Postgraduate Masters degrees for an increasingly globalised world
The School of Modern Languages offers four Masters degrees designed to enhance your intercultural competence and transferable skills.
Whether you want to pursue doctoral study or upskill your professional profile, the School’s programmes offer excellent training. Graduates have gone on to careers in the public sector, international development, consultancy, as well as journalism, translation, and publishing.
The School offers the MLitt Global Languages, Literatures and Cultures and MLitt Comparative Literature as one-year, full-time qualifications, as well as a two-year MA/MLitt German and Comparative Literature co-delivered with Bonn University.
The MSc Global Digital Humanities is a flexible online degree co-taught with the School of Computer Science. This programme, which can be studied in one-to-three years, offers the research skills and computational methods necessary to study and understand the capabilities, limitations, and risks of digital technologies, including AI, and their impact on the arts and industry.
Assessment on all programmes is by coursework, which can include portfolios, essays, presentations, and a dissertation.
The School offers a truly global approach with specialists across eight languages – Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Persian, Russian, Spanish – and Comparative Literature. Expertise spans from the Middle Ages to present day and includes prose, poetry, theatre, film, history, translation, and material culture.
The MLitt Comparative Literature allows students to study texts in their original language or through English translations, or a combination of the two.
The MLitt Global Languages, Literatures and Cultures requires language competency in at least one of the languages offered by the School: Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Persian, Russian, and Spanish.
In your core modules, you will address classical and contemporary approaches to literature and culture as well as research and dissemination skills relevant to doctoral study and the workplace.
You will also explore issues from around the world with experts from Modern Languages alongside the option to borrow a module from the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Studies. Your will conclude your programme with a 15,000-word dissertation supervised by a specialist in the area.
For further advice about studying a Masters degree in the School of Modern Languages, please email modlangs@st-andrews.ac.uk.