MLitt Global Languages, Literatures and Cultures

• A  2.1 Honours undergraduate degree in a Modern Language or Comparative Literature. There is no option to study an additional language as part of this programme. 
• 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.

Application requirements

• CV with a history of your education and employment to date 
• personal statement of around 500 words outlining your personal motivations for applying and how the course fits with your career ambitions
• sample of your own, single-authored academic written work in English of around 2,000 words 
• two references, one of which must be academic
• academic transcript and degree certificate

For more guidance, see supporting documents and references for postgraduate taught programmes.

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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 such as: 

• consulting 
• energy resource management 
• international development 
• journalism 
• UN interpreting 
• public policy 
• publishing 
• the civil and diplomatic services 
• academia as 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.

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 and your analytic and critical skills, including writing abstracts and research proposals, presenting a conference paper, disseminating research for diverse audiences, planning a conference, along with 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 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.