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- 1. Master of Arts in Cultural Studies Information Session www.uwb.edu/culturalstudies
- 2. Master of Arts in Cultural Studies Educational Approach Cultural Studies An interdisciplinary field of scholar-practitioners engaged in a reflexive, interactive study of culture. Master of Arts in Cultural Studies emphasizes – Interdisciplinary study linking theory and practice – Community and project-based work – Multiple forms of documentation and project development – An Interdisciplinary approach - faculty in the arts, humanities, social and natural sciences – Liberal arts skills: research, critical thinking, communication 2
- 3. Master of Arts in Cultural Studies Course Sequence Autumn Winter Spring Year one BCULST 500 (10 cr.) BCULST 501 (5 cr.) BCULST 502 (5 cr.) Formations of Cultural Cultural Studies Cultural Studies as Studies Research Practices Collaboration Cultural Studies Cultural Studies Elective (5 credits) Elective (5 credits) Year two BCULST 510 (5 cr.) BCULST 511 (5 cr.) BCULST 512 (10 cr.) Capstone Design and Capstone Research Capstone Portfolio Seminar and Portfolio Seminar Presentation and Portfolio Seminar Cultural Studies Cultural Studies Elective (5 credits) Elective (5 credits) 60 credits of course work and related degree requirements: • 40 credits – Required core curriculum 3 • 20 credits – Cultural Studies electives
- 4. Master of Arts in Cultural Studies Research Areas Areas of focus: Examples of Recent Student Research: • Avant-garde Literature • Inequality • Performance-based research on intimacy among adults with • Class Issues • New Social Movements intellectual disabilities • Communication • Performance in Music • Participatory action research • Conflicts/Tensions • Performance in Theater developed with Gay-Straight Alliances • Cultural Anthropology • Post-Colonial Studies in regional high schools • Culture and Power • Queer Issues • Collaborative research on the role of • Current Politics • Race arts in civic engagement in Brazil • Environmental Theory • Sexual Theories • Ethnographic research about homelessness and homelessness • Ethnicity • Social Justice activism in the Seattle region • Film Studies • Social Power • Dramatic production: "Nietzsche! The • Gender Studies • Subjectivity Musical (Antichrist, Superstar)" • Globalization • Women Studies • Auto-ethnographic research on sex • Identity and Representation work and sex workers in the academy • Textual and ethnographic research on youth, activism, and media literacy 4
- 5. Master of Arts in Cultural Studies Career Development Cultural practice careers in Examples of Arts and Cultural Organizations social, cultural, and arts organizations •826 Seattle •911 Media Arts • Community development •Cultural Studies Association U.S. •Cultural, Communication, and Media Studies, • Program-building UKZN • Community-based arts •Curriculum for the Bioregion •Imagining America • Grant writing •Northshore Family Center • Research •Northshore YMCA •Panama Hotel • Advanced degree opportunities •Pat Graney Company •Placing the Humanities •Powerful Voices Cultural Studies Career •Richard Hugo House •Safe Schools Coalition Development Support •SCAN TV • Community-based learning •Seattle City Club •Tent City • Community Relations Manager •The September Project •Tulalip Tribes Cultural Resources • Career workshops and events •Wing Luke Asian Museum • Job and internship listings • Portfolio 5
- 6. Master of Arts in Cultural Studies Core Faculty • Bruce Burgett: Director and Professor • American Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender and Queer Studies, Critical Race Studies, Public Culture • Ben Gardner: Assistant Professor • Global, Cultural and Environmental Politics, Africa, Development, Cultural Geography • Susan Harewood: Assistant Professor • Communication Studies, Caribbean Studies, Cultural Studies • Jeanne Heuving: Professor • Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cross Genre Writing • Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren: Associate Professor • Performance Studies, Disability Studies, Cross-Cultural Performance, Creativity • Ron Krabill: Associate Professor • Social Movements, Media, Postcolonial Studies, Southern Africa • Kari Lerum: Associate Professor • Adjunct Professor (Women Studies, UWS) • Gender, Sexuality, Organizations, Culture, Visual Studies • Julie Shayne: Lecturer • Feminism and Revolution in Latin America, Social Movements and Culture, Political Exile, Diaspora, and Critical Development Studies • Eric Stewart: Assistant Professor • Community Psychology, Prevention and Promotion, Theories of Change, Queers, Cultural History of HIV/AIDS, Research Methods (Affiliate faculty listed on the program web site). 6
- 7. Master of Arts in Cultural Studies Application Materials • An application to the Graduate School and $75 application fee • A letter of application • A current resume or curriculum vitae • 3 letters of reference (including one academic) • Writing sample • All official transcripts from prior academic work. • [Optional] 1 - 2 items representative of your best work. Items may include an additional writing sample, your media or creative work, products of your research activities, documentation of community- based or activist projects in which you have played a central role, or any other materials that you consider relevant to your 7 application.
- 8. Master of Arts in Cultural Studies Summary of Benefits • Interdisciplinary Master of • Twice a week evening Arts degree emphasizes classes offer scheduling academic skills and flexibility for working collaboration, and practical professionals application • Cohort model builds a • Low student-faculty ratio resource network • Graduate Computer Lab • 2004 Excellence in and study area Academic Libraries Award- winner, UW library with dedicated librarian 8
- 9. Thank You! How did you hear of us? Faculty referral Friend/family referral Grad school/professional fair Internet search Newspaper or magazine ad Promotional email/flyer/letter Radio ad Social networking (i.e. Facebook, etc.) UW event (lecture, career event, etc.) UW in-class presentation Work/colleague referral Call us at 425-352-3406 Or email us at macs@uwb.edu www.uwb.edu/culturalstudies 9
Editor's Notes
- Welcome to our online information session! My name is Jeremy, and I'll be giving you detailed information about the Master of Arts in Cultural Studies program at the University of Washington Bothell. I’m going to be covering numerous aspects of the program, including the educational approach, the course sequence, research areas, the program portfolio, career development, the faculty, and application requirements. This presentation will give you an overview of the program and help you gather the information you need. During the session, click the buttons at the bottom of the screen to move backwards and forwards. Let’s get started…
- One of the questions we hear most frequently is, "What is Cultural Studies?” There is plenty of debate about this question even among our own students and faculty, not to mention scholars around the world, but one basic definition is that Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary field of scholar-practitioners who are engaged in a reflexive, interactive study of culture. Keeping this definition in mind, the program trains you to be a scholar and a practitioner, not just one or the other. You’ll be exposed to Cultural Studies literature as it has developed nationally and around the world over the last few decades, and you’ll engage and interact with cultural workers in the region and develop skills that you can apply in cultural organizations. Our program is interdisciplinary, which means that our faculty have academic interests and expertise in a wide variety of fields, ranging from the natural sciences to social science to the humanities to the arts. They collaborate with each other with the assumption that reaching across traditional disciplinary boundaries leads to discovery and the production of knowledge. The curriculum they have developed draws from this richness of disciplines and actively engages multiple perspectives. I encourage you to take a look at the Starting Points web page to get a sense of how Cultural Studies is represented in our program.
- The Cultural Studies program is designed to take roughly 18 months to complete. Students begin the program in Autumn Quarter, and they are expected to register for 10 credits per quarter starting in Autumn of Year One and ending in Spring of Year Two. You will notice that courses are not scheduled during Summer Quarter of Year One. However, some students use this time to conduct independent research or to participate in an internship or a study abroad program.All of our core classes and almost all of our electives are scheduled in the evening, from 5:45 – 10:00 pm. Your schedule will most likely require that you attend class two evenings per week. Beyond the time you spend in class, you can expect to put in about 10 to 20 hours a week outside of class working on research, collaborative projects, and writing. In the first year, you will start to frame your understanding of Cultural Studies, with an emphasis on exploring research methods and forms of community engagement. You will also begin constructing a portfolio that serves as an integral part of your learning process and an archive of your academic work.In the second year, you will continue to build your portfolio by developing a capstone research project. This project gives you an opportunity to pursue a specific topic within cultural studies and hone your skills in ethnographic, textual, or performance-based research.In both years you will benefit from individual faculty advising. Your Portfolio Advisor will guide you in your academic work throughout the two years, and the Capstone Advisor will guide your Capstone research in the second year.The program offers a number of electives in Cultural Studies, and you’re required to take at least 10 credits, or two classes) from these courses. With faculty approval you can take classes in other departments, including the UW Seattle campus, to fulfill the other 10 credits of electives. Your Portfolio Advisor can assist you in making these decisions.
- Here’s a list of some of the general themes that make up the “landscape” of Cultural Studies: Avant-garde Literature, Class Issues, Communication, Conflicts/Tensions, Cultural Anthropology, Culture and Power, Current Politics, Environmental Theory, Ethnicity, Film Studies, Gender Studies, Globalization, Identity and Representation, Inequality, New Social Movements, Performance in Music, Performance in Theater, Post-Colonial Studies, Queer Issues, Race, Sexual Theories, Social Justice, Social Power, Subjectivity, Women Studies, and much more. Some recent examples of student research include Performance-based research on intimacy among adults with intellectual disabilities, Participatory action research developed with Gay-Straight Alliances in regional high schools, Collaborative research on the role of arts in civic engagement in Brazil, Ethnographic research about homelessness and homelessness activism in the Seattle region, and a dramatic production of "Nietzsche! The Musical (Antichrist, Superstar)"These examples are designed to demonstrate possible research projects that align with the areas of research among the faculty.
- Cultural Studies students develop the range of skills needed to succeed professionally within arts and cultural institutions, advocacy groups, non-profit organizations, and with freelance and cross-sectoral projects. The program also positions you for further graduate education across the arts, humanities, and social and natural sciences, if you are considering graduate education at the doctoral level.Some of the specific career pathways in which our alumni are engaging include community development, program-building, community-based arts, filmmaking, radio, and academic research.Our program has a number of professional development support structures in place. The curriculum itself integrates community-based learning into the actual coursework. In the context of one of your classes, you might visit a regional organization (such as the ones listed here) or engage in dialogue with a cultural worker. Our Community Relations Manager can help you arrange an internship that results in academic credit that counts toward your degree. Throughout the year we host career workshops and events, and we publish job and internship listings in Coordinates, our monthly newsletter. Finally, the portfolio itself can serve as a valuable professional development tool because it showcases the work you do during your course of study.
- The Cultural Studies faculty started laying the groundwork for this program a number of years ago through a consortium called Cultural Studies Praxis Collective. The first student cohort enrolled in the program in Autumn Quarter of 2008 and graduated in Spring of 2010. The faculty members have academic interests and expertise in a wide variety of fields, ranging from the natural sciences to social science to the humanities to the arts. We encourage you to read their individual biographies on our web site to get a sense of what kind of work they are doing. You can also contact a professor if you would like to ask questions or initiate a dialogue about possible directions within Cultural Studies.
- The application process for Cultural Studies is fairly straightforward. Start by creating a New Applicant Profile on the UW Graduate School web site. Then, fill in the form and upload the following documents: a letter of application, a resume, and a writing sample. Type in the names and emails of three recommenders, at least one of whom should be an academic source. These recommenders will be notified that you’re applying to the Cultural Studies program, and they’ll be directed to a web page where they can upload or type their letter of recommendation. Then, make sure you order official copies of academic transcripts from any college or university you attended, even ones where you didn’t complete a degree. Finally, consider sending one to two additional items representing your best work. These items are optional but might give you the opportunity to “round out” your application with work that is not represented in the other materials. Past applicants have submitted things like additional writing samples, photography, video, audio, and three-dimensional artwork.You can save your application multiple times while you’re working on it before you officially submit it to us and pay the $75 application fee.The application deadline is February 1st of each year, and we only admit students in Autumn Quarter.Before you begin the program, you must have completed a bachelor’s degree, and your GPA from the last 90 credits of undergraduate work must be above 3.0.Contact the Program Manager at any point if you have questions about the application process.
- To summarize some of the main benefits of the master’s degree in Cultural Studies:The degree is an interdisciplinary Master of Arts degree that emphasizes academic skills, community engagement, and research.We have a low student-faculty ratio.The UW Bothell library is part of the University of Washington tri-campus library system, so you have access to the same journals, books, and datasets as all other UW students. Also, a dedicated Cultural Studies librarian is available to support your research projects.Classes are scheduled just twice a week in the evening, offering flexibility for students working during the day.The cohort model is essentially a learning community, where you and your classmates work together, network, and learn to use another as resources.
- Thanks for viewing our online information session. I hope you found it useful. If you have any follow-up questions, please contact the Program Manager by phone or email. If you’re in the Puget Sound area, you might consider signing up for an in-person information session because it will give you a chance to hear directly from the Program Manager and a current student, and you can ask questions to get clarification.We hope to see you in the program soon!