MLitt in Cultural Identity Studies

Director: Dr Gustavo San Román (gfsr@st-andrews.ac.uk)

Entrance Requirements: A good degree with Honours from a UK university or its equivalent which includes one of the Languages taught in the School of Modern Languages (Arabic, French, Italian, German, Russian, Spanish) or comparable competent experience.

Programme Duration: One year

Aim of Programme: This degree offers the opportunity to gain a theoretical grasp of different dimensions of ‘cultural identity’ and to explore the ways such dimensions are represented in one or more of the cultural traditions of the Arabic-speaking world, France, Italy Germany, Spain, Latin America, and Russia.

Programme Content: It consists of two core modules: Problems of Culture and Identity and Practice of Literary Research and optional modules such as Film and Issues of European Identity, Europe and America: Identity Formation in Texts and Film and others taught within the individual Language Departments of the School. The MLitt normally concludes with the writing of a dissertation of 15,000 words on an agreed topic.

Further details of the programme are available on the pages of the Institute of European Cultural Identity Studies.