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Postgraduate Languages Cultures and Societies 2025-2026

LA5005: APPROACHES TO EUROPEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURES AND CULTURES

30 credits

Level 5

First Term

This course will introduce students to ways of approaching European and Latin American Literatures and Cultures at an advanced level. These include psychoanalysis and its legacy, the idea of Latin America, and decolonization. Students will be equipped to apply these concepts to a wide range of contexts.

LA5503: CULTURE AND POLITICS IN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA

30 credits

Level 5

Second Term

This course is structured around Francophone, German-language and Spanish-language case studies and focuses on the ways that writers, filmmakers, and artists have responded to specific political events at different points in time.

LA5504: SPECIAL STUDY IN EUROPEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURES AND CULTURES

30 credits

Level 5

Second Term

This course is designed to allow the creation of a programme of individual study where other appropriate course options at masters level are not available. It will run at the discretion of the programme co-ordinator. In discussion with a designated supervisor, students will be able to identify and design a programme of research and study, which may include the completion of an undergraduate course, with assessments appropriate to masters-level work.

LA5900: DISSERTATION IN EUROPEAN AND LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURES AND CULTURES

60 credits

Level 5

Third Term

Candidates will be required to research and write a 15,000-word dissertation on a subject and in an area approved by the Programme Co-ordinator.

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