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13 Master's degrees offered by the university

Drama and Theatre Studies
The Drama and Theatre Studies programme at University of Galway is a dynamic and practice-rich programme based at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance. It blends critical study with hands-on theatre-making, allowing students to shape their learning across areas such as Irish drama, playwriting, directing, applied theatre, and performance theory.

Film Studies - Theory and Practice
The Film Studies - Theory and Practice programme at University of Galway is a pioneering programme that prepares students for a range of careers in film, screenwriting and media-related areas. Film today offers a broad mix of employment opportunities, including in academia, film and media industries, and in film/creative arts administration.

Writing
The MA in Writing at University of Galway is a one-year, full-time course. It covers a range of genres and forms, and it interacts with our other postgraduate offerings in Literature and Publishing, Drama and Theatre, and Film. The course thus builds on our strengths in the teaching of writing for page and stage, screen, journalism and other media.

International Contemporary Literatures and Media
This is an exciting multidisciplinary and comparative MA International Contemporary Literatures and Media programme at University of Galway that aims to familiarise you with movements, authors, texts and themes of international contemporary literature and film.

Childhood Speech, Language and Communication Needs
The aim of this MSc in Childhood Speech, Language and Communication Needs at University of Galway is to provide a critical and conceptually sophisticated understanding of children with SLCN and the contexts of their lives.

Medieval and Antiquity
This Medieval and Antiquity programme at University of Galway is a one-year, full-time (two-years, part-time) programme that allows students to further their interest in the Medieval and Antique.

Translation Studies
The Translation Studies programme at University of Galway is designed to provide advanced linguistic and technical training in order to prepare our graduates for careers as professional translators.

Conference Interpreting
This Conference Interpreting programme at University of Galway trains students in the professional skills of conference interpreting, enabling them to avail of employment opportunities as qualified interpreting professionals.

English
The MA in English at University of Galway is ideal for students who wish to build on the foundations of their undergraduate degrees by pursuing more advanced studies in English at postgraduate level, yet who also wish to retain the intellectual breadth of addressing a variety of literature, past and present.

Theatre Practice and Production
The Theatre Practice and Production programme at University of Galway prepares students for professional-level work in the theatre and other creative industries.

Applied Multilingualism
The Applied Multilingualism programme at University of Galway is designed to cater for increasing linguistic diversity in communities in Ireland, the EU and globally. Multilingualism is defined as using more than one language or being able to function, at some level, in more than one language.

Literature and Publishing
Founded in 1995, this long-established and perennially popular Literature and Publishing programme at University of Galway remains Ireland’s only postgraduate programme dedicated to literature and publishing.

History
The History programme at University of Galway introduces graduate students to advanced historical research. Led by specialists in Early Modern and Modern History, participants in the programme read widely in a range of fields, become familiar with disparate methods and sources, and complete a substantial research project.