THE PROGRAMME SPECIFICATION 1. Programme title and designation Comparative Literature Pathways: Comparative Literature Comparative Literature: Literature Across Cultures 2. Final Award Award Title Credit ECTS Any special criteria value equivalent MA Comparative Literature 180 90 See programme table for modules available MA Comparative Literature: Literature Across Cultures 180 90 See programme table for modules available 2. Nested Award Award Title Credit ECTS Any special criteria value equivalent N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 2. Exit Award Award Title Credit value Postgraduate Diploma Postgraduate Diploma Postgraduate Certificate Postgraduate Certificate Comparative Literature Comparative Literature: Literature Across Cultures Comparative Literature Comparative Literature: Literature Across Cultures ECTS Any special criteria equivalent 120 60 See programme table for modules available 120 60 See programme table for modules available 60 30 See programme table for modules available 60 30 See programme table for modules available 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 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: zoe.norridge@kcl.ac.uk; ext 7152 11. UCAS code (if appropriate) N/A 12. Relevant QAA subject benchmark/ N/A professional and statutory body guidelines 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: The programme provides a knowledge and understanding of the following: Knowledge and understanding 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. 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. 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; 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. 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).
5. Is an independent and self critical learner, guiding the learning of others and managing own requirements for continuing professional development; 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. Examination. 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 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.
Programme Structure Title Credit level Credit 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 7AAYCL17 Surrealism & Visuality 7AAYCL25 The World Novel 7AAYCL24 Theorizing Comparative Literature Across Cultures: Contemporary Debates 7AABMA29 C.P. Cavafy: The making of a modernist 7AAYCL28 Melancholia and Hypochondria 7AAEM201 Prison Writing: An English & European Tradition 7AAGM201 Melancholia & Hypochondria 18 th Century European Literature 7AAFM026 Renaissance Transgressions: France in its European Context 7AASM031 Muslim Spain, A European Fantasy From the Middle Ages to Romanticism
7AASM032 Conflicts of the Mind: Narratives of Social Division in Italy & Spain since the 1930s Further optional modules, of which 60 credits must be chosen 7AABMA21 Greek Poetry in the 20 th Century 7AABMA24 Greek Modernism & the Epic Tradition (1900-1960) 7AABMA28 Modernism & Music (1909-1939) Coursework 7AACK160 Hellenistic Poetry 7AACK840 Alexander s Afterlife 7AACM225 Roman Verse Satire 7 20 O No Coursework 7AACM226 The Heritage of Roman Satire 7 20 O No Coursework 7AACM230 Virgil 7AACM290 Medieval Latin Literature 7AAEM220 Theatre, Gender & Culture in Jacobean London 7AAEM222 Renaissance Playhouse Practice 1567-1642 7AAEM250 Eighteenth Century Writing: Gender & Culture 7AAEM350 Turn of the Century Representations of Sexuality 7AAEM520 Conflict: Twentieth Century War Literature 7AAEM601 The Irish Literary Revival 1890 1930 7AAEM602 Explorations in Literature & Medicine 7AAEM603 The Material Legacy of Early Modern Literary Texts 7AAEM604 Representing the Eighteenth Century 7AAEM605 The Twentieth Century City: from Modernity to Postmodernity
7AAEM606 Modernity & the City: 1850-1930 7AAEM607 Lifewritings 1700-1850 7AAEM608 Women & the Poetics of Liberty in the Romantic Period 7AAEM609 Text Culture Theory: London: 1850-Present 7AAEM612 Books & Bodies 7AAEM620 Global/ Local Shakespeares 7AAEM621 Life-Writing From Romanticism to Postmodernism 7AAEM624 Narrative Medicine: Narrative, Medicine 7AAEM626 Queer Theories of the Past 7AAEM628 Literature in a Time of Migration: Mobility & Sense of Place from Wordsworth to Hardy 7AAEM631 Illness Narrative as Life Writing 7AAEM633 Literature & Psychiatry in the Twentieth Century 7AAEM636 Professing Writing in Early Modern England 7AAEM638 Contemporary South Asian Women s Writing 7AAEM641 Working with Early Modern Literary Texts 7AAEM643 A Modern Bestiary: the Aesthetic Representation of Animals Since Darwin 7AAEM635 Literary Biography & the Long 18C 7AAEM644 Life Writing: Genre etc 7AAEM645 Literary Autobiography 7AAEM654 Colonial Women Writers 7AAEM655 The Nineteenth-Century Archive Workshop: Victorian
Things 7AAEM656 Victorian Sensation 7AAEM657 The Verbal & Visual Middle Ages 7AAEM658 Body Languages 7AAEM662 Narrative Medicine: Narrative, Medicine 7AAEM663 Middleton s Drama 7AAEM664 Family Politics in Early Modern England 7AAEM646 Medieval Sex, Gender & Culture: Research Skills & Critical Methods 7AAEM677 German Literati in Britain, 1780-1820 7 20 O No Coursework 7AAEM710 Conflict, Memory & Resistance in African Literature 7 20 O No Coursework 7AAEM716 American Folks: Local Culture & Popular Experience in 7 20 O No Coursework US Writing, 1830-1900 7AAYCC07 Culture, Theory & History 7AAYCC13 Film & American Culture 7AAYCL29 Translation, Colonialism, Postcolonialism 7 20 O No Coursework 7AAYCL30 Culture, Dissent & the Arab Spring 7 20 O No Coursework 7AAYCL31 The Worlding of Chinese Literary Modernity: New 7 20 O No Coursework Critical Interventions 7AAYCL32 Contemporary Literature & Culture in China: A Post- 7 20 O No Coursework Socialist Formation? 7AAYCL33 Narrating Illness Across Cultures 7 20 O No Coursework 7AAFM007 'Life' & Living in Recent French Thought
7AAFM031 What is a (French) Classic? 7AAFM016 Medieval Occitan Narrative 7AAFM041 Imagined Communities: Utopian Discourse & Political Dissent in the French Enlightenment 7AAFM054 Painters & Writers in 19 th Century French Literature 7AAFM068 French Psychoanalytical Theory after 1945 7AAFM070 The French Avant-garde & its Uses (E-Learning) 7AAFM164 Contemporary French Women s Writing 7AAFM165 Francophone Literatures 7AAFM166 Rights before Human Rights: Eighteenth Century 7 20 O No Coursework Theories & Representations 7AAP0107 Culture & Identity in Brazil Part 2: Contradictions of Modernity 7AAPM116 Three faces of Women in the Galician-Portuguese Lyric 7AAPM126 Contemporary Portuguese Fiction 7AAPM120 Latin American Cultural Studies 7AAQS315 Film & New Media 7AAQS500 Formations of Film Studies; An Advanced Introduction to the Field 7AAQS515 Art Cinema 7AAQS520 The Heritage Film: Aesthetics. Genre & Cultural Identities in Contemporary Representations of the Past 7AAQS535 Cinema & the City 7AAQS545 Exploitation Cinema
7AAQS555 Thinking Cinema with Emmanuel Levinas: Theory, Philosophy, Ethics 7AAQS560 Media Aesthetics 7AAQS565 Contemporary French Cinema 1990-2005: from Heritage Productions to the New Extremism 7AAQS570 London Film Culture 7AAQS575 Music & Film 7AAQS580 French Cinema: History, Ideology, Aesthetics 7AAQS590 Traditions of Post-War & Contemporary British Cinema 7AASM024 Latin American Narrative 20th Century I 7AASM025 Latin American Narrative 20th Century II 7AASM026 The Problem of Women in Early Hispanic Literature 7AASM027 Historical Myth & national Identity in the Modern Spanish Literature 7AASM028 Horror & Gothic in Spanish Cinema 7AASM029 Renaissance Transgressions: Spain in its European Context 7AASM030 Being Modern: the Poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca 7AATC221 Introductory Biblical Hebrew with Texts 7AATC745 Advanced Hebrew Texts (Prose) 7AAV7004 Material Culture of the Book: Digital Models 7AAYM109 Skills for Medievalists: Palaeography I 7AAYMS03 The Arthurian Tradition in Literature & History
7AAYT002 Approaches to Theatre Practice 7AAYT003 Scene Study/ Imprints of Performance Any taught graduate language module from MLC 6 20 O - - No - - Various MA Comparative Literature: Literature Across Cultures pathway Title Credit level Credi t Status (I, C, O) for each type of programme Progression Assessment value 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 Comparative Literature Across Cultures: 7 20 Cp NO Coursework Contemporary Debates Students must choose at least TWO of the following modules 7 20 Coursework 7AAYCL02 Comparative Readings 7AAYCL25 The World Novel 7AAYCL28 Melancholia and Hypochondria 7AABMA23 Cavafy: Reader & Read 7AAEM620 Global/ Local Shakespeares 7AAEM638 Contemporary South Asian Women s Writing 7AAEM654 Colonial Women Writers 7AAP0107 Culture & Identity in Brazil Part 2: Contradictions of Modernity 7AAP1001 Guided Reading Module I [Portuguese & Brazilian Modernism]
7AAPM120 Latin American Cultural Studies 7AASM031 Muslim Spain, A European Fantasy from the Middle Ages to Romanticism 7AASM032 Conflicts of the Mind: Narratives of Social Division in Italy & Spain since the 1930s 7AASM024 Latin American Narrative 20 th Century I 7AASM025 Latin American Narrative 20 th Century II Further optional modules, of which 60 credits must be chosen 7AAYCL13 Comedy in Theory 7AAYCL17 Surrealism & Visuality 7AAGM201 Melancholia & Hypochondria 18 th Century European Literature 7AABMA24 Greek Modernism & the Epic Tradition (1900-1960) 7AABMA28 Modernism & Music (1909-1939) Coursework 7AACK160 Hellenistic Poetry 7AACK840 Alexander s Afterlife 7AACM225 Roman Verse Satire 7 20 O No Coursework 7AACM226 The Heritage of Roman Satire 7 20 O No Coursework 7AACM230 Virgil 7AACM290 Medieval Latin Literature 7AAEM201 Prison Writing: An English & European Tradition 7AAEM220 Theatre, Gender & Culture in Jacobean London 7AAEM222 Renaissance Playhouse Practice 1567-1642
7AAEM250 Eighteenth Century Writing: Gender & Culture 7AAEM350 Turn of the Century Representations of Sexuality 7AAEM520 Conflict: Twentieth Century War Literature 7AAEM601 The Irish Literary Revival 1890 1930 7AAEM602 Explorations in Literature & Medicine 7AAEM603 The Material Legacy of Early Modern Literary Texts 7AAEM604 Representing the Eighteenth Century 7AAEM605 The Twentieth Century City: from Modernity to Postmodernity 7AAEM606 Modernity & the City: 1850-1930 7AAEM607 Lifewritings 1700-1850 7AAEM608 Women & the Poetics of Liberty in the Romantic Period 7AAEM609 Text Culture Theory: London: 1850-Present 7AAEM612 Books & Bodies 7AAEM621 Life-Writing From Romanticism to Postmodernism 7AAEM624 Narrative Medicine: Narrative, Medicine 7AAEM626 Queer Theories of the Past 7AAEM628 Literature in a Time of Migration: Mobility & Sense of Place from Wordsworth to Hardy 7AAEM631 Illness Narrative as Life Writing 7AAEM633 Literature & Psychiatry in the Twentieth Century 7AAEM636 Professing Writing in Early Modern England 7AAEM641 Working with Early Modern Literary Texts
7AAEM643 A Modern Bestiary: the Aesthetic Representation of Animals Since Darwin 7AAEM635 Literary Biography & the Long 18C 7AAEM644 Life Writing: Genre etc 7AAEM645 Literary Autobiography 7AAEM655 The Nineteenth-Century Archive Workshop: Victorian Things 7AAEM656 Victorian Sensation 7AAEM657 The Verbal & Visual Middle Ages 7AAEM658 Body Languages 7AAEM662 Narrative Medicine: Narrative, Medicine 7AAEM663 Middleton s Drama 7AAEM664 Family Politics in Early Modern England 7AAEM646 Medieval Sex, Gender & Culture: Research Skills & Critical Methods 7AAEM677 German Literati in Britain, 1780-1820 7 20 O No Coursework 7AAEM710 Conflict, Memory & Resistance in African Literature 7 20 O No Coursework 7AAEM716 American Folks: Local Culture & Popular Experience in 7 20 O No Coursework US Writing, 1830-1900 7AAYCC07 Culture, Theory & History 7AAYCC13 Film & American Culture 7AAYCL29 Translation, Colonialism, Postcolonialism 7 20 O No Coursework 7AAYCL30 Culture, Dissent & the Arab Spring 7 20 O No Coursework
7AAYCL31 The Worlding of Chinese Literary Modernity: New 7 20 O No Coursework Critical Interventions 7AAYCL32 Contemporary Literature & Culture in China: A Post- 7 20 O No Coursework Socialist Formation? 7AAYCL33 Narrating Illness Across Cultures 7 20 O No Coursework 7AAFM007 'Life' & Living in Recent French Thought 7AAFM031 What is a (French) Classic? 7AAFM016 Medieval Occitan Narrative 7AAFM041 Imagined Communities: Utopian Discourse & Political Dissent in the French Enlightenment 7AAFM054 Painters & Writers in 19 th Century French Literature 7AAFM068 French Psychoanalytical Theory after 1945 7AAFM070 The French Avant-garde & its Uses (E-Learning) 7AAFM164 Contemporary French Women s Writing 7AAPM116 Three faces of Women in the Galician-Portuguese Lyric 7AAPM126 Contemporary Portuguese Fiction 7AAQS315 Film & New Media 7AAQS500 Formations of Film Studies; An Advanced Introduction to the Field 7AAQS515 Art Cinema 7AAQS520 The Heritage Film: Aesthetics. Genre & Cultural Identities in Contemporary Representations of the Past 7AAQS535 Cinema & the City 7AAQS545 Exploitation Cinema
7AAQS555 Thinking Cinema with Emmanuel Levinas: Theory, Philosophy, Ethics 7AAQS560 Media Aesthetics 7AAQS565 Contemporary French Cinema 1990-2005: from Heritage Productions to the New Extremism 7AAQS570 London Film Culture 7AAQS575 Music & Film 7AAQS580 French Cinema: History, Ideology, Aesthetics 7AAQS590 Traditions of Post-War & Contemporary British Cinema 7AASM026 The Problem of Women in Early Hispanic Literature 7AASM027 Historical Myth & national Identity in the Modern Spanish Literature 7AASM028 Horror & Gothic in Spanish Cinema 7AASM029 Renaissance Transgressions: Spain in its European Context 7AASM030 Being Modern: the Poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca 7AATC221 Introductory Biblical Hebrew with Texts 7AATC745 Advanced Hebrew Texts (Prose) 7AAV7004 Material Culture of the Book: Digital Models 7AAYM109 Skills for Medievalists: Palaeography I 7AAYMS03 The Arthurian Tradition in Literature & History 7AAYT002 Approaches to Theatre Practice 7AAYT003 Scene Study/ Imprints of Performance
7AASM026 The Problem of Women in Early Hispanic Literature 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.