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PhD Programme in Literature and Cultural Identity

 

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PhD Programme in Literature and Cultural Identity

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Admission requirements:

Students of various categories may apply for the PhD programme:

  • Students who have completed a university degree in the Humanities in the pre-Bologna or Bologna system of education.
  • Students who have already completed their Master's degree in the Humanities.
  • Students who have attended a Master's degree programme and passed all the required exams, but have not defended their MA thesis.
  • Students who have attended a Master's degree programme and partially passed the required exams.
  • The PhD programme in Literature and Cultural Identity can be enrolled by students who have completed their MA programme in Humanities with a GPA of 4.0. The students with a lower GPA can enrol as an exception, with the recommendations of two university teachers and based on the decision of the Doctoral Study Programme Council. The students must be fluent in at least one foreign language, and the basic knowledge of working with the computer is also assumed. Foreign students can enrol in the study programme if they have completed studies in Humanities at foreign higher education institutions, with the letters of recommendation from two university teachers and based on the decision of the Doctoral Study Programme Council.

Duration of studies (years and semesters):

3 years / 6 semesters

Total ects credits:

180

Qualification awarded:

PhD (research field: Humanities, research discipline: Philology, research branch: Literary Theory and History)

Competencies acquired upon completion of studies (learning outcomes):

  • Acquisition of new and relevant knowledge in the literary history and theory and methodology.
  • Implementation of the professional and specialist literary knowledge in research.
  • Connecting Croatian, English and German language professionals.
  • Interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to literary phenomena, the implementation of current methodological initiatives and directions in understanding literary work.

Employment oportunities:

  • On completion of the PhD programme in Literature and Cultural Identity, the student acquires the PhD in research field of Humanities, research discipline Philology, research branch Literary Theory and History.
  • Can be engaged in teaching the respective study groups at the faculties of humanities (Croatian studies, Germanic Studies, English Studies), art academies, and the like.
  • The study programme qualifies students for the independent research and teaching activities, for independent managing of their projects and for postdoctoral studies.

 

Core Courses
  1. The Postmodern Novel from World Literature – Reception of the Postmodern Novel from World Literature in Croatian Literary Science
  2. Literary Genealogy
  3. Modernism / Postmodernism
  4. History of Literary Science Methods in German Studies
  5. History of World Dramatic Literature and Theatre
Elective Courses

Literary Heritage

  1. Comparative History of Old Croatian Drama
  2. German Literature of Slavonia
  3. Literature  of the  Middle Ages
  4. Literature and Reality of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Croatia
  5. The Echo Motif in Old Croatian Literature
  6. Marin Držić and Machiavelli
  7. The Legend of "the Repenting Prostitute" in Old Croatian Literature and its West European Sources
  8. Nikolica Bunić and Croatian Baroque Epic in Verse

Drama and Theatre

  1. Croatian 20th Century Drama in the Context of European Literature
  2. Contemporary Drama Representation – Genological aspects
  3. Krleža's Dramatic Technique and Theatre in the European Context
  4. 20th Century  Drama (German language region)
  5. Contemporary German Drama I –Bertolt Brecht's Epic Theatre
  6. Contemporary German Drama II – Tragicomedies of Friedrich Dürrenmatt
  7. Contemporary German Drama III – Heiner Müller
  8. Robert Musil and Hermann Broch and the 20th Century European Novel
  9. German War Theatre and German Theatre in Osijek 1941 – 1945
  10. Foreign Literature and Myth in Croatian Dramatic Literature in the Second Half of the 20th Century
  11. Elizabethan Theatre
  12. Shakespeare – from Tragedy to Musical
  13. What do Salesmen Sell or Contemporary American Drama
  14. Dramatic Reflexes and the Puritan American Dream
  15. Contemporary British Drama in the European Theatrical Context
  16. Theatre Criticism Between a Newspaper Genre and Theatre Studies
  17. The Grass is always Greener on the Other Side of the Fence or Differences Between the European and American Theatre
  18. How to Present Wounds on the Stage or Contemporary War Dramatic Writing
  19. Theatre of Memory
  20. Melodrama as a European and American Genre
  21. O'Neill between Myth and Dispute
  22. The American Dream in American Drama
  23. Communication Skills

Literature in Contact

  1. Literary Work of Andrić in the Context of European Civilizations and Cultures
  2. Croatian Literary Communication with Montenegrin Literature/Culture (Views and Aspects)
  3. Novels about Childhood by Jagoda Truhelka
  4. New Croatian Fairytales
  5. Hagiography, Biography, Autobiography
  6. Text and Identity
  7. Johann Gottfried Herder and His Ideas on South Slavic Literatures
  8. The Character of Faust in the European Literary Tradition (book on Faust, Ch. Marlowe, J. Goethe, Th. Mann, S. Šnajder)
  9. Literature and the Question of Responsibility
  10. The Cultural Identity of Croatian Literature within the European Context
  11. The Slavonian Text Within the Context of Croatian Literature
  12. Contemporary Croatian Autobiographic Prose
  13. Croatian Women's Prose
  14. Body, Trauma and Violence: towards the Hermeneutics of Early New Age Tragedy
  15. Introduction to New Historicism