Cultural Studies Goldsmiths

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Join the largestcentre for cultural

studies in the country,which produces world-leading research and

has more than

150 MA and PhDstudents

Postgraduate

Cultural Studies

at Goldsmiths


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Our research partners

include architects, planners,

artists, activists, global NGOs, new

media studios and museums

Some of our Masters feature industryplacements, including the opportunity to

work with organisations in India or China

Our busy events calendar includes

thought-provoking talks from

academics at Goldsmiths

and other universities

Key features


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Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths

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Goldsmiths Centre for Cultural Studies (CCS) isdedicated to theoretical and practical explorations in

contemporary culture. We specialise in the study anddesign of culture, such as media technologies, software,art, urban space, and interventions in global geopolitics.We engage at the same time in theoretical enquiry.

The Centre for Cultural Studies started in 1998

with one PhD student, six borrowed MA

students from the Department of Media andCommunications, half an academic member of

staff and a small one-off bequest. We now have

more than 150 postgraduate students and are

the largest centre for cultural studies in the UK.

Our teaching programmes are integrally

involved with the world of practice. They

incorporate laboratory projects, exhibitions,

performance and activism. Our students

have placements with cultural organisationsin London and around the world.

We are book writers of influential and

politically engaged texts in cultural theory.

Our research partners include architects,

planners, artists, activists, global NGOs, new

media studios and museums. Our research

outcomes are texts, technological art,

software, architecture/planning interventions.

Skills and experience

All our students gain a thorough grounding

in cultural theory. They learn how to plan

research and write proposals for public and

private-sector funding. Many organise events,

exhibitions and conferences as part of their

study. With us, you gain experience of working

in groups to develop projects in software

development, urban solutions, media

production and the audio-visual arts. You can

also acquire practical knowledge for project

development in organisations based in Asia,

Africa and elsewhere in the emerging world.

And you can learn techniques and strategies

leading to establishing your own public,

private or third sector enterprises.

Future careers

Many of our MA students go on to doctorates

and subsequent academic careers at eminent

universities in the UK and abroad. Graduates

also work in programme development in arts

organisations, in NGOs and the public sector.

Others develop their own practice in software,

media and art, while others combine in

establishing project networks and start-ups

in the creative industries.

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Our degrees

MA in Culture Industry

1 year full-time or 2 years part-time

www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-culture-industry

Using an innovative mixture of advanced

cultural theory and practice-based elements,

this MA aims to put debates about organisation

and production at the forefront of cultural

thinking. You can also undertake placements

within the culture industry in order to study

specific practices in action. A collaboration

between the Department of Media and

Communications and the Centre for Cultural

Studies, the programme is aimed at graduateswith an interest in working and intervening

in the cultural industries. Some candidates

may come via the traditional academic route,

while others will have experience of working

within the cultural field before undertaking

the degree. If you want to incorporate

contemporary thinking on the organisation

and work of culture into your practice or

research, this is the programme for you.

MA in Cultural Studies


www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-cultural-studies

This MA provides an intensive study in cultural

theory and in substantive cultural studies. Its

in every sense a programme in global cultural

studies, both in its engagement with cultural

difference and in its encounter with the

geopolitics of 21st-century capitalism. By the

end of the programme you will have covered

a considerable amount of high-level cultural

theory. You will study the most advanced

theorists of and questions surrounding both

the new cultural theory of Deleuze, Negri and

Agamben as well as classical British cultural

studies of the tradition established by Stuart

Hall. In addition you can choose from a range

of options that introduce a material focus to

complement the theory you have covered

for example, in digital and genetic media,

in urban space, in the creative industries, in

art and the visual culture of everyday life.

MA in Asian Cultural Studies


www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-asian-cultural-studies

Combining critical theoretical perspectives

with an in-depth regional focus, this unique

programme provides you with the tools to

make sense of the ascendance of Asia and its

impact on contemporary culture and

geopolitics. The Masters incorporates the very

highest level of cultural theory and study in

global political economy. We feature an

engagement with the arts and practice,

drawing on Goldsmiths unique position andstanding in the context of Londons urban

experience. One of this programmes

reference points is the British tradition of

cultural studies. It extends this to the arena of

global geopolitics. Here theory, economics,

politics, the arts and Asia itself are conceived

as cultural. This Masters also gives you the

opportunity to study Mandarin in cooperation

with our newly established Confucius Institute.

MA/MSc in Creating Social Media


www.gold.ac.uk/pg/

ma-creating-social-media

This unique theory and practice programme

combines computing and cultural studies

to provide you with the practical and critical

skills to shape the future impact of social

media. You will analyse existing ideas,

approaches and tools, and plan, develop,

hack and implement ground-breaking

interventions. Social media, at its most

interesting, develops new forms of connecting,

relating, sharing and competing. Effective and

innovative social media creation, therefore,

involves theoretical and practical knowledge

of both software development and social

processes. Hackdays, open innovation and

the power of networks are becoming core to

the future of many organisations, and this

programme equips you to accelerate the

impact of social media in your chosen field.



Our degrees continued

MA in Interactive Media:

Critical Theory & Practice


www.gold.ac.uk/pg/ma-interactive-media-critical-theory-practice

Developed by the Digital Culture Unit (see

right), this MA offers you equal opportunity to

develop theory and practice-based research

about how information systems are embedded

in the technical, cultural, aesthetic and

political structures of society, and how we

interact with them. Building on the research

excellence in the CCS in software studies,media philosophy and digital arts practices,

youll learn to employ our methodologies

to enhance your own skill set. Your research

and experiments will develop a critical

understanding of technical objects and the

way they are implicated in who we are today.

The programme will help you prepare for a

career in the cultural, creative, educational,

analytical, and computational sectors.

MA in Postcolonial Culture & Global Policy


www.gold.ac.uk/pg/

ma-postcolonial-culture-global-policy

Were witnessing a tectonic shift in global

geopolitics. The emergence of China, Brazil

and India as global players, the development

of global governance, the financial crisis,

climate change are all symptoms. This MA

will give you the analytical tools to understand

contemporary developments and world(s)

through an encounter with postcolonial

theory, activism, global policy and international

political economic issues. Youll deal with

issues like terrorism, microfinance, indigenous

people, gender and sexuality, multiculturalism

and environmental justice. The MA includes a

supervised and assessed practical placement,

and can range from NGOs in India or Africa,

arts organisations in China, indigenous

activists in Latin America, to London-based

publishers or financial organisations.

MPhil & PhD in Cultural Studies

3-4 years full-time or 4-6 years part-time

www.gold.ac.uk/pg/

mphil-phd-cultural-studies

The programme offers an interdisciplinary

approach to the study of culture. Well

introduce you to a variety of perspectives and

traditions, animated via a creative interface

between disciplines. Youll develop a

fundamental grounding in social and cultural

theory, cultural studies and cultural research,

as well as skills in ethnography, digital media,

textual and audio-visual analysis. You are

encouraged to deploy these methods to

articulate your appreciation of crucial debates

in the public domains of the media, the

culture industries, formal and informal

institutions, and in the wider contemporary

cultural scene. Youll be able to draw on

wide-ranging and interdisciplinary supervisory

teams and if your thesis is partly by other

media, specialist supervision will be provided.

Student insight

Emilie, MA in Interactive Media:

Critical Theory & Practice

On the MA in Interactive Media youmeet people who are very much in tune

with your own interests, creatingan invaluable peer-to-peer network.

I think on an MA course this is vital.


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Our research

The Centre for Cultural Studies is a postgraduateteaching and research centre with a small number of

academic staff, but a great deal of influential research.Our outcomes include technological art, novels,software, architecture/planning interventions, historicaland literary texts, contributions to zine cultures, blogsand online forms, and politically engaged books.

In the past year we have published books such

as Luciana Parisis Contagious Architecture,Matthew Fullers co-authored Evil Media, and

Scott Lashs co-authored China Constructing

Capitalism. Bernard Stiegler, one of the

worlds leading media philosophers with some

20 books to his credit, has been a part-time

professor at the CCS for half a decade.

Wang Hui, author of books at Harvard and

Verso, and a leading Chinese cultural and

political theorist, is joining us as a professor in2014. Julia Ng, who just completed a post-doc

at Harvard to join our staff, draws on archival

work in path-breaking articles on mathematics

and literature in the context of Walter

Benjamins encounter with Gershom Scholem

in journals like MLN (Modern Language Notes).

Cultural theory is a key focus of the CCS and,

like all our research, feeds directly into teaching.

The Centre is engaged in practice and

design-based research, for example in

the work of Graham Harwood, whose

politically infused conceptual and media

art is commissioned by Tate and collected

by Centre Pompidou amongst others, and

exemplifies art as a form of enquiry. We

develop research with computer scientists,

statisticians, architects, artists, global NGOs

and urban planners. We see research not just

as analysis but as making. We see it, at the

same time, as a political intervention in an

expanded mode of action research. We work

in the areas of postcolonial study, philosophy,

software studies, critical theory, subaltern

studies, new media, technology and creativity.

The CCS has a focused research specialism

in emerging global geo-politics as evidenced

by John Hutnyks research on diasporic

South Asian media forms, music and film,

Bhaskar Mukhopadhyays work on vernacular

globalisation and the invention of markets

in India, and Scott Lashs research on China.

We host the Digital Culture Unit, which bringstogether researchers at the Centre who have

a special expertise in digital culture in the

broadest sense. Here the focus of our research

is using empirical, inventive and speculative

methods to take part in and understand the

changes computing is making to all forms of

life. We have one of the highest concentrations

of internationally reputed scholars in the

digital culture field in the UK, making it ideal

for both Masters and Doctoral students aiming

to work in a research intensive environment.

At the CCS we have seen, in 10 years, some

40 PhDs to completion, and currently have a

community of over 100 students. Our funded

projects have been world-leading initiatives,

bringing substantial networks of scholars to

Goldsmiths, on borders, metadata, emerging

global economies, global culture industries,

software studies and vernacular globalisms.

To read more about our academics, please

go to www.gold.ac.uk/cultural-studies/staff


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Graduate insight

Dan, MA in Cultural Studies

The Centre offers an exciting andunique research space for interrogatingexisting forms of knowledge. Studentsare free to experiment with new ideas,

and exchanges can be lively, sharpand sinewy. I used my MA

research to develop material for

my forthcoming book witha political-philosophy

publisher.

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