The aim of London Cultural Studies (LCS) is to orientate yourself, and explore aspects of London’s diverse culture, and creative landscape. As one of three mandatory units, you will meet and engage with all students across the UAL Study Abroad programme from CSM, LCC and LCF to build networks, and creative communities.
With LCS you will take creative risks, start conversations with people to find out about their lives, form new opinions, and energise your research methods with these newfound skills acting as city explorers and investigators.
We encourage you to explore all London has to offer from inspirational, historical, knowledgeable, and ‘alternative’ perspectives. You will learn about subcultures, genres, trends, as well as safely navigating yourself within a cultural capital city.
Lectures and conversations with your tutor and classmates will discuss the idiosyncratic behaviours, cultural attitudes and curious customs that make a city unique. As well as London, you’ll learn and draw wider inspiration from the sense of ‘Britishness’, always encouraged to think, listen, and speak critically.
Most LCS classes are predominantly field trips. You will do several visits, guided walks, and tours, going behind-the-scenes of unfamiliar spaces and areas to gain personal and fresh insight of this historically complex, challenging, creative city.
You will develop a personal body of research and experiences, which you will take forward as a memento of your time in London, to embed new ideas, values, and disruptive actions into your own creative practice, and beyond.