MA in Identity, Culture and Power

The MA in Identity, Culture and Power provides an opportunity to study the political and cultural power of identity (defined in terms of nation, ethnicity, gender or sexuality) across a range of contexts and from a variety of perspectives. The degree adopts an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on politics, international relations, sociology, anthropology, literature, discourse, linguistics, film studies and history. The programme offers a range of methodology and research skills courses.

The MA opens up a range of opportunities and previous graduates from this programme have gone on to work in think-tanks, political parties, national, European and international private and public sector organisations and in media and non-governmental organisations as political analysts. Other graduates have progressed to further academic study.

Entry Requirements

The programme has the following entry requirements:

• At least an Upper Second Class Honours degree or equivalent.
• Non-native English speakers to achieve scores of at least 6.0 in each element of the ELTS test and 7.0 overall.

Please note that this programme is very popular and therefore completed applications will be considered in the order they arrive until the programme is full.

To make an application to this programme, please download application form.

Contact:
Admissions queries or questions can be emailed to: maadmissions@ssees.ucl.ac.uk

Curriculum

Candidates must take 180 credits in total. 120 credits of which are taken from taught courses. The taught courses comprise of a 30 credit compulsory theory and methods course and 90 credits from the list of elective core courses. In addition all students must undertake a free-standing dissertation worth 60 credits.

Compulsory Courses

• SEESGS40 Dissertation Preparation Programme (0 credits)
• SEESGX99 Dissertation (60 credits)
• SEESGS42 Theories of Social and Political Research (30 credits)

Students must then take at least 60 credits (maximum 90 credits) from the list below:

• SEESGE95 Literary and Cultural Theory (30 Credits)
• SEESGS34 Nation, Identity and Power in Central and Eastern Europe (15 credits)
• SEESGS33 Ethnopolitical Conflict in Central and Eastern Europe (15 credits)
• SEESGS32 Security, Identity, Polarity (30 credits)
• SEESGO25 History, Myth and Nation in South-Eastern Europe (30 credits)
• SEESGS60 Empires, Nationalism and Communism: States and Societies of Southeast Europe (15 credits)
• SEESGS36 Cultural Anthropology of South-Eastern Europe (15 credits)
• SEESGR24 Gender and Sexuality in Modern Russian Culture (15 credits)
• SEESGH13 The Soviet Cultural Experiment I, 1917-1945 (15 credits)
• SEESGH14 The Soviet Cultural Experiment II, 1945-1991 (15 credits)
• SEESGR62 Being Soviet: Typologies of Soviet Identity in Russian Cinema 1917-1956 (15 credits)
• SEESGE18 Culture, Politics and Everyday Life in Central and Eastern Europe from Stalin to the Present: All Quiet on the Eastern Front (15 credits)
• SEESGE09 Bakhtin and Others: Alterity, Identity and Dialogue (15 credits)
• SEESGS63 Understanding and Analysing Data (15 credits)
• SEESGS45 Advanced Qualitative Methods (15 credits)

• On approval of the Programme Co-ordinator up to 30 MA credits may be selected from another SSEES course (see below SSEES Course Outline Guide for details of other modules) or other MA modules taught in a UCL Department:
  • ANTHGS16: The Anthropology of Nationalism, Ethnicity and Race (UCL Anthropology)
  • ANTHGS18: Gender, Language, and Culture (UCL Anthropology)
  • ARCLG092: Archaeology and Ethnicity (UCL Archaeology)
  • BENVGPU4: Gender in Policy and Planning (Development Planning Unit)
  • EUROGG01: Gender, Society and Representation (UCL Gender Studies)
  • GERM4902: National Identity in Germany and Austria (UCL German)
  • HISTG077: Gender and Knowledge in History (UCL History)
  • PUBLG065: Governing Divided Societies (UCL Political Science)
  • PUBLG068: Gender and Politics (UCL Political Science)

• On approval of the Programme Co-ordinator, students may also select one language course (30 credits) from the SSEES suite of MA courses

UCL SSEES is committed to providing our students with stimulating, high quality, research-led courses, however please be aware that we are not always able to guarantee that all courses will be available every year.

If you have queries about the programme or its courses please contact the Programmes Administrator for further information.

SSEES MA Course Outline Guide 2012-13

Scheme of Award for Students commencing the MA in Identity, Culture and Power Programme in September 2012

This page last modified Friday 17 August 2012.