Comparative literature ba (hons)

Structure

You can complete your Comparative Literature degree in three or four years. If you choose to do a year abroad, this will take place in Year 3, and the 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
• European Literature and its Contexts
• Introduction to Comparison
• Introduction to Literature: Texts and Contexts
• The Scene of Learning
• Understanding Culture: An Introduction to Cultural Theory

• Brief Encounters: Short Stories and Tall Tales
• Myth and Modernity
• The Opposite of Science: How to analyse poems
• The Romantic Experience in Europe (1800–1840)

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Compulsory

• The Scene of Reading

• Colonial Literatures, Post-Colonial Perspectives
• Experiments in contemporary Women’s Writing
• Fairy Tales in the Modern World
• Homeward Bound: From the Odyssey to O Brother Where Art Thou?
• Literature and Philosophy
• Madness, Past and Present
• Migration through Photography
• Photography and Narrative
• Presentations of London in Modern European Literature and Film
• Why Belgium? Identities, Cultures, Narratives

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3 Compulsory

• The Scene of Writing

• 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
• 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
• Photography: The Self and its Image
• The East in the West

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 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.