COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
FACULTY ADVISORY COMMITTEE:
JOAN B. BURTON, Ph.D., Professor, Classical Studies
STEPHEN L. FIELD, Ph.D., Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures
THOMAS JENKINS, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Classical Studies
RUQAYYA Y. KHAN, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Religion
LARRY KUTCHEN, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, English
TIMOTHY M. O’SULLIVAN, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Classical Studies
MICHAEL SOTO, Ph.D., Associate Professor, English
HEATHER I. SULLIVAN, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures; Chair
RITA E. URQUIJO-RUIZ, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures
MICHAEL T. WARD, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Modern Languages and Literatures
Comparative Literature is an interdisciplinary program designed for students who want to pursue the study of literature unrestricted by national boundaries and conventional demarcations of culture. Comparative Literature recognizes that all literary texts exist within the framework of world cultures and emphasizes the importance of bringing a multicultural perspective to the understanding of literary traditions. It includes reading literature in the original language as well as in translation.
Completion of this program will be indicated on the student’s transcript with the notation “Minor in Comparative Literature.”
Students interested in a Comparative Literature minor should contact the Chair of the Committee, who will assign a faculty advisor to the student.
Students considering going on to graduate work in comparative literature are strongly encouraged to start studying one or more foreign languages (classical and/or modern) as soon as possible and to continue throughout their undergraduate career.
THE MINOR
The requirements for a minor in Comparative Literature are as follows:
I. Introduction to Comparative Literature (CMLT 1300).
II. Two courses from each of the three categories below (A, B, and C), for a total of six courses. (CMLT 1300 counts as one of the two courses from category C.)
III. At least three of the total shall be upper division courses.
IV. No more than two of the total may overlap with the student’s primary major.
These courses shall be chosen as follows:
A. Two courses in the literature of a language other than English. All materials in these courses must be in the original language. These courses include the following:
In the Department of Classical Studies:
GREK 2302 Readings in Classical Greek Literature
GREK 2303 Readings in the New Testament
GREK 3301 Homer and the Greek Epic
GREK 3302 Attic Prose
GREK 3303 Greek Drama
GREK 3304 Greek Historians
LATN 3302 Virgil and Latin Epic
LATN 3303 Latin Prose to 43 B.C.
LATN 3304 Lyric and Elegiac Poets
LATN 3305 Latin Prose from 43 B.C.
LATN 3306 Comedy and Satire
In the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures:
CHIN 3312 Chinese Cinema
CHIN 4321 Topics in Modern Chinese Literature
CHIN 4351 Classical Chinese
FREN 3305 Introduction to French Literature I
FREN 3306 Introduction to French Literature II
FREN 4301 Medieval French Literature
FREN 4302 Topics in French Literature of the Sixteenth Century
FREN 4303 Topics in French Literature of the Seventeenth Century
FREN 4304 Topics in French Literature of the Eighteenth Century
FREN 4305 Topics in French Literature of the Nineteenth Century
FREN 4306 Topics in French Literature of the Twentieth Century
FREN 4307 French Cinema
FREN 4310 Senior Seminar in Literature
GERM 3305 Introduction to German Literature I
GERM 3306 Introduction to German Literature II
GERM 4301 Genre Studies in German Literature
GERM 4310 Seminar in German Literature
RUSS 3305 Introduction to Russian Literature I
RUSS 3306 Introduction to Russian Literature II
RUSS 4301 Genre Studies in Russian Literature
RUSS 4310 Seminar in Russian Literature
SPAN 3321 Spanish Cinema
SPAN 3322 Spanish American Cinema
SPAN 3331 Introduction to Spanish Literature
SPAN 3332 Introduction to Spanish American Literature
SPAN 4331 Medieval Spanish Literature
SPAN 4332 Spanish Golden Age Literature
SPAN 4333 Don Quixote
SPAN 4334 Nineteenth-Century Spanish Literature
SPAN 4335 The Generation of ‘98
SPAN 4336 Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature
SPAN 4338 Spanish Women Writers
SPAN 4341 Literature of Colonial Spanish America
SPAN 4342 Spanish American Literature of the Nineteenth Century
SPAN 4343 Twentieth-Century Spanish American Poetry
SPAN 4344 Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel
SPAN 4345 Twentieth-Century Spanish American Short Story
SPAN 4346 Twentieth-Century Spanish American Drama
SPAN 4347 National and Regional Literatures of Spanish America
SPAN 4348 Spanish American Women Writers
SPAN 4349 Sexualities in Literature and Film
SPAN 4361 Literature of Social Protest in Spanish America
B. Two literature courses in a language other than that chosen for A.
These may include courses listed above for A, literature and film courses in translation offered in the Department of Classical Studies and in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, courses in American or British literature offered in the Department of English, the course in American drama offered in the Department of Speech and Drama, and the FILM 1301 course (cross-listed as ARTH 1301, COMM 1302, ENGL 1301, and ML&L 1301). These may also include the following courses offered in the Department of Religion: RELI 3351 Narratives in the Hebrew Bible, and RELI 3352 Poetry in the Hebrew Bible.
C. CMLT 1300, and one additional course to be chosen from the following list of courses with strong comparative components.
CLAS 1305 Classical Mythology
CLAS 1307 Gender and Identity in the Ancient World
CLAS 3302 Greek and Roman Epic
CLAS 3303 Greek and Roman Drama
CLAS 3304 The Ancient Romance and Novel
CLAS 3305 Antiquity and Modernity
CMLT 1300 Introduction to Comparative Literature (REQUIRED)
DRAM 2333 History of Drama and Theatre I
DRAM 2334 History of Drama and Theatre II
DRAM 3335 Studies in Classical Drama
DRAM 3336 Modern Drama
DRAM 3337 Contemporary Drama
ENGL 2305 World Literature
ENGL 2306 Medieval Imagination
ENGL 3305 Culture and Creativity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
ENGL 3322 Greek and Roman Drama (Also listed as CLAS 3303 and DRAM 3335.)
ENGL 3329 Jewish Literature
ENGL 3337 Literary Theory
ENGL 3338 Ideology
ENGL 3359 Medieval Literature
ENGL 3375 Postmodern Literature
ENGL 3385 The Continental Novel
ENGL 4323 Studies in American Literature: The Circum-Atlantic World; The Haitian Revolution
ENGL 4327 Literature of the Holocaust
FILM 2301 International Cinema (Also listed as ARTH 2301, COMM 2301, ENGL 2300, and ML&L 2301.)
ML&L 3320 German Literature in Translation: Fairy Tales
ML&L 3320 German Literature in Translation: Faust – Early Superman
PHIL 3325 Existentialism
PHIL 3336 Philosophy of Literature
PLSI 1332 Film, Literature, and Politics of the Third World
RELI 3346 Islamic Literatures
CMLT 1300 Introduction to Comparative Literature
Examines with a cross-cultural perspective texts from around the world. The course provides an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of comparative literature. (Also listed as ENGL 1305.)
CMLT 2301 World Literature and the Environment
Examines literary texts from around the world with an emphasis on environmental issues and a global perspective.
CMLT 3-90 Reading and Conference
Individual work under faculty supervision not covered by other courses. May be repeated up to six hours.
Prerequisites: Completion of CMLT 1300 and consent of instructor.