MA Comparative Literature/Film & Television Studies
About this course
Comparative literature is the study of literature across cultural and national boundaries, examining how texts from different traditions, languages, periods, and genres speak to one another and illuminate what is shared and what is distinctive in human experience. It refuses to treat any single national literature as the norm against which others are measured, and it develops a genuinely cross-cultural and multilingual perspective on how stories, ideas, and aesthetic forms travel and transform. Film and television studies brings a complementary focus on screen media, examining how moving images construct meaning, how cinema and television relate to the societies and industries that produce them, and how the experience of watching has changed across time and technology. At the University of Glasgow, this four-year full-time programme combines both disciplines with a typical entry tariff of 200 points, reflecting the academic rigour expected of students at Glasgow. You will engage with texts and films from a range of languages and cultures, developing both comparative analytical skills and critical frameworks drawn from literary theory, film theory, and cultural analysis. The programme includes a year abroad, which gives you the chance to study at a partner institution overseas and deepen your engagement with another cultural and linguistic context. The combination of comparative literature and film and television studies develops exceptional analytical, critical, and communicative skills. Graduates are well placed for careers in journalism, broadcasting, publishing, the film industry, arts programming, education, cultural policy, and postgraduate research. The degree is also a strong foundation for master's or doctoral study in comparative literature, film studies, cultural theory, or related humanities disciplines.
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