Master in Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Thought
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Inaugural lecture for the 2025-26 academic year
23 d'octubre de 2025 18:00h AULA 24.009
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The master's degree in Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Thought has a multidisciplinary orientation that emphasises the relationships between the arts and between different cultural discourses, both from a contemporary and historical perspective. It welcomes students who seek cross-disciplinary training and often have interests and goals that do not fit into traditional divisions of knowledge or specialised postgraduate programmes. It allows the course of studies to be adapted to each individual profile thanks to the wide range of electives and the flexibility in defining the Final Master's Project. Some students want to delve deeper into the field in which they studied the degree, combining it with contributions from other disciplines, and others want to explore a different field from their previous studies.
The programme provides tools for reflection, analysis and interpretation typical of advanced training in humanistic disciplines, focused on understanding the complexity of the cultural phenomena of our time. It offers the option of approaching the master's degree as an initiation to research leading to a doctorate or as final studies that provide a wide range of theoretical and practical knowledge that, in addition to complementing the academic preparation, suggest possible professional applications in the world of cultural management and production.
Who is it for?
Candidates should be intellectually curious, academically rigorous and able to establish relationships between various fields of knowledge. From an intellectually open-minded vantage point, they must be willing and eager to apply their independent learning skills and educational backgrounds to any of the fields covered by the programme with a view to studying in depth the interrelationships and processes responsible for the fertile complexity of contemporary culture.
Basic Competences
- BC 1: Possession of knowledge and understanding that provide a basis or opportunity for originality in developing and/or applying ideas, often within a research context.
- BC 2: Ability to apply acquired knowledge and understanding and problem-solving abilities in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multi-disciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
- BC 3: Ability to integrate knowledge and handle complexity, and to formulate judgements with incomplete or limited information, including reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of such knowledge and judgements.
- BC 4: Ability to communicate conclusions, and the knowledge and rationale underpinning them, to specialist and non-specialist audiences clearly and unambiguously.
- BC 5: Possession of the learning skills needed to continue to study in a way that will be largely self-directed or autonomous.
Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Department of Humanities and University Institute of Culture
Structure and Syllabus
The syllabus is obtained by passing a minimum of 60 ECTS that can be taken full-time (1 academic year) or part-time (2 academic years). The credits are distributed as follows:
- 20 ECTS corresponding to four compulsory subjects
- 25 ECTS to be chosen among the optional subjects
- 15 ECTS corresponding to the compulsory Final Master Project
If you choose to take the master's degree part-time, the distribution of subjects is as follows:
First year:
- 3 compulsory subjects: Introduction to Compared Literature, Theory of Arts, Introduction to Contemporary Thought (15 ECTS)
- 3 optional subjects (15 ECTS)
Second year:
- 1 compulsory subject: Introduction to Doctoral Research (5 ECTS)
- 2 optional subjects (10 ECTS)
- Final Master Project (15 ECTS)
Compulsory subjects (total of 20 ECTS credits)
- Introduction to Compared Literature
- Theory of Arts
- Introduction to Contemporary Thought
- Introduction to Doctoral Research
Optional subjects (total of 25 ECTS)
The syllabus offers 45 optional subjects, 5 ECTS credits each. Every academic year there is a selection of these. The students have to take a total amount of 25 ECTS optional credits (5 subjects).
Career prospects
Research, teaching, cultural management, content documentation, publishing, literary consultancy, proofreading and copy-editing, literary criticism, art criticism, cultural journalism, exhibition coordination, cultural tourism, etc..
