Housed in the Graduate Department of Humanities, the Type 2 Graduate Diploma in Comparative Literature is awarded concurrently with York M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. It provides the opportunity for students already enrolled in York graduate programs with literary, cultural, translational and artistic foci to supplement their primary program with rigorous theoretical training and to highlight the comparative, multilingual, cross-cultural nature of their graduate training.

The core requirements for this diploma (a core course, capstone diploma research essay, a general extension of course work, and the language requirement) have been designed to provide students with an understanding of the fundamentals of comparative research methodologies and debates in the discipline of Comparative Literature as well as with experience designing and carrying out research projects in more than one language.