What will I learn?
This degree is designed to give you an exciting exploration of literary and cultural products and critical issues that span national and linguistic borders as well as time periods. You will become acquainted with the theory and practice of comparative literary and cultural studies, consider how concepts of national cultures cross borders and media forms, and interact with ideas of the transnational and intermedial. You will gain a thorough grounding in literary, cultural and intermedial theories critical reading and research skills and put this theoretical knowledge into practice by studying topics and themes that span disciplines, national contexts and time periods. You could choose to follow a 'literature', 'visual culture', 'history' pathway, or a mixture of such components, according to your interest, by selecting from different optional units taught by internationally recognised scholars in a wide range of disciplines covered by the School of Modern Languages and other schools and departments within the faculty. While knowledge of a foreign language is not a requirement for this programme, you will have the opportunity to learn a language at a variety of levels, from beginner to advanced, and to engage directly with material in foreign languages throughout the MA. The programme culminates in a dissertation – an extended piece of original academic research. As a postgraduate, you will be considered a full member of the academic community, with the opportunity to participate in the many research seminars and conferences taking place within the Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences.
Which department am I in?
School of Modern Languages
Entry requirements
For international students
You will typically need an upper second-class honours degree or an international equivalent in an arts or humanities discipline, such as Anthropology, Comparative Literature, Cultural Geography, English, Film, History, Linguistics, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theatre, or Visual Art, and your degree must include one module in literature, or one module related to literature (e.g. Romantic Britain and Italy, Shakespearean Poetry), at 60% or international equivalent; non-traditional qualifications/routes may also be considered, and if you are currently completing a degree, we understand that your final grade may be higher than the interim grades or module/unit grades you have achieved during your studies to date, so we will consider your application if your interim grades are currently slightly lower than the programme's entry requirements and may make you an aspirational offer, although this offer would be at the standard level, meaning you would need to achieve the standard entry requirements by the end of your degree and specific module requirements would still apply; we will also consider your application if your final overall achieved grade is slightly lower than the programme's entry requirement, and if your achieved grade is lower than our entry requirements, your application may be more likely to receive an offer if you have additional qualifications, therefore if you have the following, please include your CV (curriculum vitae / résumé) when you apply, showing a relevant postgraduate qualification.
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