📖Program Curriculum
Year 1 (2023/24) Year 1 (2023/24) Part-time Year 2 (2023/24) Part-time
The unit pass mark for the MA in Comparative Literatures and Cultures is 50.
The programme pass mark is 50.
Students require 60 credits at the end of TB1 to progress to the next stage of the programme.
Students require 120 credits at the end of TB2 to progress to the dissertation stage.
A merit may be awarded to a student who obtains an average of 60% for stages 1 and 2 and 60% for the dissertation.
A distinction may be awarded to a student who obtains an average of 65% for stages 1 and 2 and 70% for the dissertation.
Unit name Unit code Credit points Status Teaching Block
Cultural Encounters MODLM0002 20 Mandatory TB-2
Dissertation (Comparative Literatures and Cultures) MODLM0019 60 Mandatory AYEAR
Research Skills MODLM0021 20 Mandatory TB-2
Institutions of Culture MODLM0022 20 Mandatory TB-1
Students must also take three of the following optional units
Theorizing Violence: Colonial Encounters and Anticolonial Reactions MODLM0025 20 Optional TB-1
Foreign Language Skills for Postgraduate Students (Beginners and Intermediate) MODLM0030 20 Optional TB-4
Foreign Language Skills for Postgraduate Students (Advanced) MODLM0031 20 Optional TB-4
Translation and International Film Distribution MODLM0040 20 Optional TB-2
Pan-Africanism: ideas and archives MODLM0045 20 Optional TB-2
Supervised Individual Study MODLM0049 20 Optional TB-1TB-2
Contemporary Global Chinese Literature and Visual Arts MODLM0050 20 Optional TB-2
Space Comparison and Empire MODLM0051 20 Optional TB-1
Tradition and Experimentation in Twentieth-Century European Fiction MODLM2034 20 Optional TB-2
The Rise of the Novel in 19th-Century Europe MODLM2035 20 Optional TB-1
Theories of Visual Culture: Text and Image MODLM2048 20 Optional TB-1
Queer Lives MODLM0070 20 Optional TB-2
Museums and Heritage: Critical Perspectives ARCHM0076 20 Optional TB-2
Anthropology of Disability and Difference ARCHM0083 20 Optional TB-2
Cultural Heritage of the Built Environment ARCHM0084 20 Optional TB-1
Victorian Literature and Place ENGLM0034 20 Optional TB-2
Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts ENGLM0037 20 Optional TB-1
The Gothic ENGLM0040 20 Optional TB-2
Literature and the Environment: Diverse Perspectives ENGLM0066 20 Optional TB-1
Writing in the Elements: Earth Air Fire Water Uranium ENGLM0067 20 Optional TB-2
Rewriting the Bible ENGLM0069 20 Optional TB-2
Romantic Poetry and Poetics ENGLM3009 20 Optional TB-1
Hamlet: Text and Interpretation ENGLM3012 20 Optional TB-2
Intertextual Shakespeare ENGLM3013 20 Optional TB-2
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