Cultural studies courses

Your course gives you the opportunity to examine the links between media, culture and society

You’ll develop the skills to analyse cultural products, and engage with important debates that link the arts and social sciences

You’ll explore topics including gender and representation, globalisation and cultural change

Cultural Studies permits close analysis of topics such as race, youth, music, fashion, and creative economies, as well as embracing the history of sexuality, emotions and affect, national identities and popularism and the cultural dynamics of precarity and austerity, art, and cultural expression for the new feminist activism

Course overview The MA Cultural Studies programme aims to offer grounding in the theories on Cultural Studies which draws on Marxism, Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, Post-Marxism, Feminism, and Post-Modernism and their use, application and adaption in the cross-cultural contexts of Africa, Asia and the Middle East