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Cultural Studies M.A. at Trent University

Trent University, Canada

Programme overview

Trent’s Cultural Studies graduate programs emphasize research and research creation. Students immerse themselves in a thriving local arts community as they pursue discussions surrounding culture and technology, environmental communication, gender and the body, science as knowledge, discourse, and narrative, social and political theory, and media theory. In Cultural Studies at Trent, you will explore the very foundations of the systems of belief that will determine our future. This program off...

Faculty: Media, Culture & Communications  |  Duration: Thesis stream: 24 months  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Intake: Fall  |  Location: Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

What you will study

Students in the M.A. program can choose between a one-year option with a major research paper, or a two-year thesis option. The program invites proposals for academic projects, as well as for projects invested in research creation, in which your artistic production plays a major role.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Honours degree (a four year undergraduate bachelor's degree) Minimum B+ (77%) or equivalent in the last two years of full-time study, or last ten full academic credits Demonstrated aptitude for interdisciplinary study

Graduate applications are submitted through OUAC; the non-refundable application fee is $125 CDN for research programs and $140 CDN for professional programs, payable to OUAC.

Apply through the official page: https://www.trentu.ca/futurestudents/admissions

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