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MA Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (General and Comparative Literature) at Saarland University

Saarland University, Germany

Programme overview

Master of Arts for experts in crossing borders: students study texts and other cultural products, place them in wider contexts and overcome temporal, linguistic, geographic, cultural and medial boundaries by comparing literatures.

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities (Philosophische Fakultät)  |  Duration: 4 semesters (120 CP)  |  Study mode: full-time; two-subject Master; German-taught  |  Intake: Wintersemester or Sommersemester  |  Location: Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany

What you will study

120 CP: 71 CP major, 27 CP minor and 22 CP Master thesis; the major has compulsory modules.

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Entry requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent focused on General and Comparative Literature, comparative language and literature with translation, or a related literary-studies programme (not necessarily in comparative literature), plus proof of subject basics. German C1 (TestDaF 4, DSH 2). No admission restriction.

Intake: Wintersemester or Sommersemester

Duration: 4 semesters (120 CP)

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