Master of Arts in Creative Writing and Publishing

at City, University of London United Kingdom

This degree provides strong technical expertise in electronics, power engineering, signal processing, control systems and engineering management.

It provides a solid foundation for anyone who wants to pursue a career at the cutting edge of technology, developing innovative solutions in areas like communications and robotics.

We have been educating electrical and electronic engineers for almost 90 years.

Our degrees are dual-accredited by professional bodies, meaning your qualification will be recognised for its quality and relevance. Furthermore, you will:

• Learn from research-active academics working at the cutting-edge of their field
• Develop highly relevant, in-demand skills thanks to industry involvement in our curriculum
• Put your in-depth engineering knowledge into practice and apply your expertise to real-world problems with design projects at every stage of your studies
• Gain hands-on experience with high-tech equipment in newly refurbished undergraduate and research labs, including chip production facilities and electrical power equipment
• Take an optional work placement to boost your grades, employability and professional expertise
• Pass your second year and apply to transfer to our integrated MEng degree, which fast tracks your progress to Chartered Engineer status.

This three-year degree focuses on sociology and complements the subject with modules in psychology. You’ll learn about how the social relations between people emerge and change, and explore structural inequalities that define our lives. You’ll also study cognition, development and behaviour.

You’ll develop critical thinking studying topics including:

• Gender
• Class
• Race
• Migration
• Family life
• Work and popular culture.

You’ll also develop the methodological expertise to analyse social and psychological data.

• Develop highly sought-after data literacy and quantitative skills, thanks to our strong links with City’s Q-Step Centre
• Become a critical thinker with an in-depth understanding of the complex interplay of local and global forces
• Opt onto a Q-Step quantitative methods pathway: benefit from a heightened focus on data skills, a workplace Data Placement in Year 2, and an optional international work placement
• Boost your employability with an optional placement year
• Take advantage of excellent internship opportunities thanks to our central London location, including access to organisations in media and, crime and justice, human rights, and mental health.

This course prepares you to work as an optometrist, making a real difference to the lives of people who suffer from vision impairment and sight loss.

You will learn about vision and the eye, through topics like optics, biology, eye disease and visual impairment. You’ll also learn about therapeutic solutions such as contact lenses and ophthalmic lenses and dispensing.

In your final year, you’ll develop your clinical practice by working in our very own eye clinic, City Sight. You will examine members of the public – from babies to the elderly – presenting with a wide range of ocular conditions and needs.

• Practise in excellent facilities, which include a range of purpose-built clinics and laboratories on campus, as well as our clinic, City Sight
• Learn from research-active academics who are leaders in their field and design the curriculum around cutting-edge developments in the discipline
• Benefit from a clinical placement at Moorfields, the UK’s leading Eye Hospital.

Observe at the Royal National Institute of Blind People's resource centre in central London, learning about multidisciplinary low vision care.

This degree will help you explore and understand modern mathematics, economic theory and financial structures.

Our Mathematics with Finance and Economics graduates are in high demand, especially in the financial sector.

To help you prepare for your future career ambitions, this course places an emphasis on applied mathematics and real-world problem solving.

• Become a graduate in demand – our students are highly sought after in financial sector
• Learn to solve real-world problems and develop the highly valued problem-solving and communication skills
• Master a wide range of mathematical topics and techniques, including computing and computational mathematics, statistics and probability – and how to apply them to real-world problems
• Develop in-demand expertise in financial and economic theory, such as financial markets, corporate finance, and micro- and macroeconomics
• Boost your employability with an optional paid one-year work placement – past students have secured placements at organisations such as Axa, Barclays, Bloomberg, Disney, GE Capital, IBM, J.P. Morgan, Microsoft and Toyota.

Learn from a multidisciplinary team combining expertise from our Department of Mathematics, the Department of Economics and our Business School.

This programme will equip you with the construction knowledge and management skills you need to successfully oversee a construction process and collaborate with numerous stakeholders. Your MSc will give you in-demand skills sought by firms for business management roles within all areas of construction delivery, from overseeing projects, through to consultancy.

The benefits of this course are wide and varied.

You’ll be studying in the heart of a global city surrounded by some of the biggest construction and technically demanding projects in the UK; Crossrail and The Shard building.

Your course will give you the highly-sought after knowledge and skills needed to manage a construction process. You’ll acquire an understanding in finance, contracts and how to manage multiple stakeholders.

You will develop interpersonal skills, learning how to manage teams of people and discover how technology can increase productivity.

Who is this course for?

You may be an engineer, architect or a technically-competent construction professional wanting to take your career to the next level.

Whether you plan to move into a managerial role, set up your own business or manage a major construction project, you’ll be learning from a combination of business-based and construction-specific modules to help you take the next step on your career path.

Develop a highly valued set of quantitative, theoretical and analytical competencies required to make key health and healthcare decisions. There is an increasing demand for health economics expertise in both developed and developing countries. This course presents you with an ideal career pathway.

You will benefit from the Health Economics MSc by gaining and developing practical new skills and critical knowledge that directly relates to the workplace.

Our department hosts the City Health Economics Centre (CHEC) and the London Health Economics Group (LHEG). Your studies will benefit from the output of both.

Your analytical and modelling abilities will grow alongside an understanding of microeconomics principles applied to health and healthcare.

We aim to ensure that you graduate with full confidence in your abilities as a health economist and how they provide real value to employers.

This programme builds on our international reputation in creative writing, journalism and publishing.

You will study the written word across time and space, from Shakespeare to social media, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie to comic books.

By the end of the degree you will have produced your own creative and professional writing.

You will also have developed critical and analytical skills needed to understand how the written word shapes, and is shaped by, the world we live in.

• Immerse yourself in world literature and engage with current debates in literary scholarship
• Write creatively, professionally and analytically in a range of different forms, via a range of different media
• Learn from a team of expert lecturers who are passionate about engaging with the written word in all its forms
• Develop employability skills with a placement module in a relevant business, like publishing, teaching, journalism and the arts
• Or spend a full year on work placement – there are amazing opportunities on your doorstep in London’s exciting Knowledge Quarter
• Access awe inspiring library collections – including the Senate House Library, with millions of books and beautiful study spaces, and nearby British Library.

Explore the multi-faceted world of risk management as you study the growing interplay between insurance, risk management and financial services.

You want to develop a successful career in insurance or risk management; or you already work in one of these fields and want to expand your knowledge and enhance your career potential.

At Bayes, you will study both applied and theoretical aspects of insurance and risk management to an advanced level.

Our MSc Insurance and Risk Management master's programme will equip you with the all-round knowledge and skills necessary to succeed in the constantly evolving fields of insurance, risk and risk management.

You will work through a balanced programme which combines a practical approach with sound theory to create a learning environment that is both challenging and stimulating. You will emerge with a well-regarded and flexible postgraduate degree, solidly positioned to build a successful career in an exciting an increasing complex business world –see ‘Career Pathways’ for testimonials from our past students.

Learn how to effectively produce and apply empirical research through the development of extensive methodological skills and knowledge. You will gain a broad interdisciplinary perspective of research production and consumption while boosting your understanding and practice of qualitative and quantitative research methods.

You will directly benefit from the expertise of our staff. They will ensure that whatever your academic or professional background, you achieve the broadest possible interdisciplinary perspective on empirical research.

You will also benefit from independently pursuing a specialist subject through original research and selected modules.

We aim to give you an overview of key issues in research design and the philosophical foundations of social research.

This highly practical yet academically rigorous masters in shipping will propel you into the upper ranks of the global shipping, trade and finance industry.

The Masters in Shipping, Trade and Finance is for business-focused individual with a high-performing career in global shipping and its associated industries as your ultimate goal. Equally at home with practical subjects and academic theory, you thrive on solving tough challenges under time constraints. You want to acquire or sharpen the skills necessary to operate at an executive level in areas ranging from shipping, supply chain and commodities, to finance, investment, trading, banking and related sectors and industries.