Approaches to Cultural and Media Studies provides a foundational understanding of the key approaches, methods and theoretical perspectives in the interdisciplinary field of cultural and media studies. The module starts with an historical overview of the development of cultural studies as a discipline through to what is now a far more interdisciplinary field of study that straddles media and communication studies, anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy, literary studies and more. The module is organised around core thematic areas of focus which provide an introduction to issues in culture-led media studies; perspectives on culture, place/space and identity; and what cultural studies looks like in an age of all-pervasive digital technology and where contemporary debates around ideas of the ‘posthuman’ pose fundamental challenges to long-established understandings of the nature-culture binary. Engaging with theoretical perspectives that address a broad range of contemporary issues in the study of culture, media and everyday life, the module draws on ethnographic, text-based and other qualitative methods, with a particular emphasis towards understandings of culture and media as forms of social, embodied and political practice and the everyday ‘doingness’ of cultural experience.