DPT: Comparative Literature (MSc) (Full-time) (PTMSCCOMPL1F)

An alternative 20 credit optional course from another relevant MSc programme may be substituted with the permission of the Programme Director.

Compulsory courses

Research Skills and Methods

Must be taken during Semester 1

Theories and Methods of Literary Study I

Must be taken during Semester 1

Research Methods and Problems

Must be taken during Semester 2

Theories and Methods of Literary Study II

Must be taken during Semester 2

MSc Comparative Literature Dissertation

Must be passed at 50% and taken during Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond

Course options

These elective courses are recommended for their comparative element.

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

World Literature

Literature and Photography in the 20th century

Poetry, Music and Translation

Preference for courses in the Department of English Literature will be given to students on English Literature MSc programmes, and places may be limited as a consequence.

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

Cinema Auteurs

Film Adaptation

Boundaries of the human: gender, madness and werewolves in medieval literature

Film and the Other Arts

Vulnerability and the City: German Literary Cartographies of Danger and Refuge

Latin America: History and Culture Entwined

Global Modernisms: Inter/National Responses to Modernity (PG Version)

Victorian Transatlanticism (PG Version)

The Politics of Difficulty in Twentieth-Century Literature

Women's Writing and Empire, 1770 - 1870 (PG)

AND

These elective courses are recommended for their comparative element.

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

Decadence in European Art and Literature, 1857-1914

Print Culture and the Enlightenment: Edinburgh, London, and Philadelphia: 1710-1814

Global Shakespeare across Media: Performance, Cinema, Digital Cultures

Italy by Design: Materiality, Intermediality, and Commodification from Leonardo to the MAXXI

The Great Russian Novel

Preference for courses in the Department of English Literature will be given to students on English Literature MSc programmes, and places may be limited as a consequence.

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

Cinema Auteurs 2

Film Adaptation

Film and Existentialism

Film and the Other Arts

Old Norse Literature and Society

Postcolonial Writing

Black Atlantic

Decolonization and the Novel

Fairy Tales

Neo-imperialisms

Strangers to Ourselves: Post-war & Contemporary Writing

Digital Humanities for Literary Studies

Modern and Contemporary Life-Writing (PG)

Of Wine, Love and Loss: Reading Iran through Classical Persian Literature (PG Version)

THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH

DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2021/2022

Information in the Degree Programme Tables may still be subject to change in response to Covid-19

Degree Programme Table: Comparative Literature (MSc) (Full-time) (PTMSCCOMPL1F)

Year 1 Academic year: 2021/22, Starting in: September

Compulsory courses

Course options

Group A

Comparative Literature Level 11 elective courses - Semester 1

Comparative Literature Level 11 elective courses - Semester 1

Group B

Comparative Literature Level 11 elective courses - Semester 2

Comparative Literature Level 11 elective courses - Semester 2