This interdisciplinary course offers advanced study of critical and cultural issues across a range of different fields including cultural studies, literary and critical theory, history, art, and urban studies. Designed for students with wide-ranging interests in critical debates across the humanities, MA Cultural and Critical Studies explores how such debates contribute historically and theoretically to an understanding of our contemporary culture.

Modules are available from a number of different disciplines, enabling students to construct a programme of study in which they can follow particular themes in the areas that most interest them, from the development of the city to the visual culture of modernity.

The course team consists of internationally renowned staff who publish widely in a range of cross-disciplinary fields including visual culture studies, literary studies, history, philosophy, urban studies, gender studies, and critical theory.

Course Structure and Content

The MA course has two core modules: Problems and Perspectives in Cultural Studies and Capitalism and Culture. These provide the historical and theoretical framework for understanding and analyzing the key issues and debates within your chosen course of study. The third core module in Semester 3 is the dissertation of 10,000 – 12,000 words, which is normally written at the end of the course, and is on an appropriate topic of your choice. In addition, depending on the course programme that you choose, you have a variety of exciting and engaging modules from which to select your options.

Current students can view more information by selecting the module below.

Core Modules

• 1CCS7A1 Problems and Perspectives in Cultural Studies
• 1CUS7A3 Capitalism and Culture
• 1CUS7A0 Dissertation
  

Optional Modules

• 1CUS7A1 Contemporary Urban Cultures
• 1CUS7A4 Sexuality and Narrative
• 1ENL706 Reading the Nation
• 1ENL709 Reading Culture: Politics and Prizes
• 1VIS7A5 Representing World Cultures
• 1VIS7A7 Interpreting Space
• 1VIS7A9 Creative Digital Technology
• 1VIS7A8 Work Placement
  

For an informal discussion about our MA Cultural and Critical Studies programme please contact the course director: Dr David Cunningham.