Program: Comparative Literature Minor - Clark University

Comparative Literature Overview

Comparative Literature is a wide-ranging, multicultural program of studies in cultural production (e.g., poetry, prose, drama, film, and digital production and related arts). Housed 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 - US History and the Novel
HIST 264 - Modern European History through the Novel
JAPN 110 - Pop Culture in Japan & East Asia
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

María Acosta Cruz, Ph.D. (Spanish)

Eduard Arriaga, Ph.D. (Spanish)

Belén Atienza, Ph.D (Spanish)

Odile Ferly, Ph.D. (French and Francophone Studies)

Allison Fong, Ph.D. (French and Francophone Studies)

Everett Fox, Ph.D. (Jewish Studies)

Beth Gale, Ph.D. (French and Francophone Studies)

Benjamin Korstvedt, Ph.D. (Music)

Stephen Levin, Ph.D. (English)

Alexander Murphy, Ph.D. (Japanese)

Juan Pablo Rivera, Ph.D. (Spanish)

Chris Synodinos, Ph.D. (Latin)

Comparative Literature Courses

Courses offered within the last 2 Academic Years