语言和文化学院以及文学，艺术和媒体学院的讲师讲授这一充满活力和创新性的专业。您将向讲师学习，他们的学科背景是文学，电影研究，戏剧研究，文化研究，翻译研究和社会科学，并具有欧洲，亚洲和中东传统和现代文化的专业知识。该专业建立在比较文学理论的基础上，个人收获颇丰，可以帮助您为出版，广告，媒体行业，政府和非政府组织以及学术研究中的各种可能的职业道路做准备。
This vibrant and innovative major is taught by lecturers from the School of Languages and Cultures and the School of Literature, Art and Media. You will learn from lecturers whose disciplinary backgrounds are in literature, film studies, theatre studies, cultural studies, translation studies, and social sciences, and with expertise in European, Asian, and Middle Eastern traditional and modern cultures.<br><br>Built upon comparative literary theories, the major is personally rewarding and helps to prepare you for a range of possible career paths in publishing, advertising, media industries, government and non-government organisations, and academic research.<br><br>Through a range of comparative units focusing on themes such as cities of the world, relations between textual and visual arts, or on genres such as science fiction, you will look at how questions of society, history, culture and politics have been framed within literature from different traditions at different periods of time.<br><br>There are no foreign language requirements as lectures are delivered in English and tutorial discussions are based on texts in English translation. However, reading knowledge of at least one language other than English is required for Honours and Postgraduate study.