Cultural Studies The University of the West Indies

Overview

The Cultural Studies program offered by The University of the West Indies aims to promote the discipline at UWI as an important area of study and research and, by so doing, to stimulate academic discourse and promote understanding of Caribbean culture and identity.

Graduates with M.A. in Cultural Studies from The University of the West Indies will be able to:

• engage with and explore the concept of Cultural Studies in a Caribbean context.

• study and document the historical range and diversity of Caribbean peoples and their cultures.

• examine the many facets of Caribbean cultural expression in an interdisciplinary context and from a variety of theoretical perspectives

• explore the relationships between Caribbean culture and the social and political developments of the region

• analyse the uses and abuses of the Caribbean's cultural heritage in the economic development of the region and its people.•

• critique the formation and existence of gender hierarchies in the Caribbean and the normalising effects of culture.