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    MLitt MPA One year full time

Course Description

The School of Modern Languages is the largest modern languages department in Scotland and one of the largest in the UK. 

The programme explores transnational understanding of literature and culture, as well as providing training in traditional and new research techniques.

We are also distinguished by the breadth of our research which spans language, literary and cultural studies across eight distinct language areas – Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Persian, Russian and Spanish – and Comparative Literature, but also a range of cultural-historical epochs from the Middle Ages to the present day. This breadth is reflected in the literary and cultural topics you will study on the degree.

Highlights 

  • Students engage with traditional and new approaches to Comparative Literature, deepening their understanding of the field, and working with texts both in their original languages and in English translation. 
  • Small class sizes provide a close-knit postgraduate community and friendly environment. 
  • Innovative core and optional modules allow students to explore new approaches to reading texts and reflecting on their own critical practices. 
  • Explore cross-disciplinary studies via an option module in the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Studies as part of your degree. 

Entry Requirements

A  2.1 Honours undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline. If you studied your first degree outside the UK, see the international entry requirements.

The qualifications listed are indicative minimum requirements for entry. Some academic Schools will ask applicants to achieve significantly higher marks than the minimum. Obtaining the listed entry requirements will not guarantee you a place, as the University considers all aspects of every application including, where applicable, the writing sample, personal statement, and supporting documents.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

Alongside your academic learning, you will develop your broader capabilities and employability. All Masters students have access to the Saints Skills Awards, two flexible awards programmes undertaking skills analysis, reflective activities and mock recruitment opportunities to help develop your personal and professional skills.

Graduates have gone on to careers in fields including: 

  • consulting 
  • energy resource management 
  • international development 
  • journalism 
  • UN interpreting 
  • public policy 
  • publishing 
  • the civil and diplomatic services 
  • University academics and administrators. 

The Careers Centre offers one-to-one advice to all students as well as a programme of events to assist students in building their employability skills.

Module Details

Compulsory

  • Comparative Methodologies and Research Skills 1: You will problematise established approaches and explore new and emerging directions to conceptualise how you think texts might best be analysed and compared. The module's methodologies will underpin your acquisition of a range of transferable skills essential in academic research and non-academic roles.
  • Comparative Methodologies and Research Skills 2: Furthers and strengthens your engagement with comparative methodologies, your analytic and critical skills, including writing abstracts and research proposals, presenting a conference paper, disseminating research for diverse audiences, planning a conference, and IT and web research skills.

Optional

One of these is compulsory. One or both may be taken or one may be replaced with an agreed alternative module:

  • Literary and Cultural Introspection - invites you to look inward and consider areas of critical importance such as sex, gender, race, psychoanalysis, and the medical humanities in relation to the self. You will engage with case studies in translation from experts across the School of Modern Languages to encourage a breadth of scholarship.
  • Literary and Cultural Extrospection - invites you to look outward and consider areas of critical importance such as the postcolonial, de-colonial, the transnational, and memory studies in relation to society. You will engage with case studies in translation from experts across the School of Modern Languages to encourage a breadth of scholarship.

Dissertation

Students conclude their programme with the submission of a 15,000-word intra- or inter-cultural dissertation supervised by a specialist in the area. Students who choose not to complete the dissertation may elect for an alternative exit award, such as the Postgraduate Certificate or Diploma.

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