Modern Languages and Comparative Literatures

What you will learn

The core module provides you with frameworks for engaging with comparative literature and cultural theory. You will then choose option modules that explore the study of culture and the modern world across different cultures and texts, and specialise via one or more language strands focusing on specific cultural contexts.

You can choose one language module at advanced level. This will incorporate academic writing workshops and allow you to enhance and perfect your language skills.

You will develop your research and writing skills through a series of workshops, culminating in a dissertation or research project.

How you will learn

This course is available to study full- or part-time and offers you classes in the evening so you can balance your studies with other commitments. Our language-learning modules are offered on campus, but other modules may also be offered online.

Our teaching on this course is mainly interactive and seminar-based, with small groups led by our expert teachers. Our research-skills workshops culminate in a mini-conference where you present your dissertation/research project to other students and staff.

MRes

The MRes is ideal if you wish to pursue a more research-oriented pathway through this course, as it offers you specialist training in research skills. You can opt to write your dissertation on a specific language-speaking area or areas and, if you also work with cultural artefacts in the original language/s, the title of your award will reflect this, e.g. MRes French Studies.

Highlights

Careers and employability

On successfully graduating from this course, you will have gained an array of important transferable skills, including:

You will find graduates of this MA following career paths in international organisations or businesses, translating, teaching, research, journalism, publishing, law and the civil service.