The Postgraduate Diploma of Comparative Aesthetics and the Arts gives you an excellent entry into the multi-disciplinary field of aesthetics across different cultural contexts east and west. It advances your career prospects in a broad range of professions related to culture and the arts. You will develop your analytical and professional skills and get together with likeminded students of different related backgrounds. Upon successful completion, you have the opportunity to transfer into the MA Comparative Aesthetics if you wish. The course has been designed, with the help of academics and professionals in the arts, humanities and social sciences, to familiarise you with a broad range of aesthetic concepts and models across a range of different disciplines at postgraduate level. It offers you an alternative award for successful completion of the coursework only for the MA in Comparative Aesthetics and the Arts without requiring submission of the minor thesis.

In the contemporary globalised world, professions in the arts and culture require not only specific theoretical and practical skills but also some familiarity with and sensitivity to cultural contexts and differences. Successful graduates of this course can be expected to be able to demonstrate this combination in interdisciplinary and multicultural settings and will therefore stand out against graduates who cannot. Moreover, this course aims at the integration of theory and practice, both academic and practice-based. Graduates will have been trained in transferable analytical and critical skills in writing, debate and oral presentation.