MA Comparative Literatures and Cultures at University of Bristol

This degree is designed to give you an exciting exploration of literary and cultural products and critical issues that span national and linguistic borders as well as time periods. You will become acquainted with the theory and practice of comparative literary and cultural studies, consider how concepts of national cultures cross borders and media forms, and interact with ideas of the transnational and intermedial. You will gain a thorough grounding in literary, cultural and intermedial theories; critical reading and research skills; and put this theoretical knowledge into practice by studying topics and themes that span disciplines, national contexts and time periods.

Faculty: Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences  |  Department: School of Modern Languages  |  Duration: One year full-time, Two years part-time  |  Study mode: full-time, part-time  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Bristol, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

There are three core units, and you will take three additional optional units from the wide range available in the School of Modern Languages, or more broadly across the faculty. Following successful completion of the taught element of the programme, you will be required to complete a dissertation of approximately 12,000 words.

Career pathways

Studying comparative literatures and cultures allows you to develop a range of analytical skills and a multicultural and interdisciplinary awareness that will allow you to excel in many different professions. A significant number of students in each year's cohort have secured funding to pursue doctoral studies in the humanities and arts, e.g. the Bristol Graduate Teaching Assistantship, the AHRC, and the China Scholarship Council.

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