Master of Literature in Music

at Newcastle University United Kingdom

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.

Our Urban Planning master's provides a core introduction to planning issues, professional and theoretical debates and their application to live cases and places.

Urban Planning is the understanding of the place making processes that underpins places, society and the environment. It's also interdisciplinary, with professionals having an understanding across a range of topics. You'll gain an understanding of the fundamentals required for a successful career in planning or the wider built environment professions.

The Urban Planning master's is fully accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI). The Development pathway is partially accredited by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and offers a RICS-accredited route to gain Chartered Surveyors status.

The course is suitable:

• If you are new to studying planning
• If you have studied planning before but in a different regulatory context

This master's in Urban Planning has five specialist pathways. Choose a pathway to suit your individual needs, background and career aspirations.

This degree gives you the opportunity to focus on physical geography from the very start. You'll develop a deep understanding of the processes that shape our planet and how they impact on human lives and communities. Alongside this, you'll develop advanced laboratory and GIS skills.

You'll learn from internationally recognised experts in a range of fields, in the UK and internationally. Valuable field visits will take you to explore our geographically rich region but also to places as far away as Morocco, Iceland and New Zealand.

Having already performed very well in A level Geography, you'll continue to build a firm foundation of knowledge and skills in Stage 1, enabling you to thrive in the final stages. The turning point of the degree is a residential field course module in Stage 2.

The changing business environment is driven by:

• Technological changes
• Globalisation
• Customer preference

This requires organisations to respond effectively and efficiently. Our Accounting, Finance and Strategic Investment MSc will enable you to develop:

• Advanced understanding of accounting, finance and strategic investment. You'll advance the effectiveness and competitiveness of organisations
• Quantitative and qualitative skills for evaluating and informing strategic decisions and investment opportunities
• Professional attributes and investment and decision-making skills highly valued by international organisations

You'll also learn transferable skills including:

• Report writing
• Personal and interpersonal skills
• Presentation skills
• Group working skills
• An appreciation of working in a multicultural environment

This course brings together:

• Innovative thinking
• Fundamental theory
• Real-life case studies

It will enable you to develop a wide range of analytical and critical-thinking skills.

The course contains a significant part of both finance and management accounting. This provides the necessary tools for quantitative and qualitative assessment of corporate performance.

You'll learn about the social forces that shape our society and the spaces we live in and discover techniques for ‘reading’ cities and spaces.

Our renowned experts will guide you through the practices of public planning and design, and help you explore the political and democratic factors that influence it, setting foundations for your career.

The degree integrates core areas from our geography and urban planning degrees to equip you with strong analytical and practical skills.

Your first year is professionally accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute.

This course provides an understanding of globalisation and development. It places special emphasis on the problem of poverty and its relation to global justice and global politics.

You study the political, social and economic causes, consequences and discourses of poverty and development. You also critically analyse these important global currents.

You'll benefit from rigorous training in:

• Globalisation
• Poverty
• Development
• International relations theory
• theories and approaches to the study of politics

Our three-year Film and Media degree focuses on developing your practical skills in documentary film-making alongside an understanding of journalism practice. You’ll also explore media and cultural studies, so you graduate ready for your role in industry.

Your degree is led by our experienced academics and award-winning film-makers. You will develop a range of professional skills to prepare you for your future, such as:

• Documentary film-making skills
• Writing and multimedia practice for journalism
• Critical reflection and essay-writing skills
• Online communication and media analysis

You will become a sophisticated, creative and confident documentary film-maker, able to contextualise your own film practice within media, journalism and creative industries.

This Advanced Computer Science master's is suitable if you're an honours graduates within computing science. You can also be a graduate from a discipline with a significant computing component such as:

• Engineering
• Systems engineering
• Mathematics

We also value relevant industrial computing experience and transferable skills

We provide flexible study options so you can tailor your module choices to match your interests and skills. You can select from a wide range of taught modules in the first half of the course and then select your own focus for the final project.

Comprehensive computer science research training will help to develop your skills in computer and information systems. This provides a basis for PhD study. You'll also develop your technical and professional skills to underpin personal development and future career success.

The MSc Advanced Computer Science is demanding and rewarding. It has close links to ongoing research in the School of Computing. We have leading international research groups and three research centres focusing on a wide range of computer science fields, including:

• Security and resilience
• Dependable systems
• Cybercrime
• Cloud computing

The Advanced Computer Science master's is part of a suite of related courses that also include:

• Computer Security and Resilience MSc
• Cloud Computing MSc

All three courses share core modules. This creates a tight-knit cohort that has encouraged collaborations on projects undertaking interdisciplinary research.

The MSc Forensic Psychology offers comprehensive professional training in forensic psychology. The programme combines expertise from academics and practitioners. We always ensure that the programme content is relevant, up to date and evidence-based.

You'll get the opportunity to develop theoretical and clinical skills. These skills will enhance your future employability and career progression. We focus on supporting you in becoming a scientist-practitioner in forensic settings. You'll gain an in-depth knowledge of:

• Offending and victim pathways
• Psychological assessments
• Rehabilitation
• Investigative and court processes
• Topical issues within forensic psychology

You'll conduct risk assessments and case formulations during practical sessions. You'll conduct structured framework research relating to forensic psychology practice. The course has two different routes:

• Forensic Psychology, MSc (Accredited)
• Forensic Psychology, MSc (Non-accredited)

This accredited course meets the evolving needs of industry, and will give you a deep understanding of the principles of Computer Science.

You'll be based in the truly inspiring Urban Sciences Building, and study at a world-leading centre in computing innovation and industry collaboration.

By studying a broad curriculum in your first two years, you'll develop knowledge in different aspects of computing science, and gain highly desirable skills in problem solving, program design and implementation.

In your final year you can specialise in a particular area of computer science or build your own broad based degree. You can choose topics that are taught by renowned experts in areas such as security and resilience, software engineering, bioinformatics and game engineering