We weren't required to know any Latin to study Comparative Literature here in the US. I loved my degree! I took an entire course on Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, who is one of my favorite writers. Another was about expat literature in Paris in the 1920's. My first year I studied in Madrid and took a course on Cervantes. So many amazing classes!
For my English Degree I only needed 12 classes (3 Credits each for a total of 36 credits) to complete the English Component of it (120 in Total). The rest was filled up with a lot of Bull Crap classes I didn't want to take but had to. Made the best of it and used a lot of my free electives to take a crap ton of writing classes within the Journalism/English Department, but still, I wish they'd required more Literature Classes than what was needed.
There is something magical about studying and going in-depth into a field which you are passionate about and experiencing all that for the first time. I once considered studying German literature or comparative literature which I think is a perfect match if you love literature and foreign languages, but I finally ended up doing a medial degree which I don't regret. I stick to literature as my hobby! :) Enjoy your studies
Vielen Dank für den Einblick in deinen Studiengang, das hat richtig Spaß gemacht und ich finde die Möglichkeiten, die ihr zur Auswahl habt mega! Mein Bachelorstudiengang Sprach- und Textwissenschaften und auch jetzt der Master in European Studies ist ähnlich flexibel, ich muss aber sagen, dass ich bei deinem Studiengang die Strukturierung etwas angenehmer finde, als bei unseren hier. Und die freie Gestaltung im dritten Jahr finde ich extrem cool!
Wow, your courses sound amazing and so diverse! My university has very limited choices for literature studies. I've also had to take a lot of non-literary courses for my degree (Canadian universities often take an interdisciplinary approach to education). I tried to choose courses that were somewhat literature-adjacent when I could, like philosophy and history, but I had to take 2 science courses, which just makes no sense for an English/French language and literature degree and almost made me burn out and quit. 🤣😭
Haha oh no... That honestly doesn't sound great. I chose literature to NOT have to do "science", so I can imagine this is frustrating. So interesting though how different the courses are!
Lovely. Yes. Introduction to philosophy would be good for you, because your have a caring and friendly personality. Philosophy and Culture and economy is important to inorder to understand the rise and fall of Nations. You have chosen the right subject for your personality and interest in language history and modern social and economic issues. Thanks for explaining to us the modules in the course to comparative Lititure. It must be very exciting. I am very interested in Lititure good books, languages. I am learning Spanish Slowly, German, vocabulary building, and grammar in the english language. I find that comprehension and pronunciation is the key to fluency and communication. I took Spanish Language lessons in a group setting but I find it is more effective having a text book. to refer too. The secret I think to speak the language, that is how children learn it naturally. They hear the word, first, then try to repeat itt. Studying grammar and the vocabulary comes later and is called being educated. The Art is in the Listening, Thanks for your teaching on comparative Lititure. Have a blessed week 💐
I'm an engineer and currently a PhD student in AI. I'm less acquainted with literature studies but your videos are breaths of fresh air for me in this platform. Keep sharing your day, books and studies of interest, Maria! Cheers! 🥰🤓😍
Thanks for sharing, this was fascinating! I'm currently doing my MSc in pure mathematics but I'd love to study literature and languages too. Maybe I'll do another degree after finishing with maths... I seem to recall from another video of yours that you already have a degree? If that is the case, can you just do another degree for free in Austria? Because in Estonia, one has to wait 9 years between consecutive Bachelor degrees, that is unless they want to pay for each ECTS.
Thanks for sharing. And wow, that's crazy that they make you pay for education. So such thing here. You can do as much as you want, as long as you're in a public university. A lot of people study several things at the same time even...
@LiteRAT681 Look up "why study the Humanities?" or "Why study Liberal Arts?" to answer your own question. Don't stress her out. I know you didn't ask me but I did a B.A. in History and my grandfather asked me the same question you are asking her and it was triggering.
@@Vyborne I did my BA in Liberal Arts (mostly philosophy, actually!) but I knew exactly what I wanted to do afterwards, which was to get a master's in linguistics! I think having a plan to start with helped me not be so stressed (although the exact specifics of the plan changed slightly as well). I understand that the academic plan doesn't work for everyone, though. But my plan's just the one particular to me. In any case, flaunting my textual analysis skills (including using some data science to do rudimentary corpus linguistics) probably really helped me get in, even though I really wanted to study phonetics, phonology, and historical linguistics along with corpus linguistics in my linguistics degree. Ended up doing a rather lot of phonetics, but not so much historical for sure. It also helped that I took part in a corpus linguistics study already as one of the undergrad data collectors, and I studied *constantly* linguistics on my own. :P
Hopefully more of what I'm doing on here- share my passion with people and inspire them... :-) On a more practical note: I know what you mean, and people go into either academia, research, working in a library or publishing house. I don't think any of those jobs would be for me. Also, there's not a lot of "great" opportunities if you study literature. As one of my professors said in the first lesson: "Welcome and congratulations to choosing intellect over money" ;-) But I'm not doing this degree with a fixed job future in mind. I want to learn how to think well and I trust that this (+ an artists heart) will lead me in the right direction. I totally see that this is very privileged and not all people have this opportunity. My background, but mostly the fact that I'm living in Austria, where the state pays me to study, makes all this possible for me. And I'll use it to do as much good in the world as I can. And if that doesn't bring me enough money, I always have a place in the social sector, working with people with disabilities (my previous degree). People are much needed there. And even though I don't feel like it's my ultimate passion, I have no problem going back there. Hope this answers your question :-)
Thank you for sharing... I'm also doing English literature.. if you could recommend some good books about literary theory and criticism.. it would be helpful...
We weren't required to know any Latin to study Comparative Literature here in the US. I loved my degree! I took an entire course on Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, who is one of my favorite writers. Another was about expat literature in Paris in the 1920's. My first year I studied in Madrid and took a course on Cervantes. So many amazing classes!
All that sounds amazing. So interesting to hear from other countries.
Your degree sounds very interesting! I should have done my B.A. in Literature! I did Speech Pathology!
For my English Degree I only needed 12 classes (3 Credits each for a total of 36 credits) to complete the English Component of it (120 in Total). The rest was filled up with a lot of Bull Crap classes I didn't want to take but had to. Made the best of it and used a lot of my free electives to take a crap ton of writing classes within the Journalism/English Department, but still, I wish they'd required more Literature Classes than what was needed.
There is something magical about studying and going in-depth into a field which you are passionate about and experiencing all that for the first time. I once considered studying German literature or comparative literature which I think is a perfect match if you love literature and foreign languages, but I finally ended up doing a medial degree which I don't regret. I stick to literature as my hobby! :) Enjoy your studies
Thank you so much for sharing such a comprehensive overview of your studies. As an independent learner this really helps me guide my studies ❤
Vielen Dank für den Einblick in deinen Studiengang, das hat richtig Spaß gemacht und ich finde die Möglichkeiten, die ihr zur Auswahl habt mega! Mein Bachelorstudiengang Sprach- und Textwissenschaften und auch jetzt der Master in European Studies ist ähnlich flexibel, ich muss aber sagen, dass ich bei deinem Studiengang die Strukturierung etwas angenehmer finde, als bei unseren hier. Und die freie Gestaltung im dritten Jahr finde ich extrem cool!
Wow, your courses sound amazing and so diverse! My university has very limited choices for literature studies. I've also had to take a lot of non-literary courses for my degree (Canadian universities often take an interdisciplinary approach to education). I tried to choose courses that were somewhat literature-adjacent when I could, like philosophy and history, but I had to take 2 science courses, which just makes no sense for an English/French language and literature degree and almost made me burn out and quit. 🤣😭
Haha oh no... That honestly doesn't sound great. I chose literature to NOT have to do "science", so I can imagine this is frustrating. So interesting though how different the courses are!
Seems amazing! I would totally take the Japanese-Brazilian Literature course.
I study Communication science, so is not similar, but honestly your degree sounds amazing
Lovely. Yes. Introduction to philosophy would be good for you, because your have a caring and friendly personality. Philosophy and Culture and economy is important to inorder to understand the rise and fall of Nations. You have chosen the right subject for your personality and interest in language history and modern social and economic issues. Thanks for explaining to us the modules in the course to comparative Lititure. It must be very exciting. I am very interested in Lititure good books, languages. I am learning Spanish Slowly, German, vocabulary building, and grammar in the english language. I find that comprehension and pronunciation is the key to fluency and communication. I took Spanish Language lessons in a group setting but I find it is more effective having a text book. to refer too. The secret I think to speak the language, that is how children learn it naturally. They hear the word, first, then try to repeat itt. Studying grammar and the vocabulary comes later and is called being educated. The Art is in the Listening, Thanks for your teaching on comparative Lititure. Have a blessed week 💐
Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you for taking time to write all this. I appreciate it!
I'm an engineer and currently a PhD student in AI. I'm less acquainted with literature studies but your videos are breaths of fresh air for me in this platform. Keep sharing your day, books and studies of interest, Maria! Cheers! 🥰🤓😍
So lovely to have people here with completely different passions. All the best to you!
Could you make a video on Latin learning, either at school or university? I found it awesome that they require Latin, as a Classics student.
Thanks for sharing, this was fascinating! I'm currently doing my MSc in pure mathematics but I'd love to study literature and languages too. Maybe I'll do another degree after finishing with maths...
I seem to recall from another video of yours that you already have a degree? If that is the case, can you just do another degree for free in Austria? Because in Estonia, one has to wait 9 years between consecutive Bachelor degrees, that is unless they want to pay for each ECTS.
Thanks for sharing.
And wow, that's crazy that they make you pay for education. So such thing here. You can do as much as you want, as long as you're in a public university. A lot of people study several things at the same time even...
@@strange.lucidity wait ... is university free in Austria?
I'm just curious, you don't have to answer me, but... What do you want to work after finishing all that? What opportunities do you have?
@LiteRAT681 Look up "why study the Humanities?" or "Why study Liberal Arts?" to answer your own question. Don't stress her out. I know you didn't ask me but I did a B.A. in History and my grandfather asked me the same question you are asking her and it was triggering.
@@Vyborne I did my BA in Liberal Arts (mostly philosophy, actually!) but I knew exactly what I wanted to do afterwards, which was to get a master's in linguistics! I think having a plan to start with helped me not be so stressed (although the exact specifics of the plan changed slightly as well). I understand that the academic plan doesn't work for everyone, though. But my plan's just the one particular to me.
In any case, flaunting my textual analysis skills (including using some data science to do rudimentary corpus linguistics) probably really helped me get in, even though I really wanted to study phonetics, phonology, and historical linguistics along with corpus linguistics in my linguistics degree. Ended up doing a rather lot of phonetics, but not so much historical for sure. It also helped that I took part in a corpus linguistics study already as one of the undergrad data collectors, and I studied *constantly* linguistics on my own. :P
Hopefully more of what I'm doing on here- share my passion with people and inspire them... :-)
On a more practical note: I know what you mean, and people go into either academia, research, working in a library or publishing house. I don't think any of those jobs would be for me. Also, there's not a lot of "great" opportunities if you study literature. As one of my professors said in the first lesson: "Welcome and congratulations to choosing intellect over money" ;-) But I'm not doing this degree with a fixed job future in mind.
I want to learn how to think well and I trust that this (+ an artists heart) will lead me in the right direction.
I totally see that this is very privileged and not all people have this opportunity. My background, but mostly the fact that I'm living in Austria, where the state pays me to study, makes all this possible for me. And I'll use it to do as much good in the world as I can.
And if that doesn't bring me enough money, I always have a place in the social sector, working with people with disabilities (my previous degree). People are much needed there. And even though I don't feel like it's my ultimate passion, I have no problem going back there.
Hope this answers your question :-)
What are the authors discussed writers on the autism spectrum? I'd love to read them!
Same. Unfortunately there's no literature list with the description and since I didn't take the course I don't have it :/
@@strange.lucidity Oh, I see! Thanks anyway
Thank you for sharing... I'm also doing English literature.. if you could recommend some good books about literary theory and criticism.. it would be helpful...
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That would be the dream to be able to study Literature. Sadly not in this life for me. T_T
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