Comparative Literature

City Student Scholarships Category Duration Admission Requirements Education Institution
Copenhagen, Aarhus, Odense SU berettiget Bachelors 3 year Gymnasiel Aarhus university
University of Southern Denmark
University of Copenhagen
City Copenhagen, Aarhus, Odense
Student Scholarships SU berettiget
Category Bachelors
Duration 3 year
Admission Requirements Gymnasiel
Education Institution Aarhus university
University of Southern Denmark
University of Copenhagen
Comparative Literature

In the study of literature is studied that the great works that Homer, Dante, Balzac, Dostoyevsky and Garcia Márquez. This is literary world literature courses, which read the literary canon in the broadest sense and see it in the context of other forms of expression. Literature is the science of literature, but also the dissemination of one of our culture's most important products. As a student of literature can help to understand, discuss and pass one of the most vital means of cultural expression.

You will be on the study was to identify literature being. Here, you work with world literature historical development completely from antiquity up to today. Thus you will gain insight into the literary and philosophical issues. You learn on the study to analyze texts and you get a knowledge of the way literature is read in by critics and literary scholars. The starting point of the study is to read and enjoy the works, but you will also be put in a position to understand and interpret the works and to collect literature in creative, cultural contexts. It is with the literature in the center is also possible to work across disciplines with subjects such as mass media and lifestyle phenomena from psychological, historical, linguistic and philosophical perspectives.

You will gain a broad range of competencies in the studio. Among them are historical, analytical, theoretical and practical. Both past and present literature, performance patterns, ideologies, vædier and institutions will be able to understand history. This gives you the ability to systematize and sharpens your understanding of texts and other cultural and linguistic phenomena and make you aware of language, communication and significant both in the literature. This means you become conscious about the way you work and can relate critically and creatively to society. This allows you to outline the principles for working with art and culture and find innovative ways to approach a problem on. Finally, you can organize and carry out a project with a fixed deadline and communicating the results in clear language, both orally and in writing for different audiences. Language is important in an international subjects such as literature, which means you will be enabled to read English, German and a third non-Nordic languages.

The teaching methods themselves on the study varies with lectures, presentations and discussions, seminars and guest lectures with topics ranging from literature and avant-garde literature and quantum theory. It is possible to study abroad or internship at a publishing house, a newspaper, cultural institutions, etc. Studi Emil eye on literary history is good with evening lectures, music, exhibitions, theater, Christmas, spring semester celebrations with croquet, barbecue and music all night.


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Publishing Officer, cultural organizer, information officer, writer, newspaper columnist, lecturer and consultant in advertising, marketing and art.