Master's Programme in Visual Culture

Education facts

Code: HAVIC

<p>Understanding how images shape society is a key skill in today’s world, where we’re constantly surrounded by visual expressions. The master's programme in visual culture provides you with the tools to analyse visual culture and prepares you for careers in academia, media, art, marketing, and design.</p><p>If you’re interested in visual practices, media critique or cultural research, this programme gives you the tools you need to decode the visual world. From viral images and advertising to art, the programme explores how images influence and reflect modern life, shaping social realities. You will study a wide range of visual phenomena, including artworks, news and documentary images, advertisements, and more, across both analogue and digital media like photography, film, video, television, and urban environments.</p><p>The curriculum covers urgent topics like post- and decolonialism, gender, globalization, and media technology. The programme provides you with a comprehensive analytical toolkit to critically assess the influence of images and other visual forms, including how images produce and withhold knowledge, evoke fascination and discomfort, and persuade or repel. It also analyses how images generate meaning, desire, and fear within social, cultural, and personal contexts. Hence, you will be able to examine how images both reflect and shape society, culture, identity, and power.</p><p>You’ll gain both theoretical depth and hands-on methods for analysing images and visual environments. The courses train academic and professional skills, from journal writing to conference presenting and research planning. <br/></p>

Entry requirements

A Bachelor’s degree in Art History and Visual Studies, Film Studies, Musicology, Design Sciences, Architecture, or the equivalent. Proficiency in English equivalent to English 6 from Swedish upper-secondary school.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Master's Programme in Visual Culture

  Lund University

  Lund

  Start date: 31 August 2026

  End date: 4 June 2028

  Pace of study: 100 %