Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity (Ma)

Master

In London

£ 8,820 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    1 Year

The innovative, interdisciplinary MA Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity stretches across the social sciences and arts and humanities and explores:

histories and cartographies of 'race' and racism, multiculture and postcoloniality; empire and the formation of modern Britain and contemporary transnational political communities, social identities and urban cultures
connections between histories of colonisation and contemporary social formations and inequalities in the UK
how local debates on 'race' and racism are shaped by the global geopolitics of the twenty-first century.
The programme examines connections between interlocking colonial histories across the globe and our ordinary, local, everyday life here in contemporary Britain. It focuses on a broad range of subjects such as histories of colonisation, systems of slavery, indenture and other forms of colonial labour; histories of the concept of 'race'; colonial cultures, nationalisms, 'respectability' and the invention of 'whiteness'; histories of criminalisation; histories of anti-racist and anti-fascist resistance; theorising culture, community, hybridity and creolisation; postcolonial belonging and diaspora; 'race' and 'beauty'; contemporary racial nationalisms and religious authoritarian movements; 'The War on Terror'; and 'race', gender, sexuality and desire.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Malet Street, WC1E 7HX

Start date

On request

About this course

Graduates include youth and community workers and workers for organisations and charities who are concerned with criminalisation and policing, domestic violence, refugees and asylum, human rights, homelessness, imprisonment and addiction. They also include barristers and solicitors, psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and psychiatrists, lecturers and social researchers in the areas of sociology, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, urban studies and social policy, teachers, film-makers, activists, curators, architects, novelists, poets, musicians, journalists and those working in the arts and cultural industries.

There are currently several graduates undertaking doctoral research in this subject area.

We offer a comprehensive Careers Service to help you advance your career, while our in-house, professional recruitment consultancy, Birkbeck Talent, works with London’s top employers to help you gain work experience that fits in with your evening studies.

A second-class honours degree (2:2) or above in social sciences or humanities.

Applications are reviewed on their individual merits and your professional qualifications and/or relevant work experience, or a lively interest in the subject area, will be taken into consideration positively. We actively support and encourage applications from mature learners.

On your application form, please list all your relevant qualifications and experience, including those you expect to achieve.

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Subjects

  • Art Photography
  • Islam
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Modern History
  • Latin
  • IT Law
  • Human Rights
  • Politics
  • Credit
  • International
  • Global
  • Law
  • Beauty
  • Urban Planning

Course programme

COURSE STRUCTURE

The programme combines taught core and option modules and offers the opportunity for independent research supervised by an academic. The core modules introduce you to significant historical and political debates and theoretical perspectives, while the option modules focus on specific subject areas.

You complete 180 credits, composed of two 30-credit core modules, two 30-credit option modules a 60-credit dissertation/the equivalent of a written dissertation in another medium such as film or an exhibition and an accompanying essay.

You can choose from a broad range of special subject option modules taught by academics in departments across the College.

CORE MODULES
  • 'Race', Empire, Postcoloniality
  • Culture, Community, Identity
ENGLISH, THEATRE AND CREATIVE WRITING OPTION MODULES
  • A Confusion of Tongues: Illness, Language, Writing
  • Aesthetics and Cultural Theory
  • Contemporary US Fiction
  • Freud in the world: psychoanalysis, literary writing and the legacies of history
  • Magic, Science and Religion in the Renaissance
  • Postcolonialism: In Theory
  • The Renaissance: Concepts and Issues
  • The Victorian Supernatural
  • Victorian London: Literature, Culture and the Urban Experience
GEOGRAPHY OPTION MODULES
  • Anthropology, Culture and Development
  • Development Studies: Theoretical Approaches
  • Development, Aid and Power
  • International Political Economy of Childhood
  • Social Studies of Childhood: Key Concepts and Issues
  • Understanding the City
HISTORY, CLASSICS AND ARCHAEOLOGY OPTION MODULES
  • Early Modern London: Society and Culture
  • Fascist Minds? Politics, Culture and Psychology in the Age of Extremes
  • Healing, Health and Modernity in African History
  • Modern Europe and Its Others: Jews, Muslims, Blacks
  • Queer Histories/Queer Cultures
  • Sex, Deviance and Disease in Britain, 1860-2020
  • Sex, Work and the Law: Prostitution and Sex Trafficking in Modern History
  • Sexuality, power and ethics on campus: approaches through the social sciences
  • The Nazi Capture of Power
  • The Politics of the Past: Heritage in a Changing World
HISTORY OF ART OPTION MODULES
  • Art and Photography Since 1970
  • Curating Difficult Histories: Museums, Exhibitions, Art Activism
  • Gender, Modernity and the City
  • Slavery and its Cultural Legacies
  • Violence and Visual Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century
LAW OPTION MODULES
  • Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice
  • Criminal Law Theory and History
  • Crisis, Conflict and Human Rights: Contemporary Challenges
  • Critical Migration Law
  • Cultures of Human rights (Intensive)
  • Drugs, Crime and Culture
  • Equality and the Law
  • Futures: The Globalization of Human Rights
  • Gender, Sexuality and Criminal Justice
  • Global Perspectives on Crime and Crime Control
  • Healthcare and Human Rights
  • Intersectionality and Criminal Justice
  • Issues in International Law and Human Rights (Intensive)
  • Law, Post-Colonialism and Political Economy (Intensive)
  • Policing, Race and Justice
  • Race, Crime and Justice
  • Race, Law and Literature
  • Regulating Sex and Sexuality
  • The History and Philosophy of Human Rights (Intensive)
  • The History and Philosophy of Human Rights
POLITICS OPTION MODULES
  • Geopolitics, Population and Environment
  • Global Politics, Governance and Security
  • International Political Economy
  • Introduction to Quantitative Social Research
  • Middle East Politics
  • Modern British Politics
  • Political Theory and Contemporary Politics
  • Qualitative Social Research
  • The Political Sociology of the Modern State
  • Theorising Social Research
  • War, Politics and Society
PSYCHOSOCIAL STUDIES OPTION MODULES
  • Education, Globalisation and Change
  • Education, Power and Resistances
  • Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Practice
  • Psychoanalysis and Culture
  • Psychoanalysis and History
  • Texts and Interpretation
INDEPENDENT RESEARCH MODULE
  • Independent Research Module
Option modules vary every year; the list above is indicative.

Birkbeck makes all reasonable efforts to deliver educational services, modules and programmes of study as described on our website. In the event that there are material changes to our offering (for example, due to matters beyond our control), we will update applicant and student facing information as quickly as possible and offer alternatives to applicants, offer-holders and current students.

Additional information

Duration
One year full-time or two years part-time

FEES
Part-time home students: £4410 pa
Part-time international students: £8010 pa
Full-time international students: £16020 pa

Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity (Ma)

£ 8,820 VAT inc.