Groningen, Netherlands
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
Request application deadline
EARLIEST START DATE
01 Sep 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 18,700 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
Are you curious, eager to learn and ready to shape the role of the arts and the media in society and culture? Then you are the right person for this Research Master!
The two-year Master's track in Arts, Media and Literary Studies is a specialization within the Research Master's degree in Arts and Culture.
Arts, Media and Literary Studies equips students with knowledge and skills to become researchers and experts on the role that the arts, literature and media play in society, now and in the past. The programme offers a rich multi- and interdisciplinary framework within which students can specialize in one of the following disciplines or combinations of disciplines, under close supervision of a highly qualified research faculty:
- arts and culture education,
- cognitive studies of arts, media and culture,
- cultural studies,
- digital humanities,
- film studies,
- history of art, architecture and landscape,
- literary studies
- media and journalism studies,
- music studies,
- theatre and performance studies.
Why study this programme in Groningen?
- Innovative research perspectives and methods to analyse the changing forms and roles of the arts, media and literature in our globalizing world
- Solid disciplinary profiling, in a stimulating inter-and multi-disciplinary framework
- A cosmopolitan and intellectually stimulating learning environment, with highly qualified staff, excellent international research networks and contacts with professional worlds
- Small groups, with interactive, innovative and intensive coursework.
Admissions
Curriculum
Year 1
Four consecutive courses, in which students develop their capacity for critical reflection and acquire in-depth knowledge of theories of arts, media and literature and of quantitative and/or qualitative research methods, depending on the students' research orientation
Students learn to apply and expand these approaches in research projects that they design and conduct individually or in groups. A fifth common course, Arts and Media in Society, allows students to explore one or more challenging hot issues regarding the arts and media in society, involving participants from across and beyond academia. Examples of such issues would be 'The arts, media and literature: practices of social exclusion or inclusion?', 'Trust and reliability in society, viewed through the arts, media and literature', or 'The mutual impact of technology and the arts, media and literature’.
Courses
- Theories of Culture and Research in the Humanities (5 EC)
- Elective (10 EC)
- Elective (10 EC)
- Research Methods 1 (5 EC)
- Theories and Analysis of Arts, Media and Literature (5 EC)
- Arts and Media in Society (5 EC)
- Research Methods 2 (5 EC)
- Elective (5 EC)
- Elective (10 EC)
Year 2
Courses
- Specialisation 1 (10 EC)
- Specialisation 2 (10 EC)
- Specialisation 3 (5 EC)
- Research Design (5 EC)
- Research Master's Thesis AMLS (30 EC)
Curriculum
All students participate in the programme's shared core, comprised of six courses of 5 ECTS (a total of 30 ECTS). Alongside this common core, students build their own disciplinary profile by choosing, in their first year, three or four electives (25 EC in total). They also take a total of 10 ECTS offered by a national research school, which allows them to extend their knowledge to other approaches and establish contact with peers and scholars from other universities.
In their second year, students hone their research skills in three specialization modules (25 ECTS in total). These specialisations can take the form of a tutorial or of research internships, in which students join a research project led by a senior researcher (we strongly advise students to do at least one research internship). Such an internship can also be a project conducted for and with stakeholders in the world of the arts and the media. An internship is typically completed with the writing, publishing and public presentation of a paper or report, at a conference or for targeted professional or broad audiences.
Students are encouraged to spend (part of) the specialization semester abroad, facilitated by the International Office. For all internships, tutorials and international stays, they can draw on the staff's excellent national and international research networks and on a rich range of contacts with stakeholders, such as museums, cultural institutions, archives, municipalities, educational institutions, regional, national and European institutions and policy makers.
Programme options
- Master's Honours Programme (honours program)
- Master's placement (specialization)
Study abroad
- Study abroad is recommended
- For an average of 16 weeks
- Maximum of 30 EC
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Arts, Media and Literary Studies prepares students for successful careers as researchers in academic and non-academic contexts and for leading positions in cultural, educational or governmental institutions, in the creative and media industries, and as cultural mediators or entrepreneurs.
Job prospects
As a graduate of this track, you will have an analytical, critical and independent attitude towards the arts and culture. You will be well prepared for a research career in the areas of literature, arts and culture, both at universities and private research institutes.