语言，文学和文化硕士是一门独特的课程，可为学生提供文学和文化研究领域的透彻知识，并具有广泛的理论基础以批判性地接触各种文学。与英国的其他文学研究课程（通常与英语系附属）不同，它为希望攻读文学和比较研究学位并坚定地致力于以原始语言撰写材料的学生提供了独特的机会（ s）。因此，它将把针对世界文学中广泛的开创性历史和当前主题的广泛比较方法与特定地区或国家的语言和文化能力的牢固基础相结合。其目的是通过强调课程中由研究主导的论文部分，为准备并确实邀请学生升读相应领域的博士学位提供坚实的基础。在同等重视当前话题和辩论
Our MA in Languages, Literatures and Cultures will draw on a vast wealth of knowledge in Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Italian, Hispanic and Russian Studies to take you on an intellectual journey across continents through an enthralling study into languages, literatures and cultures and how they are transmitted, exchanged and established.<br><br>The course will nurture your interests in world literatures and comparative studies by enabling you to work on literary materials in their original language, understanding their local, regional and national contexts and exploring what happens when they become entwined with intellectual elements such as translation, philosophy and visual culture.<br><br>The course is taken full-time over one year and will consist of innovative core and optional modules ranging from women and the novel in the 18th century to anti-capitalist poetics and from science and the enlightenment to environmental philosophy.<br><br>You will also be required to complete a dissertation involving the detailed study of a particular aspect of a topic related to world literature.<br><br>The School of Modern Languages and Cultures will provide you with a stimulating environment for your study and the strongest emphasis will be on your own research which you will carry out under the supervision of a subject specialist.<br><br>The School is also home to several cutting-edge research groups and we will encourage you to become an active member of the academic community, with the important Centre for Visual Arts and Cultures and Centre for Culture and Ecology both offering innovative opportunities for engagement.