Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Comparative Literatures and Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Introduction
This course introduced foundational knowledge of the study of comparative literatures and cultures. It explored how texts and cultural productions move across national, linguistic, and cultural borders. It presented frameworks for understanding global cultural circulation, power dynamics, and addressing urgent contemporary challenges. By the end, learners had developed a stronger sense of the field, its methods of enquiry, and how it engages with global questions.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Shuangyi Li
Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literatures and Cultures
University of Bristol
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Discuss a number of concrete ways of approaching global literature, cultural issues, and visual products comparatively.
- Assess how theories and practices of comparative literature, and cultural and visual productions challenge and reshape traditional ways of thinking about global power dynamics and about linguistic, national, and cultural borders and relations.
- Develop appropriate learning strategies up to the postgraduate level.
Syllabus
Week 1 – Comparative Literatures: Texts Across Borders
- World literature and the global circulation of texts
- Literary multilingualism and writing across languages
Week 2 – Cultural Encounters: Exchange, Power and Influence
- Cultural encounters in the premodern world
- Soft power through cultural encounters
Week 3 – Visual Culture: Media, Art and Meaning
- Visual culture, celebrity and digital media
- Visual culture, art and revolution
Issued on 31st August 2026
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