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Master
Comparative Cultural Analysis (Arts and Culture)
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Study programme

The programme in Comparative Cultural Analysis will allow you to familiarize with key concepts and methods in interdisciplinary cultural studies. You will learn how to critically analyze a wide variety of cultural phenomena, using concepts and approaches across the humanities and social sciences. In particular, the programme will allow you to engage extensively with contemporary critical theory and to benefit from the research expertise of your professors.

COURSES SEM 1 SEM 2 SEMESTER 1 SEMESTER 2 EC
  • Intercultural Dialogues 1
    6
  • Comparative and Cultural Analysis
    12
  • Intercultural Dialogues 2
    6
  • Master's Thesis Seminar Comparative Cultural Analysis
    6
  • Free-choice electives
    12
  • Master's Thesis
    18
  • Tutoring and Study Guidance
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  • Tutoring and Study Guidance
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UvA Course Catalogue: Comparative Cultural Analysis
  • Core courses

    Comparative and Cultural Analysis is a core methodological course that provides students with the knowledge and tools necessary for conducting cultural analysis, understood as the critical study of cultural objects while relating these objects to the present. Intercultural Dialogues is dedicated to the comparison, dialogue, translation, and communication between different cultural expressions and experiences – including the failures, breakdowns, misunderstandings, and blind spots that such interactions typically contain.  

  • Electives

    Students can chose electives across the Humanities and Social Sciences, provided they meet the entry requirements. We offer two electives ourselves: Sex/Race/Trans allows students to gain knowledge of queer, trans, and critical race scholarship. Narrative and Globalization focuses on various theories of (anti-)globalization, concepts related to (anti-)globalization and ways of analyzing how (anti-)globalization is narrated and visualized in different cultural imaginations (literature, film, television, new media) and discourses (political, economical, commercial, cultural, historical). In addition, students in Comparative Cultural Analysis may benefit from electives offered by the programme’s Cultural Analysis, Comparative Literature and Literary Studies.  

  • Internship

    Students can use (part of) their elective space for an internship. Typically, students in Comparative Cultural Analysis take internships in the cultural sector in Amsterdam and The Netherlands: from museums to galleries, from festivals to magazines, but also work for non-profit organizations dealing with environmental or socio-cultural issues, or for (digital) media organisations. Read more about student internships

  • Thesis

    The Master's thesis reports on research carried out by the student under the supervision of an academic staff member involved in the programme. Students are free to select their thesis topic and can indicate their preferred supervisor.

    The Master's programme Comparative Cultural Analysis comprises 60 ECTS credits: 42 credits for courses, and 18 credits for a thesis.

Credit transfer

Students who show exceptional promise during a regular or professional programme are encouraged to continue their studies in a research programme. Once students are admitted to the research programme, they can transfer credits earned during their previous course of study towards their Research Master's degree. The Examinations Board determines which courses qualify for transfer.

Comparative Cultural Analysis in part-time mode

The programme is also offered in part-time study mode at the UvA, in which case it takes 2 year(s). You can obtain a maximum of 30 ECTS per year (12-18 ECTS per semester). As a part-time student you will follow the programme together with full-time students. You will prepare your study plan for the part-time programme in consultation with this Master’s programme coordinator.