Applicants for this course should have achieved a UK Good II.i Honours Degree. If your degree is not from the UK, please check International Qualifications to find the equivalent in your country. Although admissions interviews are generally not held, an interview will be held prior to recommending an offer of admission in some cases. By "comparative literatures and cultures", we do not mean the study of any or all literatures in English translation. Applicants must show evidence of advanced reading competency in the language of the material proposed for the student’s dissertation research, which must fall within the purview of one of the language sections of MMLL. (Prospective students are encouraged to look at the profiles of the Faculty members in the different language sections who might supervise their work.) In cases where one is not a native speaker of the target language, competency ordinarily must be demonstrated by a degree in a field related to ELAC from a university where instruction was conducted in the language in question, or by an undergraduate degree from another university where the student has taken advanced (i.e., final-year) coursework in a relevant field using the material in the target language. If such coursework is not indicated on the student’s academic record, the student should submit the results of a formal language assessment at the time of application (Common European Framework, C1 or higher, or American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages, Advanced High or higher).