UCL Comparative Literature

The UCL Arts and Humanities MA in Comparative Literature is a taught graduate degree programme.

The programme aims to give students a thorough understanding of modern theories of literature, the contexts of literature and the interaction between literatures, and to provide practical experience in comparative literary studies. 

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Suitably qualified candidates can study for the degrees of MPhil and PhD in Comparative Literature.

Research topics can be in traditional areas of comparative literature or in such fields as literary theory, translation studies, gender studies and interdisciplinary studies.

The PhD requires a minimum of three years' full-time study (minimum four years' part-time). The MPhil is a research degree of the shorter type, normally requiring two years full-time (four years part-time). Students can study on a full-time or part-time basis; part-time non-residential registration is also possible in some cases.

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UCL has introduced an application processing fee for postgraduate taught programmes.

Postgraduate taught programmes have a general deadline of 3 August 2012 after which it will not be possible for UCL to consider your application for admission in September 2012.

The application deadline does not apply to research degrees where it is possible to start throughout the year.

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All students take a UCL Graduate School research skills course.

These cover such things as information retrieval and processing, the efficient and critical use of electronic resources, project management, bibliographical referencing and dissertation writing techniques.

As part of its skills development programme the UCL Graduate School hosts two Royal Literary Fund Fellows, professional authors who offer one-to-one tutorials in effective academic writing for both native and non-native speakers of English. 

• Effective Academic Writing: Individual Tutorials