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.
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.
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.
You’ll gain both theoretical depth and hands-on methods for analysing images and visual environments.