BA Comparative Literature and Culture
Royal Holloway, University of London
Entry requirements
A level: ABB-BBB (Required subjects: An essay based subject at A Level We require English Language and Mathematics GCSE at grade 4 (C)) IB: 6,5,5 at Higher level or 32 points overall
About this course
BA in Hebrew and Jewish Studies. Core topics include Research Methods and Critical & Analytical Thinking. The programme is taught within the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, with core modules covering key critical concepts. Optional modules span literature, film, and visual arts across multiple languages and cultures.
Modules
- Reading Texts: Criticism for Comparative Literature
- Key French Texts: The Individual and Society
- The Visual Image in French Culture and Society
- Introduction to German Studies
- International Film 1: Contexts and Practices
- Tales of the City: Introduction to Thematic Analysis
- The Birth of Film
- Strange Encounters: Texts and Contexts in Modern German Culture
- Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio and their Heritage
- Discovery, Subversion and Destruction in the Hispanic Worlds Visual Arts 1: Artists and their Materials
- Journeys of Identity
- Histories of Representation
- Critical Worlds: Theory for Comparative Literature and Culture
- International Film 2: Readings and Representations
- Visual Arts II: Genre and Movements
- Writing Romance and Desire
- Cinema in France
- Death, Desire, Decline: Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka
- Postwar Italian Cinema: the Auteur Tradition
- Art and Literature in Renaissance Florence
- Belonging and the Self in Contemporary German Fiction and Film
- Fake News, Gossip, and the Pursuit of Truth: From Renaissance Newsletters to Online Journalism
- Deceit, Desire and the Self: Literature of the Spanish Golden Age
- Seducing the Nation: Spanish Film 1940s to 1980s
- Conflict in Latin American Literature
- 21st-century World Food Fictions: Feeding Interdisciplinary Understandings of Identity Constructs
- World Literatures: Texts and Identities in Motion
- Tongues of Exile: Exophonic and Translingual Literature
- From Aestheticism to the Avant-Garde
- Transnationalism, Diaspora and Globalisation in Contemporary Film: Dissertation
- Comparative Literature and Culture: Comparative Dissertation
- Text and Image in France: from Cubism to the Present
- Blindness and Vision in French Culture
- Villains and Villainy in Early Modern French Theatre
- Redefining the Erotic in Contemporary French Literature and Film
- Narrative and Identity: The German Novel from the 18th to the 21st Century
- National Socialism and the Third Reich in German Film and Visual Culture from 1933 to the Present