Cultural Science in UK

The DPhil in Oriental Studies is the Faculty of Oriental Studies' main research degree. Supervision can be offered in the full-range of areas in which the faculty has expertise, namely Chinese studies, Egyptology and the ancient Near East, Eastern Christianity, Hebrew and Jewish studies, the Islamic world, Japanese studies, Korean studies and South and Inner Asia. All topics fall under the general degree title of DPhil in Oriental Studies.

On Critical and Cultural Theory MA you will grapple with the ideas and perspectives of great critical thinkers. Warwick's English Department, ranked 1st by 2014 REF, will equip you with the analytical tools to understand, theorise and critique the literary and cultural artefacts of the modern world.

This MA aims to introduce you to the issues involved in global cultural heritage management as a foundation for both professional and academic paths. It benefits from Durham University’s unique situation, living and studying within a UNESCO World Heritage Site and examines tangible and intangible heritage from international, national and local perspectives. Durham University established the first ever UNESCO Chair in Archaeological Ethics and Practice in Cultural Heritage, held by Professor Robin Coningham. The degree has strong links with the Durham World Heritage Site and with other local, regional, national and international heritage sites and organisations, many of whom offer placement opportunities.

There are two routes through the MA: the Cultural Heritage Research route which concludes with a dissertation. The Professional Practice Route which concludes with an analytical case study report.

Here at Worcester, we are passionate about exploring, investigating and questioning the role of media and culture in defining, shaping and changing our world. We know that both media and culture has an impact on everything from the tiniest detail of our identities and everyday life up to historic global events and movements.

We examine the processes that give media and culture its influence; we ask - where the power lies? who gets to be seen and how change is created?

As a media and culture student, you will draw on your own rich experience of media and culture as well as being introduced to the new. Using up to date academic approaches and methods you will learn to assess, analyse and critique media and culture allowing you to respond to what’s there as well as creating and participating yourself.

Modules and topics as diverse and significant as gender & sexualities; representation & diversity; identities & cultures; conflict and politics; social media & activism; green media & the environment; crime & deviance and music, film television and internet cultures.

Our Postgraduate Diploma in Culture, Diaspora, Ethnicity stretches across the social sciences and arts and humanities. It offers you the opportunity to explore: 

• histories and cartographies of 'race' and racism, multiculture and postcoloniality; empire and the formation of modern Britain and contemporary transnational political communities, social identities and urban cultures
• connections between histories of colonisation and contemporary social formations and inequalities in the UK
• how local debates on 'race' and racism are shaped by the global geopolitics of the twenty-first century.

The programme examines connections between interlocking colonial histories across the globe and our ordinary, local, everyday life here in contemporary Britain. We focus on a broad range of subjects such as histories of colonisation, systems of slavery, indenture and other forms of colonial labour; histories of the concept of 'race' and other systems of categorisation; colonial cultures, nationalisms, 'respectability' and the invention of 'whiteness'; histories of criminalisation and policing and anti-racist and anti-fascist resistance; theorising culture, community, hybridity and creolisation; postcolonial belonging and diaspora; 'race' and 'beauty'; contemporary racial nationalisms and religious authoritarian movements; and 'race', gender, sexuality and desire.

This program will enhance your understanding of educational theory and practice by focusing on issues of culture, language and identity, and is taught by internationally-renowned experts.

This MA program explores the significance of identity and culture in education contexts. While we draw on theories and research from other traditions, our focus is on how society and culture inform our understanding of who we are as teachers and learners, and how those identities impact on the teaching and learning process.

The Heritage Studies course covers key aspects of heritage tourism and visitor engagement. It draws on experiences from expert staff and visiting speakers and visits to local heritage sites. It encourages a hands-on approach and involves input by heritage professionals from the region and beyond. Alongside freelance heritage consultants, these professionals work in organisations including:

• Historic England
• the National Trust
• the National Park Authority
• Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums

When you graduate from this course you'll be equipped to pursue a career in the heritage sector or conduct further research.

On this programme you will:

• have access to leading academics and practitioners in the field;
• go on study visits to heritage sites and museums to learn about latest practice;
• meet past students who have graduated from the programme and now work in the field; and,
• undertake a placement to get hands-on experience and professional insights.

Key areas of investigation in this MA include:

• Policy development and management issues relating to heritage, museum and cultural sectors in Ireland, north and south;
• Analysis of the social, economic and cultural contexts of museums and heritage; and,
• International context of key issues for the heritage and museum sectors.

Modules reflect innovative and current research and will equip you with the appropriate skills for further academic and professional development.

Our MA Applied Heritage Studies course offers critical enquiry of, and practical engagement with, the increasingly diverse heritage sector.

As the heritage sector transforms, with an increasingly diverse range of agencies and organizations drawing on the past and mobilizing it in different ways, this course combines critical enquiry with practical experience to understand and engage with the changing dynamics of the sector.

We have good connections with industry specialists from a variety of heritage institutions and providers across the region, who have helped design the program.

We examine community-based heritage, as well as institutional providers.

While broad in scope, there is particular emphasis on community engagement, digital heritage and heritage in the creative industries.

This course enables teachers, educators and creative practitioners to respond to the challenges that digital culture poses for education. You'll develop a thorough knowledge of the media that children and young people are engaging in, reflecting on how it shapes their literacy and learning at home and at school.

You'll address urgent questions and themes, such as how children learn literacy in the digital age; how we can support young people to be authors as well as players of games; how we ensure that contemporary teaching of literacy is inclusive and socially just.

The course is underpinned by research in the area of new and digital literacies. A key feature of the programme is its link to the Literacy Research Cluster, with opportunities to participate in current projects, an active reading/viewing group and a seminar programme.

This programme aims to provide you with a secure knowledge of the major theories, concepts and issues relating to religion in a variety of intellectual traditions and historical and contemporary contexts. Our intention is that you will gain an understanding of a range of debates and discussions raised by past and present religious belief and practice. In addition, throughout this programme we enable you to gain the skills required to evaluate, analyse and interpret both academic and practitioner approaches to religion.

In addition to the core module of Studying Religion you will choose two optional modules from the range available in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion.

The Graduate Diploma Conservation Studies is an intensive one-year conversion course which aims to enable graduates from a non-conservation background to advance their knowledge and skills.

Students have the opportunity to access a range of analytical equipment and learn from practitioners with extensive experience. They can also benefit from the team's strong links with museums, professional bodies, and heritage agencies.

The Medieval Studies allows you to roam periods of history from the late antiquity to the renaissance, and geographies from the British Isles and France, to Italy and the Holy Land.

Teaching is empowered by specialist Swansea University expertise, particularly in the areas of gender, warfare, aristocratic culture, and frontiers and borderlands.

You have the chance to develop a formidable knowledge base about the medieval heritage of South Wales and the surrounding region.

This MA is for you if culture, technology, power and business excite and intrigue you.

You study cultural industries, institutions, texts, identities and practices from a critical perspective. You’ll explore the meaning of culture as politics and philosophy, and also:

• explore cultural innovation, promotion and value in a fast-changing world
• understand how business, technology and the law are redefining cultural practices today
• gain professional skills needed by cultural and creative organisations in the private and public sectors.

You can also apply for placements. The vibrant city of Brighton & Hove is a hub for cultural, creative and activist enterprise.

• Study a course accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), so you can be sure it's relevant and recognised throughout the profession
• Build on your theoretical psychotherapeutic understanding to become a reflective practitioner, by improving your clinical skills and deepening your personal insight
• Develop your psychotherapeutic theory and skills in an intellectually creative and stimulating environment
• Develop transferable research skills related to psychotherapy and provide an opportunity to develop confidence in a self-critical and reflective approach to study

This course is accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), so you can be sure it’s relevant and recognised within the psychotherapeutic and health care profession. The course will help you to further your career and become a BACP accredited and autonomous counselling practitioner.

The MA Creative and Cultural Industries Management course offers a practical learning approach. Our flexible programme enables you to select a sector to focus on. This will allow you to specialise in one topic, whilst also taking core creative industry management modules.

The course content will explore the challenges involved in combining culture and management. You will develop ways to help improve the range of creative talent in the marketplace without disrupting creativity.

This Master's course welcomes graduates coming from any undergraduate subject area. This course allows you to change career direction and focus more on cultural leadership and enterprise.

You will select your specialism during the course induction phase, choosing from:

• Music, Festivals and Events
• Arts and Media
• Cultural Heritage and Museums
• Galleries and Visual Arts

Develop into an independent researcher in a supportive environment as you meet and learn from experts in the study of cultural history.

Our MA Cultural History course allows you to explore and consider the definitions, evolutions, and theoretical understandings of the effects of historical events on people, their beliefs, and their behaviour.