Education

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Our (future) students can find the official study programme and other useful info here.

You can find information about admission requirements, further studies and more practical info such as ECTS sheets, or a weekly timetable of the current academic year.

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Be sure to first take a look at the page about the Master of Cultural Studies.

There you can find more info on:

- What’s the programme about?

- Starting profile

- Admission and application

- Future possibilities

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Objectives

Discipline-specific competences

1. The Master in Cultural Studies has a broad knowledge of contemporary issues within cultural theory.
2. The Master in Cultural Studies can analyze contemporary cultural objects and/or phenomena from an interdisciplinary point of view.
3. The Master in Cultural Studies has a thorough understanding of national and international cultural policies, and their impact on specific creative practices.
4. The Master in Cultural Studies has a broad knowledge of contemporary culture, including high and low culture and digital culture.
5. The Master's in Cultural Studies can combine insights, theories and methods from different scholarly fields in an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary approach.
6. The Master in Cultural Studies has insight into the functioning of a specific cultural practice.

Research skills

7. The Master in Cultural Studies can process scientific literature in Dutch and English independently, critically analyze it and take a stand on it.
8. The Master in Cultural Studies is able to independently define a research object from an interdisciplinary, broad-cultural perspective.
9. The Master in Cultural Studies is able, as a starting researcher, under the supervision of a supervisor, to conceive, plan and carry out research.
10. The Master in Cultural Studies is able to independently formulate a research question and find relevant literature about it.
11. The Master in Cultural Studies is able to use various methods, both qualitatively and quantitatively, in the analysis of a cultural object or phenomenon.
12. The Master in Cultural Studies can report in group on the progress of his/her own research and is able to reflect critically on his/her research with peers.
13. The Master of Cultural Studies is able to independently develop its own scientific research into a written result of reasonable size (approx. 160,000 characters), in a well-structured, correctly formulated and scientifically sound manner.
14. The student subscribes to the deontological and ethical principles of scientific research and applies them in his or her own research.

General competencies

15. The Master's degree in Cultural Studies is able to express its own views in a nuanced way and to enter into a debate on this subject.
16. The Master in Cultural Studies is able to report on scientific research both orally and in writing, in Dutch and in English.
17. The Master's in Cultural Studies can easily collaborate with people from different cultures and backgrounds.

Professional competencies

18. The Master's in Cultural Studies is able to integrate in a variety of professional contexts and is accustomed to working in a team.
19. The Master in Cultural Studies can independently conceive, plan and implement a project within the legal framework of cultural policy.
20. The Master's in Cultural Studies is able to easily establish contacts with key figures within certain cultural domains.
21. The Master in Cultural Studies masters the common discourse of certain cultural disciplines and is able to provide both ideas and text material within this discourse.
22. The Master in Cultural Studies can easily report on contemporary culture for a broad audience, both verbally and in writing, in various media.
23. The Master in Cultural Studies can use his/her digital competences in a cultural organization.

Educational quality of the study programme

Here you can find an overview of the results of the COBRA internal quality assurance method.

Educational quality at study programme level

Blueprint
Blauwdruk_MA_Cultural Studies.pdf

COBRA 2019-2023
COBRA-fiche_MA_Cultural Studies.pdf

Educational quality at university level

• Consult the documents on educational quality available at university level.

More information?

• More information on the educational quality at KU Leuven
• More information on the available documents