2020/21 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue
BA Cultural and Media Studies
Programme code: | BA-CMS | UCAS code: | 9K8J |
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Duration: | 3 Years | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Claudia Sternberg | Contact address: | c.sternberg@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 360
Entry requirements:
AAB/ABB and other accepted equivalents (EPQ considered), see UG Admissions Policy.
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:
School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies
Programme specification:
Students must study a total of 120 credits per academic year.
The distinctive features of this programme lie in the combination of humanistic Cultural Studies (drawing together theoretical, textual, aesthetic and historical approaches to major formations of culture since the period of the European Enlightenment to globalized and postcolonial present) with a theoretical and analytical approach to the concepts of media, specifically linking it to the extended historical and theoretical analysis of mediation and medialisation.
The programme offers a distinctively interdisciplinary mode of study that enables students interested in literature, philosophy, history, the arts, film or contemporary forms of social and cultural experience shaped by and articulated through widespread forms of media and mediation, some formal and institutional and many informal, social, and self-operated, to engage with major histories and core concepts in a structured, progressive and research-oriented scheme of study that aims to develop a range of research, writing and presentation skills in the process.
Drawing on the most recent directions in advanced media theory, which is based on the critique of existing 'Media Studies' and overused notions of 'New Media' as well as on the legacies of continental critical and philosophical theory about language, mediation and communication, the critical project combining Cultural and Media Studies in a Russell Group university aims to offer students an intellectually challenging programme of interdisciplinary study that advances both the state of cultural and media studies. For this reason the situation of the programme within a School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies and in a Faculty including a School of Media and Communications promises to develop a singular critical space between what would appear to be opposing models: art and communication. Additionally requiring students to develop a historical perspective on culture and a philosophical perspective on mediation and medialization ensures that students will be critical of contemporary abuses of concepts of the 'new' with its attendant dangers of instant amnesia and the false valuation of novelty per se.
The programme will also aim to be distinctive in its fostering of awareness of issues of difference and plurality across all the levels of the programme. The focus on gender and sexual difference, postcoloniality and the analysis of migratory and diasporic experience, aesthetics and media, trauma and cultural memory in a world context of historical catastrophe, will be addressed through a range of cultural forms and mediated cultural practices.
Returning the foundations of the project of British Cultural Studies in the struggle to expand education, enable wider participation and to enlarge the forms and practices susceptible to rigorous intellectual analysis and interpretation, this degree in Cultural and Media Studies aspires to take the field of studies in directions that establish the singular value of interdisciplinary studies as a substantial method appropriate for the present conditions facing students in the second and third decades of the twenty-first century.
The programme specifically aims to address and actively incorporate the priorities established for all degrees offered by the University of Leeds: ethics and responsibility, international perspectives and awareness of the implications of globalization, research-led studies and employability.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
ARTF1003 | Introduction to Cultural Analysis 1 | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF1004 | Introduction to Cultural Analysis II | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
COMM1960 | Studying Media | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Students may take 40-60 credits from the following optional modules
ARTF1027 | Cultural History | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
COMM1210 | The History of Communication | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
COMM1970 | Introduction to Media and Communication Theory | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may take up to 20 credits of Discovery modules
Year2 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
ARTF2127 | Keywords | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
You will be required to take one of the following optional core modules.
COMM2125 | Visual Communication | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
COMM2910 | Communication Research Methods | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
You will be required to study 60-80 credits from the following optional modules. The module list is indicative and may vary each year depending on staff availability.
ARTF2044 | Cinema and Culture | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF2047 | Image, Music, Text: Reading Roland Barthes | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF2049 | The State of Utopia | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF2051 | Seeing in Asia | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF2052 | Showing Asia | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF2054 | State of the Art: Contemporary Perspectives in Art, Science and Technology | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF2057 | Racist Pasts/Radical Futures | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF2058 | Home, Exile and Displacement - Histories and Representations of Belonging in the 20th Century | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF2064 | Live Issues and Contemporary Art Practice | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF2074 | African Art I: Context Representation Signification | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
COMM2125 | Visual Communication | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
COMM2375 | Issues in Journalism | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
COMM2725 | Digital Cultures | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
COMM2910 | Communication Research Methods | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
COMM2950 | Media, Power and Social Justice | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
COMM2960 | Videogames: Identities in Play | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CSER2206 | Developing Your Professional Identity: Preparing for a Career in Within The Arts, Heritage and Creative Industries | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
CSER2207 | Students Into Schools (Arts Humanities and Culture) | 20 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study 0-20 credits of discovery modules
Year3 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Optional modules:
Students MUST chose one of the following dissertation options. If taking the 60 credit dissertation students cannot enrol on any discovery modules
ARTF3060 | Dissertation | 40 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) | |
ARTF3170 | Dissertation | 60 credits | Semesters 1 & 2 (Sep to Jun) |
Students will be required to study 20 credits from the following core modules. The module list is indicative and may vary each year depending on staff availability.
ARTF3003 | Deconstruction Reading Politics | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF3034 | From Trauma to Cultural Memory: The Unfinished Business of Representation and the Holocaust | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF3058 | Reading Sexual Difference | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF3077 | Humanity, Animality and Globality | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF3173 | Movies, Migrants and Diasporas | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Students will be required to study 40-60 credits from the following optional modules;
ARTF3003 | Deconstruction Reading Politics | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF3014 | Making Sense of Sound | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF3034 | From Trauma to Cultural Memory: The Unfinished Business of Representation and the Holocaust | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF3042 | Cultural Diversity in Museum and Material Culture - Case Study | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF3057 | The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory | 20 credits | Not running in 202021 | |
ARTF3058 | Reading Sexual Difference | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF3059 | Critical approaches to photography | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF3063 | Postcolonial Feminisms | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF3077 | Humanity, Animality and Globality | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF3173 | Movies, Migrants and Diasporas | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
COMM3130 | The Documentary and Reality | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
COMM3250 | Feminism, Identity and Media | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
COMM3260 | Understanding the Audience | 20 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
COMM3925 | War and Media | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
COMM3960 | Creative Work in the Cultural Industries | 20 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Discovery modules:
Candidates may study 0-20 credits of discovery modules
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