Master of Arts in International Politics (Global Justice and Ethics)

at Newcastle University United Kingdom

Get a flying start and accelerate your progress towards being an ICAEW Chartered Accountant by putting classroom theory into commercial practice, with integrated paid work placements.

The ‘Flying Start’ degree is a collaboration between Newcastle University, PwC and ICAEW. It is the most established degree of its kind. It combines academic study and integrated paid professional work placements in PwC’s Audit practice. You'll progress towards the ICAEW Chartered Accountancy qualification, the ACA.

We are celebrating 20 years of our Flying Start programme alongside current students, alumni and staff. Hear their views and experiences of the programme since its inception in 2002.

Throughout your journey a team of dedicated staff from both Newcastle University and PwC will support you. They'll help you:

• Develop the business skills you need to gain a degree
• Progress towards a professional qualification
• Succeed on paid work placements

This will help you towards hopefully receiving a full-time graduate offer with PwC. You could be a fully qualified ICAEW Chartered Accountant just over a year after graduation - a true flying start.

This three-year degree will give you the opportunity to develop an in-depth knowledge of this fascinating field. You'll be equipped with the practical skills and professional experience you need to analyse, design, and build electrical and electronic circuits.

Working on projects designed in collaboration with leading companies, you'll develop the skills and knowledge demanded by industry, through practical project work and research-informed teaching.

This broad-ranging degree covers the core aspects of the generation, distribution, storage, and conversion of electrical power, alongside a wide choice of specialist modules, including everything from the operation of nano-electronic devices, through to national-scale electricity networks.

This degree focuses on developing your scientific, technical and communication skills. You'll leave as a professional, caring, ethical and effective pharmacist, able to contribute to the health of future generations.

Hands-on learning and clinical placements are embedded throughout the degree. You will have access to patients from the start of the course, as well as access to our on-campus skills labs.

You’ll become a confident expert in medicine by learning the fundamentals of the human body and the principles of areas such as:

• Pharmaceutical microbiology
• Biomedical science
• Pathology
• Microbiology

This accredited degree allows you to explore both psychology and sports and exercise science. You'll apply your learning to help athletes perform, and promote physical activity and exercise with the wider public.

This three-year, joint honours degree focuses on building your knowledge across both psychology and sport and exercise science.

You'll study key disciplines in psychology and sport and exercise science, such as physiology, bioenergetics, nutrition, and social and developmental psychology.

You'll have access to our brand new building, with state-of-the-art facilities, including:

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

You'll also cover advanced topics which are linked to the research of our expert staff, exploring applied sport and exercise psychology and clinical psychology.

Our Finance MSc will teach you advanced knowledge and skills in financial markets and institutions. You'll learn:

• How they function and interact with the real economy
• How to use this knowledge to make optimal decisions in your financial career

The financial services sector has experienced worldwide growth. This has increased the demand for students with specialist skills and competencies in finance. This course will suit you if you are interested in the following careers:

• Investment banking
• financial research
• Financial trading

Your studies will include:

• Financial markets and institutions
• The management of asset-specific company and country risk

We'll encourage you to engage with contemporary debates. This should be related to the operation of financial markets and institutions. You'll learn about the types and function of financial markets. Such as:

• Stock
• Bond
• Foreign exchange
• Derivative markets

You'll benefit from our status as a Bloomberg Experiential Learning Partner. Through self-study, you'll complete the Bloomberg Market Concepts certificate. This gives you an interactive introduction to the financial markets.

This master's in Public Health (MPH) and postgraduate diploma helps you pursue a career in public health in the UK and internationally with:

• The UK National Health Service (or its equal abroad)
• Local government
• The voluntary sector
• Academic healthcare

A public health doctor must consider issues at many levels, including:

• Societal (eg health inequalities)
• Demographic (ageing and long term conditions)
• Cultural (eg changing public attitudes to health and wellness)
• Social (eg drug and alcohol abuse)

You'll address these issues with a range of advanced research skills. You'll study how to apply research findings to improve health and health services

The research master's contains taught and research elements. It is well suited as preparation for PhD research.

You'll focus on a particular area of Chinese studies that you'd like to carry out postgraduate research on. We place a high emphasis on excellent supervision, researcher training and development.

Our research staff work in diverse fields. This ranges from sociocultural, historical and political studies to film and literature, linguistics and sociolinguistics.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You will study a broad curriculum for two years, before learning about the development of embedded software systems that are fundamental to almost all our use of technology.

Explore different aspects of computing science – such as games design, bioinformatics, and security – in your first two years.

Spend a year on an accredited, paid industrial placement between Stages 2 and 3.

Study specialist modules in Stage 3 – such as software verification technology and real-time and cyber-physical systems – to develop skills and knowledge for your chosen career.

About Software Engineering

Reliable software is fundamental to almost all of our use of technology, from the embedded systems that make a washing machine work to the flight controllers on a passenger jet.

Working alongside programmers who have in-depth knowledge of writing code, software engineers understand and oversee the development of these systems, requiring strong computing science, project management and problem-solving skills.

Our Medical Science (deferred choice) BSc Honours degree allows you to explore all of the biomedical and biomolecular specialisms we offer to develop a broad understanding of the subjects. You can then choose the area of study you wish to focus on for the remaining two years of your degree.

We are a National Centre of Excellence in biomedical research and you will be taught by our world-leading and expert staff, so you will graduate with a cutting-edge knowledge of the industry.

All of our medical science programmes benefit from research-led teaching, which will equip you with a wide range of skills ready to take into your career.