The UK’s European university

WORLD
LITERATURE
Canterbury

Undergraduate
study
2 World Literature

WORLD LITERATURE

World Literature enables

you to develop a global
Optional modules • Rethinking Gender: From the
You then choose modules from Brontë Sisters to Eimear McBride
perspective on literature a wide range offered, including: • Science Fiction: History
and its cultural contexts.
• Childhood and Adolescence and Innovation
Together with English,
in Modern Fiction • Shakespeare’s Afterlives

American and European

• Classical Literature • The Shoah in Literature, Film

texts, you study writing

• Freedom and Oppression and Culture

from Ancient Rome and

in Modern Literature • The Sonnet

Imperial China as well

• Guilt and Redemption in Modern • SWIPE Undergraduate

as contemporary Arabic,
Literature Conference

African, Asian and Latin

• Introduction to Contemporary • Travel Literature.
European and Hispanic Cinemas
American works. • Post-War European Cinemas A year abroad
• The Romantic Movement.
It is possible to spend a year abroad
The programme Stages 2/3 as part of your World Literature
As a World Literature student, you programme. For details of locations,
Compulsory modules
gain an understanding of historical • Dissertation see the A to Z course list at
and cross-cultural literary traditions • Postcolonial Images of Africa www.kent.ac.uk/goabroad/
and the ways in which they interact, and South Asia opportunities
while broadening your critical • The Text
knowledge of literature and your plus,
Teaching and assessment
appreciation of questions of • either Latin American Fiction or In most modules, you have one two-
translation and transmission. Modern Arabic Literature and hour seminar per week. Your final-
You also have the opportunity to the Middle East year dissertation is based entirely
explore concepts such as ‘genre’, on your private research but is
‘theme’, ‘fictionality’, ‘literariness’, Optional modules supervised by a tutor and includes
‘canon’, ‘reception’ and ‘literary You choose further modules from workshops and the chance to
movement’. As a result of an extensive list, which includes: participate in an undergraduate
encountering writers and texts • The Book and the Film conference.
from all over the world, you gain • Comparative Literature and
a truly global perspective on English Language and Linguistics Assessment varies from 100%
literature and its cultural contexts. in the Classroom coursework to a combination of
• Creatures of the Night: Vampires examination and coursework; for
What you study in Literature and Film assessment details for individual
Please note that the module lists • Don Juan and Casanova: The Art modules, see www.kent.ac.uk/ug
below are not fixed as new modules of Seduction in Literature, Music
School of European
are always in development and and Film
• European Realism
Culture and Languages
choices are updated yearly. Please
see www.kent.ac.uk/ug for the most • Fiction and Power World Literature is based in
up-to-date information. • Medieval Literature and Culture the School of European Culture
• Modernism and the European and Languages (SECL) at our
Stage 1 Avant-Garde Canterbury campus. SECL offers
• Nordic Literature and Film a supportive academic community
Compulsory modules with high-quality teaching staff and
• The Tale • Postmodernism
• World Literature • Prize Winners
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award-winning researchers. World campus, there are students from

Literature is part of the Comparative 148 different nationalities and 37% Location
Literature Department, which is of our research and academic staff Canterbury
small and friendly, enabling you to are from outside the UK, creating Award
develop a close working relationship a cosmopolitan atmosphere and
BA (Hons)
with your lecturers. a global learning environment.
Programme type
University of Kent A successful future Full-time
Kent is one of the UK’s leading Throughout your studies, you Single honours programme
universities with all of our academic learn to think critically and to work • World Literature (Q203)
schools producing world-class independently; you also improve It is also possible to study World
research. The University is renowned your communication skills. The Literature with a year abroad.
for the quality of its teaching, with range of literatures studied, and
Offer levels
lecturers who will challenge and the contexts in which they were
ABB at A level; IB Diploma 34
inspire you, and encourage you to produced, enables you to develop
points overall or 16 at Higher.
develop your own ideas. We were a global cultural perspective. These
ranked 23rd in The Guardian key transferable skills are essential Offer levels and entry
University Guide 2017 and our for graduates as they move into the requirements are subject
students have consistently ranked us employment market. to change. For the latest
highly in the National Student Survey information, see
Recently, our graduates have www.kent.ac.uk/ug
(NSS). In the 2015 NSS, Kent gained
gone into careers such as
the 5th highest score in the UK for
teaching, publishing, marketing,
student satisfaction.
radio, journalism, television and
film, the civil service, advertising, Further information
Superb student experience graphic design and copywriting. For updates and news stories from
The Canterbury campus is built SECL, please see our website
on 300 acres of parkland and the For more information on the
www.kent.ac.uk/secl
historic city is only a short bus-ride services Kent provides to improve
or a 25-minute walk away. The your employment prospects, visit
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