Media and Culture Utrecht University

Overview

It focuses on the role that digital media, data, films, television series, theatre and dance performances, games and cultural interventions play in shaping our understanding of the world around us, but also how these phenomena intervene in that world and transform it.

During your study, you will also come into contact with practice! You will meet programmers, producers, reviewers, dramatists and policymakers. These are the kinds of positions this programme will prepare you for. You can also choose to do an internship. Utrecht is an excellent place for this, with all its stages, festivals, young cultural entrepreneurs and Hilversum Media Park around the corner. Think of the Dutch Film Festival , Impakt , SPRING , Café Theatre Festival , various cinemas, its own theatre, but also many nice smaller theatres such as Theater Kikker. Utrecht is also bursting with young game designers, theatre groups, film and PR companies. 

You will develop the academic skills you require in order to understand and analyse media as aesthetic objects, as industries and institutions, as well as active agents in our society.

Career Prospects after the  Media and Culture programme at Utrecht University

Cultural Sector

After a Bachelor's most students go on to take a follow-on Master’s programme. A Master’s allows you to work in a various fields of employment. It all depends on the direction you followed in your specialisation.

Media and Culture Studies graduates include cultural policy advisors, teachers, dramaturges, editors, managers of theatre companies, film festival organisers and critics.