Foreign Literatures and Cultures
45.04.01 In Russian
Level of education Master
Type of instruction Full-time
Duration 2 years
With the additional qualification ‘Teacher of Additional Education’.
The master’s programme "Foreign Literatures and Cultures" provides training in a broad range of cutting-edge methods of literary analysis. It also broadens the students’ philological culture. They can further major in the literature of one of the countries of Europe, America and Australia.
Graduates are awarded the additional qualification ‘Teacher of Additional Education’.
- Foreign Literatures
- Comparative Literary Studies
- Studies of Foreign Cultures
- History and Methodology of Literary Studies
- Narratology
- Problems and Concepts of the History of Foreign Literature at the Present Stage
- History of Comparativism
- Poetics of Drama
- Historical Poetics of Genres
- Intermedial Aspects of Comparativism
- Literary Topics
- History and the Golden Age of Spanish Literature
- German Literary Classics
- Modern Literature of Great Britain and the USA
- Modern French Romance
- Austrian Literature
- Art History
- Foreign Literatures
- Comparative Literary Studies
- Foreign Cultural Studies
- The academic programme ‘Foreign Literatures and Cultures’ is designed to train multiskilled specialists with in-depth knowledge of: the laws of the world literary process; the theory of literature and the system of genres; and foreign languages. They will be capable of conducting successful teaching and research activities.
Graduates of the department have comprehensive training in the history of foreign literature and literary disciplines. They are able to analyse independently literary material. They are philologists in the broad sense and speak foreign languages at the proficiency level.
- The University of Freiburg
- The University of Konstanz
- The University of Turku
- The University of Poitiers
- 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 programme is aimed at training specialists capable of research, training and project development in the field of foreign philology, cultural studies of foreign countries and comparative literary studies, depending on the profile of training.
The graduates can pursue a career of teachers of foreign literatures at secondary and higher education institutions, literary critics and publishers.