Postgraduate Prospectus

This course has a start date in October 

This is a truly interdisciplinary course that will give you a comprehensive introduction to the critical tradition that shapes today’s Human and Social Sciences, as well as the opportunity to apply theories to contemporary cultural phenomena.

Approaches to issues of representation, identity, power, meaning and ideology thus include, but also extend beyond, the established British Cultural Studies paradigm.

The course builds on the scholarly relation between the theoretical and applied or practical aspects of research in the humanities, thereby preparing you for theoretically informed research in disciplines beyond Cultural Studies.

You will be able to draw on the expertise of the teaching team in areas such as literary theory, continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, cultural studies and political theory.

This course will certainly appeal to you if you are a Cultural Studies or Humanities graduate with an interest in further studies that emphasise theoretical approaches while maintaining a focus on their application to cultural events and practices.

Download the MA Critical Theory and Cultural Studies leaflet for more information.  

• The Centre for Critical Theory is one of the largest postgraduate operations within the Arts Faculty, with a population of around 40 students in any one year, and providing a vibrant intellectual environment in an organised and informal way
• The department also benefits from the input and close collaboration of other departments within the School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies and from the Institute for Comparative Cultures, the Centre for Post Conflict Cultures and the Institute for Middle Eastern Studies, as well as staff from faculties of Arts, and Social Sciences
• The department is strongly international and offers excellent opportunities for staff, postgraduate students and undergraduate students to benefit from its wide range of international collaborative arrangements
• The School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies provides the perfect environment to learn to apply Cultural Studies approaches to diverse social, cultural and political ‘texts’ and to situate the discipline in the critical tradition upon which it continues to draw

The courses and research opportunities listed on this website are subject to change. While we will do all we can to ensure the information on these pages is accurate and up-to-date, The University of Nottingham reserves the right to change the content, modules and titles of any courses and research opportunities listed here without prior warning.