General information
| Study programme title | Master’s degree (M.A.) programme in Cultural Studies (Single Honours) |
| Type of study programme | University |
| Duration | 2 years (4 semesters) |
| ECTS | 120 |
| Academic qualification | Master of Arts in Cultural Studies (univ. mag. cult.) |
| Title and qualification code in the C.Q.F. Register | – |
| Study completion requirements | Passing all the exams and successfully completing the master’s thesis |
| Possibilities of continuing education | After finishing the M.A. in Cultural Studies, students can enrol on an appropriate doctoral programme. |
| Employment possibilities | Upon completing their studies, students will have acquired competences for employment in auxiliary jobs in cultural management (theatres, museums, libraries, educational institutions, festival administrations), jobs in publishing and media (TV, film, e-publishing, journalism, editorial work, strategic planning), work in cultural and congress tourism, spokesperson and protocol work, in state and local government bodies, international bodies and organizations, in the non-governmental sector, in private and public foundations, market research. |
Course list
| Note: The exact list of elective courses offered and their distribution by semester will be determined at the beginning of each academic year in the syllabus. | |||
| Year 1 | |||
| Semester I | Semester II | ||
| Core courses | Elective courses | ||
| – | – | Preparatory work for the Master’s Thesis | 5 ECTS |
| Elective courses | Elective courses | ||
| Omnibus: Cultural Studies in Southeast Europe | 5 ECTS | Language and Identity | 5 ECTS |
| Omnibus: Engagement in Cultural Studies | 5 ECTS | Socialist Culture | 5 ECTS |
| Introduction to Southeast European History and Society | 5 ECTS | Film in Southeast Europe | 5 ECTS |
| Ethnographic Research in Southeast Europe | 5 ECTS | Globalisation phenomena | 5 ECTS |
| Critique, Emancipation, Utopia | 5 ECTS | Contemporary French Theory | 5 ECTS |
| Theories of Ideology | 5 ECTS | Sociodrama as an Active Social Change | 5 ECTS |
| Popular Culture | 5 ECTS | Contemporary Cultural Anthropology | 5 ECTS |
| Classical sociological theory | 5 ECTS | Organizations as Complex Systems | 5 ECTS |
| Selected Themes in Cultural Studies 1 | 5 ECTS | Cultural History of Film | 5 ECTS |
| Gender, Sexuality, Identities – From Oppression to Equality | 3 ECTS | Psychoanalysis and Culture | 5 ECTS |
| Work Experience 1 | 3 ECTS | Feminism and Socialism: The Context of ex-Yugoslavia | 5 ECTS |
| Students are required to choose elective courses (30 ECTS) from the courses offered by the Department of Cultural Studies | Programming for the Humanities | 5 ECTS | |
| Selected Themes in Cultural Studies 2 | 5 ECTS | ||
| Work Experience 2 | 3 ECTS | ||
| Students are required to choose elective courses (25 ECTS) from the courses offered by the Department of Cultural Studies | |||
| Year 2 | |||
| Semester III | Semester IV | ||
| Core courses | Core courses | ||
| Individual supervision and Preparation for the Master’s Thesis | 5 ECTS | Master’s Thesis | 5 ECTS |
| Elective courses | Elective Courses | ||
| Digital Humanities: Memoryscapes | 5 ECTS | The Balkans in the Mirror of the West | 5 ECTS |
| Theories and Practices of Everyday Life | 5 ECTS | Actants: From the Balkans to the EU | 5 ECTS |
| Claudio Magris and the Poetics of Borders | 5 ECTS | Multimodal communication | 5 ECTS |
| Engaged Anthropology | 5 ECTS | From Utopia to Dystopia | 5 ECTS |
| Avant-gardes: Art and Politics | 5 ECTS | Feminism and the Body | 5 ECTS |
| Political Economy of Music | 5 ECTS | Politics of Visuality: Activism, Spectator and Revolution | 5 ECTS |
| Cultural Heritage and Politics | 5 ECTS | Feminist Epistemologies | 5 ECTS |
| Digital Humanities: Data Retrieval and the Organization of Cultural Knowledge Databases | 5 ECTS | Nations and Nationalism | 5 ECTS |
| Social Spaces | 5 ECTS | Reading, Critical Thinking, Action | 5 ECTS |
| Artificial Intelligence and Communication in Culture | 5 ECTS | Endangered Languages | 5 ECTS |
| Academic Writing and Study skills | 3 ECTS | Multilingualism | 5 ECTS |
| Selected Themes in Cultural Studies 3 | 5 ECTS | Resource Management in Culture | 5 ECTS |
| Digital Linguistics: Tools and Methods | 5 ECTS | Selected Themes in Cultural Studies 4 | 5 ECTS |
| Audio Management | 3 ECTS | War, Cultural Memory, and Society | 2 ECTS |
| Work Experience 3 | 3 ECTS | Semiotics of Conflict | 3 ECTS |
| Work Experience 4 | 3 ECTS | ||
| Other Elective Courses (Communis/External) | |
| Work Experience: Development of modern communication technologies in commercial applications and industry Note: the course is offered at both study levels (undergraduate and graduate) | 4 ECTS |
| In semester III, a student can exchange 5 ECTS credits from the elective course category with extracurricular activities. These activities are determined in a special regulation by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. | Students are required to choose elective courses (25 ECTS) from the courses offered by the Department of Cultural Studies |
| In the semester III, students can choose: 25 ECTS elective courses offered by the Department of Cultural Studies, or 5 ECTS from extracurricular activities + 20 ECTS elective courses offered by the Department of Cultural Studies. |
Learning outcomes
Core learning outcomes
| Collective learning outcomes | Individual learning outcomes |
|---|---|
| SOUTHEAST EUROPE RESEARCH METHODS | 1. Describe and define different ethnographic case studies that focus on Southeast Europe. 2. Analyse the socio-political situation in Southeast Europe using theories of identity. 3. Explain the place and history of feminist thought in Southeast Europe. 4. Relate databanks, modelling and their use when researching Southeast Europe. 5. Produce empirical studies using the tools and methods of digital humanities (the preparation and processing of data, critical analysis). 6. Differentiate and understand ideological-hegemonic practices in everyday life. 7. Analyse the social conditions of how cinematic culture has developed in Southeast Europe. 8. Interpret, describe, analyse, and critically evaluate cultural, economic, and political processes in Yugoslavian socialism. 9. Identify and analyse semiotic mechanisms that elicit conflict. 10. Present arguments about the development of cinematic styles with regards to regional cultural features. |
| ENGAGEMENT IN CULTURAL STUDIES | 1. Systematise and analyse the scope of the online origins in activist and engaged models of visual theory. 2. Outline the main themes of classical sociological theories and their applicability in the analysis of contemporary society. 3. Differentiate between decentralised and centralised media 4. Explain problems using contemporary critiques of mass media. 5. Define the terms critique, emancipation, utopian vision through the prism of engagement. 6. Elaborate on the phrase “crisis of democracy”. 7. Identify and compare the relation between world centres of power, the global circulation of capital, and precarious work conditions. 8. Analyse the foundational terms of the function of music in society. 9. Critically evaluate the role of music in society. 10. Analyse multimodal communication in the formation of identities, institutions, cultural models. 11. Recognise social phenomena of social inequality, discrimination, violence based on sexual orientation and/or gender identity and expression. |
| ACADEMIC AND GENERIC SKILLS | 1. Search, process, analyse and present information from different sources. 2. Use relevant primary and secondary literature in an appropriate manner in academia (academic honesty). 3. Apply relevant technologies in the teaching process. 4. Independently write different types of texts. |
| SHARED LEARNING OUTCOMES | 1. Appreciation of cultural diversity. 2. Knowledge of interdisciplinary research approaches of anthropology, digital humanities, sociology, gender studies, film and visual studies, 3. Formulate critical and self-critical insights grounded in cultural theory. 4. Analyse attitudes based on scientific research and literature study. 5. Collect and collate information and distinguish between different types of sources. 6. Interpret, describe, analyse, and critically assess cultural, economic, and political processes. 7. Produce scientific work. |