Master of Arts in Languages and Cultures

at University of Southampton - Highfield Campus United Kingdom

Explore the fundamentals of finance and the rapidly evolving industry known as Financial Technology (FinTech). This 3-year programme will put you at the forefront of research and development within this sector, allowing you to gain the skills necessary to pursue a wide range of careers.

Applications for 2022 entry to this course are now closed to all international applicants. View our undergraduate courses.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Develop an in-depth understanding of the business environment and the real-world application of relevant theories that underpin finance
• Utilise our financial laboratory (finlab), home to our bloomberg terminals
• Learn the basics of computer programming, and become a confident user of statistical software, such as eviews, stata, and matlab, and more advance machine learning and ai techniques
• Understand the foundations of financial technology, and the most recent innovations in this area
• Develop a high level of numeracy and a capacity for reasoned thought and analysis

Financial Technology remains a vital part of the modern finance debate. To capture this, the course combines key quantitative and analytical skills in finance, with modern, fintech related topics such as:

• Cryptocurrency
• Crowdfunding
• Peer-to-peer landing

The programme will prepare you for a career in the dynamic financial environment by providing a technical and research-driven curriculum.

You’ll graduate with the ability to apply the most recent developments in Finance to complex real-world problems.

Your studies will be informed by the latest findings, with our academics operate at the forefront of research in areas such as:

• FinTech
• High-frequency trading
• Corporate finance
• Portfolio theory  
• Alternative investments

All of our Business courses include the option to spend a year studying abroad at one of our partners in Europe, North America, Australia or Asia. This is a unique opportunity to experience another culture, improve your language skills and enhance your CV.

This 4-year programme gives you the opportunity to gain a rigorous legal education and study law in another European country, broadening your horizons and boosting your employability. Designed to challenge and inspire future legal professionals, this course is formally accepted by the Law Society of England and Wales and the Bar Council of England and Wales.

Having mastered the qualifying law degree subjects in your first 2 years, you'll spend your third year studying at one of our partner institutions in a European country. Most destinations offer modules taught in English. For others you can spend 2 years studying the language before you go. We currently have partners in:

• Athens (Greece)
• Bergen (Norway)
• Bologna (Italy)
• Fribourg (Switzerland)
• Granada (Spain)
• Leuven (Belgium)
• Lyon (France)
• Malta
• Oslo (Norway)
• Paris (France)
• Stockholm (Sweden)
• Vienna (Austria)

As well as gaining valuable insights into a different legal system, you'll develop the confidence and independence that comes from living in another country.

You’ll return to Southampton for your final year, during which you'll take a number of optional modules and complete your dissertation.

As part of your degree you can:

• Experience law in action by applying to shadow a senior member of the judiciary in the High Court or Court of Appeal
• Work alongside legal professionals to advise students at the Law Clinic
• Engage with our academic research groups including the Stefan Cross Centre for Women, Equality and Law, and the Institute of Maritime Law
• Study modules outside of law to broaden your knowledge

During your degree you can enhance your skills and forge even stronger links within our friendly community by joining a student-run society. These include our Law Society, Inns of Court Society, Mooting Society, Lawyers without Borders and the Canadian Law Society.

Develop the analytical and statistical skills for success in industry, business or public sector on this MSc Operational Research and Statistics at the University of Southampton. You’ll work with multinational industry partners on real case studies, and learn operational research techniques and applied statistical methods at an advanced level. You’ll graduate with the knowledge and practical skills in 2 highly valued disciplines. 

Operational researchers use analytical methods to help organisations become more productive through better planning of strategy and delivery. 

Statistics is an important tool for operational researchers, because it involves decision-making in the face of uncertainty. 

On this operational research UK master’s course you’ll learn to develop solutions to complex organisational problems using mathematical modelling, experimental design, statistical analysis and numerical computation. 

You'll gain essential skills in the 4 main areas of real-world problem-solving: 

• Analysing the problem through designing experiments, and collecting and visualising data
• Formulating the problem mathematically and offering solution approaches
• Providing statistical analysis and computation
• Presenting and communicating the results

A highlight of this statistics and operational research course is the 3-month summer project, when you’ll have the chance to compete to work with an external organisation on a real problem. This could relate to operational research, statistics, or both. 

Help the world adapt to urbanisation, climate change and natural disasters with a master’s degree in civil engineering.

This 2-year integrated course is ideal if you didn't graduate in civil engineering, but have maths and physics skills. You'll spend a year learning the basics of civil engineering before progressing to the main MSc course for your second year.

If you're an EU or UK student you'll have the chance to carry out your research project on an industrial placement.

You’ll spend your first year studying key topics and improving your knowledge to prepare for your second year, when you’ll join the full-time MSc Civil Engineering course.

Throughout the course you’ll study:

• Fundamental principles, methods, analysis and synthesis in civil engineering design and applications
• Specialist modules in engineering fields such as: coastal, environmental, infrastructure, transport and engineering management
• Information and communication technology relevant to civil engineering, as well as management practices, health and safety issues, risk assessment and regulatory frameworks
• The role and professional responsibilities of engineers in society

You’ll complete a research project to apply the knowledge and transferable skills you have developed on the degree. If you live in the UK or EU, you have the option to take the MSc with an 11-month industrial placement. This is an opportunity to carry out applied research on real projects, while working with major civil engineering companies and research centres.

This civil engineering master's is accredited as meeting the requirements for Further Learning for a Chartered Engineer (CEng), for candidates who have already acquired a partial CEng accredited undergraduate first degree. See www.jbm.org.uk for further information.

Develop the skills to improve care and health outcomes in the UK and worldwide on this MSc Leadership and Management in Health and Social Care. Our master’s will boost your leadership, managerial, and organisational skills.

We'll prepare you to direct strategy and tactics as a health and social care leader of the future. You'll also join a globally recognised healthcare community ranked 9th in the world and 3rd among UK universities (QS World Rankings by Subject 2021).

This flexible healthcare management master’s course is ideal if you want to lead medical, health or social care teams at the highest levels. You’ll learn how to inspire the people and organisations you work with to get the best from them. It’s suitable for clinicians and non-clinicians from a range of backgrounds.

You'll learn modern approaches to leadership, with learning on self-leadership, leading teams, and leading organisations and systems. The Research Methods module prepares you for the dissertation and research projects in your workplace. We'll teach you how to use the latest research to take an evidence-based approach to improving care.

Our Health Work research group, led by Professor Peter Griffiths, has highlighted the impact of low nurse staffing and long working hours on patient safety. This work informs national conversations, health policy and practice world-wide.

Our MSc Microelectronics System Design degree is a cutting-edge course, allowing you to choose from a wide range of modules based on digital integrated circuit design and analogue integrated circuit design.

Our Microelectronics System Design degree examines aspects of system integration and discrete device properties. It is also an excellent platform for further research in the?Nano or Electronic and Software Systems?groups.

We’ve led many of the most important advances in electronics and microelectronics over the past 30 years. This course will give you the highly sought-after skills for research or work in the industry.

You’ll gain key skills relating to digital and analogue integrated circuit design and electronic systems engineering. There will also be opportunities to engage in specialised activities around the production of system on chip design on both integrated circuit and advanced FPGA (field-programmable gate array) platforms.

Through this course you’ll learn how to: 

• Specify and design complex and highly integrated microelectronic systems
• Model and simulate the behaviour of parts of microelectronics systems elements and complete circuits  
• Evaluate a device design using advanced simulation and modelling tools
• Find, understand and explain literature related to specialised areas of microelectronics systems
• Formulate a research project involving an advanced microelectronics system using appropriate the latest techniques, technologies and tools

Learn to apply your engineering knowledge to the oceans, and design cutting-edge ships and other marine craft. We have collaborated with the Royal Navy to develop this 4-year, integrated master's degree. Here you'll develop mechanical engineering skills, then specialise a marine environment. This naval engineering degree will equip you to work as in engineer in the Navy as well as the private sector.

Naval engineering is both a craft and a science. This course covers both aspects and prepares you for a successful career in this specialised field.

This 4-year degree provides the core topics you need to master mechanical engineering. You'll specialise in:

• Naval engineering
• Ship science
• Marine craft concept design

You'll use our design workshops, studios and facilities including the largest university towing tank in the UK.

As part of this course you can:

• Specialise in areas that interest you, from offshore engineering to advanced management
• Take a work placement to boost your academic performance, and prepare for your career
• Showcase your work in our annual Engineering Design Show
• Visit sites to experience engineering in practice

You can take this course with an additional, year-long, paid placement. Apply with UCAS code H3H5 for the Industrial Placement Year option.

We're a designated university for the Defence Technical Undergraduate Scheme (DTUS).

Gain a maritime law qualification with our LLM Maritime Law master’s degree at the University of Southampton. We'll teach you the skills and practical knowledge to work in your chosen path on this flexible degree.

You’ll get to specialise in a choice of areas including marine insurance, admiralty law and arbitration law. Through our expert teachers and access to industry contacts, you’ll have a great opportunity to further your career in maritime law. 

Shipping plays a central role in global trade, meaning that maritime law can offer a wide range of career opportunities.

During your studies, you’ll develop your knowledge through a grounding in areas like criminal and contract law. This will improve the practical legal skills you need to advise, litigate and negotiate.

Southampton Law School is home to a vibrant port city and maritime institutions including:

• The Institute of Maritime Law
• The National Oceanography Centre Southampton
• The Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute
• The research division of Lloyd’s Register

If you want to pursue a career in marketing, this accredited course will give you an edge in the job market. With plenty of hands-on learning, you'll cover recent developments such as big data and digital marketing, and learn how to integrate them with more traditional techniques. You'll have many opportunities to interact directly with inspirational marketing leaders and use cutting-edge software tools.

Your A level results will determine which core or compulsory modules you'll need to take.

With this marketing course, you can:

• Get hands-on experience by running real digital campaigns for organisations
• Benefit from the knowledge of guest speakers who are marketing leaders in small, medium and large UK companies
• Learn how to use consumer data to make effective marketing decisions - a skill that recruiters consider important
• Develop an understanding of how to measure the success of marketing efforts in different types of companies
• Get skills in related topics such as accounting, analytics and strategy
• Learn how to use the latest marketing software and tools

Graduates have gone on to work for Sony Pictures, Publicis, Kantar and Ogilvy.

This course is accredited by the Institute of Data and Marketing (IDM).

Learn how to investigate social issues and gather statistical evidence on this MSc Social Research Methods with Applied Statistics degree at the University of Southampton. Develop the knowledge and practical skills to conduct both qualitative and quantitative research into social issues.

On this UK master’s course you’ll develop in-depth knowledge of applied statistical methods and learn how to conduct both qualitative and quantitative research.  

Quantitative research relies on numerical data to identify large-scale trends. Qualitative research uses techniques such as observation, interviews and open-ended surveys to find out why or how something occurs. 

You can tailor this course to your research interests or career plans by choosing from a wide range of optional modules. These cover areas such as: 

• Demography and demographic methods (relating to the structure of populations)
• Global health
• Gerontology
• Qualitative and mixed research methods