Critical and Cultural Theory (MA)

Comments about Critical and Cultural Theory (MA) - At the institution - Cardiff - Cardiff - Cardiff - Wales

• Objectives
  To offer knowledge and expertise to prepare you for PhD study and for work in education and the creative industries.
• Entry requirements
  Entry Requirements:
  
  Suitable for graduates in Humanities and Social Sciences.
  
  A First or Second class UK honours degree, or equivalent is required.
• Academic title
  Critical and Cultural Theory (MA)
• Course description
  Course 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.