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Students select areas of study to suit their own academic and professional interests; students acquire a good knowledge of current developments in the field of applied linguistics, its relation to other disciplines, and its relevance to their professional practice. Modules Core modules: Sociolinguistics; phonetics and phonology; grammar and lexis; discourse analysis; 2nd language learning principles; research design.

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The programme that has been designed is multi-disciplinary in its scope and remit and aims to help graduates develop a deep understanding of the making and impact of public policy across a whole range of institutions at local, national, regional and global levels. It combines theoretical, methodological and a great many practical issues relevant to the study of public policy.

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Core modules: Resource and environmental economics, Soils, waste and environmental management, Environmental management: principles and practice, Entrepreneurship and business skills, Environment and development: problems and policies, Contaminated land management, EU environmental law, Carbon and global change, Research project The optional modules give students the ability to specialise in one of three areas of Environmental Management: Contaminated and urban environments, The changing environment or Agricultural and rural environments.

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The core modules include: Contemporary Diplomacy; Research Methods (for those taking research training) and a Dissertation. Optional modules are then chosen from a wide list including: Conflict & Conflict Resolution; International Security Studies; External Relations of the EU; Interantional Relations.

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The main aim of this programme is to provide an understanding of ideas and concepts of contemporary post-war diplomacy. It shows the evolution of diplomatic practice, the changes in content and methods across a range of international transactions.

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This programme, developed in collaboration with the Incorporated Society of Musicians, is offered to music teachers of instruments or the voice. It has been designed to provide a stimulating professional training on a part-time basis through distance learning arrangements and an annual summer school.

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This programme equips students with a sound and thorough understanding of the ways that law and legal knowledge form a part of the political, cultural and economic fabric of local, regional and international entities; it aims to provide students with advanced skills in legal research, the ability to undertake high-level analysis of law and legal issues, a grasp of the research methods that underpin the discipline and its places in the humanities and the social sciences, and a grounding in legal research methods; the programme is especially suitable for candidates who wish to undertake professional or post-graduate research in law and the administration of justice; the programme provides candidates with an excellent grounding in social science research methods and their application, and has a strong emphasis on socio-legal research; candidates complete 40 credits of research training modules (research methods and legal knowledge and legal writing) and write a 60-credit dissertation; there are 40 credits of advanced social science research training (40 credits, covering social science research design, interviewing and observation-based research, language and text analysis, and transferable research skills); the remaining 40 credits consist of modules taken from the law school's suite of Master's level offerings; some of these may be done as research-based modules where a project is driven primarily by a candidate's research interests.

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This programme examines the social scientific drivers, and consequences, of climate change and associated policy debates; it focuses on the interface between climate change and development, with particular attention paid to the perspective of ecological economics; the programme is designed for students interested in pursuing careers in environmental or energy policy and planning, in international government and non-governmental organisations, academia and journalism. Modules Students take 70 credits in compulsory modules: The ecological economics of climate change; climate change policy and governance; environmental economics; perspectives on development; environment and development: problem and policies; research and study skills for independent learning; a further 50 credits are selected from a wide range of modules; students with no prior scientific grounding in climate change take the science of climate change, a module which has been developed for students who may have a non-science background; students prepare a dissertation on a relevant topic to be agreed with their course director.

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All students take a core module consisting of an introduction to critical theory and methods and training in research skills; students then select, in negotiation with the department, 2 further specialist modules on the basis of their needs and interests and the department's teaching resources; options are available in areas covering not only literature, but also history, cinema, women's and cultural studies; there is also some opportunity for students to take modules in translation in languages other than their main one.

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This programme offers students a broad introduction to recent work on Britain during a period of time of enormous change; it then allows them to study some of the keys areas of recent research in depth; the course emphasises the breadth of early modern history, placing recent research and scholarship within context which is both British and European, economic and social as well as political; the range of modules offers the possibility of more specialised pathways in such areas as political thought, religious history and rural history; the course also places a great stress on teaching students how to access the copious materials that survive, whether printed or manuscript, for themselves; palaeography is taught as a matter of course; students can also take an option in Latin or computing; there is also the opportunity to take a module in Modern History or in English literary studies; students are invited to take part in a reading circle and the interdisciplinary seminars and annual conference arranged by the Centre for Early Modern Studies. Assessment methods Assessment is by essays of 3500-4000 words and there is a dissertation of 20000 words.

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