MA Gender and Culture
MA Gender and Culture explores cultural forms, practices and theories as they relate to ideas around gender and sexuality.
You will examine gender theories from perspectives in both the humanities and the social sciences, and theorists from Freud to Butler.
This course allows you to explore aspects of culture from a gender perspective, and covers feminist debate in the visual arts, film studies, literature, history and music.
You can also investigate gender as it relates to fine art, literature or musical composition, or cultural practices such as shopping, interior decorating or socialising at night.
You will have access to cutting-edge feminist, queer, and postcolonial thinking around issues of identity, representation and self-representation. You will also consider sexuality, class, postcoloniality, diaspora, subjectivity, desire and difference within this framework.
The programme combines key theoretical ideas with a radically new way of approaching culture in the 20th century.
MA Gender and Culture gives you the opportunity to move from the study of femininity, modernity and representation in the culture of the twentieth century through to related studies such as film analysis, musicology and literary criticism.
Postgraduate Diploma in Gender and Culture
Available on a 12-month full-time or 24-month part-time basis, the Postgraduate Diploma in Gender and Culture covers similar ground to the MA, but does not include the dissertation module.
On the basis of a good performance in a full-time student's first semester, or a part-timer's first year, students initially registered for the Diploma may be transferred onto the corresponding MA.
Key Information
Start Date: 21 September.
Duration: 12 months full-time; 24 months part-time.
Entry Requirements: a good honours degree in a related discipline.
Full entry requirements