FURTHER STUDIES
M.A. and Ph.D. in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario
Cultural Studies at Queens (CSQ) is a unique graduate program that integrates the range of theoretical and practical approaches used within Cultural Studies, and that fosters scholarship in both historical and contemporary fields of research. Its researchers theorize the forces that shape the lived reality of people in the 21st century. Drawing on a range of practices, Cultural Studies researchers investigate values, beliefs and belongings, cultural processes and cultural objects, economic and social relations, institutions and identities.
Comprising 61 distinguished faculty from 20 disciplines to offer an innovative program at the M.A. and Ph.D. levels that includes opportunities for cultural production and community-activist fieldwork, Cultural Studies at Queen’s is committed to a diversity of students and faculty and to the global expertise that they bring to the cultural and academic fields.
Our goal is to create an intellectual environment that combines a high level of academic scholarship and an ongoing meaningful engagement with cultural issues relevant to local and global communities. To this end, we have options in our degree programs that allow students to become involved in various kinds of community organizations, to participate collaboratively with cultural producers, or to pursue community-based projects that have clear ties to the field areas of the program.
The M.A. offers both a thesis option and a course-based (with practicum or research paper) option. The Ph.D. has been designed around four field areas: Communication, Media and Technologies; Globalization, Nationalisms and Cultural Citizenship; Social Movements; and Bodies and Identities. Both the M.A. and Ph.D. programs also offer students the option of pursuing a practicum component. The practicum allows those who choose to do so to develop their cultural practice (e.g. filmmaking, curation, performance) or to engage in community work as part of their studies. Graduates will be prepared to continue in academic work or to work as critically engaged citizens in a variety of cultural environments.
The progam will begin (both M.A. and Ph.D.) in the Fall of 2009.
Application deadline: February 15, 2009.
Full program info can be found at:
http://www.queensu.ca/sgsr/Currentstudents/culturalstudies.html
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Trent University, MA Program in Theory, Culture and Politics
For Students interested in the critical study of culture and politics, our MA Program offers an opportunity to engage the most challenging issues and theoretical approaches current today in the humanities and social sciences. Our faculty is drawn mainly from cultural studies, philosophy, literature, environmental studies, social and political thought, communication and gender studies. Areas of interest include
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Textuality, semiotics and discourse• Nature, culture and technology
• Gender, body and psyche
• Science as knowledge and discourse
• Social and political theory
Applications for September 2009 will be accepted until February 1, 2009.
For further information on Trent’s Centre for the Study of Theory, Culture and Politics, please see our web page:
Telephone: 705-748-1809
FAX: 705-748-1829
Email: theory@trentu.ca
