German and Comparative Literature MLitt

These are the modules offered by the University of St Andrews during the second year of the MLitt/MA programme.

The modules in this programme have varying methods of delivery and assessment.

Complusory

• Apples and Oranges: Issues in Comparative Literature: explores the most pressing questions which arise when different texts are put in contact, using pairings of texts to reflect on different kinds of relations, such as clashes, genetic, interdisciplinary and intermedial relations.
• German Literary and Cultural Contexts: Turning Points: advanced knowledge of contexts that have shaped literature and culture in the German-speaking lands from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Students taking the 40-credit version of German Literary and Cultural Contexts: Turning Points do not take optional modules.

Optional

Students choose one optional module. Optional modules are subject to change each year, and some may only allow limited numbers of students .

• Contemporary Literature and Culture
• Contextualising the Modern
• The Continental Renaissance
• French Literary Revolutions
• Italian Literary and Cultural Contexts
• Learned Culture: Rhetoric, Politics and Identity
• Literary and Cultural Theory 1
• Middle Eastern Literary and Cultural Contexts
• Patterns in Hispanic Literature and Film
• Reading the Modern
• Renaissance Popular Culture
• Theorising the Contemporary
• Women, Writing and Gender 1: Renaissance to Romanticism
• Women, Writing and Gender 2: Victorian to Contemporary.

In the second semester at St Andrews, students specialise in an area of choice within German or comparative literature and write an 18,000-word dissertation under the joint supervision of one professor in Bonn and one supervisor in St Andrews. This is an in-depth independent research project that serves as an ideal preparation for the demands of a PhD.

If students choose not to complete the dissertation requirement for the MLitt, there are exit awards available that allow suitably qualified candidates to receive a Postgraduate Diploma. By choosing an exit award, you will finish your degree at the end of the second semester of study and receive a PGDip instead of a MLitt.