Đại học Westminster, thành lập năm 1838, là trường bách khoa đầu tiên ở London và một trong những trường đầu tiên tại Anh, với sứ mệnh hỗ trợ sinh viên từ nhiều hoàn cảnh khác nhau phát huy tối đa tiềm năng. Trường hiện có hơn 21,000 sinh viên đến từ 169 quốc gia, tạo môi trường học tập đa văn hóa. Với 183 đối tác doanh nghiệp, sinh viên có nhiều cơ hội thực tập và trải nghiệm thực tế. Đại học Westminster được xếp hạng Silver (Bạc) trong Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) 2023, khẳng định chất lượng giảng dạy và trải nghiệm sinh viên ở mức rất cao. Trường cung cấp nhiều chương trình phát triển kỹ năng, tài nguyên và hỗ trợ nghề nghiệp, giúp sinh viên sẵn sàng cho thị trường lao động cạnh tranh. Đây là lựa chọn lý tưởng cho những ai tìm kiếm môi trường học tập chất lượng cao và cơ hội phát triển toàn diện.
Thành phố
London W1B 2HW, Vương quốc Anh
Trường tọa lạc tại London – thủ đô của Vương quốc Anh, là một trong những thành phố toàn cầu sôi động và đa dạng nhất thế giới. London là trung tâm tài chính, văn hóa, giáo dục và công nghệ, thu hút sinh viên, du khách và chuyên gia từ khắp nơi trên thế giới.
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Campus
Accommodation
University of Westminster có bốn campus chính, mỗi campus đều được trang bị cơ sở vật chất hiện đại, phục vụ chuyên biệt cho từng nhóm ngành đào tạo. Cavendish Campus nổi bật với các phòng thí nghiệm, trung tâm mô phỏng y sinh và hệ thống phòng máy tính tiên tiến, đặc biệt là thư viện hoạt động 24/7 trong mùa thi. Marylebone Campus, nằm đối diện ga Baker Street, là nơi đặt trụ sở của Westminster Business School, với các studio thiết kế kiến trúc quy mô lớn và không gian học tập mô phỏng môi trường doanh nghiệp. Regent Street Campus, cơ sở gốc của trường, kết hợp hài hòa giữa kiến trúc cổ điển và công nghệ giảng dạy hiện đại, đặc biệt nổi bật với Regent Street Cinema – rạp chiếu phim lịch sử của Anh. Trong khi đó, Harrow Campus được thiết kế dành riêng cho lĩnh vực nghệ thuật, truyền thông và thiết kế, với hệ thống studio thu âm, phòng dựng phim và sân khấu biểu diễn chuyên nghiệp, tạo điều kiện thực hành tốt nhất cho sinh viên ngành công nghiệp sáng tạo.
Trường cũng đầu tư mạnh vào các không gian hỗ trợ học tập như thư viện, ký túc xá, trung tâm thể thao và khu sinh hoạt chung, nhằm tạo dựng một môi trường học tập toàn diện, hiện đại và đa văn hóa cho cộng đồng sinh viên quốc tế.
- Nằm tại khu Tottenham Hale, cách trung tâm London 15 phút di chuyển
- Gồm 528 phòng en-suite (có phòng tắm riêng)
- Mỗi phòng có bàn học, tủ đồ và chia sẻ bếp, phòng sinh hoạt chung
- Chi phí từ £286.08/tuần cho hợp đồng 42 tuần, đã bao gồm các hóa đ ơn
- Nằm ngay trong khuôn viên cơ sở Harrow
- Dành cho sinh viên đại học, sau đại học và chương trình trao đổi
- Phòng có giường đơn, bàn học, tủ đồ, kệ sách, gương và nhà vệ sinh riêng
- Tiện ích gồm phòng giặt, khu sinh hoạt chung, bếp dùng chung, WiFi
- Chi phí từ £208.67 - £266/tuần cho hợp đồng 38 tuần.
- Nằm ở trung tâm London, gần các địa điểm nổi tiếng và thuận tiện cho việc đi lại
- Phòng có bàn học, tủ đồ, chậu rửa; sinh viên dùng chung bếp và phòng tắm
- Giá thuê đã bao gồm WiFi, điện nước, bảo hiểm đồ dùng
- Phòng đơn (£190.89/tuần) và căn hộ 1 phòng ngủ riêng (£312.34/tuần), hợp đồng 38 tuần
Chương trình giảng dạy
Trường Đại học Westminster được tổ chức theo mô hình hiện đại và đa ngành, gồm 3 khối học thuật chính, với tổng cộng 12 khoa chuyên môn, phản ánh sự đa dạng trong đào tạo và nghiên cứu
| Westminster Business School | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| College of Design, Creative and Digital Industries |
Học phí
Đại học
Sau đại học
| Phân loại | Mức chi phí trên năm |
| Học phí | £17,000 |
| Nhà ở | £7,253 |
| Ăn uống | £2,500 |
| Tổng chi phí | £26,753 |
| Phân loại | Mức chi phí trên năm |
| Học phí | £15,500 |
| Nhà ở | £7,253 |
| Ăn uống | £2,500 |
| Tổng chi phí | £25,253 |
Học bổng
International Postgraduate Excellence Award – September 2025 (£3,000)
Who is for? The International Postgraduate Excellence Award is designed to support international students who have achieved academic excellence and show passion for their chosen field of study.
How much is it? £3,000 Tuition Fee Award paid directly to the University towards your tuition fees in your first semester. This amount cannot go towards the £5,500 deposit payment required to secure your CAS (student visa).
How to apply? Deadline: 2 June 2025
International Postgraduate Excellence Award – September 2025 (£3,000)
Who is for? The International Postgraduate Excellence Award is designed to support international students who have achieved academic excellence and show passion for their chosen field of study.
How much is it? £3,000 Tuition Fee Award paid directly to the University towards your tuition fees in your first semester. This amount cannot go towards the £5,500 deposit payment required to secure your CAS (student visa).
How to apply?
Deadline: 2 June 2025
Sporting Excellence Award – September 2025 (£2,500-£5,000)
Who is for? To be eligible to apply applicants must:
- Be of academy, national or international standard in any sport or show strong evidence of future outstanding potential
- Be classified as overseas fee status
- Be holding an offer for a full time Bachelor’s or Master’s course starting in September 2025 at the University of Westminster
How much is it? Tuition fee awards of between £2,500-£5,000 will be paid directly to the University towards your tuition fees in your first semester.
How to apply? Deadline: 2 June 2025
Applications must include a statement outlining your sporting achievements.
International School Undergraduate Excellence Award – September 2025 (£2,500)
Who is for? The International School Excellence Award is available for undergraduate students who are currently studying or who have recently graduated from an International School based outside of the UK.
How much is it? £2,500 Tuition Fee Award paid directly to the University towards your tuition fees in your first semester.
How to apply?
Deadline: 16 June 2025
Please note that we will not start contacting students about the outcome of the application until after 7 July.
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Accounting and Finance
You’ll learn through a variety of methods including seminars, workshops and problem-solving exercises. Core modules cover key topics such as accounting, law, audit and taxation, delivered by experienced module leaders. You'll also apply accounting techniques and engage in discussions to deepen your understanding.
Employability is embedded in the curriculum, with workshops and guest speakers from industry. Blended learning, combining face-to-face teaching with online resources, offers flexibility and enhances your independent learning experience.
Arabic and English
Teaching methods include lectures, tutorials, practical sessions, seminars and workshops, as well as independent learning, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via online learning.
Assessment methods include essays, exams, individual and group presentations, projects, and critical analysis.
Arabic and International Business
Our course focuses on active learning, through lectures, seminars, workshops, task-based and blended learning, designed to engage your interest and promote your learning.
You'll study with the latest technology and learning spaces and you'll get extensive hands-on experience with industry partners to prepare you for the real world.
You'll be taught by inspiring and experienced lecturers who will help you develop a wide range of soft skills including communication, critical thinking, problem-solving and time-management in highly interactive and engaging classes.
Assessment methods include e-portfolios, real-world simulation tasks, essays, reports, individual and group presentations and case studies, as well as time-constrained in-class tests and exams.
Years 1 and 2 will provide you with the skills and knowledge to undertake an optional year-long placement in an overseas, Arabic-speaking destination, which could include studying at a recognised educational institution.
You can also choose to study an optional module from a range of topics across the University in each year.
Arabic and International Communication
Our course helps you to achieve a good or high level of linguistic proficiency in Arabic in reading, writing, listening and speaking. It also gives you insight into and practice in communicating internationally as well as mediating between English and Arabic speakers.
The curriculum integrates applied language skills and cultural studies, while ensuring a rigorous development of your foreign language competence in all areas. We teach in an integrated interdisciplinary way, exploring the connections between language and culture and the broader historical and cross-cultural contexts in which they are produced.
You'll improve your ability as an intercultural communicator by studying how our ideas are shaped and communicated in a global society, where our interactions are no longer confined by national, regional or cultural boundaries.
Arabic and International Communication with Foundation
The Foundation year is designed to give you the opportunity to explore new ideas, opening up new perspectives on the key debates within your chosen field. Core modules accelerate your academic and professional development and you will also take modules from areas closely related to your chosen field, giving you the chance to develop a cross-disciplinary perspective on your course.
Arabic and International Relations
Teaching methods include lectures, tutorials, practical sessions, seminars and workshops, but most of your learning is independent, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via online learning.
Assessment methods include essays, exams, individual and group presentations projects, and critical analysis.
Arabic and Linguistics
Our degree offers the exciting combination of the study of Arabic language and culture alongside the wider study of the forms, structures and varieties of language itself.
You'll develop a high level of competence in oral and written communication in Arabic, proficiency in language transfer skills, and a thorough knowledge of Arabic culture. On graduation, you'll be able to thrive linguistically in diverse cultural situations.
You'll study an integrated curriculum with a focus on applied language skills and cultural studies, supported by a rigorous development of your foreign languages skills in all areas. We teach in an integrated interdisciplinary way, exploring the connections between language and culture and the broader historical and cross-cultural contexts in which they are produced.
Architectural Technology
In our dedicated Architectural Technology studio, you'll study architecture fundamentals through theory, sustainability, hand drawing, and physical models. You'll work on real design briefs, gaining a solid understanding of design and construction processes and eventually mastering tools like CAD, graphic software and model-making for communicating design information.
You'll also grasp the multidisciplinary and collaborative nature of the modern construction industry, with opportunities to work alongside students from all construction courses in your first year. This BSc provides a framework for private practice or, with a successful MCIAT chartership, running a business in the architectural and construction sectors. It's ideal for those who love design with a technical focus.
Our courses use an enquiry-based blended learning approach, including workshops, lectures, tutorials, and independent study. Assessment methods include project work, essays, and exams.
Architectural Technology with Foundation
Our Foundation year in Architecture and Design offers an introduction to the creative professions that shape the design of interiors, buildings and urban spaces. Through design projects you'll learn about the spatial, technical and cultural issues, and develop the grounding skills and creative practices necessary for further study. The first semester begins with an exploration of the design and inhabitation of urban space, followed by a materials and making project based in the Fabrication Laboratory, our outstanding Marylebone campus workshop facility. Running alongside these will be studio and field-based exercises to develop your drawing and creative skills. In the second semester, a project on the design of existing spaces will be followed by the development of a creative work driven by your own interests. Students from the Foundation will have the opportunity to exhibit in the School of Architecture and Cities summer exhibition. Your practical development will be accompanied by modules in both semesters on academic skills in writing and critical thinking.
Architecture and Environmental Design
The first year of this course focuses on the principles of environmental and architectural design, and the second year allows students to apply those skills in a wider context. In the final year, students will complete a year-long thesis project.
Architecture and Environmental Design with Foundation
The Foundation year offers an introduction to the creative professional field of architecture that shapes our built environment. Year 1 of this course focuses on the principles of environmental and architectural design, and Year 2 allows students to apply those skills in a wider context. In the final year, students will complete a year-long thesis project.
Architecture with Foundation
Our Foundation year in Architecture and Design offers an introduction to the creative professions that shape the design of interiors, buildings and urban spaces. Through design projects you'll learn about the spatial, technical and cultural issues, and develop the grounding skills and creative practices necessary for further study. The first semester begins with an exploration of the design and inhabitation of urban space, followed by a materials and making project based in the Fabrication Laboratory, our outstanding Marylebone campus workshop facility. Running alongside these will be studio and field-based exercises to develop your drawing and creative skills. In the second semester, a project on the design of existing spaces will be followed by the development of a creative work driven by your own interests. Students from the Foundation will have the opportunity to exhibit in the School of Architecture and Cities summer exhibition. Your practical development will be accompanied by modules in both semesters on academic skills in writing and critical thinking.
Biochemistry
The general principles of biochemistry, cell biology and human physiology are established at Credit Level 4. Your understanding of molecular biology and genetics, metabolism, protein chemistry and enzyme function and other aspects of cellular function are then developed at Credit Levels 5 and 6. A number of options are also offered, allowing you to pursue your own interests within biochemistry and its associated disciplines.
Learning and teaching opportunities are a mixture of face-to-face teaching (lectures, seminars, tutorials and practicals), independent work, laboratory work and online support activities.
The range of assessment methods includes exams, laboratory practicals, essays, blogs, posters and presentations.
Biochemistry with Foundation
The general principles of biochemistry, cell biology and human physiology are established at Credit Level 4. Your understanding of molecular biology and genetics, metabolism, protein chemistry and enzyme function and other aspects of cellular function are then developed at Credit Levels 5 and 6. A number of options are also offered, allowing you to pursue your own interests within biochemistry and its associated disciplines.
Learning and teaching opportunities are a mixture of face-to-face teaching (lectures, seminars, tutorials and practicals), independent work, laboratory work and online support activities.
The range of assessment methods includes exams, laboratory practicals, essays, blogs, posters and presentations.
Biological Sciences
Our course is designed so that you can follow one of three routes: molecular science, environmental and microbiology or human biology. However, the flexibility of the program enables you to construct your own thread through the broad range of module choices.
Learning and teaching opportunities are a mixture of face-to-face teaching (lectures, seminars, tutorials, field-trips and practicals), independent work, group work, laboratory classes, virtual simulations and online support activities.
The range of assessment methods includes laboratory practical skills, data analysis, practical proformas, essays, wikis, blogs, posters, presentations and exams.
Biological Sciences with Foundation
Our course is designed so that you can follow one of three routes: molecular science, environmental and microbiology or human biology. However, the flexibility of the program enables you to construct your own thread through the broad range of module choices.
Learning and teaching opportunities are a mixture of face-to-face teaching (lectures, seminars, tutorials, field-trips and practicals), independent work, group work, laboratory classes, virtual simulations and online support activities.
The range of assessment methods includes laboratory practical skills, data analysis, practical proformas, essays, wikis, blogs, posters, presentations and exams.
Biomedical Science
Teaching includes tutorials, lectures and seminars, practical laboratory work and group activities, together with supervised use of facilities. Assessment is through a combination of exams and coursework (including essays, practical work, group work, presentations and reports).
You’ll receive continuous feedback through online activities, group and one-to-one tutorials and periodic reviews, designed to give you multiple points of guidance throughout your studies.
Biomedical Science with Foundation
Teaching includes tutorials, lectures and seminars, practical laboratory work and group activities, together with supervised use of facilities. Assessment is through a combination of exams and coursework (including essays, practical work, group work, presentations and reports).
You’ll receive continuous feedback through online activities, group and one-to-one tutorials and periodic reviews, designed to give you multiple points of guidance throughout your studies.
Business Computing
You'll learn through a mixture of lectures, practical tutorials, laboratory sessions and independent study.
In Year 1 you will be introduced to business computing and information systems fundamentals, concepts, components and architectures.
In Years 2 and 3 you will follow the Specialist Themes that interest you the most.
Business Computing with Foundation
You'll learn through a mixture of lectures, practical tutorials, laboratory sessions and independent study.
In Year 1 you will be introduced to business computing and information systems fundamentals, concepts, components and architectures.
In Years 2 and 3 you will follow the Specialist Themes that interest you the most.
Business Management
This degree program is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of business operations and strategies for competitive advantage.
During your studies, you will engage in a mix of core and elective modules. The programme's flexibility enables you to focus on areas that align with your evolving interests and career goals. You can pursue a broad-based business education or specialise in business fields including sustainable business, economics, entrepreneurship, human resource management or marketing.
Business Management (Digital Business)
Digital business experts collate, manipulate and interpret data to inform decisions, keep abreast of ongoing developments in digital business management and guide strategic decision-making. This degree combines general business knowledge with key aspects of digital business. You’ll gain a solid understanding of areas such as managing people, operations, logistics and marketing. In each year of study, you will take a combination of core and optional modules, which cover specialisms such as web-enabled business or digital analytics, for example.
Business Management (Entrepreneurship)
This degree combines general business knowledge with key theories and concepts in entrepreneurship, enterprise and innovation. You'll consider how organisations function and the available routes to new venture creation in different circumstances, such as small businesses, family businesses, not-for-profit organisations and large established corporations. You'll also gain a solid understanding of areas such as managing people, operations, logistics, marketing and business ethics. In each year of study, you will take a combination of core and optional modules which cover specialisms such as entrepreneurial practice or social media for business, for example.
Business Management (Human Resources Management)
This degree aims to provide an excellent platform for career success as a capable, confident and business-savvy HR professional. It will help you develop skills across a number of business disciplines so that you understand what makes a business tick and how to drive a business to succeed through its workforce. In each year of study, you will take a combination of core and optional modules.
Business Management (Marketing)
This degree offers excellent flexibility and combines a general understanding of businesses with specialist marketing management knowledge. You’ll cover the core concepts, practices and techniques of management and marketing, such as decision-making, marketing strategy, consumer behaviour, marketing research, market analysis, brand building and communications, and gain an understanding of the broader economic context of business.
Business Management with Foundation
This degree will help you understand what makes a business tick and how to drive a business to succeed. In each year of study, you will take a combination of core and option modules. The flexible nature of the course allows you to choose topics that most suit your interests or career aspirations – even if these change as your course progresses. You can build your own general business degree or choose to specialise in subjects such as economics, entrepreneurship, human resource management, digital business or marketing.
Chinese and English
Teaching methods include lectures, tutorials, practical sessions, seminars and workshops, as well as independent learning, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via online learning.
Assessment methods include essays, exams, individual and group presentations, projects, and critical analysis.
Chinese and International Business
Our course focuses on active learning, through lectures, seminars, workshops, task-based and blended learning, designed to engage your interest and promote your learning.
You'll study with the latest technology and learning spaces and you'll get extensive hands-on experience with industry partners to prepare you for the real world.
You'll be taught by inspiring and experienced lecturers who will help you develop a wide range of soft skills including communication, critical thinking, problem-solving and time-management in highly interactive and engaging classes.
Assessment methods include e-portfolios, real-world simulation tasks, essays, reports, individual and group presentations and case studies, as well as time-constrained in-class tests and exams.
Years 1 and 2 will provide you with the skills and knowledge to undertake an optional year-long placement in an overseas, Chinese-speaking destination, which could include studying at a recognised educational institution.
You can also choose to study an optional module from a range of topics across the University in each year.
Chinese and International Communication
Studying the Chinese and International Communication BA, you'll acquire qualities and skills in areas such as interpersonal communication and organisational skills, analysis and argument, autonomy and team working, and team management. You'll also build your flexibility, tolerance and organisational skills to enable you to be an effective international communicator. On graduation, you'll be able to thrive linguistically in diverse cultural situations.
Between Years 2 and 3, you’ll have the option to spend a full academic year abroad at one of our partner institutions. This will give you a valuable opportunity to boost your employability while improving your language competence.
Chinese and International Communication with Foundation
The Foundation year is designed to give you the opportunity to explore new ideas, opening up new perspectives on the key debates within your chosen field. Core modules accelerate your academic and professional development and you will also take modules from areas closely related to your chosen field, giving you the chance to develop a cross-disciplinary perspective on your course.
Chinese and International Relations
Teaching methods include lectures, tutorials, practical sessions, seminars and workshops, but most of your learning is independent, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via online learning.
Assessment methods include essays, exams, individual and group presentation projects, and critical analysis.
Chinese and Linguistics
Our degree offers the exciting combination of the study of Chinese language and culture alongside the wider study of the forms, structures and varieties of language itself.
You'll develop a high level of competence in oral and written communication in Chinese, proficiency in language transfer skills, and a thorough knowledge of Chinese culture. On graduation, you'll be able to thrive linguistically in diverse cultural situations.
You'll study an integrated curriculum with a focus on applied language skills and cultural studies, supported by a rigorous development of your foreign languages skills in all areas. We teach in an integrated interdisciplinary way, exploring the connections between language and culture and the broader historical and cross-cultural contexts in which they are produced.
Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience
Teaching methods include lectures, seminars, practical classes and laboratory work, supported by online material and periods of independent study.
Assessment methods may include exams, in-class tests, essays, oral and poster presentations, debates, case studies, and laboratory, practical and technical reports.
Computer Games Development
As part of the main computer science stream, our games development course aims to produce graduates with a solid background in software engineering, to help shape the future of the computer science creative industry. The course content is contemporary and shaped for employability through close links with local and national employers.
You'll spend around 12-15 hours per week in lectures, tutorials and laboratories. Lectures are used to present key concepts, theories and techniques. Tutorials and laboratory-based activities increase your understanding of the subject and allow you to develop your competence and confidence in technological and theoretical work.
During the course, you'll be required to actively participate in group work, discussions, seminars, and private study.
Due to the practical nature of this course, assessment is extremely varied and includes academic and evaluative reports, case studies, oral presentations, practical projects, in-class tests and work portfolios.
Computer Games Development with Foundation
As part of the main computer science stream, our games development course aims to produce graduates with a solid background in software engineering, to help shape the future of the computer science creative industry. The course content is contemporary and shaped for employability through close links with local and national employers.
You'll spend around 12-15 hours per week in lectures, tutorials and laboratories. Lectures are used to present key concepts, theories and techniques. Tutorials and laboratory-based activities increase your understanding of the subject and allow you to develop your competence and confidence in technological and theoretical work.
During the course, you'll be required to actively participate in group work, discussions, seminars, and private study.
Due to the practical nature of this course, assessment is extremely varied and includes academic and evaluative reports, case studies, oral presentations, practical projects, in-class tests and work-portfolios.
Computer Science
You'll use industrial tools and techniques throughout our course and graduate well versed in all aspects of the software lifecycle. You'll have the chance to apply your new knowledge and skills to real-world problems, usually in the form of a small-scale project set by an external organisation. As well as the technical skills you'll develop as part of this project, and you'll build vital transferable skills around the areas of commercial awareness, leadership and organisation.
After completing your second year, you'll have the opportunity to do a one-year work placement. Placements will help you to gain work experience and enhance your employability after you graduate. Help and support are always available to find and secure placement opportunities through various workshops and events organised by the University's Careers and Employability Service and our course team.
Computer Science with Foundation
The Foundation year is designed to give you the opportunity to explore new ideas, opening up new perspectives on the key debates within your chosen field. During the foundation year, you will explore a range of creative disciplines and get a chance to develop in your chosen field, benefiting from workshops in our high-end facilities and working with leading academics who will encourage you to become a confident and creative thinker. Core modules accelerate your academic and professional development and you will also take modules within your chosen field, giving you the chance to develop a cross-disciplinary perspective on your course.
Construction Management
The principles of construction technology, professional practice, ethics, health and safety, and the Construction Design and Management Regulations (CDM) are fundamental to the delivery of the built environment and are covered at each level in the programme. You will also gain knowledge of the professional, managerial and legal aspects of construction and digital practice, which is increasing in construction and will affect working practices, decision-making and efficiency in project delivery, and sustainability.
Please note: this course is also offered as part of a degree apprenticeship programme.
Construction Management with Foundation
The principles of construction technology, professional practice, ethics, health and safety, and the Construction Design and Management Regulations (CDM) are fundamental to the delivery of the built environment and are covered at each level in the programme. You will also gain knowledge of the professional, managerial and legal aspects of construction and digital practice, which is increasing in construction and will affect working practices, decision-making and efficiency in project delivery, and sustainability.
Creative and Professional Writing
This course focuses on your writing practice, so you’ll learn continuously through the processes of drafting and redrafting your work. Your core modules dedicate time to tutorials where you'll meet your module teacher to discuss your work in progress. You'll also learn from your peers as you share your work in seminars or writing workshops.
In each year of the course, you'll have a tutorial module, where you take part in weekly timetabled meetings in a small group with your Academic Tutor. This allows you to bring together learning from your different modules, develop projects, work through assessment preparation and feedback, and personalise your learning experience.
In your third year, you'll choose between the creative writing or professional writing project, designing your own extended piece of work according to your areas of interest.
Creative Computing
This course will provide you with essential scripting skills and hands-on experience using industry-standard tools, focusing on web and 3D technologies. This preparation ensures that you’ll graduate with the technical expertise and skills needed for various careers in creative technology industries.
Creative Computing with Foundation
The foundation year is designed to give you the opportunity to explore new ideas, opening up new perspectives on the key debates within your chosen field. During the foundation year, you will explore a range of creative disciplines and get a chance to develop in your chosen field, benefiting from workshops in our high-end facilities and working with leading academics who will encourage you to become a confident and creative thinker. Core modules accelerate your academic and professional development and you will also take modules within your chosen field, giving you the chance to develop a cross-disciplinary perspective on your course.
Creative Media Arts
You'll be taught through a mix of workshops, group and individual tutorials, and lectures supporting the development of your practical and conceptual skills.
Assessment methods include submission of practical projects and research material, live crits, seminar presentations, visual essays and online study tasks.
Creative Media Arts with Foundation
You'll be taught through a mix of workshops, group and individual tutorials, and lectures supporting the development of your practical and conceptual skills.
Assessment methods include submission of practical projects and research material, live crits, seminar presentations, visual essays and online study tasks.
Creative Writing and English Language
In each year of study, our modules will deepen your knowledge of the English language and its use and develop your writing abilities. In your third year, you'll produce either a single substantial work (chapters from a novel or a play) or a portfolio of shorter work (short fiction or poetry).
Our main mode of teaching is through seminars and workshops, but much of your learning is independent, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via online learning.
Assessment methods include essays, exams, creative exercises, presentations, blogs and portfolios.
Creative Writing and English Literature
At each Credit Level you'll focus on both writing in particular genres and forms, and studying literature of different periods, authors or genres, alongside an examination of the tools of literary enquiry in your study of literary theories and the history of ideas.
The main modes of teaching are seminars, workshops, lectures and field trips, but much of your learning is independent, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via online learning.
Assessment methods include essays, creative exercises, critical analyses, reviews, exams, presentations, journals, blogs and portfolios.
Creative Writing and English Literature with Foundation
At each credit level you'll focus on both writing in particular genres and forms, and studying literature of different periods, authors or genres, alongside an examination of the tools of literary enquiry in your study of literary theories and the history of ideas.
The main modes of teaching are seminars, workshops, lectures and field trips, but much of your learning is independent, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via online learning.
Assessment methods include essays, creative exercises, critical analyses, reviews, examinations, presentations, journals, blogs and portfolios.
Criminology
Teaching and learning methods include lectures, seminars, independent study, and off-site learning such as visits and field walks which make use of Westminster's central London location.
Assessment methods may include essays, debates, criminal justice policy analysis, individual and group presentations, exams, statistical analyses, and your dissertation.
Criminology with Foundation
Teaching and learning methods include lectures, seminars, independent study, and off-site learning such as visits and field walks which make use of Westminster's central London location.
Assessment methods may include essays, debates, criminal justice policy analysis, individual and group presentations, exams, statistical analyses, and your dissertation.
Culture, Environment and Social Change
On this course, you'll examine how the historical forces of colonialism and capitalism have laid the foundations for contemporary environmental and social crises, learn how to critically analyse the ways humans understand, experience and impact the natural world and gain a clear understanding of how cultural media and institutions have shaped the evolving relationships between societies and environments in the Global North and South.
The core modules have been designed to introduce you to key ideas and theories in environmental humanities and social justice. These are combined with a broad range of option modules, enabling you to tailor your degree to your individual interests. You can develop a specialism in Language and Communication, Law, or Politics. You can also select a range of optional modules from English Literature, Creative Writing, Sociology, and History, allowing you to experience different methodological perspectives on contemporary environmental and social issues.
Cyber Security and Forensics with Foundation
You'll learn through a mixture of lectures, practical tutorials, laboratory sessions and independent study.
In Year 1 you’ll be introduced to the fundamentals of computer systems and cyber security.
In Years 2 and 3 you’ll apply your knowledge to practical assignments and learn critical project management and professional skills.
This degree includes an optional year abroad or placement.
Data Science and Analytics with Foundation
The foundation year is designed to give you the opportunity to explore new ideas, opening up new perspectives on the key debates within your chosen field. During the foundation year, you will explore a range of creative disciplines and get a chance to develop in your chosen field, benefiting from workshops in our high-end facilities and working with leading academics who will encourage you to become a confident and creative thinker. Core modules accelerate your academic and professional development and you will also take modules within your chosen field, giving you the chance to develop a cross-disciplinary perspective on your course.
Digital Marketing
The course is designed to meet industry needs in combining user-centred, creative, media and marketing communications with strategic marketing, analysis and management. It covers understanding digital consumer behaviour; developing digital and channel marketing strategies; employing digital tactics, tools and channels; and applying data-led approaches to planning, measurement and analysis.
Digital Media and Communication
During your first year, you’ll study alongside students on the other Digital Media BA pathways.
At the end of your first year, you'll have the choice to continue with Digital Media and Communication or change your specialism to one of our other Digital Media pathways in Media Production, Journalism or PR and Advertising. Each pathway will give you a distinctive preparation in one of the most important fields of digital media.
These pathways, along with a variety of optional modules, provide you with the opportunity to customise your degree and expertise according to your interests and career objectives.
Your final degree award will reflect this specialism, eg Digital Media and Communication BA (Hons).
Digital Media and Journalism
During your first year, you’ll study alongside students on the other Digital Media BA pathways.
At the end of your first year, you'll have the choice to continue with Digital Media and Journalism or change your specialism to one of our other Digital Media pathways in Communication, PR and Advertising or Media Production. Each pathway will give you a distinctive preparation in one of the most important fields of digital media.
These pathways, along with a variety of optional modules, provide you with the opportunity to customise your degree and expertise according to your interests and career objectives.
Your final degree award will reflect this specialism, e.g. Digital Media and Journalism BA (Hons).
Digital Media Production
During your first year, you’ll study alongside students on the other Digital Media BA pathways.
At the end of your first year, you'll have the choice to continue with Digital Media Production or change your specialism to one of our other Digital Media pathways in Communication, Journalism or PR and Advertising. Each pathway will give you a distinctive preparation in one of the most important fields of digital media.
These pathways, along with a variety of optional modules, provide you with the opportunity to customise your degree and expertise according to your interests and career objectives.
Your final degree award will reflect this specialism, e.g. Digital Media Production BA (Hons).
Digital Media, Public Relations and Advertising
During your first year, you’ll study alongside students on the other Digital Media BA pathways.
At the end of your first year, you'll have the choice to continue with Digital Media, PR and Advertising or change your specialism to one of our other Digital Media pathways in Communication, Journalism or Media Production. Each pathway will give you a distinctive preparation in one of the most important fields of digital media.
These pathways, along with a variety of optional modules, provide you with the opportunity to customise your degree and expertise according to your interests and career objectives.
Your final degree award will reflect this specialism, e.g. Digital Media, PR and Advertising BA (Hons).
Economics and Management
This degree combines general business knowledge with key theories and concepts in economics and their application in international business. You’ll gain a solid understanding of areas such as managing people, operations, logistics, marketing and business ethics. In each year of study, you will take a combination of core and optional modules which cover specialisms such as economic forecasting or information and digital economics, for example.
Economics
This degree aims to provide you with a solid understanding of economic theories, economic policy making, econometric techniques, quantitative analysis and analytical reasoning. You’ll learn to appreciate the decision-making process and develop your critical thinking, graduating with a unique skillset sought-after by future employers.
In each year of study, you will be offered a choice of applied economic modules, as well as specialist economics or more general business modules. You also have the opportunity to study a foreign language, including Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese or Spanish. This is an excellent idea if you want to broaden your horizons and experience another culture, particularly if you see yourself working abroad or for an international company in the future. Recent students have visited partner institutions including Copenhagen Business School in Denmark and the University of Technology Sydney in Australia.
English Language and International Communication
Teaching and learning take place through a combination of weekly tutorials, lectures, seminars and practical workshops. You're also given exposure to professionally relevant simulations and real-work environments and guided self-study and preparation.
Learning on the degree takes place in the classroom through small problem-solving exercises (both in groups and individually), through traditional lecturer-led dissemination of information, and via peer presentations and discussions.
Assessments typically comprise a mixture of formative in-class coursework and summative projects, oral presentations and unseen written exams. You'll be asked to adapt texts, carry out analyses of language data, critical reading, write reviews, reports and essays, give individual and group presentations, and sit some exams.
English Language and Linguistics with Foundation
You'll mostly be taught through seminars of 15-25 students with some larger lectures, but you'll also benefit from weekly small-group tutorials of 5-7 students. The tutorials are designed to support your individual learning needs in the first two years of the course, enhancing your study and employability skills within a supportive framework.
Much of your learning is independent and conducted (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via our online learning system, Blackboard. The tutorials provide essential support for this kind of university-level study.
Assessment methods range from small analytic exercises of language data, small research projects, and presentations, through to the preparation and writing of a Dissertation in the final year. Essays and analytic written reports also feature as part of the assessed coursework.
You can study option modules each year from a range of modules in the school and across the University, including Polylang - our language programme - which allows you to study another language. In Year 3 you complete a dissertation in a topic chosen by you, with one-to-one support from your supervisor.
English Literature and History
The main modes of teaching are seminars, workshops, lectures and field trips, and much of your learning is independent, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via online learning.
Assessment methods include essays, critical analyses, exams, presentations, journals, portfolios and your dissertation.
You'll take some core modules in each of English and History, and the options allow you vary the balance of the two subject areas according to your interests. In Year 3 you'll complete the English Literature and History dissertation which allows you to refine and showcase, via a topic of your choosing, the skills developed over the course of your degree.
English Literature and Language
There is a range of optional modules available from within the School of Humanities and across the University in each year of study. In Year 3 you have a particularly extensive array of modules to choose from, which allows you to tailor the degree to your own interests and future aspirations. In Year 3 you also complete a dissertation in a topic of your choice, with one-to-one supervisory support.
Our principal mode of teaching is through seminars of 15-25 students, with some larger university lectures. A key feature of our degree is our weekly small group tutorials (five to eight students per tutor). These are designed to support your own individual learning needs as you go through the first two years. The tutorials are specific to this degree and provide an important space for you to find suitable support in your studies more generally, alongside enhancing your study and employability skills.
At university, much of your learning is independent, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via our online learning system (Blackboard), and the tutorials provide essential support for independent study.
Assessment on the English Literature and Language BA varies from traditional essays, presentations and small analytic exercises of texts through to the preparation and execution of small research projects and ultimately the preparation and writing of your own dissertation in the final year. Some modules combine coursework with a short exam.
English Literature and Language with Foundation
There is a range of optional modules available from within the School of Humanities and across the University in each year of study. In Year 3 you have a particularly extensive array of modules to choose from, which allows you to tailor the degree to your own interests and future aspirations. In Year 3 you also complete a dissertation in a topic of your choice, with one-to-one supervisory support.
Our principal mode of teaching is through seminars of 15-25 students, with some larger university lectures. A key feature of our degree is our weekly small group tutorials (five to eight students per tutor). These are designed to support your own individual learning needs as you go through the first two years. The tutorials are specific to this degree and provide an important space for you to find suitable support in your studies more generally, alongside enhancing your study and employability skills.
At university, much of your learning is independent, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via our online learning system (Blackboard), and the tutorials provide essential support for independent study.
Assessment on the English Literature and Language BA varies from traditional essays, presentations and small analytic exercises of texts through to the preparation and execution of small research projects and ultimately the preparation and writing of your own dissertation in the final year. Some modules combine coursework with a short exam.
English Literature
There is a range of optional modules available from within the School of Humanities and across the University in each year of study. In Year 3, you have a particularly extensive array of modules to choose from, which allows you to tailor the degree to your own interests and future aspirations. In Year 3, you also complete a dissertation in a topic of your choice, with one-to-one supervisory support.
Our principal mode of teaching is through seminars of 15-25 students, with some larger university lectures. A key feature of our degree is our weekly small group tutorials (about five students per tutor). These are designed to support your own individual learning needs as you go through the first two years. The tutorials are specific to this degree and provide an important space for you to find personalised support in your studies more generally, alongside enhancing your study and employability skills.
As with all university study, much of your learning is independent, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via our online learning system (Blackboard), and the tutorials provide essential support for independent study.
Assessment on the English Literature BA varies from traditional essays, presentations and small analytic exercises of texts through to small research projects and ultimately the preparation and writing of your own dissertation in the final year. Some modules combine coursework with a short exam.
English Literature with Foundation
There is a range of optional modules available from within the School of Humanities and across the University in each year of study. In Year 3, you have a particularly extensive array of modules to choose from, which allows you to tailor the degree to your own interests and future aspirations. In Year 3, you also complete a dissertation in a topic of your choice, with one-to-one supervisory support.
Our principal mode of teaching is through seminars of 15-25 students, with some larger university lectures. A key feature of our degree is our weekly small group tutorials (about five students per tutor). These are designed to support your own individual learning needs as you go through the first two years. The tutorials are specific to this degree and provide an important space for you to find personalised support in your studies more generally, alongside enhancing your study and employability skills.
As with all university study, much of your learning is independent, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via our online learning system (Blackboard), and the tutorials provide essential support for independent study.
Assessment on the English Literature BA varies from traditional essays, presentations and small analytic exercises of texts through to small research projects and ultimately the preparation and writing of your own dissertation in the final year. Some modules combine coursework with a short exam.
European Legal Studies
Teaching methods include lectures, seminar-based discussion, class presentations, invited guest speakers and practical group exercises.
Assessment methods include open- and closed-book exams, in-class tests, oral presentations, and written coursework.
Fashion Business Management with Professional Experience
This is a modular course with interactive sessions covering the academic, practical and applied elements of fashion business management.
Fashion Design
We use several different teaching and learning methods to enable students to develop an imaginative and creative approach to their discipline, based on increasing knowledge of practice and transferable skills.
Learning takes place through a combination of face-to-face teaching and independent study, including lectures, seminars and practical workshops.
Fashion Marketing and Promotion
Teaching and learning are interactive, covering academic, creative practice and industry-applied elements.
You'll learn through a broad mix of lectures, group and individual tutorials, crits, and workshops, supporting the development of skills across fashion promotion and marketing.
We use a variety of assessment methods, including practical projects, presentations, written work, blogs, websites, research tasks and portfolios.
Fashion Photography
The Photography BA and Fashion Photography BA begin with a shared first year, before branching into specialised pathways. These pathways, along with a variety of optional modules, provide you with the opportunity to customise your degree and expertise according to your interests and career objectives.
You can also choose to study an Elective, a selection of modules from across the whole University curriculum, which will allow you to enrich your academic journey.
You may choose to take an optional year-long paid internship or placement between years 2 and 3 or study abroad with one of our overseas exchange partners.
Fashion Photography with Foundation
The Photography BA and Fashion Photography BA begin with a shared first year, before branching into specialised pathways. These pathways, along with a variety of optional modules, provide you with the opportunity to customise your degree and expertise according to your interests and career objectives.
You can also choose to study an Elective, a selection of modules from across the whole University curriculum, which will allow you to enrich your academic journey.
You may choose to take an optional year-long paid internship or placement between years 2 and 3 or study abroad with one of our overseas exchange partners.
Film
The course emphasises group work, with students participating in small-scale productions in the first year and larger groups in the second year. This film practice gives students the opportunity to explore different disciplines, before finding a specialism in the second year.
The teaching of craft and theory is taught through a combination of workshops, tutorials, seminars, lectures and feedback sessions, introducing students to skill-based crew roles and critical literacy which are both crucial to a successful career in film. Course work is assessed through creative projects, critical essays, self-reflective writing or portfolios, and presentations.
Finance and Business Management
This degree combines business and analytical skills with sound financial knowledge to help inform business strategy. In each year of study, you will take a combination of core and option modules, which cover specialisms such as personal finance or international financial management. The flexible nature of the course allows you to choose topics that most suit your interests or career aspirations – even if these change as your course progresses.
Finance
On this degree, you’ll gain an in-depth knowledge of modern finance theories and their applications, developing your critical thinking around finance related themes such as investments, risk management, financial modelling, security analysis and banking. You’ll learn about business organisations: their purposes, structures and governance in a global context and, in doing so, deepen your understanding of the financial drivers of business strategy, planning, governance and ethics. In each year of study, as an example you will take a combination of core and option modules which cover specialisms such as banking theory or corporate governance.
Financial Economics
This degree aims to provide you with a solid understanding of underlying economic theories, principles and their financial applications in a variety of contexts, such as financial markets, the banking system, or global financial strategy. You’ll learn to interpret financial data and carry out statistical and financial analysis to plan and manage risk, engaging with specialist topics including principles of financial intermediation, bank regulation and supervision as well as applied portfolio management.
In each year of study, you will be offered a choice of applied financial economic modules, as well as more general economic modules which consider the impact of economics on sport industry finances, for example. You also have the opportunity to study a foreign language, including Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese or Spanish. This is an excellent idea if you want to broaden your horizons and experience another culture, particularly if you see yourself working abroad or for an international company in the future. Recent students have visited partner institutions including Copenhagen Business School in Denmark and the University of Technology Sydney in Australia.
Fine Art Mixed Media
The course emphasis on creativity and individuality is supported by regular tutorials and studio discussion. This encourages you to explore different approaches to practice, coupled with technical introductions and workshops, enabling you to conceive increasingly ambitious projects.
Contemporary fine art practice is the focus of debate in both lectures and the studio, supported by the programme of visiting artists and lecturers. You'll develop increasing insight into the exciting and diverse contemporary London art scene.
In Years 2 and 3, you will continue to focus on your chosen area of practice. Experimentation and innovation are consolidated, and you'll undertake a work placement within the creative industries to test your emerging aspirations.
Contextual studies, theory and practice are allied, with you defining the topic through tutorial discussion for your Research Project. The final year culminates in the degree show, and you'll engage in fundraising, promotion and curation of this public event.
Fine Art Mixed Media with Foundation
The course emphasis on creativity and individuality is supported by regular tutorials and studio discussion. This encourages you to explore different approaches to practice, coupled with technical introductions and workshops, enabling you to conceive increasingly ambitious projects.
Contemporary fine art practice is the focus of debate in both lectures and the studio, supported by the programme of visiting artists and lecturers. You'll develop increasing insight into the exciting and diverse contemporary London art scene.
In Years 2 and 3, you will continue to focus on your chosen area of practice. Experimentation and innovation are consolidated, and you'll undertake a work placement within the creative industries to test your emerging aspirations.
Contextual studies, theory and practice are allied, with you defining the topic through tutorial discussion for your Research Project. The final year culminates in the degree show, and you'll engage in fundraising, promotion and curation of this public event.
FinTech with Data Analytics
This course will enable you to specialise in the areas of financial and business analytics where technology is being used to improve organisational and business practices.
In each year of study, you will take a combination of core and option modules, covering specialisms such as Entrepreneurship in FinTech, Blockchain and Cloud Computing, and Big Data Management for Finance.
You will be taught through a combination of lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials and will be encouraged to reflect on and further develop your skills and knowledge with the support of lecturers and personal tutors.
French and English
Teaching methods include lectures, tutorials, practical sessions, seminars and workshops, as well as independent learning, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via online learning.
Assessment methods include essays, exams, individual and group presentations, projects, and critical analysis.
French and International Business
Our course focuses on active learning, through lectures, seminars, workshops, task-based and blended learning, designed to engage your interest and promote your learning.
You'll study with the latest technology and learning spaces and you'll get extensive hands-on experience with industry partners to prepare you for the real world.
You'll be taught by inspiring and experienced lecturers who will help you develop a wide range of soft skills including communication, critical thinking, problem-solving and time-management in highly interactive and engaging classes.
Assessment methods include e-portfolios, real-world simulation tasks, essays, reports, individual and group presentations and case studies, as well as time-constrained in-class tests and exams.
Years 1 and 2 will provide you with the skills and knowledge to undertake an optional year-long placement in an overseas, French-speaking destination, which could include studying at a recognised educational institution.
You can also choose to study an optional module from a range of topics across the University in each year.
French and International Communication
Our course helps you to achieve a good or high level of linguistic proficiency in French in reading, writing, listening and speaking. It also gives you insight into and practice in communicating internationally as well as mediating between English and French speakers.
The curriculum integrates applied language skills and cultural studies, while ensuring a rigorous development of your foreign language competence in all areas. We teach in an integrated interdisciplinary way, exploring the connections between language and culture and the broader historical and cross-cultural contexts in which they are produced.
You'll improve your ability as an intercultural communicator by studying how our ideas are shaped and communicated in a global society, where our interactions are no longer confined by national, regional or cultural boundaries.
French and International Communication with Foundation
The Foundation year is designed to give you the opportunity to explore new ideas, opening up new perspectives on the key debates within your chosen field. Core modules accelerate your academic and professional development and you will also take modules from areas closely related to your chosen field, giving you the chance to develop a cross-disciplinary perspective on your course.
French and International Relations
Teaching methods include lectures, tutorials, practical sessions, seminars and workshops, but most of your learning is independent, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via online learning.
Assessment methods include essays, exams, individual and group presentation projects, and critical analysis.
French and Linguistics
Our degree offers the exciting combination of the study of French language and culture alongside the wider study of the forms, structures and varieties of language itself.
You'll develop a high level of competence in oral and written communication in French, proficiency in language transfer skills, and a thorough knowledge of French culture. On graduation, you'll be able to thrive linguistically in diverse cultural situations.
You'll study an integrated curriculum with a focus on applied language skills and cultural studies, supported by a rigorous development of your foreign languages skills in all areas. We teach in an integrated interdisciplinary way, exploring the connections between language and culture and the broader historical and cross-cultural contexts in which they are produced.
Games Art
The Games Art BA and Games Design BA begin with a shared first year, before branching into specialised pathways. These pathways, along with a variety of optional modules, provide you with the opportunity to customise your degree and expertise according to your interests and career objectives.
You’ll have the opportunity to learn from industry professionals throughout the course. You can also benefit from our industry links by opting to complete a work placement year or expand your educational experience by studying aboard between Years 2 and 3.
Games Art with Foundation
The Games Art BA and Games Design BA begin with a shared first year, before branching into specialised pathways. These pathways, along with a variety of optional modules, provide you with the opportunity to customise your degree and expertise according to your interests and career objectives.
You’ll have the opportunity to learn from industry professionals throughout the course. You can also benefit from our industry links by opting to complete a work placement year or expand your educational experience by studying aboard between Years 2 and 3.
Games Design
The Games Design BA and Games Art BA begin with a shared first year, before branching into specialised pathways. These pathways, along with a variety of optional modules, provide you with the opportunity to customise your degree and expertise according to your interests and career objectives.
You’ll have the opportunity to learn from industry professionals throughout the course. You can also benefit from our industry links by opting to complete a work placement year or expand your educational experience by studying aboard between Years 2 and 3.
Games Design with Foundation
The Games Design BA and Games Art BA begin with a shared first year, before branching into specialised pathways. These pathways, along with a variety of optional modules, provide you with the opportunity to customise your degree and expertise according to your interests and career objectives.
You’ll have the opportunity to learn from industry professionals throughout the course. You can also benefit from our industry links by opting to complete a work placement year or expand your educational experience by studying aboard between Years 2 and 3.
Global Challenges
This course has a particular focus on responding to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), highlighting the importance of promoting just, peaceful and inclusive societies, reducing poverty and hunger, ensuring health and wellbeing, achieving gender and racial equality, delivering a net zero future, bringing dignity to work, and enabling sustainable futures through decisive action on climate change.
You'll explore societal challenges on local, national and global levels and adopt an interdisciplinary approach to address these issues head-on. Combining core and optional modules from politics, international relations, sociology, criminology, law, health and nutrition to psychology and sustainability, you’ll gain a unique perspective and be well-equipped to enact positive change. In the final year of the course, your broad knowledge will allow you to develop an innovative final project on an area you are passionate about and create workable solutions to global challenges.
Accounting and Business Management
This degree combines general business knowledge with specialist financial analysis and reporting that helps inform and monitor business strategy. In each year of study, you will take a combination of core modules and one optional, which cover specialisms such as personal finance or international financial management, for example, or an elective module, which includes the Polylang language programme.
Global Trade and Business
This one-year top-up degree aims to develop your specialist knowledge of international trade, together with the businesses and organisations who engage in and regulate it at a regional and global level. Our focus on problem-solving and decision-making aims to give you strategic perspective and the ability to see the bigger picture of how international businesses plan, prepare and operate, and their sources of accountability internally and externally.
For your Global Trade and Business Project, you will spend a semester researching and studying a topic of your choice in depth under the guidance of a supervisor. To prepare you for this, you’ll participate in a series of structured seminars and workshops to develop your skills in data collection, data presentation, analysis and interpretation. The international work visit gives you a greater appreciation of the decision-making process for business and commerce, enabling you to graduate with a global outlook and experience that is much sought-after by future employers.
To ensure you develop sufficient, relevant knowledge and skills, you study six core modules.
Graphic Design
Each year you’ll study a mix of core and collaborative modules complementing these with choices from a wide and varied range of optional modules. You’ll learn through a dynamic mix of formats including workshops, lectures, seminars, critiques and technical sessions. In project work you’ll collaborate with students from your course and other disciplines, helping you to build your team-working and communication skills.
You’ll also get to hear talks from visiting industry speakers, take part in workshops, and go on trips into central London to museums, galleries and design fairs.
Graphic Design with Foundation
Each year you’ll study a mix of core and collaborative modules complementing these with choices from a wide and varied range of optional modules. You’ll learn through a dynamic mix of formats including workshops, lectures, seminars, critiques and technical sessions. In project work you’ll collaborate with students from your course and other disciplines, helping you to build your team-working and communication skills.
You’ll also get to hear talks from visiting industry speakers, take part in workshops, and go on trips into central London to museums, galleries and design fairs.
History and Politics
On this course, we use a wide range of assessments, including essays, critical analyses, documentary analyses, individual and group presentations, blogs, reports and a dissertation.
You can study an elective module from across the University in each year, and also undertake a credit-bearing internship or language class. Making the most of these opportunities will broaden your experiences and enhance your employability.
History
Over three years, you’ll be exposed to a range of topics in modern history. Initially, you’ll start with core modules to help you develop a solid grounding in modern global history from 1789 to 1989, and in historical methods and approaches. As the course develops, you’ll have more opportunities to choose your own option modules according to your personal interests. By your final year, you’ll write a dissertation on a topic of your own choosing and select short modules from a wide range of rotating special subjects.
We have a wide range of assessments including essays, document and artefact analysis, oral presentations, book reviews, portfolios, blogs, reflection journals and political reports. Through these you’ll learn essential skills that enhance your employability. To help support you in your assessments and learning journey, the course also includes weekly Tutorials in the first two years. These are very small groups designed to help you develop your academic and employability skills with your own Academic Tutor. You’ll benefit from close supervision and learn to develop independent research projects, and how to develop your skills in all of your modules that year.
You’ll also have the chance to take a credit-bearing work placement module in one of London’s hundreds of archives, museums, galleries, libraries and other repositories. Previous interns have had placements in the Imperial War Museum, the House of Lords Record Office and many other London institutions. You can also study an optional module from a range of interdisciplinary topics across the University in each year, such as the study of material culture or sexual histories of London, or from our language options which include French, Spanish, Arabic or Chinese.
History with Foundation
You’ll be exposed to a range of topics in modern history. Initially, you’ll start with core modules to help you develop a solid grounding in modern global history from 1789 to 1989, and in historical methods and approaches. As the course develops, you’ll have more opportunities to choose your own option modules according to your personal interests. By your final year, you’ll write a dissertation on a topic of your own choosing and select short modules from a wide range of rotating special subjects.
We have a wide range of assessments including essays, document and artefact analysis, oral presentations, book reviews, portfolios, blogs, reflection journals and political reports. Through these you’ll learn essential skills that enhance your employability. To help support you in your assessments and learning journey, the course also includes weekly Tutorials in the first two years. These are very small groups designed to help you develop your academic and employability skills with your own Academic Tutor. You’ll benefit from close supervision and learn to develop independent research projects, and how to develop your skills in all of your modules that year.
You’ll also have the chance to take a credit-bearing work placement module in one of London’s hundreds of archives, museums, galleries, libraries and other repositories. Previous interns have had placements in the Imperial War Museum, the House of Lords Record Office and many other London institutions. You can also study an optional module from a range of interdisciplinary topics across the University in each year, such as the study of material culture or sexual histories of London, or from our language options which include French, Spanish, Arabic or Chinese.
Human Nutrition
The learning and teaching of the course relies on a mixture of face-to-face teaching and tutorial sessions, lab-based practicals, research seminars, and independent study, with classroom-based activities supported by online study material.
Assessment methods include research articles, group projects, oral presentations, in-class tests, practical assessments, report writing and exams.
Human Nutrition with Foundation
The learning and teaching of the course relies on a mixture of face-to-face teaching and tutorial sessions, lab-based practicals, research seminars, and independent study, with classroom-based activities supported by online study material.
Assessment methods include research articles, group projects, oral presentations, in-class tests, practical assessments, report writing and exams.
Illustration
Each year you’ll study core modules and choose from a varied range of optional modules. You’ll learn through a dynamic mix of formats including individual tutorials, student-led studio classes, group work, presentations, technical sessions, online training and lectures. In project work, you’ll collaborate with students from your course and others, helping you to build vital teamworking skills.
You’ll also get to hear talks from visiting artists, take part in workshops led by industry experts, and go on frequent trips into central London to exhibitions and design fairs.
Illustration with Foundation
Each year you’ll study core modules and choose from a varied range of optional modules. You’ll learn through a dynamic mix of formats including individual tutorials, student-led studio classes, group work, presentations, technical sessions, online training and lectures. In project work, you’ll collaborate with students from your course and others, helping you to build vital teamworking skills.
You’ll also get to hear talks from visiting artists, take part in workshops led by industry experts, and go on frequent trips into central London to exhibitions and design fairs.
Interior Architecture
You'll learn through studio discussions, seminars, individual and group tutorials, and workshops, all focused on supporting you with the development of your project work. Your learning will be enriched with studio visits to sites, exhibitions, galleries, projects and field trips.
You will be assessed through your design portfolio, design project work and an academic portfolio, along with visual and oral presentations in the form of individual or group seminars, tutorials and presentations of design project work.
You'll learn and progress by attending studio sessions and through developing design project work that involves learning to conceptualise, make architectural proposals and evaluate them.
Interior Architecture w Foundation
You'll learn through studio discussions, seminars, individual and group tutorials, and workshops, all focused on supporting you with the development of your project work. Your learning will be enriched with studio visits to sites, exhibitions, galleries, projects and field trips.
You will be assessed through your design portfolio, design project work and an academic portfolio, along with visual and oral presentations in the form of individual or group seminars, tutorials and presentations of design project work.
You'll learn and progress by attending studio sessions and through developing design project work that involves learning to conceptualise, make architectural proposals and evaluate them.
International Business
This course is designed to provide a solid foundation in business management, with a focus on the opportunities and challenges of conducting business across borders. In the first year, you will study five core modules and choose one option module. In the second and third year, you’ll take four core modules, choosing one option and one elective module. If you're interested in learning a new language or developing one of your current languages, our Polylang programme offers eight major languages to choose from.
International Communication and International Business
You'll engage in a variety of interactive learning experiences designed to stimulate your intellectual growth, with a lot of teaching taking place in small groups. From seminars, academic tutorials, and practical workshops to task-based exercises, peer presentations and professional simulations, you'll encounter a dynamic mix of learning methods that foster critical thinking, problem-solving skills, teamwork and independent learning.
We strive to eliminate barriers to your learning and collaborate with you to create an inclusive educational experience. The variety of our learning approaches and assessment types means that each student’s strengths are catered for, and this course is distinctive in its hands-on approach to professional skills within the classroom setting and its interdisciplinary approach.
International Event Management
This course is designed with a strong vocational focus, seamlessly blending theory with practical, real-world experience. You’ll learn through a mix of lectures, seminars, workshops, tutorials and field trips, benefiting from guest lectures by industry experts and valuable work experience opportunities.
Experiential and work-based learning are integral to the course. Collaborating with industry partners, you’ll also gain hands-on experience through live client briefs that simulate real work environments, enhancing your employability.
International Marketing
Designed to meet the needs of industry by combining academic knowledge with work-based learning, you’ll gain expertise in international marketing management and strategy, culture, consumer behaviour and language. You’ll also have the opportunity to tailor your degree by choosing specialist modules such as business-to-business marketing, services marketing, brand management and sustainability.
International Relations and Development
Teaching and learning includes small group work, problem-based tutorials, review sessions, workshops, symposia, debates, Q&A sessions, document analysis sessions, and structured role-plays.
Assessment methods are wide-ranging on this course and include essays, exams, policy reports, project work, individual and group presentations, blogs, posters, and debates.
Students on this course have the opportunity to spend one optional year abroad or one optional year gaining professional experience.
International Relations and Development with Foundation
Teaching and learning includes small group work, problem-based tutorials, review sessions, workshops, symposia, debates, Q&A sessions, document analysis sessions, and structured role-plays.
Assessment methods are wide-ranging on this course and include essays, exams, policy reports, project work, individual and group presentations, blogs, posters, and debates.
Students on this course have the opportunity to spend one optional year abroad.
International Relations
Teaching and learning includes small group work, problem-based tutorials, review sessions, workshops, symposia, debates, Q&A sessions, document analysis sessions, and structured role-plays.
Assessment methods are wide-ranging on this course and include essays, exams, policy reports, project work, individual and group presentations, blogs, posters, and debates.
Students on this course have the opportunity to spend one optional year abroad or one optional year gaining professional experience.
International Relations with Foundation
Teaching and learning includes small group work, problem-based tutorials, review sessions, workshops, symposia, debates, Q&A sessions, document analysis sessions, and structured role-plays.
Assessment methods are wide-ranging on this course and include essays, exams, policy reports, project work, individual and group presentations, blogs, posters, and debates.
Students on this course have the opportunity to spend one optional year abroad or one optional year gaining professional experience.
Languages and Translation
Teaching and learning take place through a combination of formal lectures, seminars, practical workshops, guided self-study, and exposure to professionally relevant simulations and real-work environments.
Assessment methods include in-class coursework, essays and projects, presentations, and oral and unseen written exams.
You can find examples of how marks have been calculated and study time distributed in the past in the Teaching and Assessment section at the bottom of this page.
Languages and Translation with Foundation
Teaching and learning take place through a combination of formal lectures, seminars, practical workshops, guided self-study, and exposure to professionally relevant simulations and real-work environments.
Assessment methods include in-class coursework, essays and projects, presentations, and oral and unseen written exams.
You can find examples of how marks have been calculated and study time distributed in the past in the Teaching and Assessment section at the bottom of this page.
Law and Criminal Justice
Our varied, authentic, and inclusive means of assessment allow you to demonstrate the same competencies, or combinations of knowledge, skills, and attitudes, that you will need to apply in your future professional life.
In your last year with us, you participate in a distinctive element of the Law School experience at Westminster - the unique opportunity to reflect creatively on your learning journey with us in a final-year show.
Law and International Relations
Our varied, authentic, and inclusive means of assessment allow you to demonstrate the same competencies, or combinations of knowledge, skills, and attitudes, that you will need to apply in your future professional life.
In your last year with us, you will participate in a distinctive element of the Westminster Law School experience – the unique opportunity to reflect creatively on your learning journey with us in a final-year show.
Law
Our varied, authentic, and inclusive means of assessment allow you to demonstrate the same competencies, or combinations of knowledge, skills, and attitudes, that you will need to apply in your future professional life.
In your last year with us, you participate in a distinctive element of the Law School experience at Westminster - the unique opportunity to reflect creatively on your learning journey with us in a final-year show.
Law with Foundation
Our varied, authentic, and inclusive means of assessment allow you to demonstrate the same competencies, or combinations of knowledge, skills, and attitudes, that you will need to apply in your future professional life.
In your last year with us, you participate in a distinctive element of the Law School experience at Westminster - the unique opportunity to reflect creatively on your learning journey with us in a final-year show.
Law with French Law
Teaching methods include lectures, seminar-based discussion, class presentations, invited guest speakers and practical group exercises.
Assessment methods include open- and closed-book exams, in-class tests, oral presentations, and written coursework.
Marketing and Data Analytics
Our Marketing and Data Analytics BSc offers real-world learning opportunities, combining theory and practice. Assessments and learning activities are designed to bridge the gap between academia and industry, providing you with real-world experience.
The course goes beyond traditional teaching methods, incorporating work-related tasks and 'as live' briefs to simulate the working environment. We seamlessly integrate digital skills throughout your studies, teaching you the essential skills you’ll need in software such as Tableau, PowerBI, Google Analytics, SPSS and Excel.
Marketing Communications with AI Intergration
Designed to create work-ready graduates who meet the needs of industry, this course will prepare you for a career in a broad range of marketing disciplines, combining branding, marketing communications, data and analytics, consumer decision-making and media planning for both traditional and digital channels. With work-based learning embedded in the course, you’ll graduate work ready with the skills, knowledge and expertise required to move confidently into the world of marketing communications.
Marketing Management
Designed to meet the needs of industry, this course will prepare you for a career in a broad range of marketing disciplines, combining marketing strategy, marketing communications, data and analytics and market research. With work-based learning embedded in the course, you’ll graduate work ready with the skills, knowledge and expertise required to move confidently into the world of marketing.
Medical Science
The Medical Sciences BSc Honours comprises a detailed study of the human body in health and disease, with emphasis on the diagnosis and understanding of disease states and the mechanisms involved. It
prepares you for graduate entry medicine but also a range of life science careers. Teaching on the course is through a variety of methods and includes tutorials, lectures and seminars, practical laboratory work
and group activities along with the use of learning technology and electronic resources. Assessment is through a combination of exams and coursework, including essays, practical work, group work, presentations and reports.
Music Production, Performance and Business
Our strong industry connections within London's vibrant music scene enable us to offer guest lectures from top professionals and maximise networking opportunities. These connections are further enriched through interdisciplinary collaborations with peers from film, TV, radio, fashion, and media studies.
Located at the Harrow Campus, the course facilitates a unique collaborative environment not just among music students but also across various creative disciplines. This interdisciplinary approach provides a broad spectrum of opportunities, preparing our graduates for diverse careers in the creative industries and ensuring they have the skills and contacts necessary to expand their professional network and enhance their creative potential.
Music Production, Performance and Business with Foundation
Our strong industry connections within London's vibrant music scene enable us to offer guest lectures from top professionals and maximise networking opportunities. These connections are further enriched through interdisciplinary collaborations with peers from film, TV, radio, fashion, and media studies.
Located at the Harrow Campus, the course facilitates a unique collaborative environment not just among music students but also across various creative disciplines. This interdisciplinary approach provides a broad spectrum of opportunities, preparing our graduates for diverse careers in the creative industries and ensuring they have the skills and contacts necessary to expand their professional network and enhance their creative potential.
Pharmacology and Physiology
This course will provide you with a sound understanding of the biological action of drugs and other biomolecules at the whole-body, tissue, cellular and sub-cellular levels, and their uses as medicines for the treatment of disease. It provides an ideal grounding for a career in the pharmaceutical industry or other areas of biomedical research, academia, the Scientific Civil Service and healthcare provision.
Opportunities exist for you to enhance your practical and related transferable skills within our research laboratories. Teaching is informed by high-quality research in relevant cognate areas, within the department.
In addition, new students will benefit from our use of the APOLLO Patient Care Simulator platform, as an exciting novel teaching tool.
Pharmacology and Physiology with Foundation
The foundation year is designed to give you the opportunity to explore new ideas, opening up new perspectives on the key debates within your chosen field. Core modules accelerate your academic and professional development and you will also take modules from areas closely related to your chosen field, giving you the chance to develop a cross-disciplinary perspective on your course.
Photography
The Photography BA and Fashion Photography BA begin with a shared first year, before branching into specialised pathways. These pathways, along with a variety of optional modules, provide you with the opportunity to customise your degree and expertise according to your interests and career objectives.
You can also choose to study an Elective, a selection of modules from across the whole University curriculum, which will allow you to enrich your academic journey.
You may choose to take an optional year-long paid internship or placement between years 2 and 3 or study abroad with one of our overseas exchange partners.
Photography with Foundation
The Photography BA and Fashion Photography BA begin with a shared first year, before branching into specialised pathways. These pathways, along with a variety of optional modules, provide you with the opportunity to customise your degree and expertise according to your interests and career objectives.
You can also choose to study an Elective, a selection of modules from across the whole University curriculum, which will allow you to enrich your academic journey.
You may choose to take an optional year-long paid internship or placement between years 2 and 3 or study abroad with one of our overseas exchange partners.
Policing
Our core modules address the key skills and knowledge which all police officers need to understand and succeed in the modern world. Other optional modules allow you to construct a specialist ‘stream’ of personal interest to you; focusing on diversity and inclusion or countering terrorism, as an example.
The programme is designed to give you the opportunity to take four core law optional modules that keep the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) route open to you for entry into the legal profession.
Politics and International Relations
Teaching and learning methods include small group work, problem-based tutorials, review sessions, workshops, symposia, debates, Q&A sessions, document analysis sessions, and structured role-plays. A wide range of assessments includes essays, exams, policy reports, project work, individual and group presentations, blogs, posters, and debates.
The teaching is offered within the School of Social Sciences, which brings together Criminology, Politics and International Relations, Psychology and Sociology. What binds us together is our shared commitment to making education a transformative experience for our students, to conducting research that makes a difference to the social world, and to enhancing the diversity of ideas and identities within and beyond the University.
Politics and International Relations with Foundation
Teaching and learning methods include small group work, problem-based tutorials, review sessions, workshops, symposia, debates, Q&A sessions, document analysis sessions, and structured role-plays. A wide range of assessments includes essays, exams, policy reports, project work, individual and group presentations, blogs, posters, and debates.
The teaching is offered within the School of Social Sciences, which brings together Criminology, Politics and International Relations, Psychology and Sociology. What binds us together is our shared commitment to making education a transformative experience for our students, to conducting research that makes a difference to the social world, and to enhancing the diversity of ideas and identities within and beyond the University.
Politics
Teaching and learning methods include lectures, small group work, review sessions, workshops, symposia, debates, Q&A sessions, document analysis sessions, and structured role-plays.
A wide range of assessments includes essays, exams, policy reports, project work, simulations, individual and group presentations, blogs, posters, and debates.
The teaching is offered within the School of Social Sciences, which brings together Criminology, Politics and International Relations, Psychology and Sociology. What binds us together is our shared commitment to making education a transformative experience for our students, to conducting research that makes a difference to the social world, and to enhancing the diversity of ideas and identities within and beyond the University.
Students on this course have the opportunity to spend one optional year abroad or one optional year gaining professional experience.
Politics with Foundation
Teaching and learning methods include lectures, small group work, review sessions, workshops, symposia, debates, Q&A sessions, document analysis sessions, and structured role-plays.
A wide range of assessments includes essays, exams, policy reports, project work, simulations, individual and group presentations, blogs, posters, and debates.
The teaching is offered within the School of Social Sciences, which brings together Criminology, Politics and International Relations, Psychology and Sociology. What binds us together is our shared commitment to making education a transformative experience for our students, to conducting research that makes a difference to the social world, and to enhancing the diversity of ideas and identities within and beyond the University.
Students on this course have the opportunity to spend one optional year abroad or one optional year gaining professional experience.
Psychology and Counselling
Learning takes place through a combination of face-to-face teaching and independent study, including lectures, seminars and project work. Your experience will be further enriched by opportunities for research participation, counselling skills practice and work-based learning.
You’ll focus on active and often collaborative project work, which includes carrying out research practicals, allowing you to engage first hand with research practice and the knowledge base of our discipline. It also includes other kinds of enquiry-based learning, in which you learn through tackling realistic problems similar to those faced by practising counselling psychologists.
Psychology and Counselling with Foundation
Learning takes place through a combination of face-to-face teaching and independent study, including lectures, seminars and project work. Your experience will be further enriched by opportunities for research participation, counselling skills practice and work-based learning.
You’ll focus on active and often collaborative project work, which includes carrying out research practicals, allowing you to engage first hand with research practice and the knowledge base of our discipline. It also includes other kinds of enquiry-based learning, in which you learn through tackling realistic problems similar to those faced by practising counselling psychologists.
Psychology and Criminology
Learning includes lectures, seminars, independent study, and off-campus activities that make use of Westminster's central London location.
Assessment methods may include essays, debates, policy analyses, individual and group presentations, exams, statistical analyses, and your dissertation.
Psychology
Teaching methods include lectures, seminars, practical classes and laboratory work, supported by online material and periods of independent study.
Assessment methods may include exams, in-class tests, essays, oral and poster presentations, debates, case studies, and laboratory, practical and technical reports.
Psychology with Foundation
Teaching methods include lectures, seminars, practical classes and laboratory work, supported by online material and periods of independent study.
Assessment methods may include exams, in-class tests, essays, oral and poster presentations, debates, case studies, and laboratory, practical and technical reports.
Public Health
The course responds to the rapidly changing government priorities, economics, global disease challenges and healthcare settings to meet the demand for multi-skilled, social media and digitally skilled, confident, globally aware public health professionals. Our teaching and learning strategy is designed to produce graduates who are critical and creative thinkers, literate and effective communicators, entrepreneurial, global in outlook and engaged with communities and socially, ethically and environmentally aware; in addition, public health graduates will demonstrate competency in empowering and developing communities. The teaching and learning methods of the course are directly related to the aims and learning outcomes identified above.
The course is designed to lead students through key theoretical concepts, broad understanding, and basic skills across all course subjects, to focused knowledge, synoptic understanding, and expert skills.
Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management
This course provides you with knowledge and understanding of the context, core concepts and theories relevant to quantity surveyors and commercial management in the design, creation and maintenance of a sustainably built environment to meet the needs of clients both nationally and internationally. Ever mindful of your route to professional practice, we pay particular attention to developing the behaviour and attitudes required of modern construction professionals. Core modules cover subjects that cross the industry, such as health and safety, site practice, construction technology, design and form, materials and building science, structures and digital construction. Specific modules covering course and profession specific content are delivered as study progresses.
Please note: this course is also offered as part of a degree apprenticeship programme.
Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management with Foundation
This course provides you with knowledge and understanding of the context, core concepts and theories relevant to quantity surveyors and commercial management in the design, creation and maintenance of a sustainably built environment to meet the needs of clients both nationally and internationally. Ever mindful of your route to professional practice, we pay particular attention to developing the behaviour and attitudes required of modern construction professionals. Core modules cover subjects that cross the industry, such as health and safety, site practice, construction technology, design and form, materials and building science, structures and digital construction. Specific modules covering course and profession specific content are delivered as study progresses.
Please note: this course is also offered as part of a degree apprenticeship programme.
Real Estate
Accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), our degree covers all aspects of real estate, including buying and selling, valuing, developing, planning, managing and investing in various property markets – commercial, industrial and residential.
Our professionally oriented course has been designed with input from major employers, capitalising on our excellent industry contacts, which include Barrett Homes, Savills and British Land. With the headquarters of many major property firms close by, our central London location enables us to invite a wide range of professionals to give guest lectures and regularly contribute to the course. They provide work placements, content for coursework and help with assessment, providing a valuable practitioner perspective.
We arrange various site visits, so you can experience real-life estate strategies and see developments from construction through to completion. In the past, for example, students visited Lendlease’s nearby Elephant Park development, part of a £2.3 billion regeneration programme on 28 acres of land in the centre of Elephant and Castle. There are also optional international field trips, which have previously included visits to Brookfield Properties and Cushman and Wakefield in New York, as well as Savills in Malaysia and Hong Kong.
The course will allow you to complete the academic requirements of membership status of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. There are opportunities to enhance your CV by attending our Employer evenings.
Real Estate with Foundation
The Foundation year is designed to give you the opportunity to explore new ideas, opening up new perspectives on the key debates within your chosen field. Core modules accelerate your academic and professional development, bringing together like-minded students to think about the ‘big ideas’ within your discipline. You will also take modules from areas closely related to your chosen field, giving you the chance to develop a cross-disciplinary perspective on your course.
Sociology and Criminology
Teaching and learning methods include lectures, seminars, practical classes and workshops, online discussions, individual and group tutorials, and field trips.
We make use of a wide range of assessment methods to suit different learning styles, from essays and exams to portfolios, research reports, policy analyses, group presentations, and your final year dissertation.
Sociology
You can choose from a wide number of specialist option modules with a range of assessment formats to suit different learning styles, from essays and exams to portfolios, research reports, projects and reviews. Our supportive and dedicated teaching team will train you in critical analysis, thinking and debate, and enable you to develop strong presentational, interpersonal and communication skills.
Your first year provides an accessible introduction to contemporary sociological debates, and you'll receive specialist training in researching London as a global city, and in the key study skills you need to excel in the subject, along with optional modules in race and gender. In Years 2 and 3 you'll explore modern and contemporary social theory, youth culture, extend your research skills and, in your final year, work closely with a member of the Sociology team to conduct an independent project in an area of your own choosing.
You can select from a range of options, which include modules on education, families, gender and the body, the media, urban sociology, taste and consumption, social movements and race and representation.
Our Work Experience module in the second year gives you the opportunity to put into practice the personal and professional skills you will develop while studying.
Sociology with Foundation
You can choose from a wide number of specialist option modules with a range of assessment formats to suit different learning styles, from essays and exams to portfolios, research reports, projects and reviews. Our supportive and dedicated teaching team will train you in critical analysis, thinking and debate, and enable you to develop strong presentational, interpersonal and communication skills.
The first year of the BA provides an accessible introduction to contemporary sociological debates, and you'll receive specialist training in researching London as a global city, and in the key study skills you need to excel in the subject, along with optional modules in race and gender. In Years 2 and 3 you'll explore modern and contemporary social theory, youth culture, extend your research skills and, in your final year, work closely with a member of the Sociology team to conduct an independent project in an area of your own choosing.
You can select from a range of options, which includes modules on consumption and race, education, families, gender studies and the body, London's pleasures and perils, sexuality, food, politics and protest, and the media.
Our Work Experience module in the second year gives you the opportunity to put into practice the personal and professional skills you will develop while studying.
Software Engineering
Learning takes place through a combination of face-to-face teaching and independent study, including lectures, practical tutorials, laboratory sessions, personal development sessions, real-life project briefs and case studies.
Software Engineering with Foundation
Learning takes place through a combination of face-to-face teaching and independent study, including lectures, practical tutorials, laboratory sessions, personal development sessions, real-life project briefs and case studies.
Software Engineering with Electronics
In addition to the main specialism, you’ll study from a pool of optional modules, which will be in the broader subject area of computer science including server-side programming, android application development, machine learning, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), robotics and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) development.
Software Engineering with Electronics with Foundation
In addition to the main specialism, you’ll study from a pool of optional modules, which will be in the broader subject area of computer science including server-side programming, android application development, machine learning, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), robotics and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) development.
Spanish and English
Teaching methods include lectures, tutorials, practical sessions, seminars and workshops, as well as independent learning, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via online learning.
Assessment methods include essays, exams, individual and group presentations, projects, and critical analysis.
Spanish and International Business
Our course focuses on active learning, through lectures, seminars, workshops, task-based and blended learning, designed to engage your interest and promote your learning.
You'll study with the latest technology and learning spaces and you'll get extensive hands-on experience with industry partners to prepare you for the real world.
You'll be taught by inspiring and experienced lecturers who will help you develop a wide range of soft skills including communication, critical thinking, problem-solving and time-management in highly interactive and engaging classes.
Assessment methods include e-portfolios, real-world simulation tasks, essays, reports, individual and group presentations and case studies, as well as time-constrained in-class tests and exams.
Years 1 and 2 will provide you with the skills and knowledge to undertake an optional year-long placement in an overseas, Spanish-speaking destination, which could include studying at a recognised educational institution.
You can also choose to study an optional module from a range of topics across the University in each year.
Spanish and International Communication
Our course helps you to achieve a good or high level of linguistic proficiency in Spanish in reading, writing, listening and speaking. It also gives you insight into and practice in communicating internationally as well as mediating between English and Spanish speakers.
The curriculum integrates applied language skills and cultural studies, while ensuring a rigorous development of your foreign language competence in all areas. We teach in an integrated interdisciplinary way, exploring the connections between language and culture and the broader historical and cross-cultural contexts in which they are produced.
You'll improve your ability as an intercultural communicator by studying how our ideas are shaped and communicated in a global society, where our interactions are no longer confined by national, regional or cultural boundaries.
Spanish and International Communication with Foundation
The Foundation year is designed to give you the opportunity to explore new ideas, opening up new perspectives on the key debates within your chosen field. Core modules accelerate your academic and professional development and you will also take modules from areas closely related to your chosen field, giving you the chance to develop a cross-disciplinary perspective on your course.
Spanish and International Relations
Teaching methods include lectures, tutorials, practical sessions, seminars and workshops, but most of your learning is independent, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via online learning.
Assessment methods include essays, exams, individual and group presentation projects, and critical analysis.
Spanish and Linguistics
Our degree offers the exciting combination of the study of Spanish language and culture alongside the wider study of the forms, structures and varieties of language itself.
You'll develop a high level of competence in oral and written communication in Spanish, proficiency in language transfer skills, and a thorough knowledge of Spanish culture. On graduation, you'll be able to thrive linguistically in diverse cultural situations.
You'll study an integrated curriculum with a focus on applied language skills and cultural studies, supported by a rigorous development of your foreign languages skills in all areas. We teach in an integrated interdisciplinary way, exploring the connections between language and culture and the broader historical and cross-cultural contexts in which they are produced.
Sports Management
The course is designed to meet the needs of the sports industry and the aspirations of our students by providing an innovative, yet solid foundation in contemporary sports management and business. It combines theoretical knowledge with practical, applied learning in areas including the theory and practice of sports management; organising and managing events; media, marketing and sponsorship management; the economics and finance of sport; entrepreneurship; diversity and inclusivity; social innovation, sustainability and corporate social responsibility. You can tailor your course by choosing elective/optional modules in each year of the course, one in Year 1, two in Year 2 and two in Year 3.
Sustainable Business Management
Our Sustainable Business Management BA will equip you with real-world skills to drive sustainability in business.
You’ll learn through a diverse range of engaging activities, including live briefs, simulation games, teamwork, problem-based learning, workshops, debates, self-assessment quizzes, action learning sets and role-plays.
The course seamlessly integrates digital skills throughout your studies, adapting to the ever-evolving software landscape. In your first year, you’ll be introduced to tools for business analytics, moving on to developing your digital media skills in year two, as well as covering digital tools for research in your final year.
Television Production
Our course is taught through a mix of lectures, group tutorials and workshops, supporting the development of both practical and critical academic skills.
Tourism Management
This course is designed with a strong vocational focus, seamlessly blending theory with practical, real-world experience. Our curriculum is deeply rooted in industry practices and is delivered through a dynamic mix of lectures, seminars, workshops, tutorials, and immersive field trips.
We prioritise experiential and work-based learning to keep your education active and engaging. You’ll gain insights from industry experts through guest lectures, seminars, and workshops, while also benefiting from valuable work experience opportunities. Collaboration with industry partners means you’ll get to work on live client briefs, simulating real work environments and boosting your employability.
Urban Planning and Design
During the course, you’ll discuss and critique theory and practice. Case studies and projects reflecting real-world situations will be used to develop your strategic thinking, problem-solving and design skills in a range of international contexts. Our teaching aims to support you with the development of your project work, including the opportunity to undertake an international field trip.
This course is accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) as a spatial degree and is an initial step towards qualifying as a Chartered Town Planner.
You’ll be taught in small studio groups by current practitioners and academics who reflect London’s dynamic architecture and planning scene. You’ll experience studio visits to sites, practices, community groups, and related events. There will also be opportunities to work with the profession through engagement with the RTPI and other professional bodies, as well as through mentoring and an optional year-long work placement.
Urban Planning and Design with Foundation
Our Foundation year in Architecture and Design offers an introduction to the creative professions that shape the design of interiors, buildings and urban spaces. Through design projects, you'll learn about the spatial, technical and cultural issues, and develop the grounding skills and creative practices necessary for further study. The first semester begins with an exploration of the design and inhabitation of urban space, followed by a materials and making project based in the Fabrication Laboratory, our outstanding Marylebone campus workshop facility. Running alongside these will be studio and field-based exercises to develop your drawing and creative skills. In the second semester, a project on the design of existing spaces will be followed by the development of a creative work driven by your own interests. Students from the Foundation will have the opportunity to exhibit in the School of Architecture and Cities summer exhibition. Your practical development will be accompanied by modules in both semesters on academic skills in writing and critical thinking.
Advanced Legal Research
The six core modules structure your learning around key dimensions of life as an advanced legal researcher, helping you to develop an understanding of cutting-edge legal perspectives and build key legal research skills. The range of option modules provides the opportunity to develop specialist doctrinal or theoretical knowledge in a particular area of interest, rounding out your development as an advanced legal researcher.
AI, Data and Communication
ou will study four core modules including a dissertation which will involve conducting a major piece of independent research. You will also study three optional modules, choosing from a broad range. You will learn through a rich mix of teaching styles including tutorials, seminars, case studies, group projects and independent research.
Air Transport Planning and Management
Modules on both the one-year full-time course and the two-year part-time course are taught in blocks of five days at a time. Students take six taught modules in total (over one year on the full-time course, or two to three years on the block release part-time course) and complete a research dissertation. Email contact and tutorial support is provided between the module blocks along with guest lectures and workshop sessions for full-time students. International students who require a student visa will need to apply for the one-year full-time course.
Applied Artificial Intelligence
You’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of AI, covering core concepts such as search strategies and reasoning. Thereafter, you’ll progress to advanced topics like machine learning and deep learning, which power cutting-edge technologies, including Large Language Models (LLMs).
The course is ideal for IT and computing graduates who wish to expand their knowledge and skills in Artificial Intelligence. It also applies to professionals seeking to upskill in the latest industry developments or transition into a new field.
Hands-on learning is central to this course, ensuring you gain practical experience with industry-standard software and tools. You'll develop expertise in programming languages such as Python, essential AI libraries and development environments.
Through optional modules, you'll specialise in areas such as Applied Computer Vision or Big Data and Cloud Computing, enhancing your career prospects in diverse AI-driven industries.
The MSc Applied AI Project module allows you to apply what you have learnt to a real-world problem, conduct independent research and develop an AI solution under the guidance of experienced staff. This project will solidify your understanding of AI and enhance your research and problem-solving abilities.
Teaching methods include lectures, tutorials, seminars, and practical sessions. You will also learn through extensive coursework, class presentations, group research work, and industry-standard software.
Applied Biotechnology
Our Applied Biotechnology MSc includes a wide range of modern molecular biology techniques and explores how biotechnology can be used by today's society. It is an established course in biotechnology which has been extensively updated. You'll complement your theoretical studies with hands-on experience of fully controlled fermenters that are up to pilot-plant scale, and are linked to modern monitoring and control systems.
You'll study a range of subjects in considerable depth, including bioactive compounds, industrial bioprocesses, microbial physiology and fermentation technology, microbial production of novel metabolites, monitoring and control of fermentation, topics in biotechnology, and types of bioreactors.
Architecture & Sustainable Heritage
Students will join from different disciplinary backgrounds and the course offers a level of freedom to undertake an individually tailored path, through optional modules.
Students may select three optional modules, in line with their interests or experience. However, all modules are suitable for all students regardless of their experience and background.
Art and Emerging Technologies
This course is part of a suite of MA art courses which include the Expanded Photography MA and the Global Contemporary Art MA. You’ll tailor your learning through a set of shared optional modules that address contemporary challenges, advanced digital approaches, and specialised professional contexts. You’ll also undertake the year-long Professional Practice module, which aims to support your progression beyond graduation, and the Masters Project module with students from the other MA art courses, thus benefiting from collaborative opportunities and cross-disciplinary learning.
Core modules investigate the mediation, augmentation, and transformation of our environments through emerging technologies. You will consider ecologies of consumption, the environment, contexts, technologies, and sustainability, and the role of the artist as innovator, provocateur, and agent.
Art and Visual Culture
The Art and Visual Culture MA is delivered in both full-time and part-time modes, with both September and January start dates. This means that when you start your course you'll be joining a lively community of students, some, like yourself, embarking on the MA and some continuing their studies with us.
The course is modular, with each single module valued at 20 credits, and the dissertation at 60 credits. For the MA, you'll be required to accumulate the total of 180 credits over the course of your degree. Normally, full-time students take one core module and two options per semester and work on the dissertation in the summer. Part-time students would typically take one core module and one option module per semester in the first year and complete further two option modules and the dissertation in their second year of their MA.
Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health
You’ll learn in an integrative way drawing on experiential, interdisciplinary and community learning alongside collaborative co-creation of solutions to evaluate innovative real-world policies and implement health and wellbeing practices.
Teaching methods include lectures, seminars, workshops, simulations, scientific problem-based learning, and self-directed learning.
Audio Production
This innovative course develops your creative abilities in audio across music production, sound design, radio, TV, film and multimedia, all supported by a robust understanding of the technologies involved. You will be able to explore and expand as a creative artist while achieving control and experience of a professional audio environment.
Big Data Technologies
The course addresses technologies, advanced theories and techniques, along with their application, implementation and integration with legacy systems. You will analyse new demands and the application of technologies in the management of data and information resources, and examine big data technologies shaping the way data is now stored and utilised including the use of cloud stored massive datasets, distributed systems of an enterprise and how data utilisation can change and improve business processes.
Teaching approaches include lectures, tutorials, seminars and practical/hands on sessions. You’ll also learn through extensive course work, class presentations, group work, and the use of a range of industry-standard software such as R, Python, MySQL, Oracle and noSQL databases. Modules are assessed through coursework that is practical in nature and which may involve group/individual investigations, presentations, a technical solution, a piece of software or a research review.
Biomedicla Science
The Biomedical Science MSc lets you tailor your course to your interests and experience with a wide range of optional modules in addition to our core delivery. You can mix modules in microbiology, molecular biology, haematology, clinical chemistry, or blend basic science with studies in science communication or commercialization. This flexibility allows you to deepen your understanding of human diseases, their investigation, and therapy, while also enhancing your skills in designing and executing project work.
Business and Organisational Psychology
Our problem-based approach to teaching means you’ll be equipped with the thinking and analytical skills necessary to take a confident and proactive approach to your career in business and organisational psychology.
Teaching methods will include work-based activities, live briefs from industry partners and intensive workshops.
You’ll also have the opportunity to gain valuable business awareness whilst combining practical work experience and theoretical study by taking part in an optional 6-12 week work internship.
Business of Film
The course is delivered through a combination of lectures, seminars, tutorials, industry guest speakers, practice-led case studies and placements. It emphasises group work, with students participating in small and large-scale projects, while gaining an understanding of the fundamentals of the film business.
Additionally, students will be able to participate in employment and group-based simulations and industry events designed to emphasise professional development. To complement these methods, in-class exercises have been developed to encourage students to work together to assess how different approaches can inform and improve outcomes.
Communication
You will study three core modules including a dissertation which will involve conducting a major piece of independent research. You will also study four optional modules, choosing from a broad range. You will learn through a rich mix of teaching styles including tutorials, seminars, case studies, group projects and independent research.
Construction Project Management
This course aims to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the techniques associated with the management of project resources, the control of project finances, the management of risk and the management of people. It provides a challenging, stimulating and professionally relevant course of study that is directly related to the management of construction projects within this rapidly changing industry.
You’ll study project management in depth, focusing on the management techniques and systems required to successful manage all aspects of construction projects, as well as the people involved in delivering them. You'll study six core modules (including the double Project Management module) and choose one optional module.
Developing your skillset, you’ll become adept at critical analysis, evaluation, decision-making and problem-solving, enhancing your leadership, communications and time-management abilities at the same time. Topics covered include the principles of client requirements, critical success factors, sustainability, evaluation of project options, structured methodologies, and the concept of whole-life costing.
Corporate Finance Law
You'll focus on learning how the financial markets work, from the primary markets involving the issuance of equity, debt and derivatives, to the secondary markets involving trading and investments, as well as very large financial transactions in the international capital markets. Importantly, you'll also learn how to take account of legal and regulatory risks that financiers and bankers face, and structure financial instruments to suit commercial priorities and social welfare policies.
This course is structured to give you a comprehensive understanding of the practical processes and innovative products of the international corporate finance market, including equity and debt capital, derivatives, structured finance, risk management and investment portfolio products. It's also designed to help you develop the soft skills you'll need in this area of practice, including negotiations and network building, with meetings with senior lawyers and directors of major companies
Creative Practice
The course welcomes creatives from diverse disciplines, including architecture, fashion, music, fine art, moving image, photography, ceramics, and digital media. The course cultivates a vibrant research culture through seminars, workshops, site visits, and interactions with visiting practitioners and external organisations. You'll gain the practical tools and critical knowledge to complete a major creative research project while developing transferable skills in problem-solving and technical expertise. You’ll also benefit from the creative expertise at the world leading Centre for Research in Education, Art and Media (CREAM).
Based at Westminster School of Arts on our Harrow Campus, you'll have access to state-of-the-art workshops in film, photography, music, print, fashion, and 3D. The In Situ core module extends your learning to Marylebone Campus, home to the School of Architecture, where you’ll explore how place and space shape creative research through cross-disciplinary collaboration.
Throughout the course, you’ll engage with contemporary debates and critical insights across the Schools of Arts, Architecture, and Visual Culture, joining an interdisciplinary community of Master’s students, enriching your practice through collaboration. You’ll choose an option module aligned with your research focus, with module choices curated from offerings across Arts, Media and Communication, Architecture and Visual Culture.
Creative Writing: Writing the City
Taught by professional writers and researchers, our course offers plenty of opportunities to network with other writers, agents, TV producers and performance poets. As part of the MA, you'll be part of the team managing the Wells Street Journal, our student-led in-house magazine. You'll be based in the University's headquarters building at 309 Regent Street, which means you'll be writing about the city in the heart of London, with ready access to the capital's excellent academic, social and cultural opportunities, including the vibrant West End theatre scene.
You can begin in January or in September. To receive your Master's award, you'll need to complete taught modules for a total of 120 credits, covered by three 40-credit core modules, and the 60-credit Writing Project (giving a total of 180 credits).
The workshop-based structure of the course will allow you to learn through interactive practice. Classes are weekly and normally last two or three hours. Teaching will also include visits to selected London institutions to support certain aspects of writing, and you'll be encouraged to use various archives, theatres and galleries. Assessment methods include coursework portfolios, reflective logs, essays, and workshop leadership, as well as the 10-12,000-word writing project. There are no formal exams.
Culture and Critical Studies
The Cultural and Critical Studies MA is delivered in both full-time and part-time modes, with both September and January start dates. This means that when you start your course you will be joining a lively community of new and continuing students.
The course is modular, with each single module valued at 20 credits, and the dissertation at 60 credits. For the MA, you'll be required to accumulate the total of 180 credits over the course of your degree. Normally, full-time students take one core module and two options per semester and work on the dissertation in the summer. Part-time students would typically take one core module and one option module per semester in the first year and complete further two option modules and the dissertation in their second year of their MA.
The course consists of two core taught modules, Problems and Perspectives in Cultural Studies and Capitalism and Culture, which establish a theoretical framework for the close analysis of central debates around the production of culture. A core dissertation of 12,000 words, which can be written on an appropriate topic of your choice, will also be completed at the end of your studies.
Data and Marketing Analytics
This course focuses on practical application in an industry context, incorporating digital media and technology.
You’ll be taught through a mixture of lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials to facilitate effective learning. To enhance flexibility and accessibility, digital media and technology are integrated into the learning process, allowing you to have the opportunity to embrace both synchronous and asynchronous learning.
Assessments are designed to simulate real-world scenarios, fostering an inclusive and dynamic environment that will prepare you for the challenges of industry.
Digital Maketing Management
This course aims to prepare you to specialise in planning and applying digital marketing strategies and solutions, combining user-centred, creative, media and marketing communications with strategic marketing, analysis and management. A digital bootcamp kickstarts the course in induction week, helping you get to know your fellow students and understand the role digital plays in contemporary marketing. The course also has its own media channels for which you will create content both individually and collaboratively (social media adverts, landing pages on websites, apps, blogs and user experience designs) to reach and engage audiences as part of your learning and assessment.
We first introduce aspects of consumer psychology in the context of greater consumer choice, the changing face of technology, and globalisation. We go on to focus on the digital behaviour of consumers and how organisations use digital in disruptive innovation to anticipate and meet their needs.
You put into practice techniques and theories in relation to new approaches for acquisition, conversion, user experience, campaign planning, multi-channel marketing and measurement. You will build and test prototype websites to understand how to measure performance, and what tactics drive traffic and engagement.
The final project plays to your strengths, experiences and interests: a dissertation or consultancy report for a business identified by us or you, here in the UK or abroad. Creative or analytical, you could create a video or digital campaign, for example, or study a website to understand different user groups or country-specific content.
Digital Media: Storytelling and Production
You’ll develop core skills in multimedia storytelling, including short-form video, podcasting, immersive media, and promotional content production. From video documentaries to social media campaigns, you’ll have the freedom to explore a variety of media platforms and narrative styles.
Diplomacy and Global Politics
The programme is taught by academics and practitioners, who are experts in the field, with significant expertise and reputation for exploring and interrogating issues related to diplomacy, global politics and power. Our core modules give a strong foundation in diplomacy, global politics and negotiation in theory and practice on which to build, and the wide range of electives give you a chance to further study areas of specific interest. You'll also gain knowledge and develop your skills of negotiation, policy analysis, advocacy through interactive exercises such as workshops, moot courts, in-person seminars and more. Bringing theory to life, you'll have the chance to learn from diplomats, policy-makers, NGO officials and other industry leaders.
Economic Policy and Analysis
As well as enhancing your ability to apply relevant economic principles in support of policy and strategy development, the course aims to develop your ability to communicate complex issues to wide audiences, your awareness of significant sources of economic and financial data, the problems faced when carrying out policy evaluation and your capability for self-awareness and group working.
You will take the following set of modules in slightly different orders, depending on whether you start in September or January.
Microeconomics and Macroeconomics modules will build a strong foundation of knowledge of the fundamental concepts and ideas in economics. We’ll look at how a working economist develops policy advice in relation to production and supply decisions. Drawing on real-life economic scenarios from a variety of sector contexts, we’ll also examine sources of market failure, the economic choices available and competition policy in different countries.
In quantitative modules (Data Analysis and Applied Economics), you’ll learn fundamental statistical and econometric techniques and will be introduced to the software used to analyse quantitative data, including Excel, EViews and Stata.
You will also study a selection of policy-relevant economics fields: Development Economics and Policy, International Trade Policy and Sustainable Energy Policy.
In Research Methods, you will learn how to set up your dissertation research, leading to the writing of your research proposal.
Your studies culminate with the final dissertation (Economic Evaluation Project), an intensive piece of research of between 8,000 and 10,000 words, where you will provide a study of real-life economic policy. As a guide, previous students have considered topics as diverse as the effectiveness of government subsidies on productivity in UK SMEs and an assessment of the impact of the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement on the economy of the Philippines.
English Language and Literature
The English Language and Literature MA explores the interconnections between language and literature. Our course will provide you with a thorough understanding of the linguistic features of English from a wide range of perspectives (theoretical and applied, synchronic and diachronic), as well as leading you to explore a wide array of texts in connection with the social, historical and political circumstances from which they emerge. It will also equip you with the intellectual perspectives and scholarly skills to conduct independent research.
Teaching is mainly delivered through weekly two- or three-hour sessions for each module, which include tutorials, seminars, practical sessions and workshops. There's also independent self-directed study, and you'll be prepared for the dissertation via structured sessions in research methodology. Assessment methods include submitted coursework such as essays, reviews and exercises – there are no formal exams.
English Literature: Modern and Contemporary Fictions
The course consists of three core modules, which together will help you to develop advanced skills of argument, synthesis, research and presentation. Themes and Problems in Modern and Contemporary Literature introduces you to current major themes in contemporary literature, in particular, the ways in which contemporary texts engage with and mediate ongoing crises and conflicts post-2001. Writing the Self explores issues such as life-writing, autofiction, embodiment, biography, memory, otherness, and the non-human.
The Dissertation, which can be written on an appropriate topic of your choice, is also a core module. The option modules provide an opportunity for you to deepen and extend your knowledge of a range of periods, issues and forms across the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
Entertainment Law
Our Entertainment Law LLM combines academic analysis and commercial practice elements of entertainment law in an international perspective. The diverse nature of entertainment law will enable you to follow a number of relevant specialisms, all of which are underpinned by issues of contract and intellectual property.
The course is for you if you're a graduate from a law background, or if you're from a non-law background but have significant relevant experience. There have been many successful international graduates on the course from all over the world. Studying this course will give you the opportunity to explore new ideas, thoughts and academic experiences within a supportive environment.
The course aims to develop your understanding of how key fields within the entertainment industries operate, to assess the impact of the law upon them, and give you the practical skills necessary to succeed in a career in entertainment and media law.
Entrepreneurship. Innovation and Enterprise Development
The course is designed to test and challenge you from the outset, giving you a broad understanding of entrepreneurship and innovation theory and business management, while developing your capacity and capability to put these into practice. We’ll deliberately keep you out of your comfort zone – which is the only way you’ll succeed as an entrepreneur! In addition to critical business skills, we’ll help you develop analytical, creative thinking, communication and networking skills. Since none of our modules require previous knowledge, this course is accessible to anyone with a desire to enhance their enterprise awareness and entrepreneurial capabilities. All modules studied are core.
Architecture
Architecture is normally studied with a view to becoming a professional architect, but as it embraces the fields of art, history and science, it also opens doors to a range of postgraduate study options and other forms of career development.
At the heart of our course is a rich choice of design studios, in which students are taught in small groups by current practitioners, reflecting London’s dynamic architecture scene. There are also lecture courses in environmental and technical studies, history and theory of architecture, as well as numerous opportunities to engage with the architecture profession through construction site visits, mentoring and a work placement.
Field trips are offered in the second year and there are opportunities to study abroad, with the most recent destinations including Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and China.
Cyber Security and Forensics
You'll learn through a mixture of lectures, practical tutorials, laboratory sessions and independent study.
In Year 1 you’ll be introduced to the fundamentals of computer systems and cyber security.
In Years 2 and 3 you’ll apply your knowledge to practical assignments and learn critical project management and professional skills.
This degree includes an optional year abroad or placement.
Data Science and Analytics
Studying our course, you'll develop knowledge of the fundamental principles and technologies that underpin the disciplines of maths, statistics and computing with an emphasis on the skills and theories required in data science and analytics. You'll learn how to apply cutting-edge maths, statistics and computer science techniques and tools to collect, store, prepare, analyse and visualise data, while analysing and understanding organisations’ operations, environment and related issues.
Our course offers a short-term work-based learning experience that will give you the opportunity to work on a real-life problem, which is normally set by an external organisation as a small-scale project. This experience will allow you to put theory into practice by applying your knowledge and skills gained from various modules to address a real-life situation, usually within the context of a business-related problem.
English Language and Linguistics
You'll mostly be taught through seminars of 15-25 students with some larger lectures, but you'll also benefit from weekly small-group tutorials of 5-7 students. The tutorials are designed to support your individual learning needs in the first two years of the course, enhancing your study and employability skills within a supportive framework.
Much of your learning is independent and conducted (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via our online learning system, Blackboard. The tutorials provide essential support for this kind of university-level study.
Assessment methods range from small analytic exercises of language data, small research projects, and presentations, through to the preparation and writing of a Dissertation in the final year. Essays and analytic written reports also feature as part of the assessed coursework.
You can study option modules each year from a range of modules in the school and across the University, including Polylang - our language programme - which allows you to study another language. In Year 3 you complete a dissertation in a topic chosen by you, with one-to-one support from your supervisor.
Architecture
The Architecture MA offers a unique opportunity for graduates interested in the intersection of architectural design, theory and research, encouraging students to develop their own positions and identities as creative practitioners and thinkers. A range of thematic and contextual concerns are offered and explored through the course using unconventional and imaginative methods of design, research and representation. These include cultural identity, architecture and society, political architecture, contested landscapes and digital design. These diverse fields of inquiry and their impact on our cities are underpinned by integrating ‘other’ voices such as post-colonialism, critical theory, feminist theory and race studies. The course promotes methodological and representational innovation, with participants using techniques such as social mapping, interactive installations, film and conceptual modelling to stimulate projects towards high-levels of spatial, material and formal resolution.
A distinct and unique feature of the Architecture MA is its use of specialist pathways, namely Cultural Identity and Globalisation, Digital Media, and History and Theory. Students can elect to choose one of these routes through the programme, all of which incorporate option modules – graduating with the related named specialisation award, or else select their own combination of modules in order to graduate with the title Architecture MA. No matter how participants navigate their way through the course, it will inevitably be a dynamic journey of self-reflection and positioning to affirm interests and future practice concerns.
The course is delivered within a generous studio culture characterised by inclusion, creative experimentation and intellectual rigour. Participants work individually and in groups, and are directed by experienced and committed tutors who are experts in their respective fields. The course is further supported and enriched by a network of renowned visiting speakers and critics from practice and academia, as well as high-quality studio spaces and state-of-the-art fabrication facilities.
Animation
You'll learn through high-level, tutor-guided studio practice, and by doing – we actively promote experimentation, reflection and the sharing of enthusiasms and influences.
The unique integrated theoretical elements of the course provide a critical framework within which you can examine animation and related time-based practices, and will significantly support and inform your own practice.
All modules are assessed through coursework, and we offer a range of methods including crits, submitted work, research plans and seminar presentations.
Animation with Foundation
You'll learn through high-level, tutor-guided studio practice, and by doing – we actively promote experimentation, reflection and the sharing of enthusiasms and influences.
The unique integrated theoretical elements of the course provide a critical framework within which you can examine animation and related time-based practices, and will significantly support and inform your own practice.
All modules are assessed through coursework, and we offer a range of methods including crits, submitted work, research plans and seminar presentations.
Cyber Security and Forensics
This course focusses on two key aspects of Cyber Security: analysing and assessing risk to minimise them and Digital Forensics, which involves investigating and extracting digital information from various devices for legal evidential purposes. You’ll gain insights into security threats facing computer systems, the nature of stored information on digital devices, and the extraction processes.
All students will take the core modules which are designed to give a comprehensive introduction to this specialist field of Cyber Security and Forensics. The course structure allows you to choose optional modules from either the Cyber Security or Digital Forensics themes, providing a comprehensive and flexible learning experience. In addition, you’ll undertake and complete a Cyber Security and Forensics Major Project Module.
The course offers access to state-of-the-art resources, including the licensed FTK Forensics Toolkit and other Open-Source Tools.
Data Science and Analytics
Embedded into the course are two key themes. The first will help you to develop your skills in the use and application of various technologies, architectures, techniques, tools, and methods for data science. These include data warehousing and mining, distributed data management, and the technologies, architectures, and appropriate AI and ML techniques. The second theme will enhance your knowledge of algorithms and the quantitative techniques including AI, ML, and Operational Research (OR) suitable for analysing and mining data and developing decision models in a broad range of application areas. The project consolidates the taught subjects covered, while giving you the opportunity to pursue in-depth study in your chosen area.
Teaching approaches include lectures, tutorials, seminars, and practical sessions. You will also learn through extensive coursework, class presentations, group research work, and the use of a range of industry-standard software such as R, Python, Simul8, Palisade Decision Tools, Tableau, and Oracle.
Modules are typically assessed through practical coursework, which may also include an in-class test.
English Language and Linguistics
The English Language and Linguistics MA explores the linguistic features of English from theoretical, applied, synchronic and diachronic perspectives. Our course will enable you to understand and evaluate critically a wide spectrum of ideas in the study of the English language, particularly in connection with linguistic variation in terms of space, time, communicative context and linguistic contact. It will also equip you with the intellectual perspectives and scholarly skills to conduct independent research.
Teaching is mainly delivered through weekly two- or three-hour sessions for each module, which include tutorials, seminars, practical sessions and workshops. There's also independent self-directed study, and you'll be prepared for the dissertation via structured sessions in research methodology. Assessment methods include submitted coursework such as essays, reviews and exercises – there are no formal exams.
Environmental Sustainability and Data Science
This course adopts a comprehensive learning strategy that emphasises independent research, study and active engagement with key stakeholders. Our approach combines a range of diverse teaching methods including practical workshops, fieldwork and laboratory sessions, lectures and tutorials, group work and presentations and poster sessions.
Event Design and Management
This course is specifically designed for people who want to enter or make further progress in management-level careers in the fast-expanding field of event management. London is an ideal place in which to study events, with many venues on the doorstep. As a regular host of world-class sports and culture events such as Wimbledon, the London Marathon, Notting Hill Carnival and the London Fashion Week, as well as one-off mega events such as the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympics games and the 2015 Rugby World Cup, London is widely recognised as a world events capital. With several hundred venues and an abundance of international business and leisure events, London is a world leader in this dynamic industry.
This course explores the strategic development, design and logistical organisation of many different types of event. You'll also learn how events and conferences contribute to enriching the lives of communities and improve communications in business, politics and professional life. The dissertation will give you further opportunity to research a conference or events topic in depth. The course is taught by experienced academics and industry practitioners, providing valuable insight into this exciting industry sector.
Expanded Photography
This course is part of a suite of MA art courses which include the Art and Emerging Technologies MA and the Global Contemporary Art MA. You’ll tailor your learning through a set of shared optional modules that address contemporary challenges, advanced digital approaches, and specialised professional contexts. You’ll also undertake the Professional Practice module and the Master's Project alongside students from the other MA art courses, thus benefiting from collaborative opportunities and cross-disciplinary learning.
Option modules are delivered by other colleagues from CREAM (Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media).
Fashion Accessories Design
This course is part of a suite of MA Fashion courses which include Fashion Business Management MA, Fashion Sustainability MA, Fashion Manufacturing MA, and Menswear MA (with Professional Experience MFA). You’ll shape your learning through a set of shared optional modules that address contemporary challenges, advanced digital approaches, and specialised professional contexts while facilitating collaborative and cross-disciplinary learning opportunities.
Fashion Business Management
The Fashion Business Management MA is part of the University of Westminster's broad postgraduate portfolio in fashion. Our diverse programme allows students to shape their learning through interdisciplinary core and optional modules shared across the five postgraduate fashion courses. These courses address contemporary challenges, advanced digital approaches, specialised professional contexts and facilitates collaborative and cross-disciplinary learning opportunities.
Fashion Manufacturing
This course is part of a suite of MA Fashion courses which include Fashion Business Management MA, Fashion Sustainability MA, Fashion Accessories Design MA, and Menswear MA (with Professional Experience MFA). You’ll shape your learning through a set of shared optional modules that address contemporary challenges, advanced digital approaches, and specialised professional contexts while facilitating collaborative and cross-disciplinary learning opportunities.
Fashion Sustainability
This course is part of a suite of MA Fashion courses which include Fashion Business Management MA, Fashion Accessories Design MA, Fashion Manufacturing MA, and Menswear MA (with Professional Experience MFA). You’ll shape your learning through a set of shared optional modules that address contemporary challenges, advanced digital approaches, and specialised professional contexts while facilitating collaborative and cross-disciplinary learning opportunities.
Film, Television and Moving Image
The course is taught in two modes: full-time and part-time. Full-time students take 180 credits in one year. Part-time students take 80 credits in their first year and 100 credits in their second year.
The course is made of core and optional modules. There are three 20-credit core modules and a 60-credit core Major Project module. We also offer five 20-credit optional modules, from which you select three.
On the core modules, all students produce a short film in response to a live industry brief, create a video essay, write critical reflections and deliver presentations.
Through your option module and assignment choices, you can build a specialist portfolio of creative work. If specialising in screenwriting, this would include a synopsis, a treatment, a proposal for a TV series, and several screenplays. If specialising in production, your portfolio would include a video essay, a film responding to a live industry brief, a journalistic documentary, a creative nonfiction film, an essay film and a series of interactive or immersive narrative pieces. If specialising in programming, curation and exhibition, you would produce several film programming proposals for a festival, online or other exhibition site and mount your own moving image exhibition as part of a group show.
With guidance from experienced technicians, you will have access to equipment and facilities required for your creative work.
Finance and Accounting
This course provides a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of key areas of accounting and finance, together with a broad commercial understanding of decision making within a cost context. Content is benchmarked against the professional body curriculums and regularly updated.
Current study themes include financial and management accounting, taxation, and financial management. Through optional modules, you can choose to specialise either in accounting or finance, or choose an equally balanced programme across the two areas. You may also choose any Level 7 electives that may be of interest to you.
Finance (International Finance)
The innovative structure of our MSc Finance degree, with its shared first semester curriculum of core financial knowledge, is intended to provide you with a deep and systematic understanding of general financial markets.
You’ll be introduced to the latest financial theories, learn how to analyse financial matters, and consider the current challenges and issues facing financial institutions, markets and multinational corporations, such as the changing ethical and corporate responsibility issues or need for continuous improvement in a digital age, where omni-channel service and operational strategies are now essential.
Depending on your area of interest, you will then choose whether to pursue a Banking or International Finance pathway specialisation.
The program is designed to build a strong foundation of knowledge of financial modelling, decision-making and risk management in contemporary business enterprises. You will start by taking part in an orientation programme with sessions including introductions to Bloomberg and Excel for Finance, postgraduate research skills, current issues in finance, financial markets, a revision of statistics and probability.
Essential finance topics covered include: capital structure; investment appraisal methods; dividend policy; modern portfolio theory; valuation of financial securities; foreign exchange, interest rate and credit risk; and the existing regulatory framework.
You will learn to use mathematical and statistical analytical methods, such as matrix algebra, differential calculus, probability theory, descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, regression analysis, forecasting and modelling volatility.
The International Finance pathway will deepen your understanding of the challenges associated with global business finance strategies, international transactions, available financing options, the management and hedging of key risks, and how to efficiently manage assets and liabilities of multinationals.
With the launch of the inaugural Finance and Accounting Annual Research Symposium in June 2020, we are committed to sharing new insights. Three members of the course team are currently conducting research into cryptocurrencies and machine learning, as part of a project funded by the Quintin Hogg Trust.
Your studies culminate with the final Project, an intensive piece of research and 8,000 to 10,000-word dissertation. As a guide, previous students have considered topics as diverse as the effect of issuing green securities on a firm’s financial performance, the impact of trade openness or the effect of mergers and acquisitions on economic growth, and the relationship between profitability and capital structure.
FinTech with Business Analytics
This innovative course has been designed for learners who wish to specialise in one of the most exciting areas of finance and gain a deeper understanding of finance applications that are transforming the financial services sector. It provides detailed coverage of global financial markets, institutions and their services and securities, alongside a thorough introduction to key aspects of FinTech.
Encompassing both quantitative and qualitative methods, you'll build your knowledge of business analytics, together with the basic programming (Python) and analytical techniques required for using computational methods in finance. You’ll learn how to use standard industry-based mathematical and statistical packages (eg SPSS) and select from the range of analytic techniques to analyse current data accessible via Bloomberg or Data Stream.
We also delve into new, more complex emerging technologies, including blockchain, original and new types of cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and predictive analysis. You'll gain a detailed knowledge and advanced learning of a range of AI/ML techniques, including logistic regression, decision tree, Naive Bayes and others to solve problems or to undertake projects in capital markets, asset portfolio and risk management contexts.
To better prepare you to predict future or unknown outcomes in the financial services sector, you’ll learn about big data management, data mining methods and decision-support in a variety of financial services contexts, such as corporate finance, forecasting in capital markets, credit risk, fraud detection and in asset management. The course culminates with a work placement with one of our many financial services partner organisations or a research project in an area of your choice.
Forensic Psychology
This British Psychological Society (BPS) accredited (pending) Forensic Psychology MSc course will provide you with Stage 1 empirical and theoretical knowledge necessary to enable you to move to complete the next stage of professional training (BPS Stage 2 or Health Care Practitioner Council (HCPC) route).
You’ll gain a critical academic understanding of the factors that may contribute to a wide variety of forms of offending. You’ll be encouraged to consider the role and limitations of causal explanations for offending in the development of offender treatments and services. This course will prepare you to work in settings where forensic psychology is practised, providing you with the key skills , from inter-disciplinary working, risk for violence assessment, vulnerability and ethics, to continuing professional development and report writing. Upon graduation, you’ll be equipped with knowledge of the legal system and the role of a forensic psychologist, as well as the ways theory and research in psychology can be applied to legal issues.
The course explores current topics within Forensic Psychology, including Vulnerability and Neurodiversity in Criminal Justice, Sexual and Violent Crime, Investigative Psychology, and Ethical Practice. These topics, plus the opportunity to complete a Forensic Volunteering placement and the application of real-world data in our Forensic Data Analysis module ensure that you’ll graduate ready to begin work as a trainee Forensic Psychologist and apply your learning to real cases and scenarios
Global Contemporary Art
This course is part of a suite of MA art courses which include the Art and Emerging Technologies MA and the Expanded Photography MA. You’ll tailor your learning through a set of shared optional modules that address contemporary challenges, advanced digital approaches and specialised professional contexts. You’ll also undertake the Professional Practice and the Master's Project modules alongside students from the other MA art courses, thus benefiting from collaborative opportunities and cross-disciplinary learning.
Global Criminology
The Global Criminology MA is designed to develop your knowledge and critical understanding of criminology as an interdisciplinary subject that incorporates legal, political and psychological, as well as social scientific approaches to the study of crime, deviance, criminal and social justice.
Led by academic experts in the area, this new course will focus on two themes – global criminology and critical criminology – giving you the unique opportunity to study the subject with both an international and critical focus.
Global Development
The programme is structured around three interrelated knowledge areas: development, social justice and sustainability. You’ll learn from four interrelated academic disciplines including political economy, political sociology, international relations and human geography.
Through a selection of core and optional modules on the programme, you’ll cover the fundamental aspects of development theory, identify key issues facing global development, and learn the ethical, political and practical considerations for selecting the approaches to address the challenges.You’ll receive advanced training in research methods and analytical skills, combined with practical skill-based training on problem-solving, collaborative work, and policy analysis.
In addition to classroom teaching, you’ll also take field trips and visits, and interact with professionals in the development sector, applying your knowledge and skills in real-world contexts. This will give valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities associated with global development, and the opportunity to build networks whilst learning.
Global Media
You'll examine key developments in the media and communications industries associated with the logic of globalisation, and explore the complex nature of the globalisation process in the media. You'll gain a relevant, well-grounded, high-quality education and skill base, enabling you to develop a clear and comprehensive understanding of communication and the mass media.
Based on continuous assessment, the course is taught in lectures and seminars by the team from Westminster's top-rated Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI). You'll be part of a bustling multicultural academic department that boasts a strong research culture, and have the opportunity to attend regular talks by outside speakers (academics and practitioners) on a variety of communication and mass media issues.
Global Public Health Nutrition
Our assessments ensure that you graduate with the skills required by employers, which are transferable to a wide variety of fields and contexts. Assessments may include presentations, critical reviews, policy development and analysis, expressions of interest, programme proposals, data analysis using SPSS, interviews, podcasts, posters, policy briefings, TV newscasts, and health system analysis.
Global Public Health Nutrition with Data Science
You'll be taught through a combination of methods, helping to both improve your knowledge in the field of public health and build your critical faculties through experiential learning, helping you to develop the key communication skills required of professional scientists.
Teaching methods include formal lectures, practical sessions, student-centred learning activities, poster presentations and oral presentations. Where appropriate, teaching materials will be recorded and accessible online for all students.
Health Psychology
The course is taught by a core team of enthusiastic and supportive research-active staff, with collaborative links to external institutions in London and beyond. Successful completion of the course (Stage 1) is a prerequisite for the further training (Stage 2) to become a health psychologist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
In addition to the core taught programme, we work with a range of practitioners to provide additional professional training in areas such as resilience, coaching and clinical practice
Human Resource Management
Our problem-based approach to teaching means you’ll get to apply what you learn to management problems through assignments and projects based on actual situations. We’ll draw on everyday HR issues in the news, case studies and current examples, at times addressing some of our own students’ workplace experiences. You’ll learn to collect and analyse relevant data and information, developing your ability to identify, evaluate and propose the most appropriate solutions looking at issues ranging from flexible working to employee engagement, managing change or reward management.
Our annual HRM conference offers you the chance to hear directly from a range of guest speakers who have previously covered issues such as immigration and labour supply, the impact of EU legislation on employee relations post-Brexit and EDI management. You also have the opportunity to develop essential HR practitioner skills through a series of practical workshops in areas such as disciplinary and grievance handling, unconscious bias in recruitment and selection, coaching and mentoring, amongst others. Working in teams, you might simulate dealing with a disciplinary hearing, for example, or conducting a recruitment interview.
Immersive Media Design
This course blends artistic practices with technical expertise, supporting you to develop original immersive media projects that explore new possibilities in narrative and interactive design. Through hands-on, project-based learning, you will engage with state-of-the-art tools and systems, exploring practical strategies for producing immersive experiences while critically engaging with the cultural and social implications of emerging technologies.
The course fosters speculative design, experimental methodologies, and inclusive practices, encouraging work that addresses contemporary social issues and engages global audiences.
Throughout the course, you’ll build a professional portfolio of original immersive media projects, demonstrating your ability to conceptualise, design, and execute impactful immersive experiences. The course culminates in a final project, where you’ll produce an immersive media experience aligned with your interests and career goals.
Interactive Media Practice
The course embraces a hackathon culture with specialist labs that boast newly designed flexible learning spaces for students to work more collaboratively on innovation protocols fostering cross-pollination of new ideas creatively. Many students will work on industry briefs as well as their own projects independently within and outside our course clusters. This collaborative approach to learning and research often leads to successful projects that are commercially viable and can quickly gain industry recognition, and also contribute to students’ portfolios.
You’ll examine the communication of ideas in a networked world through our entrepreneurship incubator programme and consider the many impacts of digital media in everyday life for commercial trajectories through practice-based projects.
Using the leading industry software, you'll be involved in designing and making interactive digital media content for delivery over the Internet, on tablets and mobile devices and for installations to designing compelling user interfaces creating a great user experience. This also extends to the development towards creating content for new emerging environments.
Interior Architecture
Located within the School of Architecture and Cities in central London, you’ll be taught and guided by research-active and industry-experienced staff. Increasingly international, and ever growing, our sought-after Master's course offers you the opportunity to develop your own pathway and focus on a contemporary issue of special importance to you. The course will therefore give you a platform to develop personally and professionally; the outcomes from this approach are rich and diverse, representing the dynamism and diversity of our students, and the freedom and encouragement to embark on design-led adventures here at Westminster.
International and Commercial Dispute Resolution Law
This course differs from the International Commercial and Corporate Law LLM (ICCL) course which is primarily concerned with non-contentious aspects of commerce (ICCL modules include competition law, trade and insurance).
Class sizes are, in general, quite small, and you'll be able to mix with students on other Master's courses at Westminster Law School.
The course provides an opportunity for in-depth study of the substantive and procedural issues involved in the field, and also the acquisition of skills involved in some of the processes. It's centrally concerned with law and other rules (international, transnational and commercial) which are applicable in adjudication and also in the other dispute resolution processes.
In addition to the taught modules, the Dissertation module gives you the opportunity to develop a specialist knowledge of a small area of the field, which might lead to a publishable article.
International Business and Management
Course content reflects the main functional areas of business and management. During the course, you'll take nine core modules, with 180 credits in total.
International Commercial and Corporate Law
The course offers you the opportunity to develop strong academic and practical skills in a highly competitive and intellectually satisfying area of law. It's ideally suited to you if you come from a commercial law, international business, management, or economics background. You'll have the opportunity to explore your own ideas, gain knowledge and enhance transferable skills in a supportive environment. You'll benefit from a strong programme of visiting speakers, excellent online materials and learning resources, top-quality instruction and a professional and practical focus in a School with a strong research profile.
International Communication - Liaison and Advocacy
You'll take five core modules, four taught and one research-based.
Your research component is an important element of the course. You can choose to write a Dissertation or you can take International Partnership Management, where you apply your knowledge and expertise by simulating a collaborative international project and devising a communication strategy for it.
To complete the MA, you need to choose two out of three option modules.
International Development Management
The course is designed to give you the theory and practical tools to design, implement and deliver self-sustaining and collaborative development interventions at an international level, looking at past initiatives to gain a better understanding as to why some succeed while others fail. During the course, you will take eight core modules and one option module. If you're interested in learning a new language or developing one of your current languages, our Polylang programme offers eight major languages to choose from.
You will examine a wide range of public policy issues in the context of socioeconomic development, for example, in the areas of finance, trade, investment, human resources development, environment, sustainable development, and urban and regional development. You will also consider the role and influence of global development stakeholders and how to engage constructively and best access their regional and global expertise at various stages and levels of a development intervention, building outcomes that are inclusive and deliverable. With a focus on practical development, you will learn how to put together compelling funding proposals, a skill that will be required throughout your career.
Since we attract students from a range of different backgrounds and disciplines, such as law, accountancy, business and economics, the project enables you to develop specialist expertise in a particular aspect of international development management and focus on a subject that interests you. Conducting research and analysis, you will explore a practical development issue focused on a region (or regions) of your choice. For example, past themes included disaster risk management in the Philippines, a maternal health programme in Columbia and rural finance in Ghana.
You can choose one option module from the University's postgraduate programme, subject to approval by the Course Leader. This gives the unique benefit of allowing you to choose according to your past academic studies, work experience or, perhaps, in line with your future career pathways or interests.
International Human Resource Management
We cover a range of interesting modules focused specifically on international HRM, comparative HRM, organisational analysis and development and management skills. This will give you a deeper understanding of the theory, practices and policies of HRM and what these mean for different groups of individuals and organisations at local, national and international levels.
International Law
The International Law LLM at Westminster Law School is taught in our central London campus, just a short distance from most major British institutions and international organisations. The course can be taken full-time or part-time, and you can start in either September or January.
We also have a research group, International Law at Westminster (ILaW), which conducts important research projects on topical international law issues. These projects have received external funding because of their importance and their potential impact. ILaW also regularly organises events in which students are invited to participate.
Every year, the Oxford University Press Prize is awarded to the best International Law LLM student.
The course will enhance your understanding of the key principles of public international law, the main developments within the public international law framework and the process of globalisation and its significance for international law.
International Planning and Sustainability Development
Based in London, you'll have access to the internationally recognised experience of spatial planning for sustainable development, and explore contemporary theories, public policy thinking and good practice in planning in both the developed and developing worlds. The University of Westminster is the UK's first Habitat Partner University. We work with UN-HABITAT and other like-minded institutions to promote the socially and environmentally sustainable development of towns, cities and regions, in accordance with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and New Urban Agenda.
The course benefits from having strong links with the Max Lock Centre, an international development research unit, which is part of the wider Research Community for Sustainable Cities and Urban Environments. Associated research and consultancy focuses on the planning of cities and regions towards a sustainable and low-energy future and the exploration of the environmental and social impact of concentrating people and economic activity in cities and urban areas including the consequences for surrounding rural areas.
This course explores contemporary theories, public policy thinking and good practice in planning that spans both developed and developing world contexts, and offers you the opportunity to explore one area of specialism in a related field in some depth.
International Relations and Democratic Politics
The dissertation constitutes a third of the overall marks for this course, and you're encouraged to choose a topic that is of particular interest to you. You'll be assigned a supervisor who is an expert in this area, and they will work with you to structure and refine your work.
International Relations and Security
The dissertation constitutes a third of the overall marks for this course, and you're encouraged to choose a topic that is of particular interest to you. You'll be assigned a supervisor who is an expert in this area, and they will work with you to structure and refine your work.
International Relations
The dissertation constitutes a third of the overall marks for this course, and you're encouraged to choose a topic that is of particular interest to you. You'll be assigned a supervisor who is an expert in this area, and they will work with you to structure and refine your work.
Investment and Risk Finance
During the course, you will take seven core modules and one option module. These will help you acquire the ability to perform quantitative investment and risk analyses on a variety of financial instruments and structured products. You'll also learn how to use capital market products in both investment and risk finance applications. As a result, you will develop good transferable skills and solve financial problems in a group setting.
Law and Technology
Full-time postgraduate students study 180 credits per year, consisting of three core modules worth 100 credits and four 20-credit option modules.
Our Dissertation module will allow you to apply your understanding and developed knowledge in practical settings, working closely with a tutor on the programme and having access to in-built networking opportunities, either through your own project focuses or through a showcase of work at the end of the module.
Legal Practice
Westminster's LPC assessments meet SRA expectations. They're designed to be realistic and constructive by genuinely testing you and enabling you to demonstrate acquired knowledge and skills through a mixture of written examinations and practical assessments. Assessment takes place throughout Stage 1 of the LPC and at the end of Stage 2 electives. Generally, the assessments are 'open book' and you're allowed to use both textbooks and your own written notes. You are timetabled to allow sufficient revision and preparation time for examinations and assessments.
Following successful completion of Stage 1 of the LPC, you'll progress to the Research and Dissertation modules. In the research modules, you'll be introduced to research methods and design, literature reviews, research ethics and analysis. Having identified a suitable area of research pertinent to legal practice, you'll then justify the research project and your proposed methodology and produce your literature review. The final stage is to carry out your research and produce an 8,000-word dissertation. Throughout these stages, you'll be allocated a supervisor to advise on your progress.
Legal Practice Postgraduate Diploma
Westminster's LPC assessments meet SRA expectations. They're designed to be realistic and constructive by genuinely testing you and enabling you to demonstrate acquired knowledge and skills through a mixture of written examinations and practical assessments. Assessment takes place throughout Stage 1 of the LPC and at the end of Stage 2 electives. Generally, the assessments are 'open book' and you're allowed to use both textbooks and your own written notes. You are timetabled to allow sufficient revision and preparation time for examinations and assessments.
Logistics and Supply Chain Management
The Logistics and Supply Chain Management MSc has been designed to develop your ability to carry out advanced analysis and research in the field of logistics and supply chain management within a global context. The MSc course has been running since 1998 and is offered by the School of Architecture and Cities.
Management
The course is designed to provide you with up-to-date theories, tools, systems and techniques across the management function, together with an understanding of contemporary management issues in an ever-changing business environment.
Marketing Communications
You’ll start by gaining an understanding of the psychology that underpins modern consumers’ attitudes, perceptions, decision-making processes and behaviour. You’ll have the opportunity to put your learning of consumers into practice by designing research to collect and analyse data and generate insights for marketing communications. You’ll explore the wide range of media and platforms that carry marketing communications messages, including the digital platforms that are revolutionising advertising, programmatic buying, digital display, the growth of new media and the increasing importance of data. You’ll also examine the key concepts for managing brands as strategic assets both on- and off-line, all aiming to create value for customers and your organisation.
Acknowledging the importance of customer relationship marketing (CRM), you’ll study direct and data-driven concepts in marketing communications, together with creative, innovative ways to engage consumers in dialogue – from personal selling to sophisticated mobile apps. We examine a range of approaches to marketing communications from the traditional to the most contemporary. You’ll learn to use a range of contemporary digital tools and techniques, such as Google analytics, and data and social media dashboards, to evaluate channels for marketing communications, including mobile and content creation. Those studying the MA will explore how creativity and innovation can add value when planning marketing communications, while MSc students will experience a variety of data-analytic tools and methods which can be used to guide decision-making
The IMC project is a year-long module running through both semesters and integrates all of your learning. You will develop a well-researched, practical marketing communications strategy for a real company of your choice
Marketing Management
On this course, you'll develop your ability to critically evaluate contemporary marketing practice.
Master of Architecture
Consisting of two years of full-time study (Levels 6 and 7), the Master of Architecture (MArch) fulfils the RIBA/ARB criteria and regulatory framework for architectural registration, which allows it to offer exemption from the RIBA Part 2 examination.
Master of Business Administration
The MBA follows a strong narrative with a journey of discovery, beginning with the diagnosis of business problems/issues, the design of innovative solutions, immersion in digital applications and the development of drive, resilience and diplomacy as part of the student’s personal growth. In addition to the module assessment, capabilities learned are applied during the client projects for Entrepreneurial Mindset, the Consultancy Project and the Management in Action internship. You will study problem-solving and capability-building modules for a total of 180 credits.
We begin by learning how to conduct a business diagnostic, developing your skills in analysing financial, performance and market data, as well as critical thinking. You’ll learn to confidently identify the symptoms of underperformance and analyse business problems, using your judgement to make informed decisions to improve future market performance. We’ll examine how design thinking and creativity can reimagine business models and help design new products, services and processes. You’ll also gain a better understanding of digital disruptions and how these impact on business operations, business services and performance.
We move on to business structure and modern strategies in a changing world, as well as the traits, behaviours and management processes needed for resilient, flexible organisations. You’ll consider some of the contemporary challenges facing business, from the merits of sustainable global growth to the global perspective of business development and the need for sensitive, collaborative working in multicultural project environments. You’ll examine the latest insights in innovation and new business models, before participating in a week-long Consultancy Project advising client(s) to solve a strategic issue/problem.
For the Management in Action Internship or Project, you’ll investigate a problem/issue related to innovation and/or digitisation for a client organisation in the UK or overseas – anything from how a digital start-up can compete against digital/conventional rivals, to the impact of digitisation on an organisation’s operation and performance. It’s an ideal opportunity to demonstrate your resourcefulness and ability to ‘think on your feet’.
Media and Development
You’ll study four compulsory modules focused on policy and theory, including a dissertation which will involve conducting a major piece of independent research. You will also choose three optional modules from a broad range which encompasses business strategy, entrepreneurship, sociology, politics and the development of practical media skills. You will learn through critical review reports, academic essays, case studies, multimodal briefs and dissertation, with a balance between group and individual work.
Media, Campaigning and Social Change
There are three core modules. The first develops practical planning and campaign communications skills, the second considers media and activism theories, and the third combines theory with practice, reflecting on applying concepts like power and ethics within the setting of campaign communications. Each module has assessments – e.g. essays, campaign plans, reflective blogs, debates and presentations - rather than exams. These three core modules make up the Postgraduate Certificate.
Students can take another three modules chosen from two pathways, one with a more practical emphasis and one with a more theoretical emphasis. The theoretical pathway includes three thematic areas: a) media industries and audiences, b) new technologies, and c) news, globalization, development and diversity. Students can combine modules from different pathways and thematic areas or focus on a single pathway and thematic area. These three modules allow to complete the Postgraduate Diploma.
Students wanting to take the Master's course also complete either a 12,000-word research dissertation, or a professional practice project (which can be work-based).
Media Management
Through applied projects, optional work experience and learning from knowledgeable industry researchers, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside organisations that will challenge and energise your skill sets and media perspective. We will prepare you to make a tangible impact while learning and you’ll engage with real issues – whether it’s to develop an AI strategy, construct a social media campaign or build the institutions and ecosystems needed to support marginalised voices and advance sustainability.
If you have an entrepreneurial vision, we’ll help you bring it to life with guidance and mentorship from seasoned practitioners and investors from the media and tech space. Our focus on core business skills enables you to manage and plan complex media projects, positioning you to change the world through content, strategy or policy. In partnership with the Westminster Enterprise Network, you’ll have access to a powerful culture of start-up incubation, with practical business support and opportunities to pitch for seed funding, transforming your ideas into impactful ventures.
Menswear
The project-based curriculum has two core modules that are progressively designed to develop your confidence in an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary context. These projects aim to encourage imaginative, practical and theoretical knowledge.
Our graduates have gone on to enjoy a range of roles in places such as Bottega Veneta, Givenchy, Alexander McQueen, Adidas and Charles Jeffrey among others. Some have also set up their own businesses. Notable alumni include Priya Ahluwalia, winner of the Queen Elizabeth II Award 2021, winner of the shared LVMH Prize 2020, New Generation prize 2019 and H&M Prize 2018, Mateo Velazquez, finalist at Hyeres 2021, and San Kim, whose inflatable garment design went viral in 2019.
Based at our dedicated Arts campus at Harrow, we have outstanding industry-level facilities and equipment, a broad range of networking opportunities and visiting industry practitioners as guest lecturers.
Menswear with Professional Experience
It is designed for individuals who are particularly interested in establishing their own menswear brand but who would like to gain industry experience while doing so. The course includes a year of project-based study and a placement year within the industry.
Multimedia Journalism (Broadcast)
You will study five core modules and a Final Journalism Project, which can be a TV or radio documentary or a digital project. You will also study one optional module. You will learn through a rich mix of teaching styles including tutorials, seminars, workshops, case studies, group projects and independent research, with the course consisting of around 70 per cent practical work and 30 per cent theory.
Multimedia Journalism (Print & Online
You will study five core modules and a Final Journalism Project, which will be a piece of long-form journalism. You will also study one optional module. You will learn through a rich mix of teaching styles including tutorials, seminars, workshops, case studies, group projects and independent research, with the course consisting of around 70 per cent practical work and 30 per cent theory.
Museums, Galleries and Contemporary Culture
The course looks at the changing role of cultural provision and how cultural institutions shape, house, fund and disseminate culture today within the broader theoretical context of museum and gallery issues. You'll examine key themes in the cultural sector, and how these are dealt with by leading and smaller institutions in the UK and internationally. In studying and experiencing their day-to-day work, such as how they’re developing innovative practices in relation to their collections, exhibitions and audiences, you’ll gain valuable insight into the sector.
This MA gives you the unique opportunity to immerse yourself in contemporary debates about working practices in cultural institutions by working closely with museum and gallery professionals. You’ll be able to learn with our London-based course partners, The Museum of London and The Photographers’ Gallery, and to meet a variety of other professionals from the sector. Gaining professional knowledge is an important part of the course and you'll be supported in gaining work placements and in working on professional projects.
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Museums, Galleries and Contemporary Culture with Professional Experience
As part of this course you'll do a work placement or internship in a museum or an art organisation. This will enable you to gain professional skills and consolidate the knowledge you'll acquire on the MA. Your placement or internship will take place in your second year and last between three to six months. While the University isn't able to guarantee a placement, we have a wide range of contacts, so we negotiate with partner institutions to find openings that are suitable for you to apply for. On graduating from the Museums, Galleries and Contemporary MA with Professional Experience, you'll be fully prepared to enter or re-enter the job market at a senior level. If you're unable to secure a placement that suits your interests, you can transfer instead to the one-year Museums, Galleries and Contemporary Culture MA.
Music Business Management
All teaching staff on the course have comprehensive professional experience or are currently active in the music industries. The course is designed to reflect the interdisciplinary collaborative and entrepreneurial nature of music sector working practices. We examine the music environment using a transdisciplinary approach that includes business, cultural, economic, and sociological theories that cover the creative and cultural industries. Additionally, we will provide you with the flexibility to choose between the informal pathways specialising in artist management, business management and live music management.
Pharmaceutical Science
This course examines topics at the cutting-edge of the pharmaceutical industry and you will develop a deep understanding of biotherapeutics and regenerative medicines; two of the fastest growing areas in the pharmaceutical sector. Our option modules, covering science communication, entrepreneurship, commercialisation, fermentation technology and bioinformatics provide the opportunity to tailor your skills to areas you may want to work in.
You’ll develop both laboratory-based and entrepreneurial, business-development focused skills and graduate equipped with insightful and rigorous research skills, tools and an overall expertise relevant for a pharmaceutical science career. You’ll gain experience of working on real-world, authentic research projects and be able to demonstrate your ability to work to good laboratory practice (GLP) and good manufacturing practice (GMP) requirements upon graduation. This skillset and knowledge will prepare you for diverse roles within the pharmaceutical industry, as well as progression to further study at PhD/MPhil level.
Professional Legal Practice
The Professional Legal Practice LLM is designed for non-law graduates who are seeking to transition to a career in law. You'll learn both the law and its practical application to realistic client-based and ethical problems and situations. The course will provide you with a solid foundation to qualify either as a solicitor or a barrister, whichever profession you decide upon.
The knowledge gained on this course will allow you to progress to further study for the Solicitors’ Qualifying Examination (SQE) or for a Bar Standards Board authorised barristers’ training course. The course also provides the opportunity to gain an academic qualification at Master’s level with the option of either taking our Legal Practice Project module, which combines professional legal skills with academic research, or a dissertation module in a chosen topic within the broad field covered by the course.
You'll practise the relevant skills in your tutorials, looking at writing, drafting, interviewing and advising, research, case and matter analysis and advocacy. You'll be assessed by a variety of authentic assessments which include advocacy, a case study report, analysis of a legal case and a legal practice blog. These will provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate that you have acquired a range of essential professional legal skills in addition to the substantive law.
Professional Legal Practice Postgraduate Diploma
The Professional Legal Practice Postgraduate Diploma is designed for non-law graduates who are seeking to transition to a career in law. You’ll learn both the law and its practical application to realistic client-based and ethical problems and situations. The course will provide you with a solid foundation to qualify either as a solicitor or a barrister, whichever profession you decide upon.
The knowledge gained on this course will allow you to progress to further study for the Solicitors’ Qualifying Examination (SQE) or for a Bar Standards Board authorised barristers’ training course. You will learn the essential foundation areas of legal knowledge needed for a career in law.
You’ll be able to develop key, relevant skills in your tutorials, looking at writing, drafting, interviewing and advising, research, case and matter analysis and advocacy. You’ll be assessed by a variety of authentic assessments which include advocacy, a case study report and analysis of a legal case. These will provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate that you have acquired competence in a range of essential professional legal skills in addition to understanding the substantive law.
Professional Writing
On the Professional Writing MA you'll take three core modules and either the Professional Writing Project or the MA Dissertation. You can then choose two further 20 credit option modules.
Professional Writing with Extended Work Placement
Your placement or internship will be a sandwich element in addition to the taught component of the course. You'll complete your dissertation or project after the end of the placement.
You'll be expected to secure your own placement or internship by the end of the second semester and will be fully supported by the course team and the Career Development Centre in doing so. During the first semester, a series of coaching sessions will support you in making applications and regular tutorials throughout the placement ensure contact with the course team. Placements or internships need to be 550 hours (minimum) in a professional work environment in a context related to professional writing.
If a placement cannot be secured, you’ll be transferred to the MA Professional Writing.
Project Management
This course aims to develop the specialist knowledge, capabilities and technical skills that you require to respond proactively and creatively to contemporary project management practice and the challenges of the global business environment. You'll study six core modules, including the project, and one option module.
Full-time students study three taught modules in each semester, and one year-long project module. The project module is taught in both semesters, but the bulk of the work is undertaken by students from June to September.
In Foundations, we lay the foundations of project management by focusing on the more technical skills of the profession, like planning, monitoring and controlling. In the Practice module, we concentrate more on the behavioural aspects of project management, such as leadership and teamwork. Together, these two modules provide a critical overview of the project management world.
Additional project management topics, such as risk management, project finance, strategic alignment, procurement and agile practices, are covered in other modules.
To complete your studies, you'll undertake a practical or research project. Past student projects have spanned different activities, sectors and countries – from analysing key project management issues, such as sustainability and success to the use of AI in project management and the communication challenges of virtual teams. Previous students have considered the value of agile project management in the public sector and examined risk management in healthcare projects, while others have focused on practices in Saudi Arabia, India, Latin America and Africa. Some students have set up a business as part of their project.
Psychology
You don't need to have studied psychology to be eligible for this course, however, you should note that it's an intensive course and requires hard work and independent full-time study outside of the contact hours.
We welcome applications from graduates with upper second class degrees who've either completed a degree in another subject or who have insufficient psychology in their degree to be eligible for GBC.
You'll take modules at Master's level in core areas of psychology, as specified by the BPS. You'll also take one option module in psychology from a selection available within the department. We offer a work experience in psychology module as an option if you would like to gain valuable experience in the workplace.
Our course curriculum covers the core areas of psychology stipulated by the BPS for GBC (biological psychology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, individual differences, social psychology, conceptual and historical issues in psychology, research methods, empirical project). In all of our modules there is a strong emphasis on critical evaluation of theory and practice.
Public Relations
You will study five core modules including a dissertation or a real-world final professional project. You will also study two optional modules. You will learn through a rich mix of teaching styles including tutorials, seminars, workshops, case studies, group projects and independent research.
Real Estate Development
The aim of the course is to provide you with a detailed understanding of the property development and appraisal process, encompassing valuation, financial, physical, legal and social aspects. You'll analyse development situations and respond to particular development problems with derived solutions. You’ll also enhance your capability to critically appraise options and independently evaluate alternative courses of action. There are seven core modules, including the dissertation, and one option module.
Depending on your choice of option modules, you can tailor your studies towards valuation, legal or property finance and investment, learning more about procurement surveying, how to raise capital, take financial decisions or deal with banks and investors.
Social Media and Digital Communication
In semester one, you'll take two core modules and also choose one optional module. You'll also begin work on your major social media research project.
In semester two, you'll choose three optional modules. You'll also continue to work on your research projects, working with an individual supervisor towards completing the project in August.
You may substitute one option module from this list with another relevant 20-credit level 7 module, if you receive permission from both your own course leader and the leader of the module that you wish to study.
Software Engineering (Conversion)
Teaching methods are aimed at encouraging and involving the active participation of students in their learning through knowledge and skills acquisition by means of engagement, experimentation, self-study and practical experience. The delivery of the course's taught modules involves lectures, tutorials, workshops and seminars. For the software development project students are allocated a supervisor who guides them through the project and are further supported by a series of group seminars and workshops that cover general skills and knowledge required for the project.
Assessments and feedback are important and are designed to form part of the learning experience. A wide variety of types and forms are used on the course and are dependent on the module and its learning outcomes, including both individual and group work. For example, individual work solving programming tasks, writing a report, group work as part of a team to design and create a complex software application, presenting and demonstrating your work or a group's work.
You’ll study six core modules and two option modules, for a total of 180 credits.
Specialised Translation
At the heart of the MA are our practical translation classes between English and one of these languages, which are complemented by our Translation Skills Lab module. You'll learn how to research specialised subjects to produce commercially viable translations of a broad range of specialised texts, applying insights drawn from translation theory and professional practice, and, in the Translation Skills Lab, learn about Project Management and Quality Assurance while honing your skills in a simulated translation bureau.
You’ll also study skills-based modules to prepare you for industry and develop your technical skills. In the Audiovisual Translation and Localisation module, you’ll become familiar with the principles and processes of audiovisual translation and the localisation of video games, gaining experience in industry-standard software.
You’ll engage with computer-assisted translation (CAT) and the post-editing of machine translation output in our Computer-Assisted Translation, Machine Translation, and Post-editing module. Students combining English with two languages will choose either Audiovisual Translation and Localisation or Computer-Assisted Translation, Machine Translation, and Post-editing, while students studying with English and one other language will take both.
The core Professional Development module will prepare you for your career through CV workshops, career and CPD plans, and visits from guest speakers. Your skills and knowledge acquired in your core modules will be complemented by your choice of option module. At the end of the course, you'll submit an MA Translation Project or Dissertation.
Specialised Translation with Professional Experience
At the heart of the MA are our practical translation classes between English and one of these languages, which are complemented by our Translation Skills Lab module. You'll learn how to research specialised subjects to produce commercially viable translations of a broad range of specialised texts, applying insights drawn from translation theory and professional practice, and, in the Translation Skills Lab, learn about Project Management and Quality Assurance while honing your skills in a simulated translation bureau.
You’ll also study skills-based modules to prepare you for industry and develop your technical skills. In the Audiovisual Translation and Localisation module, you’ll become familiar with the principles and processes of audiovisual translation and the localisation of video games, gaining experience in industry-standard software.
You’ll engage with computer-assisted translation (CAT) and the post-editing of machine translation output in our Computer-Assisted Translation, Machine Translation, and Post-editing module. Students combining English with two languages will choose either Audiovisual Translation and Localisation or Computer-Assisted Translation, Machine Translation, and Post-editing, while students studying with English and one other language will take both.
The core Professional Development module will prepare you for your career through CV workshops, career and CPD plans, and visits from guest speakers. Your skills and knowledge acquired in your core modules will be complemented by your choice of option module. At the end of the course, you'll submit an MA Translation Project or Dissertation.
Sports and Exercise Nutrition
Our Sport and Exercise Nutrition MSc offers you the chance to explore the key principles and cutting-edge research across sport and exercise nutrition, exercise physiology, psychology and practitioner skills. You will study the science behind sports nutrition, the applications within the general population, specific sub-groups of our society, and the elite athlete. It also puts the controversies surrounding the use of supplements under scientific scrutiny, looking at the key evidence for and against performance benefits. Using this scientific foundation, you will develop the skills to translate research to practice, communicate effectively with diverse clients and support personnel, and support effective behaviour change.
We recognise and embrace the diverse career paths graduates can take, and our course supports this with our optional modules that enable you to explore in greater depth effective science communication, commercialisation, practical work experience, or in-depth nutritional assessment. Your research project offers you a wide degree of flexibility to pursue your personal interests.
Sustainability Management and Innovation
The course incorporates interdisciplinary modules from multiple business fields (such as strategy, operations management, digital disruption and innovation, marketing and finance), together with environmental studies (such as carbon footprinting and environmental impact assessment).
You’ll develop a greater understanding of the relationship between business and society and how to engage with stakeholder communities more effectively. You’ll learn to expertly assess your employer’s impact – whether it be social, environmental or economic. Finally, with an appreciation of the challenges that sustainability poses for strategic decision-making, you’ll develop the skills and know-how to innovate, implementing new processes, products and services, and identifying ways to integrate sustainable practices into day-to-day business.
Teach English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
The course consists of three core modules and a range of option modules. The Language and Learning: Description and Analysis core module introduces in-depth exploration of the core concepts in the description and analysis of language and language learning, with specific reference to English language teaching and second language acquisition. The Language Teaching Methods core module examines a wide range of current practice and developments, including communicative competence in language learning and teaching, language teaching methodology, and discrete and integrated skills. The Dissertation is the third core module.
Tourism Management
You'll learn about the nature and characteristics of tourism and explore how it can be marketed, managed and planned, examining cases from around the world. Your management and entrepreneurial skills will be developed to assist you in finding employment in many different parts of this dynamic and growing industry.
A range of option modules allows you to focus on your particular interests, and to explore the links between the different aspects of tourism. A dissertation gives you the chance to apply your learning to develop in-depth, specialist knowledge of a tourism topic of your choice.
Translation and Interpreting
The MA trains you in translation and interpreting between one main language and English. You'll learn how to research specialised subjects for professional translation and interpreting purposes and hone your skills through extensive practice in your translation and interpreting classes and the Skills Lab modules. The skills and knowledge acquired in your core modules will be complemented by your choice of option module. At the end of the course, you'll submit either a Translation or Interpreting Project, or a dissertation.
Your core Specialised Translation module will involve both direct and inverse translation training between English and your chosen language. You'll also study conference (consecutive and simultaneous) and public service interpreting, into and out of English, in your core Interpreting module.
The Translation and Interpreting Skills Lab modules complement and contextualise your learning, allowing you to utilise your skills in situated learning scenarios. Through a series of mock conferences and a simulated translation bureau, you’ll apply your knowledge to realistic work-based tasks, preparing you for the workplace.
Your final core module, Professional Development, will tie in with your Skills Lab modules to further prepare you for a career in Translation or Interpreting. You’ll benefit from workshops on CV writing for translation and interpreting, career and CPD plans, visits from guest speakers, and volunteering opportunities to ensure you graduate prepared to launch your career.
Translation and Interpreting with Professional Experience
The MA trains you in translation and interpreting between one main language and English. You'll learn how to research specialised subjects for professional translation and interpreting purposes and hone your skills through extensive practice in your translation and interpreting classes and the Skills Lab modules. The skills and knowledge acquired in your core modules will be complemented by your choice of option module. At the end of the course, you'll submit either a Translation or Interpreting Project, or a dissertation.
Your core Specialised Translation module will involve both direct and inverse translation training between English and your chosen language. You'll also study conference (consecutive and simultaneous) and public service interpreting, into and out of English, in your core Interpreting module.
The Translation and Interpreting Skills Lab modules complement and contextualise your learning, allowing you to utilise your skills in situated learning scenarios. Through a series of mock conferences and a simulated translation bureau, you’ll apply your knowledge to realistic work-based tasks, preparing you for the workplace.
Your final core module, Professional Development, will tie in with your Skills Lab modules to further prepare you for a career in Translation or Interpreting. You’ll benefit from workshops on CV writing for translation and interpreting, career and CPD plans, visits from guest speakers, and volunteering opportunities to ensure you graduate prepared to launch your career.
Transport Planning
This course will enable you to understand the causes and motivations of personal travel and goods movement; to analyse transport problems, develop and implement policies and measures for resolving such problems; to evaluate transport projects, plans and policies, taking into account the need for stakeholder participation and recognising the political, social, health, environmental and economic issues involved.
The course balances theoretical and practical applications in three separate components: core modules, option modules and a research dissertation.
Transport Planning Postgraduate Diploma
The Transport Planning Postgraduate Diploma* develops your ability to initiate and implement advanced analysis and research in transport policy, planning and management. You'll learn the techniques and methodologies you need to take decisions, or to provide the necessary information for others to take policy decisions. The course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT). This course is also approved by the TPP Professional Standards Committee as meeting the educational requirements for the Transport Planning Professional (TPP) qualification.
This programme will enable you to understand the causes and motivations of personal travel and goods movement; to analyse transport problems and develop, and implement policies and measures for resolving such problems; to evaluate transport projects, plans and policies, taking into account the need for stakeholder participation and recognising the political, social, health, environmental and economic issues involved.
The course balances theoretical and practical applications in the three separate components: core modules, option modules and a research dissertation.
Urban and Regional Planning
The Urban and Regional Planning MA will give you the skills, knowledge and abilities necessary to practise professionally as a spatial planner in a variety of private, public and third sector/ community contexts. Building on the University of Westminster's experience of delivering postgraduate courses in town planning for more than 80 years, it examines planning across diverse contexts and scales, but focuses in particular on planning in, and for, towns, cities, and urban regions in the UK. You'll be taught by qualified and dedicated staff who possess vast industry, research and teaching experience and moreover you'll benefit from studying in a genuinely interdisciplinary academic environment with excellent industry links in the heart of one of the most vibrant cities in the world.
The course is professionally accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and covers both the ‘spatial’ and ‘specialist’ elements of the RTPI’s requirements for initial planning education. It is designed to accommodate busy schedules and offered for full-time or part-time study at our modern Marylebone campus in central London. The course's main objective is to create critical-minded, well-rounded, and highly employable graduates who can excel in a variety of career environments and possess the skills and competencies necessary for addressing the manifold challenges and opportunities associated with contemporary spatial development and planning.
Urban Design
The course places a strong emphasis on design, practical outputs and a multidisciplinary approach. While focusing on UK examples, the lessons are applicable to a wide range of international and economic contexts. This flexible and student-centred approach is highly valued by former graduates and their employers. The course is delivered by staff with many years' experience in practice, education, training, research, and consultancy in the UK and overseas. Outputs from the course combine into a portfolio demonstrating your ability to deal with the complexities of urban design in a practical and informed manner.
Urban Design Postgraduate Diploma
The course places a strong emphasis on design, practical outputs and a multidisciplinary approach. While focusing on UK examples, the lessons are applicable to a wide range of international and economic contexts. This flexible and student-centred approach is highly valued by former graduates and their employers. The course is delivered by staff with many years' experience in practice, education, training, research, and consultancy in the UK and overseas. Outputs from the course combine into a portfolio demonstrating your ability to deal with the complexities of urban design in a practical and informed manner.
Accounting and Finance
You’ll learn through a variety of methods including seminars, workshops and problem-solving exercises. Core modules cover key topics such as accounting, law, audit and taxation, delivered by experienced module leaders. You'll also apply accounting techniques and engage in discussions to deepen your understanding.
Employability is embedded in the curriculum, with workshops and guest speakers from industry. Blended learning, combining face-to-face teaching with online resources, offers flexibility and enhances your independent learning experience.
Arabic and English
Teaching methods include lectures, tutorials, practical sessions, seminars and workshops, as well as independent learning, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via online learning.
Assessment methods include essays, exams, individual and group presentations, projects, and critical analysis.
Arabic and International Business
Our course focuses on active learning, through lectures, seminars, workshops, task-based and blended learning, designed to engage your interest and promote your learning.
You'll study with the latest technology and learning spaces and you'll get extensive hands-on experience with industry partners to prepare you for the real world.
You'll be taught by inspiring and experienced lecturers who will help you develop a wide range of soft skills including communication, critical thinking, problem-solving and time-management in highly interactive and engaging classes.
Assessment methods include e-portfolios, real-world simulation tasks, essays, reports, individual and group presentations and case studies, as well as time-constrained in-class tests and exams.
Years 1 and 2 will provide you with the skills and knowledge to undertake an optional year-long placement in an overseas, Arabic-speaking destination, which could include studying at a recognised educational institution.
You can also choose to study an optional module from a range of topics across the University in each year.
Arabic and International Communication
Our course helps you to achieve a good or high level of linguistic proficiency in Arabic in reading, writing, listening and speaking. It also gives you insight into and practice in communicating internationally as well as mediating between English and Arabic speakers.
The curriculum integrates applied language skills and cultural studies, while ensuring a rigorous development of your foreign language competence in all areas. We teach in an integrated interdisciplinary way, exploring the connections between language and culture and the broader historical and cross-cultural contexts in which they are produced.
You'll improve your ability as an intercultural communicator by studying how our ideas are shaped and communicated in a global society, where our interactions are no longer confined by national, regional or cultural boundaries.
Arabic and International Communication with Foundation
The Foundation year is designed to give you the opportunity to explore new ideas, opening up new perspectives on the key debates within your chosen field. Core modules accelerate your academic and professional development and you will also take modules from areas closely related to your chosen field, giving you the chance to develop a cross-disciplinary perspective on your course.
Arabic and International Relations
Teaching methods include lectures, tutorials, practical sessions, seminars and workshops, but most of your learning is independent, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via online learning.
Assessment methods include essays, exams, individual and group presentations projects, and critical analysis.
Arabic and Linguistics
Our degree offers the exciting combination of the study of Arabic language and culture alongside the wider study of the forms, structures and varieties of language itself.
You'll develop a high level of competence in oral and written communication in Arabic, proficiency in language transfer skills, and a thorough knowledge of Arabic culture. On graduation, you'll be able to thrive linguistically in diverse cultural situations.
You'll study an integrated curriculum with a focus on applied language skills and cultural studies, supported by a rigorous development of your foreign languages skills in all areas. We teach in an integrated interdisciplinary way, exploring the connections between language and culture and the broader historical and cross-cultural contexts in which they are produced.
Architectural Technology
In our dedicated Architectural Technology studio, you'll study architecture fundamentals through theory, sustainability, hand drawing, and physical models. You'll work on real design briefs, gaining a solid understanding of design and construction processes and eventually mastering tools like CAD, graphic software and model-making for communicating design information.
You'll also grasp the multidisciplinary and collaborative nature of the modern construction industry, with opportunities to work alongside students from all construction courses in your first year. This BSc provides a framework for private practice or, with a successful MCIAT chartership, running a business in the architectural and construction sectors. It's ideal for those who love design with a technical focus.
Our courses use an enquiry-based blended learning approach, including workshops, lectures, tutorials, and independent study. Assessment methods include project work, essays, and exams.
Architectural Technology with Foundation
Our Foundation year in Architecture and Design offers an introduction to the creative professions that shape the design of interiors, buildings and urban spaces. Through design projects you'll learn about the spatial, technical and cultural issues, and develop the grounding skills and creative practices necessary for further study. The first semester begins with an exploration of the design and inhabitation of urban space, followed by a materials and making project based in the Fabrication Laboratory, our outstanding Marylebone campus workshop facility. Running alongside these will be studio and field-based exercises to develop your drawing and creative skills. In the second semester, a project on the design of existing spaces will be followed by the development of a creative work driven by your own interests. Students from the Foundation will have the opportunity to exhibit in the School of Architecture and Cities summer exhibition. Your practical development will be accompanied by modules in both semesters on academic skills in writing and critical thinking.
Architecture and Environmental Design
The first year of this course focuses on the principles of environmental and architectural design, and the second year allows students to apply those skills in a wider context. In the final year, students will complete a year-long thesis project.
Architecture and Environmental Design with Foundation
The Foundation year offers an introduction to the creative professional field of architecture that shapes our built environment. Year 1 of this course focuses on the principles of environmental and architectural design, and Year 2 allows students to apply those skills in a wider context. In the final year, students will complete a year-long thesis project.
Architecture with Foundation
Our Foundation year in Architecture and Design offers an introduction to the creative professions that shape the design of interiors, buildings and urban spaces. Through design projects you'll learn about the spatial, technical and cultural issues, and develop the grounding skills and creative practices necessary for further study. The first semester begins with an exploration of the design and inhabitation of urban space, followed by a materials and making project based in the Fabrication Laboratory, our outstanding Marylebone campus workshop facility. Running alongside these will be studio and field-based exercises to develop your drawing and creative skills. In the second semester, a project on the design of existing spaces will be followed by the development of a creative work driven by your own interests. Students from the Foundation will have the opportunity to exhibit in the School of Architecture and Cities summer exhibition. Your practical development will be accompanied by modules in both semesters on academic skills in writing and critical thinking.
Biochemistry
The general principles of biochemistry, cell biology and human physiology are established at Credit Level 4. Your understanding of molecular biology and genetics, metabolism, protein chemistry and enzyme function and other aspects of cellular function are then developed at Credit Levels 5 and 6. A number of options are also offered, allowing you to pursue your own interests within biochemistry and its associated disciplines.
Learning and teaching opportunities are a mixture of face-to-face teaching (lectures, seminars, tutorials and practicals), independent work, laboratory work and online support activities.
The range of assessment methods includes exams, laboratory practicals, essays, blogs, posters and presentations.
Biochemistry with Foundation
The general principles of biochemistry, cell biology and human physiology are established at Credit Level 4. Your understanding of molecular biology and genetics, metabolism, protein chemistry and enzyme function and other aspects of cellular function are then developed at Credit Levels 5 and 6. A number of options are also offered, allowing you to pursue your own interests within biochemistry and its associated disciplines.
Learning and teaching opportunities are a mixture of face-to-face teaching (lectures, seminars, tutorials and practicals), independent work, laboratory work and online support activities.
The range of assessment methods includes exams, laboratory practicals, essays, blogs, posters and presentations.
Biological Sciences
Our course is designed so that you can follow one of three routes: molecular science, environmental and microbiology or human biology. However, the flexibility of the program enables you to construct your own thread through the broad range of module choices.
Learning and teaching opportunities are a mixture of face-to-face teaching (lectures, seminars, tutorials, field-trips and practicals), independent work, group work, laboratory classes, virtual simulations and online support activities.
The range of assessment methods includes laboratory practical skills, data analysis, practical proformas, essays, wikis, blogs, posters, presentations and exams.
Biological Sciences with Foundation
Our course is designed so that you can follow one of three routes: molecular science, environmental and microbiology or human biology. However, the flexibility of the program enables you to construct your own thread through the broad range of module choices.
Learning and teaching opportunities are a mixture of face-to-face teaching (lectures, seminars, tutorials, field-trips and practicals), independent work, group work, laboratory classes, virtual simulations and online support activities.
The range of assessment methods includes laboratory practical skills, data analysis, practical proformas, essays, wikis, blogs, posters, presentations and exams.
Biomedical Science
Teaching includes tutorials, lectures and seminars, practical laboratory work and group activities, together with supervised use of facilities. Assessment is through a combination of exams and coursework (including essays, practical work, group work, presentations and reports).
You’ll receive continuous feedback through online activities, group and one-to-one tutorials and periodic reviews, designed to give you multiple points of guidance throughout your studies.
Biomedical Science with Foundation
Teaching includes tutorials, lectures and seminars, practical laboratory work and group activities, together with supervised use of facilities. Assessment is through a combination of exams and coursework (including essays, practical work, group work, presentations and reports).
You’ll receive continuous feedback through online activities, group and one-to-one tutorials and periodic reviews, designed to give you multiple points of guidance throughout your studies.
Business Computing
You'll learn through a mixture of lectures, practical tutorials, laboratory sessions and independent study.
In Year 1 you will be introduced to business computing and information systems fundamentals, concepts, components and architectures.
In Years 2 and 3 you will follow the Specialist Themes that interest you the most.
Business Computing with Foundation
You'll learn through a mixture of lectures, practical tutorials, laboratory sessions and independent study.
In Year 1 you will be introduced to business computing and information systems fundamentals, concepts, components and architectures.
In Years 2 and 3 you will follow the Specialist Themes that interest you the most.
Business Management
This degree program is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of business operations and strategies for competitive advantage.
During your studies, you will engage in a mix of core and elective modules. The programme's flexibility enables you to focus on areas that align with your evolving interests and career goals. You can pursue a broad-based business education or specialise in business fields including sustainable business, economics, entrepreneurship, human resource management or marketing.
Business Management (Digital Business)
Digital business experts collate, manipulate and interpret data to inform decisions, keep abreast of ongoing developments in digital business management and guide strategic decision-making. This degree combines general business knowledge with key aspects of digital business. You’ll gain a solid understanding of areas such as managing people, operations, logistics and marketing. In each year of study, you will take a combination of core and optional modules, which cover specialisms such as web-enabled business or digital analytics, for example.
Business Management (Entrepreneurship)
This degree combines general business knowledge with key theories and concepts in entrepreneurship, enterprise and innovation. You'll consider how organisations function and the available routes to new venture creation in different circumstances, such as small businesses, family businesses, not-for-profit organisations and large established corporations. You'll also gain a solid understanding of areas such as managing people, operations, logistics, marketing and business ethics. In each year of study, you will take a combination of core and optional modules which cover specialisms such as entrepreneurial practice or social media for business, for example.
Business Management (Human Resources Management)
This degree aims to provide an excellent platform for career success as a capable, confident and business-savvy HR professional. It will help you develop skills across a number of business disciplines so that you understand what makes a business tick and how to drive a business to succeed through its workforce. In each year of study, you will take a combination of core and optional modules.
Business Management (Marketing)
This degree offers excellent flexibility and combines a general understanding of businesses with specialist marketing management knowledge. You’ll cover the core concepts, practices and techniques of management and marketing, such as decision-making, marketing strategy, consumer behaviour, marketing research, market analysis, brand building and communications, and gain an understanding of the broader economic context of business.
Business Management with Foundation
This degree will help you understand what makes a business tick and how to drive a business to succeed. In each year of study, you will take a combination of core and option modules. The flexible nature of the course allows you to choose topics that most suit your interests or career aspirations – even if these change as your course progresses. You can build your own general business degree or choose to specialise in subjects such as economics, entrepreneurship, human resource management, digital business or marketing.
Chinese and English
Teaching methods include lectures, tutorials, practical sessions, seminars and workshops, as well as independent learning, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via online learning.
Assessment methods include essays, exams, individual and group presentations, projects, and critical analysis.
Chinese and International Business
Our course focuses on active learning, through lectures, seminars, workshops, task-based and blended learning, designed to engage your interest and promote your learning.
You'll study with the latest technology and learning spaces and you'll get extensive hands-on experience with industry partners to prepare you for the real world.
You'll be taught by inspiring and experienced lecturers who will help you develop a wide range of soft skills including communication, critical thinking, problem-solving and time-management in highly interactive and engaging classes.
Assessment methods include e-portfolios, real-world simulation tasks, essays, reports, individual and group presentations and case studies, as well as time-constrained in-class tests and exams.
Years 1 and 2 will provide you with the skills and knowledge to undertake an optional year-long placement in an overseas, Chinese-speaking destination, which could include studying at a recognised educational institution.
You can also choose to study an optional module from a range of topics across the University in each year.
Chinese and International Communication
Studying the Chinese and International Communication BA, you'll acquire qualities and skills in areas such as interpersonal communication and organisational skills, analysis and argument, autonomy and team working, and team management. You'll also build your flexibility, tolerance and organisational skills to enable you to be an effective international communicator. On graduation, you'll be able to thrive linguistically in diverse cultural situations.
Between Years 2 and 3, you’ll have the option to spend a full academic year abroad at one of our partner institutions. This will give you a valuable opportunity to boost your employability while improving your language competence.
Chinese and International Communication with Foundation
The Foundation year is designed to give you the opportunity to explore new ideas, opening up new perspectives on the key debates within your chosen field. Core modules accelerate your academic and professional development and you will also take modules from areas closely related to your chosen field, giving you the chance to develop a cross-disciplinary perspective on your course.
Chinese and International Relations
Teaching methods include lectures, tutorials, practical sessions, seminars and workshops, but most of your learning is independent, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via online learning.
Assessment methods include essays, exams, individual and group presentation projects, and critical analysis.
Chinese and Linguistics
Our degree offers the exciting combination of the study of Chinese language and culture alongside the wider study of the forms, structures and varieties of language itself.
You'll develop a high level of competence in oral and written communication in Chinese, proficiency in language transfer skills, and a thorough knowledge of Chinese culture. On graduation, you'll be able to thrive linguistically in diverse cultural situations.
You'll study an integrated curriculum with a focus on applied language skills and cultural studies, supported by a rigorous development of your foreign languages skills in all areas. We teach in an integrated interdisciplinary way, exploring the connections between language and culture and the broader historical and cross-cultural contexts in which they are produced.
Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience
Teaching methods include lectures, seminars, practical classes and laboratory work, supported by online material and periods of independent study.
Assessment methods may include exams, in-class tests, essays, oral and poster presentations, debates, case studies, and laboratory, practical and technical reports.
Computer Games Development
As part of the main computer science stream, our games development course aims to produce graduates with a solid background in software engineering, to help shape the future of the computer science creative industry. The course content is contemporary and shaped for employability through close links with local and national employers.
You'll spend around 12-15 hours per week in lectures, tutorials and laboratories. Lectures are used to present key concepts, theories and techniques. Tutorials and laboratory-based activities increase your understanding of the subject and allow you to develop your competence and confidence in technological and theoretical work.
During the course, you'll be required to actively participate in group work, discussions, seminars, and private study.
Due to the practical nature of this course, assessment is extremely varied and includes academic and evaluative reports, case studies, oral presentations, practical projects, in-class tests and work portfolios.
Computer Games Development with Foundation
As part of the main computer science stream, our games development course aims to produce graduates with a solid background in software engineering, to help shape the future of the computer science creative industry. The course content is contemporary and shaped for employability through close links with local and national employers.
You'll spend around 12-15 hours per week in lectures, tutorials and laboratories. Lectures are used to present key concepts, theories and techniques. Tutorials and laboratory-based activities increase your understanding of the subject and allow you to develop your competence and confidence in technological and theoretical work.
During the course, you'll be required to actively participate in group work, discussions, seminars, and private study.
Due to the practical nature of this course, assessment is extremely varied and includes academic and evaluative reports, case studies, oral presentations, practical projects, in-class tests and work-portfolios.
Computer Science
You'll use industrial tools and techniques throughout our course and graduate well versed in all aspects of the software lifecycle. You'll have the chance to apply your new knowledge and skills to real-world problems, usually in the form of a small-scale project set by an external organisation. As well as the technical skills you'll develop as part of this project, and you'll build vital transferable skills around the areas of commercial awareness, leadership and organisation.
After completing your second year, you'll have the opportunity to do a one-year work placement. Placements will help you to gain work experience and enhance your employability after you graduate. Help and support are always available to find and secure placement opportunities through various workshops and events organised by the University's Careers and Employability Service and our course team.
Computer Science with Foundation
The Foundation year is designed to give you the opportunity to explore new ideas, opening up new perspectives on the key debates within your chosen field. During the foundation year, you will explore a range of creative disciplines and get a chance to develop in your chosen field, benefiting from workshops in our high-end facilities and working with leading academics who will encourage you to become a confident and creative thinker. Core modules accelerate your academic and professional development and you will also take modules within your chosen field, giving you the chance to develop a cross-disciplinary perspective on your course.
Construction Management
The principles of construction technology, professional practice, ethics, health and safety, and the Construction Design and Management Regulations (CDM) are fundamental to the delivery of the built environment and are covered at each level in the programme. You will also gain knowledge of the professional, managerial and legal aspects of construction and digital practice, which is increasing in construction and will affect working practices, decision-making and efficiency in project delivery, and sustainability.
Please note: this course is also offered as part of a degree apprenticeship programme.
Construction Management with Foundation
The principles of construction technology, professional practice, ethics, health and safety, and the Construction Design and Management Regulations (CDM) are fundamental to the delivery of the built environment and are covered at each level in the programme. You will also gain knowledge of the professional, managerial and legal aspects of construction and digital practice, which is increasing in construction and will affect working practices, decision-making and efficiency in project delivery, and sustainability.
Creative and Professional Writing
This course focuses on your writing practice, so you’ll learn continuously through the processes of drafting and redrafting your work. Your core modules dedicate time to tutorials where you'll meet your module teacher to discuss your work in progress. You'll also learn from your peers as you share your work in seminars or writing workshops.
In each year of the course, you'll have a tutorial module, where you take part in weekly timetabled meetings in a small group with your Academic Tutor. This allows you to bring together learning from your different modules, develop projects, work through assessment preparation and feedback, and personalise your learning experience.
In your third year, you'll choose between the creative writing or professional writing project, designing your own extended piece of work according to your areas of interest.
Creative Computing
This course will provide you with essential scripting skills and hands-on experience using industry-standard tools, focusing on web and 3D technologies. This preparation ensures that you’ll graduate with the technical expertise and skills needed for various careers in creative technology industries.
Creative Computing with Foundation
The foundation year is designed to give you the opportunity to explore new ideas, opening up new perspectives on the key debates within your chosen field. During the foundation year, you will explore a range of creative disciplines and get a chance to develop in your chosen field, benefiting from workshops in our high-end facilities and working with leading academics who will encourage you to become a confident and creative thinker. Core modules accelerate your academic and professional development and you will also take modules within your chosen field, giving you the chance to develop a cross-disciplinary perspective on your course.
Creative Media Arts
You'll be taught through a mix of workshops, group and individual tutorials, and lectures supporting the development of your practical and conceptual skills.
Assessment methods include submission of practical projects and research material, live crits, seminar presentations, visual essays and online study tasks.
Creative Media Arts with Foundation
You'll be taught through a mix of workshops, group and individual tutorials, and lectures supporting the development of your practical and conceptual skills.
Assessment methods include submission of practical projects and research material, live crits, seminar presentations, visual essays and online study tasks.
Creative Writing and English Language
In each year of study, our modules will deepen your knowledge of the English language and its use and develop your writing abilities. In your third year, you'll produce either a single substantial work (chapters from a novel or a play) or a portfolio of shorter work (short fiction or poetry).
Our main mode of teaching is through seminars and workshops, but much of your learning is independent, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via online learning.
Assessment methods include essays, exams, creative exercises, presentations, blogs and portfolios.
Creative Writing and English Literature
At each Credit Level you'll focus on both writing in particular genres and forms, and studying literature of different periods, authors or genres, alongside an examination of the tools of literary enquiry in your study of literary theories and the history of ideas.
The main modes of teaching are seminars, workshops, lectures and field trips, but much of your learning is independent, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via online learning.
Assessment methods include essays, creative exercises, critical analyses, reviews, exams, presentations, journals, blogs and portfolios.
Creative Writing and English Literature with Foundation
At each credit level you'll focus on both writing in particular genres and forms, and studying literature of different periods, authors or genres, alongside an examination of the tools of literary enquiry in your study of literary theories and the history of ideas.
The main modes of teaching are seminars, workshops, lectures and field trips, but much of your learning is independent, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via online learning.
Assessment methods include essays, creative exercises, critical analyses, reviews, examinations, presentations, journals, blogs and portfolios.
Criminology
Teaching and learning methods include lectures, seminars, independent study, and off-site learning such as visits and field walks which make use of Westminster's central London location.
Assessment methods may include essays, debates, criminal justice policy analysis, individual and group presentations, exams, statistical analyses, and your dissertation.
Criminology with Foundation
Teaching and learning methods include lectures, seminars, independent study, and off-site learning such as visits and field walks which make use of Westminster's central London location.
Assessment methods may include essays, debates, criminal justice policy analysis, individual and group presentations, exams, statistical analyses, and your dissertation.
Culture, Environment and Social Change
On this course, you'll examine how the historical forces of colonialism and capitalism have laid the foundations for contemporary environmental and social crises, learn how to critically analyse the ways humans understand, experience and impact the natural world and gain a clear understanding of how cultural media and institutions have shaped the evolving relationships between societies and environments in the Global North and South.
The core modules have been designed to introduce you to key ideas and theories in environmental humanities and social justice. These are combined with a broad range of option modules, enabling you to tailor your degree to your individual interests. You can develop a specialism in Language and Communication, Law, or Politics. You can also select a range of optional modules from English Literature, Creative Writing, Sociology, and History, allowing you to experience different methodological perspectives on contemporary environmental and social issues.
Cyber Security and Forensics with Foundation
You'll learn through a mixture of lectures, practical tutorials, laboratory sessions and independent study.
In Year 1 you’ll be introduced to the fundamentals of computer systems and cyber security.
In Years 2 and 3 you’ll apply your knowledge to practical assignments and learn critical project management and professional skills.
This degree includes an optional year abroad or placement.
Data Science and Analytics with Foundation
The foundation year is designed to give you the opportunity to explore new ideas, opening up new perspectives on the key debates within your chosen field. During the foundation year, you will explore a range of creative disciplines and get a chance to develop in your chosen field, benefiting from workshops in our high-end facilities and working with leading academics who will encourage you to become a confident and creative thinker. Core modules accelerate your academic and professional development and you will also take modules within your chosen field, giving you the chance to develop a cross-disciplinary perspective on your course.
Digital Marketing
The course is designed to meet industry needs in combining user-centred, creative, media and marketing communications with strategic marketing, analysis and management. It covers understanding digital consumer behaviour; developing digital and channel marketing strategies; employing digital tactics, tools and channels; and applying data-led approaches to planning, measurement and analysis.
Digital Media and Communication
During your first year, you’ll study alongside students on the other Digital Media BA pathways.
At the end of your first year, you'll have the choice to continue with Digital Media and Communication or change your specialism to one of our other Digital Media pathways in Media Production, Journalism or PR and Advertising. Each pathway will give you a distinctive preparation in one of the most important fields of digital media.
These pathways, along with a variety of optional modules, provide you with the opportunity to customise your degree and expertise according to your interests and career objectives.
Your final degree award will reflect this specialism, eg Digital Media and Communication BA (Hons).
Digital Media and Journalism
During your first year, you’ll study alongside students on the other Digital Media BA pathways.
At the end of your first year, you'll have the choice to continue with Digital Media and Journalism or change your specialism to one of our other Digital Media pathways in Communication, PR and Advertising or Media Production. Each pathway will give you a distinctive preparation in one of the most important fields of digital media.
These pathways, along with a variety of optional modules, provide you with the opportunity to customise your degree and expertise according to your interests and career objectives.
Your final degree award will reflect this specialism, e.g. Digital Media and Journalism BA (Hons).
Digital Media Production
During your first year, you’ll study alongside students on the other Digital Media BA pathways.
At the end of your first year, you'll have the choice to continue with Digital Media Production or change your specialism to one of our other Digital Media pathways in Communication, Journalism or PR and Advertising. Each pathway will give you a distinctive preparation in one of the most important fields of digital media.
These pathways, along with a variety of optional modules, provide you with the opportunity to customise your degree and expertise according to your interests and career objectives.
Your final degree award will reflect this specialism, e.g. Digital Media Production BA (Hons).
Digital Media, Public Relations and Advertising
During your first year, you’ll study alongside students on the other Digital Media BA pathways.
At the end of your first year, you'll have the choice to continue with Digital Media, PR and Advertising or change your specialism to one of our other Digital Media pathways in Communication, Journalism or Media Production. Each pathway will give you a distinctive preparation in one of the most important fields of digital media.
These pathways, along with a variety of optional modules, provide you with the opportunity to customise your degree and expertise according to your interests and career objectives.
Your final degree award will reflect this specialism, e.g. Digital Media, PR and Advertising BA (Hons).
Economics and Management
This degree combines general business knowledge with key theories and concepts in economics and their application in international business. You’ll gain a solid understanding of areas such as managing people, operations, logistics, marketing and business ethics. In each year of study, you will take a combination of core and optional modules which cover specialisms such as economic forecasting or information and digital economics, for example.
Economics
This degree aims to provide you with a solid understanding of economic theories, economic policy making, econometric techniques, quantitative analysis and analytical reasoning. You’ll learn to appreciate the decision-making process and develop your critical thinking, graduating with a unique skillset sought-after by future employers.
In each year of study, you will be offered a choice of applied economic modules, as well as specialist economics or more general business modules. You also have the opportunity to study a foreign language, including Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese or Spanish. This is an excellent idea if you want to broaden your horizons and experience another culture, particularly if you see yourself working abroad or for an international company in the future. Recent students have visited partner institutions including Copenhagen Business School in Denmark and the University of Technology Sydney in Australia.
English Language and International Communication
Teaching and learning take place through a combination of weekly tutorials, lectures, seminars and practical workshops. You're also given exposure to professionally relevant simulations and real-work environments and guided self-study and preparation.
Learning on the degree takes place in the classroom through small problem-solving exercises (both in groups and individually), through traditional lecturer-led dissemination of information, and via peer presentations and discussions.
Assessments typically comprise a mixture of formative in-class coursework and summative projects, oral presentations and unseen written exams. You'll be asked to adapt texts, carry out analyses of language data, critical reading, write reviews, reports and essays, give individual and group presentations, and sit some exams.
English Language and Linguistics with Foundation
You'll mostly be taught through seminars of 15-25 students with some larger lectures, but you'll also benefit from weekly small-group tutorials of 5-7 students. The tutorials are designed to support your individual learning needs in the first two years of the course, enhancing your study and employability skills within a supportive framework.
Much of your learning is independent and conducted (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via our online learning system, Blackboard. The tutorials provide essential support for this kind of university-level study.
Assessment methods range from small analytic exercises of language data, small research projects, and presentations, through to the preparation and writing of a Dissertation in the final year. Essays and analytic written reports also feature as part of the assessed coursework.
You can study option modules each year from a range of modules in the school and across the University, including Polylang - our language programme - which allows you to study another language. In Year 3 you complete a dissertation in a topic chosen by you, with one-to-one support from your supervisor.
English Literature and History
The main modes of teaching are seminars, workshops, lectures and field trips, and much of your learning is independent, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via online learning.
Assessment methods include essays, critical analyses, exams, presentations, journals, portfolios and your dissertation.
You'll take some core modules in each of English and History, and the options allow you vary the balance of the two subject areas according to your interests. In Year 3 you'll complete the English Literature and History dissertation which allows you to refine and showcase, via a topic of your choosing, the skills developed over the course of your degree.
English Literature and Language
There is a range of optional modules available from within the School of Humanities and across the University in each year of study. In Year 3 you have a particularly extensive array of modules to choose from, which allows you to tailor the degree to your own interests and future aspirations. In Year 3 you also complete a dissertation in a topic of your choice, with one-to-one supervisory support.
Our principal mode of teaching is through seminars of 15-25 students, with some larger university lectures. A key feature of our degree is our weekly small group tutorials (five to eight students per tutor). These are designed to support your own individual learning needs as you go through the first two years. The tutorials are specific to this degree and provide an important space for you to find suitable support in your studies more generally, alongside enhancing your study and employability skills.
At university, much of your learning is independent, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via our online learning system (Blackboard), and the tutorials provide essential support for independent study.
Assessment on the English Literature and Language BA varies from traditional essays, presentations and small analytic exercises of texts through to the preparation and execution of small research projects and ultimately the preparation and writing of your own dissertation in the final year. Some modules combine coursework with a short exam.
English Literature and Language with Foundation
There is a range of optional modules available from within the School of Humanities and across the University in each year of study. In Year 3 you have a particularly extensive array of modules to choose from, which allows you to tailor the degree to your own interests and future aspirations. In Year 3 you also complete a dissertation in a topic of your choice, with one-to-one supervisory support.
Our principal mode of teaching is through seminars of 15-25 students, with some larger university lectures. A key feature of our degree is our weekly small group tutorials (five to eight students per tutor). These are designed to support your own individual learning needs as you go through the first two years. The tutorials are specific to this degree and provide an important space for you to find suitable support in your studies more generally, alongside enhancing your study and employability skills.
At university, much of your learning is independent, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via our online learning system (Blackboard), and the tutorials provide essential support for independent study.
Assessment on the English Literature and Language BA varies from traditional essays, presentations and small analytic exercises of texts through to the preparation and execution of small research projects and ultimately the preparation and writing of your own dissertation in the final year. Some modules combine coursework with a short exam.
English Literature
There is a range of optional modules available from within the School of Humanities and across the University in each year of study. In Year 3, you have a particularly extensive array of modules to choose from, which allows you to tailor the degree to your own interests and future aspirations. In Year 3, you also complete a dissertation in a topic of your choice, with one-to-one supervisory support.
Our principal mode of teaching is through seminars of 15-25 students, with some larger university lectures. A key feature of our degree is our weekly small group tutorials (about five students per tutor). These are designed to support your own individual learning needs as you go through the first two years. The tutorials are specific to this degree and provide an important space for you to find personalised support in your studies more generally, alongside enhancing your study and employability skills.
As with all university study, much of your learning is independent, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via our online learning system (Blackboard), and the tutorials provide essential support for independent study.
Assessment on the English Literature BA varies from traditional essays, presentations and small analytic exercises of texts through to small research projects and ultimately the preparation and writing of your own dissertation in the final year. Some modules combine coursework with a short exam.
English Literature with Foundation
There is a range of optional modules available from within the School of Humanities and across the University in each year of study. In Year 3, you have a particularly extensive array of modules to choose from, which allows you to tailor the degree to your own interests and future aspirations. In Year 3, you also complete a dissertation in a topic of your choice, with one-to-one supervisory support.
Our principal mode of teaching is through seminars of 15-25 students, with some larger university lectures. A key feature of our degree is our weekly small group tutorials (about five students per tutor). These are designed to support your own individual learning needs as you go through the first two years. The tutorials are specific to this degree and provide an important space for you to find personalised support in your studies more generally, alongside enhancing your study and employability skills.
As with all university study, much of your learning is independent, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via our online learning system (Blackboard), and the tutorials provide essential support for independent study.
Assessment on the English Literature BA varies from traditional essays, presentations and small analytic exercises of texts through to small research projects and ultimately the preparation and writing of your own dissertation in the final year. Some modules combine coursework with a short exam.
European Legal Studies
Teaching methods include lectures, seminar-based discussion, class presentations, invited guest speakers and practical group exercises.
Assessment methods include open- and closed-book exams, in-class tests, oral presentations, and written coursework.
Fashion Business Management with Professional Experience
This is a modular course with interactive sessions covering the academic, practical and applied elements of fashion business management.
Fashion Design
We use several different teaching and learning methods to enable students to develop an imaginative and creative approach to their discipline, based on increasing knowledge of practice and transferable skills.
Learning takes place through a combination of face-to-face teaching and independent study, including lectures, seminars and practical workshops.
Fashion Marketing and Promotion
Teaching and learning are interactive, covering academic, creative practice and industry-applied elements.
You'll learn through a broad mix of lectures, group and individual tutorials, crits, and workshops, supporting the development of skills across fashion promotion and marketing.
We use a variety of assessment methods, including practical projects, presentations, written work, blogs, websites, research tasks and portfolios.
Fashion Photography
The Photography BA and Fashion Photography BA begin with a shared first year, before branching into specialised pathways. These pathways, along with a variety of optional modules, provide you with the opportunity to customise your degree and expertise according to your interests and career objectives.
You can also choose to study an Elective, a selection of modules from across the whole University curriculum, which will allow you to enrich your academic journey.
You may choose to take an optional year-long paid internship or placement between years 2 and 3 or study abroad with one of our overseas exchange partners.
Fashion Photography with Foundation
The Photography BA and Fashion Photography BA begin with a shared first year, before branching into specialised pathways. These pathways, along with a variety of optional modules, provide you with the opportunity to customise your degree and expertise according to your interests and career objectives.
You can also choose to study an Elective, a selection of modules from across the whole University curriculum, which will allow you to enrich your academic journey.
You may choose to take an optional year-long paid internship or placement between years 2 and 3 or study abroad with one of our overseas exchange partners.
Film
The course emphasises group work, with students participating in small-scale productions in the first year and larger groups in the second year. This film practice gives students the opportunity to explore different disciplines, before finding a specialism in the second year.
The teaching of craft and theory is taught through a combination of workshops, tutorials, seminars, lectures and feedback sessions, introducing students to skill-based crew roles and critical literacy which are both crucial to a successful career in film. Course work is assessed through creative projects, critical essays, self-reflective writing or portfolios, and presentations.
Finance and Business Management
This degree combines business and analytical skills with sound financial knowledge to help inform business strategy. In each year of study, you will take a combination of core and option modules, which cover specialisms such as personal finance or international financial management. The flexible nature of the course allows you to choose topics that most suit your interests or career aspirations – even if these change as your course progresses.
Finance
On this degree, you’ll gain an in-depth knowledge of modern finance theories and their applications, developing your critical thinking around finance related themes such as investments, risk management, financial modelling, security analysis and banking. You’ll learn about business organisations: their purposes, structures and governance in a global context and, in doing so, deepen your understanding of the financial drivers of business strategy, planning, governance and ethics. In each year of study, as an example you will take a combination of core and option modules which cover specialisms such as banking theory or corporate governance.
Financial Economics
This degree aims to provide you with a solid understanding of underlying economic theories, principles and their financial applications in a variety of contexts, such as financial markets, the banking system, or global financial strategy. You’ll learn to interpret financial data and carry out statistical and financial analysis to plan and manage risk, engaging with specialist topics including principles of financial intermediation, bank regulation and supervision as well as applied portfolio management.
In each year of study, you will be offered a choice of applied financial economic modules, as well as more general economic modules which consider the impact of economics on sport industry finances, for example. You also have the opportunity to study a foreign language, including Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese or Spanish. This is an excellent idea if you want to broaden your horizons and experience another culture, particularly if you see yourself working abroad or for an international company in the future. Recent students have visited partner institutions including Copenhagen Business School in Denmark and the University of Technology Sydney in Australia.
Fine Art Mixed Media
The course emphasis on creativity and individuality is supported by regular tutorials and studio discussion. This encourages you to explore different approaches to practice, coupled with technical introductions and workshops, enabling you to conceive increasingly ambitious projects.
Contemporary fine art practice is the focus of debate in both lectures and the studio, supported by the programme of visiting artists and lecturers. You'll develop increasing insight into the exciting and diverse contemporary London art scene.
In Years 2 and 3, you will continue to focus on your chosen area of practice. Experimentation and innovation are consolidated, and you'll undertake a work placement within the creative industries to test your emerging aspirations.
Contextual studies, theory and practice are allied, with you defining the topic through tutorial discussion for your Research Project. The final year culminates in the degree show, and you'll engage in fundraising, promotion and curation of this public event.
Fine Art Mixed Media with Foundation
The course emphasis on creativity and individuality is supported by regular tutorials and studio discussion. This encourages you to explore different approaches to practice, coupled with technical introductions and workshops, enabling you to conceive increasingly ambitious projects.
Contemporary fine art practice is the focus of debate in both lectures and the studio, supported by the programme of visiting artists and lecturers. You'll develop increasing insight into the exciting and diverse contemporary London art scene.
In Years 2 and 3, you will continue to focus on your chosen area of practice. Experimentation and innovation are consolidated, and you'll undertake a work placement within the creative industries to test your emerging aspirations.
Contextual studies, theory and practice are allied, with you defining the topic through tutorial discussion for your Research Project. The final year culminates in the degree show, and you'll engage in fundraising, promotion and curation of this public event.
FinTech with Data Analytics
This course will enable you to specialise in the areas of financial and business analytics where technology is being used to improve organisational and business practices.
In each year of study, you will take a combination of core and option modules, covering specialisms such as Entrepreneurship in FinTech, Blockchain and Cloud Computing, and Big Data Management for Finance.
You will be taught through a combination of lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials and will be encouraged to reflect on and further develop your skills and knowledge with the support of lecturers and personal tutors.
French and English
Teaching methods include lectures, tutorials, practical sessions, seminars and workshops, as well as independent learning, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via online learning.
Assessment methods include essays, exams, individual and group presentations, projects, and critical analysis.
French and International Business
Our course focuses on active learning, through lectures, seminars, workshops, task-based and blended learning, designed to engage your interest and promote your learning.
You'll study with the latest technology and learning spaces and you'll get extensive hands-on experience with industry partners to prepare you for the real world.
You'll be taught by inspiring and experienced lecturers who will help you develop a wide range of soft skills including communication, critical thinking, problem-solving and time-management in highly interactive and engaging classes.
Assessment methods include e-portfolios, real-world simulation tasks, essays, reports, individual and group presentations and case studies, as well as time-constrained in-class tests and exams.
Years 1 and 2 will provide you with the skills and knowledge to undertake an optional year-long placement in an overseas, French-speaking destination, which could include studying at a recognised educational institution.
You can also choose to study an optional module from a range of topics across the University in each year.
French and International Communication
Our course helps you to achieve a good or high level of linguistic proficiency in French in reading, writing, listening and speaking. It also gives you insight into and practice in communicating internationally as well as mediating between English and French speakers.
The curriculum integrates applied language skills and cultural studies, while ensuring a rigorous development of your foreign language competence in all areas. We teach in an integrated interdisciplinary way, exploring the connections between language and culture and the broader historical and cross-cultural contexts in which they are produced.
You'll improve your ability as an intercultural communicator by studying how our ideas are shaped and communicated in a global society, where our interactions are no longer confined by national, regional or cultural boundaries.
French and International Communication with Foundation
The Foundation year is designed to give you the opportunity to explore new ideas, opening up new perspectives on the key debates within your chosen field. Core modules accelerate your academic and professional development and you will also take modules from areas closely related to your chosen field, giving you the chance to develop a cross-disciplinary perspective on your course.
French and International Relations
Teaching methods include lectures, tutorials, practical sessions, seminars and workshops, but most of your learning is independent, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via online learning.
Assessment methods include essays, exams, individual and group presentation projects, and critical analysis.
French and Linguistics
Our degree offers the exciting combination of the study of French language and culture alongside the wider study of the forms, structures and varieties of language itself.
You'll develop a high level of competence in oral and written communication in French, proficiency in language transfer skills, and a thorough knowledge of French culture. On graduation, you'll be able to thrive linguistically in diverse cultural situations.
You'll study an integrated curriculum with a focus on applied language skills and cultural studies, supported by a rigorous development of your foreign languages skills in all areas. We teach in an integrated interdisciplinary way, exploring the connections between language and culture and the broader historical and cross-cultural contexts in which they are produced.
Games Art
The Games Art BA and Games Design BA begin with a shared first year, before branching into specialised pathways. These pathways, along with a variety of optional modules, provide you with the opportunity to customise your degree and expertise according to your interests and career objectives.
You’ll have the opportunity to learn from industry professionals throughout the course. You can also benefit from our industry links by opting to complete a work placement year or expand your educational experience by studying aboard between Years 2 and 3.
Games Art with Foundation
The Games Art BA and Games Design BA begin with a shared first year, before branching into specialised pathways. These pathways, along with a variety of optional modules, provide you with the opportunity to customise your degree and expertise according to your interests and career objectives.
You’ll have the opportunity to learn from industry professionals throughout the course. You can also benefit from our industry links by opting to complete a work placement year or expand your educational experience by studying aboard between Years 2 and 3.
Games Design
The Games Design BA and Games Art BA begin with a shared first year, before branching into specialised pathways. These pathways, along with a variety of optional modules, provide you with the opportunity to customise your degree and expertise according to your interests and career objectives.
You’ll have the opportunity to learn from industry professionals throughout the course. You can also benefit from our industry links by opting to complete a work placement year or expand your educational experience by studying aboard between Years 2 and 3.
Games Design with Foundation
The Games Design BA and Games Art BA begin with a shared first year, before branching into specialised pathways. These pathways, along with a variety of optional modules, provide you with the opportunity to customise your degree and expertise according to your interests and career objectives.
You’ll have the opportunity to learn from industry professionals throughout the course. You can also benefit from our industry links by opting to complete a work placement year or expand your educational experience by studying aboard between Years 2 and 3.
Global Challenges
This course has a particular focus on responding to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), highlighting the importance of promoting just, peaceful and inclusive societies, reducing poverty and hunger, ensuring health and wellbeing, achieving gender and racial equality, delivering a net zero future, bringing dignity to work, and enabling sustainable futures through decisive action on climate change.
You'll explore societal challenges on local, national and global levels and adopt an interdisciplinary approach to address these issues head-on. Combining core and optional modules from politics, international relations, sociology, criminology, law, health and nutrition to psychology and sustainability, you’ll gain a unique perspective and be well-equipped to enact positive change. In the final year of the course, your broad knowledge will allow you to develop an innovative final project on an area you are passionate about and create workable solutions to global challenges.
Accounting and Business Management
This degree combines general business knowledge with specialist financial analysis and reporting that helps inform and monitor business strategy. In each year of study, you will take a combination of core modules and one optional, which cover specialisms such as personal finance or international financial management, for example, or an elective module, which includes the Polylang language programme.
Global Trade and Business
This one-year top-up degree aims to develop your specialist knowledge of international trade, together with the businesses and organisations who engage in and regulate it at a regional and global level. Our focus on problem-solving and decision-making aims to give you strategic perspective and the ability to see the bigger picture of how international businesses plan, prepare and operate, and their sources of accountability internally and externally.
For your Global Trade and Business Project, you will spend a semester researching and studying a topic of your choice in depth under the guidance of a supervisor. To prepare you for this, you’ll participate in a series of structured seminars and workshops to develop your skills in data collection, data presentation, analysis and interpretation. The international work visit gives you a greater appreciation of the decision-making process for business and commerce, enabling you to graduate with a global outlook and experience that is much sought-after by future employers.
To ensure you develop sufficient, relevant knowledge and skills, you study six core modules.
Graphic Design
Each year you’ll study a mix of core and collaborative modules complementing these with choices from a wide and varied range of optional modules. You’ll learn through a dynamic mix of formats including workshops, lectures, seminars, critiques and technical sessions. In project work you’ll collaborate with students from your course and other disciplines, helping you to build your team-working and communication skills.
You’ll also get to hear talks from visiting industry speakers, take part in workshops, and go on trips into central London to museums, galleries and design fairs.
Graphic Design with Foundation
Each year you’ll study a mix of core and collaborative modules complementing these with choices from a wide and varied range of optional modules. You’ll learn through a dynamic mix of formats including workshops, lectures, seminars, critiques and technical sessions. In project work you’ll collaborate with students from your course and other disciplines, helping you to build your team-working and communication skills.
You’ll also get to hear talks from visiting industry speakers, take part in workshops, and go on trips into central London to museums, galleries and design fairs.
History and Politics
On this course, we use a wide range of assessments, including essays, critical analyses, documentary analyses, individual and group presentations, blogs, reports and a dissertation.
You can study an elective module from across the University in each year, and also undertake a credit-bearing internship or language class. Making the most of these opportunities will broaden your experiences and enhance your employability.
History
Over three years, you’ll be exposed to a range of topics in modern history. Initially, you’ll start with core modules to help you develop a solid grounding in modern global history from 1789 to 1989, and in historical methods and approaches. As the course develops, you’ll have more opportunities to choose your own option modules according to your personal interests. By your final year, you’ll write a dissertation on a topic of your own choosing and select short modules from a wide range of rotating special subjects.
We have a wide range of assessments including essays, document and artefact analysis, oral presentations, book reviews, portfolios, blogs, reflection journals and political reports. Through these you’ll learn essential skills that enhance your employability. To help support you in your assessments and learning journey, the course also includes weekly Tutorials in the first two years. These are very small groups designed to help you develop your academic and employability skills with your own Academic Tutor. You’ll benefit from close supervision and learn to develop independent research projects, and how to develop your skills in all of your modules that year.
You’ll also have the chance to take a credit-bearing work placement module in one of London’s hundreds of archives, museums, galleries, libraries and other repositories. Previous interns have had placements in the Imperial War Museum, the House of Lords Record Office and many other London institutions. You can also study an optional module from a range of interdisciplinary topics across the University in each year, such as the study of material culture or sexual histories of London, or from our language options which include French, Spanish, Arabic or Chinese.
History with Foundation
You’ll be exposed to a range of topics in modern history. Initially, you’ll start with core modules to help you develop a solid grounding in modern global history from 1789 to 1989, and in historical methods and approaches. As the course develops, you’ll have more opportunities to choose your own option modules according to your personal interests. By your final year, you’ll write a dissertation on a topic of your own choosing and select short modules from a wide range of rotating special subjects.
We have a wide range of assessments including essays, document and artefact analysis, oral presentations, book reviews, portfolios, blogs, reflection journals and political reports. Through these you’ll learn essential skills that enhance your employability. To help support you in your assessments and learning journey, the course also includes weekly Tutorials in the first two years. These are very small groups designed to help you develop your academic and employability skills with your own Academic Tutor. You’ll benefit from close supervision and learn to develop independent research projects, and how to develop your skills in all of your modules that year.
You’ll also have the chance to take a credit-bearing work placement module in one of London’s hundreds of archives, museums, galleries, libraries and other repositories. Previous interns have had placements in the Imperial War Museum, the House of Lords Record Office and many other London institutions. You can also study an optional module from a range of interdisciplinary topics across the University in each year, such as the study of material culture or sexual histories of London, or from our language options which include French, Spanish, Arabic or Chinese.
Human Nutrition
The learning and teaching of the course relies on a mixture of face-to-face teaching and tutorial sessions, lab-based practicals, research seminars, and independent study, with classroom-based activities supported by online study material.
Assessment methods include research articles, group projects, oral presentations, in-class tests, practical assessments, report writing and exams.
Human Nutrition with Foundation
The learning and teaching of the course relies on a mixture of face-to-face teaching and tutorial sessions, lab-based practicals, research seminars, and independent study, with classroom-based activities supported by online study material.
Assessment methods include research articles, group projects, oral presentations, in-class tests, practical assessments, report writing and exams.
Illustration
Each year you’ll study core modules and choose from a varied range of optional modules. You’ll learn through a dynamic mix of formats including individual tutorials, student-led studio classes, group work, presentations, technical sessions, online training and lectures. In project work, you’ll collaborate with students from your course and others, helping you to build vital teamworking skills.
You’ll also get to hear talks from visiting artists, take part in workshops led by industry experts, and go on frequent trips into central London to exhibitions and design fairs.
Illustration with Foundation
Each year you’ll study core modules and choose from a varied range of optional modules. You’ll learn through a dynamic mix of formats including individual tutorials, student-led studio classes, group work, presentations, technical sessions, online training and lectures. In project work, you’ll collaborate with students from your course and others, helping you to build vital teamworking skills.
You’ll also get to hear talks from visiting artists, take part in workshops led by industry experts, and go on frequent trips into central London to exhibitions and design fairs.
Interior Architecture
You'll learn through studio discussions, seminars, individual and group tutorials, and workshops, all focused on supporting you with the development of your project work. Your learning will be enriched with studio visits to sites, exhibitions, galleries, projects and field trips.
You will be assessed through your design portfolio, design project work and an academic portfolio, along with visual and oral presentations in the form of individual or group seminars, tutorials and presentations of design project work.
You'll learn and progress by attending studio sessions and through developing design project work that involves learning to conceptualise, make architectural proposals and evaluate them.
Interior Architecture w Foundation
You'll learn through studio discussions, seminars, individual and group tutorials, and workshops, all focused on supporting you with the development of your project work. Your learning will be enriched with studio visits to sites, exhibitions, galleries, projects and field trips.
You will be assessed through your design portfolio, design project work and an academic portfolio, along with visual and oral presentations in the form of individual or group seminars, tutorials and presentations of design project work.
You'll learn and progress by attending studio sessions and through developing design project work that involves learning to conceptualise, make architectural proposals and evaluate them.
International Business
This course is designed to provide a solid foundation in business management, with a focus on the opportunities and challenges of conducting business across borders. In the first year, you will study five core modules and choose one option module. In the second and third year, you’ll take four core modules, choosing one option and one elective module. If you're interested in learning a new language or developing one of your current languages, our Polylang programme offers eight major languages to choose from.
International Communication and International Business
You'll engage in a variety of interactive learning experiences designed to stimulate your intellectual growth, with a lot of teaching taking place in small groups. From seminars, academic tutorials, and practical workshops to task-based exercises, peer presentations and professional simulations, you'll encounter a dynamic mix of learning methods that foster critical thinking, problem-solving skills, teamwork and independent learning.
We strive to eliminate barriers to your learning and collaborate with you to create an inclusive educational experience. The variety of our learning approaches and assessment types means that each student’s strengths are catered for, and this course is distinctive in its hands-on approach to professional skills within the classroom setting and its interdisciplinary approach.
International Event Management
This course is designed with a strong vocational focus, seamlessly blending theory with practical, real-world experience. You’ll learn through a mix of lectures, seminars, workshops, tutorials and field trips, benefiting from guest lectures by industry experts and valuable work experience opportunities.
Experiential and work-based learning are integral to the course. Collaborating with industry partners, you’ll also gain hands-on experience through live client briefs that simulate real work environments, enhancing your employability.
International Marketing
Designed to meet the needs of industry by combining academic knowledge with work-based learning, you’ll gain expertise in international marketing management and strategy, culture, consumer behaviour and language. You’ll also have the opportunity to tailor your degree by choosing specialist modules such as business-to-business marketing, services marketing, brand management and sustainability.
International Relations and Development
Teaching and learning includes small group work, problem-based tutorials, review sessions, workshops, symposia, debates, Q&A sessions, document analysis sessions, and structured role-plays.
Assessment methods are wide-ranging on this course and include essays, exams, policy reports, project work, individual and group presentations, blogs, posters, and debates.
Students on this course have the opportunity to spend one optional year abroad or one optional year gaining professional experience.
International Relations and Development with Foundation
Teaching and learning includes small group work, problem-based tutorials, review sessions, workshops, symposia, debates, Q&A sessions, document analysis sessions, and structured role-plays.
Assessment methods are wide-ranging on this course and include essays, exams, policy reports, project work, individual and group presentations, blogs, posters, and debates.
Students on this course have the opportunity to spend one optional year abroad.
International Relations
Teaching and learning includes small group work, problem-based tutorials, review sessions, workshops, symposia, debates, Q&A sessions, document analysis sessions, and structured role-plays.
Assessment methods are wide-ranging on this course and include essays, exams, policy reports, project work, individual and group presentations, blogs, posters, and debates.
Students on this course have the opportunity to spend one optional year abroad or one optional year gaining professional experience.
International Relations with Foundation
Teaching and learning includes small group work, problem-based tutorials, review sessions, workshops, symposia, debates, Q&A sessions, document analysis sessions, and structured role-plays.
Assessment methods are wide-ranging on this course and include essays, exams, policy reports, project work, individual and group presentations, blogs, posters, and debates.
Students on this course have the opportunity to spend one optional year abroad or one optional year gaining professional experience.
Languages and Translation
Teaching and learning take place through a combination of formal lectures, seminars, practical workshops, guided self-study, and exposure to professionally relevant simulations and real-work environments.
Assessment methods include in-class coursework, essays and projects, presentations, and oral and unseen written exams.
You can find examples of how marks have been calculated and study time distributed in the past in the Teaching and Assessment section at the bottom of this page.
Languages and Translation with Foundation
Teaching and learning take place through a combination of formal lectures, seminars, practical workshops, guided self-study, and exposure to professionally relevant simulations and real-work environments.
Assessment methods include in-class coursework, essays and projects, presentations, and oral and unseen written exams.
You can find examples of how marks have been calculated and study time distributed in the past in the Teaching and Assessment section at the bottom of this page.
Law and Criminal Justice
Our varied, authentic, and inclusive means of assessment allow you to demonstrate the same competencies, or combinations of knowledge, skills, and attitudes, that you will need to apply in your future professional life.
In your last year with us, you participate in a distinctive element of the Law School experience at Westminster - the unique opportunity to reflect creatively on your learning journey with us in a final-year show.
Law and International Relations
Our varied, authentic, and inclusive means of assessment allow you to demonstrate the same competencies, or combinations of knowledge, skills, and attitudes, that you will need to apply in your future professional life.
In your last year with us, you will participate in a distinctive element of the Westminster Law School experience – the unique opportunity to reflect creatively on your learning journey with us in a final-year show.
Law
Our varied, authentic, and inclusive means of assessment allow you to demonstrate the same competencies, or combinations of knowledge, skills, and attitudes, that you will need to apply in your future professional life.
In your last year with us, you participate in a distinctive element of the Law School experience at Westminster - the unique opportunity to reflect creatively on your learning journey with us in a final-year show.
Law with Foundation
Our varied, authentic, and inclusive means of assessment allow you to demonstrate the same competencies, or combinations of knowledge, skills, and attitudes, that you will need to apply in your future professional life.
In your last year with us, you participate in a distinctive element of the Law School experience at Westminster - the unique opportunity to reflect creatively on your learning journey with us in a final-year show.
Law with French Law
Teaching methods include lectures, seminar-based discussion, class presentations, invited guest speakers and practical group exercises.
Assessment methods include open- and closed-book exams, in-class tests, oral presentations, and written coursework.
Marketing and Data Analytics
Our Marketing and Data Analytics BSc offers real-world learning opportunities, combining theory and practice. Assessments and learning activities are designed to bridge the gap between academia and industry, providing you with real-world experience.
The course goes beyond traditional teaching methods, incorporating work-related tasks and 'as live' briefs to simulate the working environment. We seamlessly integrate digital skills throughout your studies, teaching you the essential skills you’ll need in software such as Tableau, PowerBI, Google Analytics, SPSS and Excel.
Marketing Communications with AI Intergration
Designed to create work-ready graduates who meet the needs of industry, this course will prepare you for a career in a broad range of marketing disciplines, combining branding, marketing communications, data and analytics, consumer decision-making and media planning for both traditional and digital channels. With work-based learning embedded in the course, you’ll graduate work ready with the skills, knowledge and expertise required to move confidently into the world of marketing communications.
Marketing Management
Designed to meet the needs of industry, this course will prepare you for a career in a broad range of marketing disciplines, combining marketing strategy, marketing communications, data and analytics and market research. With work-based learning embedded in the course, you’ll graduate work ready with the skills, knowledge and expertise required to move confidently into the world of marketing.
Medical Science
The Medical Sciences BSc Honours comprises a detailed study of the human body in health and disease, with emphasis on the diagnosis and understanding of disease states and the mechanisms involved. It
prepares you for graduate entry medicine but also a range of life science careers. Teaching on the course is through a variety of methods and includes tutorials, lectures and seminars, practical laboratory work
and group activities along with the use of learning technology and electronic resources. Assessment is through a combination of exams and coursework, including essays, practical work, group work, presentations and reports.
Music Production, Performance and Business
Our strong industry connections within London's vibrant music scene enable us to offer guest lectures from top professionals and maximise networking opportunities. These connections are further enriched through interdisciplinary collaborations with peers from film, TV, radio, fashion, and media studies.
Located at the Harrow Campus, the course facilitates a unique collaborative environment not just among music students but also across various creative disciplines. This interdisciplinary approach provides a broad spectrum of opportunities, preparing our graduates for diverse careers in the creative industries and ensuring they have the skills and contacts necessary to expand their professional network and enhance their creative potential.
Music Production, Performance and Business with Foundation
Our strong industry connections within London's vibrant music scene enable us to offer guest lectures from top professionals and maximise networking opportunities. These connections are further enriched through interdisciplinary collaborations with peers from film, TV, radio, fashion, and media studies.
Located at the Harrow Campus, the course facilitates a unique collaborative environment not just among music students but also across various creative disciplines. This interdisciplinary approach provides a broad spectrum of opportunities, preparing our graduates for diverse careers in the creative industries and ensuring they have the skills and contacts necessary to expand their professional network and enhance their creative potential.
Pharmacology and Physiology
This course will provide you with a sound understanding of the biological action of drugs and other biomolecules at the whole-body, tissue, cellular and sub-cellular levels, and their uses as medicines for the treatment of disease. It provides an ideal grounding for a career in the pharmaceutical industry or other areas of biomedical research, academia, the Scientific Civil Service and healthcare provision.
Opportunities exist for you to enhance your practical and related transferable skills within our research laboratories. Teaching is informed by high-quality research in relevant cognate areas, within the department.
In addition, new students will benefit from our use of the APOLLO Patient Care Simulator platform, as an exciting novel teaching tool.
Pharmacology and Physiology with Foundation
The foundation year is designed to give you the opportunity to explore new ideas, opening up new perspectives on the key debates within your chosen field. Core modules accelerate your academic and professional development and you will also take modules from areas closely related to your chosen field, giving you the chance to develop a cross-disciplinary perspective on your course.
Photography
The Photography BA and Fashion Photography BA begin with a shared first year, before branching into specialised pathways. These pathways, along with a variety of optional modules, provide you with the opportunity to customise your degree and expertise according to your interests and career objectives.
You can also choose to study an Elective, a selection of modules from across the whole University curriculum, which will allow you to enrich your academic journey.
You may choose to take an optional year-long paid internship or placement between years 2 and 3 or study abroad with one of our overseas exchange partners.
Photography with Foundation
The Photography BA and Fashion Photography BA begin with a shared first year, before branching into specialised pathways. These pathways, along with a variety of optional modules, provide you with the opportunity to customise your degree and expertise according to your interests and career objectives.
You can also choose to study an Elective, a selection of modules from across the whole University curriculum, which will allow you to enrich your academic journey.
You may choose to take an optional year-long paid internship or placement between years 2 and 3 or study abroad with one of our overseas exchange partners.
Policing
Our core modules address the key skills and knowledge which all police officers need to understand and succeed in the modern world. Other optional modules allow you to construct a specialist ‘stream’ of personal interest to you; focusing on diversity and inclusion or countering terrorism, as an example.
The programme is designed to give you the opportunity to take four core law optional modules that keep the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE) route open to you for entry into the legal profession.
Politics and International Relations
Teaching and learning methods include small group work, problem-based tutorials, review sessions, workshops, symposia, debates, Q&A sessions, document analysis sessions, and structured role-plays. A wide range of assessments includes essays, exams, policy reports, project work, individual and group presentations, blogs, posters, and debates.
The teaching is offered within the School of Social Sciences, which brings together Criminology, Politics and International Relations, Psychology and Sociology. What binds us together is our shared commitment to making education a transformative experience for our students, to conducting research that makes a difference to the social world, and to enhancing the diversity of ideas and identities within and beyond the University.
Politics and International Relations with Foundation
Teaching and learning methods include small group work, problem-based tutorials, review sessions, workshops, symposia, debates, Q&A sessions, document analysis sessions, and structured role-plays. A wide range of assessments includes essays, exams, policy reports, project work, individual and group presentations, blogs, posters, and debates.
The teaching is offered within the School of Social Sciences, which brings together Criminology, Politics and International Relations, Psychology and Sociology. What binds us together is our shared commitment to making education a transformative experience for our students, to conducting research that makes a difference to the social world, and to enhancing the diversity of ideas and identities within and beyond the University.
Politics
Teaching and learning methods include lectures, small group work, review sessions, workshops, symposia, debates, Q&A sessions, document analysis sessions, and structured role-plays.
A wide range of assessments includes essays, exams, policy reports, project work, simulations, individual and group presentations, blogs, posters, and debates.
The teaching is offered within the School of Social Sciences, which brings together Criminology, Politics and International Relations, Psychology and Sociology. What binds us together is our shared commitment to making education a transformative experience for our students, to conducting research that makes a difference to the social world, and to enhancing the diversity of ideas and identities within and beyond the University.
Students on this course have the opportunity to spend one optional year abroad or one optional year gaining professional experience.
Politics with Foundation
Teaching and learning methods include lectures, small group work, review sessions, workshops, symposia, debates, Q&A sessions, document analysis sessions, and structured role-plays.
A wide range of assessments includes essays, exams, policy reports, project work, simulations, individual and group presentations, blogs, posters, and debates.
The teaching is offered within the School of Social Sciences, which brings together Criminology, Politics and International Relations, Psychology and Sociology. What binds us together is our shared commitment to making education a transformative experience for our students, to conducting research that makes a difference to the social world, and to enhancing the diversity of ideas and identities within and beyond the University.
Students on this course have the opportunity to spend one optional year abroad or one optional year gaining professional experience.
Psychology and Counselling
Learning takes place through a combination of face-to-face teaching and independent study, including lectures, seminars and project work. Your experience will be further enriched by opportunities for research participation, counselling skills practice and work-based learning.
You’ll focus on active and often collaborative project work, which includes carrying out research practicals, allowing you to engage first hand with research practice and the knowledge base of our discipline. It also includes other kinds of enquiry-based learning, in which you learn through tackling realistic problems similar to those faced by practising counselling psychologists.
Psychology and Counselling with Foundation
Learning takes place through a combination of face-to-face teaching and independent study, including lectures, seminars and project work. Your experience will be further enriched by opportunities for research participation, counselling skills practice and work-based learning.
You’ll focus on active and often collaborative project work, which includes carrying out research practicals, allowing you to engage first hand with research practice and the knowledge base of our discipline. It also includes other kinds of enquiry-based learning, in which you learn through tackling realistic problems similar to those faced by practising counselling psychologists.
Psychology and Criminology
Learning includes lectures, seminars, independent study, and off-campus activities that make use of Westminster's central London location.
Assessment methods may include essays, debates, policy analyses, individual and group presentations, exams, statistical analyses, and your dissertation.
Psychology
Teaching methods include lectures, seminars, practical classes and laboratory work, supported by online material and periods of independent study.
Assessment methods may include exams, in-class tests, essays, oral and poster presentations, debates, case studies, and laboratory, practical and technical reports.
Psychology with Foundation
Teaching methods include lectures, seminars, practical classes and laboratory work, supported by online material and periods of independent study.
Assessment methods may include exams, in-class tests, essays, oral and poster presentations, debates, case studies, and laboratory, practical and technical reports.
Public Health
The course responds to the rapidly changing government priorities, economics, global disease challenges and healthcare settings to meet the demand for multi-skilled, social media and digitally skilled, confident, globally aware public health professionals. Our teaching and learning strategy is designed to produce graduates who are critical and creative thinkers, literate and effective communicators, entrepreneurial, global in outlook and engaged with communities and socially, ethically and environmentally aware; in addition, public health graduates will demonstrate competency in empowering and developing communities. The teaching and learning methods of the course are directly related to the aims and learning outcomes identified above.
The course is designed to lead students through key theoretical concepts, broad understanding, and basic skills across all course subjects, to focused knowledge, synoptic understanding, and expert skills.
Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management
This course provides you with knowledge and understanding of the context, core concepts and theories relevant to quantity surveyors and commercial management in the design, creation and maintenance of a sustainably built environment to meet the needs of clients both nationally and internationally. Ever mindful of your route to professional practice, we pay particular attention to developing the behaviour and attitudes required of modern construction professionals. Core modules cover subjects that cross the industry, such as health and safety, site practice, construction technology, design and form, materials and building science, structures and digital construction. Specific modules covering course and profession specific content are delivered as study progresses.
Please note: this course is also offered as part of a degree apprenticeship programme.
Quantity Surveying and Commercial Management with Foundation
This course provides you with knowledge and understanding of the context, core concepts and theories relevant to quantity surveyors and commercial management in the design, creation and maintenance of a sustainably built environment to meet the needs of clients both nationally and internationally. Ever mindful of your route to professional practice, we pay particular attention to developing the behaviour and attitudes required of modern construction professionals. Core modules cover subjects that cross the industry, such as health and safety, site practice, construction technology, design and form, materials and building science, structures and digital construction. Specific modules covering course and profession specific content are delivered as study progresses.
Please note: this course is also offered as part of a degree apprenticeship programme.
Real Estate
Accredited by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), our degree covers all aspects of real estate, including buying and selling, valuing, developing, planning, managing and investing in various property markets – commercial, industrial and residential.
Our professionally oriented course has been designed with input from major employers, capitalising on our excellent industry contacts, which include Barrett Homes, Savills and British Land. With the headquarters of many major property firms close by, our central London location enables us to invite a wide range of professionals to give guest lectures and regularly contribute to the course. They provide work placements, content for coursework and help with assessment, providing a valuable practitioner perspective.
We arrange various site visits, so you can experience real-life estate strategies and see developments from construction through to completion. In the past, for example, students visited Lendlease’s nearby Elephant Park development, part of a £2.3 billion regeneration programme on 28 acres of land in the centre of Elephant and Castle. There are also optional international field trips, which have previously included visits to Brookfield Properties and Cushman and Wakefield in New York, as well as Savills in Malaysia and Hong Kong.
The course will allow you to complete the academic requirements of membership status of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. There are opportunities to enhance your CV by attending our Employer evenings.
Real Estate with Foundation
The Foundation year is designed to give you the opportunity to explore new ideas, opening up new perspectives on the key debates within your chosen field. Core modules accelerate your academic and professional development, bringing together like-minded students to think about the ‘big ideas’ within your discipline. You will also take modules from areas closely related to your chosen field, giving you the chance to develop a cross-disciplinary perspective on your course.
Sociology and Criminology
Teaching and learning methods include lectures, seminars, practical classes and workshops, online discussions, individual and group tutorials, and field trips.
We make use of a wide range of assessment methods to suit different learning styles, from essays and exams to portfolios, research reports, policy analyses, group presentations, and your final year dissertation.
Sociology
You can choose from a wide number of specialist option modules with a range of assessment formats to suit different learning styles, from essays and exams to portfolios, research reports, projects and reviews. Our supportive and dedicated teaching team will train you in critical analysis, thinking and debate, and enable you to develop strong presentational, interpersonal and communication skills.
Your first year provides an accessible introduction to contemporary sociological debates, and you'll receive specialist training in researching London as a global city, and in the key study skills you need to excel in the subject, along with optional modules in race and gender. In Years 2 and 3 you'll explore modern and contemporary social theory, youth culture, extend your research skills and, in your final year, work closely with a member of the Sociology team to conduct an independent project in an area of your own choosing.
You can select from a range of options, which include modules on education, families, gender and the body, the media, urban sociology, taste and consumption, social movements and race and representation.
Our Work Experience module in the second year gives you the opportunity to put into practice the personal and professional skills you will develop while studying.
Sociology with Foundation
You can choose from a wide number of specialist option modules with a range of assessment formats to suit different learning styles, from essays and exams to portfolios, research reports, projects and reviews. Our supportive and dedicated teaching team will train you in critical analysis, thinking and debate, and enable you to develop strong presentational, interpersonal and communication skills.
The first year of the BA provides an accessible introduction to contemporary sociological debates, and you'll receive specialist training in researching London as a global city, and in the key study skills you need to excel in the subject, along with optional modules in race and gender. In Years 2 and 3 you'll explore modern and contemporary social theory, youth culture, extend your research skills and, in your final year, work closely with a member of the Sociology team to conduct an independent project in an area of your own choosing.
You can select from a range of options, which includes modules on consumption and race, education, families, gender studies and the body, London's pleasures and perils, sexuality, food, politics and protest, and the media.
Our Work Experience module in the second year gives you the opportunity to put into practice the personal and professional skills you will develop while studying.
Software Engineering
Learning takes place through a combination of face-to-face teaching and independent study, including lectures, practical tutorials, laboratory sessions, personal development sessions, real-life project briefs and case studies.
Software Engineering with Foundation
Learning takes place through a combination of face-to-face teaching and independent study, including lectures, practical tutorials, laboratory sessions, personal development sessions, real-life project briefs and case studies.
Software Engineering with Electronics
In addition to the main specialism, you’ll study from a pool of optional modules, which will be in the broader subject area of computer science including server-side programming, android application development, machine learning, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), robotics and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) development.
Software Engineering with Electronics with Foundation
In addition to the main specialism, you’ll study from a pool of optional modules, which will be in the broader subject area of computer science including server-side programming, android application development, machine learning, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), robotics and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) development.
Spanish and English
Teaching methods include lectures, tutorials, practical sessions, seminars and workshops, as well as independent learning, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via online learning.
Assessment methods include essays, exams, individual and group presentations, projects, and critical analysis.
Spanish and International Business
Our course focuses on active learning, through lectures, seminars, workshops, task-based and blended learning, designed to engage your interest and promote your learning.
You'll study with the latest technology and learning spaces and you'll get extensive hands-on experience with industry partners to prepare you for the real world.
You'll be taught by inspiring and experienced lecturers who will help you develop a wide range of soft skills including communication, critical thinking, problem-solving and time-management in highly interactive and engaging classes.
Assessment methods include e-portfolios, real-world simulation tasks, essays, reports, individual and group presentations and case studies, as well as time-constrained in-class tests and exams.
Years 1 and 2 will provide you with the skills and knowledge to undertake an optional year-long placement in an overseas, Spanish-speaking destination, which could include studying at a recognised educational institution.
You can also choose to study an optional module from a range of topics across the University in each year.
Spanish and International Communication
Our course helps you to achieve a good or high level of linguistic proficiency in Spanish in reading, writing, listening and speaking. It also gives you insight into and practice in communicating internationally as well as mediating between English and Spanish speakers.
The curriculum integrates applied language skills and cultural studies, while ensuring a rigorous development of your foreign language competence in all areas. We teach in an integrated interdisciplinary way, exploring the connections between language and culture and the broader historical and cross-cultural contexts in which they are produced.
You'll improve your ability as an intercultural communicator by studying how our ideas are shaped and communicated in a global society, where our interactions are no longer confined by national, regional or cultural boundaries.
Spanish and International Communication with Foundation
The Foundation year is designed to give you the opportunity to explore new ideas, opening up new perspectives on the key debates within your chosen field. Core modules accelerate your academic and professional development and you will also take modules from areas closely related to your chosen field, giving you the chance to develop a cross-disciplinary perspective on your course.
Spanish and International Relations
Teaching methods include lectures, tutorials, practical sessions, seminars and workshops, but most of your learning is independent, conducted beyond the classroom (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via online learning.
Assessment methods include essays, exams, individual and group presentation projects, and critical analysis.
Spanish and Linguistics
Our degree offers the exciting combination of the study of Spanish language and culture alongside the wider study of the forms, structures and varieties of language itself.
You'll develop a high level of competence in oral and written communication in Spanish, proficiency in language transfer skills, and a thorough knowledge of Spanish culture. On graduation, you'll be able to thrive linguistically in diverse cultural situations.
You'll study an integrated curriculum with a focus on applied language skills and cultural studies, supported by a rigorous development of your foreign languages skills in all areas. We teach in an integrated interdisciplinary way, exploring the connections between language and culture and the broader historical and cross-cultural contexts in which they are produced.
Sports Management
The course is designed to meet the needs of the sports industry and the aspirations of our students by providing an innovative, yet solid foundation in contemporary sports management and business. It combines theoretical knowledge with practical, applied learning in areas including the theory and practice of sports management; organising and managing events; media, marketing and sponsorship management; the economics and finance of sport; entrepreneurship; diversity and inclusivity; social innovation, sustainability and corporate social responsibility. You can tailor your course by choosing elective/optional modules in each year of the course, one in Year 1, two in Year 2 and two in Year 3.
Sustainable Business Management
Our Sustainable Business Management BA will equip you with real-world skills to drive sustainability in business.
You’ll learn through a diverse range of engaging activities, including live briefs, simulation games, teamwork, problem-based learning, workshops, debates, self-assessment quizzes, action learning sets and role-plays.
The course seamlessly integrates digital skills throughout your studies, adapting to the ever-evolving software landscape. In your first year, you’ll be introduced to tools for business analytics, moving on to developing your digital media skills in year two, as well as covering digital tools for research in your final year.
Television Production
Our course is taught through a mix of lectures, group tutorials and workshops, supporting the development of both practical and critical academic skills.
Tourism Management
This course is designed with a strong vocational focus, seamlessly blending theory with practical, real-world experience. Our curriculum is deeply rooted in industry practices and is delivered through a dynamic mix of lectures, seminars, workshops, tutorials, and immersive field trips.
We prioritise experiential and work-based learning to keep your education active and engaging. You’ll gain insights from industry experts through guest lectures, seminars, and workshops, while also benefiting from valuable work experience opportunities. Collaboration with industry partners means you’ll get to work on live client briefs, simulating real work environments and boosting your employability.
Urban Planning and Design
During the course, you’ll discuss and critique theory and practice. Case studies and projects reflecting real-world situations will be used to develop your strategic thinking, problem-solving and design skills in a range of international contexts. Our teaching aims to support you with the development of your project work, including the opportunity to undertake an international field trip.
This course is accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) as a spatial degree and is an initial step towards qualifying as a Chartered Town Planner.
You’ll be taught in small studio groups by current practitioners and academics who reflect London’s dynamic architecture and planning scene. You’ll experience studio visits to sites, practices, community groups, and related events. There will also be opportunities to work with the profession through engagement with the RTPI and other professional bodies, as well as through mentoring and an optional year-long work placement.
Urban Planning and Design with Foundation
Our Foundation year in Architecture and Design offers an introduction to the creative professions that shape the design of interiors, buildings and urban spaces. Through design projects, you'll learn about the spatial, technical and cultural issues, and develop the grounding skills and creative practices necessary for further study. The first semester begins with an exploration of the design and inhabitation of urban space, followed by a materials and making project based in the Fabrication Laboratory, our outstanding Marylebone campus workshop facility. Running alongside these will be studio and field-based exercises to develop your drawing and creative skills. In the second semester, a project on the design of existing spaces will be followed by the development of a creative work driven by your own interests. Students from the Foundation will have the opportunity to exhibit in the School of Architecture and Cities summer exhibition. Your practical development will be accompanied by modules in both semesters on academic skills in writing and critical thinking.
Architecture
Architecture is normally studied with a view to becoming a professional architect, but as it embraces the fields of art, history and science, it also opens doors to a range of postgraduate study options and other forms of career development.
At the heart of our course is a rich choice of design studios, in which students are taught in small groups by current practitioners, reflecting London’s dynamic architecture scene. There are also lecture courses in environmental and technical studies, history and theory of architecture, as well as numerous opportunities to engage with the architecture profession through construction site visits, mentoring and a work placement.
Field trips are offered in the second year and there are opportunities to study abroad, with the most recent destinations including Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and China.
Cyber Security and Forensics
You'll learn through a mixture of lectures, practical tutorials, laboratory sessions and independent study.
In Year 1 you’ll be introduced to the fundamentals of computer systems and cyber security.
In Years 2 and 3 you’ll apply your knowledge to practical assignments and learn critical project management and professional skills.
This degree includes an optional year abroad or placement.
Data Science and Analytics
Studying our course, you'll develop knowledge of the fundamental principles and technologies that underpin the disciplines of maths, statistics and computing with an emphasis on the skills and theories required in data science and analytics. You'll learn how to apply cutting-edge maths, statistics and computer science techniques and tools to collect, store, prepare, analyse and visualise data, while analysing and understanding organisations’ operations, environment and related issues.
Our course offers a short-term work-based learning experience that will give you the opportunity to work on a real-life problem, which is normally set by an external organisation as a small-scale project. This experience will allow you to put theory into practice by applying your knowledge and skills gained from various modules to address a real-life situation, usually within the context of a business-related problem.
English Language and Linguistics
You'll mostly be taught through seminars of 15-25 students with some larger lectures, but you'll also benefit from weekly small-group tutorials of 5-7 students. The tutorials are designed to support your individual learning needs in the first two years of the course, enhancing your study and employability skills within a supportive framework.
Much of your learning is independent and conducted (individually and in groups) in the library, at home, and via our online learning system, Blackboard. The tutorials provide essential support for this kind of university-level study.
Assessment methods range from small analytic exercises of language data, small research projects, and presentations, through to the preparation and writing of a Dissertation in the final year. Essays and analytic written reports also feature as part of the assessed coursework.
You can study option modules each year from a range of modules in the school and across the University, including Polylang - our language programme - which allows you to study another language. In Year 3 you complete a dissertation in a topic chosen by you, with one-to-one support from your supervisor.
Animation
You'll learn through high-level, tutor-guided studio practice, and by doing – we actively promote experimentation, reflection and the sharing of enthusiasms and influences.
The unique integrated theoretical elements of the course provide a critical framework within which you can examine animation and related time-based practices, and will significantly support and inform your own practice.
All modules are assessed through coursework, and we offer a range of methods including crits, submitted work, research plans and seminar presentations.
Animation with Foundation
You'll learn through high-level, tutor-guided studio practice, and by doing – we actively promote experimentation, reflection and the sharing of enthusiasms and influences.
The unique integrated theoretical elements of the course provide a critical framework within which you can examine animation and related time-based practices, and will significantly support and inform your own practice.
All modules are assessed through coursework, and we offer a range of methods including crits, submitted work, research plans and seminar presentations.
Advanced Legal Research
The six core modules structure your learning around key dimensions of life as an advanced legal researcher, helping you to develop an understanding of cutting-edge legal perspectives and build key legal research skills. The range of option modules provides the opportunity to develop specialist doctrinal or theoretical knowledge in a particular area of interest, rounding out your development as an advanced legal researcher.
AI, Data and Communication
ou will study four core modules including a dissertation which will involve conducting a major piece of independent research. You will also study three optional modules, choosing from a broad range. You will learn through a rich mix of teaching styles including tutorials, seminars, case studies, group projects and independent research.
Air Transport Planning and Management
Modules on both the one-year full-time course and the two-year part-time course are taught in blocks of five days at a time. Students take six taught modules in total (over one year on the full-time course, or two to three years on the block release part-time course) and complete a research dissertation. Email contact and tutorial support is provided between the module blocks along with guest lectures and workshop sessions for full-time students. International students who require a student visa will need to apply for the one-year full-time course.
Applied Artificial Intelligence
You’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of AI, covering core concepts such as search strategies and reasoning. Thereafter, you’ll progress to advanced topics like machine learning and deep learning, which power cutting-edge technologies, including Large Language Models (LLMs).
The course is ideal for IT and computing graduates who wish to expand their knowledge and skills in Artificial Intelligence. It also applies to professionals seeking to upskill in the latest industry developments or transition into a new field.
Hands-on learning is central to this course, ensuring you gain practical experience with industry-standard software and tools. You'll develop expertise in programming languages such as Python, essential AI libraries and development environments.
Through optional modules, you'll specialise in areas such as Applied Computer Vision or Big Data and Cloud Computing, enhancing your career prospects in diverse AI-driven industries.
The MSc Applied AI Project module allows you to apply what you have learnt to a real-world problem, conduct independent research and develop an AI solution under the guidance of experienced staff. This project will solidify your understanding of AI and enhance your research and problem-solving abilities.
Teaching methods include lectures, tutorials, seminars, and practical sessions. You will also learn through extensive coursework, class presentations, group research work, and industry-standard software.
Applied Biotechnology
Our Applied Biotechnology MSc includes a wide range of modern molecular biology techniques and explores how biotechnology can be used by today's society. It is an established course in biotechnology which has been extensively updated. You'll complement your theoretical studies with hands-on experience of fully controlled fermenters that are up to pilot-plant scale, and are linked to modern monitoring and control systems.
You'll study a range of subjects in considerable depth, including bioactive compounds, industrial bioprocesses, microbial physiology and fermentation technology, microbial production of novel metabolites, monitoring and control of fermentation, topics in biotechnology, and types of bioreactors.
Architecture & Sustainable Heritage
Students will join from different disciplinary backgrounds and the course offers a level of freedom to undertake an individually tailored path, through optional modules.
Students may select three optional modules, in line with their interests or experience. However, all modules are suitable for all students regardless of their experience and background.
Art and Emerging Technologies
This course is part of a suite of MA art courses which include the Expanded Photography MA and the Global Contemporary Art MA. You’ll tailor your learning through a set of shared optional modules that address contemporary challenges, advanced digital approaches, and specialised professional contexts. You’ll also undertake the year-long Professional Practice module, which aims to support your progression beyond graduation, and the Masters Project module with students from the other MA art courses, thus benefiting from collaborative opportunities and cross-disciplinary learning.
Core modules investigate the mediation, augmentation, and transformation of our environments through emerging technologies. You will consider ecologies of consumption, the environment, contexts, technologies, and sustainability, and the role of the artist as innovator, provocateur, and agent.
Art and Visual Culture
The Art and Visual Culture MA is delivered in both full-time and part-time modes, with both September and January start dates. This means that when you start your course you'll be joining a lively community of students, some, like yourself, embarking on the MA and some continuing their studies with us.
The course is modular, with each single module valued at 20 credits, and the dissertation at 60 credits. For the MA, you'll be required to accumulate the total of 180 credits over the course of your degree. Normally, full-time students take one core module and two options per semester and work on the dissertation in the summer. Part-time students would typically take one core module and one option module per semester in the first year and complete further two option modules and the dissertation in their second year of their MA.
Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health
You’ll learn in an integrative way drawing on experiential, interdisciplinary and community learning alongside collaborative co-creation of solutions to evaluate innovative real-world policies and implement health and wellbeing practices.
Teaching methods include lectures, seminars, workshops, simulations, scientific problem-based learning, and self-directed learning.
Audio Production
This innovative course develops your creative abilities in audio across music production, sound design, radio, TV, film and multimedia, all supported by a robust understanding of the technologies involved. You will be able to explore and expand as a creative artist while achieving control and experience of a professional audio environment.
Big Data Technologies
The course addresses technologies, advanced theories and techniques, along with their application, implementation and integration with legacy systems. You will analyse new demands and the application of technologies in the management of data and information resources, and examine big data technologies shaping the way data is now stored and utilised including the use of cloud stored massive datasets, distributed systems of an enterprise and how data utilisation can change and improve business processes.
Teaching approaches include lectures, tutorials, seminars and practical/hands on sessions. You’ll also learn through extensive course work, class presentations, group work, and the use of a range of industry-standard software such as R, Python, MySQL, Oracle and noSQL databases. Modules are assessed through coursework that is practical in nature and which may involve group/individual investigations, presentations, a technical solution, a piece of software or a research review.
Biomedicla Science
The Biomedical Science MSc lets you tailor your course to your interests and experience with a wide range of optional modules in addition to our core delivery. You can mix modules in microbiology, molecular biology, haematology, clinical chemistry, or blend basic science with studies in science communication or commercialization. This flexibility allows you to deepen your understanding of human diseases, their investigation, and therapy, while also enhancing your skills in designing and executing project work.
Business and Organisational Psychology
Our problem-based approach to teaching means you’ll be equipped with the thinking and analytical skills necessary to take a confident and proactive approach to your career in business and organisational psychology.
Teaching methods will include work-based activities, live briefs from industry partners and intensive workshops.
You’ll also have the opportunity to gain valuable business awareness whilst combining practical work experience and theoretical study by taking part in an optional 6-12 week work internship.
Business of Film
The course is delivered through a combination of lectures, seminars, tutorials, industry guest speakers, practice-led case studies and placements. It emphasises group work, with students participating in small and large-scale projects, while gaining an understanding of the fundamentals of the film business.
Additionally, students will be able to participate in employment and group-based simulations and industry events designed to emphasise professional development. To complement these methods, in-class exercises have been developed to encourage students to work together to assess how different approaches can inform and improve outcomes.
Communication
You will study three core modules including a dissertation which will involve conducting a major piece of independent research. You will also study four optional modules, choosing from a broad range. You will learn through a rich mix of teaching styles including tutorials, seminars, case studies, group projects and independent research.
Construction Project Management
This course aims to provide you with a comprehensive understanding of the techniques associated with the management of project resources, the control of project finances, the management of risk and the management of people. It provides a challenging, stimulating and professionally relevant course of study that is directly related to the management of construction projects within this rapidly changing industry.
You’ll study project management in depth, focusing on the management techniques and systems required to successful manage all aspects of construction projects, as well as the people involved in delivering them. You'll study six core modules (including the double Project Management module) and choose one optional module.
Developing your skillset, you’ll become adept at critical analysis, evaluation, decision-making and problem-solving, enhancing your leadership, communications and time-management abilities at the same time. Topics covered include the principles of client requirements, critical success factors, sustainability, evaluation of project options, structured methodologies, and the concept of whole-life costing.
Corporate Finance Law
You'll focus on learning how the financial markets work, from the primary markets involving the issuance of equity, debt and derivatives, to the secondary markets involving trading and investments, as well as very large financial transactions in the international capital markets. Importantly, you'll also learn how to take account of legal and regulatory risks that financiers and bankers face, and structure financial instruments to suit commercial priorities and social welfare policies.
This course is structured to give you a comprehensive understanding of the practical processes and innovative products of the international corporate finance market, including equity and debt capital, derivatives, structured finance, risk management and investment portfolio products. It's also designed to help you develop the soft skills you'll need in this area of practice, including negotiations and network building, with meetings with senior lawyers and directors of major companies
Creative Practice
The course welcomes creatives from diverse disciplines, including architecture, fashion, music, fine art, moving image, photography, ceramics, and digital media. The course cultivates a vibrant research culture through seminars, workshops, site visits, and interactions with visiting practitioners and external organisations. You'll gain the practical tools and critical knowledge to complete a major creative research project while developing transferable skills in problem-solving and technical expertise. You’ll also benefit from the creative expertise at the world leading Centre for Research in Education, Art and Media (CREAM).
Based at Westminster School of Arts on our Harrow Campus, you'll have access to state-of-the-art workshops in film, photography, music, print, fashion, and 3D. The In Situ core module extends your learning to Marylebone Campus, home to the School of Architecture, where you’ll explore how place and space shape creative research through cross-disciplinary collaboration.
Throughout the course, you’ll engage with contemporary debates and critical insights across the Schools of Arts, Architecture, and Visual Culture, joining an interdisciplinary community of Master’s students, enriching your practice through collaboration. You’ll choose an option module aligned with your research focus, with module choices curated from offerings across Arts, Media and Communication, Architecture and Visual Culture.
Creative Writing: Writing the City
Taught by professional writers and researchers, our course offers plenty of opportunities to network with other writers, agents, TV producers and performance poets. As part of the MA, you'll be part of the team managing the Wells Street Journal, our student-led in-house magazine. You'll be based in the University's headquarters building at 309 Regent Street, which means you'll be writing about the city in the heart of London, with ready access to the capital's excellent academic, social and cultural opportunities, including the vibrant West End theatre scene.
You can begin in January or in September. To receive your Master's award, you'll need to complete taught modules for a total of 120 credits, covered by three 40-credit core modules, and the 60-credit Writing Project (giving a total of 180 credits).
The workshop-based structure of the course will allow you to learn through interactive practice. Classes are weekly and normally last two or three hours. Teaching will also include visits to selected London institutions to support certain aspects of writing, and you'll be encouraged to use various archives, theatres and galleries. Assessment methods include coursework portfolios, reflective logs, essays, and workshop leadership, as well as the 10-12,000-word writing project. There are no formal exams.
Culture and Critical Studies
The Cultural and Critical Studies MA is delivered in both full-time and part-time modes, with both September and January start dates. This means that when you start your course you will be joining a lively community of new and continuing students.
The course is modular, with each single module valued at 20 credits, and the dissertation at 60 credits. For the MA, you'll be required to accumulate the total of 180 credits over the course of your degree. Normally, full-time students take one core module and two options per semester and work on the dissertation in the summer. Part-time students would typically take one core module and one option module per semester in the first year and complete further two option modules and the dissertation in their second year of their MA.
The course consists of two core taught modules, Problems and Perspectives in Cultural Studies and Capitalism and Culture, which establish a theoretical framework for the close analysis of central debates around the production of culture. A core dissertation of 12,000 words, which can be written on an appropriate topic of your choice, will also be completed at the end of your studies.
Data and Marketing Analytics
This course focuses on practical application in an industry context, incorporating digital media and technology.
You’ll be taught through a mixture of lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials to facilitate effective learning. To enhance flexibility and accessibility, digital media and technology are integrated into the learning process, allowing you to have the opportunity to embrace both synchronous and asynchronous learning.
Assessments are designed to simulate real-world scenarios, fostering an inclusive and dynamic environment that will prepare you for the challenges of industry.
Digital Maketing Management
This course aims to prepare you to specialise in planning and applying digital marketing strategies and solutions, combining user-centred, creative, media and marketing communications with strategic marketing, analysis and management. A digital bootcamp kickstarts the course in induction week, helping you get to know your fellow students and understand the role digital plays in contemporary marketing. The course also has its own media channels for which you will create content both individually and collaboratively (social media adverts, landing pages on websites, apps, blogs and user experience designs) to reach and engage audiences as part of your learning and assessment.
We first introduce aspects of consumer psychology in the context of greater consumer choice, the changing face of technology, and globalisation. We go on to focus on the digital behaviour of consumers and how organisations use digital in disruptive innovation to anticipate and meet their needs.
You put into practice techniques and theories in relation to new approaches for acquisition, conversion, user experience, campaign planning, multi-channel marketing and measurement. You will build and test prototype websites to understand how to measure performance, and what tactics drive traffic and engagement.
The final project plays to your strengths, experiences and interests: a dissertation or consultancy report for a business identified by us or you, here in the UK or abroad. Creative or analytical, you could create a video or digital campaign, for example, or study a website to understand different user groups or country-specific content.
Digital Media: Storytelling and Production
You’ll develop core skills in multimedia storytelling, including short-form video, podcasting, immersive media, and promotional content production. From video documentaries to social media campaigns, you’ll have the freedom to explore a variety of media platforms and narrative styles.
Diplomacy and Global Politics
The programme is taught by academics and practitioners, who are experts in the field, with significant expertise and reputation for exploring and interrogating issues related to diplomacy, global politics and power. Our core modules give a strong foundation in diplomacy, global politics and negotiation in theory and practice on which to build, and the wide range of electives give you a chance to further study areas of specific interest. You'll also gain knowledge and develop your skills of negotiation, policy analysis, advocacy through interactive exercises such as workshops, moot courts, in-person seminars and more. Bringing theory to life, you'll have the chance to learn from diplomats, policy-makers, NGO officials and other industry leaders.
Economic Policy and Analysis
As well as enhancing your ability to apply relevant economic principles in support of policy and strategy development, the course aims to develop your ability to communicate complex issues to wide audiences, your awareness of significant sources of economic and financial data, the problems faced when carrying out policy evaluation and your capability for self-awareness and group working.
You will take the following set of modules in slightly different orders, depending on whether you start in September or January.
Microeconomics and Macroeconomics modules will build a strong foundation of knowledge of the fundamental concepts and ideas in economics. We’ll look at how a working economist develops policy advice in relation to production and supply decisions. Drawing on real-life economic scenarios from a variety of sector contexts, we’ll also examine sources of market failure, the economic choices available and competition policy in different countries.
In quantitative modules (Data Analysis and Applied Economics), you’ll learn fundamental statistical and econometric techniques and will be introduced to the software used to analyse quantitative data, including Excel, EViews and Stata.
You will also study a selection of policy-relevant economics fields: Development Economics and Policy, International Trade Policy and Sustainable Energy Policy.
In Research Methods, you will learn how to set up your dissertation research, leading to the writing of your research proposal.
Your studies culminate with the final dissertation (Economic Evaluation Project), an intensive piece of research of between 8,000 and 10,000 words, where you will provide a study of real-life economic policy. As a guide, previous students have considered topics as diverse as the effectiveness of government subsidies on productivity in UK SMEs and an assessment of the impact of the ASEAN Free Trade Agreement on the economy of the Philippines.
English Language and Literature
The English Language and Literature MA explores the interconnections between language and literature. Our course will provide you with a thorough understanding of the linguistic features of English from a wide range of perspectives (theoretical and applied, synchronic and diachronic), as well as leading you to explore a wide array of texts in connection with the social, historical and political circumstances from which they emerge. It will also equip you with the intellectual perspectives and scholarly skills to conduct independent research.
Teaching is mainly delivered through weekly two- or three-hour sessions for each module, which include tutorials, seminars, practical sessions and workshops. There's also independent self-directed study, and you'll be prepared for the dissertation via structured sessions in research methodology. Assessment methods include submitted coursework such as essays, reviews and exercises – there are no formal exams.
English Literature: Modern and Contemporary Fictions
The course consists of three core modules, which together will help you to develop advanced skills of argument, synthesis, research and presentation. Themes and Problems in Modern and Contemporary Literature introduces you to current major themes in contemporary literature, in particular, the ways in which contemporary texts engage with and mediate ongoing crises and conflicts post-2001. Writing the Self explores issues such as life-writing, autofiction, embodiment, biography, memory, otherness, and the non-human.
The Dissertation, which can be written on an appropriate topic of your choice, is also a core module. The option modules provide an opportunity for you to deepen and extend your knowledge of a range of periods, issues and forms across the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
Entertainment Law
Our Entertainment Law LLM combines academic analysis and commercial practice elements of entertainment law in an international perspective. The diverse nature of entertainment law will enable you to follow a number of relevant specialisms, all of which are underpinned by issues of contract and intellectual property.
The course is for you if you're a graduate from a law background, or if you're from a non-law background but have significant relevant experience. There have been many successful international graduates on the course from all over the world. Studying this course will give you the opportunity to explore new ideas, thoughts and academic experiences within a supportive environment.
The course aims to develop your understanding of how key fields within the entertainment industries operate, to assess the impact of the law upon them, and give you the practical skills necessary to succeed in a career in entertainment and media law.
Entrepreneurship. Innovation and Enterprise Development
The course is designed to test and challenge you from the outset, giving you a broad understanding of entrepreneurship and innovation theory and business management, while developing your capacity and capability to put these into practice. We’ll deliberately keep you out of your comfort zone – which is the only way you’ll succeed as an entrepreneur! In addition to critical business skills, we’ll help you develop analytical, creative thinking, communication and networking skills. Since none of our modules require previous knowledge, this course is accessible to anyone with a desire to enhance their enterprise awareness and entrepreneurial capabilities. All modules studied are core.
Architecture
The Architecture MA offers a unique opportunity for graduates interested in the intersection of architectural design, theory and research, encouraging students to develop their own positions and identities as creative practitioners and thinkers. A range of thematic and contextual concerns are offered and explored through the course using unconventional and imaginative methods of design, research and representation. These include cultural identity, architecture and society, political architecture, contested landscapes and digital design. These diverse fields of inquiry and their impact on our cities are underpinned by integrating ‘other’ voices such as post-colonialism, critical theory, feminist theory and race studies. The course promotes methodological and representational innovation, with participants using techniques such as social mapping, interactive installations, film and conceptual modelling to stimulate projects towards high-levels of spatial, material and formal resolution.
A distinct and unique feature of the Architecture MA is its use of specialist pathways, namely Cultural Identity and Globalisation, Digital Media, and History and Theory. Students can elect to choose one of these routes through the programme, all of which incorporate option modules – graduating with the related named specialisation award, or else select their own combination of modules in order to graduate with the title Architecture MA. No matter how participants navigate their way through the course, it will inevitably be a dynamic journey of self-reflection and positioning to affirm interests and future practice concerns.
The course is delivered within a generous studio culture characterised by inclusion, creative experimentation and intellectual rigour. Participants work individually and in groups, and are directed by experienced and committed tutors who are experts in their respective fields. The course is further supported and enriched by a network of renowned visiting speakers and critics from practice and academia, as well as high-quality studio spaces and state-of-the-art fabrication facilities.
Cyber Security and Forensics
This course focusses on two key aspects of Cyber Security: analysing and assessing risk to minimise them and Digital Forensics, which involves investigating and extracting digital information from various devices for legal evidential purposes. You’ll gain insights into security threats facing computer systems, the nature of stored information on digital devices, and the extraction processes.
All students will take the core modules which are designed to give a comprehensive introduction to this specialist field of Cyber Security and Forensics. The course structure allows you to choose optional modules from either the Cyber Security or Digital Forensics themes, providing a comprehensive and flexible learning experience. In addition, you’ll undertake and complete a Cyber Security and Forensics Major Project Module.
The course offers access to state-of-the-art resources, including the licensed FTK Forensics Toolkit and other Open-Source Tools.
Data Science and Analytics
Embedded into the course are two key themes. The first will help you to develop your skills in the use and application of various technologies, architectures, techniques, tools, and methods for data science. These include data warehousing and mining, distributed data management, and the technologies, architectures, and appropriate AI and ML techniques. The second theme will enhance your knowledge of algorithms and the quantitative techniques including AI, ML, and Operational Research (OR) suitable for analysing and mining data and developing decision models in a broad range of application areas. The project consolidates the taught subjects covered, while giving you the opportunity to pursue in-depth study in your chosen area.
Teaching approaches include lectures, tutorials, seminars, and practical sessions. You will also learn through extensive coursework, class presentations, group research work, and the use of a range of industry-standard software such as R, Python, Simul8, Palisade Decision Tools, Tableau, and Oracle.
Modules are typically assessed through practical coursework, which may also include an in-class test.
English Language and Linguistics
The English Language and Linguistics MA explores the linguistic features of English from theoretical, applied, synchronic and diachronic perspectives. Our course will enable you to understand and evaluate critically a wide spectrum of ideas in the study of the English language, particularly in connection with linguistic variation in terms of space, time, communicative context and linguistic contact. It will also equip you with the intellectual perspectives and scholarly skills to conduct independent research.
Teaching is mainly delivered through weekly two- or three-hour sessions for each module, which include tutorials, seminars, practical sessions and workshops. There's also independent self-directed study, and you'll be prepared for the dissertation via structured sessions in research methodology. Assessment methods include submitted coursework such as essays, reviews and exercises – there are no formal exams.
Environmental Sustainability and Data Science
This course adopts a comprehensive learning strategy that emphasises independent research, study and active engagement with key stakeholders. Our approach combines a range of diverse teaching methods including practical workshops, fieldwork and laboratory sessions, lectures and tutorials, group work and presentations and poster sessions.
Event Design and Management
This course is specifically designed for people who want to enter or make further progress in management-level careers in the fast-expanding field of event management. London is an ideal place in which to study events, with many venues on the doorstep. As a regular host of world-class sports and culture events such as Wimbledon, the London Marathon, Notting Hill Carnival and the London Fashion Week, as well as one-off mega events such as the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympics games and the 2015 Rugby World Cup, London is widely recognised as a world events capital. With several hundred venues and an abundance of international business and leisure events, London is a world leader in this dynamic industry.
This course explores the strategic development, design and logistical organisation of many different types of event. You'll also learn how events and conferences contribute to enriching the lives of communities and improve communications in business, politics and professional life. The dissertation will give you further opportunity to research a conference or events topic in depth. The course is taught by experienced academics and industry practitioners, providing valuable insight into this exciting industry sector.
Expanded Photography
This course is part of a suite of MA art courses which include the Art and Emerging Technologies MA and the Global Contemporary Art MA. You’ll tailor your learning through a set of shared optional modules that address contemporary challenges, advanced digital approaches, and specialised professional contexts. You’ll also undertake the Professional Practice module and the Master's Project alongside students from the other MA art courses, thus benefiting from collaborative opportunities and cross-disciplinary learning.
Option modules are delivered by other colleagues from CREAM (Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media).
Fashion Accessories Design
This course is part of a suite of MA Fashion courses which include Fashion Business Management MA, Fashion Sustainability MA, Fashion Manufacturing MA, and Menswear MA (with Professional Experience MFA). You’ll shape your learning through a set of shared optional modules that address contemporary challenges, advanced digital approaches, and specialised professional contexts while facilitating collaborative and cross-disciplinary learning opportunities.
Fashion Business Management
The Fashion Business Management MA is part of the University of Westminster's broad postgraduate portfolio in fashion. Our diverse programme allows students to shape their learning through interdisciplinary core and optional modules shared across the five postgraduate fashion courses. These courses address contemporary challenges, advanced digital approaches, specialised professional contexts and facilitates collaborative and cross-disciplinary learning opportunities.
Fashion Manufacturing
This course is part of a suite of MA Fashion courses which include Fashion Business Management MA, Fashion Sustainability MA, Fashion Accessories Design MA, and Menswear MA (with Professional Experience MFA). You’ll shape your learning through a set of shared optional modules that address contemporary challenges, advanced digital approaches, and specialised professional contexts while facilitating collaborative and cross-disciplinary learning opportunities.
Fashion Sustainability
This course is part of a suite of MA Fashion courses which include Fashion Business Management MA, Fashion Accessories Design MA, Fashion Manufacturing MA, and Menswear MA (with Professional Experience MFA). You’ll shape your learning through a set of shared optional modules that address contemporary challenges, advanced digital approaches, and specialised professional contexts while facilitating collaborative and cross-disciplinary learning opportunities.
Film, Television and Moving Image
The course is taught in two modes: full-time and part-time. Full-time students take 180 credits in one year. Part-time students take 80 credits in their first year and 100 credits in their second year.
The course is made of core and optional modules. There are three 20-credit core modules and a 60-credit core Major Project module. We also offer five 20-credit optional modules, from which you select three.
On the core modules, all students produce a short film in response to a live industry brief, create a video essay, write critical reflections and deliver presentations.
Through your option module and assignment choices, you can build a specialist portfolio of creative work. If specialising in screenwriting, this would include a synopsis, a treatment, a proposal for a TV series, and several screenplays. If specialising in production, your portfolio would include a video essay, a film responding to a live industry brief, a journalistic documentary, a creative nonfiction film, an essay film and a series of interactive or immersive narrative pieces. If specialising in programming, curation and exhibition, you would produce several film programming proposals for a festival, online or other exhibition site and mount your own moving image exhibition as part of a group show.
With guidance from experienced technicians, you will have access to equipment and facilities required for your creative work.
Finance and Accounting
This course provides a comprehensive and rigorous treatment of key areas of accounting and finance, together with a broad commercial understanding of decision making within a cost context. Content is benchmarked against the professional body curriculums and regularly updated.
Current study themes include financial and management accounting, taxation, and financial management. Through optional modules, you can choose to specialise either in accounting or finance, or choose an equally balanced programme across the two areas. You may also choose any Level 7 electives that may be of interest to you.
Finance (International Finance)
The innovative structure of our MSc Finance degree, with its shared first semester curriculum of core financial knowledge, is intended to provide you with a deep and systematic understanding of general financial markets.
You’ll be introduced to the latest financial theories, learn how to analyse financial matters, and consider the current challenges and issues facing financial institutions, markets and multinational corporations, such as the changing ethical and corporate responsibility issues or need for continuous improvement in a digital age, where omni-channel service and operational strategies are now essential.
Depending on your area of interest, you will then choose whether to pursue a Banking or International Finance pathway specialisation.
The program is designed to build a strong foundation of knowledge of financial modelling, decision-making and risk management in contemporary business enterprises. You will start by taking part in an orientation programme with sessions including introductions to Bloomberg and Excel for Finance, postgraduate research skills, current issues in finance, financial markets, a revision of statistics and probability.
Essential finance topics covered include: capital structure; investment appraisal methods; dividend policy; modern portfolio theory; valuation of financial securities; foreign exchange, interest rate and credit risk; and the existing regulatory framework.
You will learn to use mathematical and statistical analytical methods, such as matrix algebra, differential calculus, probability theory, descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, regression analysis, forecasting and modelling volatility.
The International Finance pathway will deepen your understanding of the challenges associated with global business finance strategies, international transactions, available financing options, the management and hedging of key risks, and how to efficiently manage assets and liabilities of multinationals.
With the launch of the inaugural Finance and Accounting Annual Research Symposium in June 2020, we are committed to sharing new insights. Three members of the course team are currently conducting research into cryptocurrencies and machine learning, as part of a project funded by the Quintin Hogg Trust.
Your studies culminate with the final Project, an intensive piece of research and 8,000 to 10,000-word dissertation. As a guide, previous students have considered topics as diverse as the effect of issuing green securities on a firm’s financial performance, the impact of trade openness or the effect of mergers and acquisitions on economic growth, and the relationship between profitability and capital structure.
FinTech with Business Analytics
This innovative course has been designed for learners who wish to specialise in one of the most exciting areas of finance and gain a deeper understanding of finance applications that are transforming the financial services sector. It provides detailed coverage of global financial markets, institutions and their services and securities, alongside a thorough introduction to key aspects of FinTech.
Encompassing both quantitative and qualitative methods, you'll build your knowledge of business analytics, together with the basic programming (Python) and analytical techniques required for using computational methods in finance. You’ll learn how to use standard industry-based mathematical and statistical packages (eg SPSS) and select from the range of analytic techniques to analyse current data accessible via Bloomberg or Data Stream.
We also delve into new, more complex emerging technologies, including blockchain, original and new types of cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and predictive analysis. You'll gain a detailed knowledge and advanced learning of a range of AI/ML techniques, including logistic regression, decision tree, Naive Bayes and others to solve problems or to undertake projects in capital markets, asset portfolio and risk management contexts.
To better prepare you to predict future or unknown outcomes in the financial services sector, you’ll learn about big data management, data mining methods and decision-support in a variety of financial services contexts, such as corporate finance, forecasting in capital markets, credit risk, fraud detection and in asset management. The course culminates with a work placement with one of our many financial services partner organisations or a research project in an area of your choice.
Forensic Psychology
This British Psychological Society (BPS) accredited (pending) Forensic Psychology MSc course will provide you with Stage 1 empirical and theoretical knowledge necessary to enable you to move to complete the next stage of professional training (BPS Stage 2 or Health Care Practitioner Council (HCPC) route).
You’ll gain a critical academic understanding of the factors that may contribute to a wide variety of forms of offending. You’ll be encouraged to consider the role and limitations of causal explanations for offending in the development of offender treatments and services. This course will prepare you to work in settings where forensic psychology is practised, providing you with the key skills , from inter-disciplinary working, risk for violence assessment, vulnerability and ethics, to continuing professional development and report writing. Upon graduation, you’ll be equipped with knowledge of the legal system and the role of a forensic psychologist, as well as the ways theory and research in psychology can be applied to legal issues.
The course explores current topics within Forensic Psychology, including Vulnerability and Neurodiversity in Criminal Justice, Sexual and Violent Crime, Investigative Psychology, and Ethical Practice. These topics, plus the opportunity to complete a Forensic Volunteering placement and the application of real-world data in our Forensic Data Analysis module ensure that you’ll graduate ready to begin work as a trainee Forensic Psychologist and apply your learning to real cases and scenarios
Global Contemporary Art
This course is part of a suite of MA art courses which include the Art and Emerging Technologies MA and the Expanded Photography MA. You’ll tailor your learning through a set of shared optional modules that address contemporary challenges, advanced digital approaches and specialised professional contexts. You’ll also undertake the Professional Practice and the Master's Project modules alongside students from the other MA art courses, thus benefiting from collaborative opportunities and cross-disciplinary learning.
Global Criminology
The Global Criminology MA is designed to develop your knowledge and critical understanding of criminology as an interdisciplinary subject that incorporates legal, political and psychological, as well as social scientific approaches to the study of crime, deviance, criminal and social justice.
Led by academic experts in the area, this new course will focus on two themes – global criminology and critical criminology – giving you the unique opportunity to study the subject with both an international and critical focus.
Global Development
The programme is structured around three interrelated knowledge areas: development, social justice and sustainability. You’ll learn from four interrelated academic disciplines including political economy, political sociology, international relations and human geography.
Through a selection of core and optional modules on the programme, you’ll cover the fundamental aspects of development theory, identify key issues facing global development, and learn the ethical, political and practical considerations for selecting the approaches to address the challenges.You’ll receive advanced training in research methods and analytical skills, combined with practical skill-based training on problem-solving, collaborative work, and policy analysis.
In addition to classroom teaching, you’ll also take field trips and visits, and interact with professionals in the development sector, applying your knowledge and skills in real-world contexts. This will give valuable insights into the challenges and opportunities associated with global development, and the opportunity to build networks whilst learning.
Global Media
You'll examine key developments in the media and communications industries associated with the logic of globalisation, and explore the complex nature of the globalisation process in the media. You'll gain a relevant, well-grounded, high-quality education and skill base, enabling you to develop a clear and comprehensive understanding of communication and the mass media.
Based on continuous assessment, the course is taught in lectures and seminars by the team from Westminster's top-rated Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI). You'll be part of a bustling multicultural academic department that boasts a strong research culture, and have the opportunity to attend regular talks by outside speakers (academics and practitioners) on a variety of communication and mass media issues.
Global Public Health Nutrition
Our assessments ensure that you graduate with the skills required by employers, which are transferable to a wide variety of fields and contexts. Assessments may include presentations, critical reviews, policy development and analysis, expressions of interest, programme proposals, data analysis using SPSS, interviews, podcasts, posters, policy briefings, TV newscasts, and health system analysis.
Global Public Health Nutrition with Data Science
You'll be taught through a combination of methods, helping to both improve your knowledge in the field of public health and build your critical faculties through experiential learning, helping you to develop the key communication skills required of professional scientists.
Teaching methods include formal lectures, practical sessions, student-centred learning activities, poster presentations and oral presentations. Where appropriate, teaching materials will be recorded and accessible online for all students.
Health Psychology
The course is taught by a core team of enthusiastic and supportive research-active staff, with collaborative links to external institutions in London and beyond. Successful completion of the course (Stage 1) is a prerequisite for the further training (Stage 2) to become a health psychologist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
In addition to the core taught programme, we work with a range of practitioners to provide additional professional training in areas such as resilience, coaching and clinical practice
Human Resource Management
Our problem-based approach to teaching means you’ll get to apply what you learn to management problems through assignments and projects based on actual situations. We’ll draw on everyday HR issues in the news, case studies and current examples, at times addressing some of our own students’ workplace experiences. You’ll learn to collect and analyse relevant data and information, developing your ability to identify, evaluate and propose the most appropriate solutions looking at issues ranging from flexible working to employee engagement, managing change or reward management.
Our annual HRM conference offers you the chance to hear directly from a range of guest speakers who have previously covered issues such as immigration and labour supply, the impact of EU legislation on employee relations post-Brexit and EDI management. You also have the opportunity to develop essential HR practitioner skills through a series of practical workshops in areas such as disciplinary and grievance handling, unconscious bias in recruitment and selection, coaching and mentoring, amongst others. Working in teams, you might simulate dealing with a disciplinary hearing, for example, or conducting a recruitment interview.
Immersive Media Design
This course blends artistic practices with technical expertise, supporting you to develop original immersive media projects that explore new possibilities in narrative and interactive design. Through hands-on, project-based learning, you will engage with state-of-the-art tools and systems, exploring practical strategies for producing immersive experiences while critically engaging with the cultural and social implications of emerging technologies.
The course fosters speculative design, experimental methodologies, and inclusive practices, encouraging work that addresses contemporary social issues and engages global audiences.
Throughout the course, you’ll build a professional portfolio of original immersive media projects, demonstrating your ability to conceptualise, design, and execute impactful immersive experiences. The course culminates in a final project, where you’ll produce an immersive media experience aligned with your interests and career goals.
Interactive Media Practice
The course embraces a hackathon culture with specialist labs that boast newly designed flexible learning spaces for students to work more collaboratively on innovation protocols fostering cross-pollination of new ideas creatively. Many students will work on industry briefs as well as their own projects independently within and outside our course clusters. This collaborative approach to learning and research often leads to successful projects that are commercially viable and can quickly gain industry recognition, and also contribute to students’ portfolios.
You’ll examine the communication of ideas in a networked world through our entrepreneurship incubator programme and consider the many impacts of digital media in everyday life for commercial trajectories through practice-based projects.
Using the leading industry software, you'll be involved in designing and making interactive digital media content for delivery over the Internet, on tablets and mobile devices and for installations to designing compelling user interfaces creating a great user experience. This also extends to the development towards creating content for new emerging environments.
Interior Architecture
Located within the School of Architecture and Cities in central London, you’ll be taught and guided by research-active and industry-experienced staff. Increasingly international, and ever growing, our sought-after Master's course offers you the opportunity to develop your own pathway and focus on a contemporary issue of special importance to you. The course will therefore give you a platform to develop personally and professionally; the outcomes from this approach are rich and diverse, representing the dynamism and diversity of our students, and the freedom and encouragement to embark on design-led adventures here at Westminster.
International and Commercial Dispute Resolution Law
This course differs from the International Commercial and Corporate Law LLM (ICCL) course which is primarily concerned with non-contentious aspects of commerce (ICCL modules include competition law, trade and insurance).
Class sizes are, in general, quite small, and you'll be able to mix with students on other Master's courses at Westminster Law School.
The course provides an opportunity for in-depth study of the substantive and procedural issues involved in the field, and also the acquisition of skills involved in some of the processes. It's centrally concerned with law and other rules (international, transnational and commercial) which are applicable in adjudication and also in the other dispute resolution processes.
In addition to the taught modules, the Dissertation module gives you the opportunity to develop a specialist knowledge of a small area of the field, which might lead to a publishable article.
International Business and Management
Course content reflects the main functional areas of business and management. During the course, you'll take nine core modules, with 180 credits in total.
International Commercial and Corporate Law
The course offers you the opportunity to develop strong academic and practical skills in a highly competitive and intellectually satisfying area of law. It's ideally suited to you if you come from a commercial law, international business, management, or economics background. You'll have the opportunity to explore your own ideas, gain knowledge and enhance transferable skills in a supportive environment. You'll benefit from a strong programme of visiting speakers, excellent online materials and learning resources, top-quality instruction and a professional and practical focus in a School with a strong research profile.
International Communication - Liaison and Advocacy
You'll take five core modules, four taught and one research-based.
Your research component is an important element of the course. You can choose to write a Dissertation or you can take International Partnership Management, where you apply your knowledge and expertise by simulating a collaborative international project and devising a communication strategy for it.
To complete the MA, you need to choose two out of three option modules.
International Development Management
The course is designed to give you the theory and practical tools to design, implement and deliver self-sustaining and collaborative development interventions at an international level, looking at past initiatives to gain a better understanding as to why some succeed while others fail. During the course, you will take eight core modules and one option module. If you're interested in learning a new language or developing one of your current languages, our Polylang programme offers eight major languages to choose from.
You will examine a wide range of public policy issues in the context of socioeconomic development, for example, in the areas of finance, trade, investment, human resources development, environment, sustainable development, and urban and regional development. You will also consider the role and influence of global development stakeholders and how to engage constructively and best access their regional and global expertise at various stages and levels of a development intervention, building outcomes that are inclusive and deliverable. With a focus on practical development, you will learn how to put together compelling funding proposals, a skill that will be required throughout your career.
Since we attract students from a range of different backgrounds and disciplines, such as law, accountancy, business and economics, the project enables you to develop specialist expertise in a particular aspect of international development management and focus on a subject that interests you. Conducting research and analysis, you will explore a practical development issue focused on a region (or regions) of your choice. For example, past themes included disaster risk management in the Philippines, a maternal health programme in Columbia and rural finance in Ghana.
You can choose one option module from the University's postgraduate programme, subject to approval by the Course Leader. This gives the unique benefit of allowing you to choose according to your past academic studies, work experience or, perhaps, in line with your future career pathways or interests.
International Human Resource Management
We cover a range of interesting modules focused specifically on international HRM, comparative HRM, organisational analysis and development and management skills. This will give you a deeper understanding of the theory, practices and policies of HRM and what these mean for different groups of individuals and organisations at local, national and international levels.
International Law
The International Law LLM at Westminster Law School is taught in our central London campus, just a short distance from most major British institutions and international organisations. The course can be taken full-time or part-time, and you can start in either September or January.
We also have a research group, International Law at Westminster (ILaW), which conducts important research projects on topical international law issues. These projects have received external funding because of their importance and their potential impact. ILaW also regularly organises events in which students are invited to participate.
Every year, the Oxford University Press Prize is awarded to the best International Law LLM student.
The course will enhance your understanding of the key principles of public international law, the main developments within the public international law framework and the process of globalisation and its significance for international law.
International Planning and Sustainability Development
Based in London, you'll have access to the internationally recognised experience of spatial planning for sustainable development, and explore contemporary theories, public policy thinking and good practice in planning in both the developed and developing worlds. The University of Westminster is the UK's first Habitat Partner University. We work with UN-HABITAT and other like-minded institutions to promote the socially and environmentally sustainable development of towns, cities and regions, in accordance with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and New Urban Agenda.
The course benefits from having strong links with the Max Lock Centre, an international development research unit, which is part of the wider Research Community for Sustainable Cities and Urban Environments. Associated research and consultancy focuses on the planning of cities and regions towards a sustainable and low-energy future and the exploration of the environmental and social impact of concentrating people and economic activity in cities and urban areas including the consequences for surrounding rural areas.
This course explores contemporary theories, public policy thinking and good practice in planning that spans both developed and developing world contexts, and offers you the opportunity to explore one area of specialism in a related field in some depth.
International Relations and Democratic Politics
The dissertation constitutes a third of the overall marks for this course, and you're encouraged to choose a topic that is of particular interest to you. You'll be assigned a supervisor who is an expert in this area, and they will work with you to structure and refine your work.
International Relations and Security
The dissertation constitutes a third of the overall marks for this course, and you're encouraged to choose a topic that is of particular interest to you. You'll be assigned a supervisor who is an expert in this area, and they will work with you to structure and refine your work.
International Relations
The dissertation constitutes a third of the overall marks for this course, and you're encouraged to choose a topic that is of particular interest to you. You'll be assigned a supervisor who is an expert in this area, and they will work with you to structure and refine your work.
Investment and Risk Finance
During the course, you will take seven core modules and one option module. These will help you acquire the ability to perform quantitative investment and risk analyses on a variety of financial instruments and structured products. You'll also learn how to use capital market products in both investment and risk finance applications. As a result, you will develop good transferable skills and solve financial problems in a group setting.
Law and Technology
Full-time postgraduate students study 180 credits per year, consisting of three core modules worth 100 credits and four 20-credit option modules.
Our Dissertation module will allow you to apply your understanding and developed knowledge in practical settings, working closely with a tutor on the programme and having access to in-built networking opportunities, either through your own project focuses or through a showcase of work at the end of the module.
Legal Practice
Westminster's LPC assessments meet SRA expectations. They're designed to be realistic and constructive by genuinely testing you and enabling you to demonstrate acquired knowledge and skills through a mixture of written examinations and practical assessments. Assessment takes place throughout Stage 1 of the LPC and at the end of Stage 2 electives. Generally, the assessments are 'open book' and you're allowed to use both textbooks and your own written notes. You are timetabled to allow sufficient revision and preparation time for examinations and assessments.
Following successful completion of Stage 1 of the LPC, you'll progress to the Research and Dissertation modules. In the research modules, you'll be introduced to research methods and design, literature reviews, research ethics and analysis. Having identified a suitable area of research pertinent to legal practice, you'll then justify the research project and your proposed methodology and produce your literature review. The final stage is to carry out your research and produce an 8,000-word dissertation. Throughout these stages, you'll be allocated a supervisor to advise on your progress.
Legal Practice Postgraduate Diploma
Westminster's LPC assessments meet SRA expectations. They're designed to be realistic and constructive by genuinely testing you and enabling you to demonstrate acquired knowledge and skills through a mixture of written examinations and practical assessments. Assessment takes place throughout Stage 1 of the LPC and at the end of Stage 2 electives. Generally, the assessments are 'open book' and you're allowed to use both textbooks and your own written notes. You are timetabled to allow sufficient revision and preparation time for examinations and assessments.
Logistics and Supply Chain Management
The Logistics and Supply Chain Management MSc has been designed to develop your ability to carry out advanced analysis and research in the field of logistics and supply chain management within a global context. The MSc course has been running since 1998 and is offered by the School of Architecture and Cities.
Management
The course is designed to provide you with up-to-date theories, tools, systems and techniques across the management function, together with an understanding of contemporary management issues in an ever-changing business environment.
Marketing Communications
You’ll start by gaining an understanding of the psychology that underpins modern consumers’ attitudes, perceptions, decision-making processes and behaviour. You’ll have the opportunity to put your learning of consumers into practice by designing research to collect and analyse data and generate insights for marketing communications. You’ll explore the wide range of media and platforms that carry marketing communications messages, including the digital platforms that are revolutionising advertising, programmatic buying, digital display, the growth of new media and the increasing importance of data. You’ll also examine the key concepts for managing brands as strategic assets both on- and off-line, all aiming to create value for customers and your organisation.
Acknowledging the importance of customer relationship marketing (CRM), you’ll study direct and data-driven concepts in marketing communications, together with creative, innovative ways to engage consumers in dialogue – from personal selling to sophisticated mobile apps. We examine a range of approaches to marketing communications from the traditional to the most contemporary. You’ll learn to use a range of contemporary digital tools and techniques, such as Google analytics, and data and social media dashboards, to evaluate channels for marketing communications, including mobile and content creation. Those studying the MA will explore how creativity and innovation can add value when planning marketing communications, while MSc students will experience a variety of data-analytic tools and methods which can be used to guide decision-making
The IMC project is a year-long module running through both semesters and integrates all of your learning. You will develop a well-researched, practical marketing communications strategy for a real company of your choice
Marketing Management
On this course, you'll develop your ability to critically evaluate contemporary marketing practice.
Master of Architecture
Consisting of two years of full-time study (Levels 6 and 7), the Master of Architecture (MArch) fulfils the RIBA/ARB criteria and regulatory framework for architectural registration, which allows it to offer exemption from the RIBA Part 2 examination.
Master of Business Administration
The MBA follows a strong narrative with a journey of discovery, beginning with the diagnosis of business problems/issues, the design of innovative solutions, immersion in digital applications and the development of drive, resilience and diplomacy as part of the student’s personal growth. In addition to the module assessment, capabilities learned are applied during the client projects for Entrepreneurial Mindset, the Consultancy Project and the Management in Action internship. You will study problem-solving and capability-building modules for a total of 180 credits.
We begin by learning how to conduct a business diagnostic, developing your skills in analysing financial, performance and market data, as well as critical thinking. You’ll learn to confidently identify the symptoms of underperformance and analyse business problems, using your judgement to make informed decisions to improve future market performance. We’ll examine how design thinking and creativity can reimagine business models and help design new products, services and processes. You’ll also gain a better understanding of digital disruptions and how these impact on business operations, business services and performance.
We move on to business structure and modern strategies in a changing world, as well as the traits, behaviours and management processes needed for resilient, flexible organisations. You’ll consider some of the contemporary challenges facing business, from the merits of sustainable global growth to the global perspective of business development and the need for sensitive, collaborative working in multicultural project environments. You’ll examine the latest insights in innovation and new business models, before participating in a week-long Consultancy Project advising client(s) to solve a strategic issue/problem.
For the Management in Action Internship or Project, you’ll investigate a problem/issue related to innovation and/or digitisation for a client organisation in the UK or overseas – anything from how a digital start-up can compete against digital/conventional rivals, to the impact of digitisation on an organisation’s operation and performance. It’s an ideal opportunity to demonstrate your resourcefulness and ability to ‘think on your feet’.
Media and Development
You’ll study four compulsory modules focused on policy and theory, including a dissertation which will involve conducting a major piece of independent research. You will also choose three optional modules from a broad range which encompasses business strategy, entrepreneurship, sociology, politics and the development of practical media skills. You will learn through critical review reports, academic essays, case studies, multimodal briefs and dissertation, with a balance between group and individual work.
Media, Campaigning and Social Change
There are three core modules. The first develops practical planning and campaign communications skills, the second considers media and activism theories, and the third combines theory with practice, reflecting on applying concepts like power and ethics within the setting of campaign communications. Each module has assessments – e.g. essays, campaign plans, reflective blogs, debates and presentations - rather than exams. These three core modules make up the Postgraduate Certificate.
Students can take another three modules chosen from two pathways, one with a more practical emphasis and one with a more theoretical emphasis. The theoretical pathway includes three thematic areas: a) media industries and audiences, b) new technologies, and c) news, globalization, development and diversity. Students can combine modules from different pathways and thematic areas or focus on a single pathway and thematic area. These three modules allow to complete the Postgraduate Diploma.
Students wanting to take the Master's course also complete either a 12,000-word research dissertation, or a professional practice project (which can be work-based).
Media Management
Through applied projects, optional work experience and learning from knowledgeable industry researchers, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside organisations that will challenge and energise your skill sets and media perspective. We will prepare you to make a tangible impact while learning and you’ll engage with real issues – whether it’s to develop an AI strategy, construct a social media campaign or build the institutions and ecosystems needed to support marginalised voices and advance sustainability.
If you have an entrepreneurial vision, we’ll help you bring it to life with guidance and mentorship from seasoned practitioners and investors from the media and tech space. Our focus on core business skills enables you to manage and plan complex media projects, positioning you to change the world through content, strategy or policy. In partnership with the Westminster Enterprise Network, you’ll have access to a powerful culture of start-up incubation, with practical business support and opportunities to pitch for seed funding, transforming your ideas into impactful ventures.
Menswear
The project-based curriculum has two core modules that are progressively designed to develop your confidence in an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary context. These projects aim to encourage imaginative, practical and theoretical knowledge.
Our graduates have gone on to enjoy a range of roles in places such as Bottega Veneta, Givenchy, Alexander McQueen, Adidas and Charles Jeffrey among others. Some have also set up their own businesses. Notable alumni include Priya Ahluwalia, winner of the Queen Elizabeth II Award 2021, winner of the shared LVMH Prize 2020, New Generation prize 2019 and H&M Prize 2018, Mateo Velazquez, finalist at Hyeres 2021, and San Kim, whose inflatable garment design went viral in 2019.
Based at our dedicated Arts campus at Harrow, we have outstanding industry-level facilities and equipment, a broad range of networking opportunities and visiting industry practitioners as guest lecturers.
Menswear with Professional Experience
It is designed for individuals who are particularly interested in establishing their own menswear brand but who would like to gain industry experience while doing so. The course includes a year of project-based study and a placement year within the industry.
Multimedia Journalism (Broadcast)
You will study five core modules and a Final Journalism Project, which can be a TV or radio documentary or a digital project. You will also study one optional module. You will learn through a rich mix of teaching styles including tutorials, seminars, workshops, case studies, group projects and independent research, with the course consisting of around 70 per cent practical work and 30 per cent theory.
Multimedia Journalism (Print & Online
You will study five core modules and a Final Journalism Project, which will be a piece of long-form journalism. You will also study one optional module. You will learn through a rich mix of teaching styles including tutorials, seminars, workshops, case studies, group projects and independent research, with the course consisting of around 70 per cent practical work and 30 per cent theory.
Museums, Galleries and Contemporary Culture
The course looks at the changing role of cultural provision and how cultural institutions shape, house, fund and disseminate culture today within the broader theoretical context of museum and gallery issues. You'll examine key themes in the cultural sector, and how these are dealt with by leading and smaller institutions in the UK and internationally. In studying and experiencing their day-to-day work, such as how they’re developing innovative practices in relation to their collections, exhibitions and audiences, you’ll gain valuable insight into the sector.
This MA gives you the unique opportunity to immerse yourself in contemporary debates about working practices in cultural institutions by working closely with museum and gallery professionals. You’ll be able to learn with our London-based course partners, The Museum of London and The Photographers’ Gallery, and to meet a variety of other professionals from the sector. Gaining professional knowledge is an important part of the course and you'll be supported in gaining work placements and in working on professional projects.
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Museums, Galleries and Contemporary Culture with Professional Experience
As part of this course you'll do a work placement or internship in a museum or an art organisation. This will enable you to gain professional skills and consolidate the knowledge you'll acquire on the MA. Your placement or internship will take place in your second year and last between three to six months. While the University isn't able to guarantee a placement, we have a wide range of contacts, so we negotiate with partner institutions to find openings that are suitable for you to apply for. On graduating from the Museums, Galleries and Contemporary MA with Professional Experience, you'll be fully prepared to enter or re-enter the job market at a senior level. If you're unable to secure a placement that suits your interests, you can transfer instead to the one-year Museums, Galleries and Contemporary Culture MA.
Music Business Management
All teaching staff on the course have comprehensive professional experience or are currently active in the music industries. The course is designed to reflect the interdisciplinary collaborative and entrepreneurial nature of music sector working practices. We examine the music environment using a transdisciplinary approach that includes business, cultural, economic, and sociological theories that cover the creative and cultural industries. Additionally, we will provide you with the flexibility to choose between the informal pathways specialising in artist management, business management and live music management.
Pharmaceutical Science
This course examines topics at the cutting-edge of the pharmaceutical industry and you will develop a deep understanding of biotherapeutics and regenerative medicines; two of the fastest growing areas in the pharmaceutical sector. Our option modules, covering science communication, entrepreneurship, commercialisation, fermentation technology and bioinformatics provide the opportunity to tailor your skills to areas you may want to work in.
You’ll develop both laboratory-based and entrepreneurial, business-development focused skills and graduate equipped with insightful and rigorous research skills, tools and an overall expertise relevant for a pharmaceutical science career. You’ll gain experience of working on real-world, authentic research projects and be able to demonstrate your ability to work to good laboratory practice (GLP) and good manufacturing practice (GMP) requirements upon graduation. This skillset and knowledge will prepare you for diverse roles within the pharmaceutical industry, as well as progression to further study at PhD/MPhil level.
Professional Legal Practice
The Professional Legal Practice LLM is designed for non-law graduates who are seeking to transition to a career in law. You'll learn both the law and its practical application to realistic client-based and ethical problems and situations. The course will provide you with a solid foundation to qualify either as a solicitor or a barrister, whichever profession you decide upon.
The knowledge gained on this course will allow you to progress to further study for the Solicitors’ Qualifying Examination (SQE) or for a Bar Standards Board authorised barristers’ training course. The course also provides the opportunity to gain an academic qualification at Master’s level with the option of either taking our Legal Practice Project module, which combines professional legal skills with academic research, or a dissertation module in a chosen topic within the broad field covered by the course.
You'll practise the relevant skills in your tutorials, looking at writing, drafting, interviewing and advising, research, case and matter analysis and advocacy. You'll be assessed by a variety of authentic assessments which include advocacy, a case study report, analysis of a legal case and a legal practice blog. These will provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate that you have acquired a range of essential professional legal skills in addition to the substantive law.
Professional Legal Practice Postgraduate Diploma
The Professional Legal Practice Postgraduate Diploma is designed for non-law graduates who are seeking to transition to a career in law. You’ll learn both the law and its practical application to realistic client-based and ethical problems and situations. The course will provide you with a solid foundation to qualify either as a solicitor or a barrister, whichever profession you decide upon.
The knowledge gained on this course will allow you to progress to further study for the Solicitors’ Qualifying Examination (SQE) or for a Bar Standards Board authorised barristers’ training course. You will learn the essential foundation areas of legal knowledge needed for a career in law.
You’ll be able to develop key, relevant skills in your tutorials, looking at writing, drafting, interviewing and advising, research, case and matter analysis and advocacy. You’ll be assessed by a variety of authentic assessments which include advocacy, a case study report and analysis of a legal case. These will provide you with an opportunity to demonstrate that you have acquired competence in a range of essential professional legal skills in addition to understanding the substantive law.
Professional Writing
On the Professional Writing MA you'll take three core modules and either the Professional Writing Project or the MA Dissertation. You can then choose two further 20 credit option modules.
Professional Writing with Extended Work Placement
Your placement or internship will be a sandwich element in addition to the taught component of the course. You'll complete your dissertation or project after the end of the placement.
You'll be expected to secure your own placement or internship by the end of the second semester and will be fully supported by the course team and the Career Development Centre in doing so. During the first semester, a series of coaching sessions will support you in making applications and regular tutorials throughout the placement ensure contact with the course team. Placements or internships need to be 550 hours (minimum) in a professional work environment in a context related to professional writing.
If a placement cannot be secured, you’ll be transferred to the MA Professional Writing.
Project Management
This course aims to develop the specialist knowledge, capabilities and technical skills that you require to respond proactively and creatively to contemporary project management practice and the challenges of the global business environment. You'll study six core modules, including the project, and one option module.
Full-time students study three taught modules in each semester, and one year-long project module. The project module is taught in both semesters, but the bulk of the work is undertaken by students from June to September.
In Foundations, we lay the foundations of project management by focusing on the more technical skills of the profession, like planning, monitoring and controlling. In the Practice module, we concentrate more on the behavioural aspects of project management, such as leadership and teamwork. Together, these two modules provide a critical overview of the project management world.
Additional project management topics, such as risk management, project finance, strategic alignment, procurement and agile practices, are covered in other modules.
To complete your studies, you'll undertake a practical or research project. Past student projects have spanned different activities, sectors and countries – from analysing key project management issues, such as sustainability and success to the use of AI in project management and the communication challenges of virtual teams. Previous students have considered the value of agile project management in the public sector and examined risk management in healthcare projects, while others have focused on practices in Saudi Arabia, India, Latin America and Africa. Some students have set up a business as part of their project.
Psychology
You don't need to have studied psychology to be eligible for this course, however, you should note that it's an intensive course and requires hard work and independent full-time study outside of the contact hours.
We welcome applications from graduates with upper second class degrees who've either completed a degree in another subject or who have insufficient psychology in their degree to be eligible for GBC.
You'll take modules at Master's level in core areas of psychology, as specified by the BPS. You'll also take one option module in psychology from a selection available within the department. We offer a work experience in psychology module as an option if you would like to gain valuable experience in the workplace.
Our course curriculum covers the core areas of psychology stipulated by the BPS for GBC (biological psychology, cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, individual differences, social psychology, conceptual and historical issues in psychology, research methods, empirical project). In all of our modules there is a strong emphasis on critical evaluation of theory and practice.
Public Relations
You will study five core modules including a dissertation or a real-world final professional project. You will also study two optional modules. You will learn through a rich mix of teaching styles including tutorials, seminars, workshops, case studies, group projects and independent research.
Real Estate Development
The aim of the course is to provide you with a detailed understanding of the property development and appraisal process, encompassing valuation, financial, physical, legal and social aspects. You'll analyse development situations and respond to particular development problems with derived solutions. You’ll also enhance your capability to critically appraise options and independently evaluate alternative courses of action. There are seven core modules, including the dissertation, and one option module.
Depending on your choice of option modules, you can tailor your studies towards valuation, legal or property finance and investment, learning more about procurement surveying, how to raise capital, take financial decisions or deal with banks and investors.
Social Media and Digital Communication
In semester one, you'll take two core modules and also choose one optional module. You'll also begin work on your major social media research project.
In semester two, you'll choose three optional modules. You'll also continue to work on your research projects, working with an individual supervisor towards completing the project in August.
You may substitute one option module from this list with another relevant 20-credit level 7 module, if you receive permission from both your own course leader and the leader of the module that you wish to study.
Software Engineering (Conversion)
Teaching methods are aimed at encouraging and involving the active participation of students in their learning through knowledge and skills acquisition by means of engagement, experimentation, self-study and practical experience. The delivery of the course's taught modules involves lectures, tutorials, workshops and seminars. For the software development project students are allocated a supervisor who guides them through the project and are further supported by a series of group seminars and workshops that cover general skills and knowledge required for the project.
Assessments and feedback are important and are designed to form part of the learning experience. A wide variety of types and forms are used on the course and are dependent on the module and its learning outcomes, including both individual and group work. For example, individual work solving programming tasks, writing a report, group work as part of a team to design and create a complex software application, presenting and demonstrating your work or a group's work.
You’ll study six core modules and two option modules, for a total of 180 credits.
Specialised Translation
At the heart of the MA are our practical translation classes between English and one of these languages, which are complemented by our Translation Skills Lab module. You'll learn how to research specialised subjects to produce commercially viable translations of a broad range of specialised texts, applying insights drawn from translation theory and professional practice, and, in the Translation Skills Lab, learn about Project Management and Quality Assurance while honing your skills in a simulated translation bureau.
You’ll also study skills-based modules to prepare you for industry and develop your technical skills. In the Audiovisual Translation and Localisation module, you’ll become familiar with the principles and processes of audiovisual translation and the localisation of video games, gaining experience in industry-standard software.
You’ll engage with computer-assisted translation (CAT) and the post-editing of machine translation output in our Computer-Assisted Translation, Machine Translation, and Post-editing module. Students combining English with two languages will choose either Audiovisual Translation and Localisation or Computer-Assisted Translation, Machine Translation, and Post-editing, while students studying with English and one other language will take both.
The core Professional Development module will prepare you for your career through CV workshops, career and CPD plans, and visits from guest speakers. Your skills and knowledge acquired in your core modules will be complemented by your choice of option module. At the end of the course, you'll submit an MA Translation Project or Dissertation.
Specialised Translation with Professional Experience
At the heart of the MA are our practical translation classes between English and one of these languages, which are complemented by our Translation Skills Lab module. You'll learn how to research specialised subjects to produce commercially viable translations of a broad range of specialised texts, applying insights drawn from translation theory and professional practice, and, in the Translation Skills Lab, learn about Project Management and Quality Assurance while honing your skills in a simulated translation bureau.
You’ll also study skills-based modules to prepare you for industry and develop your technical skills. In the Audiovisual Translation and Localisation module, you’ll become familiar with the principles and processes of audiovisual translation and the localisation of video games, gaining experience in industry-standard software.
You’ll engage with computer-assisted translation (CAT) and the post-editing of machine translation output in our Computer-Assisted Translation, Machine Translation, and Post-editing module. Students combining English with two languages will choose either Audiovisual Translation and Localisation or Computer-Assisted Translation, Machine Translation, and Post-editing, while students studying with English and one other language will take both.
The core Professional Development module will prepare you for your career through CV workshops, career and CPD plans, and visits from guest speakers. Your skills and knowledge acquired in your core modules will be complemented by your choice of option module. At the end of the course, you'll submit an MA Translation Project or Dissertation.
Sports and Exercise Nutrition
Our Sport and Exercise Nutrition MSc offers you the chance to explore the key principles and cutting-edge research across sport and exercise nutrition, exercise physiology, psychology and practitioner skills. You will study the science behind sports nutrition, the applications within the general population, specific sub-groups of our society, and the elite athlete. It also puts the controversies surrounding the use of supplements under scientific scrutiny, looking at the key evidence for and against performance benefits. Using this scientific foundation, you will develop the skills to translate research to practice, communicate effectively with diverse clients and support personnel, and support effective behaviour change.
We recognise and embrace the diverse career paths graduates can take, and our course supports this with our optional modules that enable you to explore in greater depth effective science communication, commercialisation, practical work experience, or in-depth nutritional assessment. Your research project offers you a wide degree of flexibility to pursue your personal interests.
Sustainability Management and Innovation
The course incorporates interdisciplinary modules from multiple business fields (such as strategy, operations management, digital disruption and innovation, marketing and finance), together with environmental studies (such as carbon footprinting and environmental impact assessment).
You’ll develop a greater understanding of the relationship between business and society and how to engage with stakeholder communities more effectively. You’ll learn to expertly assess your employer’s impact – whether it be social, environmental or economic. Finally, with an appreciation of the challenges that sustainability poses for strategic decision-making, you’ll develop the skills and know-how to innovate, implementing new processes, products and services, and identifying ways to integrate sustainable practices into day-to-day business.
Teach English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
The course consists of three core modules and a range of option modules. The Language and Learning: Description and Analysis core module introduces in-depth exploration of the core concepts in the description and analysis of language and language learning, with specific reference to English language teaching and second language acquisition. The Language Teaching Methods core module examines a wide range of current practice and developments, including communicative competence in language learning and teaching, language teaching methodology, and discrete and integrated skills. The Dissertation is the third core module.
Tourism Management
You'll learn about the nature and characteristics of tourism and explore how it can be marketed, managed and planned, examining cases from around the world. Your management and entrepreneurial skills will be developed to assist you in finding employment in many different parts of this dynamic and growing industry.
A range of option modules allows you to focus on your particular interests, and to explore the links between the different aspects of tourism. A dissertation gives you the chance to apply your learning to develop in-depth, specialist knowledge of a tourism topic of your choice.
Translation and Interpreting
The MA trains you in translation and interpreting between one main language and English. You'll learn how to research specialised subjects for professional translation and interpreting purposes and hone your skills through extensive practice in your translation and interpreting classes and the Skills Lab modules. The skills and knowledge acquired in your core modules will be complemented by your choice of option module. At the end of the course, you'll submit either a Translation or Interpreting Project, or a dissertation.
Your core Specialised Translation module will involve both direct and inverse translation training between English and your chosen language. You'll also study conference (consecutive and simultaneous) and public service interpreting, into and out of English, in your core Interpreting module.
The Translation and Interpreting Skills Lab modules complement and contextualise your learning, allowing you to utilise your skills in situated learning scenarios. Through a series of mock conferences and a simulated translation bureau, you’ll apply your knowledge to realistic work-based tasks, preparing you for the workplace.
Your final core module, Professional Development, will tie in with your Skills Lab modules to further prepare you for a career in Translation or Interpreting. You’ll benefit from workshops on CV writing for translation and interpreting, career and CPD plans, visits from guest speakers, and volunteering opportunities to ensure you graduate prepared to launch your career.
Translation and Interpreting with Professional Experience
The MA trains you in translation and interpreting between one main language and English. You'll learn how to research specialised subjects for professional translation and interpreting purposes and hone your skills through extensive practice in your translation and interpreting classes and the Skills Lab modules. The skills and knowledge acquired in your core modules will be complemented by your choice of option module. At the end of the course, you'll submit either a Translation or Interpreting Project, or a dissertation.
Your core Specialised Translation module will involve both direct and inverse translation training between English and your chosen language. You'll also study conference (consecutive and simultaneous) and public service interpreting, into and out of English, in your core Interpreting module.
The Translation and Interpreting Skills Lab modules complement and contextualise your learning, allowing you to utilise your skills in situated learning scenarios. Through a series of mock conferences and a simulated translation bureau, you’ll apply your knowledge to realistic work-based tasks, preparing you for the workplace.
Your final core module, Professional Development, will tie in with your Skills Lab modules to further prepare you for a career in Translation or Interpreting. You’ll benefit from workshops on CV writing for translation and interpreting, career and CPD plans, visits from guest speakers, and volunteering opportunities to ensure you graduate prepared to launch your career.
Transport Planning
This course will enable you to understand the causes and motivations of personal travel and goods movement; to analyse transport problems, develop and implement policies and measures for resolving such problems; to evaluate transport projects, plans and policies, taking into account the need for stakeholder participation and recognising the political, social, health, environmental and economic issues involved.
The course balances theoretical and practical applications in three separate components: core modules, option modules and a research dissertation.
Transport Planning Postgraduate Diploma
The Transport Planning Postgraduate Diploma* develops your ability to initiate and implement advanced analysis and research in transport policy, planning and management. You'll learn the techniques and methodologies you need to take decisions, or to provide the necessary information for others to take policy decisions. The course is accredited by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT). This course is also approved by the TPP Professional Standards Committee as meeting the educational requirements for the Transport Planning Professional (TPP) qualification.
This programme will enable you to understand the causes and motivations of personal travel and goods movement; to analyse transport problems and develop, and implement policies and measures for resolving such problems; to evaluate transport projects, plans and policies, taking into account the need for stakeholder participation and recognising the political, social, health, environmental and economic issues involved.
The course balances theoretical and practical applications in the three separate components: core modules, option modules and a research dissertation.
Urban and Regional Planning
The Urban and Regional Planning MA will give you the skills, knowledge and abilities necessary to practise professionally as a spatial planner in a variety of private, public and third sector/ community contexts. Building on the University of Westminster's experience of delivering postgraduate courses in town planning for more than 80 years, it examines planning across diverse contexts and scales, but focuses in particular on planning in, and for, towns, cities, and urban regions in the UK. You'll be taught by qualified and dedicated staff who possess vast industry, research and teaching experience and moreover you'll benefit from studying in a genuinely interdisciplinary academic environment with excellent industry links in the heart of one of the most vibrant cities in the world.
The course is professionally accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and covers both the ‘spatial’ and ‘specialist’ elements of the RTPI’s requirements for initial planning education. It is designed to accommodate busy schedules and offered for full-time or part-time study at our modern Marylebone campus in central London. The course's main objective is to create critical-minded, well-rounded, and highly employable graduates who can excel in a variety of career environments and possess the skills and competencies necessary for addressing the manifold challenges and opportunities associated with contemporary spatial development and planning.
Urban Design
The course places a strong emphasis on design, practical outputs and a multidisciplinary approach. While focusing on UK examples, the lessons are applicable to a wide range of international and economic contexts. This flexible and student-centred approach is highly valued by former graduates and their employers. The course is delivered by staff with many years' experience in practice, education, training, research, and consultancy in the UK and overseas. Outputs from the course combine into a portfolio demonstrating your ability to deal with the complexities of urban design in a practical and informed manner.
Urban Design Postgraduate Diploma
The course places a strong emphasis on design, practical outputs and a multidisciplinary approach. While focusing on UK examples, the lessons are applicable to a wide range of international and economic contexts. This flexible and student-centred approach is highly valued by former graduates and their employers. The course is delivered by staff with many years' experience in practice, education, training, research, and consultancy in the UK and overseas. Outputs from the course combine into a portfolio demonstrating your ability to deal with the complexities of urban design in a practical and informed manner.
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| Yêu cầu | Chi tiết |
| Bằng cấp | Hoàn thành lớp 11 |
| GPA | 6.0 |
| IELTS UKVI | 4.5 (minimum 4.0) |
| Tổ chức đào tạo | Kaplan International Pathway |
| Yêu cầu | Chi tiết |
| Bằng cấp | Hoàn thành lớp 12 |
| GPA | 6.0 |
| IELTS UKVI | 5.5 (minimu5) |
| Tổ chức đào tạo | Kaplan International Pathway |
| Yêu cầu | Chi tiết |
| Bằng cấp | Hoàn thành Dự bị Đại học/ Năm 1 Đại học |
| GPA | 6.5 |
| IELTS | 6.0 (minimum 5.5) |
| TOEFL | 78 (R17; R 18; S 20) |
| PTE | 59 |
| Yêu cầu | Chi tiết |
| Bằng cấp | Hoàn thành Dự bị Đại học/ Năm 1 Đại học |
| GPA | 6.0 |
| IELTS | 6.5 (minimum 6.) |
| TOEFL | 88 (L 17; W 21; R 18; S 20) |
| PTE | 59 |
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