16 Master's degrees offered by the university

The Art History - Modern and Contemporary Art History, Theory and Criticism programme offered by University College Cork is a unique art history programme that offers a stimulating, rigorous and wide-ranging exploration of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art and theory.

The Design and Development of Digital Business course delivered by the University College Cork is a 12-month (full-time) taught master’s degree course. This intensive and innovative course is aimed at creatively minded honours graduates from non-technical backgrounds.

This History of Art programme from University College Cork is for those who already have a degree, preferably in the Arts or the Sciences, and who wish to study art history intensively over one (full-time) or two (part-time) academic years.

This Redesigning the Post-Industrial City (RePIC) course delivered by the University College Cork is a two-year, English-taught Master's programme jointly designed and delivered by the UNIC alliance – where the ambition is to build a vibrant knowledge and innovation community committed to the rethinking of more sustainable urban futures.

This Professional Master of Education (Art and Design) degree course delivered by University College Cork is a new two-year full-time professional teacher education programme offered jointly by UCC's School of Education and the Munster Technological University (MTU) Crawford College of Art & Design (CCAD).

The Global Gallery Studies course at University College Cork is a unique two-year part-time MA that prepares you for a career in the gallery sector and fine arts institutions in Ireland and internationally.

This Irish Traditional Music degree delivered by the University College Cork provides a holistic practical and theoretical immersion in Irish Traditional Music practice and scholarship. The programme draws on wide-ranging internationally-recognised expertise to offer a progressively flexible postgraduate pathway in Irish Traditional Music.

This Music course offered at University College Cork is ideal, and unique in Ireland, for graduates in non-music subjects who want to qualify in music to degree level and beyond. Success in this course may be said to be the equivalent of acquiring a degree in music. 

The Arts Management and Creative Producing degree delivered by the University College Cork will provide you with training in arts leadership and management as well as offering essential practical skills in event organisation across a range of art forms, including amongst others, theatre, music, film, dance, literature, visual, and performance art. 

This Experimental Sound Practice degree delivered by the University College Cork is for those undertaking creative work involving sound, including notated or recorded compositions; improvisations; sound art; visual art with a sound component; music theatre; performance art; installations etc. 

The Architecture degree delivered by the University College Cork in conjunction with the Munster Technological University. 

The Theatre and Performative Practices course offered at University College Cork is ideal for those who have acquired theatre-related skills in previous years, for example in a youth or community theatre setting, and now wish to build on that experience and advance it to professional levels with the potential for a career in the professional theatre.

The Film and Screen Media degree delivered by the University College Cork combines film studies in theory, analysis, history, and practice, with an emphasis on encouraging students’ academic skills and creativity (in critical writing; filmmaking; film/media journalism; and cultural administration). 

This Planning and Sustainable Development course delivered by the University College Cork is an introductory graduate-level course in spatial planning and development for cities, regions, towns, rural areas, and neighbourhoods.

The Music and Cultural History course offered by University College Cork is a progressive alternative to conventional postgraduate courses in musicology, and it draws on the diverse expertise of internationally renowned scholars to combine the very best of traditional and contemporary scholarly practice.

This Ethnomusicology course at University College Cork is a dynamic discipline, its key focuses include extended fieldwork-based approaches to understanding what people are doing and valuing when they express themselves musically.