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Medical Law and Ethics
Individual and population health is a matter of growing social concern. Achieving good health and delivering effective healthcare demands scientific, medical and policy innovation. Discover more throughout this Medical Law and Ethics programme from The University of Edinburgh.

International Animal Welfare, Ethics and Law (Online Learning)
The overall objective of this International Animal Welfare, Ethics and Law (Online Learning) programme at The University of Edinburgh is to provide knowledge and an understanding of animal welfare science, with a focus on the international issues arising from animal use in all its forms.

Psychology of Language
This Psychology of Language programme at The University of Edinburgh offers an opportunity for intensive advanced training in the psychology of language focusing on the mental representations and processes that underlie human language use.

Creative Writing
Based in the first UNESCO World City of Literature, the Creative Writing programme at The University of Edinburgh is tailored towards your practice in either fiction or poetry.
Economic and Social History
This Economic and Social History programme at The University of Edinburgh provides structured research training while at the same time enabling you to pursue a research project that you design yourself, in consultation with supervisors.
Theology in History
This flexible programme in Theology in History from The University of Edinburgh looks at the Christian past from a variety of perspectives – theological, philosophical and historical – and provides options for special study of themes from the early church to modern times.
Religious Studies
The Religious Studies programme at The University of Edinburgh provides the opportunity to study a variety of religious traditions, in combination with advanced learning in the theory and method of the study of religion.

Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition
The Mind, Language and Embodied Cognition programme offered by The University of Edinburgh provides an intensive grounding in the philosophy of cognitive science, its methodologies, research questions and techniques of research with an emphasis on issues surrounding situated and embodied cognition.

Translation Studies
Translation Studies at The University of Edinburgh will enhance your practical skills in, and theoretical understanding of, translation as an activity. You will have the opportunity to focus on two languages in addition to English, making the University of Edinburgh the ideal place to study translation.
Buddhist Studies
The Buddhist Studies programme from The University of Edinburgh offers a truly multidisciplinary foundation in the field.

Intermediality - Literature, Film and the Arts in Dialogue
The one-year Intermediality - Literature, Film and the Arts in Dialogue programme from The University of Edinburgh draws on world-class teaching and research expertise across media, from literature to film, music, painting, photography and visual culture more widely.

Comparative Literature
The Comparative Literature programme at The University of Edinburgh draws on world-class teaching and research expertise across literatures, languages and cultures, from Scotland to Asia, Scandinavia to the Middle East. It can also be completed part-time over two years.
TESOL
Suitable for both experienced teachers and newcomers to the field, this TESOL programme offered by The University of Edinburgh is designed for students who plan to teach English as a second, foreign or additional language (ESL, EFL, EAL) in the UK or internationally.

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
On the Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies programme offered by The University of Edinburgh, you will gain an advanced, interdisciplinary understanding of the history, modern politics, society and culture of the Islamic Middle East, and explore the paradigms behind the various disciplines within this field.

Linguistics
The Linguistics programme offered by The University of Edinburgh gives you the intellectual and practical skills you need to engage in linguistics research, either by itself, or as part of cross-disciplinary research.

Speech and Language Processing
The Speech and Language Processing programme from The University of Edinburgh offers an exciting opportunity to learn from world leaders in both informatics and linguistics.

English Literature - Literature and Modernity (1900 to the Present)
The English Literature - Literature and Modernity (1900 to the Present) programme offered by The University of Edinburgh examines a range of literary and theoretical contexts, introducing ways that writing and imagination shape and share in cultural and political processes.

History (Online Learning)
This History (Online Learning) programme at The University of Edinburgh allows you to take advantage of the remarkable range of historical expertise available at the University of Edinburgh.

Developmental Linguistics
The Developmental Linguistics programme offered by The University of Edinburgh will develop your understanding of how language knowledge is acquired and how it changes as people acquire or lose language at various points in their life.
Intellectual History
Intellectual History programme at The University of Edinburgh will allow you to engage with some of the principal methodologies of intellectual history, such as the ‘Cambridge School’ and global intellectual history