Material and Visual Culture MA

at University College London

Modules
 

•  Informatic Cultures: The Anthropology of Data, Algorithms and Computation
•  Anthropology and Photography
•  Transforming and Creating Worlds: Anthropological Perspectives on Techniques and Technology
•  Anthropology of Religion
•  Anthropology of the Built Environment
•  Design Anthropology
•  Digital Infrastructure: Materiality, Information and Politics
•  Art in the Public Sphere
•  The Story and I - Finding the Form: A Practical Exploration of Storytelling
•  Documentary Radio - A Practice-Based Introduction
•  Key Ideas in Social Anthropology

This research based Master's degree is suitable for those students entering postgraduate study with a strong background in the discipline, gained either through an undergraduate degree, or through a well-regarded conversion Master's programme.

UK students
£16,500    

International students
£26,600    

The programme is designed as an advanced research degree in material culture, mostly anthropology and with elements of design history, archaeology, museum studies, social geography and architecture. Whoever is interested in material things and materials is interested in material culture: art, architecture, photography, consumer products, consumption, design, heritage, film, sound, fashion, infrastructure, landscape and innovation.

Students learn how to think independently, originally and critically about these topics, based on their own hands-on independent research. As well as a range of methodologies, they learn key theoretical approaches arising from philosophies of materialism and materiality. They learn to interpret sociocultural phenomena such as relationships, identity, social discourse and meaning, social structure, cultural history, human motivation, and praxis.