Key aspects of the Master's Degree
Literature can be understood as a fundamental means of understanding reality, sometimes with a great capacity to influence different areas of social evolution, such as education, morality or language, among others.
With this in mind, the Master's Degree in Comparative Literature and Literary Studies offers an attractive approach for those seeking rigorous training and open and supranational perspectives, through higher education oriented towards the teaching of and research into different literatures, with a special focus on theoretical approaches and comparative perspectives.
By combining fully up-to-date theoretical subjects with others well rooted in the philological tradition, the syllabus provides multidisciplinary knowledge of the main foundations of literature and of the critical schools of thought that investigate it. The syllabus also covers the common traditions and research trends in several of the main Western literatures, with a particular focus on the Greco-Latin, Basque, Hispanic, Anglophone and Germanic spheres. A broad comparative foundation, illustrated by the inclusion of specialists in eight areas of knowledge among the teaching staff from the UPV/EHU and other universities.
The syllabus also conveys advanced humanistic knowledge and up-to-date views of different methods of studying literary texts in different European literary fields and their extra-continental derivations from comparative perspectives. It thus promotes the knowledge of intercultural phenomena and their critical appreciation with a wide range of perspectives for the choice of research, thus avoiding methodological superficiality or unilateralism.
This Master's Degree is oriented towards research activity and gives direct access to the PhD programme in Comparative Literature and Literary Studies.
