Teaching & modules
Modules
You are required to take:
Core Module
- Dissertation (60 credits)
Compulsory Modules
- Theorizing Literature across Cultures: Contemporary Debates (15 credits)
- Research Skills in Comparative Literature (year-long) (15 credits)
Optional modules
In addition, You are required to take six modules totaling 90 credits from a range of options from within the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. At least 60 of these should be from the list of dedicated Comparative Literature modules which may typically include the following:
- The World Novel (15 credits)
- Melancholia & Hypochondria in 18th-Century Europe (15 credits)
- Translation, Colonialism, Postcolonialism (15 credits)
- Queer Connections: Male-Male Desire & the Classical Past (15 credits)
- Myth after Slavery (15 credits)
- Diplomacy and World Literature (15 credits)
- Africa in the World, the World in Africa (15 credits)
*Optional modules must include at least 60 credits earned through modules offered in the designated Comparative Literature optional module list and can include up to 30 credits earned through modules from within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities including other modules in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures not included on the Comparative Literature optional modules list (subject to approval by the MA Programme Convenor).
Part time students
If you are a part-time student, you will take:
Year 1: 60 credits earned through 1 x 15 credit compulsory module and 45 credits of optional modules
Year 2: 120 credits earned through 1 x 60 credit core dissertation module, 1 x 15 credit compulsory module and 45 credits of optional modules*.
Teaching methods - what to expect
If you are a full-time student, we will provide you with six to eight hours of teaching a week through lectures and seminars, and we will expect you to undertake 33 hours of independent study.
If you are a part-time student, we will provide two to four hours of teaching each week through lectures and seminars, and we will expect you to undertake 17.5 of independent study.
For your dissertation, which you will focus on over summer, we will provide four hours of one-to-one supervision and you will undertake 594 hours of independent study. If you are a part-time student, we will provide this supervision in your second year.
Typically one credit equates to 10 hours of work.
Assessment
- Coursework
- Written/practical examinations
- Presentations
Your performance will be assessed through a combination of coursework and written/practical examinations. Forms of assessment may typically include coursework and assessed presentations.