Cultural and Critical Studies (MA)

COURSE STRUCTURE

The programme starts with a two-term core course that explores key concepts. This is followed by a choice of two option modules and a 15,000-word dissertation.

Option modules cover a range of themes and disciplines and are not restricted to a particular historical period or national culture.

Your dissertation is due in mid-September.

CORE MODULE

• Key Concepts in Cultural and Critical Studies: Part 1
• Key Concepts in Cultural and Critical Studies: Part 2

OPTION MODULES

• Aesthetics and Cultural Theory
• Contemporary US Fiction
• Exhibiting the Body
• Freud in the world: psychoanalysis, literary writing and the legacies of history
• Gender, Modernity and the City
• Issues in Global Television: Analogue, Digital, National, Transnational
• Language Matters
• Postcolonialism: In Theory
• Theoretical Perspectives on Media

MA CULTURAL AND CRITICAL STUDIES DISSERTATION

• Dissertation MA Cultural and Critical Studies

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