The MA in Languages Literatures and Cultures at Durham University is an exciting unique and dynamic course that invites you to engage critically with literatures emerging from diverse literary and cultural contexts from around the world The course has a broad global reach and draws together a wealth of expertise in Arabic Chinese French German Japanese Italian Hispanic and Russian Studies This inclusive approach to languages literatures and cultures presents a distinct opportunity for students who wish to pursue a degree in world literatures and comparative studies with a firm emphasis on working on materials in their original language s with due attention to the local national and regional contexts in which they originate Whether working with text in one or several non-English languages the course invites students to think within an international context to cross borders disciplines and canons to reflect on questions of cultural transmission and exchange in literature as well as to explore literary interactions with wider intellectual and cultural phenomena such as translation philosophy and visual culture The course provides an exceptional critical base that prepares and invites students to proceed to a PhD in a corresponding field encouraging throughout a research-led approach which culminates in the dissertation With a strong emphasis on urgent current themes and debates it also equips you with high-level critical skills in literary cultural and conceptual analysis and argument that can lead to employment in the literary culture arts and heritage sectors

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