MA in Gender, Media & Culture

Core courses and options

The programme consists of:

• Core course one: Introduction to Feminist & Cultural Theory
• Core course two: Gender, Affect & the Body
• Dissertation workshop: Introduction to key questions in feminist, cultural & media methodology
• Two options or one option and two mini options or four mini options (where stated) adding up to a total of 60 credits:
  • Department of Media and Communications – Media Ethnicity & Nation; Embodiment & Experience; Contemporary Cultural Practice; Media Audiences & Media Geography; Embodiment & Experience; Media, Ritual & Contemporary Public Cultures
  • Department of Sociology – Gender, Identity & Psychoanalysis; Race, Gender & Representation; Data Made Flesh; The Post-Colonial World; Race, Politics, Ethics; Inventive Methods; Methods Of Cultural Analysis; Medicine, Modernity & Critique; Consumer Citizenship & Visual Culture
  • Centre for Cultural Studies – Interactive Media: Critical Theory; Postcolonial Theory; Media & Culture Industries; Text & Image; Media & Culture Industries; Practices of Cultural Industry
  • Department of English and Comparative Literature – Caribbean Women, Writing and Representation; Autobiogaphy; Rewriting Sexualities; Post-Colonial Fiction; Reading Freud: Love & its Vicissitudes; Language & Meaning
  • Department of Anthropology – Anthropological Issues in Development; Gender & Development; Gender Theory in Practice; Anthropology & Communication
  • Department of History – A New World of Women: Citizenship in the First Half of the 20th Century