Comparative literature and linguistics ba (hons)

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Postgraduate

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    3 Years

Teaching
Teaching and learning
You’ll receive approximately eight hours of weekly contact time, in the form of lectures led by academic staff, seminar groups and workshops.
For every hour spent in class, you’ll complete a further two to three hours of independent study.
Assessment
Assessment typically includes a combination of exams and coursework, or coursework only. Assessment of linguistics may take different forms, such as research diaries or poster presentations.
Resources and facilities
The School offers excellent on-campus resources to aid your studies, including:
the Queen Mary library
a phonetics laboratory, including a soundproof recording studio
Ling Lunch talks and departmental guest speaker seminars, which allow you to hear from Queen Mary academics, researchers and experts from institutions in Europe and North America
events throughout the year, such as public debates, film nights and book launches, which attract diverse audiences and offer networking opportunities.
Learn another language
If you’re interested in learning another language, you can sign up for a course at Queen Mary’s Language Centre, where you can choose from Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Japanese or Spanish.

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Location

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London
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67-69 Lincoln'S Inn Fields, WC2A 3JB

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5.0
06/03/2019
About the course: I very much being a part of this university but I wish we had a bit shorter lectures and more of personal seminars. That would be a great help for everyone to know eachother.
Would you recommend this course?: Yes
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Subjects

  • Writing
  • English
  • Teaching
  • Translation
  • Options
  • Art
  • Comparative Literature
  • Literature
  • Comparative Law
  • English Language

Course programme

Structure

You can complete your Comparative Literature and Linguistics degree in three or four years. If you choose to study abroad for a year, this will take place in Year 3 and Year 3 modules will instead be studied in Year 4.

  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3

Year 1 Compulsory

  • Critical Thinking and Writing for Comparative Literature
  • Foundations of Linguistics
  • Introduction to Comparison
  • Introduction to Literature: Texts and Contexts
  • The Scene of Learning
  • Understanding Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Theory

Choose two from

  • English in Use
  • Introduction to English Syntax
  • Introduction to Phonology
  • Language Acquisition
  • Language in the UK
  • Languages of the World
  • Sounds of English

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Compulsory

  • The Scene of Reading

Choose seven from

  • Aspects of Meaning
  • Colonial Literatures, Post-Colonial Perspectives
  • Describing Prosody
  • Experiments in contemporary Women’s Writing
  • Explaining Grammatical Structure
  • Fairy Tales in the Modern World
  • History of English
  • Homeward Bound: From the Odyssey to O Brother Where Art Thou?
  • Language and Ethnicity
  • Language and Mind
  • Language and the Media
  • Linguistic Typology and Grammatical Theory
  • Literature and Philosophy
  • Madness, Past and Present
  • Migration through Photography
  • Photography and Narrative
  • Presentations of London in Modern European Literature and Film
  • Sociolinguistic Variation and Change
  • Why Belgium? Identities, Cultures, Narratives

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3 Compulsory

  • The Scene of Writing

Choose seven from

  • Bilingualism and Multilingualism
  • Comparative Literature Research Project
  • Comparative Modernisms: the Case of China and India
  • Constellations: Online Anthology Group Project
  • Faust in Legend, Literature and the Arts
  • First World War Literatures
  • Formal Semantics
  • Grand Tours: 19th century Adventure Stories for Young Readers and their 20th century Afterlives
  • Lost in Translation?
  • On the Subject of Sex II: Queen to Queer
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Photography: The Self and its Image
  • Structures of Spoken English
  • Syntactic Theory
  • The East in the West
  • Unfamiliar Languages

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Study options

Apply for this degree with any of the following options. Take care to use the correct UCAS code - it may not be possible to change your selection later.

Year abroad

Go global and study abroad as part of your degree – apply for our Comparative Literature and Linguistics BA with a Year Abroad. Queen Mary has links with universities in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia (partnerships vary for each degree programme).

Find out more about study abroad opportunities at Queen Mary and what the progression requirements are.

Comparative literature and linguistics ba (hons)

Price on request