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Study Details: 12 months full time 24 months part time
In this Masters degree you’ll study cultural analysis in depth, focusing on themes of commodification, language, and subjectivity. You'll study in an interdisciplinary way, developing skills that lead to a wide variety of applications and careers.
This degree takes a philosophical and historical approach to critical and cultural theory. We draw upon the major traditions of cultural theory, including semiology, feminism and gender theory, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and Frankfurt School theories of the aesthetic, the media and technology. Key critical references include postcolonial and critical race theory, as well as posthumanism and ecocriticism.
You'll be exposed to a range of critical paradigms and develop your skills in close analysis: your ability to identify and unpack the key elements of a critical work or cultural artefact. This attention to the ‘textuality’ of these various texts, broadly defined, constitutes a crucial link between theory and practice, such that the line between critical and creative cultural practice is no longer determinative.
A bachelor degree with a 2:1 (hons)
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You’ll develop your critical and cultural awareness and expand your subject knowledge in theories and histories of culture. In addition, you will graduate with sophisticated research, analytical, critical and communication skills that will put you in a good position to succeed in a variety of careers.
Many of our graduates have also continued with their research at PhD level and secured external funding to support them – including AHRC scholarships. A significant number of our former research students are also now developing academic careers in the UK, Europe, Asia, USA and Australia.
In addition to those pursuing careers in academia, our graduates have careers across a broad range of critical and creative domains, including journalism, publishing, the creative industries and arts marketing, public relations, university administration and teaching, as well as working as curators and education staff in museums and galleries.
Cultural History 30
MA Dissertation 60
Cultural History 30
Year 1 optional modules (selection of typical options shown below)
Module Name Credits
Derrida and Deconstruction 30
Reading Sexual Difference 30
Unfinished Business: Trauma, Cultural Memory and the Holocaust 30
Aesthetics and Politics 30
Art, Ecology and Empire 30
Adventures in the Archive 30
Postcolonial Feminisms 30
Anthropology, Art and Representation 30
Humanity, Animality and Globality 30
The Cultural Politics of Artificial Intelligence 30
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