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MA Material and Visual Culture

  • DeadlineStudy Details: 1 year - 2 years

Masters Degree Description

The Material and Visual Culture MA critically examines human-made and modified objects and visual media, including art, design, architecture, landscape, heritage, photographs, film, fashion and performance, to understand how cultures and societies work, preparing you for global professional practice. This one-year (or two-year if part-time) programme will give you a practical and theoretical grounding in applying anthropological, humanities and natural and social sciences approaches to the analysis of the objects, materials, and visual media that humans use to survive, to define relationships, to represent our identity and to benefit our wellbeing and social standing.

Entry Requirements

This research based Master's degree is suitable for those students entering postgraduate study with a strong background in the discipline, gained either through an undergraduate degree, or through a well-regarded conversion Master's programme.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

Graduates of the Material and Visual Culture MA will be equipped to pursue a range of careers, including art curation, practice and administration, consultancy, design, ethnographic and visual research in both academic and commercial settings, media and journalism, including TV, radio and publishing, policy and advocacy in governmental, non-governmental (NGOs) and intergovernmental (IGOs) organisations, video production, both commercial and independent.

Module Details

Compulsory modules

  • Critical Issues (Core Course)
  • Material and Visual Culture Dissertation
  • Informatic Cultures: The Anthropology of Data, Algorithms and Computation
  • The Anthropology of Social Media
  • Anthropology of Technics and Technology
  • Design Anthropology
  • Art in the Public Sphere
  • The Anthropology of Fashion
  • Visualizing Others: Colonial and Postcolonial Visual Culture
  • Multimodal Anthropology
  • Anthropology of Religion
  • Biosocial Anthropology, Health and Environment
  • Medical Anthropology
  • Nutrition, Health and Culture

Optional modules

  • Informatic Cultures: The Anthropology of Data, Algorithms and Computation
  • The Anthropology of Social Media
  • Anthropology of Technics and Technology
  • Design Anthropology
  • Art in the Public Sphere
  • The Anthropology of Fashion
  • Visualizing Others: Colonial and Postcolonial Visual Culture
  • Multimodal Anthropology
  • Anthropology of Religion
  • Biosocial Anthropology, Health and Environment
  • Medical Anthropology
  • Nutrition, Health and Culture

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