Comparative Literature, MA - King's College London · PG Diploma Comparative Literature or...

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Programme approval 2006/07 PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007 Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010 Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010 PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25 th May 2010 PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010 PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15 th February 2011 PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011 PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13 th February 2012 PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012 PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012 THE PROGRAMME SPECIFICATION 1. Programme title and designation Comparative Literature Pathways : Comparative Literature Comparative Literature: Literature Across Cultures 2. Final Award Award Title Credit value ECTS equivalent Any special criteria MA Comparative Literature 180 90 N/A MA Comparative Literature: Literature Across Cultures 180 90 N/A 2. Nested Award Award Title Credit value ECTS equivalent Any special criteria PG Diploma Comparative Literature or Comparative Literature: Literature Across Cultures 120 60 Students must take and pass120 credits of taught modules for a classified exit award 2. Exit Award Award Title Credit value ECTS equivalent Any special criteria Postgraduate Diploma Comparative Literature or Comparative Literature: Literature Across Cultures 120 60 An unclassified PG Diploma may be offered in cases where a total of 120 credits of any combination of modules have been achieved. 5. Level in the qualifications framework M 6. Attendance Full-time Part-time Distance learning Mode of attendance X X No Minimum length of programme 1 year 2 years N/A Maximum length of programme 3 years 4 years N/A 7. Awarding institution/body King’s College London 8. Teaching institution King’s College London

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Programme approval 2006/07

PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007

Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010

Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010

PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th

May 2010

PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010

PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th

February 2011

PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011

PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th

February 2012

PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012

PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012

THE PROGRAMME SPECIFICATION

1. Programme title and designation

Comparative Literature

Pathways:

Comparative Literature

Comparative Literature: Literature

Across Cultures

2. Final Award

Award Title Credit

value

ECTS

equivalent

Any special criteria

MA Comparative

Literature

180 90 N/A

MA Comparative

Literature: Literature

Across Cultures

180 90 N/A

2. Nested Award

Award Title Credit

value

ECTS

equivalent

Any special criteria

PG Diploma Comparative

Literature

or

Comparative

Literature: Literature

Across Cultures

120 60 Students must take and

pass120 credits of taught

modules for a classified exit

award

2. Exit Award

Award Title Credit

value

ECTS

equivalent

Any special criteria

Postgraduate

Diploma

Comparative

Literature

or

Comparative

Literature: Literature

Across Cultures

120 60 An unclassified PG Diploma

may be offered in cases

where a total of 120 credits

of any combination of

modules have been

achieved.

5. Level in the qualifications framework M

6. Attendance

Full-time Part-time Distance

learning

Mode of attendance

X X No

Minimum length of programme

1 year 2 years N/A

Maximum length of programme

3 years 4 years N/A

7. Awarding institution/body King’s College London

8. Teaching institution King’s College London

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Programme approval 2006/07

PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007

Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010

Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010

PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th

May 2010

PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010

PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th

February 2011

PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011

PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th

February 2012

PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012

PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012

9. Proposing department

Comparative Literature Programme, School of

Humanities

10. Programme organiser and contact

details

Dr. Zoe Norridge, Dept of English and

Comparative Literature programme, email:

[email protected]; ext 7152

11. UCAS code (if appropriate) N/A

12. Relevant QAA subject benchmark/

professional and statutory body guidelines

N/A

13. Date of production of specification

Original PAF: September 2003;

CFPAF May 2006

14. Date of programme review 2014/15

16. Educational aims of the programme

The aim of the MA in Comparative Literature is to develop students’ understanding of practices and

theories of diachronic and synchronic comparative literary study. The principal educational aims are

to develop students’ knowledge, understanding and abilities in the following areas:

advanced knowledge, skills and understanding of diachronic and synchronic comparative literary

study.

understanding of the depth and breadth of literature on comparative literary study and the

theoretical foundations that underpin this.

critical and other abilities needed for students to deepen and extend their knowledge of the

literatures written in the main ancient and modern European and other languages.

extension of critical reflection and analytical abilities, so that students can effectively design, plan

and execute their own independent research into the subject. Whereas the ‘MA Comparative

Literature’ pathway involves cross-linguistic comparison, the ‘MA Comparative Literature:

Literature Across Cultures’ pathway emphasizes cross-cultural comparison.

17. Educational objectives of the programme/programme outcomes

The programme provides opportunities for students to develop and demonstrate knowledge and

understanding and skills in the following areas:

Knowledge and understanding

The programme provides a knowledge and

understanding of the following:

1. Literary analysis in English and other languages.

2. General literary history.

3. The practice, methods, and theory of

comparative literary study;

4. Appropriate personal and professional conduct

in the context of the discipline.

These are achieved through the following

teaching/learning methods and

strategies:

Lectures, seminar discussion, guided

project work, and independent research.

Assessment:

Essays, with tutorial feedback.

Dissertation (independent research under

supervision).

Examination.

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Programme approval 2006/07

PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007

Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010

Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010

PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th

May 2010

PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010

PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th

February 2011

PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011

PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th

February 2012

PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012

PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012

Skills and other attributes

Intellectual skills:

1. Critical awareness to undertake analysis of

complex, incomplete or contradictory areas of

knowledge communicating the outcome

effectively;

2. Critical awareness to synthesise information in

a manner that may be innovative, utilising

knowledge or processes from the forefront of

the discipline/practice;

3. A level of conceptual understanding that will

allow her/him critically to evaluate research,

advanced scholarship and methodologies and

argue alternative approaches;

4. Initiative and originality in problem solving.

Can act autonomously in planning and

implementing tasks at a professional or

equivalent level, making decision in complex

and unpredictable situations.

These are achieved through the following

teaching/learning methods and

strategies:

Seminar discussion, guided project work,

advice from personal and academic tutors,

and independent research.

Assessment:

Essays, with tutorial feedback.

Dissertation (independent research under

supervision).

Examination.

Practical skills:

1. Can operate in complex and unpredictable

and/or specialised contexts, and has an

overview of the issues governing good

practice;

2. Is able to exercise initiative and personal

responsibility in professional practice.

These are achieved through the following

teaching/learning methods and

strategies:

Seminar discussion, guided project work,

advice from personal and academic tutors,

and independent research.

Assessment:

Essays, with tutorial feedback.

Dissertation (independent research under

supervision).

Examination.

Generic/transferable skills:

1. Can work effectively with a group as leader or

member. Can clarify tasks and make

appropriate use of capacities of group

members. Is able to negotiate and handle

conflict with confidence;

2. Is able to use full range of learning resources;

3. Is reflective on own and others’ functioning in

order to improve practice;

4. Can competently undertake research tasks

with minimum guidance;

5. Is an independent and self critical learner,

guiding the learning of others and managing

own requirements for continuing professional

development;

These are achieved through the following

teaching/learning methods and

strategies:

Seminar discussion, guided project work,

advice from personal and academic tutors,

and independent research.

Assessment:

Essays, with tutorial feedback.

Dissertation (independent research under

supervision).

Examination.

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Programme approval 2006/07

PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007

Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010

Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010

PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th

May 2010

PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010

PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th

February 2011

PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011

PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th

February 2012

PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012

PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012

6. Can engage confidently in academic and

professional communication with others,

reporting on action clearly, autonomously and

competently;

7. Has independent learning ability required for

continuing professional study, making

professional use of others where appropriate.

18. Statement of how the programme has been informed by the relevant subject benchmark

statement(s)/professional and statutory body guidelines

There is no subject benchmark for humanities MA degrees.

The programme has been designed in accordance with:

— QAA Code of Practice section 7: Programme approval, monitoring and review

— QAA Framework for Higher Education Qualifications

— Ordinances of the University of London

— King’s College London Quality Strategy

— King’s College London Mission Statement and Strategic Objectives 2001-2010

— King’s College London Academic Regulations

19. Programme structure and award requirements (where relevant the information should also

differentiate the particular requirements of pathways within a programme or linked/exit awards)

(a) numbers of compulsory and optional units to be taken in each year of the programme

MA Comparative Literature pathway: 180 credits earned through 2 x 20 credit compulsory modules, 1 x

60 credit core dissertation module, 1 x 20 credit optional module from a prescribed lists and 60 credits of

additional optional modules.

MA Comparative Literature: Literature Across Cultures pathway: 180 credits earned through 1 x 20

credits compulsory module, 1 x 60 credits core dissertation module, 2 x 20 credits optional modules from a

prescribed list and 60 credits of additional optional modules.

Part time:

MA Comparative Literature pathway:

Year 1. 80 credits earned through 2 x 20 credit compulsory modules and 40 credits of optional modules*.

Year 2. 100 credits earned through 1 x 60 credit core dissertation module and 40 credits of optional

modules*.

*Optional modules to include at least 1 x 20 credits module from the prescribed list of options over the

two years.

MA Comparative Literature: Literature Across Cultures pathway:

Year 1. 80 credits earned through 2 x 20 credit compulsory modules and 40 credits of optional

modules**.

Year 2. 100 credits earned through 1 x 60 credit core dissertation module and 40 credits of optional

modules**.

** Optional modules to include at least 2 x 20 credits modules from the prescribed list of options over the

two years.

Students may, with the agreement of the programme convenor, substitute any credits (other than for core

or compulsory elements) with credits from other departments or programmes provided that they are

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Programme approval 2006/07

PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007

Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010

Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010

PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th

May 2010

PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010

PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th

February 2011

PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011

PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th

February 2012

PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012

PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012

directly relevant to Comparative Literature.

(b) range of credit levels permitted within the programme

6, 7***

(c) maximum number of credits permitted at the lowest level

20.

(d) minimum number of credits required at the highest level

160.

(e) progression and award requirements (if different from the standard)

Standard.

(f) maximum number of credits permitted with a condoned fail (core modules excluded)

30 credits.

(g) are students permitted to take a substitute module, as per regulation A3, 20.7?

No

(h) other relevant information to explain the programme structure

***Level 6 modules are restricted to taught graduate language modules offered by the MLC.

Exit Award provision

A classified PG Diploma may be offered in cases where students have gained 120 credits from taught

modules (as identified on the nested award). Includes condoned fails

An unclassified PG Diploma may be offered in cases where a total of 120 credits of any combination of

modules have been achieved. Includes condoned fails

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Programme approval 2006/07

PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007

Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010

Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010

PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th

May 2010

PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010

PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th

February 2011

PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011

PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th

February 2012

PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012

PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012

Programme Structure

Title Credit

level

Credi

t

value

Status (I, C, O) for each type

of programme

Progression Assessment

Single

honours

Joint

honours

Major /

minor

Single

honours

Joint

honours

Major /

minor

7AAYCL01 Dissertation 7 60 Cr YES Dissertation

7AAYCL02 Comparative Readings 7 20 Cp NO Coursework

7AAYCL03 Comparative Theories 7 20 Cp NO Coursework

Students must choose at least ONE of the following modules 7 NO

7AAYCL13 Comedy in Theory 7 20 O NO

7AAYCL17 Surrealism & Visuality 7 20 O NO

7AAYCL25 The World Novel 7 20 O NO

7AAYCL24 Theorizing Literature Across Cultures 7 20 O NO

7AABMA23 Cavafy Reader & Read 7 40 O NO

7AAYCL28 Melancholia and Hypochondria 7 20 O NO

7AAEM201 Prison Writing: An English & European Tradition 7 20 O NO

7AAGM201 Melancholia & Hypochondria 18th Century European

Literature

7 20 O NO

7AAFM026 Renaissance Transgressions: France in its European

Context

7 20 O NO

7AASM031 Muslim Spain, A European Fantasy From the Middle

Ages to Romanticism

7 20 O NO

7AASM032 Conflicts of the Mind: Narratives of Social Division in

Italy & Spain since the 1930s

7 20 O NO

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Programme approval 2006/07

PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007

Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010

Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010

PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th

May 2010

PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010

PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th

February 2011

PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011

PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th

February 2012

PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012

PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012

Further optional modules, of which 60 credits must be chosen 7 20 O NO

7AABMA21 Greek Poetry in the 20th Century 7 20 O NO

7AABMA24 Greek Modernism & the Epic Tradition (1900-1960) 7 20 O NO

7AACK160 Hellenistic Poetry 7 20 O NO

7AACK840 Alexander’s Afterlife 7 20 O NO

7AACM225 Roman Verse Satire 7 20 O No Coursework

7AACM226 The Heritage of Roman Satire 7 20 O No Coursework

7AACM230 Virgil 7 20 O NO

7AACM290 Medieval Latin Literature 7 20 O NO

7AAEM220 Theatre, Gender & Culture in Jacobean London 7 20 O NO

7AAEM222 Renaissance Playhouse Practice 1567-1642 7 20 O NO

7AAEM250 Eighteenth Century Writing: Gender & Culture 7 20 O NO

7AAEM350 Turn of the Century Representations of Sexuality 7 20 O NO

7AAEM520 Conflict: Twentieth Century War Literature 7 20 O NO

7AAEM601 The Irish Literary Revival 1890 1930 7 20 O NO

7AAEM602 Explorations in Literature & Medicine 7 20 O NO

7AAEM603 The Material Legacy of Early Modern Literary Texts 7 20 O NO

7AAEM604 Representing the Eighteenth Century 7 20 O NO

7AAEM605 The Twentieth Century City: from Modernity to

Postmodernity

7 20 O NO

7AAEM606 Modernity & the City: 1850-1930 7 20 O NO

7AAEM607 Lifewritings 1700 - 1850 7 20 O NO

7AAEM608 Women & the Poetics of Liberty in the Romantic Period 7 20 O NO

7AAEM609 Text Culture Theory: London: 1850-Present 7 20 O NO

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Programme approval 2006/07

PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007

Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010

Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010

PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th

May 2010

PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010

PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th

February 2011

PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011

PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th

February 2012

PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012

PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012

7AAEM612 Books & Bodies 7 20 O NO

7AAEM620 Global/ Local Shakespeares 7 20 O NO

7AAEM621 Life-Writing From Romanticism to Postmodernism 7 20 O NO

7AAEM624 Narrative Medicine: Narrative, Medicine 7 20 O NO

7AAEM626 Queer Theories of the Past 7 20 O NO

7AAEM628 Literature in a Time of Migration: Mobility & Sense of

Place from Wordsworth to Hardy

7 20 O NO

7AAEM631 Illness Narrative as Life Writing 7 20 O NO

7AAEM633 Literature & Psychiatry in the Twentieth Century 7 20 O NO

7AAEM636 Professing Writing in Early Modern England 7 20 O NO

7AAEM638 Contemporary South Asian Women’s Writing 7 20 O NO

7AAEM641 Working with Early Modern Literary Texts 7 20 O NO

7AAEM643 A Modern Bestiary: the Aesthetic Representation of

Animals Since Darwin

7 20 O NO

7AAEM635 Literary Biography & the Long 18C 7 20 O NO

7AAEM644 Life Writing: Genre etc 7 20 O NO

7AAEM645 Literary Autobiography 7 20 O NO

7AAEM654 Colonial Women Writers 7 20 O NO

7AAEM655 The Nineteenth-Century Archive Workshop: Victorian

Things

7 20 O NO

7AAEM656 Victorian Sensation 7 20 O NO

7AAEM657 The Verbal & Visual Middle Ages 7 20 O NO

7AAEM658 Body Languages 7 20 O NO

7AAEM662 Narrative Medicine: Narrative, Medicine 7 20 O NO

7AAEM663 Middleton’s Drama 7 20 O NO

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Programme approval 2006/07

PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007

Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010

Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010

PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th

May 2010

PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010

PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th

February 2011

PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011

PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th

February 2012

PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012

PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012

7AAEM664 Family Politics in Early Modern England 7 20 O NO

7AAEM646 Medieval Sex, Gender & Culture: Research Skills &

Critical Methods

7 20 O NO

7AAEM677 German Literati in Britain, 1780-1820 7 20 O No Coursework

7AAYCC07 Culture, Theory & History 7 20 O NO

7AAYCC13 Film & American Culture 7 20 O NO

7AAYCL29 Translation, Colonialism, Postcolonialism 7 20 O No Coursework

7AAFM007 'Life' & ‘Living’ in Recent French Thought 7 20 O NO

7AAFM031 What is a (French) Classic? 7 20 O NO

7AAFM016 Medieval Occitan Narrative 7 20 O NO

7AAFM041 Imagined Communities: Utopian Discourse & Political

Dissent in the French Enlightenment

7 20 O NO

7AAFM054 Painters & Writers in 19th Century French Literature 7 20 O NO

7AAFM068 French Psychoanalytical Theory after 1945 7 20 O NO

7AAFM070 The French Avant-garde & its Uses (E-Learning) 7 20 O NO

7AAFM164 Contemporary French Women’s Writing 7 20 O NO

7AAFM165 Francophone Literatures 7 20 O NO

7AAFM166 Rights before Human Rights: Eighteenth Century

Theories & Representations

7 20 O No Coursework

7AAP0107 Culture & Identity in Brazil Part 2: Contradictions of

Modernity

7 20 O NO

7AAPM116 Three faces of Women in the Galician-Portuguese Lyric 7 20 O NO

7AAPM126 Contemporary Portuguese Fiction 7 20 O NO

7AAPM120 Latin American Cultural Studies 7 20 O NO

7AAQS315 Film & New Media 7 20 O NO

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Programme approval 2006/07

PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007

Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010

Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010

PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th

May 2010

PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010

PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th

February 2011

PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011

PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th

February 2012

PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012

PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012

7AAQS500 Formations of Film Studies; An Advanced Introduction to

the Field

7 20 O NO

7AAQS515 Art Cinema 7 20 O NO

7AAQS520 The Heritage Film: Aesthetics. Genre & Cultural

Identities in Contemporary Representations of the Past

7 20 O NO

7AAQS535 Cinema & the City 7 20 O NO

7AAQS545 Exploitation Cinema 7 20 O NO

7AAQS555 Thinking Cinema with Emmanuel Levinas: Theory,

Philosophy, Ethics

7 20 O NO

7AAQS560 Media Aesthetics 7 20 O NO

7AAQS565 Contemporary French Cinema 1990-2005: from Heritage

Productions to the New Extremism

7 20 O NO

7AAQS570 London Film Culture 7 20 O NO

7AAQS575 Music & Film 7 20 O NO

7AAQS580 French Cinema: History, Ideology, Aesthetics 7 20 O NO

7AAQS590 Traditions of Post-War & Contemporary British Cinema 7 20 O NO

7AASM024 Latin American Narrative 20th Century I 7 20 O NO

7AASM025 Latin American Narrative 20th Century II 7 20 O NO

7AASM026 The Problem of Women in Early Hispanic Literature 7 20 O NO

7AASM027 Historical Myth & national Identity in the Modern

Spanish Literature

7 20 O NO

7AASM028 Horror & Gothic in Spanish Cinema 7 20 O NO

7AASM029 Renaissance Transgressions: Spain in its European

Context

7 20 O NO

7AASM030 Being Modern: the Poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca 7 20 O NO

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Programme approval 2006/07

PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007

Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010

Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010

PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th

May 2010

PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010

PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th

February 2011

PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011

PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th

February 2012

PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012

PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012

7AATC221 Introductory Biblical Hebrew with Texts 7 20 O NO

7AATC745 Advanced Hebrew Texts (Prose) 7 20 O NO

7AAV7004 Material Culture of the Book: Digital Models 7 20 O NO

7AAYM109 Skills for Medievalists: Palaeography I 7 20 O NO

7AAYMS03 The Arthurian Tradition in Literature & History 7 20 O NO

7AAYT002 Approaches to Theatre Practice 7 20 O NO

7AAYT003 Scene Study/ Imprints of Performance 7 20 O NO

Any taught graduate language module from MLC 6 20 O - - No - - Various

MA Comparative Literature: Literature Across Cultures pathway

Title Credit

level

Credi

t

value

Status (I, C, O) for each type

of programme

Progression Assessment

Single

honours

Joint

honours

Major /

minor

Single

honours

Joint

honours

Major /

minor

7AAYCL27 Dissertation (literature Across Cultures Pathway) 7 60 Cr YES Dissertation

7AAYCL24 Theorizing Literature Across Cultures 7 20 Cp NO Coursework

Students must choose at least TWO of the following modules 7 20 Coursework

7AAYCL02 Comparative Readings 7 20 O NO

7AAYCL25 The World Novel 7 20 O NO

7AAYCL28 Melancholia and Hypochondria 7 20 O NO

7AABMA23 Cavafy: Reader & Read 7 20 O NO

7AAEM620 Global/ Local Shakespeares 7 20 O NO

7AAEM638 Contemporary South Asian Women’s Writing 7 20 O NO

7AAEM654 Colonial Women Writers 7 20 O NO

7AAP0107 Culture & Identity in Brazil Part 2: Contradictions of 7 20 O NO

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Programme approval 2006/07

PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007

Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010

Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010

PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th

May 2010

PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010

PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th

February 2011

PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011

PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th

February 2012

PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012

PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012

Modernity

7AAP1001 Guided Reading Module I [Portuguese & Brazilian

Modernism]

7 20 O NO

7AAPM120 Latin American Cultural Studies 7 20 O NO

7AASM031 Muslim Spain, A European Fantasy from the Middle

Ages to Romanticism

7 20 O NO

7AASM032 Conflicts of the Mind: Narratives of Social Division in

Italy & Spain since the 1930s

7 20 O NO

7AASM024 Latin American Narrative 20th Century I 7 20 O NO

7AASM025 Latin American Narrative 20th Century II 7 20 O NO

Further optional modules, of which 60 credits must be chosen

7AAYCL13 Comedy in Theory 7 20 O NO

7AAYCL17 Surrealism & Visuality 7 20 O NO

7AAGM201 Melancholia & Hypochondria 18th Century European

Literature

7 20 O NO

7AABMA24 Greek Modernism & the Epic Tradition (1900-1960) 7 20 O NO

7AACK160 Hellenistic Poetry 7 20 O NO

7AACK840 Alexander’s Afterlife 7 20 O NO

7AACM225 Roman Verse Satire 7 20 O No Coursework

7AACM226 The Heritage of Roman Satire 7 20 O No Coursework

7AACM230 Virgil 7 20 O NO

7AACM290 Medieval Latin Literature 7 20 O NO

7AAEM201 Prison Writing: An English & European Tradition 7 20 O NO

7AAEM220 Theatre, Gender & Culture in Jacobean London 7 20 O NO

7AAEM222 Renaissance Playhouse Practice 1567-1642 7 20 O NO

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Programme approval 2006/07

PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007

Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010

Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010

PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th

May 2010

PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010

PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th

February 2011

PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011

PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th

February 2012

PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012

PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012

7AAEM250 Eighteenth Century Writing: Gender & Culture 7 20 O NO

7AAEM350 Turn of the Century Representations of Sexuality 7 20 O NO

7AAEM520 Conflict: Twentieth Century War Literature 7 20 O NO

7AAEM601 The Irish Literary Revival 1890 1930 7 20 O NO

7AAEM602 Explorations in Literature & Medicine 7 20 O NO

7AAEM603 The Material Legacy of Early Modern Literary Texts 7 20 O NO

7AAEM604 Representing the Eighteenth Century 7 20 O NO

7AAEM605 The Twentieth Century City: from Modernity to

Postmodernity

7 20 O NO

7AAEM606 Modernity & the City: 1850-1930 7 20 O NO

7AAEM607 Lifewritings 1700 - 1850 7 20 O NO

7AAEM608 Women & the Poetics of Liberty in the Romantic Period 7 20 O NO

7AAEM609 Text Culture Theory: London: 1850-Present 7 20 O NO

7AAEM612 Books & Bodies 7 20 O NO

7AAEM621 Life-Writing From Romanticism to Postmodernism 7 20 O NO

7AAEM624 Narrative Medicine: Narrative, Medicine 7 20 O NO

7AAEM626 Queer Theories of the Past 7 20 O NO

7AAEM628 Literature in a Time of Migration: Mobility & Sense of

Place from Wordsworth to Hardy

7 20 O NO

7AAEM631 Illness Narrative as Life Writing 7 20 O NO

7AAEM633 Literature & Psychiatry in the Twentieth Century 7 20 O NO

7AAEM636 Professing Writing in Early Modern England 7 20 O NO

7AAEM641 Working with Early Modern Literary Texts 7 20 O NO

7AAEM643 A Modern Bestiary: the Aesthetic Representation of

Animals Since Darwin

7 20 O NO

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Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010

Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010

PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th

May 2010

PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010

PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th

February 2011

PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011

PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th

February 2012

PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012

PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012

7AAEM635 Literary Biography & the Long 18C 7 20 O NO

7AAEM644 Life Writing: Genre etc 7 20 O NO

7AAEM645 Literary Autobiography 7 20 O NO

7AAEM655 The Nineteenth-Century Archive Workshop: Victorian

Things

7 20 O NO

7AAEM656 Victorian Sensation 7 20 O NO

7AAEM657 The Verbal & Visual Middle Ages 7 20 O NO

7AAEM658 Body Languages 7 20 O NO

7AAEM662 Narrative Medicine: Narrative, Medicine 7 20 O NO

7AAEM663 Middleton’s Drama 7 20 O NO

7AAEM664 Family Politics in Early Modern England 7 20 O NO

7AAEM646 Medieval Sex, Gender & Culture: Research Skills &

Critical Methods

7 20 O NO

7AAEM677 German Literati in Britain, 1780-1820 7 20 O No Coursework

7AAYCC07 Culture, Theory & History 7 20 O NO

7AAYCC13 Film & American Culture 7 20 O NO

7AAYCL29 Translation, Colonialism, Postcolonialism 7 20 O No Coursework

7AAFM007 'Life' & ‘Living’ in Recent French Thought 7 20 O NO

7AAFM031 What is a (French) Classic? 7 20 O NO

7AAFM016 Medieval Occitan Narrative 7 20 O NO

7AAFM041 Imagined Communities: Utopian Discourse & Political

Dissent in the French Enlightenment

7 20 O NO

7AAFM054 Painters & Writers in 19th Century French Literature 7 20 O NO

7AAFM068 French Psychoanalytical Theory after 1945 7 20 O NO

7AAFM070 The French Avant-garde & its Uses (E-Learning) 7 20 O NO

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PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007

Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010

Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010

PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th

May 2010

PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010

PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th

February 2011

PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011

PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th

February 2012

PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012

PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012

7AAFM164 Contemporary French Women’s Writing 7 20 O NO

7AAPM116 Three faces of Women in the Galician-Portuguese Lyric 7 20 O NO

7AAPM126 Contemporary Portuguese Fiction 7 20 O NO

7AAQS315 Film & New Media 7 20 O NO

7AAQS500 Formations of Film Studies; An Advanced Introduction to

the Field

7 20 O NO

7AAQS515 Art Cinema 7 20 O NO

7AAQS520 The Heritage Film: Aesthetics. Genre & Cultural

Identities in Contemporary Representations of the Past

7 20 O NO

7AAQS535 Cinema & the City 7 20 O NO

7AAQS545 Exploitation Cinema 7 20 O NO

7AAQS555 Thinking Cinema with Emmanuel Levinas: Theory,

Philosophy, Ethics

7 20 O NO

7AAQS560 Media Aesthetics 7 20 O NO

7AAQS565 Contemporary French Cinema 1990-2005: from Heritage

Productions to the New Extremism

7 20 O NO

7AAQS570 London Film Culture 7 20 O NO

7AAQS575 Music & Film 7 20 O NO

7AAQS580 French Cinema: History, Ideology, Aesthetics 7 20 O NO

7AAQS590 Traditions of Post-War & Contemporary British Cinema 7 20 O NO

7AASM026 The Problem of Women in Early Hispanic Literature 7 20 O NO

7AASM027 Historical Myth & national Identity in the Modern

Spanish Literature

7 20 O NO

7AASM028 Horror & Gothic in Spanish Cinema 7 20 O NO

7AASM029 Renaissance Transgressions: Spain in its European 7 20 O NO

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PAF Approved by QA&AA: 26 June 2007

Modification received for 2010/11: 4 January 2010

Modification received for 2010/11: 21 May 2010

PAF modified by ASQ re: exit awards: 25th

May 2010

PAF finalised for 2010/11: 21 October 2010

PAF modified by ASQ for 2011/12: 15th

February 2011

PAF finalised for 2011/12: 9 November 2011

PAF modified by QAS for 2012/13: 13th

February 2012

PAF modified re: programme information update: 2 October 2012

PAF finalised for 2012/13: 2 October 2012

Context

7AASM030 Being Modern: the Poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca 7 20 O NO

7AATC221 Introductory Biblical Hebrew with Texts 7 20 O NO

7AATC745 Advanced Hebrew Texts (Prose) 7 20 O NO

7AAV7004 Material Culture of the Book: Digital Models 7 20 O NO

7AAYM109 Skills for Medievalists: Palaeography I 7 20 O NO

7AAYMS03 The Arthurian Tradition in Literature & History 7 20 O NO

7AAYT002 Approaches to Theatre Practice 7 20 O NO

7AAYT003 Scene Study/ Imprints of Performance 7 20 O NO

7AASM026 The Problem of Women in Early Hispanic Literature 7 20 O NO

Any taught graduate language module from MLC 6 20 O - - No - - Various

20. Marking criteria The assessment criteria follow the College’s general criteria for the assessment of MA programmes.