About the Programme
The Master of Arts programme in English and Cultural Studies aims to provide an interdisciplinary grounding in Cultural Studies and allied disciplines, including literature. The courses offered provide a range of perspectives for understanding ‘culture’ and ‘cultural practices’ in all their nuances through relevant theoretical frameworks as well as through a practice-based component that includes field-work, internships, and other forms of engaging with contexts beyond ‘texts’ alone.
The curriculum aims to create discursive spaces within as well as outside the classroom, encouraging learners to actively engage with the social world. The programme places an emphasis on rigorous scholarly work as well as with more creative forms of shaping research outputs. In keeping with Christ University’s emphasis on academic excellence, the programme is up-to-date with contemporary pedagogies as well as curricular content.
Project-based Self-Directed Learning
The programme fosters independent and experiential learning through a dedicated semester-long capstone project that enables learners to conceptualise, design, and execute interdisciplinary academic, creative, or research-based projects aligned with their individual interests and professional aspirations.
Focused on social impact
The programme encourages learners to critically engage with contemporary social, cultural, and political issues through community-oriented learning, interdisciplinary inquiry, and socially responsive academic practices.
Networking Opportunities
The programme provides learners with opportunities to engage with academicians, researchers, industry professionals, artists, writers, and community organisations through conferences, workshops, seminars, collaborations, and academic events.
Industry-based engagements
Learners gain industry exposure through internships, collaborative projects, professional workshops, guest lectures, and interactions with experts from media, publishing, communication, and related fields.
Why Choose This Programme?
Globally Relevant Research/Industry
Based Capstone Projects – The programme enables learners to undertake globally relevant research and industry-based capstone projects that encourage interdisciplinary inquiry, critical engagement, and practical application of knowledge in contemporary contexts.
Hands-on Experience through Practice Teaching
Learners gain hands-on pedagogical experience through practice teaching opportunities that help develop communication, instructional, and classroom management skills in professional academic environments.
Student-Led Conferences
The programme encourages learners to conceptualise, organise, and participate in student-led conferences that foster academic collaboration, research presentation, leadership, and professional networking.
Competitive Exam Support
The programme provides academic guidance and skill-oriented support to help learners prepare for competitive examinations, higher studies, and diverse professional career pathways.
Community and Industry Internships
Learners gain practical exposure through community and industry internships that connect academic learning with professional practices, social engagement, and real-world experiences.
Network with Scholars and Industry Professionals
The programme offers opportunities to interact and build networks with scholars, researchers, writers, artists, and industry professionals through seminars, workshops, collaborations, and academic events.
Choose Your Track
Critically engage with contemporary culture by exploring film, visual media, digital platforms, food cultures, and everyday practices through advanced theoretical perspectives on power, identity, ideology, and resistance.
Engage with diverse literary traditions, critical theories, and contemporary texts to examine how literature reflects, challenges, and reimagines historical, cultural, political, and philosophical realities.
What You Will Learn
Programme Structure
The programme structure outlines the academic curriculum designed to provide a systematic progression of learning through core subjects, electives, and practical components across semesters, ensuring both theoretical understanding and skill development.
Semester 1 — Courses
Semester 2 — Courses
Semester 3 — Courses
Semester 4 — Capstone Tracks - Track A- Cultural Mapping: Bangalore
Semester 4 — Track B- The Culture of Food
Semester 4 — Track C- Intersectional Ecologies
Semester 4 — Track D- Folklore in Context
Semester 4 — Track E- Cinema and Visual Cultures
Eligibility & Fee Structure
Career Paths
Message from the HOD
Bangalore Bannerghatta Road Campus
The Department of English and Cultural Studies (BGR Campus) is a vibrant community of faculty and students who strive towards intellectual growth and societal engagement. In keeping with the times, the department offers courses in emergent fields of English and Cultural Studies with focus on the literary, the social and the cultural. The courses offered in the department are an interdisciplinary fusion of history, anthropology, digital humanities, linguistics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and cultural studies.
Our faculty have expertise in various fields that include Translation Studies,
Message from the HOD
The Department of English and Cultural Studies (BGR Campus) is a vibrant community of faculty and students who strive towards intellectual growth and societal engagement. In keeping with the times, the department offers courses in emergent fields of English and Cultural Studies with focus on the literary, the social and the cultural. The courses offered in the department are an interdisciplinary fusion of history, anthropology, digital humanities, linguistics, philosophy, sociology, anthropology and cultural studies.
Our faculty have expertise in various fields that include Translation Studies, English Language instruction, Gender Studies, Screen Studies, Fandom Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Comparative Literature, Disability Studies and Sociolinguistics. This eclectic mix contributes to the intellectual, social and holistic development of the students, enabling their growth as thinkers and practitioners in society. The department also fosters the creative and thinking spirit in students through a set of student managed clubs and forums like the FIlm Club: 24FPS, the Theatre Club: Prathibimb, the Research Club: Tafteesh, the Book Club: Shared Shelf , the Gender Studies Forum, a student run blog Christribute, a monthly literary magazine Litscape and a biannual research magazine Paracosm.
Ms Renu Elizabeth Abraham
hod.english.culturalstudies.bgr@christuniversity.in
Admission Process
- Register with your Email ID
- Login to the Admission Portal
- Fill the Application Form
- Pay Application Fee
- Entrance Test (If Applicable)
- Assessment
- Interview
- Check login page for result
- If selected, Offer Letter attached
- Pay Course Fee Online
- Complete Admission Process
Ready to Apply?
Applications for the 2026 batch are open. Deadline: 08-Jun-2026.