Master’s Degree Program "Gender. Culture. Society."

This MA program offers a comprehensive graduate education in the field of Gender and Cultural Studies. The program is intended to create truly interdisciplinary perspectives, to promote academic excellence, and to work for a dialogue between West and East European traditions of Gender Studies and Cultural Theory.

In the framework of this program, the students are offered to choose one of the two areas of concentration:

• Gender Studies: The MA program in Gender Studies was launched in 2000 by the EHU Center for Gender Studies and remains the only one in NIS offering a graduate degree in Gender and consistently working on “legitimizing” gender in post-Soviet academia and re-focusing issues of Western gender studies on the complex specificities of the post-socialist region. The program provides a platform for discussing the actual cultural and intellectual phenomena in relation to the burning issues of social and political life in Belarus (such as challenges of globalization, cultural politics, social and political inequality in Soviet and Post-Soviet societies, isolation from/integration with the West, sexual emancipation, relation between “private” and public, political and media representations of various social groups and their problems, the process of identity construction (gender/national/class), the issues of xenophobia and ideological repression in contemporary Belarusian politics, commodification and consumption in the ‘society of spectacle’).
  
  
• Cultural and Media Studies: The program provides theoretical and methodological background in the filed of contemporary visual and media culture, and practical skills in filmmaking (for producing TV and video projects) and Internet-based projects. The training of specialists who will possess critical thinking as well as practical skills and knowledge of the structure and management in the field of audiovisual media is of crucial importance for Belarusian media and cultural sphere in post-Lukashenko’s era.

 

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