Warm greetings and welcome to the Department of Cultural Studies where you will be taken on a scholastic journey to explore 'culture' in its multifaceted dimensions. Here in Cultural Studies, we understand culture to be the myriad ways we construct our social worlds and give it meaning. It is as much about the ordinary and the everyday expressions of existence, as it is the staged or performative dimensions of our creativity and imagination. In our emphasis on teaching, research, graduate supervision, community outreach and consultancy services, we collaborate with scholars, artists, cultural producers/brokers and institutions locally, regionally and internationally. 

Cultural Studies, as an interdisciplinary field of inquiry, seeks to understand the complexity of culture and its socio-economic and political dimensions. As such, students will be equipped to better understand how cultural practices and meanings are produced, circulated, re-evaluated and changed over time.  In our range of courses, students are moreover invited to develop a deeper comparative appreciation of the diversity of the Caribbean and its relationship to the world at large.  We further recenter the production of knowledge by emphasizing the intellectual history and cultural thought of the region, the Caribbean diaspora and global south. 

The Cultural Studies Department offers an undergraduate BA Caribbean Studies a Minor in Cultural Studies and a robust suite of postgraduate degree offerings including a Postgraduate Diploma in Cultural Studies, MA, MPhil and PhD Degrees and a Practice-Based degree option at all levels of the postgraduate programme.

Career Pathways:

• Cultural consultant
• Foreign service officer
• Cultural attaché
• Ministerial officer 
• Educational program development officer for cultural institutions
• Museums/heritage or arts administrator
• Educator/teacher
• Policy analyst
• Marketer
• Anthropologist/Ethnographer

Yanique Hume, PhD
Head, Department of Cultural Studies