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MA Cultural and Critical Studies
at Birkbeck University of London

London, United Kingdom

Tuition Fee £ 16,380
Country Rank-
Duration12 Months
Score IELTS: 7

Program Overview

Our MA Cultural and Critical Studies explores critical and cultural debates across disciplines in the arts and humanities, offering you the chance to examine work in a diversity of media, including print culture, painting, film, new media and popular culture. It combines a thorough exposure to contemporary critical methods and debates with a diverse range of advanced study options.

In consultation with tutors, you will be able to build a dynamic programme of study that allows you to follow themes and issues across different disciplines, and develop your interests accordingly.

Course Content
CORE MODULES
- Key Concepts in Cultural and Critical Studies
- New Directions in Cultural and Critical Studies
INDICATIVE OPTION MODULES
- Aesthetics and Cultural Theory
- Contemporary US Fiction
- Culture and Human Rights
- Display, Exhibition and Spectacle in London, 1750-1850
- 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
- Medievalism: Re-presenting the Middle Ages
- Modernity's Waste Spaces
- Queer and Black Photography in 1980-1990s Britain
- Reading Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project
- Silk Threads: Weaving Global Art Histories of Medieval Textiles
- The Cold War Goes Pop! Visualizing the Cold War through European Films and Comics
- Theoretical Perspectives on Media
- Visual Cultures of Disability
MA CULTURAL AND CRITICAL STUDIES DISSERTATION
- Dissertation MA Cultural and Critical Studies
Entry Requirement
A second-class honours degree (2:2) or above in a relevant subject: English, history, philosophy, visual culture, media studies, or an interdisciplinary degree with a strong humanities or arts component.

Applications are reviewed on their individual merits, and your professional qualifications and/or relevant work experience 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.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS

If English is not your first language or you have not previously studied in English, the requirement for this programme is the equivalent of an International English Language Testing System (IELTS Academic Test) score of 7.0, with not less than 6.5 in each of the sub-tests.
Fees & Scholarships
- Full-time home students: £9030 pa
- Full-time international students: £16380 pa
Career Prospect
Graduates can pursue career paths in writing and journalism, editing and publishing, research, marketing and public relations. Possible professions include:
- writer
- editor/editorial assistant
- researcher
- arts administrator
- public relations officer.

Cost Of Studying At Birkbeck University of London

Interest rates as low as 8.9% ^*

250K+

Students Assisted

800Cr+

Loan Amount Disbursed

5000+

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MA Cultural and Critical Studies at Birkbeck University of London