MA Cultural and Critical Studies

at Birkbeck University of London

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

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.

• Full-time home students: £9030 pa

• Full-time international students: £16380 pa

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.