) • Social, emotional and behavioural English language requirements School of HealthSciences development in children with Career opportunities IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum of specific speech, language and Successful completion of the MSc is 6.5 in each category. communication difficulties an advantage in applying for higher- (30 credits) grade specialist and managerial • Language-learning and development posts and for specialisation in the (15 credits) area of special education needs. Graduates are also eligible to apply • Foundations of research methods for a research degree (MPhil/PhD) and applied data analysis and for some research posts. (15 credits).
Elective modules include: • Case-based clinical management (15 credits) • Developmental language impairment (15 credits) • Dysphagia and disorders of eating and drinking (15 credits) • Identity, inclusion and living with disability (15 credits) • Speech acoustics and speech perception (15 credits).
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www.city.ac.uk 135 Masters courses: Midwifery Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Midwifery) MSc The MSc Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Midwifery) is a flexible, professionally orientated course which allows qualified midwives to enhance and expand their skills.
Duration Students on this course learn about Elective modules include: the latest theoretical and clinical • Assessment for neonates and Full-time: one year. Students developments relating to midwifery. infants (15 credits) must complete all taught modules They also develop research, applied • Critical thinking and diagnostic in one year but can complete their data analysis and critical thinking reasoning for neonates (15 credits) dissertation by the following February. skills and have the opportunity to • Leadership for practice and service Part-time: two years. conduct a research project under delivery (15 credits) expert supervision. Graduates are Start dates in January and September. • Supporting and assessing learning well prepared for leading roles as in practice settings (15 credits) Entry requirements evidence-based practitioners. • Enhancing critical care skills in Applicants should hold a second midwifery (15 credits) class honours degree in midwifery. A The course is designed for qualified lower qualification such as a Diploma midwives who have at least one • Child protection: working in Midwifery may be considered with year of experience in clinical together, managing risk and appropriate prior experience. midwifery practice. resilience (15 credits) • Child and adolescent mental Applicants without a degree may health: early identification and be considered on the basis of Course content assessment (15 credits) professional experience. The course provides the opportunity to create a challenging and rewarding • Promoting child and adolescent At least one year’s experience as course of study tailored to students’ psychological development a practising and registered midwife personal development needs. (15 credits) is preferred. Compulsory modules are kept to a • Leadership and innovation English language requirements minimum, so that the wide range of in maternity care: facilitating IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum elective modules allows students to successful groups and teams of 6.5 in each category. personalise their learning. [subject to approval]. Other evidence of proficiency in the Students undertake up to seven Students must gain 60 credits for English language, which satisfies the modules including three core a Postgraduate Certificate and 120 board of studies concerned. modules and two elective modules. credits for a Postgraduate Diploma. The addition of a dissertation leads Core modules include: to an MSc. • Introduction to research methods and applied data analysis Career opportunities (30 credits) This course allows practitioners • Critical approaches to advanced flexibility in developing specialist practice (15 credits) skills and knowledge at a highly • Dissertation (60 credits). demanding academic and professional level. The course Core discipline-specific modules prepares students for a range of include: roles including midwife consultant • Advancing midwifery: theory, and jobs in clinical leadership. knowledge, context and practice (online) (15 credits) • Managing risk in midwifery (15 credits) Find out more • Knowledge, evidence and skills for normal birth (15 credits). [email protected] +44 (0)20 7040 5790
136 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Masters courses: Nursing Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Advanced Nurse Practitioner: Adult, Child or Neonatal) MSc
This course enables nurse practitioners to advance their existing Masters courses: Nursing practice and theory with a specific focus on the role of Advanced Nurse Practitioner (Adult, Child or Neonatal).
Duration Designed for experienced nurse Neonatal route modules include: practitioners working in senior • Advanced physical assessment Part-time: two years. positions or those preparing for for neonates Students attend lectures/seminars advanced nurse practitioner, care • Critical thinking and diagnostic once a week and the course must be manager, nurse consultant or clinical reasoning for neonates completed over a maximum of five years. leadership roles, the course equips • Independent and supplementary School of HealthSciences Start date in September. students with the contemporary non-medical prescribing theoretical skills, knowledge and • Advanced neonatal Entry requirements awareness of professional skills for pathophysiology. Applicants should hold a second class advanced practice. It develops skills in research and applied data analysis honours degree or the equivalent from Please note that the neonatal route is and a deeper understanding of health an international institution. 15 months full-time, including two to and social care settings and the role of Applicants without a degree may three days a week in clinical practice. an advanced nurse practitioner. be considered on the basis of professional experience. For all routes, a clinical work Course content Applicants should be registered with placement with appropriate The course includes two core modules, the Nursing and Midwifery Council supervision for physical a further four route-specific modules or a similar professional/statutory assessment is required. and a research dissertation. body with two years’ relevant clinical experience and currently working in a Career opportunities Core modules include: healthcare setting. Graduates of this course are able • Introduction to research methods to influence nursing practice at Relevant work experience, combined and applied data analysis both direct and indirect levels with a demonstrable ability to study at (30 credits) degree level, will also be considered. through the development of services • Critical approaches to and the application of research English language requirements advanced practice (15 credits) to clinical practice. The course IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum • Dissertation (60 credits). prepares students for a range of of 6.5 in each category. roles, including advanced nurse Child and adult route modules include: practitioner, nurse consultant • Advanced physical assessment, and senior nurse manager, in all critical thinking and diagnostic healthcare settings working across reasoning across the lifespan the lifespan. (15 credits) • Independent and supplementary non-medical prescribing (30 credits) • Pathological principles for advanced practice.
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www.city.ac.uk 137 Masters courses: Nursing Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Advanced Ophthalmic Nurse Practitioner) MSc The MSc Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Advanced Ophthalmic Nurse Practitioner) is a flexible, professionally orientated course for nurses working in ophthalmic health and eye care.
Duration The course explores the latest Career opportunities theoretical and clinical developments The MSc can be taken as either a full- Graduates can go on to roles in relating to ophthalmic nursing. nurse management and student or part-time course and can take up It develops research skills and to 5 years to complete. support and as advanced nurse critical thinking and provides the practitioners in ophthalmology in a Start dates in January and September. opportunity to conduct a research range of public and private settings. Entry requirements project under expert supervision. The course is also suitable for ophthalmic nurses considering Applicants should hold an upper The course is for registered nurses a research post. second class honours degree or the working in ophthalmic health equivalent from an international or caring for people who are institution in a relevant subject. experiencing vision loss. It is for Applicants without a first degree are staff nurses, nurse managers and considered in exceptional cases. those seeking a career in nursing Applicants should have professional or health research. registration with a relevant body and at least two years’ relevant Course content clinical experience as a registered Core modules include: nurse, including one year within • Introduction to research methods ophthalmic nursing. and applied data analysis English language requirements (30 credits) IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum • Critical approaches to advanced of 6.5 in each category. practice (15 credits) • Dissertation (60 credits).
Core elective modules include: • Ophthalmic examination (15 credits) • Principles of therapeutics (15 credits) • Independent, supplementary and non-medical prescribing (30 credits).
Elective modules: Students have the opportunity to complete an additional module of 15 credits offered by the School of Health Sciences Continuing Professional Development (CPD) portfolio.
Students must gain 60 credits for a Postgraduate Certificate and 120 credits for a Postgraduate Diploma. Find out more Other courses you may like The addition of a dissertation leads [email protected] MSc Advanced Practice in Health to an MSc. and Social Care (Ophthalmic Nursing) +44 (0)20 7040 5790
138 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Masters courses: Nursing Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Nursing) MSc The MSc Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Nursing) is a flexible, professionally orientated course for nurses working across health and social care. Masters courses: Nursing
Duration Nurses wishing to develop their Core elective modules are the professional, critical and clinical modules specially chosen to Full-time: one year (two days a week). skills should consider registering enhance a career in nursing. Part-time: two years (one day a week). for this dynamic course. Nurses on They include: this course learn about the latest • Medicines management (15 credits) Plus up to one year for the dissertation. theoretical and clinical developments • Pathophysiological principles for School of Health Sciences School of HealthSciences Start dates in January and September. relating to nursing, health and advanced practice (15 credits). Entry requirements social care provision. Elements of the course take place in multi- Elective modules are the units of Applicants should hold a second professional environments, allowing study that students choose with class honours degree or the students the opportunity to develop advice from the Programme equivalent from an international research, applied data analysis and Director. They may be chosen institution in a relevant subject. critical thinking skills. Students from the wide range of learning Applicants without a first degree are are also offered the opportunity to opportunities within the School considered in exceptional cases. conduct a research project under of Health Sciences. Students Applicants should also have professional expert academic supervision, which also have the opportunity to registration with a relevant body and enables them to lay the foundations complete an additional three at least six month’s relevant clinical for independent research in the modules of 15 credits each offered experience as a registered nurse. future and to develop expertise in across the School of Health English language requirements a specialist topic of their choice. Sciences’ Continuing Professional Development (CPD) portfolio. IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum This course is for registered nurses of 6.5 in each category. who want to pursue further academic Students must gain 60 credits for and clinical studies with the aim a Postgraduate Certificate and 120 of developing and enhancing their credits for a Postgraduate Diploma. career opportunities. The addition of a dissertation leads to an MSc. Course content This course is based on modules, Career opportunities which can be taken in a sequence This course enhances research that suits students’ individual needs. and practice skills, leading to Core modules are shared with all roles in nurse management, students studying on advanced health research, student support health and social care courses and as clinical nurse specialists within the School. in different settings including the public and private sectors. The Core modules include: flexible nature of the course makes • Introduction to research methods it particularly suitable for nurses and applied data analysis with highly specific requirements (30 credits) in professional development. • Critical approaches to advanced practice (15 credits) • Dissertation (60 credits).
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www.city.ac.uk 139 Masters courses: Nursing Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Ophthalmic Nursing) MSc The MSc Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Ophthalmic Nursing) is a flexible, professionally orientated course for nurses working in ophthalmic health and eye care.
Duration The course explores the latest Career opportunities theoretical and clinical developments Graduates can go on to roles in nurse Part-time: at least two years. relating to ophthalmic nursing. It management and student support Plus up to one year for the dissertation. develops research skills and critical and as ophthalmic nurse specialists thinking and provides the opportunity Start dates in January and September. in a range of public and private to conduct a research project under settings. The course is also suitable Entry requirements expert supervision. for ophthalmic nurses considering Applicants should hold a second class a research post. honours degree or the equivalent The course is for registered nurses from an international institution in a working in ophthalmic health or caring relevant subject. Applicants without for people who are experiencing vision a first degree are considered in loss. It is for staff nurses and nurse exceptional cases. managers and those seeking a career in nursing or health research. Applicants should have professional registration with a relevant body Course content and at least two years’ relevant clinical experience as a registered Core modules include: nurse, including one year within • Introduction to research methods ophthalmic nursing. and applied data analysis (30 credits) English language requirements • Critical approaches to advanced IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum practice (15 credits) of 6.5 in each category. • Dissertation (60 credits).
Core elective modules include: • Medical retina (15 credits) • Critical thinking in ophthalmic practice (15 credits) • Medicines management (15 credits).
Elective modules: Students have the opportunity to complete an additional module of 15 credits offered across the School of Health Sciences’ Continuing Professional Development (CPD) portfolio.
Students must gain 60 credits for a Postgraduate Certificate and 120 credits for a Postgraduate Diploma. The addition of a dissertation leads Other courses you may like to an MSc. MSc Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Advanced Ophthalmic Find out more Nurse Practitioner) [email protected] MSc Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Nursing) +44 (0)20 7040 5790
140 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Masters courses: Optometry Clinical Optometry MSc
The MSc in Clinical Optometry prepares students to provide enhanced clinical care to patients with an emphasis on the co-management of patients and the expansion of the Masters courses: Optometry optometrist’s role in ocular therapeutics.
Duration Students acquire cutting-edge skills Modules are mainly delivered via from leading UK experts. City has face-to-face sessions; the first day Full-time: up to two years. a thriving research community that of most modules is delivered by Part-time: up to five years. is undertaking pioneering research distance learning. in vision sciences. The University Postgraduate Diploma: up to also enjoys strong links with Core modules include: four years. Moorfields Eye Hospital and the • Introduction to research methods Postgraduate Certificate: up to Institute of Ophthalmology. and applied data analysis - online School of HealthSciences two years. (30 credits) Start dates in January and September. The course is for optometrists • Dissertation (60 credits). wishing to extend their professional Modules normally run over two to development and scope of practice. three days with an examination Students must gain 60 credits for approximately six weeks later. a Postgraduate Certificate and 120 Course content credits for a Postgraduate Diploma. Entry requirements City is currently the only university The addition of a module in research Applicants should be UK-registered to offer the full suite of College of methods and applied data analysis optometrists, eligible to practise in Optometrists’ accredited modules. and a dissertation lead to an MSc. the UK and registered with the GOC. These are: Applicants should hold an upper • Contact lens practice (30 PG credits) Accreditation second class honours degree with • Medical retina (15 PG credits) This course is accredited for the at least one year’s relevant clinical • Low vision (15 PG credits) General Optical Council’s (GOC) experience. • Glaucoma (15 PG credits). Continuing Education and Training Overseas optometrists are considered points. The course includes the if the undergraduate syllabus studied In addition, students are able to College of Optometrists’ Professional and clinical responsibilities are similar extend their scope of practice to the Certificates in Medical Retina, to those of a UK optometrist. highest level with completion of Glaucoma and Low Vision, in addition to the Professional Higher English language requirements the General Optical Council (GOC) accredited prescribing modules. Certificate in Contact Lens Practice. IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum These are: The prescribing modules are also of 6.5 in each category. • Principles of therapeutics accredited by the GOC. • Principles of prescribing Career opportunities • Independent prescribing Graduates can provide enhanced • Learning in practice via clinical care to patients, particularly Accreditation of Prior Experiential in the field of ocular therapeutics. Learning (part of the Independent Students can choose to become an Prescribing College of Optometrists’ additional supply optometrist or an Common Final Assessment). independent prescriber, extending their scope of practice to the highest Other 15 PG credit elective modules possible level. include: • Binocular vision • Paediatric optometry • Refractive surgery • Critical thinking for ophthalmic Find out more Other courses you may like pratice. [email protected] MSc Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Clinical Optometry) +44 (0)20 7040 5790
www.city.ac.uk 141 Masters courses: Optometry Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Clinical Optometry) MSc The Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Clinical Optometry) prepares optometrists working in specialist practice to provide advanced-level primary eye care.
Duration The course focuses on the Students must gain 60 credits for management of patients and the a Postgraduate Certificate and 120 Full-time: up to two years. expansion of the optometrist’s role credits for a Postgraduate Diploma. Part-time: up to five years. in ocular therapeutics within the The addition of a dissertation leads hospital and community specialist to an MSc. MSc: up to five years. practice setting. Postgraduate Diploma: up to Accreditation four years. City has a thriving research This course is accredited for the General Postgraduate Certificate: up to community that is undertaking Optical Council’s (GOC) Continuing two years. pioneering research in vision Education and Training points. The sciences. The University also Modules normally run over two to course includes the Professional enjoys strong links with Moorfields three days with an examination Certificates in Medical Retina, Eye Hospital and the Institute approximately six weeks later. Glaucoma and Low Vision. The course of Ophthalmology. also includes the Professional Higher Start dates in January and September. Certificate in Contact Lens Practice. The Entry requirements The course is suitable for optometrists prescribing modules are also accredited working in specialist practice in by the GOC and the content forms the Applicants should be UK-registered hospital or community settings. optometrists, eligible to practise in the theory for the College of Optometrists’ UK and registered with the GOC. Independent Prescribing Common Course content Final Assessment. Applicants should hold a second class Core modules include: honours degree with at least one • Introduction to research methods Career opportunities year’s relevant clinical experience. and applied data analysis (30 credits) The course provides an opportunity to Overseas optometrists are considered • Critical approaches to advanced enhance career prospects in hospital if the undergraduate syllabus studied practice (15 credits) and specialist community settings. and clinical responsibilities are similar • Dissertation (60 credits). to those of a UK optometrist. English language requirements Core elective modules include: IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum • Principles of therapeutics (online) of 6.5 in each category. (15 credits) • Principles of prescribing (15 credits) • Independent prescribing (15 credits) • Learning in practice via Accreditation for Prior Experience or Learning (part of the Independent Prescribing College of Optometrists’ Common Final Assessment) (15 credits).
Elective modules include: • Leadership for practice and service delivery (15 credits) • Leadership in health management (15 credits). Find out more Other courses you may like [email protected] MSc Clinical Optometry +44 (0)20 7040 5790
142 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Masters courses: Radiography Medical Ultrasound MSc
The MSc in Medical Ultrasound offers flexible study for professionals undertaking obstetrics, gynaecology and abdominal ultrasound training. Masters courses: Radiography
Duration Our expert staff provide a supportive Accreditation environment for students to develop This course is accredited by the Part-time: up to five years. Modules their academic abilities and clinical take place over one or two days Consortium for the Accreditation and advanced practice skills. City’s of Sonographic Education. per week. clinical skills suite is equipped with Entry requirements a new Hitachi Noblus machine in Career opportunities addition to a Siemens Antares and Applicants should hold a second Graduates can pursue a career in class honours degree or above or Siui real-time ultrasound machines
ultrasound, develop skills to help School of HealthSciences and simulators. the equivalent from an international them work towards advanced and institution in radiography, nursing, consultant-level practice and go The course is for practitioners working midwifery or another relevant subject. on to careers as superintendent in radiography, nursing, midwifery or sonographers, clinical application Applicants should also have a clinical other related professions. placement in a recognised ultrasound specialists and lecturers. department for an average of three Course content days per week. This placement must be arranged prior to applying for the Students learn the theory of course, as the University is unable to ultrasound production, safe and assist with arranging placements. effective practice, normal and abnormal ultrasound appearances English language requirements and associated imaging pathways. IELTS: 7.0 in all categories. Innovative learning and assessment methods are used to develop skills and link theory to practice.
Core modules include: • Fundamental principles of ultrasound practice (15 credits) • Developing advanced practice (15 credits).
Elective modules: Students can select from clinical options including obstetrics, gynaecology, abdominal ultrasound and work-based learning (clinical options to suit local needs).
Students must gain 60 credits for a Postgraduate Certificate and 120 credits for a Postgraduate Diploma. Other courses you may like The addition of a module in research MSc Advanced Practice in Health methods and applied data analysis and Social Care (Nursing) and a dissertation leads to an MSc. MSc Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Radiotherapy) Find out more MSc Radiography (Computed [email protected] Tomography, Medical Magnetic Resonance and Radiotherapy) +44 (0)20 7040 5790
www.city.ac.uk 143 Masters courses: Radiography Radiography (Computed Tomography, Medical Magnetic Resonance and Radiotherapy) MSc This course has a flexible modular approach, focusing on the clinical specialties of Computed Tomography, Medical Magnetic Resonance and Radiotherapy.
Duration The course gives students the skills Elective modules: and knowledge to apply critical Students can select from the range Part-time appraisal to practice and promote of modules within the Radiography MSc: three years. reflective and evidence-based programme. Students can also choose practice. The course is for qualified Postgraduate Diploma: two years. a 15-credit module from within the practising diagnostic radiographers. School of Health Sciences Continuing Postgraduate Certificate: one year. The Radiotherapy route is primarily Professional Development (CPD) Start dates in January and September. aimed at therapy radiographers who portfolio in discussion with their are at an early stage of their careers Programme Director. Entry requirements and wish to study at Masters level. Applicants should hold a lower Innovative learning and assessment second class honours degree in Course content methods are used to develop skills diagnostic radiography for the Computed Tomography (CT) and link theory to practice. Computed Tomography and Medical Core modules include: Magnetic Resonance routes and a • Clinical applications of CT Students must gain 60 credits for lower second class honours degree (30 credits) a Postgraduate Certificate and 120 in diagnostic radiography for • Science and instrumentation of CT credits for a Postgraduate Diploma. Radiotherapy or the equivalent (30 credits) The completion of a dissertation from an international institution. leads to an MSc for all routes. • Introduction to research methods Alternatively, applicants should and applied data analysis hold a Diploma from the College of (30 credits). Accreditation Radiographers or the equivalent from an This course is accredited by international institution if the equivalent Medical Magnetic Resonance (MMR) the College of Radiographers. can lead to registration with the Health Core modules include: and Care Professions Council. • Physics and instrumentation of Career opportunities Applicants should have at least one MMR (30 credits) The course equips students with year of clinical experience for the • Clinical applications of MMR the ability to undertake service Computed Tomography and Medical (30 credits) evaluation and research in Magnetic Resonance routes and two Computed Tomography, Medical • Introduction to research methods years for Radiotherapy and be in Magnetic Resonance and and applied data analysis clinical practice for a minimum of Radiotherapy, underpinned by (30 credits). three days per week. clear strategy and innovation. English language requirements Radiotherapy IELTS: 7.0 in all categories. Core modules include: • Introduction to research methods and applied data analysis (30 credits).
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144 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Masters courses: Radiography Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Radiotherapy) MSc The MSc Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Radiotherapy) is a flexible, professionally orientated course for therapeutic radiographers. Masters Radiographycourses:
Duration The course explores the latest theoretical and clinical Part-time developments in radiotherapy. It MSc: three years. develops research skills and critical thinking and provides the opportunity Postgraduate Diploma: two years. to conduct a research project under Postgraduate Certificate: one year. expert supervision. Attendance will vary depending on the modules undertaken and could The course is for therapy School of HealthSciences be one day a week for twelve weeks, radiographers with several years of one day a month for six months or clinical practice, typically working distance learning where there is no at Band 7 or above and wanting to attendance requirement. take on an advanced practice role. Start dates in January and September. Course content Entry requirements Core modules include: Applicants should typically hold an • Introduction to research methods upper second class honours degree and applied data analysis in radiography or the equivalent from (30 credits) an international institution. • Critical approaches to advanced Alternatively, applicants should hold practice (15 credits) professional qualifications, such • Dissertation (60 credits). as a Diploma from the College of Radiographers, or the equivalent from Students can also choose from a range an international institution. of core elective and elective modules. The optional work-based learning (expert/specialist practice) modules Students must gain 60 credits for require the appropriate scope of practice. a Postgraduate Certificate and 120 credits for a Postgraduate Diploma. Applicants should have appropriate The addition of a dissertation leads clinical experience to be working to an MSc. towards or at advanced level practice. English language requirements Career opportunities IELTS: 7.0 in all categories. Students gain practice-specific knowledge and research skills to enhance their career opportunities with an emphasis on advanced-level practice.
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www.city.ac.uk 145 Research Degrees Research Degrees MPhil/PhD
The School of Health Sciences provides a supportive and well-resourced environment for individuals wishing to pursue a research postgraduate degree.
Duration Course content MPhil/PhD candidates are accepted Students hoping to undertake a in the following fields: Full-time: three years. PhD must generally enrol for an • Clinical communication Part-time: six years. MPhil research degree and transfer • Health management Entry requirements to the PhD after 18 months for a • Health psychology full-time programme and two Entry requirements vary by subject • Health sciences years for a part-time programme • Health services research area and applicants should approach of satisfactory progress. academic staff working in their area of • Interprofessional practice interest to discuss their proposal ahead There are three routes to an MPhil/ • Language and communication of submitting an application. PhD degree within the School: science Applicants should normally hold • Traditional MPhil/PhD: the • Mental health an upper second class honours candidate undertakes a significant • Midwifery degree or the equivalent from an piece of original research and • Nursing international institution. A Masters writes a thesis based on that • Optics and visual science qualification at merit level or above research. This is the most common • Optometry is also preferred. research degree in the School of • Optometry and visual sciences Substantial employment or research Health Sciences • Practice and service development experience may also be considered • MPhil/PhD by prior publication: for some subject areas alongside or in candidates who have published • Public health place of academic qualifications. several significant research papers • Radiography English language requirements spend between one and two • Visual science. years writing an extended essay Evidence of English language ability which draws together previously might be required. published work into a single thesis • MPhil/PhD by prospective publication: candidates spend at least three years conducting research that results in submission and/or publication of several significant research papers and write an extended essay which draws together this published work into a single thesis.
Academic staff at the School of Health Sciences are engaged in research through six research centres: Applied Vision Research Centre; Health Services Research Centre; Language Communication Sciences Research Centre; Maternal and Child Health Research Centre; Mental Health Research Centre and Public Health Research Centre. More information on the School’s research Find out more centres can be found at www.city. [email protected] ac.uk/health/research. +44 (0)20 7040 5790
146 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Research Degrees Research School of Health Sciences School of HealthSciences
Abi Roper PhD Language & Communication Science and Human Computer Interaction Design, from the United Kingdom
For my PhD I’m part of the Gesture Recognition in Aphasia Therapy (GReAT) project, which investigates the use of technology in gesture therapy for people with aphasia (a communication disorder that can occur after a stroke). I’m fortunate to be working in two highly respected Schools at City and the research we’re conducting is really cutting- edge. Our prototype tool was designed in collaboration with people with aphasia and enables users to learn gestures through a 3D game environment, helping them to interact and communicate more effectively. Clinical research such as this is what really inspires me. Once I finish my PhD, I plan to continue researching in the field of speech and language therapy and technology.
www.city.ac.uk 147 The City Law School The City Law School is one of London’s major law schools and offers an impressive range of academic and professional courses. Located in the heart of legal London, the School was the first in London to educate students and practitioners at all stages of legal education. At the postgraduate level, our high-quality courses for law and non-law graduates are highly regarded by the profession.
148 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 to commercial perform contracts. should treat hardship as anexcuse for thefailure His forthcoming book explores how legal systems forthcoming insolvency proceedings inanother. between apending arbitration inonecountry and judicial constructs applied to resolve the conflict Company and Financial Law examines the jurisdictions: published anarticle inEuropean focus ontheinteraction between conflicting insolvency and pending arbitrations has asimilar of Islamic law. Recent work oncross-border regimes should accommodate theintervention European or Western private international law through aconsideration of how established impact of Islamic law oncommercial contracts Journal ofCommercial Contract Law the explores , A recent published article, intheEuropean International Chamber of Commerce and others. Intellectual Organisation, Property UNCITRAL, Association, Seafarers Rights International, World work for theInternational Securities Markets by tribunals intheUS, UK and EU.Hehas done and over 200articles.His works have been cited reviewed journals and has written seven books law. Heis ontheeditorial boards of five peer- international transport, commercial and banking Professor Jason Chuah researches maritime, of Commercial and Maritime Law Head of Academic Law and Professor Professor Jason Chuah www.city.ac.uk specialist various includes Centre The writing. and research through practice professional legal and professions legal the of development strong the (CSLPP) supports Practice Professional Legal of Study the for Centre School’s The journalists. at directed violence against safeguards legal and trials crimes and impartiality in international war the media, journalistic objectivity on restraints legal including themes to explore Sociology and Journalism of Departments City’s from colleagues with work example, for Journalism, and Law, for Justice Centre the with affiliated staff Academic issues. legal contemporary pressing most the of some into research cutting-edge and collaboration interdisciplinary for aspace provide School the within institutes and groups centres, research addition, In practice. professional and transport; and law law; maritime law; media international law; public law; European contract and law commercial justice; criminal and law criminal law, of including areas major all in research in engaged are School the at staff Academic student representative for my degree. studentdegree. representativemy for the opportunity to act as the and rights human particularly enjoyed themodule oninternational course has beenhard work but very satisfying. I attracted me.Ihave not beendisappointed. The academic staff who lead the Master of Laws that reputation of The City Law School and the for postgraduate study, but really it was the I love London, soIwas keen to come here Master of Laws, from Nigeria Ibilola Ademowo hallmarks of the School’s approach. approach. School’s the of hallmarks the of one is that focus practice the retaining while law of areas particular of understanding their to deepen students allow School Law City at The courses PhD and MPhil LLM, Finally, practice. legal for required knowledge and skills the with students equip and excellence for reputation aworldwide have campus, Inn Gray’s City’s at offered Course, Practice Legal and Course years. The Bar Professional Training two or one either in examinations for professional required subjects foundation core seven the completing law, in by acareer for training begin to degree anon-law completed have who graduates allow LLB Entry Graduate the and Law in Diploma Graduate The fields. their in experts leading are whom of many staff, academic School’s the of experience practice and expertise research the from benefit levels at all students Postgraduate ethics. legal and proof and evidence civil litigation, criminal litigation, resolution, dispute alternative advocacy, on focusing forums to Northampton Square. to Law Library, which openedin2013 close Jason, Ibilola (and are inthe Saar, overleaf) 149
The City Law School Course listing Graduate courses Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) 151 Graduate Entry LLB (Hons) 153 Professional legal skills courses Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) 154 Legal Practice Course (LPC) 155 Masters courses LLM and specialist LLMs 156 International Business Law LLM 158 Legal Practice LLM 160 Maritime Law (Greece) LLM 161 Professional Legal Skills LLM 162 Research Degrees Research Degrees MPhil/PhD 163
Saar Mahmood Graduate Entry LLB (Hons), from the United Kingdom
I knew that I wanted to study Law in London and The City Law School felt like the best choice for several reasons: its central location and strong connections with the profession, the calibre of its academic staff (many of whom wrote the core texts we use on the course) and the chance to undertake pro bono work. Although the Graduate Entry LLB (Hons) is challenging – I will graduate in just two years, rather than the more conventional three – I think I have made the most of the opportunities on offer here: I’ve attended lectures given by high-profile speakers, been involved in mooting competitions and volunteered in employment tribunal cases.
150 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Graduate courses Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) Graduate coursesGraduate First developed in 1977, our nationally renowned Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) was one of the first of the Common Professional Examination courses for non-law graduates wishing to pursue a career in law. The City Law School Duration The GDL covers the seven core In addition to the foundation subjects, foundation subjects that are students take another academic law Full-time: one year. prerequisites for taking the subject unique to City: Introduction Entry requirements professional examinations. Our GDL to legal ethics. This subject directs course has an unrivalled reputation students’ attention towards the ethical Applicants should hold at least an within the profession for the quality challenges which lawyers might face upper second class honours degree of the education, the ability of in practice and to the values which in any subject or the equivalent from its students and the preparation characterise the profession. an international institution. it provides for students seeking Applications for the course must be pupillage or a training contract. Students have the option to convert made to the Central Applications their GDL to an LLB degree by taking Board. For more information, visit Successful completion of this course further law modules. www.lawcabs.ac.uk. qualifies students to progress to one English language requirements of the two professional courses that Career opportunities all UK lawyers are required to take: IELTS: 7.0. Successful completion of the GDL the Legal Practice Course (LPC) for qualifies students to progress onto International applicants solicitors and the Bar Professional the LPC (intending solicitors) or the The rules governing admission to Training Course (BPTC) for barristers. BPTC (intending barristers). City Law practise law vary from country to School GDL graduates are guaranteed country. Before applying, students Course content a place on our LPC and are strongly wishing to take the GDL as a step GDL candidates study the seven encouraged to apply for our BPTC towards becoming a lawyer outside core foundation subjects that would (please note: the Bar Standards Board England and Wales are strongly normally be covered during a does not allow providers to guarantee advised to check with the appropriate qualifying law degree. The academic places on this course). body in the country in which they programme and examinations are wish to qualify and practise that the largely at first degree level with some Diploma is acceptable for postgraduate elements and involve this purpose. material that is normally studied by undergraduates over at least 18 months. The course is delivered by The City Law School’s own lecturers and by visiting lecturers from other prestigious universities.
The foundation subjects are: • Contract law • Crime • Equity and trusts • European Union law • Land law • Public law • Tort law.
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www.city.ac.uk 151 Andrew Lomas Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL), from the United Kingdom
I plan to practise at the Bar and City has an excellent reputation for preparing students hoping to embark on this career. Next year, I will remain at City to undertake the BPTC. A highlight of this year has been winning The Times Law Award for my essay on privacy and the press and I also made it to the final of the Rawlinson Cup, a debating competition run by my Inn, the Inner Temple.
Dr Steven Truxal Senior Lecturer in Law and LLM International Business Law Programme Director
Dr Steven Truxal’s research expertise lies in the fields of Commercial Law and Competition Law, in particular, the issues surrounding competition and environmental regulation of air transport. In Jennifer Hirsch 2012, he published Competition and Regulation Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL), in the Airline Industry: Puppets in Chaos, which from the United States considers the current legal issues affecting that sector in the wake of substantial European and Studying for the GDL has involved a balancing North American deregulation and liberalisation. act: the academic demands are rigorous, but Some of the questions Dr Truxal addresses in I was very keen to gain hands-on experience, the monograph include how European and so I’ve also undertaken mini-pupillages, an North American approaches have differed and internship with the Legal Response Initiative and how airlines have remained economically volunteer work in employment law for the Free efficient in a complex regulatory environment. Representation Unit. The academic reputation of Dr Truxal’s research has also explored the impact of the School and its excellent academic staff were liberalisation in the air transport industry on targets what initially attracted me to City and I’ll be staying to reduce carbon emissions through emissions at City next year to study for the BPTC. trading schemes and environmental taxes.
152 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Graduate courses Graduate Entry LLB (Hons) Graduate coursesGraduate The Graduate Entry LLB (Hons) allows non-law graduates to achieve an LLB degree in just two years rather than the usual three. The City Law School Duration Students have the opportunity • Criminal justice to gain skills and knowledge in • Employment law Full-time: two years. the core legal subjects and learn • Evidence about specialist areas of law. Entry requirements • EU law and the global legal order Students have the additional Applicants should hold at least a option of participating in mooting • Family and child law second class honours degree in any competitions to further strengthen • Forensic science subject or the equivalent from an their legal and debating skills. • Government, law and democracy international institution. • Human rights law Applications must be made online at Course content • Immigration law www.ucas.com. In year one, Graduate Entry LLB • Intellectual property law English language requirements (Hons) candidates study four of • International commercial IELTS: 7.0. the seven core foundation subjects arbitration that are usually covered in an • International economic law International applicants undergraduate law degree. In year For applicants who have studied for two, students take the remaining • Islamic law their degree in North America, we three core subjects and have the • Justice, law and history usually require a GPA of at least 3.0 opportunity to enhance their • Legal ethics and professional on a 4.0 scale. knowledge of particular areas of law responsibility The rules governing admission to by choosing three elective subjects. • Maritime law practise law vary from country to • Media law country. Before applying, applicants Year one: • Public international law • Constitutional and wishing to take the GE LLB as a step • US constitutional law. towards becoming a lawyer outside administrative law England and Wales are strongly • Contract law Career opportunities advised to check with the appropriate • Criminal law Graduates of this course are body in the country in which they • English legal system qualified to progress to one of the wish to qualify or practise that this • Tort law. two professional legal skills courses course is accepted. that students wishing to practise in Year two: England and Wales are required to • Equity and trusts take: the LPC or the BPTC. Graduates • European Union law of the Graduate Entry LLB (Hons) • Land law. from The City Law School are guaranteed a place on the School’s Elective modules include: LPC course (subject to meeting entry • Aviation law requirements) and are strongly • Banking law encouraged to apply for the School’s • Canadian constitutional law BPTC (please note that the Bar Standards Board does not allow • Canadian corporate law providers to guarantee places on • Commercial property law the BPTC). • Company law • Competition law
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www.city.ac.uk 153 Professional legal skills courses Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC)
Our well-established and world-renowned Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) is designed to meet every demand of the modern Bar.
Duration The course provides students with case Option subjects include: analysis, advisory and courtroom • Advanced criminal litigation Full-time: one year. skills that can be applied at the Bar • Commercial law Part-time: two years. and in a wide range of professional • Company law and commercial careers. Entry requirements • Employment law Applicants should have completed To give students the best possible • Family law the academic stage of training, which chance of entering the Bar, we offer • Fraud and economic crime consists of either a qualifying law a specialised Pupillage Advisory • Landlord & tenant degree or non-law degree followed Service. The Service provides students • Professional negligence by a law conversion course such as with advice about their cvs and • ‘Clinical’ options: the Graduate Diploma in Law or the information on the various chambers. – FRU Employment Graduate Entry LLB. It also offers mock interviews. – FRU Social security Additional requirements laid down – Domestic violence. by the professional regulator are: Course content • Lower second class honours degree The BPTC consists of several core BPTC graduates may choose to • On line application for the BPTC subjects and options developed convert their qualification to an by the first week in January to deliver the relevant legal skills LLM by completing a dissertation: • P assing the Bar Course Aptitude and knowledge all newly qualified see page 162 for more information. Test (BCAT) barristers need, along with the • Ap plying for membership of one of detailed knowledge required for Accreditation st the four Inns of Court by 31 May chosen specialist areas and subjects. This course is accredited by • Fluency in English at a minimum of There is an emphasis on skills-based the Bar Standards Board. 7.5 in each category of the IELTS test training and advocacy. (or equivalent). Career opportunities Core subjects include: While the minimum entry requirement On successful completion of the • Alternative dispute resolution is a lower second class honours course, students receive the City degree, applicants to The City Law • Case preparation and analysis University London Postgraduate School generally hold at least an • Civil advocacy Diploma in Professional Legal Skills, upper second class honours degree. • Civil litigation, civil evidence which is required in order to be called Online applications are made at and remedies to the Bar and to take the first steps www.barsas.com with a closing • Conference skills into practice. date in early January 2016. Further • Criminal advocacy details about the BCAT and the English • Criminal litigation, sentencing For students interested in alternative language requirement can be found at and criminal evidence careers, expert advice is available www.barstandardsboard.org.uk. from personal tutors and the • Drafting skills University’s Careers Service. The four Inns of Court have well- • Legal research established scholarship schemes, The Service can provide support with closing dates on the first • Opinion writing skills for applications, organise mock Friday in November. • Professional ethics. interviews and give advice on job searching techniques.
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154 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Professional legal skills courses Legal Practice Course (LPC)
Our Legal Practice Course (LPC) is designed to ensure that students are fully prepared to meet the demands of the modern legal profession. Professional legal skills courses
Duration Offered in the heart of legal London at Accreditation our campus in Gray’s Inn, the City LPC This course is accredited by the Full-time: one year. helps students to master the essential Solicitors Regulation Authority. Entry requirements skills and knowledge needed to be a successful solicitor. Students can Students must have completed the Career opportunities also take advantage of individualised academic stage of training, which Both the course and careers teams careers advice, which is specially The City Law School consists either of a qualifying law are dedicated to assisting students designed to support the process of degree or a non-law degree followed in reaching their professional obtaining a training contract. by a law conversion course such as the goals. There is a range of support Graduate Diploma in Law or Graduate services for those who are in the On successful completion of the Entry LLB. process of applying for training course, students are awarded a contracts or considering alternative In both cases a lower second class Postgraduate Diploma in Legal careers, including the Training honours degree is required. Practice. As our LPC is delivered Contracts Advisory Service and at Masters level, students have the Applications must be made through the Careers Service. the Central Applications Board at option to convert their final award into an LLM in Legal Practice by www.lawcabs.ac.uk. Several extra-curricular writing a dissertation: see page 160 Students who have previously opportunities are offered to enhance for more information. completed the BPTC/BVC within students’ cv and job prospects. five years of starting the LPC may These include involvement in be eligible for Accreditation of Prior Course content external competitions, mentoring Learning for some modules. Developed in consultation with by practitioners, a wide range of Entry requirements practitioners, our LPC gives students pro bono work and commercial the key skills and knowledge needed awareness seminars. IELTS: 7.0 to become a trainee solicitor.
The course is delivered by experienced legal practitioners who are also trained educators. There is a strong emphasis on contact with tutors. All sessions are face-to-face with skills being taught in groups of no more than eight. There is also a full range of online materials including recordings of all of the lectures.
In addition to the core subjects, students choose three electives from the following: • Advanced civil litigation • Commercial dispute resolution • Commercial law and practice • Employment law and practice Other courses you may like • Equity finance Bar Professional Training Course • Family law and practice Find out more • Media law and practice LLM and specialist LLMs [email protected] • Mergers and acquisitions International Business Law LLM • Private clients. +44 (0)20 7404 5787
www.city.ac.uk 155 Masters courses LLM and specialist LLMs
The LLM at The City Law School is a flexible Masters programme which enables students to develop a critical understanding of specialist or linked areas of the law through a combination of in-depth scholarship, practitioner contact and real-world insights.
Duration Students benefit from learning in LLM in Criminal Litigation small groups led by experienced • Advocacy in the criminal trial Full-time: one year. academic staff who are leaders in • Advocacy: trial stories Part-time: maximum four years. their fields. Each year, the School • Criminal trials: evidence and proof also welcomes distinguished Entry requirements • Ethics for the legal practitioner professionals, judges and government Applicants should normally hold an officials through its guest lecture • Forensic psychology for the upper second class honours degree programme, underlining the emphasis criminal practitioner in law or the equivalent from an placed on the applicability of the • International criminal law: international institution. Applicants LLM to developments in the legal crimes, courts and trials with a first degree in a subject other profession. Students also have the • Sentencing: theory and practice than law will be considered, but such a opportunity to participate in the • The process of the criminal courts. background may restrict the choice of School’s extensive pro bono activities. modules where content is dependent LLM in Dispute Resolution on a prior knowledge of law. Scholarships are available to • Arbitration English language requirements exceptional candidates. • Civil dispute resolution options: IELTS: 7.0. strategy, risk and costs Course content • Civil litigation: process and Students embarking on the LLM tactics in preparing for trial have two course options. They may • EU litigation complete the Master of Laws (LLM) by choosing ANY four or five modules • International commercial (including a dissertation) from the arbitration lists below, or they may obtain a • International dispute settlement Specialist Master of Laws (Specialist • Mediation and negotiation. LLM) by completing at least three modules in the defined specialist LLM in European Commercial Law area and a dissertation in that area. • EU banking law • EU litigation Modules for each of the specialist • EU tax law LLMs include those listed below. • European business regulation I: Please note that module availability foundations, goods, workers is subject to change: for up-to-date and citizenship information, please visit our website or contact us using the email address • European business regulation II: and telephone numbers provided. establishment, services, capital and harmonisation LLM in Civil Litigation and • European intellectual property law Dispute Resolution • Substantive EU competition law. • Arbitration • Civil dispute resolution options: strategy, risk and costs • Civil litigation: process and tactics in preparing for trial • EU litigation • International commercial arbitration • International dispute settlement • Mediation and negotiation.
156 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Masters courses LLM in European Union Law LLM in International Economic Law LLM in Professional Advocacy • EU litigation • Comparative antitrust law • Advocacy in the criminal trial • European business regulation I: • Energy law • Advocacy: trial stories foundations, goods, workers • EU tax law • Civil litigation: process and tactics and citizenship • European business regulation I: in trial preparation • European business regulation II: foundations, goods, workers • Ethics for the legal practitioner establishment, services, capital and citizenship • Mediation and negotiation.
and harmonisation • European business regulation II: The City Law School • European integration: establishment, services, capital LLM in Public International Law law, politics and institutions and harmonisation • International criminal law: • Human rights in the EU • International investment law crimes, courts and trials • Substantive EU competition law. • International law and the • International dispute settlement global economy • International human rights LLM in International Banking • International tax law in law and practice and Finance • World trade law. • International law and the • EU banking law global economy • EU tax law LLM in International Energy Law • International law of the sea • International banking law and Regulation • International investment law • International corporate finance law • Energy law • International responsibility • International investment law • Energy, environment and security of states and international • International tax law • International energy litigation organisations • Money laundering • Public international law. • Law and war • Project finance. • Law of international organisations LLM in International Human Rights • Law of treaties • International criminal law: crimes, LLM in International Commercial Law • Minorities and indigenous courts and trials • Admiralty law peoples in international law • International human rights in law • Carriage of goods by sea • Public international law and practice • Comparative antitrust law • World trade law. • Energy law • International law and the global economy • Energy, environment and security Career opportunities • International law and the use of force • EU banking law In a highly competitive job market, • Law and war • EU litigation the LLM provides students with • Minorities and indigenous peoples • EU tax law a solid platform for establishing in international law • European business regulation I: a successful career in general or • Public international law. foundations, goods, workers specialist legal practice, business, and citizenship finance, government, international LLM in Maritime Law organisations, NGOs, journalism, • European business regulation II: • Admiralty law politics, education and research, establishment, services, capital • Carriage of goods by sea among other professions. and harmonisation • International commercial • International banking law arbitration By the end of the course, students • International commercial arbitration • International law of the sea have acquired advanced knowledge • International corporate finance in key areas of law and transferable • Law of international trade • International energy litigation skills essential to understanding and • Marine insurance • International insurance law succeeding in the world of legal work • World trade law. and professional practice. • International investment law • International tax law • Law of international organisations • Marine insurance • Project finance and law • Substantive EU competition law Find out more • World trade law. [email protected] +44 (0)20 7404 5787
www.city.ac.uk 157 Masters courses International Business Law LLM
Delivered via distance learning, the LLM in International Business Law is designed to help students develop their knowledge of the legal rules which impact international business today.
Duration This degree provides students with Modules offered include: specialist knowledge of key areas of • Foundations of law in Part-time: distance learning. law relevant to international business. international business (core) Minimum: 15 months. Maximum: The course enhances professional • International corporation law five years. Three intakes per year: skills and the ability to locate, September, January and May. • Dispute resolution in interpret, analyse and criticise the international commerce Entry requirements laws, rules, policies and practices • E-commerce law Applicants should normally hold a that are essential to the functioning of international business. • Law of international trade lower second class honours degree • Regulation of information or the equivalent (or better) from a technology and intellectual property recognised international institution. Students have the freedom to study Applicants who have graduated with in their own working environment • Legal aspects of international an undergraduate degree in a subject and at their individual pace. finance other than law are encouraged to Technology-enhanced learning • International investment law apply. environments support the student • Dissertation (core: 10,000 words). experience and students also have Applicants who hold a relevant access to the University’s extensive professional qualification and/ Though the course is structured range of legal databases, including around self-directed study, there is an or extensive relevant professional e-journals and e-books. experience will also be considered. emphasis on interactive engagement. Learning activities use discussion English language requirements Applicants to the course are likely forums and chat rooms to help students IELTS: 7.0 with a minimum of 6.5 to be recent graduates seeking discuss and extend learning while in each category. to improve career prospects working collaboratively. Each in international business and module is facilitated by an e-tutor law, or professionals working in who offers technical and academic international business, finance or support, helping students learn from international business law seeking course material, assignments and to develop their expertise. wider literature. Distance learning students receive virtual tutorials and Course content are able to contact academic staff by The course equips students with email, discussion board, webcam transferable legal and research skills or telephone. to enhance their career prospects as international business professionals Career opportunities and legal practitioners. The course Students graduate from this LLM covers all aspects of international with specialist knowledge in key business law including: areas of law from an international • International banking/finance law business perspective and transferable • International business transactions skills essential to understanding • International commercial and succeeding in the world of arbitration international business law. • International corporate law • International energy law • Intellectual property law • International sales law Find out more • International transport and trade [email protected] • IT and e-commerce law. +44 (0)20 7040 3119
158 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Masters courses The City Law School
www.city.ac.ukwww.city.ac.uk 159 Masters courses Legal Practice LLM
Students who undertake the Legal Practice Course (LPC) at The City Law School can convert their LPC into an LLM in Legal Practice.
Duration Our LPC is delivered at Masters level, so students can gain an LLM by Part-time: up to eighteen months. completing a dissertation after their Entry requirements LPC. The primary focus of this LLM is professional legal practice. Applicants must have registered to take the full LPC at The City Law School within the last five years. It Course content is not possible to apply for the LLM Students are asked to make a written conversion before registering for proposal for their dissertation. This is the LPC, but we provide places for an opportunity to undertake research all students who make dissertation in an area of their choice, which proposals of sufficient quality. relates to legal practice, procedure or skills. The choice of topics is therefore There are two application rounds wide. Examples include: each year, one between October and • A critical consideration of an December and another between April aspect of practice in a specialist and June. area, such as the use of alternative dispute resolution options in commercial cases • An analysis of how a particular skill is developed and applied in legal practice, such as techniques in questioning a client or a witness • A topic linked to work experience or pro bono.
To complete the dissertation, students work independently with supervision from a member of staff.
Career opportunities The course has been developed to enhance the employability of its graduates. Students who have a training contract can use the dissertation to demonstrate commitment to an area of practice. Students seeking a training contract or pursuing an alternative legal career can use the qualification to strengthen their cv.
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160 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Masters courses Maritime Law (Greece) LLM Masters courses Our LLM in Maritime Law is an academically demanding and satisfying course for anyone working in shipping law. The City Law School
Duration The course is designed to give students a detailed understanding Full-time: one year. of maritime law, building upon their Part-time: two years. existing knowledge and enhancing their career prospects. Entry requirements Applicants should normally hold an Taught in Athens, the course gives upper second class honours degree students the unique opportunity to in law or the equivalent from an undertake an equivalent programme international institution. However, credit to the specialist Maritime Law LLM is given for relevant work experience, for programme offered in London. example in the shipping professions in Students graduate alongside our roles such as ship’s officers, shipbrokers UK LLM students. and claims handlers. English language requirements Course content IELTS: 7.0. Students explore key areas of maritime law and issues relating to shipping.
Modules include: • Admiralty law • Carriage of goods by sea • International trade law • Marine insurance.
The course is delivered in English by experienced British academics, legal practitioners and occasional specialist lecturers of other nationalities. Each module is provided in three eight-hour weekend blocks usually over a Friday and Saturday afternoon, allowing students to fit their study around professional and personal commitments.
Career opportunities The LLM in Maritime Law provides students with a sound basis for developing a career in shipping and maritime law; whether with a national or international firm or in-house.
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www.city.ac.uk 161 Masters courses Professional Legal Skills LLM
Students undertaking the Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) at The City Law School can convert their BPTC into an LLM in Professional Legal Skills.
Duration Our BPTC is delivered at Masters Career opportunities level, so students can gain an LLM The course has been developed Full-time or part-time: one year. by completing a dissertation after to enhance the employability Entry requirements their BPTC. This LLM satisfies all of its graduates. Students who the requirements of a traditional Applicants must have registered have a pupillage can use work on LLM, with a unique primary focus to take the BPTC at The City Law their dissertation to show their on practice. This LLM gives students School within the last five years. It commitment to an area of practice. the opportunity to deepen their is not possible to apply for the LLM Students seeking pupillage or going knowledge and understanding of conversion before registering for into other areas of legal work can use legal professional practice through the BPTC, but we provide places for the qualification and the dissertation research on an area of particular all students who make dissertation to strengthen their cv. interest to them. proposals of sufficient quality. There are two application rounds Course content each year, one between October and Students are asked to make a written December and another in February. proposal for the dissertation, which should be based on an area of legal practice, procedure or skill. The choice is wide but could include: • An in-depth examination of a particular area of procedure, such as financing litigation or using interim applications strategically • A critical consideration of an aspect of practice in a specialist area, such as the use of alternative dispute resolution options in commercial cases • Socio-legal studies/legal theory • A topic linked to their work experience or pro bono.
To complete the dissertation, students work independently with supervision from a member of staff.
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162 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Research Degrees Research Degrees MPhil/PhD
An MPhil/PhD allows an individual to stand out as a Degrees Research thought-leader in his or her area of expertise in both academia and practice. The City Law School Duration Course content We are committed to the provision All students are initially registered for of high-quality graduate education MPhil full-time: one year minimum and provide a stimulating research three years maximum. the MPhil degree. Students who wish to proceed to a PhD must upgrade environment in which to study. The PhD full-time: two years minimum within 18 months (30 months for School runs a Training Programme four years maximum. part-time students). Students are for MPhil/PhD students focused on MPhil part-time: two years minimum assigned two supervisors to support research skills and methodologies. five years maximum. them throughout their research, Research students also have the with one of these supervisors taking opportunity to present their work PhD part-time: three years minimum in progress at weekly seminars seven years maximum. primary responsibility for their progress. The award of an MPhil or and the annual School Postgraduate Entry requirements a PhD requires the submission of a Forum. The School also seeks Applicants should contact the School thesis for examination at a viva voce to produce PhD graduates with before making an application to find (oral examination) by two examiners, strong employability skills. The out if they meet our entry requirements at least one of whom is external to Training Programme therefore gives and to check that we are able to the University. A PhD thesis (up to students the opportunity to acquire support the proposed research. 100,000 words) must be an original both core research expertise and a range of transferable skills. Applicants should have a track and substantial piece of work which record of high academic achievement, makes a contribution to the relevant demonstrated by an LLB degree literature. An MPhil thesis (up to Career opportunities with an upper second class honours 50,000 words) must be an original An MPhil/PhD can help students to classification (or international work or a critical exposition of pursue a range of career options. It equivalent) and a Masters degree existing knowledge. shows employers that a student has in Law or a related discipline with a been independently motivated to merit or equivalent. Applicants are At The City Law School we offer gain a prestigious and demanding expected to demonstrate a suitable research opportunities in a wide qualification and expertise in aptitude to undertake a course of range of areas in a supportive and a specific area of law. independent research. vibrant environment. We specialise in the following research clusters: English language requirements • Commercial and corporate law IELTS: 7.0 overall with a minimum of 6.5 • Criminal law/criminal justice in the reading and writing components. • European law • Human rights • Intellectual property and information technology • Legal professions/ professional practice • Maritime law & transport • Public international law • Public law • Socio-legal studies • Trade and competition law.
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www.city.ac.uk 163 School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering The School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering has been offering outstanding courses tailored to the needs of the professions
for more than 100 years. Postgraduate students Dr Greg Slabaugh are taught by academics who are at the forefront Senior Lecturer in Computer Science Dr Greg Slabaugh leads a team of researchers of research and enterprise activity in their in computer vision, with applications to medical imaging and computer games. His current work fields. Courses are designed to incorporate focuses on computer-aided detection of cervical spine injuries, automatic characterisation of brain the latest developments in academic research tumours from MRI and modelling of articulated anatomy from images for pose and gesture and industrial practice, thereby ensuring that recognition. He has over a decade of previous experience working in industry, including launching graduates enjoy excellent employment prospects. products for detection of pre-cancerous lesions from CT images using visual computing and machine-learning techniques, shape modelling tools for hearing aid design and a golf game for which he developed the 3D graphics engine.
Dr Slabaugh, Dr Reyes-Aldasoro, Anchana and an undergraduate student are in the laboratories in the basement of the Tait Building.
164 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2015/162016/17 Anchana Karunanithy Dr Constantino Carlos MSc Project Management, Finance and Risk, Reyes-Aldasoro from the United Kingdom Lecturer in Biomedical Image Analysis
After completing my Medical Engineering degree Dr Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro’s at Queen Mary University of London, I chose City research specialises in analysis of biomedical as it offered a well-structured project management images. His research covers the acquisition of programme, which fully prepares you for working biomedical images; the analysis of these images or in the sector. When I graduate I am planning to videos through algorithms, mathematical models and use skills I learned through my undergraduate and statistical methodologies, which provide quantitative postgraduate degrees to follow a career in the measurements; and the interpretation of the data. His medical device industry. The industry is innovative overall objective is to shed some light on the causes and life changing; I would love the opportunity and processes of human illnesses, especially cancer to work in a field that gives back to the world and and the infection or inflammation processes related helps people through intelligent innovation. to this disease. By analysing the images and videos from many experiments he hopes to contribute to finding ways to cure and prevent them. School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering
The School comprises six The Department was the first in the development of novel interfaces Departments. In the Department United Kingdom to offer courses in and devices for such systems. of Civil Engineering, academics Aeronautical Engineering. In the Finally, research on information- work in the field of Structural Department of Mathematics, academic intensive systems explores the and Geotechnical Engineering, in staff undertake fundamental research development of novel methods partnership with leading design in pure and applied mathematics and frameworks to support the consultancies and building in the areas of representation modelling, search, analysis, contractors (for example, Arup, theory, mathematical physics and consumption and evolution of Skanska, WSP, Thornton Tomasetti mathematical biology. massive text and rich media and Pell Frischmann). The information, including images and Department of Electrical & Electronic Academics in the Department of sound. The Department of Library Engineering is renowned for its Computer Science work across & Information Science builds on expertise in developing sensors and three broad areas. In Software and City’s long tradition of research in instrumentation (in particular in the Systems Engineering, research Information Science: academics in field of Biomedical Engineering), examines fundamental theories, the Department are experts in the its work on managing systems methods and technologies related history of information sciences; the complexity in design and confronting to the development, assessment organisation and communication the challenges of cyber security. and verification of complex socio- of information in a digital The Department of Mechanical technical and software-intensive environment; and information Engineering & Aeronautics has systems. In the field of human- behaviour of individuals, groups outstanding facilities for applied centric systems, academics focus and within society. research and it is particularly strong on the accessibility and usability in the field of experimental and of interactive systems supporting computational fluid dynamics. human-centric activities and the
www.city.ac.uk 165 Course listing Decision Sciences Aviation Management Decision Sciences MSc 176 Air Safety Management MSc 167 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Air Transport Management MSc 168 Renewable Energy and Power Systems Management MSc 177 Aircraft Maintenance Management MSc 169 Energy and the Environment Biomedical Engineering Energy and Environmental Technology Biomedical Engineering with Healthcare and Economics MSc 178 Technology Management MSc 170 Engineering with Management Business Computing Construction Management MSc 179 Business Systems Analysis and Design MSc 171 Project Management, Finance and Risk MSc 180 Information Systems and Technology MSc 172 Human-Centred Computing Civil Engineering Human-Centred Systems MSc 181 Civil Engineering Structures MSc 173 Innovation, Creativity and Leadership Civil Engineering Structures (Nuclear Power Plants) MSc 174 Innovation, Creativity and Leadership MSc/MA/MInnov 183 Library and Information Science Information Science MSc 184 Library Science MSc/MA 185 Maritime Operations and Management Maritime Operations and Management MSc 186 Maritime Operations and Management (Greece) MSc 187 Mechanical and Automotive Engineering Mechanical Engineering MSc 190 Technical Computing Computer Games Technology MSc 191 Cyber Security MSc 192 Data Science MSc 193 Health Informatics MSc 195 Management of Information Security and Risk MSc6 19 Software Engineering MSc 197 Research Degrees Research Degrees MPhil/PhD 198
166 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Aviation Management Air Safety Management MSc
This course is for professionals working in the operations, maintenance, support, air traffic control and regulatory sectors Aviation Management of the aviation industry, both civilian and military.
Duration The objective of safety management Core modules include: is to achieve and maintain optimum • Active safety management Part-time: The taught component levels of safety within the context of • Crisis management normally takes three years and must increased safety regulations, more • Safety risk management. be completed within five years. The competition and a constant focus on final project normally takes up to cost. Successful safety management one year. Elective modules include, involves staff at all levels in aircraft among many others: Entry requirements operations, airports, air traffic control, • Accident and incident Applicants should be employed in the ground handling, maintenance and investigation private flying. Risk management aviation industry for the duration of • Safety management, is a major challenge, with deeper the course and should have at least tools and methods two years of experience in a position of regulatory compliance requirements in response to air safety trends and • General principles professional responsibility at the time of human factors of application. the need to cope safely with future growth. There is also a need for • Air transport economics Applicants should hold an Air businesses to understand the financial • Airports and ground handling Transport Pilot’s Licence, Aircraft implications of safety performance. • Airline maintenance.
Engineer Licence, Air Traffic Controller School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering Licence or a relevant lower second Course content class honours degree or the equivalent Accreditation from an international institution. After successfully completing a three- The MSc in Air Safety Management day induction/assessment workshop, is accredited by the Royal the course is based on completing Aeronautical Society. eight modules, which are taught over three-day periods and held frequently Career opportunities throughout the year in London, Dubai Our graduates have taken up roles and sometimes in Bahrain and including safety manager, training Frankfurt.Students are also required captain, quality manager, flight to undertake a final project in a safety officer, safety inspector, safety subject related to air transport. consultant and accident investigator in civil aviation authorities, airlines The MSc Air Safety Management and with other aircraft operators degree has two exit alternatives and defence forces worldwide. if the requirements for the MSc cannot be achieved: a Postgraduate Certificate when passing two core and two elective modules, or a Postgraduate Diploma when passing all eight required modules (without the final project). All students have to pass the Induction Workshop to enter the course. The course fees are the same for all students.
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www.city.ac.uk 167 Aviation Management Air Transport Management MSc
The MSc in Air Transport Management is for those working in the air transport and aviation industry who aim to move into positions carrying greater management responsibility.
Duration The course provides an academic Core modules include: framework for the experience of air • Airline business Part-time: The taught component transport professionals, enabling • Airline operations normally takes three years and must them to move productively and • Air transport economics. be completed within five years. The effectively on to the first steps of final project normally takes up to commercial or safety management. one year. Elective modules include, among It was initiated by the Honourable many others: Entry requirements Company of Air Pilots to increase • Psychology in aviation Applicants should be employed in the the career opportunities of aircrew management and others and to ensure that the aviation industry for the duration of • Human resource management the course and should have at least air transport industry has a reservoir of experienced talent from which • Airline marketing two years of experience in a position • Sustainable aviation. of professional responsibility at the to draw future managers. time of application. The programme meanwhile has Accreditation Applicants should hold an Air Transport been globally accepted as an The MSc in Air Transport Pilot’s Licence, Aircraft Engineer Licence, important career qualification Management is accredited by Air Traffic Controller Licence or a relevant for aviation executives. the Royal Aeronautical Society. lower second class honours degree or the equivalent from an international Course content Career opportunities institution. After successfully completing a three- Our graduates have demonstrated day induction/assessment workshop, career progression, either within the course is based on completing their existing organisations or eight modules, which are taught over by moving to new opportunities. three-day periods and held frequently Examples of roles held by graduates throughout the year in London, of this course include chief pilot, Dubai and sometimes in Bahrain and cabin services manager, managing Frankfurt. Students are also required director of business, aircraft broker to undertake a final project in a and senior air traffic controller. subject related to air transport.
The MSc Air Transport Management degree has two exit alternatives if the requirements for the MSc cannot be achieved: a Postgraduate Certificate when passing two core and two elective modules, or a Postgraduate Diploma when passing all eight required modules (without the final project). All students have to pass the Induction Workshop to enter the course. The course fees are the same for all students.
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168 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Aviation Management Aircraft Maintenance Management MSc
The MSc in Aircraft Maintenance Management is for aircraft maintenance professionals wishing to advance their knowledge in Aviation Management this specialised field. The degree was initiated by A J Walter Aviation and has become a global qualifier for maintenance executives.
Duration This course helps experienced aviation Core modules include: industry personnel develop their • Airline maintenance Part-time: The taught component knowledge of the complex disciplines • Airworthiness normally takes three years and must required to understand the technical, be completed within five years. The • Airline operational regulatory operational and financial pressures compliance. final project normally takes up to which impact aircraft maintenance one year. and its management. Elective modules include, among Entry requirements many others: Applicants should be employed in the Course content • Active safety management air transport industry for the duration After successfully completing a three- • Human factors: general principles day induction/assessment workshop, of the course and should have at least • Air transport economics two years of experience in a position the course is based on completing of professional responsibility in aircraft eight modules, which are taught over • Airline business maintenance at the time of application. three-day periods and held frequently • Airline operations. Applicants should hold an Aircraft throughout the year London, Dubai Engineer Licence or a relevant lower and sometimes in Bahrain and Accreditation Frankfurt. Students are also required The MSc in Aircraft Maintenance
second class honours degree or the School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering equivalent from an international to undertake a final project in a Management is accredited by the institution and a Category B or C maintenance-related subject. Royal Aeronautical Society. Aircraft Maintenance Engineers’ Licence or military equivalent. The MSc Aircraft Maintenance Career opportunities Management degree has two exit Graduates are prepared for positions alternatives if the requirements of responsibility within airlines, for the MSc cannot be achieved: a aviation authorities and defence Postgraduate Certificate when passing forces. Destinations of our graduates two core and two elective modules, or have included chief engineer, head a Postgraduate Diploma when passing of safety and senior investigator. all eight required modules (without the final project). All students have to pass the Induction Workshop to enter the course. The course fees are the same for all students.
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www.city.ac.uk 169 Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Engineering with Healthcare Technology Management MSc This course has been developed for science and engineering graduates who wish to work in an area of clinical or biomedical engineering in the NHS, international healthcare organisations or in the medical devices industry.
Duration The course also welcomes those who Modules include: work in hospitals or industry and wish • Anatomy, physiology Full-time: one year. to gain academic training to further and pathology Part-time: two years, with the project their careers. It is suitable for recent • Medical electronics taking approximately six months graduates and clinical engineers • Cardiovascular diagnostics during or after this period. working in healthcare wishing to and therapy advance to management positions. Entry requirements • Clinical engineering practice Applicants should hold a lower second Students develop biomedical • Biomedical electronics class honours degree or the equivalent technology management skills • Healthcare technology from an international institution in a and an innovative approach to management physical science. research and design in biomedical • Medical imaging technology Other qualifications and relevant engineering. As healthcare becomes • Biomedical instrumentation and experience in a field related increasingly dependent on advanced physiological measurement to biomedical engineering and technology, this course meets the • Research skills. medical imaging and proficiency in growing international need for mathematics are also considered. biomedical engineers with good All students must also complete a English language requirements technical and management skills. research project based on an area of biomedical engineering. The project IELTS: 6.5 in all categories. Course content is supervised by an expert in the The syllabus has been designed in chosen area and is assessed by a consultation with colleagues from written report and oral presentation. the NHS and the healthcare industry and recognises the demand for Career opportunities biomedical engineering graduates The course offers a well-rounded in the healthcare sector. Students background and specialised develop knowledge and skills in knowledge for those seeking information technology, life sciences, a professional career as a mathematical methods, technology clinical engineer in the NHS management, physical science and and in international healthcare biomedical engineering. The most organisations where expertise is innovative areas of biomedical and required in engineering applied clinical engineering are covered and to medicine. It prepares graduates the course content draws from our who plan to work in biomedical research expertise in biomedical engineering research. The course sensors, bio-optics, medical imaging, also provides opportunities for signal processing and modelling. professionals currently working in engineering in the NHS. Modules are led by academic staff and clinical scientists drawn from our collaborating institutions and departments.
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170 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Business Computing Business Systems Analysis and Design MSc
This course has been developed for graduates who wish to work as Business Computing business analysts and IT consultants. It equips students with hybrid IT/ business specialist knowledge ranging from business engineering with enterprise systems to IT project management and business intelligence.
Duration The course has an excellent track Students also complete an record in educating hybrid IT/business independent research project. Full-time: one year. professionals valued by employers. Internships are available for Part-time: up to 28 months (evenings). Practical work is emphasised suitably qualified candidates. throughout to develop understanding Entry requirements and skills which are strengthened by Accreditation Applicants should hold a lower second individual project development. This course is accredited by The class honours degree, the equivalent Chartered Institute for IT (BCS) for from an international institution or an Course content partial fulfilment of the academic equivalent professional qualification. The MSc in Business Systems Analysis requirement for Chartered IT Previous academic and commercial and Design develops skills in business Professional (CITP) status. experience is considered. awareness, design and consultancy to English language requirements facilitate the alignment of IT systems As part of the School of Mathematics, and services to business objectives. Computer Science & Engineering’s IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum Students also acquire an understanding long-established relationship with of 6.0 in each category. of theoretical principles in business SAP, we offer SAP Certification
systems analysis and design. Technical training. MSc students are School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering skills are enhanced through laboratory eligible to register for the SAP work to enable students to develop TERP10 Certification course at their knowledge of IT and how it affects a substantial discount. business competitiveness. Career opportunities Students complete six core and two On completion of the course, elective modules. Modules include: graduates are prepared for • Systems specification employment in roles including • Software systems design business analyst, systems analyst, • Requirements engineering IT consultant and systems integrator. • User-centred design • Practical business systems Recent graduates are employed in consultancy consultancy companies and major software users such as banks, public • Business engineering with services, telecommunications, ERP solutions multinational manufacturers and • Databases large retailers. Graduates have • Research methods and secured employment in some of the professional issues most prestigious companies in the • Project management world including Accenture, PwC, • Business intelligence Barclays, Credit Suisse and IBM. and analytics.
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www.city.ac.uk 171 Business Computing Information Systems and Technology MSc Information systems are a key part of an organisation’s IT infrastructure. IT professionals who can manage information resources and understand the technologies and systems that enable them are key to the success of modern enterprises.
Duration This course prepares students for a In addition, students choose career in information systems and three elective modules from Full-time: one year. the business services they provide. a list that includes: Part-time: up to 28 months (daytime). It takes a broad view of how • Business engineering with organisations use information to ERP solutions Entry requirements maintain competitive advantage. • Data visualization Applicants should hold a lower second • Information law and policy class honours degree, the equivalent The ethos of the course is to give • Web applications development from an international institution or an students the knowledge and skills equivalent professional qualification. in three main areas of information • Information retrieval Applicants should have basic systems: information which is of • Project management. competence and familiarity interest to users, systems designed with mathematics. to meet those users’ needs and Students also complete an independent technologies which allow users research project. Internships are English language requirements to manage an organisation’s available for suitable candidates. IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum information effectively. of 6.0 in each category. Accreditation Course content This course is accredited by The Students develop an understanding Chartered Institute for IT (BCS) for of the characteristics of information partial fulfilment of the academic systems, their management and requirement for Chartered IT technology and their effective use Professional (CITP) status. within organisations. Students also learn to evaluate and select As part of our long-established appropriate methods and technologies relationship with SAP, we offer SAP for representing, managing and Certification training. MSc students disseminating information. are eligible to register for the SAP TERP10 Certification course at a The course develops skills substantial discount. contributing to the management of organisational information and the Career opportunities development of information systems. Graduates are prepared for Students gain an appreciation of employment in information systems the necessary legal, ethical and management roles within large and professional values appropriate to small organisations including banks, the provision and management of consultancies, the pharmaceutical information services. and IT industries, central and local government and the education and There are five core modules health sectors. Graduates have secured to complete: employment in some of the most • Databases prestigious companies in the world • Information architecture including Merrill Lynch, Deutsche • Information and knowledge Bank, Virgin Atlantic, Barclays Capital management and Royal Bank of Scotland. • Research methods and Find out more Other courses you may like professional issues MSc Business Systems Analysis • Systems specification or [email protected] and Design requirements engineering. +44 (0)20 7040 0248
172 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Civil Engineering Civil Engineering Structures MSc Civil Engineering This long-established accredited technical Masters course includes the advanced study of modern structural engineering subjects and provides an up-to-date combination of design and analytical topics and of theory and professional practice.
Duration This course is delivered by world- Students who complete modules leading structural engineers with and examinations are awarded a Full-time: one year. expertise in technical analysis and Postgraduate Diploma. Students who Part-time: one full day per week over design of civil engineering structures. complete modules, examinations a period of three years or up to two full Many structural engineering academics and a research dissertation are days a week over a period of two years. are contributing to development of awarded a Masters degree. The The exact study plan is agreed for novel analytical techniques and dissertation must be based on each part-time student, following professional standards. advanced topics of structural consultation with the Course Director engineering which involve original at the time of enrolment. The course is designed for engineering analytical or experimental work. graduates who wish to gain specialist Entry requirements knowledge and progress to Chartered Accreditation Applicants should hold a lower second Engineer status. This degree is accredited as meeting class honours degree in civil engineering the requirements for Further or a relevant subject or the equivalent Course content Learning for a Chartered Engineer School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering from an international institution. Modules concentrate on theoretical (CEng) for candidates who have English language requirements aspects of advanced structural already acquired an Accredited engineering and on developing CEng (Partial) BEng (Hons) or an IELTS: 6.5 in all categories. appropriate design skills. The Accredited IEng (Full) BEng/BSc course offers a blend of theory and (Hons) undergraduate first degree. practice at postgraduate level to enhance the career prospects of both Career opportunities recent graduates and mid-career Graduates have been successful in structural engineers. securing employment with leading civil engineering consultants, Applicants working in the civil research institutes and government engineering industry may attend agencies. Graduates have moved into individual modules as short courses roles such as structural engineer at on a day-release basis. WSP Global, structural engineer at Gatwick Airport and site engineer Core modules include: at J&P Overseas Limited. • Advanced analysis and stability of structures Ten per cent of graduates also • Design of concrete structures choose to study a PhD at City. • Design of steel and composite structures • Finite element methods • Dynamics of structures • Structural reliability and risk.
Elective modules include: • Bridge engineering • Analysis of steel and concrete structures for blast and fire exposure Find out more • Earthquake analysis of structures. [email protected] +44 (0)20 7040 8108
www.city.ac.uk 173 Civil Engineering Civil Engineering Structures (Nuclear Power Plants) MSc This specialised Masters course is to prepare civil engineering professionals to engage in the nuclear energy field currently endorsed by the UK government.
Duration The UK has recently committed Elective modules include: to a long-term nuclear new-build • Earthquake analysis of structures Full-time: one year. programme that is forecast to • Analysis of steel and concrete Part-time: two years. generate more than 40,000 jobs, structures for blast and fire yet there is little specialised Entry requirements exposure. training in this area. Applicants should hold a lower second Some coursework assignments class honours degree in civil/mechanical/ The MSc in Civil Engineering require students to apply the theory nuclear engineering or a relevant subject Structures (Nuclear Power Plants) learned to specialised problems or the equivalent degree from an is designed to respond to the skills relating to the field of nuclear international institution. shortage reported by employers power plants. English language requirements currently working in the area. This new Masters course enables IELTS: 6.5 in all categories. Accreditation students to study how to design, This degree is accredited as meeting evaluate and analyse structural the requirements for Further systems, with a special focus on Learning for a Chartered Engineer nuclear power plants. Students (CEng) for candidates who have learn all the principles used for already acquired an Accredited the design of buildings, bridges CEng (Partial) BEng (Hons) or an special structures and in particular Accredited IEng (Full) BEng/BSc nuclear containment structures. (Hons) undergraduate first degree.
Course content Career opportunities This course is for students interested On successful completion of this in the structural aspects of nuclear course, students can enhance power plants and the broader field their careers employed as on- of nuclear energy. site or design engineers, or be involved in building, designing Core modules include: or constructing new plants; • Introduction to nuclear energy evaluating and maintaining existing • Advanced analysis and stability plant; or decommissioning plant of structures at the end of their life cycle. • Dynamics of structures • Design of concrete structures • Design of steel and composite structures • Design of nuclear structures and foundations • Finite element methods • Research skills • Dissertation.
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174 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Dr Tatyana Micic Senior Lecturer in Structural Engineering
Dr Tatyana Micic researches mathematical models of structural behaviour in the presence of uncertainty. She is currently investigating how climate affects structures and the implications that climate changes may have in civil and structural engineering. Civil Engineering School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering
Tatyana Koleva MSc Civil Engineering Structures, from Bulgaria
I came to City for postgraduate study as part of my degree in Bulgaria. I was keen to come to London and my home university recommended City for its reputation in engineering. I’ve had the chance to develop my skills as an engineer here and I think that the experience will be really valuable when I return home. What I’ve really loved, though, is the cosmopolitan atmosphere at City: I’ve met and made friends with people from all over the world. Ayman Moslih MSc Civil Engineering Structures, from Iraq
After I graduate from the MSc, I plan to move into employment as a designer, before establishing my own business in the area of structural engineering. I think my experience at City has given me a solid foundation for this: the University’s reputation in engineering is very strong and my course, though it involved hard work, was really interesting. City is such a diverse university: I’ve enjoyed meeting and studying alongside people from all over the world.
www.city.ac.uk 175 Decision Sciences Decision Sciences MSc
This course provides students with a broad and flexible education in the key methodologies in decision-making within management across a range of areas within industry, the finance sector and government.
Duration Modern business and government In addition to the core and elective involves complex choices and a modules, students complete a Full-time: one year. logical and scientific approach to dissertation based upon original Entry requirements decision-making is vital. Decision work carried out in the field of sciences is thus a subject of increasing decision sciences. Applicants should hold a lower importance, necessarily incorporating second class honours degree in a a diverse range of techniques to cope subject with suitable mathematical Career opportunities with the different challenges that content or the equivalent from an The decision-making process is can be faced. The overall aim of this international institution. central to modern management. Masters course is to provide students The course equips graduates to Other qualifications or relevant work with a broad and flexible education work in those areas which require experience are also considered. on the key methodologies in decision- significant quantitative and English language requirements making with management across a computational expertise such as range of areas within industry, the IELTS: 6.5 in all categories. credit risk, project management, finance sector and government. information systems and supply chain and operations management. A particular feature of this course is This course is also of more generic the emphasis on game theory, the value in areas such as understanding science of making optimal decisions and managing risk and organisational and taking into account the decisions behaviour. Decision science analyst of others. Decisions are often not is a common job title in a large range taken in isolation. The decisions of of organisations. other individuals, companies and governments can seriously affect what Upon completing the course the best decision is in any particular graduates are prepared to work situation. We explore various game- in any of the following (non- theoretical methodologies, including exhaustive) list of career areas: the modern concept of evolutionary advertising; banking analysis; game theory. business intelligence; cost analysis; engineering economics; Course content financial analysis; human The course consists of a combination resource management; insurance; of core modules and a single optional investment analysis; logistics; stream, which can be selected based supply chain management; on the students’ interests. The core management consulting; managerial modules show how several different accounting analysis; manufacturing mathematical and related methods can management; market research; be used for decision-making. Example materials management; process subject streams are Economics and and systems design; purchasing; Systems and control engineering. quality control; risk management; sales analysis; systems analysis; Core modules include: systems integration. • Managing risk and uncertainty • Optimisation and decision-making • Game theory Find out more Other courses you may like • Agent-based modelling and network science [email protected] MSc Project Management, Finance • Evolutionary game theory. and Risk +44 (0)20 7040 8108
176 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Electrical and Electronic Engineering Renewable Energy and Power Systems Management MSc This course has been designed to meet the demand from industry for the education of existing and future engineers in the advanced concepts of sustainable electrical power and energy generation. Electrical and Electronic Engineering Duration The MSc in Renewable Energy • Transmission and distribution and Power Systems Management systems management Full-time: one year. provides skills for the operation, • Power systems design Part-time: two or three years. control, design, regulation and and simulation management of the power systems Entry requirements • Power electronics and networks of the future. Applicants should hold a lower • Economics of the power industry. second class honours degree in Course content Students who complete modules electrical and electronic engineering, Students develop the ability to physics or an engineering-related and examinations are awarded a evaluate critically methodologies, Postgraduate Diploma. Students who subject, or the equivalent from an analytical procedures and research international institution. complete modules, examinations and methods in power systems engineering. a research dissertation are awarded English language requirements Students also develop professional a Masters degree. IELTS: 6.5 in all categories. skills through the use of state-of- the-art computational tools, the Accreditation design of sustainable electrical power This course is accredited by the systems and networks and regulatory Institution of Engineering and frameworks, field trips and practical Technology (IET). demonstrations.
There is a consistent emphasis on Career opportunities industry in this course. Students Graduates are equipped with the learn from academic staff and visiting skills to evaluate methodologies, lecturers: one such visiting lecturer, analytical procedures and research School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering from UK Power Networks, leads two methods using power systems modules and brings professional engineering and state-of-the-art expertise and industry-relevant computational tools. They can also material to the degree. Students also move into the design of sustainable learn to use power industry-standard electrical power systems, networks software including DigSilent and and regulatory frameworks. Neplan. The academic delivery of Graduates have moved into roles such the course is supplemented by the as innovation engineer at UK Power use of City’s new power-related Networks, application engineer at laboratory equipment. Caterpillar, senior project electrical engineer at Vattenfall and power This course is organised into eight systems engineer at National Grid. modules provided on a weekly basis.
Core modules include: • Introduction to power systems and energy management • Energy utilisation and management • Systems modelling • Renewable energy: engineering Find out more Other courses you may like principles of solar, wind and biomass energy supplies [email protected] MSc Energy and Environmental Technology and Economics +44 (0)20 7040 8108
www.city.ac.uk 177 Energy and the Environment Energy and Environmental Technology and Economics MSc This course has been designed to develop skills in the cost- effective management of energy resources and in managing commercial and industrial development within challenging environmental constraints.
Duration The growing international interest • Emissions trading/water in different energy sources and their management Full-time: 15 months. uses has shifted priorities in the • Renewable energy & sustainability Part-time: normally within three years. energy field. The future leaders that • Risk management. Part-time students can start any time will form the new global vision and between October and May. develop the policies regulating the Students interested in sustainability Entry requirements field will need a solid and diverse issues have the option of taking skills set. up to two modules from the MSc Applicants should hold a lower second in Environmental Strategy offered class honours degree or the equivalent The MSc Energy and Environmental by the University of Surrey. from an international institution Technology and Economics has been in a discipline related to energy designed to develop the knowledge Accreditation and the environment, e.g. energy and skills of participants in cost- management and economics, energy effective management and regulation The course is accredited by the policy, environment or engineering). of the rapidly changing energy sector. Energy Institute and fulfils the learning requirement for Chartered Relevant industrial experience is Engineer status. also considered alongside academic One of the distinguishing features qualifications. of the course is that the lectures Career opportunities English language requirements are delivered by a range of experts from the energy industry. Students Our priority is to make graduates IELTS: 6.5 in all categories. gain up-front knowledge of what is strong applicants for employment in a rapidly-evolving energy field from a range of sectors in which effective those directly involved. Students energy supply and demand-side also benefit from industry experts’ management have become important first-hand experience of regulations considerations. With strong and national policies that are being industry links and working level developed or must be conformed to. experience brought on board by our exceptional team of expert lecturers, Course content in combination with the diverse This course is organised into modules module range offered, graduates which are provided over a three-day are equipped to become leaders period, one module a month. and entrepreneurs in their chosen area of specialisation, whether that Core modules include: be energy management, supply or • Corporate energy management policy-making. • Energy policies and Examples of graduate destinations economic dimension include AK Home Energy, Energy • Introduction to energy and Institute, Equinoxe Services Ltd, Log environmental issues Tech Consultancy, Ofgem, Peckham • The energy market from the Power and RWE NPower Renewables. purchaser’s perspective.
Elective modules include: • Transport energy and emissions • Energy: consumer goods in Find out more the home • Energy in industry and the [email protected] built environment +44 (0)20 7040 8108
178 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Engineering with Management Construction Management MSc
This course provides graduates and professionals who have a background in engineering and the built environment with the knowledge and skills needed for a rewarding management career in the construction industry.
Duration The course is suitable for people in • Sustainable development and professions including civil engineering, corporate social responsibility Full-time: one year with the project architecture, construction management • Corporate governance. taking approximately six months and quantity surveying. during this period. Students also undertake a major Part-time: two years with the project Key features of the course are: individual research project on taking approximately six months • Collaboration with Cass a topic within the broad area during the second year. Business School of construction management, Entry requirements • Input from senior construction conducted under the direction professionals of a supervisor and culminating Applicants should hold a lower second in a dissertation. class honours degree or the equivalent • Participation in highly realistic from an international institution in civil project management simulation. Students who complete modules engineering, architecture, surveying and examinations are awarded or construction-related subjects. Course content a Postgraduate Diploma. Students Alternatively, applicants should hold The taught part of the course is who complete modules, examinations Chartered Engineer status or an based on ten modules. Five of these and a dissertation are awarded a equivalent international status. modules provide a broad foundation Masters degree. English language requirements in various aspects of theory and practice in the general field of IELTS: 6.5 in all categories. management. These modules are Accreditation delivered by academics affiliated with This degree is accredited as meeting School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering Engineering with Management Cass Business School and follow the the requirements for Further MSc in Management curriculum. Learning for a Chartered Engineer (CEng) for candidates who have The remaining five construction- already acquired an appropriate oriented modules are delivered by accredited undergraduate first senior professional engineers with degree. Please see www.jbm.org.uk wide experience in the construction for further information. industry. These modules focus on the development of professional Career opportunities management skills within the Potential employers include general construction context. contractors, real estate developers, subcontractors, construction Modules include: management teams and architectural • Project planning and management engineering firms. Graduates have • Project funding and finance secured employment in some of the • Leadership and management skills most prestigious companies in the • ICT for construction management world including Deloitte, Jacobs UK Ltd, Morgan Elliott Ltd, CPC Project • International construction Services LLP and Thames Tideway contracts and arbitration in roles such as project manager and • Organisational behaviour and operations analyst. human resource management • Operations management and Find out more information management • Advanced practice of management [email protected] Other courses you may like +44 (0)20 7040 0118 MSc Civil Engineering Structures twitter.com/CMCityUni
www.city.ac.uk 179 Engineering with Management Project Management, Finance and Risk MSc Students on this course learn advanced techniques for managing uncertainties and risks inherent in complex technical projects, studying the design of appropriate financial instruments and tools to optimise project performance throughout the whole life cycle.
Duration The changing nature of business is Modules include: becoming more complex as it adapts • Managing risk and uncertainty Full-time: one year, with the project to meet the demands of international • Communication and presentation taking approximately six months markets and increased investment • Perspectives on management and during or after this period. scrutiny. Business is also embracing leadership Part-time: two years, with the project the whole project life cycle in order to taking approximately six months benefit from extended revenue streams • Optimisation and decision-making during or after this period. stretching many years into the future. • Financial engineering and Entry requirements This increased complexity requires planning projects that deliver new products • Entrepreneurship innovations Applicants should hold a lower second and services. It needs improved and enterprise class honours degree or the equivalent infrastructure to increase focus on • Supply chain management. from an international institution in a managing uncertainty and risk. This subject with suitable mathematical uncertainty and risk may emerge In the summer term students are content, such as engineering or physics. from ambitious schedules, political offered the opportunity of gaining a Applicants with other qualifications pressures, business imperatives, Prince 2 Practitioner qualification in are also considered. environmental issues, economics and project management. English language requirements extended supply chains. In addition, financing complex projects has Career opportunities IELTS: 6.5 in all categories. become a major challenge following This course prepares students for a recent world economic problems. wide range of careers involving project management and financial planning. There is now a growing need for It is particularly suited to those a new breed of project manager; planning to work in infrastructure one who can manage risk and management and development. uncertainty, constrained schedules and budgets, while at the same time Students who have graduated from delivering the product or service this course are now employed expected by the business. by some of the most prestigious companies in the world including Course content Eurostar, Petronas, Southern Water, This course provides a basis in Bechtel Construction and others. risk management and decision- making under uncertainty, classical engineering economics and financial engineering for those pursuing a career or planning a career in capital goods or project management. In addition, it offers skills in management, leadership and entrepreneurship. The course is modular (with each module lasting four days) and is designed for both full- and part-time students. Between each of the modules, students are expected to undertake further study from course reading lists which forms part of the Find out more degree assessment. Other courses you may like [email protected] MSc Decision Sciences +44 (0)20 7040 8095
180 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Human-Centred Computing Human-Centred Systems MSc
This course equips students with the latest research, theories and techniques in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), user experience (UX), usability and interaction design.
Duration Students gain the knowledge, skills • Inclusive design and experience to create an engaging • Information architecture Full-time: one year. user experience by designing and • Interaction design evaluating interactive technologies, Part-time: 28 months (daytime). • Requirements engineering including web, mobile and ubiquitous There is the option of a six-month systems, based on user research. Our • Research methods and internship. Previous host companies high-quality tutoring is informed by professional issues. include the BBC, Nature.com and UX leading-edge academic research. design agencies such as Webcredible Students also complete one of the and Foolproof. Graduates acquire a breadth and following elective modules: Entry requirements depth of knowledge and skills for: • Creativity in design • Web applications development Applicants should hold an upper • Creating engaging user experiences second class honours degree, the • Designing and creating innovative • Telemedicine equivalent from an international and inclusive interactive systems • Data visualization. institution or an equivalent and technologies professional qualification. • Analysing requirements for systems Students also undertake an independent research project. Previous experience with computer that involve people and computers technologies and academic and • Conducting usability and The course equips students with commercial experience is also accessibility evaluations
a useful balance of theoretical School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering Human-Centred Computing considered. A practical background in • Leading user-centred and creative knowledge and practical skills, computing technologies is desirable. design projects. with a strong focus on intellectually It is not necessary for students to have stimulating theory with real-world had prior exposure to Human-Computer Students benefit from the use of City applications. All modules include Interaction or user-centred design. Interaction Lab (www.interaction- theoretical and practical components. English language requirements lab.co.uk), which is equipped with the latest user research technology IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum including eye-tracking equipment, Career opportunities of 6.0 each category. interactive tabletops, mobile testing We have a strong record of placing stations and more. graduates in roles such as user experience consultant, information The course is delivered by architect and interaction designer in accomplished academics from leading business consultancies, digital the Centre for Human-Computer agencies, IT companies, government Interaction Design, an independent and commercial organisations. research centre within the School of Graduates are now employed by some Mathematics, Computer Science & of the most prestigious companies in Engineering at City University London. the world including Google and Nokia. Many are also employed by specialist Course content UX agencies such as Flow Interactive, Fluent Interaction and Webcredible. Modules are delivered through a This course also prepares students combination of lectures, online for a PhD degree, leading towards a activities and interactive workshops research career. and tutorials. The course is assessed by a mixture of coursework, examination and a project dissertation. Find out more Other courses you may like Students take seven core modules: [email protected] MSc/MA/MInnov Innovation, • Cognition and technologies Creativity and Leadership +44 (0)20 7040 0248 • Evaluating interactive systems
www.city.ac.uk 181 Dr Anne Kandler Lecturer in Decision Sciences
Dr Anne Kandler’s research centres around the mathematical modelling of cultural evolution. Her aim is to understand the underlying evolutionary principles of cultural change in human populations by linking observable empirical patterns of cultural change (as inferred for instance from the archaeological record) to mathematical modelling frameworks. These frameworks are based on diffusion-reaction systems, Markov processes and their diffusion approximation, simulations as well as statistical techniques such as approximate Bayesian computation. Her research programme is highly interdisciplinary and she collaborates with biologists, linguists, archaeologists and anthropologists on a diverse range of questions concerning cultural evolution (e.g. dynamics of language shift, diffusion of innovations, evolution of social learning strategies and statistical inference methods of cultural selection processes). Sarra Hamdi MSc Human-Centred Systems, from the United Kingdom
I have always been interested in design and enjoy finding out how people interact with technology. The course at City focuses on developing practical skills and provides an insight into current industry practice, as well as offering practical career advice that will support me after graduation. The encouragement and enthusiasm of City’s academics made the course extremely enjoyable and allowed me to develop in a supportive and stimulating environment. Pursuing a career in interaction design and user experience (UX) will allow me combine my interests in an exciting and evolving industry.
182 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Innovation, Creativity and Leadership Innovation, Creativity and Leadership MSc/MA/MInnov This course offers a unique opportunity to study innovation, creativity and leadership from a rounded, interdisciplinary perspective and from leaders in each of the disciplines. Innovation, Creativity Leadership and Duration The Masters in Innovation, Creativity Students who successfully complete and Leadership (MICL) has been eight modules and a final dissertation Full-time: one year. designed for individuals who wish are awarded either a Master of Part-time: 28 months. to develop the skills to turn ideas Science (MSc) degree, a Master of Arts into action. Students explore the (MA) degree or a Master of Innovation Entry requirements possibilities that a creative climate (MInnov) degree. Applicants should hold an upper second can bring to a company and learn class honours degree or the equivalent how to harness creativity, manage Students who successfully complete from an international institution. innovation projects and utilise a eight modules but decide not to Applicants should also have a range of creativity and innovation submit a dissertation are awarded minimum of three years’ work processes and techniques. a Postgraduate Diploma. Applications experience in a relevant professional for Postgraduate Diplomas are not domain. Applicants who do not hold The MICL is a highly practical course, accepted. a degree may be considered on the designed to have immediate impact basis of work experience alone. on students’ capabilities and bring Career opportunities lifelong rewards. Students graduate English language requirements Graduates of the MICL learn about, having built a diverse network of like- experience and therefore have at their IELTS: 7.5. minded individuals, who are a rich disposal a wide selection of tools, source of ideas and mutual support. techniques and methods for creative design and problem solving that Course content can be applied in a range of social, This course consists of eight core organisational and technical contexts. modules and a dissertation project. The modules are: Examples of graduate roles include
• Creative problem solving and project manager at GUME Brazil, School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering leadership (Cass Business School) consultant and manager at Impact • Creative writing (School of Arts Innovation, fundraising support & Social Sciences) manager at Scope and group director • Creativity and the creative of operations at NEP UK. industries (School of Arts & Social Sciences) • Delivering innovation (Cass Business School) • Leading creative design • Technologies for creativity and innovation • The law, creativity and innovation (The City Law School) • The psychology of creativity and innovation (School of Arts & Social Sciences).
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www.city.ac.uk 183 Library and Information Science Information Science MSc
The MSc in Information Science, offered at City since 1967, is suitable for those interested in information management within particular subject domains such as music, media, healthcare, law and business.
Duration The MSc in Information Science Students also choose one elective is designed for anyone with a module from a range which Full-time: one year. serious interest in information typically includes: Part-time: up to 28 months (daytime). communication, organisation and • Data visualization management. The course is highly Entry requirements • Information law and policy suitable for those wishing to further • Libraries and publishing in Applicants should hold a lower second their career within the library and the information society class honours degree, the equivalent information sector. from an international institution or an • Web applications development. equivalent professional qualification. The course provides critical insight On completion of eight modules, Previous relevant professional and practical engagement with students progress to a dissertation. experience is also considered. the latest theories, technologies, English language requirements policies and use of documentation, from the traditional areas of science, Accreditation IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum technology, law and medicine, The course is accredited by the of 6.0 in each category. through to arts, humanities and Chartered Institute of Library and creative industries. Information Professionals (CILIP).
Course content Career opportunities Our course equips students with Our graduates can provide original understanding and experience insight into behaviours that can be beneficial to business beyond the
of content creation, authorship, School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering Library and Information Science new publishing and dissemination traditional remit of libraries. They models, information management are employed by public and private and policy, information technologies, organisations in the information cataloging, classification, indexing and knowledge management, GLAM and retrieval, information (galleries, libraries, archives and architecture, data analytics, museums), creative industries, resources and user behaviour. We health, legal, financial and IT focus on teamwork, problem-solving sectors. Roles are varied and and research methods and foster include: librarian, institutional reflective information literacy skills. repository manager, information manager, knowledge manager, Students take seven core modules: records manager and researcher. • Digital information technologies Employers include academic, and architecture public and private libraries • Information domains and institutions, professional associations, media companies, • Information management legal and financial firms, think and policy tanks, NGOs, universities and • Information resources tech startups. and organisation • Information retrieval • Library and information Find out more science foundation [email protected] • Research, evaluation and +44 (0)20 7040 0248 communication skills. Other courses you may like www.city.ac.uk/lis MSc Library Science #citylis on Twitter
184 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Library and Information Science Library Science MSc/MA
The MSc/MA in Library Science has been designed for anyone wishing to work with information. Library and Information Science
Duration The MSc/MA in Library Science is Students also choose one elective for anyone wishing to work with module from a range which Full-time: one year. information within the collection- typically includes: Part-time: up to 28 months (daytime). orientated professions, which are • Information domains usually referred to as the GLAM Entry requirements • Information law and policy sector (galleries, libraries, archives • Web applications development Applicants should hold a lower second and museums). Based in the UK, our • Independent study. class honours degree, the equivalent material is relevant internationally. from an international institution or an On successful completion of eight equivalent professional qualification. Course content Relevant professional experience is modules, students progress to Library science covers all aspects the dissertation. also considered. of collection management, English language requirements identification and acquisition Accreditation of resources; publishing and IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum The course is accredited by the dissemination; the design, of 6.0 in each category. Chartered Institute of Library and implementation and review of Information Professionals (CILIP). digital libraries, repositories and discovery systems; information organisation and metadata; policy Career opportunities and management; intellectual Our graduates are employed by property and rights; communication public and private organisations in the information and knowledge
and social media; user experience; School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering and information behaviour. management, GLAM, creative industries, health, legal, financial The course has a digital focus, and IT sectors. Roles are varied; they including the arts, the cultural sector include librarian, special collections and forecasting. It provides critical librarian, subject librarian, systems insight into the latest theories, librarian, data librarian, digital technologies, policies and practices curator, content developer and within the collection professions. social media strategist, among others. Employers include academic, Students take seven core modules: public and private libraries • Digital information technologies and institutions, professional and architecture associations, media companies, • Digital libraries legal and financial firms, think tanks, NGOs, universities and tech • Information management startups. Our graduates can provide and policy original insight into behaviours • Information resources that can be beneficial to media, and organisations education and business beyond • Libraries and publishing the traditional remit of libraries. in the information society • Library and information science foundation Find out more • Research, evaluation and [email protected] communication skills. +44 (0)20 7040 0248 Other courses you may like www.city.ac.uk/lis MSc Information Science #citylis on Twitter
www.city.ac.uk 185 Maritime Operations and Management Maritime Operations and Management MSc This course is designed to prepare people for occupations at a senior level within the maritime and sea transport industries, in the UK or internationally.
Duration Students join us from a wide range Elective modules include: of undergraduate courses or from • Marketing of marine services Full-time: one year, with the project employment with responsible sea-going • Security studies taking approximately three months or middle-management positions. during this period. • Port management • Offshore studies Part-time: two to three years, with The core academic content of the the project taking approximately six course introduces a wide range • Risk management months during or after this period. In of concepts and material and • Conceptual ship design. either case employer participation in reinforces skills and experience, the project is encouraged. preparing students for employment Accreditation Entry requirements in senior positions in the maritime The course is supported by the sector. This course makes use of Honourable Company of Master Applicants should hold a lower second prestigious visiting speakers and Mariners and recognised by the class honours degree or the equivalent takes advantage of the importance of Institute of Marine Engineering, from an international institution in an London as an international maritime Science and Technology as satisfying appropriate discipline, or a Certificate hub, through visits to outside marine- the academic requirements to of Competence as Master or Chief related organisations where possible. become a Chartered Marine Engineer: Class 1 Master Mariner or Technologist (C.Mar.Tech). The Class 1 Engineer with experience in Course content Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers one of these roles. The core elements of the course focus also gives the maximum amount Industry experience in positions of on maritime operations, management, of exemptions permitted by responsibility is also considered. law and technology and the related their regulations from their own The selection process may include business environment. The fields of examinations. The course is also an interview. port security and risk management, recognised by the Royal Institution of Naval Architects. English language requirements marine environmental and offshore studies, marketing and selected IELTS: 6.5 in all categories. aspects of conceptual ship design also Career opportunities feature strongly in the course content. Graduates have wide-ranging Students develop skills suitable for employment opportunities within taking leadership and management the maritime sector, including responsibility in a wide range of commercial and technical roles maritime activities. within the worldwide marine industry. Graduates have secured This course is delivered on either a positions in the fields of ship full-time or a flexible, modular basis and insurance broking, offshore comprising intensive periods of operations, port and terminal attendance supported by work-based management, shipping finance, distance learning. surveying, ship superintendency, safety management and technical Core modules include: and commercial management. • Maritime economics and accounting Many former students have become • Maritime law members of the boards of shipping Other courses you may like • Maritime management organisations and serve in various COMEM MSc two year course on • Maritime operations and insurance commercial and technical capacities. Coastal and Marine Engineering and • Maritime technology Management (Run jointly between Find out more City University London, Trondheim, • Environmental issues. [email protected] Delft, Barcelona and the University of Southampton) +44 (0)20 7040 3630
186 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Maritime Operations and Management Maritime Operations and Management (Greece) MSc Designed to prepare people for senior level positions within the maritime and sea transport industries, this course is the distance learning mode of the identical course run in the United Kingdom.
Duration Students join us from a wide range The first two elective modules are Maritime Operations Management and of backgrounds which include offered in Piraeus and London, Full-time: 18 months with lectures undergraduate courses or from thereby allowing the degree to be undertaken at weekends during employment in responsible sea-going obtained wholly from studies in that period. or middle-management positions. Greece. The other elective modules Entry requirements may be taken in London if desired. Applicants from undergraduate The core academic content of the courses should hold an upper second course introduces a wide range of Accreditation class honours degree or the equivalent concepts and material and reinforces The course is accredited by the from an international institution in a skills and experience, preparing Institute of Marine Engineering, quantitative subject. students for employment in senior Science and Technology as satisfying positions in the maritime sector. If coming from a career at sea the the academic requirements to become a Chartered Marine Technologist applicant must hold the equivalent This course makes use of of Master or Chief Engineer: Class 1 (C.Mar.Tech). The Institute of prestigious visiting lecturers and Chartered Shipbrokers also gives certificate and have experience of is the distance learning mode of working in one of those roles. Industrial the maximum amount of exemptions the identical programme of study permitted by their regulations from experience is also considered and may run in the United Kingdom. require an interview prior to acceptance their own examinations. The course on to the course. is also recognised by the Royal Course content Institution of Naval Architects. English language requirements This course comprises six core Applicants who have previously modules and a choice of two Career opportunities studied in a language other than elective modules from a total of Graduates from this course English must demonstrate an IELTS: six. The course concludes with have wide-ranging employment 6.5 overall. the preparation of a dissertation opportunities within the marine School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering on a maritime related topic. sector. These include commercial and technical roles and former Core modules include: students have taken up positions • Maritime economics and finance in shipbroking, offshore • Maritime management operations, port and terminal • Maritime technology management, shipping finance, • Maritime law surveying, superintendency and • Maritime operations as technical and commercial managers and directors. • Maritime environmental issues.
Elective modules inlcude: • Marketing of marine services • Risk management • Security studies • Port management • Offshore studies • Conceptual ship design.
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www.city.ac.uk 187 Caroline Owen MSc Human-Centred Systems, graduated 2015, from the United Kingdom
The fast pace and variety of consultancy work has always appealed to me. My career aspiration was to work as a user experience (UX) consultant for a research agency, which I am lucky enough to be doing at the moment. The course at City gave me all the tools I needed to walk into a job in UX and I love being able to make use of the skills the MSc Human- Centred Systems course taught me. The course was Professor Jason Dykes practical enough to prepare me for my current job, Professor of Visualization while maintaining a good balance of theory and research. I chose to come to City because of the Professor Jason Dykes is a Professor of Visualization excellent postgraduate reputation and amazing links at the giCentre, where he and his colleagues to industry. design, create and evaluate interactive maps and other graphics. This helps people and organisations in a wide variety of application areas make sense of their data and enables the computer science community to learn about designs that help people think about data. Current and recent projects involve visualizing: millions of bike journeys made across London; millions of readings from smart home energy meters; and millions of signals from the British Library audio collection. Professor Dykes recently chaired the world’s leading visualization conference, IEEE Information Visualization.
188 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering
Muhammad Hassan Naqshbandi MSc Mechanical Engineering, from the United Kingdom Dominic Allington-Smith MSc Library Science, I chose City because of the wide range of module from the United Kingdom options, the enthusiasm of the academics and the industry-driven topics, as well as City’s excellent The course at City was recommended to me by reputation for engineering. I enjoy the challenge people in the library sector. It is accredited by the of working on projects that are completely new to Chartered Institute of Librarians and Information me and learning how to use computer software to Professionals (CILIP) and therefore has a great deal assist in solving complex problems. After graduation of professional value and validity. My goal is to I plan to become a chartered mechanical engineer. work in an academic library and devote my career The diversity of work, prospect of a good salary and to helping academics, researchers and students to working with like-minded people really appeals to find the scholarly information they need in order to me. But the most important factor is the satisfaction complete their education and improve humanity’s of solving today’s problems to build for the future. wider knowledge.
www.city.ac.uk 189 Mechanical and Automotive Engineering Mechanical Engineering MSc
This course provides broad-based knowledge of the latest technological developments in mechanical engineering.
Duration The course covers areas including • Renewable energy advanced heat transfer and energy • Mathematical modelling in CAD. Full-time: one year. systems, advanced computational Part-time: two days a week over fluid mechanics, advanced structural Students who complete modules a period of two years. mechanics with FEA, vehicle and examinations are awarded a Entry requirements engineering and design and Postgraduate Diploma. Students who industry-standard CAD tools. complete modules, examinations Applicants should hold a lower and a dissertation are awarded a second class honours degree in Our internationally recognised Masters degree. mechanical or automotive engineering Research Centre for Energy or a related scientific or engineering and Transport has excellent Accreditation discipline, or the equivalent from an computational and experimental international institution. This MSc is accredited by the facilities. These cover all topics and UK Institution of Mechanical Consideration is given to candidates include several modern test facilities Engineers and satisfies the academic who can demonstrate work experience for experimental work including requirement for applications for in an appropriate field. advanced optical diagnostics. Chartered Engineer status. English language requirements Specialisations include computational IELTS: 6.5 in all categories. fluid mechanics, finite element analysis, Career opportunities low carbon energy technology, screw Our academic staff are at the cutting and turbo compressors and expanders, edge of their field and many have advanced experimental techniques, research collaborations with different fuels and combustion, mechatronics organisations including Howden and vehicle dynamic control. Compressors, Toyota, Shell, Delphi, Lotus, BP and Formula 1. These Course content connections often lead to employment opportunities, but many students also This course develops the broad skills find employment in other companies. and knowledge base required by mechanical engineers and provides Graduate roles include engineer a platform for career development. analyst, senior structural engineer, plant engineer supervisor and Core modules include: commercial analyst. Some graduates • Advanced heat transfer also move on to study a PhD. • Advanced computational fluid Students who decide to move to dynamics other careers find that the MSc in • Advanced structural mechanics Mechanical Engineering provides • IC engines and vehicle propulsion a solid foundation for careers • Combustion fundamentals requiring analytical skills and and applications professional work. • Research skills • Individual project.
Elective modules (choice of three): • Gas turbine engineering • Introduction to control Find out more • Energy utilisation and [email protected] management +44 (0)20 7040 0118
190 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Technical Computing Computer Games Technology MSc
The MSc in Computer Games Technology is designed for Computing Technical graduates aiming to pursue a career as a programmer or technical lead in the games industry.
Duration In particular, the project component Career opportunities gives students an opportunity to Graduates are equipped with Full-time: one year. carry out an extended piece of advanced knowledge and skills in a Part-time: up to 28 months (evenings). work at the cutting edge of games range of topics in games technology technology under the supervision Entry requirements in preparation for a career in of one of our specialist academic computer games development. Applicants should hold a lower second and research staff. Internship-based Examples of professional roles class honours degree, the equivalent projects are also available. include 3D graphics programmer, from an international institution audio programmer, physics or an equivalent professional Course content programmer and simulation and qualification. Prior degrees should At the end of the course, students are game engine programmer. Recent be in a numerate subject with a equipped with advanced knowledge graduates have gained employment substantial computing content. and skills in a range of topics in games at companies including Rockstar Previous academic and commercial technology in preparation for a career Games, Criterion Games, Sony and EA. experience is also considered. in computer games development. English language requirements
Students complete eight core modules School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum which include: of 6.0 in each category. • Object-oriented programming in C++ • Computer games architecture • Computer graphics • Games development process • Games physics and Artificial Intelligence.
Students also complete an independent research project.
Blair Trusler Accreditation MSc Computer Games Technology, This course is accredited by The from the United Kingdom Junior Programmer, Rockstar Games Chartered Institute for IT (BCS) for partial fulfilment of the academic As someone who has always wanted to work in requirement for Chartered IT the games industry, taking the Computer Games Professional (CITP) status. Technology MSc course at City University London was one of the best choices I could have made. The passion of the lecturers really shone through and it made the learning process that much moreenjoyable. In addition to the lectures, the coursework and practical sessions helped me build up my portfolio of work that I used in the career hunting process. The skills I acquired on the course are invaluable and helped me to get my dream job in the industry as a junior programmer at Rockstar North.
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www.city.ac.uk 191 Technical Computing Cyber Security MSc
The MSc in Cyber Security prepares students for a successful career in the various roles directly and indirectly connected to the world of computer, network and information security. It develops specialist analytical, operational and development skills in both technical and socio-technical areas of cyber security.
Duration This course’s primary objective is to Course content give students practical experience There are eight taught modules, Full-time: one year. with a shared coursework that (six core and two elective modules), Entry requirements exercises the learning skills of with a full-time individual project all the security-specific modules. Applicants should hold a second class completed over the summer. With practical real-life scenarios honours degree or the equivalent from this coursework ensures hands-on an international institution in computer Core modules include: experience in testing and analysing science or a related discipline with • Information security management computing systems. some mathematical content. Relevant • Network security industrial experience may also be • Security auditing and certification Particularly in term one, students considered for entry to this course. play the role of ethical hacker. • Readings in computer science English language requirements Students are challenged to identify • Research methods and IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum flaws in an enterprise’s network by professional issues of 6.0 in each category. breaking its crypto components. In • Cryptography. term two students play the role of an investigator. Students are challenged Elective modules include: to investigate network traffic and • Digital forensics data logs to detect attacks in the • Cyber crime enterprise’s network and generally • Data visualization audit the system. • Sociotechnical systems The course covers core areas of • Advanced algorithms and Masters level computer science such data structures as research methods and scientific • Individual project. presentation and analysis skills. It enables students to specialise in Career opportunities some aspects of the area of cyber There is a critical need to fill cyber security and engage with academics security jobs in the government and to develop scientific knowledge private industry. A cyber security and skills. We offer options degree from City University London within the programme that allow prepares graduates for a position in students to develop their expertise this fast-growing field. It provides in the sociotechnical aspects of graduates with the necessary security (such as cyber-crime and knowledge and skills to manage security governance) or the more environments which require high traditional technical aspects (such as levels of information security. cryptography and digital forensics). In particular, the project component gives students an opportunity to carry out an extended piece of work at the cutting edge of games technology under the supervision of one of our specialist academic and research staff. Internship-based projects are also available. Find out more [email protected] +44 (0)20 7040 0248
192 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Technical Computing Data Science MSc
Data science is a new area of work concerned with the extraction of insight from large collections of data. The MSc in Data Science prepares students for a successful career as a data scientist.
Duration The next generation of scientific • Information retrieval discovery and technological • Data visualization Full-time: one year. innovation will be data-driven. • Digital signal processing and Part-time: up to 28 months. Deriving value from all the data now audio programming available, for economic growth and Entry requirements • Software agents. the benefit of society, requires a Applicants should hold an upper transformation in data analysis. second class honours degree or the Data science is an emerging discipline Career opportunities equivalent from an international concerned with the task of extracting Graduates of this course can expect institution in computing, engineering, insight from large collections of data. to achieve employment as a data physics or mathematics, or in business, scientist in a range of businesses, economics, psychology or health, with The MSc in Data Science at City from health to retail, the IT industry a demonstrable mathematical aptitude, University London combines and government. The course also or a lower second class honours degree extensive research expertise with prepares students wishing to (or international equivalent) with a strong industrial links, having undertake further study at a doctoral demonstrable mathematical aptitude a focus on academic excellence level. Many of our students have and relevant work experience. for business and the professions successfully secured internships School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering Computing Technical English language requirements and offering a unique industrial in prestigious companies such as internship programme for both Google, Black Swan, Reward IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum full-time and part-time students. Insight and Fluent Interaction. of 6.0 in each category. Course content We also have a new partnership with MathWorks MATLAB where students The MSc in Data Science prepares can take advantage of online students for a successful career training in MATLAB for as a data scientist. It develops free, including three self-paced students’ specialist skills in data online courses: acquisition, information extraction, • MATLAB Fundamentals aggregation and representation, data analysis, knowledge extraction • MATLAB Programming and explanation, which are in high Techniques demand in the job market. • MATLAB for Data Processing and Visualization There are six core modules: • Principles of data science Those who work through all of the • Machine learning training content above are expected to be competent to pass the MathWorks • Big data Certified MATLAB Associate Exam, • Neural computing should they wish to pursue the • Visual analytics MathWorks MATLAB certification. • Research methods and professional issues and an MSc project. For a preview of the online courses, please visit www.uk.mathworks. Students also choose two electives com/services/training and click on from a list that includes: ‘Online Training’. • Advanced programming: concurrency Find out more • Advanced database technologies [email protected] • Cloud computing • Computer vision +44 (0)20 7040 0248
www.city.ac.uk 193 Dr Artur d’Avila Garcez Reader in Neural-Symbolic Computation, Course Director, MSc in Data Science
Dr Artur d’Avila Garcez is the founder of the Machine Learning group within the Department of Computer Science. The group conducts research into the construction of systems that can learn from large collections of data. Dr Garcez has co-authored two books: Neural-Symbolic Learning Systems and Neural-Symbolic Cognitive Reasoning and 100 research papers in the areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning, neural networks, software engineering and applied logic. His work has led to neural-symbolic systems and cognitive agents that have been applied recently in industry to achieve knowledge extraction from big data; visual and multimodal information processing; and the adaptation of software systems.
Professor Adrian Cheok Professor of Pervasive Computing
Professor Adrian Cheok is the Founder and Director of the Mixed Reality Lab. In his research he is concerned with mixed reality, human-computer interfaces, wearable computers and ubiquitous computing, fuzzy systems, embedded systems and power electronics. One of his most widely cited articles examined pervasive gaming, in which traditional, real-world games are augmented with computing functionality or purely virtual computer entertainment is brought into the real world. More recently, Professor Cheok’s work on the multi- sensory internet has been featured in media outlets including The Guardian and the BBC. Maria Krotsiani PhD Computer Science, from Greece and Italy
I enjoy my PhD because I have the opportunity to Manoel Vitor Franca develop something new and innovative, which is PhD Computer Science, from Brazil also really challenging. My PhD is about Incremental Certification of Cloud Services. My approach is based I studied for my undergraduate degree and Masters on the incremental certification of security properties in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the Universidade Federal for different types of cloud services (I/P/S aaS), do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). My PhD supervisor at City, based on operational evidence gathered through Dr Artur Garcez, together with my former Masters continuous monitoring. My research is contributing supervisor, Dr Gerson Zaverucha, are the inventors to the EU FP7 research project called CUMULUS. This of the system with which I am working and that has been a great opportunity to meet people from connection led me to pursue a PhD degree. I am different countries and backgrounds and collaborate participating in state-of-the-art research here at City, with them through the project’s deliverables. which motivates me to pursue my academic goals.
194 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Technical Computing Health Informatics MSc
Our MSc in Health Informatics is Europe’s longest established postgraduate course in this field.
Duration Typical applicants are clinical and Accreditation allied health professionals who This course is accredited by The Full-time: one year. wish to enhance their careers and Chartered Institute for IT (BCS) for Part-time: up to 28 months (daytime). computer scientists, engineers and partial fulfilment of the academic others with relevant technical or Entry requirements requirement for Chartered IT professional qualifications who wish Professional status. Applicants should hold an upper second to move into a career involving the class honours degree, the equivalent application of ICT in health services Career opportunities from an international institution or an and associated industries. equivalent professional qualification. Graduates are prepared for employment in health services Prior degrees should be in a medical Students are part of a multi- (both state and private sectors) or numerate subject, but other degree professional and international in the UK and overseas and in subjects or professional qualifications cohort and benefit from a course of related healthcare industries can be accepted if a candidate has lectures delivered by leading experts and organisations. subsequently had relevant health and the University’s location close to service or industrial experience. many hospitals and medical centres. Students can participate in our
English language requirements professional placement programme, School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering Computing Technical Course content IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum which is supported by the of 6.0 in each category. There are six core modules: Professional Liaison Unit. This • Clinical records allows students to undertake their • Data analysis with healthcare final project within an industrial applications or research placement over an • Information for decisions extended period of time. in healthcare • Knowledge management in healthcare • Research methods and professional issues • Telemedicine.
Students can also select two elective modules from a list that includes: • Databases • Information architecture • Programming in Java • Interaction design • Project management.
Students also undertake an independent research project.
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www.city.ac.uk 195 Technical Computing Management of Information Security and Risk MSc Concerns about cyber security and information risk have led to a growing market for technical specialists but there is also a need for more senior professionals with an awareness of both technical and business issues.
Duration The MSc in Management of Career opportunities Information Security and Risk This course appeals to companies Part-time: 28 months. addresses this need by combining and professionals that need to Delivery is in block mode (each module appropriate technical material develop or improve their capability has two instances of a Thursday with the necessary management in managing IT-related security, evening, all day Friday and Saturday), and professional skills, allowing in order to enter markets with with two modules per term. graduates to be the bridge between higher demands of dependability corporate executives and technical Entry requirements and security, comply with new specialists. Such professionals regulations, or re-qualify for Applicants should hold a second class can be responsible for drawing new roles. Graduates should be honours degree or the equivalent up organisational strategies for suitable for positions such as the from an international institution in a managing security and risk, chief security officer or security cognate subject. identifying trade-offs between architects and senior information Applicants should also have potential losses and the cost of risk managers. approximately five years of protection and advising senior relevant professional experience management on these issues. The existing cohort of students on (absolute minimum of two years the course are full-time employed in exceptional circumstances). In Course content in various companies, ranging from some circumstances, professional Led by the internationally respected multi-billion-pound turnover multi- experience and qualifications are Centre for Software Reliability, nationals in the aviation industry to accepted in lieu of a degree. the course is delivered with the companies in the financial sector in English language requirements multidisciplinary Centre for Cyber the City of London. The programme Security Science and Cass Business helps students build a strong IELTS: 7.0. School. The course is aimed at IT network with their peers and to professionals with around five maintain the network as years’ experience. It covers the part of their career development. skills and knowledge necessary to be successful in senior roles in After the successful completion information security and risk. of the course candidates may also consider a PhD degree, towards an Students complete specialised security academic/research career. and risk modules which include: • Assurance cases • Information security management • IT risk and resilience • Quantitative risk analysis.
There are also modules which provide professional skills including: • Information leadership • Executive development • Socio-technical systems.
Students also undertake an individual project, which applies Find out more the technical contents of the course Other courses you may like to a problem of interest. [email protected] MSc Cyber Security +44 (0)20 7040 0248
196 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Technical Computing Software Engineering MSc
This course is for computer science graduates and experienced professional programmers who want to be acquainted with advanced engineering concepts and methods and design issues for the development of high-quality complex software systems.
Duration Complex systems are explored using Students can also select an elective industrial-strength technologies module from the following list: Full-time: one year. such as the C++ and Java object- • Business engineering with Part-time: up to 28 months (daytime). oriented programming languages ERP solutions and the UML modelling language. Entry requirements • Data visualization This course covers significant trends • Mobile and pervasive computing Applicants should hold a second in systems development including • Cloud computing. class honours degree, the equivalent service-oriented architecture, open- from an international institution or an source systems and XML-enabled equivalent professional qualification. interoperable services. Accreditation The course is accredited by The Previous academic and commercial Chartered Institute for IT (BCS) for experience is also considered. Students benefit from City’s strong links with Tech City UK (www.techcityuk. partial fulfilment of the academic Applicants should have significant com) and one of the largest groups requirement for Chartered IT previous exposure to computing, of academics in London in Systems Professional status. especially programming and and Software Engineering, working relational databases. in a range of areas from requirements As part of our long-established School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering Computing Technical English language requirements engineering to how to build reliable relationship with SAP, we offer SAP Certification training. MSc students IELTS: 6.5 overall with a minimum systems for the nuclear industry. are eligible to register for the SAP of 6.0 in each category. Course content TERP10 Certification course at a substantial discount. Students develop skills in analysing user requirements and designing appropriate software solutions; Career opportunities designing and creating complex Graduates prepare for employment in software systems to solve real-world software houses, consultancies and problems; evaluating and using with major software users such as advanced software engineering the financial sector, where there is a environments; design methods significant demand for professionals and programming languages; with a deep knowledge of advanced and evaluating and responding to software development and rigorous recent trends in interoperability and engineering practice. Examples of software development. graduate roles include senior software engineer at Ceridian, mobile app There are eight taught modules developer at GForces, client solutions including: consultant at Tryzens and iOS senior • Advanced database technologies mobile software engineer at Thomson. • Programming in C++ (or programming in Java) In 2015 LinkedIn ranked City #5 in the UK for “Best Graduate Universities for • Requirements engineering Software Developers”. • Service-oriented architectures • Software systems design www.linkedin.com/edu/rankings/ • Advanced programming: concurrency gb/graduate-software-engineering. Other courses you may like • Research methods and professional issues. Find out more MSc Computer Games Technology [email protected] MSc Business Systems Analysis Students also complete an and Design independent research project. +44 (0)20 7040 0248
www.city.ac.uk 197 Research Degrees Research Degrees MPhil/PhD
The School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering has a vibrant community of research students and welcomes applications from candidates who are interested in taking a research degree as the basis of their career.
Entry requirements Course content The School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering Entry requirements vary by subject All doctoral students are initially registered as MPhil students hosts several research centres and area and applicants should approach groups, comprised of clusters of academic staff working in their area (or equivalent) except in those circumstances where a student has academic staff with international of interest to discuss their proposal reputations in their fields of ahead of submitting an application. transferred from another institution and has provided suitable and research. These include: Applicants should normally hold a appropriate evidence that permits • Adaptive computing systems lower second class honours degree or direct registration as a PhD student • Biomedical engineering the equivalent from an international (or equivalent). Applicants are • Fluid dynamics institution. In some cases a Masters registered as a student under • giCentre degree may also be required. any one or a combination of • Human-computer interaction design Substantial employment or research the following categories: • Mathematics experience may also be considered • Full-time candidature • Multi-scale geotechnical for some subject areas alongside or in • Part-time candidature engineering place of academic qualifications. • Internal candidature • Sensors and instrumentation English language requirements • External candidature • Software reliability IELTS: 6.5 • Staff candidature • Structural engineering • Writing-up. • Systems and control. The School offers the following types of research degree: • PhD by Major Thesis • PhD by Prospective Publication • PhD by Prior Publication • MPhil.
All research students at City are members of and supported by the City Graduate School. Find out more about the Graduate School on page 19.
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198 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 Research DegreesResearch School of Engineering & Mathematical Sciences School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering
Zaki Abbas MPhil/PhD Mobile Information Retrieval, from the United Kingdom
A few years ago I graduated with an MSc in Information Systems and Technology from City, so when I took the decision to study for an MPhil/ PhD on a part-time basis, I knew that I wanted to return to the School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering. My research is in the field of Mobile Information Retrieval. Specifically I am interested in how law students use mobile devices to aid their study of law. I work full-time in IT for a global organisation and I have a young family, so fitting my research at City around my work and home life can be a challenge. But my experience here has been really positive: the academic and professional staff at the University generally offer plenty of support and my supervisory team are experts in their fields.
www.city.ac.ukwww.city.ac.uk 199 Information Reaching City from within London The nearest Underground stations A central London are Angel on the Northern line (Bank branch) and Barbican and Farringdon on the Metropolitan, Circle and location Hammersmith & City lines.
Maps, addresses Bus routes that pass close to City 11 and transport links include the following: 4, 19, 30, 38, 43, 55, 56, 63, 73, 153, 01 205, 214, 243, 274, 341, 394, 476. The address for City’s main University campus is: Secure parking for bicycles is available on campus. City University London St Tree Parking in central London is limited 07 Pear Northampton Square and can be expensive. There is London metered parking available on the EC1V 0HB roads surrounding Northampton United Kingdom Square and the nearest National Car Park is on Pear Tree Street. Please also 09
note that almost all of City’s sites are 02 within the congestion charging zone and drivers are liable to a daily charge. 03 04 Reaching City from outside London 05 • Coach and train terminals in London link with Underground 14 and bus networks 06 • Rail services connect Gatwick and Luton airports with Farringdon station 08 • The Heathrow Express train service connects Heathrow Airport with
Paddington station 15 Aldw ych • The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) 13 connects London City Airport with Bank station • The Stansted Express train service connects Stansted Airport with Liverpool Street station.
To plan your journey to City, visit our website at www.city.ac.uk/visit. 16 The Transport for London website also provides up-to-date information on public transport: www.tfl.gov.uk.
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Main City University London campus sites 01 Northampton Square Campus 02 Cass Business School 16 03 2–10 Princeton Street (The City Law School) 04 Atkin Building (The City Law School) 05 4 Gray's Inn Place (The City Law School) 06 INTO Centre 07 CitySport 12 London landmarks 08 30 St Mary Axe, ‘The Gherkin’ 09 The Barbican Centre 10 10 Houses of Parliament 11 St Pancras station 12 Coca-Cola London Eye 13 St Paul's Cathedral 14 British Museum 15 Covent Garden 16 Tate Modern Transport options London Underground National Rail overground station Eurostar International
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King’s Cross St Pancras (Eurostar)
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Barbican Liverpool Russell Street Goodge Square Street Moorgate Holborn
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202 City University London Postgraduate Prospectus 2016/17 General Course Index Index
A M A Academic staff 7, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, Maps 200, 201, 202 Actuarial Management MSc 85 34, 85, 117, 149, 165 P Actuarial Science MSc 86 Accommodation 28, 29, 31 Postgraduate study 14 Adult Nursing Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 117 General and Course Indices Alumni 9, 35 Taught degrees 15 Advanced Practice in Health and Assessment 5, 7, 19, 21, 25 Social Care (Adult Mental Health) MSc 131 Research degrees 16, 17 C Advanced Practice in Health and Q Social Care (Advanced Nurse Practitioner: Careers Service 31, 33 Adult, Child or Neonatal) MSc 137 Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) 25 Information Chaplaincy 21 R Advanced Practice in Health and City Future Fund 17, 19 Social Care (Advanced Ophthalmic Research Excellence Framework 2014 3, 4, 7, 16 Nurse Practitioner) MSc 138 City Graduate School 13, 17, 19 S Advanced Practice in Health and Clubs 11,20 Social Care (Child and Adolescent Scholarships, prizes and bursaries 17, 37 Mental Health) MSc 132 Counselling Service 21 Schools 7, 13, 17, 19, 31 Advanced Practice in Health and D Arts & Social Sciences, School of 7, 13, 37 Social Care (Clinical Optometry) MSc 142 Disability support 21, 37 Cass Business School 7, 9, 37 Advanced Practice in Health and Dyslexia support 21 Social Care (Long Term Conditions Health Sciences, School of 7, 13 and Long Term Care) MSc 133 E Law School, The City 7, 9, 13 Advanced Practice in Health and Eating 20 Mathematics, Computer Science Social Care (Midwifery) MSc 136 Employment 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 21, 31, 33, 35 & Engineering, School of 7, 13, 37 Advanced Practice in Health and Temporary work 33 Sport 7, 20, 22, 23 Social Care (Nursing) MSc 139 Work placements 25, 31 Strategic Plan 2012–2016 5 Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Ophthalmic Nursing) MSc 140 English language requirements 31 Student Centre 20, 28, 29, 37 Advanced Practice in Health and Social Enterprise 3, 7, 9 Students’ Union 20 Care (Radiotherapy) MSc 145 F Study abroad 11 Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care (Speech, Language and Facilities 20, 23, 27, 29 T Communication) MSc 134 Fees 31, 37 Travel information 27, 200, 201, 202 Advanced Practice in Health Funding 4, 5, 17, 19, 21, 31 37 U and Social Care MSc 130 H Unitemps 31, 33 Air Safety Management MSc 167 Health Service 21 V Air Transport Management MSc 168 I Vice-Chancellor 3 Aircraft Maintenance Management MSc9 16 International Virtual Learning Environment 19 Audiovisual Translation and Popular Culture MA 47 International alumni 31 Visa requirements 31 B International students 11, 31, 37 Volunteering 20, 33 Banking & International Finance MSc 87 World Cities, World Class University Network 11 Bar Professional Training Course (BPTC) 154 Partnerships 7, 11 Behavioural Economics MSc 71 IT services 27 Biomedical Engineering with Healthcare L Technology Management MSc 170 Learning Enhancement Broadcast Journalism/Television and Development (LEaD) 19 Journalism MA 59 Learning differences support 21 Business Economics/International Library 27 Business Economics MSc 48 London 10, 11, 20, 22, 23 Business Systems Analysis and Design MSc 171 C Charity Accounting & Financial Management Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 105 Charity Marketing & Fundraising Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 106 Child Nursing Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 118
www.city.ac.uk 203 Civil Engineering Structures MSc 173 I N Clinical Optometry MSc 141 Information Science MSc 184 Newspaper Journalism MA 66 Clinical Research MRes 123 Information Systems and Technology MSc2 17 NGO Management Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 108 Composition MA 70 Innovation, Creativity and Leadership O MSc/MA/MInnov 183 Computer Games Technology MSc 191 Organisational Psychology MSc 74 Insurance & Risk Management MSc 94 Construction Management MSc 179 P Interactive Journalism MA 62 Corporate Finance MSc 88 MPhil/PhD (Cass Business School) 113 International Accounting & Finance MSc2 9 Counselling Psychology Graduate Certificate 72 Professional Legal Skills LLM 162 International Business Law LLM 158 Creative Writing (Non-Fiction) MA 41 Project Management, Finance and Risk MSc0 18 International Communications Creative Writing (Novels) MA 42 and Development MA 79 Public Health (School Nursing, Health Visiting and District Nursing) Creative Writing (Playwriting International Journalism MA 63 Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 121 and Screenwriting) MA 43 International Politics and Human Rights MA8 5 Publishing/International Publishing MA6 4 Creative Writing and Publishing MA 44 International Politics MA 57 Public Health MSc 129 Criminology and Criminal Justice MSc 77 Investigative Journalism MA 64 Q Culture, Policy and Management MA 45 Investment Management MSc 90 Quantitative Finance MSc 99 Cyber Security MSc 192 L R D Legal Practice Course (LPC) 155 Radiography (Computed Tomography, Medical Data Science MSc 193 Magnetic Resonance and Radiotherapy) MSc4 14 Legal Practice LLM 160 Decision Sciences MSc 176 Real Estate MSc 100 Library Science MSc/MA 185 Development Economics MSc 49 Real Estate Investment MSc 101 LLM and specialist LLMs 156 Diplomacy and Foreign Policy MA 54 Renewable Energy and Power M E Systems Management MSc 177 Magazine Journalism MA 65 Economic Evaluation in Healthcare MSc0 5 S Management MSc 95 Economics MSc 51 Science Journalism MA 67 Management of Information Shipping, Trade & Finance MSc 103 Energy and Environmental Technology Security and Risk MSc 196 and Economics MSc 178 Software Engineering MSc 197 Maritime Law (Greece) LLM 187 Energy, Trade & Finance MSc 102 Speech and Language Therapy Maritime Operations and Management MSc6 18 Ethnomusicology MA 69 Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 122 Marketing Strategy & Innovation MSc 96 F Speech, Language and Communication Mathematical Trading & Finance MSc 97 Needs in Schools: Advanced Practice MSc5 13 Finance & Investment (part-time) MSc 93 MBA 110 V Finance MSc 89 Mechanical Engineering MSc 190 Voluntary Sector Management Financial Economics MSc 52 Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 109 Media and Communications MA 80 Financial Journalism MA 61 Medical Ultrasound MSc 143 Financial Mathematics MSc 98 Mental Health Nursing Food Policy MSc 78 Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 119 G Midwifery (78-week shortened course) Global Political Economy MA 56 Postgraduate Diploma/MSc 120 Global Supply Chain Management MSc 104 MPhil/PhD (School of Health Sciences) 146 Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) 151 MPhil/PhD (The City Law School) 163 Graduate Entry LLB (Hons) 153 MPhil/PhD (School of Mathematics, Computer Science & Engineering) 198 Grantmaking, Philanthropy & Social Investment Postgraduate Diploma/ MPhil/PhD/DPsych Postgraduate Certificate/MSc 107 (School of Arts & Social Sciences) 81 H Music MA 68 Health Economics MSc 53 Health Informatics MSc 195 Health Management MSc 124 Health Policy MSc 125 Health Psychology DPsych 127 Health Psychology/Psychology and Health MSc 126 Health Services Research MSc 128 Human-Centred Systems MSc 181
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