The MA Comparative Aesthetics and the Arts gives you an excellent entry into the multidisciplinary 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. The course has been designed, with the help of academics and professionals in the arts, humanities and social sciences, to enable you to deal with a broad range of aesthetic concepts and models across different disciplines at postgraduate level. During your studies, you will learn to integrate aesthetic theory from different disciplines with your own interests and with practice-led concerns. The course culminates in your own research project, about which you will complete a minor dissertation under the supervision of an international expert in the relevant area of aesthetics.

In the contemporary globalised world, professions in the arts and culture require not only specific theoretical and practical skills but also 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. Moreoever, this course aims at the integration of theory and practice. Graduates will have been trained in transferable analytical and critical skills in writing, debate and oral presentation and will have completed a substantial independent research project to international professional standards.