University of Winchester, MA, Cultural Studies

The programme explores areas such as: technology, music, drugs, crime and the body; national and global perspectives on culture; new religions and spiritualities; cyberculture; writing and politics; and apocalypse culture; also concerned with the diverse and multiple forms of cultural expression, whether in relation to cultural texts (in literature, film and the media), wider conceptualisations of culture (the nation and globalism), specific forms of cultural practice or behaviour (music, crime and the body), or the meanings of contemporary culture (apocalypse, post-colonialism and the writing of culture). Compulsory modules: Introduction to Cultural Studies explores culture and theories of cultural studies by reference to relevant case studies and develops understanding of critical and theoretical approaches such as the politics of culture, identity and cultural politics, socio-cultural perspectives, theories of representation, media culture, audience studies and consumption. Optional modules: drugs, identities and popular culture; crime and culture; popular music; theorising the world; the apocalypse in contemporary American literature and culture; the body in contemporary culture; writing and politics; the construction of national identity and national institutions; contemporary mediated femininities; plus some co-validated modules, from other courses in in the faculty of arts.