German & Comparative Literature

This MA explores German culture within its European context, with teaching based on the research specialisms of the Department. The core course provides students with training in critical research methods and theory, strengthened by a choice of exciting optional modules from literature, cinema and cultural studies. The MA is an ideal basis for further research, but also as a preparation for careers outside of academia.

KEY BENEFITS

• A respected and desirable academic qualification recognised throughout the world.
• A unique combination of modules in German and Comparative Literature.
• Taught by leading comparatists and internationally renowned scholars within one of the world's leading research universities and within the UK's second oldest and second
  highly ranked German Department.
• Unrivalled location in the heart of London with access to some of the world's most renowned art museums, theatres, music venues and bookstores.
• Students have access to some of the best research libraries in the world (IGRS, British Library, Senate House Library, and King's College London's own Maughan Library).

PURPOSEThe German and Comparative Literature MA explores German culture within its European context, with teaching based on the research specialisms of the Department. The core course provides students with training in critical research methods and theory, strengthened by a choice of exciting optional modules from literature, cinema and cultural studies. The MA is an ideal basis for further research, but also as a preparation for careers outside of academia.

DESCRIPTION

The MA in German & Comparative Literature is a one-year (full-time) or two-year (part-time) taught masters degree designed for students who wish to study German literature within a broader international context.

Students on the programme take modules totalling 180 credits. These include two core modules worth 20 credits each on the practice and theory of Comparative Literature, taught successively in the first and second semesters. A supervised 10,000-word dissertation worth 60 credits on a comparative topic combining German and European literature is normally completed in the summer (a 4,000 word critical survey is prepared in advance of the dissertation, usually in term 2; the survey will count for 10%, the dissertation for 90 per cent of the final dissertation mark). In addition, students choose optional modules totalling 80 credits, taught over two semesters.