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Cultural Studies Ph.D. 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 the first Cultural Studies Ph.D. program in Canada, students will put their research and passion in the spotlight as they build a diverse ...

Faculty: Media, Culture & Communications  |  Duration: 4 years  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Intake: Fall  |  Location: Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

What you will study

After graduation, you will be ready to do the important work of contributing, through teaching and original research, to fields of inquiry pivotal to the development of our thinking, and our cultures, in the twenty-first century. Trent graduates go on to become teachers and researchers at universities and colleges in Canada and abroad, and to develop new forms of cultural inquiry and artistic i...

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Application information

Entry requirements

M.A. in Cultural Studies or a related discipline Minimum A- (80%) or equivalent overall in the Master's degree Aptitude for theoretical inquiry and excellent writing skills Original and innovative dissertation proposal

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

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

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