Comparative Literature Minor

Comparative Literature Overview

Comparative Literature is a wide-ranging, multicultural program of studies in poetry, prose, drama, film and related arts. House in the Department of Language, Literature and Culture, Comparative Literature is by nature interdisciplinary and has strong ties to several other departments in the University.

For more information, please visit the Comparative Literature Department website.

Minor Requirements

The MINOR in Comparative literature should consist of:

1. Two courses in a foreign language at the intermediate level or above.

• CHIN 103  and CHIN 104  
• GERM 103   and GERM 104  
• HEBR 103   and  HEBR 104  
• JAPN 103   and JAPN 104  
• LAT 103   and Intermediate Latin II
• FREN 105   and FREN 106  
• SPAN 105  and  SPAN 106  

2. Six courses in literature, film or related arts, selected in consultation with a department advisor, one of which must be CMLT 130 - The National Imagination  . No more than one foreign language course above the intermediate level taken to fulfill requirement 1 may be double-counted for fulfillment of requirement 2. 

• ANY CMLT course (excluding CMLT 130  which is listed above)
• CLAS 124 - Introduction to Classical Mythology  
• ENG 238 - Contemporary Latino/a Literature  
• ENG 243 - Literary Theory & Global Culture  
• ENG 248 - Contemporary Literary Theory  
• ENG 275 - Fictions of Empire: Studies in Global English Literature  
• ENG 279 - Fictions of Asian America  
• FREN 164 - Haiti and the French Antilles  
• GERM 220 - Global Freud  
• GERM 250 - German Film and the Frankfurt School  
• HIST 145 - U.S. History through the Novel  
• HIST 264 - Modern European History through the Novel  
• JAPN 110 - Japanese Pop Culture: Narratives of National Identity  
• JAPN 190 - Japanese Women Writers  
• JAPN 275 - The Japanese Warrior Tradition  
• JAPN 280 - Memory and National Identity in Post-War Japanese Fiction and Film  
• JS 117 - Reading the Narratives of the Hebrew Bible  
• JS 125 - Changing Images of King David  
• JS 130 - Suffering and Evil in Jewish Tradition  
• MCA 101 - Introduction to the Theory, History & Analysis of Media  
• PHIL 135 - Existentialism in Philosophy and Literature  
• PHIL 165 - Asian Philosophy  
• PHIL 169 - Aesthetics  
• PHIL 256 - Kant  
• PHIL 261 - Socrates and Nietzsche  
• PHIL 262 Nietzsche  
• SCRN 121 - History of International Cinema Until 1960  
• SCRN 124 - History of International Cinema Since 1960  
• SPAN 246 - Studies in Spanish Cinema  
• WGS 220 - Queer Theory  

Comparative Literature Faculty

Maria Acosta Cruz, Ph.D. (Spanish)
Belén Atienza, Ph.D (Spanish)
Odile Ferly, Ph.D. (French)
Everett Fox, Ph.D. (Jewish Studies)
Beth Gale, Ph.D. (French)
Benjamin Korstvedt, Ph.D. (Music)
Stephen Levin, Ph.D. (English)
Juan Pablo Rivera, Ph.D. (Spanish)
Robert Tobin, Ph.D. (German)
Alice Valentine, M.A. (Japanese)

Comparative Literature Courses

Courses offered within the last 2 Academic Years

• CMLT 109 - Human Rights and Literature
• CMLT 130 - The National Imagination
• CMLT 132 - Sexuality and Textuality
• CMLT 160 - Wayfaring, Wayfinding? Wandering in French-Speaking Societies
• CMLT 208 - Caribbean Women’s Writers
• ENG 250 - Medieval Literature
• FREN 140 - Francophone Writing and Film
• GERM 230 - The German Discovery of Sex
• GERM 250 - German Film and the Frankfurt School
• GERM 286 - German-Jewish Culture and Modern Multiculturalism
• JAPN 220 - Remaking Japan: Hollywood and Japanese Cinema
• JAPN 280 - Memory and National Identity in Post-War Japanese Fiction and Film
• JS 117 - Reading the Narratives of the Hebrew Bible
• JS 118 - Introduction to the Hebrew Bible II: Prophecy and Poetry
• PHIL 169 - Aesthetics
• PHIL 262 - Nietzsche
• SCRN 121 - History of International Cinema Until 1960
• SCRN 288 - Gender and Film
• SPAN 134 - Latino Literature and Media Arts
• SPAN 246 - Studies in Spanish Cinema