Graduate Diploma in Arts in Cultural Studies

University of Canterbury

The Graduate Diploma in Arts offers those who hold a bachelor's degree in a major in an unrelated area the opportunity to study arts in-depth, choosing from over 30 subjects. The GradDipArts is designed for graduates seeking to qualify for entry to postgraduate qualifications in arts, to change career direction, or to extend or upgrade their existing qualifications. In Cultural Studies, you will analyse film, social media, graphic novels, art, fashion, sport, and everyday activities with the aim of understanding how complex our culture is and how it shapes our identity. Cultural Studies is a ‘virtual’ programme: our core courses are taught from within the Department of English, and other courses draw from the expertise of academics from more than a dozen departments across the faculty. This offers you considerable freedom and flexibility in your studies, while ensuring that our degrees have a robust foundation in Cultural Studies theories and methods. This subject, like culture, is highly flexible you can construct your own degree and choose to dive into what interests you the most. Study Involve: Combine wide-ranging topics like cinema studies, history, media and communication, English, sociology, and Maori and Indigenous studies. Explore a range of theories, worldviews, and cultural texts and debates. Adding a minor in Cultural Studies with another degree will expand your perspective on cultural politics, power and identity in your other studies.

Faculty of Arts