MA in Visual Culture

The MA in Visual Culture is available with the pathway Art, Photography and Film.

Pathway: Art, Photography and Film

The MA in Visual Culture, which is available as a one year full-time and a two year part-time programme, introduces students to the new and fast-growing intellectual field of visual culture, by examining the histories, theories and practices of cultural production and consumption of visual images/objects in the contemporary and modern world. Western and, increasingly, global culture is dominated by visual images – whether material or virtual – and by visual experience.

The course encourages connections across visual arts, architecture, film, cultural studies and critical theory, cultural geography, and history. It gives students the opportunity to concentrate on the modern period, post-1750, while offering the option to choose their modules from a range of disciplines in which visual culture is a key research focus.

Though this MA is offered by the Department of Art History, besides the core module, Critical Approaches to Art History and Visual Culture, it is also compulsory for you to take one module in the Department of Culture, Film, and Media.  You are also eligible, with permission from the course leader, to take modules from other schools, e.g. American and Canadian Studies. Full-time students take two modules per semester; part-time students take two modules per year. More information about the core and special subject modules.