The intensive advanced study introduces students of this interdisciplinary programme to core concepts, techniques and debates in management. You take a total of 11 core courses and electives. The programme is aimed at students who have just finished their degree (in any discipline except business or management-related majors), who have achieved the equivalent of a first-class, and who have less than one year of professional experience at the start of the programme.

Educational aims:

• to give students with a strong performance in other disciplines at the first-degree level an understanding of the academic discipline of management; and
• to give students the opportunity to acquire and develop skills and expertise relevant to high-level management practice.

This is achieved by:

• providing students with the guidance necessary to acquire a deep understanding of the theory and practice of management;
• analysing, in lectures, discussions and written work, the key techniques, conceptual issues and debates in the academic management literatures and in the practice of management;
• supporting students in the development of an understanding and a critical perspective of management;
• providing teaching in a range of technical/specialist subjects central to the study of the different branches of management; and
• examining students formally on their knowledge of the theory and practice of management.

This is an 11-month MPhil programme, taught from within our Information Engineering Division, with a unique, joint emphasis on both machine learning and machine intelligence. The course is split into five specialised pathways, which define the area in which the dissertation will fall, and which each have different compulsory and permissible module combinations. The five pathways are: (i) Machine Learning; (ii) Speech and Language Processing; (iii) Computer Vision and Robotics; (iv) Human-Computer Interaction; (v) Biological Learning. The course aims to teach the state of the art in machine learning and machine intelligence; to give students the skills and expertise necessary to take leading roles in industry; and to equip students with the research skills necessary for doctoral study.

This MPhil provides students with the critical and theoretical tools to enable them to undertake an in-depth study of specific aspects of European literatures and cultures and/or Latin American and Francophone contexts. The course introduces students to a broad range of critical theory concepts, allows for in-depth study of specific cultures and contexts, and includes writing a dissertation based on original research.

The MPhil is offered by the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics (MMLL) as a full-time programme and introduces students to research skills and specialist knowledge of specific cultural areas.

The course aims:

• to offer students with relevant experience at degree level a self-contained 9-month course in which they have the opportunity for in-depth study of specific aspects of European and comparative literatures and cultures (and in some cases film, history, and the visual arts) and critical theory
• to provide foundations for continuation to PhD research

These aims are achieved by:

• offering an overview of central aspects of modern literary/cultural theory and critical approaches to develop a general understanding of the field
• offering an opportunity for in-depth study of two areas in critical theory and approaches and for the development of skills to write on theory and to use theory or palaeographical and bibliographical techniques as a tool in the study of literary or other cultural texts
• offering an opportunity for expanding knowledge of the literature and culture of specific periods and language areas beyond the undergraduate level
• offering an opportunity for in-depth and sustained work on the individual essay and dissertation topics
• offering the opportunity either to specialise in one European language area or to continue work in several languages (in the latter case, offering guidance in developing comparative research projects)
• offering an opportunity to give seminar papers to a specialist audience in order to develop skills in presenting work and discussing the issues that arise from it with other MPhil students and senior members of the Faculty
• offering an opportunity to learn to work to tight deadlines (time management)
• offering practice in writing shorter essays with a strict deadline (4,500 words)
• offering experience in independent research and training in developing a realistic research project and writing it up as a dissertation (15,000 words) within a limited period of time
• offering an opportunity to develop bibliographical, editorial and other research skills
• offering an opportunity to work under the supervision of specialists in relevant areas
• offering the opportunity to participate in the research culture of the Faculty and to attend postgraduate seminars and reading groups

In addition to these subject-specific skills, the following general transferable skills are also acquired:

• the relatively intense timetable of the MPhil demands that students develop exemplary time-management skills
• they work in collaboration with their supervisors to devise appropriate plans of study and have to ensure that they meet all deadlines, both formal and informal.
• Students are expected to make regular presentations in seminar settings to develop their oral presentation skills.

Written work is assessed on the basis of a demonstration of scholarly research and critical analysis. That is, students are expected to present a lucid, coherent and carefully substantiated exposition of a critical viewpoint. Writing must be in clear, grammatically correct, continuous prose, and must function as a single, comprehensible, persuasive, cumulative demonstration, not as a series of disconnected insights. The organisation of the argument of the essay or dissertation and its prose style are of crucial importance.

This MPhil provides students with the critical and theoretical tools to enable them to undertake an in-depth study of specific aspects of European literatures and cultures and/or Latin American and Francophone contexts. The core course introduces students to a broad range of critical theory concepts and methods of textual analysis (and, if relevant, palaeography). The course allows for in-depth study of specific cultures and contexts and includes writing a thesis based on original research.

This MPhil by Thesis is for students who already have a substantial level of familiarity with the study of literary texts or other material in the relevant culture, who already know the area they wish to research for their thesis, and who wish to focus their studies in that area for the entire year. To be eligible for consideration, a student will need an appropriate level of linguistic and/or cultural expertise, a clear idea of the field in which the thesis will be written, and a documented record of undertaking long independent research and writing projects.

The full-time course runs from October to June, with a submission date of early June.

It is also possible to take a part-time route, in which the expected timeframe is 21 months, with a thesis submission date of early June in the second academic year of the degree.

The main aims of the course are:

• to develop and test the ability to carry out a substantial advanced project of independent research in an area of literary, cultural or film and screen studies falling under the MPhil, presented in the form of a 30,000-word thesis
• to develop and test the ability to make a significant contribution to learning via dedicated Masters-level research that reflects the course length

The PhD in Literature, Culture and Thought supports interdisciplinary projects that by virtue of their design clearly transcend or stand outside any one Section in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics. Existing alongside PhD pathways in French, German, Italian, Modern Greek, Slavonic Studies, and Spanish and Portuguese, this doctoral degree offers an opportunity for students to pursue research projects that at their core traverse conventional disciplinary or linguistic boundaries, but to do so inside the rigorous and supportive environment of MMLL. Our academic community consists of scholars who produce highly specialised research in a variety of literary, intellectual, and cultural traditions, but who also drive such broader fields as critical theory, translation studies, philosophy, visual studies, intellectual history, postcolonial studies, and comparative literature. Students drawn to this PhD will have projects centred in such fields with relevant proposed supervisors, allowing for research in cultural texts and trends across a wide range of language areas beyond English, at least one of which they will be required to study in the original language.

The course aims to train students to be excellent researchers, writers, and scholars. The degree will prepare them to engage primary texts and secondary scholarship with critical dexterity, to synthesise research, and to expand the research horizons of their defined specialist area. The PhD also offers the opportunity for students to hone--to an advanced professional level--their presentation and public speaking skills. Students with an interest in pursuing careers in higher education will also be offered teaching opportunities and relevant pedagogical training. Students will graduate with the ability to produce publishable research of an excellent standard.

The Linguistics Department is unique in the UK because it integrates theoretical and applied linguistics in a single academic unit. The Linguistics Department provides great variety and flexibility in course contents, subject-specific training, and diversity of intellectual interactions. PhD topics in the range of research specialisms represented in the Department and beyond the Department in the MMLL Faculty are accepted. Students may choose to focus on a theoretically oriented study of the language sciences (e.g., interest in the syntactic organisation or sound structure of different languages or in the analysis of meaning in semantics and pragmatics) but may also be interested in a more applied direction of Linguistics (e.g. language acquisition, language processing, data mining of language corpora) or may choose to look at Linguistics from a specific language point of view (e.g., Italian linguistics).

In British universities, the PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) is traditionally awarded solely on the basis of a thesis, a substantial piece of writing that reports original research into a closely defined area of enquiry. Within linguistics, some PhD students may do most of their work in libraries, spend part of their time collecting and analysing fieldwork data, or carry out experiments in the phonetics laboratory or psycholinguistics laboratory. The completion of the PhD thesis is generally expected to take three to four years. It is also possible to take a part-time route, and the expected timeframe would be four to seven years.

In addition to providing specialist supervision, the Linguistics Department and the MMLL Faculty run a programme of professional training for the benefit of all research students. The programme includes seminars and workshops on library resources, giving conference papers, publishing, applications and interviews, teaching skills, specialist linguistics training, and film-making. The School of Arts and Humanities runs a central programme covering a range of topics from PhD skills training, to language training and writing and editing skills. If you wish, you are likely to be given the opportunity to gain experience in small-group teaching from Colleges. There may also be opportunities to gain some experience in language teaching in the Faculty.

In addition to providing special supervision, both the Linguistics Department and the MMLL Faculty run a programme of professional training for the benefit of all research students. The programme includes seminars and workshops on library resources, giving conference papers, publishing, applications and interviews, teaching skills, specialist linguistic training, and film-making. The University runs a central programme covering a range of topics from PhD research development to language training and writing and editing skills. Students also have access to a Social Sciences research methods training programme. If you wish, you are likely to be given the opportunity of gaining experience in small group teaching for colleges. There may also be opportunities to gain some experience in language teaching in the MMLL Faculty.

The course aims:

• to provide students with advanced training in linguistic theory and language sciences using a range of approaches and methodologies
• to give students the opportunity to acquire expertise in the domain of their specific research interests
• to provide the foundation for continuation to PhD research
• to offer the opportunity to participate in the research culture within and beyond the Faculty, for example within the Cambridge Language Sciences community, by attending and contributing to postgraduate seminars and reading groups
• to develop the research skills required to conduct independent research such as: computational and corpus-based methods, statistics, on-line and lab-based behavioural experimental methods, eye-tracking, electroencephalography (EEG), phonetics and speech sciences skills

The course aims:

• to give students with a strong background in Linguistics, Language Sciences or Computational Linguistics the opportunity to experience the kind of independent, focused research they would pursue in a PhD
• to provide foundations for continuation to PhD research
• to offer the opportunity to participate in research culture within and beyond the Faculty by attending and contributing to postgraduate seminars and reading groups
• to further develop research skills required to conduct independent research such as: computational and corpus-based methods, statistics, on-line and lab-based behavioural experimental methods, eye tracking, electroencephalography (EEG), phonetics and speech sciences skills. machine learning

The Cambridge LLM (Master of Law) is a nine-month taught master's degree commencing at the beginning of October each year and finishing by the end of the following June. The LLM, as a master's degree, is intended for those who wish to pursue further legal studies after completing their first degree in law, including those who are considering an academic career or intending to practise law.

LLM students take four courses from the list of available LLM course offerings. Whilst in principle students have a free choice as to the four courses they take, if a course is particularly popular it might become necessary to limit the number of students enrolled in the course to ensure the best possible learning experience for all participants. In recent years, the number of LLM courses on offer has tended to be in the region of 30. The advanced nature of the LLM programme is reflected in the fact that it is organised and taught separately from the undergraduate law degree at Cambridge. All of the LLM courses are specifically tailored for the LLM programme.

Courses in the LLM are assessed by means of an examination at the end of the LLM year, although students can apply to write a full dissertation in lieu of the examination for one course (only), subject to prior formal approval of their dissertation topic and availability of the dissertation option.

Competence standards are set for the LLM to identify the competences and abilities that students are required to demonstrate in order to successfully complete a programme of study. The competence standards relating to LLM courses are available on the Faculty of Law website.

The MLitt in Law may be awarded after two years of supervised research (or a proportionally longer period if undertaken on a part-time basis) and following examination of a thesis not exceeding 60,000 words inclusive of footnotes but exclusive of appendices, bibliography, table of contents and any other preliminary matter. For a candidate to be awarded the MLitt, their thesis must have demonstrated all of the criteria below:

1. provides evidence of a useful contribution to the field of study;

2. systematic understanding of knowledge and critical awareness of current problems and/or new insights in the field of study;

3. includes critical evaluation of current methodologies and wider research in the area of study;

4. provides evidence of an understanding of applicable techniques for research and advanced academic enquiry;

5. submission of work of a quality and quantity expected for two years of full-time postgraduate research (or part-time equivalent)