Foreign Literatures and Cultures

• Foreign Literatures
• Comparative Literary Studies
• Foreign Cultural Studies

• Concepts of Modern Literary Theory
• Semiotics
• History and Methods of Literary Studies
• History of Aesthetics
• Comparative Studies
• Introduction to Gender Studies
• Comparative Study of Literary Topoi
• Historical Poetics of Genres
• Style as a Cultural Phenomenon
• Narratology
• History of Arts
• Foreign Language

• The curriculum of the academic programme "Foreign Literatures and Cultures" is designed to train multi-skilled experts with a deep understanding of the regularities of the world literary process, literary theory and genre system. They also know foreign languages and are capable of successful teaching and research activities
• The graduates of the department have comprehensive training in the history of foreign literature and literary studies. They are able to independently analyse literary material. They are also philologists in the broad sense and speak foreign languages at a high level

• Research into literary phenomena in the context of the literary process of the era, which determined their ideological and thematic, and genre and stylistic specific features
• Research into the national social and culturally specific features of the literary phenomena
• Comparative study of literary phenomena, dialogue of cultures, ascending and descending relationships, and intermediality issues

• The Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg (Germany)
• The University of Konstanz (Germany)
• The University of Turku (Finland)
• The Université de Poitiers (France)

Professions

Graduates of the programme continue their studies at the next level of education. They become literature scholars; and are engaged in research and teaching.

• Teacher of foreign literature and foreign language
• Translator and editor of literary, scientific and journalistic texts
• Museum worker