B.A. Comparative Literature (Hons)

The course structure below gives a flavour of the modules that will be available to you and provides details of the content of this programme. This listing is based on the current curriculum and may change year to year in response to new curriculum developments and innovation. Most programmes will require you to study a combination of compulsory and optional modules. You may also have the option to take ‘wild’ modules from other programmes offered by the University in order that you may customise your programme and explore other subject areas of interest to you or that may further enhance your employability.

Possible modules may include:

• The Tale
• Childhood & Adolesence in Modern Fiction
• Introduction to Contemporary European and Hispanic Cinemas
• The Romantic Movement
• Classical Literature
• World Literature:An Introduction
• Classical Mythology:Themes and Approaches
• Freedom and Oppression in Modern Literature
• Guilt and Redemption in Modern Literature

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Possible modules may include:

• The Text: Approaches to Comparative Literature
• Fiction and Power
• Modern Arabic Literature and the Middle East
• Travel Literature
• Modernism and the European Avant-Garde
• Science Fiction: History and Innovation
• Second Thoughts: Women Novelists from Bronte to Jelinek
• European Realism
• Creatures of the Night: Vampires in Literature and Film
• Prize Winners
• Postcolonial Images of Africa and South Asia
• Shakespeare's Afterlives
• Nordic Literature and Film

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Possible modules may include:

• Comparative Literature Dissertation
• Nordic Literature and Film
• Shakespeare's Afterlives
• Postcolonial Images of Africa and South Asia
• Comparative Literature and English & Linguistics in the Classroom
• Creatures of the Night: Vampires in Literature and Film
• Prize Winners
• Decadence in Fin-de-Siecle Europe
• European Realism
• SWIPE Undergraduate Conference
• Second Thoughts: Women Novelists from Bronte to Jelinek
• Science Fiction: History and Innovation
• Modernism and the European Avant-Garde
• Postmodernism
• Travel Literature
• Modern Arabic Literature and the Middle East
• The Book and the Film: Adaptation and Interpretation
• The Text: Approaches to Comparative Literature
• Fiction and Power

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage