This course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of current or newly emerging topics in media, culture and creative city. The course enables new subject or sub-specialist areas to be offered. It also facilitates innovative modes of teaching and learning. Subjects may inter alia, include:

Visual sociology and anthropology

Sensory cultures

Emotion and affect

Posthumanities and ethics

Biomedicine and biotechnology

New media, subjectivity and performativity

New thinkers in cultural studies

Risk, reflexivity and sustainable development

Critical pedagogy in media and culture

Body, place and flow – new directions in cultural studies

Private self and public sphere

Workshops in presenting and representing culture