Master in Arts and Culture: Media, Culture and Environment
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Master degree
DURATION
1 year
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
EUR 24,830 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* tuition fee for NON-EU/EEA | tuition fee for EU € 2694
Key Summary
About: The Master in Arts and Culture: Media, Culture and Environment at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam examines relations among audiovisual media, art, and the environment. You’ll study digital media, film, television, curatorial practice, and cultural objects across formats. The programme builds conceptual and theoretical grounding and trains you in media literacy, cultural analysis, and historical contextualization within interdisciplinary media and environmental studies.
Career Outcomes: Higher education, research, cultural policy, the media industry, and the cultural sector are common destinations. Graduates work as curators, museum or gallery staff, documentary or audiovisual producers, media consultants, cultural journalists, or policy advisors for environmental organizations.
Are you interested in the dynamic interrelations between media, arts, and the environment? Then choose the Master's specialisation in Comparative Art & Media Studies.
Audiovisual media are essential to our society. Platforms, interfaces, and networked infrastructures have become ubiquitous and influence all aspects of private and public life, and media culture is enmeshed with politics and the living world like never before. Digital media have not only radically reconfigured how we sense the world and create, exhibit, and interact with film, television, art, and cultural objects. The media also represent, communicate, and contribute to global environmental crises.
Five reasons to choose Comparative Arts and Media Studies at VU Amsterdam:
- You will learn in a globally unique way to combine a focus on media, art, and environment.
- You will have the opportunity to study cultural phenomena across various formats and art forms.
- You will gain a strong conceptual and theoretical grounding.
- You will learn to analyse concrete cultural, curatorial, and artistic practices.
- You will gain media literacy skills to historically contextualise a fast-paced audiovisual culture.
Open Days
Join the Online Master’s Event on Thursday, 26 November, or the International Master’s Webinar on Tuesday, 6 October, to learn more about the programme and studying at VU Amsterdam.
The programme is built around five core courses (30EC) and a master’s thesis (18EC). You will also choose elective courses or conduct an internship (12EC).
The first semester consists of three courses with historiographical, aesthetic, spatial, and environmental perspectives on processes of mediation in audiovisual culture, plus a department-wide lecture series on current issues in Arts & Culture.
In the second semester, you will get acquainted with media dynamics at work in current crossmedial exhibitions while also writing your master’s thesis.
Below you will find the core courses. Take a look at the other courses in the Study guide.
Courses
- Master's Thesis Comparative Arts and Media Studies
- Trending Topics: Arts and Culture
- Materialities of Media
- CAMS: Key Concepts
- Aesthetics of Media Environments
- Crossmedial Exhibitions
As a graduate of the Arts & Culture: Comparative Arts and Media Studies programme, you will be qualified for a broad range of career opportunities that require analytical and critical skills and an excellent insight into contemporary developments in media and the arts. Our graduates have careers in higher education, research, cultural policy, the media industry and the cultural sector.