Teaching
You will be taught through a combination of seminars, workshops, individual tuition, and online interaction.
All students take an introductory module on advanced concepts and relevant theories in the Humanities, which also provides a grounding in postgraduate research methods and skills.
In the 'Digital Editing Project' module all students also undertake a grounding in Digital Humanities methodologies, researching from databases and recovering and editing historical documents or cultural texts.
You will study a module on the interdisciplinary ‘New Humanities’, including environmental, medical, and scientific themes, which are relevant to cultural scholarship.
'The Cultures of Change' module dedicated to your main disciplinary focus of Cultural Studies, with close examination of four cultural sites: food, fashion, music and (digital) futures.
The 'Professional Development' module allows you to apply your academic skills in a practical work project, either on a university-based project, or with a relevant external organisation, such as a media company, local arts and culture provider or charity. Opportunities for work-based learning will be tailored to students’ longer-term plans and ambitions, for example, some students may choose to work on a creative industries networking event, while others may prefer to devise and run an academic conference.
The culmination of your Masters study is your specialist Dissertation. The taught modules will all help you to prepare for this by building your higher-level research skills and giving you opportunities to put them into practice. You will develop and expand your initial research plan in a workshop setting, in the light of peer and tutor feedback, and work towards the completion of your full Dissertation with the support of an individual advisor, who will be a research-active specialist in your subject.
Staff in the School of Humanities are recognised experts in a wide range of fields. You make all the key decisions relating to your Dissertation, including the subject matter, the intellectual approach, the argument and structure; you own the project from start to finish. You have a totally free choice of theme: the only limitation is that we must be able to provide an expert advisor to support you.