479 Literature Degree Programs

Are you interested in the study of literature? This Master's program offers three tracks: Writing Editing and Mediating, English Literature and Culture, and European Literatures and Culture.

The Department of English Literary Studies at UCT recently launched a revised coursework Master's degree that foregrounds research into English Literary Studies in the global South. The new MA aims to equip a new generation of postgraduate students to conduct research into the compelling issues that arise in our discipline at a time when questions of canonicity are under revision and new approaches to literary studies are generating new archives and addressing the coloniality of received archives. The course helps to equip students to develop their own research paths and would make excellent preparation before moving into the PhD

The MA in Literature & Culture is our flagship MA programme in English-language literature and culture. Students work with leading international scholars and world-class teachers, who have expertise in a wide range of areas, from the literature of the Middle Ages to the modern and contemporary.

The Doctoral Program in Literature and Cultural Studies is characterized by an emphasis on literary studies from different methodological and linguistic perspectives, with an openness towards cultural analysis. Among the previous programs that are part of this new proposal are the Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature, originally linked to a Mundus Master, and the Study and Annotation of Spanish Literary Texts. Likewise, other programs are incorporated that are registered in the fields of Latin, Greek, Italian, French, Galician, Portuguese and German philology.

The master's degree offers complete training that ranges from literary and cultural studies to tools for publishing literary texts or the field of cultural industries. Tradition, modernity and diversity coexist making literature and culture a door between the university and the world.

The English Studies programme offers a specialist qualification in English literature, cultural studies, and linguistics. It combines theoretical and empirical analysis of the role of the English language, culture, and literature in modern society. The programme features three balanced blocks of courses in linguistics, literature, and culture, with an optional specialisation in Media Linguistics. This track provides a solid foundation in contemporary linguistic research, equipping students for careers in research, teaching, and language-related fields.

BA in Literature is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of literary works, literary analysis, critical thinking skills, and the cultural and historical contexts in which literature is produced. During the BA in Literature program at Ben-Gurion University, students typically study a wide range of literary genres, including fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction.

The MA Literary Studies at Leiden University offers you a specialised qualification in one of four languages and cultures or a comparative perspective on literature and culture, with each programme offering considerable scope for individual customisation.

The English Literature BA explores literature in social, cultural, and historical contexts. You'll study classic and modern texts, sharpening critical and research skills for careers in teaching, publishing, or writing. Based in London, the course offers access to museums, theatres, and diverse literary works.

This course assures all members a solid basic preparation in literary and philosophical subjects. Its articulation in three curricula allows the student to choose between three different specific training paths: the classical philological-literary, the modern philological-literary one (Italianistic, comparative, foreign languages and literature), and the historical-philosophical one (philosophy and disciplines of ethno-anthropological).

The General BA is a three-year program (90 credits) that touches on a variety of subjects, whether in languages, literature, humanities or social sciences. Find out what you love and broaden your horizons.

Begin with an Associate of Arts degree with a Direct Transfer Agreement into a Bachelor program in English or a related field. TCC offers the Associate of Arts (DTA) degree with a Literature Specialization. In this specialization, students choose courses from ancient to postmodern literature and from traditional to avant-garde readings.

This English-taught European, American, and Postcolonial Language and Literature degree at Ca' Foscari University of Venice is a highly specialised programme concentrating on a single language-literature-culture, selected from seven available pathways.

This interdisciplinary research master offers the best of three worlds (arts, literature and media) through a programme of well-designed courses, combining theoretical and historical training with free space for specialisation

The Master’s Degree in Spanish Language and Literature: Research and Professional Applications delivers training in the theory, methodology and practical tools you will need to work in the field of Spanish language and literature as a professional or researcher, with a particular focus on teaching Spanish as a foreign language.

The master's degree in Research in Language and Literature Teaching is one of only a small number of educational programs that address this subject as a discipline in its own right. It is designed to train professional researchers capable of analysing processes related to the teaching and learning of languages and literature, with the capacity to formulate proposals to meet contemporary challenges in linguistic and literary education.