Modern Studies is an interdisciplinary program that focuses on culture, media, and theory. It queries "the modern" from four perspectives-modernity, postmodernity, the early modern, and the global modern-using methods from cinema and media studies, gender and sexuality studies, literary studies, material culture, postcolonial studies, urban studies, digital studies, and visual culture.
Program requirements emphasize an integrated knowledge of cultural productions and critical theory. Students choose from a broad offering of courses, within and outside the English Department, as they shape their own individualized MA and Ph.D program of study. The Modern Studies program is closely affiliated with UWM's Center for 21st Century Studies and the Center for International Education and students are expected to engage these Centers' cultural programming.
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