Overview

With Athabasca University’s Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies - Cultural Studies, you will learn to think holistically, critically and reflectively. You will find the connections and points of overlap between specialized and generalized knowledge. You will also learn problem-solving skills and policy-making strategies.

Learning outcomes

Cultural Studies is the exploration of the links between the arts and other human activities in complex societies. It includes both high art and popular culture, both ancient texts and new hypertexts.

Cultural Studies is interdisciplinary in its methodologies and in its goals of finding integrated and contextualized views of human cultural activities. It is centrally concerned with issues of identity and power, particularly relating to gender, ethnicity, class and other sites of contestation. Cultural Studies courses will be of interest to all those wishing to understand the myriad ways in which cultural texts and practices construct and reproduce representations of ourselves and our societies. Your program will finish with a final integrated project or capstone paper that will exercise and explore your newly acquired skills and knowledge.

You can choose to complete this project in a grouped study capstone course, or through an individual study project that will allow you to:

explore a question or issue that’s important to you

relate your research to a work or life situation

address a community problem

Programme Structure

Courses include:

The Business of Emotions

Creative Writing

Industrial Heritage

Global Education

Self-Directed Behaviour

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 24 months
Part-time
- 72 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2024-09-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2024-03-01 00:00:00
Starting 2025-01-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2024-09-01 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

33 alternative credits

Delivered

Online

Disciplines

Area & Cultural Studies Liberal Arts View 4 other Masters in Area & Cultural Studies in Canada

Academic requirements

GPA

English requirements

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Other requirements

General requirements

To apply for an Athabasca University graduate program you must have an undergraduate degree. Doctorate programs require a master’s degree to qualify for admission.
Requirements for graduate programs vary and are listed on each program’s website. You can take some graduate courses without being admitted to the full program if you meet the non-program student requirements for said program. Requirements for graduate programs are listed on each program’s website.

Tuition Fee

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International

2100 CAD/module

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 2100 CAD per module during 24 months.
National

1868 CAD/module

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 1868 CAD per module during 24 months.

Funding

Studyportals Student Grant Deadline: 30 June 2020

Apply and be among one of the 20 students to win €1000.

Studyportals Student Grant Deadline: 30 June 2020

Apply and be among one of the 20 students to win €1000.

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Scholarships Information

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Available Scholarships

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