ObjectivesTo offer knowledge and expertise to prepare you for PhD study and for work in education and the creative industries.
Entry requirementsEntry Requirements:
Suitable for graduates in Humanities and Social Sciences.
A First or Second class UK honours degree, or equivalent is required.
Academic titleCritical and Cultural Theory (MA)
Course descriptionCourse Description:
The Masters Degree is a one-year full-time course. In each semester students take one required and one optional course. They go on to write a dissertation in the summer.
Semester 1: You will take Textuality and one optional module. Likely options will be: Postmodernity; The Cultural Politics of Gender and Race; Rereading Fanon; The Aesthetics of the Sublime; and Postcolonial Theory (subject to staff availability).
Semester 2: You will take Culture and one of: Deleuze; Psychoanalysis, Colonialism and Race; Sexual Enigmas; Derridean Thought: 1990 to the Present; and Critical Issues in Queer Theory (subject to staff availability).
In addition, students attend classes on research methods, bibliography and presentation. There are opportunities to present a paper at a regular Graduate Seminar and at occasional weekend Graduate
conferences. Students are invited to attend regular staff-student Research Seminar.
Special Features:
International recognition
Theory applicable to a range of disciplines, particularly within research, arts and media.
Theory can be put to work in a subsequent PhD in a range of fields.