At Regent’s, we believe you learn best when you’re an active participant, learning by doing. Our postgraduate curriculum immerses you in hands-on experiences, equipping you to lead and innovate in a fast-changing world.
Instead of traditional lectures, our classes are dynamic and collaborative, challenging you to undertake real-world challenges with leading businesses and brands. With industry and entrepreneurship opportunities embedded at every stage, you’ll gain deep expertise in your chosen field while developing the essential soft skills needed to navigate uncertainty with confidence.
Built on three module building blocks – Subject Cores, interdisciplinary Special Electives and Common Modules – our curriculum ensures you’ll graduate with specialist knowledge and future-focused skills. From day one, this approach empowers you to take ownership of your learning journey – cultivating collaboration, critical thinking, a global perspective and environmental responsibility. With small classes and a personal approach to teaching, you’ll receive the support and mentorship needed to achieve your goals and shape your future.
Your modules include
1. Subject Core
Master the fundamentals of your discipline.
Learning from experts, you'll gain a deep understanding of your core discipline – developing further expertise in your field to make you an accomplished practitioner.
- Learn from academics and industry leaders with years of experience
- Gain deep practical experience: hands-on workshops, field trips, masterclasses
- Dive into the latest academic thinking, informed by in-house research.
From day one, you'll undertake real industry challenges and expand your professional network. As you approach the end of your course, you'll work towards a final project, where you’ll develop a unique idea. This can be a creative venture, an academic theory or a new business you want to get off the ground.
2. Special Electives
Broaden your thinking with a secondary specialism.
Go beyond your core discipline and gain future-focused skills with your choice of Special Electives. These dynamic modules are designed to be highly relevant, now and in the future, giving you a well-rounded skillset and competitive edge.
- Think beyond a single discipline: develop versatile skills with a broader outlook
- See your core subject from new angles: challenge your thinking in unexpected ways
- Strengthen your personal brand with a secondary discipline or a new language.
>> Explore all Special Electives at the tab above. Not all electives will be offered every term due to timetabling and other constraints.
3. Common Modules
Further develop your academic and professional skills.
Through the lens of your subject area, you’ll refine your critical thinking and analytical skills, enhance your ability to communicate complex ideas and create tangible career goals.
- Masters Perspectives – learn to communicate complex ideas and research
- Professional Perspectives – define and develop your professional identity
- Gain practical strategies for how to plan your future career path.
Please note, not all Special Electives will be offered every term due to timetabling and other constraints.
Terms 1 and 2
Languages and Special Electives
| Languages | |
|---|---|
| Advanced Spanish through Film (Grade 8) – available Autumn or Spring | Comics, films, social media posts...we live in a multimodal world where information is conveyed through combinations of visual, written, and spatial modes. If you already have a higher intermediate level of Spanish and wish to develop an ability to understand how images are created and ‘read’, this module is for you. Through close study of a range of films and television series produced in Latin America and Spain, you will enhance your understanding of the sociocultural reality of those countries. You will become familiar with the multimodal framework and apply it to the analysis of audio-visual texts. You will also acquire practical and linguistic tools to discuss and analyse in Spanish, and with a certain level of complexity, any audio-visual product. In addition to expanding on your existing linguistic skills, this module will help you develop new and highly valuable media literacies that can be easily transferred to your subject. |
| Languages (Grades 1-6) – available Autumn and Spring | Choose between Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Spanish – all languages are offered from beginner to advanced level in every term. Languages provide you with tools to understand and imagine new worlds and communicate with others. Learning a language opens the door to cultures beyond your own and allows you to bridge the gap between communities and build connections for your life and your career. At Regent’s, you will learn languages differently. You will learn in a highly practical way, in order to develop skills for authentic communication. At Regent’s, you will receive individual attention in a supportive atmosphere and learn through collaboration and innovative teaching methodologies. Whether you want to start learning a new language, develop existing proficiency or prepare yourself to study abroad, these modules will help you develop a multilingual identity. |
| Business English: Professional Writing – available Autumn or Spring | Every professional journey will benefit from enhanced writing skills allowing you to express yourself and persuade others. Classes provide opportunities to create written texts (such as work emails, letters, proposals and reports) while developing understanding of writing as a process and how to adapt writing for diverse audiences and purposes. At the same time, you will also consider the impact of choices around tone, style, formality and other key language aspects. This module offers a memorable experience of professional writing, harnessing technology use (such as digital word lists, text analysers) and formative feedback, all within a supportive classroom atmosphere. As a result, you will be ready to apply what you learn to tasks on this module in your university course or career. You may only take this module once. |
| Business English – available Autumn or Spring | For every prospective 21st century professional, higher-level business English skills are indispensable. Whether you study acting or psychology, business or fashion design, this module will develop business English knowledge (grammar and vocabulary) and skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) at upper-intermediate and advanced levels, to enhance your fluency, persuasiveness and effectiveness as a global communicator. You may only take this module once. Classes provide opportunities to engage in motivating linguistic challenges (such as discussions, presentations and reports). You will select and introduce business topics of interest and enjoy multiple opportunities for formative feedback, all within a small group, supportive classroom atmosphere. The sessions will encourage you to reflect throughout, helping to improve confidence through tasks designed to showcase the full range of business English skills required for success in your future career. |
| Advanced Language for Professionals (Grade 7) – available Autumn or Spring | If you want to work in international or multilingual environments and you already have a higher intermediate level of Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian or Spanish, this module is for you. You will learn to apply your existing language skills to the workplace and acquire the practical and linguistic tools to connect, collaborate and communicate effectively in multicultural professional settings. Learning in small groups, you will gain knowledge of the countries where the language is spoken and of their work practices and will apply that knowledge to tasks that resemble those in the workplace. You will also develop job-specific linguistic and cross-cultural skills and explore contemporary forms of communication at professional levels. Immersed in a unique classroom environment that embodies Regent’s cosmopolitan character, you will experience individual attention in a supportive atmosphere, learn through innovative teaching methodologies and develop your multilingual professional identity. |
| Special Electives | |
| Creating a Social Enterprise | Social entrepreneurs are individuals motivated by making a difference and changing people’s lives. They seek innovative solutions to pressing social problems and use business models to achieve social impact in areas such as: community, equality, empowerment and the environment. This module offers you the opportunity to develop your entrepreneurial mindset and put your motivation, passion and growing knowledge and skills into action to make a difference. You'll combine creative thinking with determination to create something new to the world, whether incremental or disruptive, by creating a start-up business plan: from idea conception to pitching your social enterprise. |
| Critical Thinking: A Path to Smarter Choices |
Learn the power and value of clear and concise critical thinking and how it affects decision-making and ethical reflection. This module will identify how logical reasoning and strong argumentation leads to success, both at the postgraduate level and in the world generally. This module will refine your critical thinking skills further by examining the tools of logical analysis, argument construction and evidence assessment. You'll study how theories or ideas are applied, or misapplied, in real world contexts, leading to widespread misperceptions, poor quality thinking habits, conspiracy theories and mistaken ethical reasoning. You'll learn how to avoid these errors and to work efficiently and effectively with others to generate logically sound decisions in challenging changing contexts, where there are multiple sources of evidence, diverse perspectives and divergent ethical positions. |
| Cybersecurity | This module explores cybersecurity and addresses ‘cyber skills’ gaps in how security can (be made to) make sense. This is an interdisciplinary and naturally applied field that examines the behaviours, policies and practices around security systems in the context of online environments. This module is built on the foundations of cyberpsychology, digital anthropology and security studies. You may cover topics such as the managing of trust, security technologies, cybercrime, cultures of risk, the psychology of scamming, gaming behaviours, vulnerability and bias in security, crypto security and decentralisation, data hacking, data handling and legal frameworks, online safety and how these reflect in practice. You'll explore complex cyber security problems and solutions, and address the mindsets, legislations and societal challenges around the technologies of value (what's worth securing). |
| Exploring and Redefining Artificial Intelligence | Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming a driving force in reshaping industries and sectors, promising substantial innovations and transformations. In this module, you'll understand the evolution and concepts of AI, from its inception to modern breakthroughs, and explore the current trends and applications of AI and its future trajectories. Central themes such as machine learning, neural networks, natural language processing and computer vision will be explored in detail, with an emphasis on both theoretical underpinnings and practical implementation. You'll also examine the economic, ethical, legal and societal dimensions of AI, enabling you to rethink and redefine AI for the common good. Through real-world case studies, hands-on interactive sessions, debates and discussion, you'll gain knowledge and practical experience in AI development, applications and governance. You do not require previous coding knowledge. |