BA (Hons) Culture, Mind and Modernity
Culture, Mind and Modernity offers an innovative, interdisciplinary academic education in Cultural Studies.
About Cultural Studies:
Cultural Studies has been emerging in recent years as one of the hottest new disciplines, providing an arena where the humanities, social sciences, arts and media meet and cross-fertilise. It has full academic respectability, and most Universities and Higher Education Institutions offer degrees in Cultural Studies, but it is still new enough to be lively, exciting, cutting edge and constantly developing.
Whilst many other degree courses in Cultural Studies focus almost exclusively on media and popular culture, our degree programme takes a broader view of culture. Our degree is wide-ranging but coherent, and combines breadth with proper academic depth.
On the Culture, Mind and Modernity programme, students will engage with contemporary issues in culture and society, develop critical awareness and research skills, and have the opportunity to gain experience in the use of media technologies.
The degree is designed to provide an attractive, stimulating and rigorous course for applicants from the whole undergraduate range, recruiting nationally (and beyond).
The degree is awarded by Liverpool John Moores University
Course Delivery:
The course is delivered on a modular basis, taught over three years, two semesters per year.
Semester One runs from September to December
Semester Two runs from January to May.
Course Content:
The programme consists of compulsory core modules and a selection of option modules drawn from ten strands of study:
Art and Contexts;
Language;
Literature;
Media;
Philosophy, Religion and Ethics;
Popular Culture;
Politics;
Society;
Turbulent Texts I (Abject Voices)
Turbulent Texts II (Cultures of Desire).
These options address a wide range of cultural and social issues, including minds and bodies, gender and sexuality, colonialism and post-colonialism, media technologies and representations, and power, politics and ideology.
Level Two Module Description
Level Three Module Description
Practical Experience:
In addition, students will be able to gain practical experience in the use of television, video and media technologies, and to take part in the cultural and artistic regeneration of St Helens and Merseyside as Liverpool has been designated European Capital of Culture for 2008.
Assessment:
Assessment is continuous and includes essays, reports, seminar presentations and internal examinations. In the third year students will undertake a Dissertation or Project on a topic chosen in agreement with their tutor.
Career Prospects:
Nationally, Cultural Studies degrees have good track records for graduate employment, in a wide variety of careers including teaching, journalism, tourism, the arts, media and communications, advertising, museums and galleries, public and social services, and post-graduate research.
Period of Study:
Three years full time; up to five years part time.
Entry Requirements:
Applicants should have a Level 3 qualification eg Access to Higher Education (QAA accreditation); A and/or AS Levels in appropriate subjects drawn from humanities, social sciences and/or arts and media (UCAS tariff of 120 points). Applicants with National Cetificates/Diplomas, GNVQs/AVCEs or combined qualifications will be also considered. Each application is considered on its own merits.
How to Apply:
Full time applications should be made directly to UCAS
Part time applications should be made directly to Student Services (Freephone 0800 99 66 99) or the Programme Leader.
David Rice tel: 01744 623272
e-mail drice@sthelens.ac.uk
UCAS course code number: LR00 BA/CMM Route A