本跨学科课程使您可以探索多个学科领域的文化和媒体实践，机构和历史，包括文学，社会学，哲学，电影和媒体。您将学习分析图像，文本，技术和文化习俗，以加深对一系列复杂问题的理解。我们将鼓励您就当今全球化世界中我们面临的重大挑战提出批判性观点。通过必修模块，将为您介绍分析各种不同文本的方法，包括照片，绘画，建筑物，诗歌和广告。您还将从广泛的可选模块中进行选择，这将使您有机会研究以下问题：冲突及其文化调解，移民和多元文化主义，社会活动主义以及乌托邦变革的可能性，过去和未来的技术及其对它们的影响我们的身心，生态及其与
You’ll explore cultural and media productions, practices and institutions in national, transnational and global contexts and across subject areas including philosophy, literature, sociology, art history, film, communication studies and digital humanities.With a wide choice of modules, you’ll gain a real breadth of knowledge and be able to tailor your studies to focus on areas that interest you the most. You’ll examine issues such as conflict and its cultural mediation, migration and multicultural societies as well as utopian thinking and social activism in offline and online spaces. You’ll study difference across the globe, including race, class, gender, disability, the dialogue of analogue and digital technologies with our minds, bodies, ecologies, and other life forms, alongside the social effects of global communication networks.The course is taught jointly by two distinctive departments (the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies and the School of Media and Communication), who combine innovative approaches to studying, making, and displaying culture and the arts with critical examinations of how people share knowledge, values and beliefs through television, journalism, film, online media and beyond. You’ll become a critical and agile evaluator of cultural materials and mediated practices across diverse contexts, thereby allowing you to become global citizens who actively engage with contemporary societal challenges.Additional highlightsInnovative research centres, projects and initiatives based out of the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies as well as the School of Media and Communication offer dynamic sites of engagement. A few notable highlights include:Centre for Critical Materialist StudiesCentre for Cultural Studies (The internationally renowned journal parallax is edited from the Centre.)Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History (CentreCATH)Media Industries and Cultural ProductionMUSICSTREAM: Music Culture in the Age of StreamingMedia FuturesSpecialist facilitiesThe University Library offers online books, journals and databases, has a wealth of archive material in its Special Collections, including manuscript, archive and early printed material, and provides a range of spaces for individual study or group work. You’ll also benefit from access to Box of Broadcasts, an archive of over 2 million TV and radio broadcasts.You can join various media production societies on campus and learn to use productionpost-production equipment, software and facilities.Over 16,000 courses are also available to you through LinkedIn Learning to complement your academic and professional portfolio.The University campus also features wide range of museums, archives, and galleries:The Stanley & Audrey Burton GalleryTreasures of the Brotherton GalleryMuseum of the History of Science, Technology and MedicineMarks & Spencer Company ArchiveInternational Textile CollectionDigital Cultures and Creativity Hub