Master of Arts in Media and Public Relations

at Newcastle University United Kingdom

Our professionally accredited Marine Engineering degree provides a pathway to becoming a Chartered Engineer and the expertise to design specialist systems demanding the latest technologies. You'll be prepared to face the challenges of developing advanced alternative power systems that are eco-friendly, ultra-efficient and reliable.

You’ll learn from research-active professors from across the globe, bringing their cutting-edge ideas into the classroom. You'll also benefit from using our specialist facilities.

After learning the fundamentals of marine technology in your first two years, you'll move on to specialist marine engineering modules.

Health Services Research MSc is part of the Population Health Sciences Institute. We lead high-impact research to:

• Understand, promote and maintain health and wellbeing for all
• Identify, tackle and prevent the causes of ill-health and reduce inequalities
• Design and evaluate novel interventions to optimise health and care

Our MSc is ideal for students seeking to gain or enhance a high level of health research skills. It combines a range of high-standard health services research methods. They have the principles of public health science and practice.

You'll complete the course with the skills to be able to proceed with a PhD or tackle higher-level analyses in your area of health services research.

The Film: Theory and Practice MA will give you a sophisticated understanding of films as systems of meaning and practice.

This master's in Film Theory and Practice covers four areas:

• Film theory: history and approaches, narrative and aesthetics, authorship, stardom, national cinema
• Cinema management: film festival, exhibition culture, marketing
• Filmmaking
• Screenwriting

You can specialise in areas of film theory, and/or in film practice. Film practice includes cinema management, screenwriting and filmmaking.

This master's could be suitable for you if you're interested in:

• Advancing skills developed at undergraduate-level
• Developing the skills needed to pursue a career in the creative industries
• Establishing the foundations for a PhD in film

It will challenge and engage you in developing insights into film as a crux of modern life and media.

This course is co-delivered by researchers and filmmakers from the:

• School of Modern Languages
• School of Arts and Cultures
• School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics

The study of film has a long history at Newcastle. Our community of film scholars share specialisms in:

• Film genre
• Film stardom
• Gender and ethnic identities in cinema
• Writing on film
• Documentary film

Our research interests also range widely in Anglophone, French, Hispanic, East Asian and Middle Eastern cinemas.

Industry professionals and practitioners from outside of the University will also teach you.

This Zoology MBiol Honours degree focuses on developing your scientific knowledge and provides a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of zoology. This ensures you graduate prepared for a role in this varied field.

Through laboratory and field-based teaching, you'll learn and perfect the skills required to succeed in zoology. In your fourth year you'll work alongside our active research staff to delve deeper into more advanced topics.

Our zoology degree shares its first-year programme with other biology degrees in the School and ensures you gain a thorough understanding across a range of topics. You'll select from modules such as: ecology and conservation, genetics and evolution, diversity of life: form and function.

Our course provides specialist skills and knowledge about the most important issues related to the sustainability of agricultural production and food security.

This master's in Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security is suitable if you have an interest in sustainable agriculture and food security and want to develop a broad knowledge of the subject.

Sustainable agriculture and food security focuses on the availability of food now and in the future. This is a major concern of scientific and commercial communities world-wide.

The prominence of this subject is driven by:

• An increasing global population
• Pressure on non-renewable or scarce resources
• A need to increase food production whilst minimising the impact on the environment

The Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security master's covers all aspects of food security as outlined by Global Food Security. The Global Food Security is a multi-agency programme involving the main UK public sector funders of research and training related to food.

Industry experienced and research-active lecturers teach on this course.

This professionally accredited degree will equip you with an in-depth understanding of the fascinating field of psychology, and how to apply your knowledge in a real-world setting.

This three-year Psychology BSc Honours degree will give you a headstart in your professional career. With a unique range of professional pathways and hands-on learning, you're able to shape your undergraduate degree.

Your teaching will be informed by internationally recognised research and delivered in our brand new building. You'll have access to purpose-built, state-of-the-art facilities, which include:

• A forensic interviewing suite
• A nutrition and food preference unit
• A media and behaviour lab
• Medical consultation rooms
• Psychological testing cubicles

You'll study a broad range of topics, such as social psychology, biological psychology, research methods, individual differences, neuroscience, developmental psychology, and cognitive psychology.

This Biomedical Sciences MSci Honours degree develops your understanding of how the human body functions in health and disease and equips you with the practical research experience you need. You will graduate well prepared to make a difference in modern medicine.

We're a National Centre of Excellence in biomedical research and our world-leading expert staff will guide you through your degree. This means you graduate with the latest knowledge in human health and disease.

You’ll explore the links between:

• anatomy
• biochemistry
• genetics
• immunology
• microbiology
• neuroscience
• pharmacology
• physiology

By gaining an understanding of research in these areas, you'll learn how we can develop either preventative approaches or new treatments for a range of common diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, autoimmunity, cancer, and diabetes.

The Cross-Cultural Communication and Applied Linguistics MA provides theoretical, research and practical training in areas of international and intercultural communication. It also provides training on the analysis of language in use, in a variety of settings and on the teaching and learning of English as a second language.

The Applied Linguistics pathway is a specialism on the Cross-Cultural Communication MA. It allows you to study applied linguistics and intercultural communication. It provides knowledge and expertise in the new approaches and techniques for teaching English as a second or foreign language.

Academic staff in applied linguistics and communication within the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences deliver this specialist pathway. It offers a wide range of optional modules in the areas of applied linguistics and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL).

The applied linguistics academic staff have teaching and research expertise in:

• Second language acquisition
• Discourse analysis
• Classroom interaction
• Multimodal interaction
• Teaching and learning English through media and technology
• Teacher development

If you're interested in a career in language teaching, but have little or no previous teaching experience, this pathway offers the option of introductory modules in TESOL. These provide a thorough grounding in the practical skills and knowledge for language teaching and learning.

This four-year Modern Languages and Linguistics BA Honours degree focuses on the study of linguistics.

You'll build on your knowledge of the culture, literature, history and society of the countries where your languages are spoken, gaining a firm foundation of how language works, its structure and its history.

You will apply your knowledge and skills to strengthen your fluency of your chosen languages. You will immerse yourself in the culture of another country while studying or working abroad, further developing your language confidence and skills.

This exciting programme is shaped by the research specialisms of our world-leading staff. It ensures your studies explore the latest ideas and most exciting areas of linguistics, such as:

• Computational linguistics
• Language variation
• Psycholinguistics
• theoretical linguistics

This advanced course delivers an understanding of Embedded Systems and Internet of Things (ES-IoT) and their enabling technologies.

Our Embedded Systems and the Internet of Things (IoT) course is industry-focused. It is tailored to meet the demands of companies that create mobile electronic equipment, which interfaces with wireless networks and applications.

Taught by world-leading academics and researchers, you'll develop your knowledge of electrical and electronic engineering. You'll focus on the fast-changing area of embedded digital systems for communication and control.

Our MSc programme is ideal for graduates in :

• Electrical and electronic engineering
• Computer engineering
• Related disciplines

You'll develop your knowledge and practical skills through a unique blend of modules which complement each other:

• Tools, techniques and design of Embedded Systems and Internet of Things (ES-IoT) and subsystems
• Scientific and engineering principles and practices of Computing Science and Electronic Engineering
• Networking and communication systems
• Sensors and security
• Computer programming