Course summary

This interdisciplinary course explores cultural and media productions, practices and institutions in national, transnational and global contexts and across multiple subject areas, including philosophy, literature, sociology, (art) history, film and communication studies. Delivered by two distinctive University of Leeds departments, the course offers a great choice of modules and access to internationally renowned academics who are passionate about the subjects they teach. You may also be taught by industry professionals with years of experience, as well as trained postgraduate researchers, connecting you to some of the brightest minds on campus. You are hosted by the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, which has a long-standing tradition of innovative approaches to studying, making, and displaying culture and the arts. In the School of Media and Communication, you gain skills such as critically examining how people share knowledge, values and beliefs through television, journalism, film, online media and beyond. As a student on this course, you examine issues such as conflict and its cultural mediation, migration and multicultural societies as well as utopian thinking and social activism. You also study gender and sexual difference, the impact of past and future technologies on bodies and minds, ecology and our relation to other life forms, digital cultures and the social effects of global communication networks. Using the skills and methods taught in the course, you become a flexible and constructive reader of a wide range of cultural materials and practices. You develop a critical perspective on the complexities and challenges facing us in the world today and are enabled to understand as well as actively engage with their cultural dimensions.