Social And Cultural Theory MA

pg00002 EDUCATIONAL AIMS OF THE PROGRAMME Provide a rigorous postgraduate academic education which is in accordance with The Framework for Higher Education Qualifications in England, Wales and Northern Ireland [FHEQ], and which is an extensión at Masters Level of the themes of relevant benchmarked standards in the área of study. Provide a programme of modules that equip you with advanced conceptual, theoretical, methodological and academic skills, a sound understanding of the área of study, and the ability to carry out analytic research at postgraduate level beyond a Masters degree. Allow you to acquire specialist expertise, as well as a critical understanding, of current research, advanced scholarship and current problems associated with the nature of social and cultural theory, critical theory and some aspects of contemporary continental philosophy. Encourages critical examination of the contested and evolving nature of socio cultural theory on empirical investigations, research methods and methodology. Provide you with an opportunity to develop a range of the key skills including argument, analysis, critical exposition, precisión, methodological practice, verbal and written communication skills, time and resource management skills, and personal and social [online etiquette and competence] skills, including teamwork. Provide high quality pastoral care and academic support and guidance. What is distinctive about this programme? We are the technologies we use, and the educational environment must embrace the proliferation of ways through which we experience our realities. An educational framework which utilises the very technologies which it also critiques is thus fascinating and exciting. This is what Social and Cultural Theory facilitates. The theories and ideas expounded in the award are taught through an on-line VLE [Virtual Learning Environment]. This innovative method of learning is full of potential for our learning but also for our enjoyment. We will be considering such ideas in the course itself! We also aim to prepare you for either further academic work or for other careers where the general skills acquired will be of invaluable benefit. Contemporary social and cultural theories are particularly pertinent to our ever changing, global and technologically driven world. The discipline allows us to consider wide ranging ideas from questions of power, ideology, class, identity, gender, sexuality, technology, time and space through a complex range of different sociological and cultural/critical ideas and philosophies from áreas of contemporary continental philosophy. It is pertinent that the growing world of on-line communities like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and You Tube have revolutionised the ways in which we vsee' ourselves, the ways in which we 'créate' our own identities, and the ways in which we communicate. </div>