1 Check entry requirements prior education
You are eligible to apply for admission if you hold an academic Bachelor's degree from an accredited research university in:
Some specific academic Bachelor's degrees obtained in the Netherlands grant automatic admission to this Master's programme. If you graduate with one of these degrees, which are listed under "No application form required" above, you only have to register Studielink. You don't have to submit an application form in SIS.
If you obtained your degree outside the Netherlands, the minimum level of your diploma should be at least equivalent to or comparable to three years of a Dutch research-oriented university. The assessment of whether your degree is considered equivalent will be completed by professional diploma evaluators according to the guidelines set forth by Nuffic, the independent organisation for internationalisation in education in the Netherlands. More information on this assessment can be found on the Graduate School of Humanities website .
No pre-Master's available
You must meet the above-mentioned entry requirements in full to be considered for admission. We currently do not offer a pre-Master's programme (schakelprogramma) for this Master's to bridge any deficiencies.
New Master's students should be able to speak, read, write and understand English at an advanced academic level. Please check carefully on the page below whether:
Check the English language requirements
You want to engage with contemporary critical discourses such as philosophy, environmental humanities, posthumanism, decolonial studies, and queer studies. You are interested in cultural phenomena, in particular art works and literature, cinema and new media, and in academic and popular culture. You want to examine the intersections between cultural phenomena and critical theory, emphasising the socio-political implications of interdisciplinary and theoretical study. Copyright: Serkan Kasapoğlu Training the culturally analytical lens gives everything more meaning. Serkan Kasapoğlu, student Comparative Cultural Analysis Read the interview What does your week look like as a student? Wondering what your weekly schedule will be at Comparative Cultural Analysis? Then download the sample timetable.