2021/22 Taught Postgraduate Programme Catalogue
MA Critical and Cultural Theory
| Programme code: | MA-AH/CCT | UCAS code: | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duration: | 12 Months | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
| Programme manager: | Dr Barbara Engh | Contact address: | b.engh@leeds.ac.uk |
There is a part-time variant of this programme available (programme code MA-AH/CUL-PT). Please contact Dr Engh for further information.
Total credits: 180
Entry requirements:
2:1 or above in first degree or equivalent
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies
Programme specification:
The programme will give students a grounding in a philosophical and theoretical approach to cultural studies, and it will engage them in an in depth study of major paradigms of cultural analysis, which focus on the themes of commodification, language, and subjectivity.
By the end of the course students will have encountered, and engaged in, an analysis of the historical formations of contemporary culture and the idea of cultural studies itself as a reflexive critical response to modernity in its long history.
Key issues of modernity and postmodernity, the postcolonial, subjectivity and sexuality, as well as the innovative study of both visual and acoustical culture, music, voice, cinema and popular cultures are integrated into both theoretical and substantive studies, with a broad view of the cultural objects relevant to such analyses.
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[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:
| ARTF5020M | Cultural Theory | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF5101M | Advanced Research Skills 1 | 5 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF5102M | Advanced Research Skills 2 | 5 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF5110M | Cultural History | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF5910M | Cultural Studies: Dissertation | 50 credits | 1 Jan to 30 Sep |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 30-60 credits from the approved MA array of optional modules offered by the School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies listed below:
| ARTF5000M | Africa Displaying / Displaying Africa | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF5001M | Derrida and Deconstruction | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF5003M | Reading Sexual Difference | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF5009M | Making Sense of Sound | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF5011M | Jewish Museums and the Display of Cultural Difference | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF5028M | Independent Directed Study (for full-time students) | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF5031M | Unfinished Business: Trauma, Cultural Memory and the Holocaust | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF5032M | Movies, Migrants and Diasporas | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF5052M | Adventures in the Archive | 30 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
| ARTF5059M | Critical Approaches to Photography | 30 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
| ARTF5063M | Postcolonial Feminisms | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF5071M | Encountering Things: Art and Entanglement in Anglo-Saxon England | 30 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
| ARTF5073M | The Origins of Postcolonial England | 30 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
| ARTF5109M | Prehuman to Post-Anthropocene | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| ARTF5111M | Art of the Silk Roads | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF5189M | Procuring Representation: Contemporary Art, East Asia, Gender | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
| ARTF5191M | Anthropology, Art and Representation | 30 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
| ARTF5193M | Humanity, Animality and Globality | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
| EDUC5039M | Creative Inquiry, Communication and Learning | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
Candidates may study 30 elective credits, subject to approval of their Programme Director.
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