“Comparative Literature is essential to the tradition of the Humanities. There is no surer path to a wider understanding of one’s own culture than an informed knowledge of the literature and thinking of others.”
Professor John Burnside (School of English)
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Summary of Course Content
First Level (1st year) We offer two First-level modules to introduce you to the study of Comparative Literature. The Nineteenth-Century Novel and Drama in the 20th and 21st Century: Staging the Political will cover texts as varied as Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina; Flaubert’s Madame Bovary; Brecht’s Life of Galileo; Lorca’s Blood Wedding; and Vinaver’s 11th September 2001.
Second Level (usually 2nd year) Journeys is a core module dealing with imaginary and ‘real’ travels or journeys. These texts will form the basis for discussions on the similarities and differences between the narrative treatment of journeys to specific geographic locations; on matters of identity, nationalism and border- crossing.
In the second core module, Good and Evil, we read a range of literary texts in order to investigate moral principles and behaviour; notions of individual and collective identities; and the relationship between religion and literature.
Honours (3rd and 4th years) Years 3 and 4 include compulsory modules - Canon Formation; Literature and History; Found in Translation and Literature and the Bible - to which you add optional modules, each based on at least three disciplines. These range from Nobel Prize Winning Authors to Great European Myths: Don Juan; from Slavery and Atlantic Literature to Performing Early-Modern Sexualities, to name a few.
Modules are taught by a combination of whole-class lectures and small discussion groups, either tutorials or seminars. Class sizes in Honours vary between modules. We aim to give all students in Comparative Literature the chance to discuss their work in tutorials or seminars.
Teaching All modules are taught by a combination of whole-class lectures and small discussion groups, either tutorials or seminars. Class sizes in Honours vary between modules. We aim to give all students in Comparative Literature the chance to discuss their work in tutorials or seminars.
Study Abroad If you decide to take Comparative Literature as part of a Joint Honours degree with a language, you have the option of spending a year abroad after your second year of study. The School of Modern Languages makes final decisions on study abroad during the second year of study, when students apply for their preferred option.
Honours degrees With Integrated Year Abroad (WIYA) in countries in which the six School languages are spoken involve residence there for the academic session between levels two and three. Typically, with the help of the relevant department, a student is placed in a school teaching English. Language students taking a four-year degree may spend all or part of their Junior Honours year as an Erasmus exchange student at one of our partner universities (for arrangements for students of Russian see departmental entry). For more information on European or North American Exchanges, see pages 20-21.
Careers Graduates in Comparative Literature can pursue rewarding careers in journalism, business and commerce, marketing, media, translating and interpreting, and the civil service. Graduates may also go into postgraduate study, some to other universities but many remaining with us in St Andrews. A considerable number of graduates will follow careers in teaching in a wide variety of school environments both at home and abroad.
Graduates of the School of Modern Languages have an extremely good record of employment after graduating. For details on careers pursued by graduates of specific languages, see their entries elsewhere in this Prospectus. For more information:
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/careers/wiki/ School_of_Modern_Languages
Please see page 42 for details of the University’s Careers Centre.
Helmut Fricke
Comparative Literature
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