12 monthsProgramme duration
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Sociology
Degree
MScr
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
This programme enables you to study cultural phenomena, practices and texts at an advanced level. You will critically engage with theories and methodologies of transdisciplinary cultural research.
Research topics
The programme supports a range of research topics in visual and urban cultural studies, with a particular interest in:
- place and memory
- spatial violence and urban disintegration
- post-socialist cities of Eastern Europe
- visual and semiotic landscapes
- materiality and spatiality of writing (graffiti, memorials and signage)
- book space and architectures of reading
- photography and visual knowledges
- image-text-theory
- forms of writing and experimental publishing
- curatorial practices and multimodality in representation of research
Programme overview
Main Subject
Sociology
Degree
MScr
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
This programme enables you to study cultural phenomena, practices and texts at an advanced level. You will critically engage with theories and methodologies of transdisciplinary cultural research.
Research topics
The programme supports a range of research topics in visual and urban cultural studies, with a particular interest in:
- place and memory
- spatial violence and urban disintegration
- post-socialist cities of Eastern Europe
- visual and semiotic landscapes
- materiality and spatiality of writing (graffiti, memorials and signage)
- book space and architectures of reading
- photography and visual knowledges
- image-text-theory
- forms of writing and experimental publishing
- curatorial practices and multimodality in representation of research
Admission Requirements
Entry requirements for individual programmes vary, so please check the details for the specific programme you wish to apply for on the University of Edinburgh website. You will also need to meet the University’s language requirements.
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