• This interdisciplinary program will allow students to benefit from the expertise of both the School of Sociology and Social Policy and the School of Media and Communication, enabling students to gain an in-depth understanding of critical issues, debates, and theoretical perspectives, and to critically analyze the relationship between culture, media, and society.
  • Taught by leading researchers in the field, this program covers key issues and concepts such as media and social media; consumption; audiences; representation; globalization; migration and place; tourism; inequality; creative work and material culture.
  • Through its grounding in sociological approaches to the study of culture and media, a concern with questions of power, inequality, and identity will be threaded through the course, enabling students to think critically about the relationship between gender, class, race, and ethnicity, and the cultural realm.