Art History and Comparative Literature

About this course

Art history and comparative literature is a pairing that explores how human beings have made meaning through visual and verbal forms. Art history develops visual literacy, asking how images and objects work, what they meant in their original contexts, and how their meanings have shifted as they have moved through history and across cultures. Comparative literature extends the analytical frame to literary works from different national traditions and languages, asking what texts share and how they differ when read alongside each other across linguistic and cultural boundaries. Together the two disciplines cultivate an unusually wide and sophisticated capacity for cultural analysis. At the University of St Andrews, this four-year MA (Hons) programme includes a year abroad, giving you the opportunity to study at a partner institution in another country and to encounter different approaches

Where its graduates go

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