Curriculum

Curriculum

Students of Comparative Literature take three types of courses: a course in methodology, courses in English and Comparative Literature, and courses in other departments.

Methodology

Students take a formal study in the methodology of Comparative Literature through CMLT 601.

English

The English Department currently offers courses with both ENGL and CMLT prefixes.  The classes involve literature courses in Anglophone literatures as well as courses that are comparative in nature. In whatever courses they take, students are expected to produce comparative seminar papers and to work with both primary and secondary texts in the relevant original language. Requiring that secondary texts, in addition to primary texts, be read in the original language insures that the student’s critical perspective extends beyond that of Anglophone culture.

Other

Students are also be required to take graduate level courses appropriate to their field of study, drawing on the curricular resources of the College of Arts and Humanities as well as of consortium schools.