Intercultural Literature Studies: Master‘s Degree Thesis

On completion of the course, students will be able to:

• describe in-depth methodological and theoretical knowledge and insights into current research issues, within the field of intercultural literature studies
• integrate knowledge and analyse, assess and manage complex phenomena and issues
• independently search, collect, evaluate, and critically interpret and analyse relevant information to a particular question
• carry out, within a set time frame, an independent study about literature that is of high academic value and that has a connection to research, and a clear method and theory, as well as argumentation that has a basis in informed text analyses
• in both written and oral form, while demonstrating sound communication skills, present and support both their results and the knowledge and arguments that form the basis of their conclusions
• critically analyse and discuss the academic work of others by providing a constructive response.

In the course, students conduct an independently written literary study of a defined research topic that is relevant to intercultural perspectives. Students present their study in the form of a scholarly thesis that they defend and discuss at a thesis defence seminar. The thesis is to be written in English and be about 30 000 words in length. In the course, students are given the opportunity to present their work at a higher research seminar.

• Active participation in supervision
• Independently written scholarly thesis
• Discussion of and constructive response to another student‘s scholarly thesis
• Defence of their own thesis

The grading scale used for the final course grade is A–F.

Grades are reported as follows:

• Degree Thesis - 30 Credits | A–F

The language of instruction in the seminars is English. Supervision is in English.

This course overlaps the previous course code AJP27C.