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Programme specifications 2023-24

Please select each level heading to view a full list of programme specifications at that level within that school.

Programme specifications are regularly updated by schools when changes are made to core or compulsory modules, but all options lists are indicative only, as the availability of options can vary each year.

Programmes with pathways show the pathways indented.

Faculty of Business and Law

Birkbeck Business School

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Economics (PDF) (15.06.21)
Undergraduate programmes
- BBA Culinary Industry Management (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (30.10.23)
- BSc Accounting (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (20.12.24)
- BSc Accounting and Finance (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (20.12.24)
- BSc Business (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (05.08.22)
- BSc Business and Human Resource Management (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (14.09.22)
- BSc Business Innovation and Entrepreneurship (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (20.12.24)
- BSc Business Psychology (PDF) (22.03.24)
- BSc Economics (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (04.03.24)
- BSc Economics and Business (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (05.08.22)
- BSc Economics and Social Policy (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (05.08.22)
- BSc Economics and/with Mathematics (PDF) (05.08.22)
- BSc Finance (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (05.08.22)
- BSc Finance with Accounting (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (05.08.22)
- BSc Financial Economics (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (04.03.24)
- BSc International Business (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (07.06.23)
- BSc Management (PDF) (08.11.22)
- BSc Marketing (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (17.05.23)
Postgraduate programmes
- Grad Dip Economics (PDF) (04.11.22)
- PG Cert Career Coaching (PDF) (26.08.22)
- PG Cert Coaching Psychology (PDF) (15.05.23) (suspended)
- PG Cert Econometrics (PDF) (23.08.22)
- MSc Accounting and Finance (PDF) (21.02.23)
- MSc Banking and Finance (PDF) (24.02.24)
- MSc Business Analytics (PDF) (28.03.23)
- MSc Business Innovation (PDF) (12.03.24)
- MSc Career Coaching (PDF) (28.03.23)
- MSc Coaching Psychology (PDF) (suspended)
- MSc Corporate Governance (PDF) (27.02.23)
- MSc Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (PDF) (09.10.24)
- MSc Culinary Innovation Management (PDF) (17.01.24)
- MSc Digital Business (PDF) (15.02.23)
- MSc Economics (PDF) (23.08.22)
- MSc Entrepreneurship (PDF) (15.02.23)
- MSc Finance (PDF) (23.01.24)
- MSc Finance and Data Analytics (PDF) (27.02.23)
- MSc Financial Economics (PDF) (23.01.24)
- MSc Hospitality Innovation Management (PDF) (suspended)
- MSc Human Resource Management (PDF) (21.07.23)
- MSc International Business (PDF) (21.07.23)
- MSc International Business and Development (PDF) (15.02.23)
- MSc International Human Resource Management (PDF) (31.01.23)
- MSc International Marketing (PDF) (31.01.23)
- MSc Management (PDF) (12.03.24)
- MSc Management Consultancy and Organisational Change (PDF) (26.08.22)
- MSc Management with Business Innovation (PDF) (27.02.23)
- MSc Management with International Business (PDF) (27.02.23)
- MSc Management with International Business and Development (PDF) (27.02.23)
- MSc Management with Marketing (PDF) (27.02.23)
- MSc Management with Sport Management (PDF) (27.02.23)
- MSc Management and Finance (PDF) (27.02.23)
- MSc Marketing (PDF) (28.03.23)
- MSc Marketing Analytics (PDF) (29.02.24)
- MSc Marketing Communications (PDF) (27.02.23)
- MSc Organizational Psychology (PDF) (26.08.22)
- MSc Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PDF) (12.10.22)
- MSc Quantitative Finance with Data Science (PDF)(08.12.22)
- MSc Sport Management (PDF) (21.09.23)
- MSc Sport Management and Marketing (PDF) (27.02.23)
- MSc Sport Management and the Business of Football (PDF) (17.10.23)
- MRes Economics (PDF) (31.08.22)
- MRes Management (PDF) (06.03.23)
- MPhil Management (PDF) (28.11.22)
- Professional Doctorate Evidence-Based Human Resource Management (suspended)
- Professional Doctorate Occupational Psychology (PDF) (01.12.22)

BIRKBECK LAW SCHOOL

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Legal Studies (PDF) (03.04.19)
Undergraduate programmes
- LLB Law (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (28.07.22)
Postgraduate programmes
- Graduate Diploma Law (PDF) (30.09.22)
- LLM Law with pathways (PDF) (27.07.23)
- LLM Qualifying Law Degree (PDF) (12.08.22)

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Centre for Counselling

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Counselling and Counselling Skills (PDF) (30.05.23)
- Cert HE Psychodynamic Counselling (PDF) (06.07.20)
Postgraduate programmes
- Grad Cert Foundation for Counselling and Psychotherapy Training (PDF) (17.11.21)
- PG Dip Couple Therapy for Depression (PDF) (09.08.23)
- MA\PG Dip Couple and Individual Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy (PDF) (21.02.23)
- MA Couple Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (PDF) (22.02.23)
- MSc Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy (PDF) (12.08.22)
- MSc Psychodynamic Counselling and Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents (PDF) (11.07.22)
- MSc/PG Dip Psychodynamics of Human Development (PDF) (12.08.22)

School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Arts Management (PDF) (29.10.20)
- Cert HE Culture and Language (PDF) (19.06.23)
- Cert HE Film and Media Studies (PDF) (18.08.23)
- Cert HE Journalism (PDF) (01.06.13)
- Cert HE Linguistics and Language (PDF) (21.10.22)
- Cert HE Media Practice (PDF) (18.08.23)
Undergraduate programmes
- Arts Foundation Year (01.08.21)
- BA Creative Writing (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (08.08.22)
- BA Creative Writing and English (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (08.08.22)
- BA Digital Media (PDF) (02.09.22)
- BA Digital Media and Language (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (08.09.22)
- BA English (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (05.05.23)
- BA English and Language (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (18.06.22)
- BA English and Linguistics (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (29.08.24)
- BA Film and Media (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (06.09.22)
- BA Film, Media and Language (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (07.09.22)
- BA Japanese Studies/BA Japanese Studies with International Experience (PDF) (15.03.23)
- BA Journalism and Language (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (05.09.22)
- BA Journalism and Media (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (02.09.22)
- BA Language Teaching and Languages (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (17.10.24)
- BA Liberal Arts (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (26.02.25)
- BA Linguistics and Culture (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (24.08.22)
- BA Linguistics and Language (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (24.08.22)
- BA Modern Languages (including with Foundation Year)/BA Modern Languages with International Experience (PDF) (11.08.22)
- BA Theatre and Arts Management (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (19.12.23)
- BA Theatre and Creative Writing (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (19.12.23)
- BA Theatre and English (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (19.12.23)
- BA Theatre and Performance (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (19.12.23)
- BA Theatre, Film and Media (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (19.12.23)
Postgraduate programmes
- Grad Cert Linguistic Studies (PDF) (22.11.22)
- Grad Dip French Studies (PDF) (26.01.23)
- Grad Dip German Studies (PDF) (26.01.23)
- Grad Dip Japanese Studies (PDF) (30.01.23)
- Grad Dip Spanish and Latin American Studies (PDF) (28.04.23)
- PG Cert Digital Media Management (PDF) (08.09.23)
- PG Cert Language Teaching/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (PDF) (01.11.23)
- PG Cert Web Design and Development (PDF) (07.02.23)
- PG Dip Language Teaching/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (PDF) (01.11.23)
- MA Applied Linguistics and Communication (PDF) (01.11.23)
- MA/PG Dip/PG Cert Arts Policy and Management (PDF) (06.02.23)
- MA Contemporary Literature and Culture (2000-present) (PDF) (20.09.23)
- MA Creative Writing (PDF) (25.10.22)
- MA Creative Writing and Contemporary Studies (PDF) (21.10.22)
- MA Critical Theory (PDF) (31.10.22)
- MA Digital Media Culture (PDF) (06.06.23)
- MA Digital Media Design (PDF) (06.02.23)
- MA Digital Media Management (PDF) (28.11.22)
- MA Dramaturgy (PDF) (25.04.23)
- MA Early Modern and Renaissance Studies (PDF) (19.10.23)
- MA Film and Screen Media (PDF) (26.06.23)
- MA Film Programming and Curating (PDF) (30.05.23)
- MA Investigative Reporting (PDF) (14.01.23)
- MA/PG Dip/PG Cert Journalism (PDF) (10.03.23)
- MA Language Teaching/Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (PDF) (01.11.23)
- MA Medical Humanities: Bodies, Cultures and Ideas (PDF) (20.02.23)
- MA Medieval Studies (PDF) (19.10.22)
- MA/MRes Modern Languages and Comparative Literatures (PDF) (25.09.23)
- MA Modern Literature and Culture (1900-present) (PDF) (31.10.22)
- MA/PG Cert Screenwriting (PDF) (16.01.23)
- MA Text and Performance (PDF) (12.06.23)
- MA Victorian Studies (PDF) (20.10.22)
- MFA Theatre Directing (PDF) (27.10.22)

School of Historical Studies

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE History and Archaeology (PDF) (24.04.23)
- Cert HE History of Art (PDF) (30.01.23)
- Cert HE Philosophy (PDF) (01.11.22)
Undergraduate programmes
- BA Archaeology (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (25.07.22)
- BA Ancient History and Archaeology (including with Foundation Year) (26.07.22)
- BA Art History (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (25.03.24)
- BA Art History and Language (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (25.03.24)
- BA Art History with Curating (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (25.03.24)
- BA Classical Studies (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (26.02.24)
- BA Classics (PDF) (26.02.24)
- BA History (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (18.07.22)
- BA History and Language (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (02.08.22)
- BA Philosophy (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (05.08.22)
Postgraduate programmes
- Grad Cert Gender and Sexuality Studies (PDF) (16.02.15) (suspended)
- Grad Cert History (PDF) (01.05.20)
- Grad Cert History of Art and Architecture (PDF) (27.03.23)
- Grad Dip History of Art and Architecture (PDF) (27.03.23)
- PG Cert Curating and Collections Management (PDF) (10.12.21)
- PG Cert Gender and Sexuality Studies (PDF) (11.08.22)
- PG Dip Gender and Sexuality Studies (PDF) (11.08.22)
- PG Cert Philosophy (PDF) (01.11.22)
- PG Dip Philosophy (PDF) (01.11.22)
- MA Archaeological Practice (PDF) (02.08.22)
- MA Classical Archaeology (PDF) (03.11.23)
- MA Classical Civilisation (PDF) (03.11.23)
- MA Classics (PDF) (06.11.23)
- MA Contemporary History and Politics (PDF) (31.05.23)
- MA European History (PDF) (15.09.22)
- MA Gender and Sexuality Studies (PDF) (16.06.23)
- MA Global History: Empires, States and Cultures (PDF) (17.11.22)
- MA Historical Research (PDF) (09.08.22)
- MA History of Architecture (PDF) (24.03.23)
- MA History of Art (PDF) (24.03.23)
- MA History of Art with Collections Management (PDF) (24.03.23)
- MA History of Art with Curating (PDF) (24.03.23)
- MA History of Photography (PDF) (24.03.23)
- MA History of Photography with Curating (PDF) (24.03.23)
- MA Medieval Studies (joint programme see School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication above)
- MA Museum Cultures (PDF) (24.03.23)
- MA Museum Cultures with Collections Management (PDF) (24.03.23)
- MA Museum Cultures with Curating (PDF) (24.03.23)
- MA Philosophy (PDF) (28.04.23)
- MA Public Histories (PDF) (09.08.22)
- MSc Archaeological Practice (Economic and Social Research) (PDF) (02.08.22)
- MSc Gender and Sexuality Studies (PDF) (16.06.23)
- MSc Historical Research (Economic and Social History) (PDF) (09.08.22)
- MRes History (PDF) (10.08.22)
- MRes Philosophy (PDF) (01.11.22)

School of Social Sciences

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Criminology (PDF) (01.08.13)
- Cert HE Politics and International Studies (PDF) (21.04.23)
Undergraduate programmes
- BA Global Politics and International Relations (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (12.05.23)
- BA Global Politics and Language (including with Foundation Year) (23.05.23)
- BA Politics (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (12.05.23)
- BA Politics and Language (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (16.05.23)
- BA Politics, Philosophy and History (PDF) (14.06.23)
- BA Psychosocial Studies (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (03.08.22)
- BA Psychosocial Studies with Principles of Psychodynamic Counselling (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (03.08.22)
- BA Sociology (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (03.08.22)
- BA Sociology and Criminology (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (04.08.22)
- BSc Criminology and Criminal Justice (PDF) (25.07.22)
- BSc Environment and Sustainability (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (25.07.22)
- BSc Geography (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (28.04.25)
- BSc Geography and International Development (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (26.07.23)
Postgraduate programmes
- Grad Cert Psychosocial Studies (PDF) (26.03.21)
- PG Cert Social Research (PDF) (20.10.22)
- PG Dip Social Research (PDF) (20.10.22)
- MA/LLM Criminal Law and Criminal Justice (PDF) (28.07.23)
- MA/PG Dip/PG Cert Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity (PDF) (10.08.22)
- MA Psychoanalytic Studies (PDF) (08.11.23)
- MA Psychosocial Studies (PDF) (28.04.24)
- MA Sociology (PDF) (14.10.22)
- MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert Climate Change (PDF) (29.07.22)
- MSc Criminology (PDF) (12.08.22)
- MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert Education and Social Justice (PDF) (10.07.22)
- MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert Environment and Sustainability (PDF) (12.12.23)
- MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert Geographic Data Science (PDF) (29.07.22)
- MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert Geography (PDF) (29.07.22)
- MSc Global Political Economy (PDF) (14.08.22)
- MSc Global Politics of Environment and Resources (PDF) (28.10.22)
- MSc Government, Policy and Politics (PDF) (12.08.22)
- MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert International Development (PDF) (12.08.22)
- MSc International Relations (PDF) (04.05.23)
- MSc International Security and Global Governance (PDF) (03.05.23)
- MSc Political Communication (PDF) (03.05.23)
- MSc Politics (PDF) (12.08.23)
- MSc Public Policy and Management (PDF) (30.07.23)
- MSc Social and Political Theory (PDF) (12.08.22)
- MSc Social Research (PDF) (20.10.22)
- MSc Sustainable Cities (PDF) (19.06.22)
- MRes Politics (PDF) (29.11.22)
- MRes Social Research and Applied Linguistics (PDF) (29.11.22)
- MRes Social Research and Criminology (PDF) (29.11.22)
- MRes Social Research and Gender and Sexuality (PDF) (29.11.22)
- MRes Social Research and Law and Legal Studies (PDF) (29.11.22)
- MRes Social Research and Psychosocial Studies (PDF) (29.11.22)

Faculty of Science

School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Mathematics (PDF) (21.10.22)
Undergraduate programmes
- Dip HE Mathematics (PDF) (21.10.22)
- BSc Computing (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (30.03.23)
- BSc Data Science and Computing (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (22.03.24)
- BSc Mathematics (PDF) (08.08.22)
- BSc Mathematics with Statistics (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (14.09.22)
Postgraduate programmes
- Grad Cert Mathematics (PDF) (09.11.22)
- Grad Cert Mathematics by Distance Learning (PDF) (21.11.22)
- Grad Cert Statistics for Data Science (PDF) (23.11.22)
- Grad Dip Statistics for Data Science (suspended)
- Grad Dip Mathematics (PDF) (09.11.22)
- PG Cert Applied Data Science (PDF) (12.09.22)
- PG Cert Applied Statistics (PDF) (01.11.22)
- MSc Advanced Computing (PDF) (12.09.22)
- MSc Applied Statistics (PDF) (17.05.23)
- MSc Applied Statistics and Financial Modelling (PDF) (17.05.23)
- MSc Computer Science (PDF) (12.09.22)
- MSc Data Science (PDF) (01.09.23)
- MRes Advanced Computing (PDF) (10.01.23)

School of Natural Sciences

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Geology (PDF) (07.11.22)
- Cert HE Life Sciences for Subjects allied to Medicine (PDF) (03.11.22)
- Cert HE Planetary Science with Astronomy (PDF) (07.11.22)
Undergraduate programmes
- BSc Biomedicine (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (19.07.24)
- BSc Bioscience and Health (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (21.02.24)
- BSc Bioscience with Management (PDF) (04.08.22)
- BSc Geology (PDF) (08.09.22)
- BSc Planetary Exploration with Astronomy and Astrobiology (PDF) (08.09.22)
4-Year Integrated Master's Programme
- MSci Biomedicine with Advanced Pathways (PDF) (22.10.24)
Postgraduate programmes
- PG Cert Structural Molecular Biology (PDF) (23.11.22)
- MSc/PG Dip Analytical Bioscience (PDF) (25.05.23)
- MSc/PG Dip Analytical Chemistry (PDF) (30.08.22)
- MSc Astrobiology (PDF) (09.01.23)
- MSc Bioinformatics (PDF) (30.08.22)
- MSc Microbiology (PDF) (05.06.23)
- MSc/PG Dip Structural Molecular Biology (PDF) (24.05.23)
- MRes Biological Sciences pathways (PDF) (05.09.22)

School of Psychological Sciences

Certificate programmes
- Cert HE Applied Psychology (PDF) (30.05.23)
- Cert HE Psychology (PDF) (30.05.23)
Undergraduate programmes
- BSc Psychology (including with Foundation Year) (PDF) (20.03.19)
- BA Psychology for Education (PDF) (30.05.23)
Postgraduate programmes
- MSc/MA Brain and Cognitive Development (PDF) (22.04.24)
- MSc/MA Cognition and Computation (PDF) (22.04.24)
- MSc/MA Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology (PDF) (22.04.24)
- MSc/MA Educational Neuroscience (PDF) (24.04.23)
- MSc/MA Health and Clinical Psychological Sciences (PDF) (22.04.24)
- MSc Psychological Research Methods (PDF) (22.04.24)
- MSc Psychology (PDF) (26.09.23)
- MRes Functional Neuroimaging (PDF) (23.06.14)
- MRes Psychology (PDF) (05.05.15)