Welcome to the BS Cultural Studies programme, the first of its kind in Pakistan!

Cultural Studies researchers theorize the creative forces that shape the lived reality of people in the 21 century. Drawing on a range of practices, Cultural Studies researchers investigate values, beliefs and belongings, cultural processes, economic and social relations, institutions, objects and identities. Cultural Studies is an emphatically interdisciplinary area of inquiry that intersects the humanities, science studies, social sciences and arts. The Cultural Studies Department draws on a range of methods and critical theories and offers opportunities to break down conventional divisions between academia and activism, and, between theoretical critique and cultural production. What distinguishes Cultural Studies from other disciplines is its approach to study culture and the arts through multiple disciplinary methods to get at the complexity of cultural forms that are influenced by power structures, issues of social justice and cultural change.

This programme is aimed primarily at preparing theoretically sound professionals and future academicians who have a specialization in South Asian visual and material culture and their pertinent issues and perspectives. The programme is designed to develop conceptual rigor, critical, theoretical and analytical skills, with a thorough immersion in the analysis of development in the national and regional cultural institutions and the arts; as well as their contemporary theoretical debates. 

With this set of knowledge and skills, graduating students will be able to make valuable societal contributions. They will be able to seek admission in any relevant higher education programme or enter careers in the arts, humanities, print/electronic media, social/ cultural/ environmental development, and cultural policy.