Programme approval 2006/07
PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007
Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010
Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010
PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th
May 2010
PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010
PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th
February 2011
PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011
PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th
February 2012
PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012
PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012
PAF modified by QAS for 2013/14: 13th
December 2012
PAF finalised for 2013/14: 28 February 2014
THE PROGRAMME SPECIFICATION
1. Programme title and designation
Comparative Literature
Pathways:
Comparative Literature
Comparative Literature: Literature
Across Cultures
2. Final Award
Award Title Credit
value
ECTS
equivalent
Any special criteria
MA Comparative
Literature
180 90 See programme table for
modules available
MA Comparative
Literature: Literature
Across Cultures
180 90 See programme table for
modules available
2. Nested Award
Award Title Credit
value
ECTS
equivalent
Any special criteria
N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
2. Exit Award
Award Title Credit
value
ECTS
equivalent
Any special criteria
Postgraduate
Diploma
Comparative
Literature
120 60 See programme table for
modules available
Postgraduate
Diploma
Comparative
Literature: Literature
Across Cultures
120 60 See programme table for
modules available
Postgraduate
Certificate
Comparative
Literature
60 30 See programme table for
modules available
Postgraduate
Certificate
Comparative
Literature: Literature
Across Cultures
60 30 See programme table for
modules available
5. Level in the qualifications framework M
6. Attendance
Full-time Part-time Distance
learning
Mode of attendance
X X No
Minimum length of programme
1 year 2 years N/A
Maximum length of programme
3 years 4 years N/A
Programme approval 2006/07
PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007
Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010
Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010
PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th
May 2010
PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010
PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th
February 2011
PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011
PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th
February 2012
PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012
PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012
PAF modified by QAS for 2013/14: 13th
December 2012
PAF finalised for 2013/14: 28 February 2014
7. Awarding institution/body King’s College London
8. Teaching institution King’s College London
9. Proposing department
Comparative Literature Programme, School of
Humanities
10. Programme organiser and contact
details
Dr. Zoe Norridge, Dept of English and
Comparative Literature programme, email:
[email protected]; ext 7152
11. UCAS code (if appropriate) N/A
12. Relevant QAA subject benchmark/
professional and statutory body guidelines
N/A
13. Date of production of specification
Original PAF: September 2003;
CFPAF May 2006
14. Date of programme review 2014/15
16. Educational aims of the programme
The aim of the MA in Comparative Literature is to develop students’ understanding of practices and
theories of diachronic and synchronic comparative literary study. The principal educational aims are
to develop students’ knowledge, understanding and abilities in the following areas:
advanced knowledge, skills and understanding of diachronic and synchronic comparative literary
study.
understanding of the depth and breadth of literature on comparative literary study and the
theoretical foundations that underpin this.
critical and other abilities needed for students to deepen and extend their knowledge of the
literatures written in the main ancient and modern European and other languages.
extension of critical reflection and analytical abilities, so that students can effectively design, plan
and execute their own independent research into the subject. Whereas the ‘MA Comparative
Literature’ pathway involves cross-linguistic comparison, the ‘MA Comparative Literature:
Literature Across Cultures’ pathway emphasizes cross-cultural comparison.
17. Educational objectives of the programme/programme outcomes
The programme provides opportunities for students to develop and demonstrate knowledge and
understanding and skills in the following areas:
Knowledge and understanding
The programme provides a knowledge and
understanding of the following:
1. Literary analysis in English and other languages.
2. General literary history.
3. The practice, methods, and theory of
comparative literary study;
4. Appropriate personal and professional conduct
in the context of the discipline.
These are achieved through the following
teaching/learning methods and
strategies:
Lectures, seminar discussion, guided
project work, and independent research.
Assessment:
Essays, with tutorial feedback.
Dissertation (independent research under
supervision).
Programme approval 2006/07
PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007
Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010
Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010
PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th
May 2010
PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010
PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th
February 2011
PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011
PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th
February 2012
PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012
PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012
PAF modified by QAS for 2013/14: 13th
December 2012
PAF finalised for 2013/14: 28 February 2014
Examination.
Skills and other attributes
Intellectual skills:
1. Critical awareness to undertake analysis of
complex, incomplete or contradictory areas of
knowledge communicating the outcome
effectively;
2. Critical awareness to synthesise information in
a manner that may be innovative, utilising
knowledge or processes from the forefront of
the discipline/practice;
3. A level of conceptual understanding that will
allow her/him critically to evaluate research,
advanced scholarship and methodologies and
argue alternative approaches;
4. Initiative and originality in problem solving.
Can act autonomously in planning and
implementing tasks at a professional or
equivalent level, making decision in complex
and unpredictable situations.
These are achieved through the following
teaching/learning methods and
strategies:
Seminar discussion, guided project work,
advice from personal and academic tutors,
and independent research.
Assessment:
Essays, with tutorial feedback.
Dissertation (independent research under
supervision).
Examination.
Practical skills:
1. Can operate in complex and unpredictable
and/or specialised contexts, and has an
overview of the issues governing good
practice;
2. Is able to exercise initiative and personal
responsibility in professional practice.
These are achieved through the following
teaching/learning methods and
strategies:
Seminar discussion, guided project work,
advice from personal and academic tutors,
and independent research.
Assessment:
Essays, with tutorial feedback.
Dissertation (independent research under
supervision).
Examination.
Generic/transferable skills:
1. Can work effectively with a group as leader or
member. Can clarify tasks and make
appropriate use of capacities of group
members. Is able to negotiate and handle
conflict with confidence;
2. Is able to use full range of learning resources;
3. Is reflective on own and others’ functioning in
order to improve practice;
4. Can competently undertake research tasks
with minimum guidance;
These are achieved through the following
teaching/learning methods and
strategies:
Seminar discussion, guided project work,
advice from personal and academic tutors,
and independent research.
Assessment:
Essays, with tutorial feedback.
Dissertation (independent research under
supervision).
Programme approval 2006/07
PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007
Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010
Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010
PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th
May 2010
PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010
PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th
February 2011
PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011
PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th
February 2012
PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012
PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012
PAF modified by QAS for 2013/14: 13th
December 2012
PAF finalised for 2013/14: 28 February 2014
5. Is an independent and self critical learner,
guiding the learning of others and managing
own requirements for continuing professional
development;
6. Can engage confidently in academic and
professional communication with others,
reporting on action clearly, autonomously and
competently;
7. Has independent learning ability required for
continuing professional study, making
professional use of others where appropriate.
Examination.
18. Statement of how the programme has been informed by the relevant subject benchmark
statement(s)/professional and statutory body guidelines
There is no subject benchmark for humanities MA degrees.
The programme has been designed in accordance with:
— QAA Code of Practice section 7: Programme approval, monitoring and review
— QAA Framework for Higher Education Qualifications
— Ordinances of the University of London
— King’s College London Quality Strategy
— King’s College London Mission Statement and Strategic Objectives 2001-2010
— King’s College London Academic Regulations
19. Programme structure and award requirements (where relevant the information should also
differentiate the particular requirements of pathways within a programme or linked/exit awards)
(a) numbers of compulsory and optional units to be taken in each year of the programme
MA Comparative Literature pathway: 180 credits earned through 2 x 20 credit compulsory modules, 1 x
60 credit core dissertation module, 1 x 20 credit optional module from a prescribed lists and 60 credits of
additional optional modules.
MA Comparative Literature: Literature Across Cultures pathway: 180 credits earned through 1 x 20
credits compulsory module, 1 x 60 credits core dissertation module, 2 x 20 credits optional modules from a
prescribed list and 60 credits of additional optional modules.
Part time:
MA Comparative Literature pathway:
Year 1. 80 credits earned through 2 x 20 credit compulsory modules and 40 credits of optional modules*.
Year 2. 100 credits earned through 1 x 60 credit core dissertation module and 40 credits of optional
modules*.
*Optional modules to include at least 1 x 20 credits module from the prescribed list of options over the
two years.
MA Comparative Literature: Literature Across Cultures pathway:
Year 1. 80 credits earned through 2 x 20 credit compulsory modules and 40 credits of optional
modules**.
Year 2. 100 credits earned through 1 x 60 credit core dissertation module and 40 credits of optional
Programme approval 2006/07
PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007
Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010
Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010
PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th
May 2010
PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010
PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th
February 2011
PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011
PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th
February 2012
PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012
PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012
PAF modified by QAS for 2013/14: 13th
December 2012
PAF finalised for 2013/14: 28 February 2014
modules**.
** Optional modules to include at least 2 x 20 credits modules from the prescribed list of options over the
two years.
Students may, with the agreement of the programme convenor, substitute any credits (other than for core
or compulsory elements) with credits from other departments or programmes provided that they are
directly relevant to Comparative Literature.
(b) range of credit levels permitted within the programme
6, 7***
(c) maximum number of credits permitted at the lowest level
20.
(d) minimum number of credits required at the highest level
160.
(e) progression and award requirements (if different from the standard)
Standard.
(f) maximum number of credits permitted with a condoned fail (core modules excluded)
30 credits.
(g) are students permitted to take a substitute module, as per regulation A3, 20.7?
No
(h) other relevant information to explain the programme structure
***Level 6 modules are restricted to taught graduate language modules offered by the MLC.
Programme approval 2006/07
PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007
Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010
Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010
PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th
May 2010
PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010
PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th
February 2011
PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011
PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th
February 2012
PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012
PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012
PAF modified by QAS for 2013/14: 13th
December 2012
PAF finalised for 2013/14: 28 February 2014
Programme Structure
Title Credit
level
Credit
value
Status (I, C, O) for each type
of programme
Progression Assessment
Single
honours
Joint
honours
Major/
minor
Single
honours
Joint
honours
Major/
minor
7AAYCL01 Dissertation 7 60 Cr YES Dissertation
7AAYCL02 Comparative Readings 7 20 Cp NO Coursework
7AAYCL03 Comparative Theories 7 20 Cp NO Coursework
Students must choose at least ONE of the following modules 7 NO
7AAYCL13 Comedy in Theory 7 20 O NO
7AAYCL17 Surrealism & Visuality 7 20 O NO
7AAYCL25 The World Novel 7 20 O NO
7AAYCL24 Theorizing Comparative Literature Across Cultures:
Contemporary Debates
7 20 O NO
7AABMA29 C.P. Cavafy: The making of a modernist 7 20 O NO
7AAYCL28 Melancholia and Hypochondria 7 20 O NO
7AAEM201 Prison Writing: An English & European Tradition 7 20 O NO
7AAGM201 Melancholia & Hypochondria 18th Century European
Literature
7 20 O NO
7AAFM026 Renaissance Transgressions: France in its European
Context
7 20 O NO
7AASM031 Muslim Spain, A European Fantasy From the Middle
Ages to Romanticism
7 20 O NO
Programme approval 2006/07
PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007
Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010
Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010
PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th
May 2010
PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010
PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th
February 2011
PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011
PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th
February 2012
PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012
PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012
PAF modified by QAS for 2013/14: 13th
December 2012
PAF finalised for 2013/14: 28 February 2014
7AASM032 Conflicts of the Mind: Narratives of Social Division in
Italy & Spain since the 1930s
7 20 O NO
Further optional modules, of which 60 credits must be chosen 7 20 O NO
7AABMA21 Greek Poetry in the 20th Century 7 20 O NO
7AABMA24 Greek Modernism & the Epic Tradition (1900-1960) 7 20 O NO
7AABMA28 Modernism & Music (1909-1939) 7 20 O NO Coursework
7AACK160 Hellenistic Poetry 7 20 O NO
7AACK840 Alexander’s Afterlife 7 20 O NO
7AACM225 Roman Verse Satire 7 20 O No Coursework
7AACM226 The Heritage of Roman Satire 7 20 O No Coursework
7AACM230 Virgil 7 20 O NO
7AACM290 Medieval Latin Literature 7 20 O NO
7AAEM220 Theatre, Gender & Culture in Jacobean London 7 20 O NO
7AAEM222 Renaissance Playhouse Practice 1567-1642 7 20 O NO
7AAEM250 Eighteenth Century Writing: Gender & Culture 7 20 O NO
7AAEM350 Turn of the Century Representations of Sexuality 7 20 O NO
7AAEM520 Conflict: Twentieth Century War Literature 7 20 O NO
7AAEM601 The Irish Literary Revival 1890 1930 7 20 O NO
7AAEM602 Explorations in Literature & Medicine 7 20 O NO
7AAEM603 The Material Legacy of Early Modern Literary Texts 7 20 O NO
7AAEM604 Representing the Eighteenth Century 7 20 O NO
7AAEM605 The Twentieth Century City: from Modernity to
Postmodernity
7 20 O NO
Programme approval 2006/07
PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007
Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010
Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010
PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th
May 2010
PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010
PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th
February 2011
PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011
PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th
February 2012
PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012
PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012
PAF modified by QAS for 2013/14: 13th
December 2012
PAF finalised for 2013/14: 28 February 2014
7AAEM606 Modernity & the City: 1850-1930 7 20 O NO
7AAEM607 Lifewritings 1700 - 1850 7 20 O NO
7AAEM608 Women & the Poetics of Liberty in the Romantic Period 7 20 O NO
7AAEM609 Text Culture Theory: London: 1850-Present 7 20 O NO
7AAEM612 Books & Bodies 7 20 O NO
7AAEM620 Global/ Local Shakespeares 7 20 O NO
7AAEM621 Life-Writing From Romanticism to Postmodernism 7 20 O NO
7AAEM624 Narrative Medicine: Narrative, Medicine 7 20 O NO
7AAEM626 Queer Theories of the Past 7 20 O NO
7AAEM628 Literature in a Time of Migration: Mobility & Sense of
Place from Wordsworth to Hardy
7 20 O NO
7AAEM631 Illness Narrative as Life Writing 7 20 O NO
7AAEM633 Literature & Psychiatry in the Twentieth Century 7 20 O NO
7AAEM636 Professing Writing in Early Modern England 7 20 O NO
7AAEM638 Contemporary South Asian Women’s Writing 7 20 O NO
7AAEM641 Working with Early Modern Literary Texts 7 20 O NO
7AAEM643 A Modern Bestiary: the Aesthetic Representation of
Animals Since Darwin
7 20 O NO
7AAEM635 Literary Biography & the Long 18C 7 20 O NO
7AAEM644 Life Writing: Genre etc 7 20 O NO
7AAEM645 Literary Autobiography 7 20 O NO
7AAEM654 Colonial Women Writers 7 20 O NO
7AAEM655 The Nineteenth-Century Archive Workshop: Victorian 7 20 O NO
Programme approval 2006/07
PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007
Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010
Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010
PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th
May 2010
PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010
PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th
February 2011
PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011
PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th
February 2012
PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012
PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012
PAF modified by QAS for 2013/14: 13th
December 2012
PAF finalised for 2013/14: 28 February 2014
Things
7AAEM656 Victorian Sensation 7 20 O NO
7AAEM657 The Verbal & Visual Middle Ages 7 20 O NO
7AAEM658 Body Languages 7 20 O NO
7AAEM662 Narrative Medicine: Narrative, Medicine 7 20 O NO
7AAEM663 Middleton’s Drama 7 20 O NO
7AAEM664 Family Politics in Early Modern England 7 20 O NO
7AAEM646 Medieval Sex, Gender & Culture: Research Skills &
Critical Methods
7 20 O NO
7AAEM677 German Literati in Britain, 1780-1820 7 20 O No Coursework
7AAEM710 Conflict, Memory & Resistance in African Literature 7 20 O No Coursework
7AAEM716 American Folks: Local Culture & Popular Experience in
US Writing, 1830-1900
7 20 O No Coursework
7AAYCC07 Culture, Theory & History 7 20 O NO
7AAYCC13 Film & American Culture 7 20 O NO
7AAYCL29 Translation, Colonialism, Postcolonialism 7 20 O No Coursework
7AAYCL30 Culture, Dissent & the Arab Spring 7 20 O No Coursework
7AAYCL31 The “Worlding” of Chinese Literary Modernity: New
Critical Interventions
7 20 O No Coursework
7AAYCL32 Contemporary Literature & Culture in China: A ‘Post-
Socialist’ Formation?
7 20 O No Coursework
7AAYCL33 Narrating Illness Across Cultures 7 20 O No Coursework
7AAFM007 'Life' & ‘Living’ in Recent French Thought 7 20 O NO
Programme approval 2006/07
PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007
Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010
Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010
PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th
May 2010
PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010
PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th
February 2011
PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011
PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th
February 2012
PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012
PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012
PAF modified by QAS for 2013/14: 13th
December 2012
PAF finalised for 2013/14: 28 February 2014
7AAFM031 What is a (French) Classic? 7 20 O NO
7AAFM016 Medieval Occitan Narrative 7 20 O NO
7AAFM041 Imagined Communities: Utopian Discourse & Political
Dissent in the French Enlightenment
7 20 O NO
7AAFM054 Painters & Writers in 19th Century French Literature 7 20 O NO
7AAFM068 French Psychoanalytical Theory after 1945 7 20 O NO
7AAFM070 The French Avant-garde & its Uses (E-Learning) 7 20 O NO
7AAFM164 Contemporary French Women’s Writing 7 20 O NO
7AAFM165 Francophone Literatures 7 20 O NO
7AAFM166 Rights before Human Rights: Eighteenth Century
Theories & Representations
7 20 O No Coursework
7AAP0107 Culture & Identity in Brazil Part 2: Contradictions of
Modernity
7 20 O NO
7AAPM116 Three faces of Women in the Galician-Portuguese Lyric 7 20 O NO
7AAPM126 Contemporary Portuguese Fiction 7 20 O NO
7AAPM120 Latin American Cultural Studies 7 20 O NO
7AAQS315 Film & New Media 7 20 O NO
7AAQS500 Formations of Film Studies; An Advanced Introduction
to the Field
7 20 O NO
7AAQS515 Art Cinema 7 20 O NO
7AAQS520 The Heritage Film: Aesthetics. Genre & Cultural
Identities in Contemporary Representations of the Past
7 20 O NO
7AAQS535 Cinema & the City 7 20 O NO
7AAQS545 Exploitation Cinema 7 20 O NO
Programme approval 2006/07
PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007
Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010
Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010
PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th
May 2010
PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010
PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th
February 2011
PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011
PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th
February 2012
PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012
PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012
PAF modified by QAS for 2013/14: 13th
December 2012
PAF finalised for 2013/14: 28 February 2014
7AAQS555 Thinking Cinema with Emmanuel Levinas: Theory,
Philosophy, Ethics
7 20 O NO
7AAQS560 Media Aesthetics 7 20 O NO
7AAQS565 Contemporary French Cinema 1990-2005: from
Heritage Productions to the New Extremism
7 20 O NO
7AAQS570 London Film Culture 7 20 O NO
7AAQS575 Music & Film 7 20 O NO
7AAQS580 French Cinema: History, Ideology, Aesthetics 7 20 O NO
7AAQS590 Traditions of Post-War & Contemporary British Cinema 7 20 O NO
7AASM024 Latin American Narrative 20th Century I 7 20 O NO
7AASM025 Latin American Narrative 20th Century II 7 20 O NO
7AASM026 The Problem of Women in Early Hispanic Literature 7 20 O NO
7AASM027 Historical Myth & national Identity in the Modern
Spanish Literature
7 20 O NO
7AASM028 Horror & Gothic in Spanish Cinema 7 20 O NO
7AASM029 Renaissance Transgressions: Spain in its European
Context
7 20 O NO
7AASM030 Being Modern: the Poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca 7 20 O NO
7AATC221 Introductory Biblical Hebrew with Texts 7 20 O NO
7AATC745 Advanced Hebrew Texts (Prose) 7 20 O NO
7AAV7004 Material Culture of the Book: Digital Models 7 20 O NO
7AAYM109 Skills for Medievalists: Palaeography I 7 20 O NO
7AAYMS03 The Arthurian Tradition in Literature & History 7 20 O NO
Programme approval 2006/07
PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007
Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010
Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010
PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th
May 2010
PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010
PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th
February 2011
PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011
PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th
February 2012
PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012
PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012
PAF modified by QAS for 2013/14: 13th
December 2012
PAF finalised for 2013/14: 28 February 2014
7AAYT002 Approaches to Theatre Practice 7 20 O NO
7AAYT003 Scene Study/ Imprints of Performance 7 20 O NO
Any taught graduate language module from MLC 6 20 O - - No - - Various
MA Comparative Literature: Literature Across Cultures pathway
Title Credit
level
Credi
t
value
Status (I, C, O) for each type
of programme
Progression Assessment
Single
honours
Joint
honours
Major /
minor
Single
honours
Joint
honours
Major /
minor
7AAYCL27 Dissertation (literature Across Cultures Pathway) 7 60 Cr YES Dissertation
7AAYCL24 Theorizing Comparative Literature Across Cultures:
Contemporary Debates
7 20 Cp NO Coursework
Students must choose at least TWO of the following modules 7 20 Coursework
7AAYCL02 Comparative Readings 7 20 O NO
7AAYCL25 The World Novel 7 20 O NO
7AAYCL28 Melancholia and Hypochondria 7 20 O NO
7AABMA23 Cavafy: Reader & Read 7 20 O NO
7AAEM620 Global/ Local Shakespeares 7 20 O NO
7AAEM638 Contemporary South Asian Women’s Writing 7 20 O NO
7AAEM654 Colonial Women Writers 7 20 O NO
7AAP0107 Culture & Identity in Brazil Part 2: Contradictions of
Modernity
7 20 O NO
7AAP1001 Guided Reading Module I [Portuguese & Brazilian
Modernism]
7 20 O NO
Programme approval 2006/07
PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007
Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010
Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010
PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th
May 2010
PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010
PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th
February 2011
PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011
PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th
February 2012
PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012
PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012
PAF modified by QAS for 2013/14: 13th
December 2012
PAF finalised for 2013/14: 28 February 2014
7AAPM120 Latin American Cultural Studies 7 20 O NO
7AASM031 Muslim Spain, A European Fantasy from the Middle
Ages to Romanticism
7 20 O NO
7AASM032 Conflicts of the Mind: Narratives of Social Division in
Italy & Spain since the 1930s
7 20 O NO
7AASM024 Latin American Narrative 20th Century I 7 20 O NO
7AASM025 Latin American Narrative 20th Century II 7 20 O NO
Further optional modules, of which 60 credits must be chosen
7AAYCL13 Comedy in Theory 7 20 O NO
7AAYCL17 Surrealism & Visuality 7 20 O NO
7AAGM201 Melancholia & Hypochondria 18th Century European
Literature
7 20 O NO
7AABMA24 Greek Modernism & the Epic Tradition (1900-1960) 7 20 O NO
7AABMA28 Modernism & Music (1909-1939) 7 20 O NO Coursework
7AACK160 Hellenistic Poetry 7 20 O NO
7AACK840 Alexander’s Afterlife 7 20 O NO
7AACM225 Roman Verse Satire 7 20 O No Coursework
7AACM226 The Heritage of Roman Satire 7 20 O No Coursework
7AACM230 Virgil 7 20 O NO
7AACM290 Medieval Latin Literature 7 20 O NO
7AAEM201 Prison Writing: An English & European Tradition 7 20 O NO
7AAEM220 Theatre, Gender & Culture in Jacobean London 7 20 O NO
7AAEM222 Renaissance Playhouse Practice 1567-1642 7 20 O NO
Programme approval 2006/07
PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007
Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010
Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010
PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th
May 2010
PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010
PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th
February 2011
PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011
PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th
February 2012
PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012
PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012
PAF modified by QAS for 2013/14: 13th
December 2012
PAF finalised for 2013/14: 28 February 2014
7AAEM250 Eighteenth Century Writing: Gender & Culture 7 20 O NO
7AAEM350 Turn of the Century Representations of Sexuality 7 20 O NO
7AAEM520 Conflict: Twentieth Century War Literature 7 20 O NO
7AAEM601 The Irish Literary Revival 1890 1930 7 20 O NO
7AAEM602 Explorations in Literature & Medicine 7 20 O NO
7AAEM603 The Material Legacy of Early Modern Literary Texts 7 20 O NO
7AAEM604 Representing the Eighteenth Century 7 20 O NO
7AAEM605 The Twentieth Century City: from Modernity to
Postmodernity
7 20 O NO
7AAEM606 Modernity & the City: 1850-1930 7 20 O NO
7AAEM607 Lifewritings 1700 - 1850 7 20 O NO
7AAEM608 Women & the Poetics of Liberty in the Romantic Period 7 20 O NO
7AAEM609 Text Culture Theory: London: 1850-Present 7 20 O NO
7AAEM612 Books & Bodies 7 20 O NO
7AAEM621 Life-Writing From Romanticism to Postmodernism 7 20 O NO
7AAEM624 Narrative Medicine: Narrative, Medicine 7 20 O NO
7AAEM626 Queer Theories of the Past 7 20 O NO
7AAEM628 Literature in a Time of Migration: Mobility & Sense of
Place from Wordsworth to Hardy
7 20 O NO
7AAEM631 Illness Narrative as Life Writing 7 20 O NO
7AAEM633 Literature & Psychiatry in the Twentieth Century 7 20 O NO
7AAEM636 Professing Writing in Early Modern England 7 20 O NO
7AAEM641 Working with Early Modern Literary Texts 7 20 O NO
Programme approval 2006/07
PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007
Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010
Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010
PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th
May 2010
PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010
PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th
February 2011
PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011
PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th
February 2012
PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012
PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012
PAF modified by QAS for 2013/14: 13th
December 2012
PAF finalised for 2013/14: 28 February 2014
7AAEM643 A Modern Bestiary: the Aesthetic Representation of
Animals Since Darwin
7 20 O NO
7AAEM635 Literary Biography & the Long 18C 7 20 O NO
7AAEM644 Life Writing: Genre etc 7 20 O NO
7AAEM645 Literary Autobiography 7 20 O NO
7AAEM655 The Nineteenth-Century Archive Workshop: Victorian
Things
7 20 O NO
7AAEM656 Victorian Sensation 7 20 O NO
7AAEM657 The Verbal & Visual Middle Ages 7 20 O NO
7AAEM658 Body Languages 7 20 O NO
7AAEM662 Narrative Medicine: Narrative, Medicine 7 20 O NO
7AAEM663 Middleton’s Drama 7 20 O NO
7AAEM664 Family Politics in Early Modern England 7 20 O NO
7AAEM646 Medieval Sex, Gender & Culture: Research Skills &
Critical Methods
7 20 O NO
7AAEM677 German Literati in Britain, 1780-1820 7 20 O No Coursework
7AAEM710 Conflict, Memory & Resistance in African Literature 7 20 O No Coursework
7AAEM716 American Folks: Local Culture & Popular Experience in
US Writing, 1830-1900
7 20 O No Coursework
7AAYCC07 Culture, Theory & History 7 20 O NO
7AAYCC13 Film & American Culture 7 20 O NO
7AAYCL29 Translation, Colonialism, Postcolonialism 7 20 O No Coursework
7AAYCL30 Culture, Dissent & the Arab Spring 7 20 O No Coursework
Programme approval 2006/07
PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007
Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010
Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010
PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th
May 2010
PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010
PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th
February 2011
PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011
PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th
February 2012
PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012
PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012
PAF modified by QAS for 2013/14: 13th
December 2012
PAF finalised for 2013/14: 28 February 2014
7AAYCL31 The “Worlding” of Chinese Literary Modernity: New
Critical Interventions
7 20 O No Coursework
7AAYCL32 Contemporary Literature & Culture in China: A ‘Post-
Socialist’ Formation?
7 20 O No Coursework
7AAYCL33 Narrating Illness Across Cultures 7 20 O No Coursework
7AAFM007 'Life' & ‘Living’ in Recent French Thought 7 20 O NO
7AAFM031 What is a (French) Classic? 7 20 O NO
7AAFM016 Medieval Occitan Narrative 7 20 O NO
7AAFM041 Imagined Communities: Utopian Discourse & Political
Dissent in the French Enlightenment
7 20 O NO
7AAFM054 Painters & Writers in 19th Century French Literature 7 20 O NO
7AAFM068 French Psychoanalytical Theory after 1945 7 20 O NO
7AAFM070 The French Avant-garde & its Uses (E-Learning) 7 20 O NO
7AAFM164 Contemporary French Women’s Writing 7 20 O NO
7AAPM116 Three faces of Women in the Galician-Portuguese Lyric 7 20 O NO
7AAPM126 Contemporary Portuguese Fiction 7 20 O NO
7AAQS315 Film & New Media 7 20 O NO
7AAQS500 Formations of Film Studies; An Advanced Introduction to
the Field
7 20 O NO
7AAQS515 Art Cinema 7 20 O NO
7AAQS520 The Heritage Film: Aesthetics. Genre & Cultural
Identities in Contemporary Representations of the Past
7 20 O NO
7AAQS535 Cinema & the City 7 20 O NO
7AAQS545 Exploitation Cinema 7 20 O NO
Programme approval 2006/07
PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007
Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010
Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010
PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th
May 2010
PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010
PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th
February 2011
PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011
PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th
February 2012
PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012
PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012
PAF modified by QAS for 2013/14: 13th
December 2012
PAF finalised for 2013/14: 28 February 2014
7AAQS555 Thinking Cinema with Emmanuel Levinas: Theory,
Philosophy, Ethics
7 20 O NO
7AAQS560 Media Aesthetics 7 20 O NO
7AAQS565 Contemporary French Cinema 1990-2005: from Heritage
Productions to the New Extremism
7 20 O NO
7AAQS570 London Film Culture 7 20 O NO
7AAQS575 Music & Film 7 20 O NO
7AAQS580 French Cinema: History, Ideology, Aesthetics 7 20 O NO
7AAQS590 Traditions of Post-War & Contemporary British Cinema 7 20 O NO
7AASM026 The Problem of Women in Early Hispanic Literature 7 20 O NO
7AASM027 Historical Myth & national Identity in the Modern
Spanish Literature
7 20 O NO
7AASM028 Horror & Gothic in Spanish Cinema 7 20 O NO
7AASM029 Renaissance Transgressions: Spain in its European
Context
7 20 O NO
7AASM030 Being Modern: the Poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca 7 20 O NO
7AATC221 Introductory Biblical Hebrew with Texts 7 20 O NO
7AATC745 Advanced Hebrew Texts (Prose) 7 20 O NO
7AAV7004 Material Culture of the Book: Digital Models 7 20 O NO
7AAYM109 Skills for Medievalists: Palaeography I 7 20 O NO
7AAYMS03 The Arthurian Tradition in Literature & History 7 20 O NO
7AAYT002 Approaches to Theatre Practice 7 20 O NO
7AAYT003 Scene Study/ Imprints of Performance 7 20 O NO
Programme approval 2006/07
PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007
Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010
Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010
PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th
May 2010
PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010
PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th
February 2011
PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011
PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th
February 2012
PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012
PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012
PAF modified by QAS for 2013/14: 13th
December 2012
PAF finalised for 2013/14: 28 February 2014
7AASM026 The Problem of Women in Early Hispanic Literature 7 20 O NO
Any taught graduate language module from MLC 6 20 O - - No - - Various
20. Marking criteria The assessment criteria follow the College’s general criteria for the assessment of MA programmes.