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

Jump to: Year 1

Year 1 Academic year: 2026/27, 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
Literature and Photography in the 20th century
CLLC11186 20 credits
Black Hydropoetics: The Sea in Luso-Afro-Brazilian Literature and Culture
ELCH11016 20 credits
The Great Russian Novel
ELCR11004 20 credits
Latin America in Interdisciplinary Perspective
PGSP11632 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 and Translation Studies will be given to students on English Literature MSc programmes, Film Studies and Translation Studies respectively, and places may be limited as a consequence.
Please note that students who take the Translation and Creativity course need to have another working language in addition to English (e.g., their mother tongue or B1 in CEFR, or they must have graduated with this language at UG level).
Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1
Technology and Translation in the Workplace
CLLC11065 20 credits
Translation and Creativity
CLLC11127 20 credits
Translating the Sacred: Concepts, Texts and Transmission of Religions
CLLC11132 20 credits
Cinema Auteurs
CLLC11139 20 credits
Film and Existentialism
CLLC11190 20 credits
Documentary Aesthetics
CLLC11195 20 credits
Global Women Filmmakers
CLLC11200 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
Cult Film Cultures
CLLC11208 20 credits
Jewish Texts through the Ages
DIVI11078 20 credits
Italy by Design: Materiality, Intermediality, and Commodification from Leonardo to the MAXXI
ELCI11006 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
Commodities of Empire: Colonialism, Ecology, Culture
ENLI11265 20 credits
Modernism's Moving Bodies: Text, Dance, Performance after 1890
ENLI11285 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
Global Shakespeare across Media: Performance, Cinema, Digital Cultures
ELCC11018 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 and Translation Studies will be given to students on English Literature MSc programmes and on Film Studies and Translation Studies respectively, and places may be limited as a consequence.
Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2
Film Adaptation
CLLC11144 20 credits
Gender and Translation
CLLC11146 20 credits
Boundaries of the human: gender, madness and werewolves in medieval literature
CLLC11189 20 credits
Sound and Cinema
CLLC11198 20 credits
The Ghosts of Film Noir
CLLC11205 20 credits
Introduction to Interpreting (English-Mandarin)
CLLC11206 20 credits
Film Aesthetics: Art and the Moving Image
CLLC11207 20 credits
Introduction to Subtitling: Theory and Practice
CLLC11209 20 credits
Listening for God: Silence in Modern and Contemporary Literature (PG)
DIVI11099 20 credits
Music and Image
ELCC11023 20 credits
Latin America: History and Culture Entwined
ELCH11013 20 credits
Visualising Boccaccio's Decameron Across Arts and Media
ELCI11009 20 credits
Old Norse Literature and Society
ELCS11013 20 credits
The Literary Absolute
ENLI11037 20 credits
Acts of Story-Telling: Narrator, Text, Audience
ENLI11134 20 credits
Modern and Contemporary Life-Writing (PG)
ENLI11262 20 credits
Modern Arabic Literature in Translation
IMES11125 20 credits
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