Housed in the Graduate Program in English, the Type 2 Graduate Diploma in World Literature may be awarded in conjunction with M.A. or Ph.D. degrees in English, Humanities, and Translation Studies.

This challenging graduate diploma requires candidates to supplement and extend their M.A. or Ph.D. degree studies by considering them anew, through the perspective of World Literature; it strengthens and highlights the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural nature of their graduate training.

The Graduate Diploma in World Literature thus combines intellectual rigour with administrative flexibility and simplicity. The combination of specific additional requirements (a core course and capstone diploma research essay) with a compulsory cultural theory course and a general extension of course work and research to include a World Literature perspective (in essays, major research papers, theses or dissertations) allows students to adapt the method by which they complete the Diploma to their specific interests and needs. Diploma recipients will know how to define and historically situate the key concepts, methodologies, and theoretical approaches of World Literature studies; describe the fundamental debates, as well as new concerns and developments in the field, and draw connections to other disciplines; design and realize World Literature research projects in essays, major research papers, theses or dissertations; develop research projects that consider world literature from one or more perspectives, including generic, historical, political, cultural, and interdisciplinary.