The course consists of one core module, two optional modules and a dissertation. The core module sets out the intellectual framework for the course, offering a broad overview of key conceptual debates in the field of visual culture, together with training in analysis of visual objects of different kinds, an advanced introduction to understanding museum practice, and key research skills in visual arts and culture. The optional modules provide further specialised areas of study in related topics of interest to individual students, and the 12,000-15,000 word dissertation involves detailed study of a particular aspect of a topic related to the broad area of visual culture.

Examples of optional modules:
Critical Curatorship
Visual Modernities
Crossing Cultures: Word, Text and Image in Translation
Transnational Cinema
Things That Matter: Material and Culture in/for the Digital Age
German Reading Skills for Research
French Reading Skills for Research 1
The Anglo-Saxon World Societies and Cultures: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Early Medieval England
An Exhibitionary Complex: Museums, Collecting and the Historical Imagination
Visualising Revolution: The Image of French Political Culture c.1789-1914
Grant-Writing for Master Students
Ethics of Cultural Heritage
Classical Modernisms
Modernism and Touch.