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

Jump to: Year 1

Year 1 Academic year: 2024/25, Starting in: September

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

Compulsory courses

You must take these courses
Research Skills and Methods

Must be taken during Semester 1

CLLC11003 20 credits
Theories and Methods of Literary Study I

Must be taken during Semester 1

CLLC11024 20 credits
Research Methods and Problems in English Literature

Must be taken during Semester 2

ENLI11125 20 credits
Theories and Methods of Literary Study II

Must be taken during Semester 2

CLLC11025 20 credits
MSc Comparative Literature Dissertation

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

CLLC11174 60 credits

Course options

Group A

Select exactly 20 credits in this group.

Comparative Literature Level 11 elective courses - Semester 1

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
These elective courses are recommended for their comparative element.
Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1
World Literature
CLLC11181 20 credits
Reading Latin American Poetry
ELCH11009 20 credits
The Great Russian Novel
ELCR11004 20 credits
OR

Comparative Literature Level 11 elective courses - Semester 1

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Preference for courses in the Department of English Literature and for courses belonging to Film Studies will be given to students on English Literature MSc programmes and on Film Studies respectively, and places may be limited as a consequence.
Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1
Cinema Auteurs
CLLC11139 20 credits
Boundaries of the human: gender, madness and werewolves in medieval literature
CLLC11189 20 credits
The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock (PG)
CLLC11202 20 credits
Scotland on Screen
CLLC11203 20 credits
Filming the Canon: Adaptation, Authorship, Alterity
CLLC11204 20 credits
Italy by Design: Materiality, Intermediality, and Commodification from Leonardo to the MAXXI
ELCI11006 20 credits
Old Norse Literature and Society
ELCS10039 20 credits
The Reign of Terror: Fear and Loathing in Romantic Literature
ENLI11126 20 credits
Twenty-First Century Fiction (PG Version)
ENLI11229 20 credits
The Graphic Novel: Narrative in Sequential Art (PG Version)
ENLI11230 20 credits
Postcritique: From Theory to Practice
ENLI11255 20 credits
Modern Poetry: 1922-1927 (PG Version)
ENLI11263 20 credits
Modern Persian Literature and 'Modern' Iran (PG Version)
IMES11070 20 credits
AND

Group B

Select exactly 20 credits in this group.

Comparative Literature Level 11 elective courses - Semester 2

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
These elective courses are recommended for their comparative element.
Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2
Literature and Photography in the 20th century
CLLC11186 20 credits
Global Shakespeare across Media: Performance, Cinema, Digital Cultures
ELCC11018 20 credits
Film, Literature, and Race: Postcolonialism, Decoloniality, and Critical Race Theory
ELCC11019 20 credits
Black Hydropoetics: The Sea in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Literature and Culture
ELCH11016 20 credits
OR

Comparative Literature Level 11 elective courses - Semester 2

Select exactly 20 credits of the following courses
Notes:
Preference for courses in the Department of English Literature and for courses belonging to Film Studies will be given to students on English Literature MSc programmes and on Film Studies respectively, and places may be limited as a consequence.
Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2
Film Adaptation
CLLC11144 20 credits
Vulnerability and the City: German Literary Cartographies of Danger and Refuge
ELCG11010 20 credits
Latin America: History and Culture Entwined
ELCH11013 20 credits
Biopower: Troubling Control Practices from Foucault to Agamben
ELCI11007 20 credits
Pretext, Context and Intertext: Navigating Viking Culture, Then and Now
ELCS11014 20 credits
The Literary Absolute
ENLI11037 20 credits
Modern and Contemporary Life-Writing (PG)
ENLI11262 20 credits
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