Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity (Postgraduate Certificate)
Master
In London
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Type
Master
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Location
London
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Duration
1 Year
Our Postgraduate Certificate in Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity stretches across the social sciences and arts and humanities and explores:
debates on 'race' and racism, multiculture and postcoloniality; empire and the formation of modern Britain and contemporary transnational political communities, social identities and urban culture
the 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 explores 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, the concept of 'race' and the invention of 'the West'; 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, place, urban cultures and diaspora; 'race' and 'beauty'; contemporary racial nationalisms and religious authoritarian movements; 'The War on Terror'; 'whiteness' and 'race', gender, sexuality and desire.
The Postgraduate Certificate is a part-time evening study programme that allows you to explore these subject areas and progress to and complete the Postgraduate Diploma or MA Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity.
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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
- Conflict
- Politics
- International
- Global
- Law
- Systems
- Urban Planning
Course programme
The programme combines taught core and option modules. 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 60 credits, composed of two core modules, or one core module and an option module.
You can choose from a broad range of special subject option modules taught by academics in departments across the College. Option modules vary every year; the list below is indicative.
CORE MODULES
- 'Race', Empire, Postcoloniality
- Culture, Community, Identity
- Culture and Human Rights
- Freud in the world: psychoanalysis, literary writing and the legacies of history
- Post-Colonial Discourse and the Novel
- Reading Time in the Twentieth Century
- 'Race', Ethnicity and Development
- Anthropology, Culture and Development
- Critical Social Geographies
- Gender and Development
- International Political Economy of Childhood
- Social Studies of Childhood: Key Concepts and Issues
- A Continent on the Move: Migration in Europe, 1919 to 2019
- Contested Past, Troubled Present: Britain and Ireland since 1800 - Religion in Society and Politics
- Globalisation and the Rise of the Modern Consumer
- Politics and Islam
- Sex, Work and the Law: Prostitution and Sex Trafficking in Modern History
- The Holocaust
- Theorising Gender
- Art and Photography Since 1970
- Global Victorians: Visual Cultures of the Colonial Encounter
- Slavery and its Cultural Legacies
- Space and Politics in Modernity
- Cultures of Human Rights
- Equality and the Law
- Gender, Sexuality and Criminal Justice
- Global Perspectives on Crime and Crime Control
- International Criminological Theory
- Psychology of Law and Crime
- Race, Crime and Justice
- Race, Law and Literature
- Social Justice
- Introduction to Quantitative Social Research
- Qualitative Social Research
- Theorising Social Research
- Education, Globalisation and Change
- Education, Power and Resistances
- Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Practice
- Mental Health and Madness
- Psychoanalysis and Culture
- Psychoanalysis and History
- Sexual Knowledges, Sexual Politics
- Texts and Interpretation
Additional information
Part-time international students: £5340 pa
Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity (Postgraduate Certificate)