Ethnicity, Globalisation, Culture

MSc Ethnicity, Globalisation, Culture

Introduction

The programme will enable students to explore debates on the legacies of colonial histories; contemporary political communities and social identities; gender, sexuality and desire; postcolonial urban cultures; diaspora and globalisation with a particular focus on the U.K and Europe. The programme further explores contemporary debates on ‘racial science', the ‘war on terror', nationalism, citizenship, human rights, refugees and asylum-seekers, racial violence and ‘race' and the criminal justice system. The programme is flexibly designed to enable students to pursue their own particular research and professional interests.

Professional Development

Our alumni include barristers and solicitors who specialise in criminal, employment and immigration law, lecturers and social researchers in the areas of Sociology, Cultural Studies and Social Policy, teachers, film makers, novelists and journalists and those who work for charities and organisations, including directors and managers, whose political concerns range from ‘race relations' and policing, domestic violence, refugees and asylum, human rights, imprisonment and rehabilitation. Our students come from diverse social and professional backgrounds.

Teaching

A range of participatory teaching and learning methods such as lectures, student-led teaching seminars, one-to-one tutorials and supervisions.

Study Resources

Birkbeck students have access to both Birkbeck and Senate House libraries. Students will join a flourishing and diverse postgraduate student community and a growing research culture.