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Qualifications and durations
- Full-time MSc 1 year
- Full-time PG Diploma 9 months
- Full-time PG Certificate 6 months
- Part-time MSc 2 years
- Part-time PG Diploma 21 months
- Part-time PG Certificate 9 months
Overview
How societies organise, ritualise, theorise and symbolise death varies across time and cultures. This unique social science programme will help you analyse current challenges and changes in social practices around death. The multidisciplinary approach stimulates thinking beyond professional and disciplinary boundaries.
The programme is designed for:
- members of the caring professions who want to study death in its social and cultural context, or to explore issues of policy and practice
- those who want to gain multidisciplinary perspectives and knowledge before going on to PhD
- anyone who wants to take a structured programme with leading death studies scholars.
Teaching by leading scholars, including Tony Walter, Glennys Howarth, Allan Kellehear, Malcolm Johnson and Clare Gittings.
Academic entry requirements
A good first degree, or a professional qualification together with experience in a relevant field.
English requirements
IELTS 7.0 (with not less than 6.5 in each of the four components).
TOEFL 600 (paper-based test) or 250 (computer-based test) with a score of not less than 4 in TWE or 100 (internet-based test) with not less than 24 in each of the components.
Contact Postgraduate Secretary
Email sps-pgt@bath.ac.uk
Tel +44 (0)1225 383203
Fax +44 (0)1225 383423
Web www.bath.ac.uk/soc-pol/postgraduate/mds
Fees in 2008-9
FT MSc H £4000 O £10300
FT Dip H £2660 O £6880
FT Cert H £1330 O £3440
PT MSc H £2000 O £5150
PT Dip H £1330 O £3440