这是当代文化领域的跨学科课程。这是肯特大学和伦敦当代艺术学院（ICA）之间的独特合作。您的第一学期在坎特伯雷（Canterbury）度过，春季学期将迁至肯特（Kent）的巴黎文化艺术学校。MA允许您从一系列模块中进行选择，每个模块着眼于当代文化的不同方面。您将由英语学校，艺术学院的学者和实践者以及ICA的策展人联合授课。此外，您将有机会通过研究旅行来丰富您的学术知识和专业发展，并在ICA上公开演讲。
While the aims and objectives remain the same as on any other PhD programme in the humanities, for example, you are expected to contribute new knowledge of some sort, and to explore original, contemporary research questions, you are expected to achieve almost all of this in the novel itself. There is no long critical piece attached to this PhD programme. Instead, you produce a 3-5,000-word essay that works like a preface to your project, linking your concerns with others, demonstrating your awareness of theme and locating your work within/without one or more traditions etc. You also need to produce a full bibliography. Our PhD programme brings us right up-to-date with the ways in which novelists function in universities. You need to do a lot of critical thinking, reading and research and then turn it into contemporary fiction. You have a supervisory team to read your work and help you with thinking, research, plotting, editing, characterisation, pace, dialogue and so on.