“Babeş-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca
The Faculty of Letters
The Department of Comparative Literature
Interdisciplinary Master’s Degree in the Study of Imagination:
History of Images – History of Ideas
CURRICULUM PLAN
for the academic year 2010-2012
I. REQUIREMENTS NECESSARY FOR GRADUATION:
The duration of studies: 4 semesters
Full time
140 ECTS credits, 20 of which are awarded for the MA thesis
II. THE DURATION OF ACADEMIC ACTIVITY (based on a week criterion):
Teaching activity |
Examination sessions |
Thesis completion |
Thesis defense |
Holidays |
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Semester 1 |
Semester 2 |
Semester 3 |
Semester 4 |
Winter |
Summer |
|
|
Christmas |
Winter |
Easter |
14 weeks |
14 weeks |
14 weeks |
14 weeks |
2 weeks |
2 weeks |
2 weeks |
20 – 30 June |
2 weeks |
1 week |
1 week |
III. THE NUMBER OF HOURS PER WEEK:
Semester 1 |
Semester 2 |
Semester 3 |
Semester 4 |
14 |
14 |
14 |
14 |
IV. The table of COMPULSORY core disciplines:
Code |
Discipline |
Credits |
No. of hours/week |
Examination type |
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Course |
Seminar |
Practical course |
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Semester 1 (Year I) |
30 |
7 |
5 |
2 |
|
|
LK4101 |
Methods in the Study of Imagination |
7 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
|
LK4102 |
From the Cold War to the Counterculture Literature of the 1960’s |
9 |
2 |
1 |
– |
W.E. |
LK4103 |
Poetics of Imagination
|
7 |
2 |
1 |
– |
|
|
An optional module or a discipline to be chosen from the range of disciplines offered by the faculty / university |
7 |
1 |
2 |
– |
O.E |
Semester 2 (Year I) |
30 |
7 |
5 |
2 |
|
|
LK4204 |
Creative Writing and Logical Games: Critifiction |
7 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
W.E |
LK4205 |
Image and Imagination in Auteur Movies |
9 |
2 |
1 |
– |
W.E |
LK4206 |
Inter-art Dialogues: Literature and Music |
7 |
2 |
1 |
– |
O.E |
|
An optional module or a discipline to be chosen from the range of disciplines offered by the faculty / university |
7 |
1 |
2 |
– |
O.E |
Semester 3 (Year II) |
30 |
7 |
5 |
2 |
|
|
LK5107 |
Symbolic histories and universes
|
7 |
2 |
1 |
– |
W.E |
LK5108 |
Historical imagination
|
7 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
W.E |
LK5109 |
Literature and the Fine Arts
|
7 |
2 |
1 |
– |
O.E |
|
An optional module or a discipline to be chosen from the range of disciplines offered by the faculty / university |
7 |
1 |
2 |
– |
O.E |
Semester 4 (Year II) |
30 |
6 |
3 |
5 |
|
|
LK5210 |
The Imagination of Femininity
|
8 |
2 |
1 |
– |
W.E |
LK5211 |
Icons and Reality: Religious Structures of Imagination |
8 |
2 |
1 |
– |
W.E |
LK5212 |
Comparative Architecture
|
7 |
2 |
1 |
– |
O.E |
LK5213 |
Research Seminar |
7 |
– |
– |
5 |
RECTOR, DEAN, DIRECTOR OF STUDIES,
Prof. Andrei Marga Prof. Corin Braga Prof. Ruxandra Cesereanu