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47 Master's degrees offered by the university

Asian Studies
The Asian Studies course at University College Cork provides a global academic context for understanding the rise of East Asia. On this programme we will equip you with a unique set of abilities to engage with the cultural, historic, economic, and political fabric of Asia.

Sociology of Sustainability and Global Challenges
The innovative Sociology of Sustainability and Global Challenges course at University College Cork analyses the globalisation of poverty and inequality and explores alternative strategies of development.

Social Policy and Social Justice (Online)
This Social Policy and Social Justice (Online) master degree delivered by the University College Cork is designed to cater flexibly to your life and is suitable for people with employment and care responsibilities. Full-time and part-time options enable you to choose a mode of study that is appropriate to your life circumstances.

Social Policy
This Social Policy degree delivered by the University College Cork sets social policy in the context of the social sciences. The course is particularly relevant to those who want to apply for professional postgraduate courses in social work, e.g. Master of Social Work.

International Relations
The International Relations degree delivered by the University College Cork draws on international relations, conflict/peace studies and international history; it explores issues such as war and peace, the international order, international crises, counter-insurgency, terrorism and foreign policy.

Work and Organisational Behaviour
This Work and Organisational Behaviour course delivered by the University College Cork can be taken on a full-time or part-time basis and is designed to advance your knowledge of the discipline of psychology applied in work settings. To achieve this the course content emphasises the application of high-quality psychological research to real-world concerns and issues in the workplace.

Early and Medieval Irish
The Early and Medieval Irish degree delivered by the University College Cork is concerned with Early Irish language and literature in the period from 600AD to 1200AD, and focuses on the study of language, grammar, texts, and their historical and literary contexts.

Folklore
This Folklore degree at University College Cork gives you the opportunity to study everyday life in Ireland, in all of its rich diversity and its vast range of cultural expressions. Folklore, like its synonym popular culture, makes a study of everyday life, both past and present. Quite simply, it studies life by looking at how people lived their day-to-day lives.

Hearing, Balance and Communication
The Hearing, Balance and Communication degree delivered by the University College Cork is the only degree of its kind in Ireland. The Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at University College Cork is pleased to provide you with the opportunity to acquire state-of-the-art knowledge and skills in the field of hearing and balance-related difficulties.

Health and Society
Health and wellbeing are critical issues in society and at University College Cork we have addressed this with our Health and Society programme. This is an innovative joint programme, led by the Department of Philosophy, the School of Public Health, and the Department of Economics, which examines health and its social and policy determinants from a rich interdisciplinary perspective.

Politics
The Politics course at University College Cork is intended for those who already have a degree and who want to study politics intensively over one academic year full time or two academic years part time (by day). This is a conversion course so you would not normally have studied politics to honours degree level previously.

Psychology
This Psychology degree degree delivered by the University College Cork is a conversion course to psychology for students with degrees in subjects other than psychology or with psychology as a minor subject. Completion of the Higher Diploma in Psychology effectively converts your degree to the equivalent of an honours degree with psychology as the main subject.

Migration, Mobility and Culture
The Migration, Mobility and Culture degree delivered by the University College Cork is designed to match the urgent need for initial and advanced training of professionals in all areas of society where specific knowledge regarding the complexity of interactions among people of different cultures, ethnicities and social groups is necessary.

Anthropology
The Anthropology degree delivered by the University College Cork as a comparative and international discipline, is the most fundamental and encompassing of the Humanities, Arts, and Social Science disciplines.

Classical Studies
The Classical Studies degree delivered by the University College Cork allows students to develop language skills in both Latin and Greek, while also developing their knowledge of the history, art, and literature of the Roman Imperial period and of the manner in which these were transmitted through the medieval and into the modern periods.

Global Gallery Studies
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.

Archaeology - Human Osteoarchaeology
The Archaeology - Human Osteoarchaeology degree delivered by the University College Cork is designed to provide students with an in-depth knowledge of and practical training in human osteoarchaeology: the analysis of human skeletal remains from archaeological contexts.

Sociology
The Sociology degree delivered by the University College Cork will provide you with an opportunity to study advanced Sociological Concepts and Methods, and put your research interests into practice by enabling you to conduct your own sustained research project.

Archaeology
This Archaeology degree delivered by the University College Cork is for non-archaeology graduates who have a degree and would like to transfer their studies to the discipline of archaeology. The course is designed for those who have an active interest in archaeology and want to undertake a full-time course of study, out of interest, or to change careers.

International Public Policy and Diplomacy
The International Public Policy and Diplomacy degree delivered by the University College Cork is an innovative, interdisciplinary, taught master’s course that provides graduates with the expertise required for successful careers in international policy environments.