MLitt MPA Comparative Literature

The MLitt in Comparative Literature is a one-year taught programme run by the School of Modern Languages. The programme explores the transnational understanding of literature and culture. It aims to provide training in traditional and new research techniques.

Highlights

• Students engage with traditional and new approaches to comparative literature, deepening their understanding of the field, and working with texts both in their original languages and in English translation.
• Small class sizes provide a close-knit postgraduate community and friendly environment.
• Innovative core and optional modules allow students to explore new approaches to reading texts and reflecting on their own critical practices.
• A wide range of optional modules provides the opportunity to take modules from other disciplines.
• One-on-one specialist dissertation supervision is available from across the broad range of research interests within the School of Modern Languages.

Teaching format

The taught portion of the course consists of two compulsory modules and a range of optional modules held over two semesters, plus a 15,000-word dissertation.

Classes are delivered primarily via seminars (which vary from individual one-to-one teaching up to ten students), and occasionally through lectures with no more than twenty students.

Modules are assessed through coursework; there are no final exams for this programme.

Further particulars regarding curriculum development.