MA Media and Cultural Studies
The degree provides students with the theoretical and methodological grounding they need to carry out independent research in media and cultural studies. The course introduces you to the key texts, debates and thinkers in media and cultural studies, ranging from the work of classical cultural theorists such as Walter Benjamin, Edward Said, Stuart Hall and Raymond Williams through to contemporary writing on new media, globalised culture, science and technology studies and queer theory. You will be encouraged to reflect critically on the role of popular and social media in structuring our everyday lives. The course examines the role of media in reproducing, disseminating and challenging hegemonic power relations, as well as thinking through the ways in which gender, sexuality and ‘race’ are constructed in relation to global media cultures.
This interdisciplinary programme is taught by staff from Sociology, Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA), and the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies. If you wish to study literary theory as well as cultural studies, you may also be interested in the MA in Contemporary Literary Studies.
On the MA in Media and Cultural Studies, you will take two core modules plus four option courses chosen from the list below.
Core Courses
- SOCL923: Critical Methods in Cultural Research
- SOCL940: Critical Debates in Cultural Studies
Option Courses*
- SOCL906: Science Technology and Society
- SOCL907: Social Theory
- SOCL913: Gender, Sex and Bodies: From the global to the biological
- SOCL919: Research Projects in Practice
- SOCL921: Contemporary Debates in Sociology: Critique and Value
- SOCL930: Policy, Publics and Expertise
- SOCL937: Mobilities Society and Change
- GWS406: Feminist Technoscience Studies
- LING440: Critical Discourse Analysis
- GWS407: Debates in Gender Research
- LING442: Introduction to Discourse Studies
*Please note that this is an indicative list - not all options are offered every year.
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