Programme structure: Comparative Literatures and Cultures (MA) - what's running in 2020/21

Unit name	Unit code	Credit points	Status	Teaching Block
Students will take the following mandatory units in year 2:
Research Skills	MODLM0021	20	Mandatory	TB-2
Dissertation (Comparative Literatures and Cultures)	MODLM0019	60	Mandatory	AYEAR
Students will also take TWO of the following optional units:
Global Cultures of the Book	MODLM0015	20	Optional	TB-2
Tradition and Experimentation in Twentieth-Century European Fiction	MODLM2034	20	Optional	TB-2
The Rise of the Novel in 19th-Century Europe	MODLM2035	20	Optional	TB-1
Theories of Visual Culture: Text and Image	MODLM2048	20	Optional	TB-1
Foreign Language Skills for Postgraduate Students (Beginners and Intermediate)	MODLM0030	20	Optional	TB-4
Foreign Language Skills for Postgraduate Students (Advanced)	MODLM0031	20	Optional	TB-4
The Cultural Imagination of Gender	MODLM0023	20	Optional	TB-2
Theorizing Violence: Colonial Encounters and Anticolonial Reactions	MODLM0025	20	Optional	TB-1
Pan-Africanism: ideas and archives	MODLM0045	20	Optional	TB-2
Romantic Poetry and Poetics	ENGLM3009	20	Optional	TB-1
Renaissance Literature: Texts and Contexts	ENGLM0037	20	Optional	TB-1
Hamlet: Text and Interpretation	ENGLM3012	20	Optional	TB-2
Intertextual Shakespeare	ENGLM3013	20	Optional	TB-2
The Gothic	ENGLM0040	20	Optional	TB-2
Victorian Literature and Place	ENGLM0034	20	Optional	TB-2
Literature and the Environment: Diverse Perspectives	ENGLM0066	20	Optional	TB-1
Writing in the Elements: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Uranium	ENGLM0067	20	Optional	TB-2
Supervised Individual Study	AFACM0008	20	Optional	TB-1,TB-2
		120

Progression/award requirements

The pass mark set by the University for any level 7(M) unit is 50 out of 100.

For detailed rules on progression please see the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes and the relevant faculty handbook.

Exit awards

All taught masters programmes, unless exempted by Senate, must allow the opportunity for students to exit from the programme with a postgraduate diploma or certificate.

To be awarded a postgraduate diploma, students must have successfully completed 120 credit points, of which 90 must be at level M/7.

To be awarded a postgraduate certificate, students must have successfully completed 60 credit points, of which 40 must be at level M/7.

Degree classifications:

An award with Merit or Distinction is permitted for postgraduate taught masters, diplomas and certificates, where these are specifically named entry-level qualifications. An award with Merit or Distinction is not permitted for exit awards where students are required to exit the programme on academic grounds. An exit award with Merit or Distinction may be permitted where students are prevented by exceptional circumstances from completing the intended award.

The classification of the award in relation to the final programme mark is as follows:

Award with Distinction*: at least 65 out of 100 for the taught component overall and, for masters awards, at least 70 out of 100 for the dissertation. **Faculties retain discretion to increase these thresholds.

Award with Merit*: at least 60 out of 100 for the taught component overall and, for masters awards, at least 60 out of 100 for the dissertation. Faculties retain discretion to increase these thresholds.

* The MA in Law has separate regulations for awarding distinction and merit.

** For the award of Distinction, the Faculty of Engineering requires at least 70 out of 100 for the taught component overall and, for masters awards, at least 70 out of 100 for the dissertation.

Diploma/certificate stages:

All taught masters programmes, unless exempted by Senate, must allow the opportunity for students to choose, or be required, to leave at the postgraduate diploma or certificate stage.

To be awarded a postgraduate diploma, students must have successfully completed 120 credit points, of which 90 must be at level M/7.

To be awarded a postgraduate certificate, students must have successfully completed 60 credit points, of which 40 must be at level M/7.