Comparative Literature Undergraduate Program

Comparative literature is a wide-ranging, multicultural program of studies in poetry, prose, drama, film and related arts. Housed in the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department, the program is by nature interdisciplinary and has strong ties with other departments in the University. In addition to the courses offered by the department in comparative literature and literatures in foreign languages, the student is encouraged to take courses in English, history, philosophy, and visual and performing arts. One of the special aspects of the program is the emphasis on developing a practical and critical approach to texts. This may take the form of play production, seminars in translation of lyric poetry and drama, and supervised work in contemporary critical theory (i.e., relations between text and performance, spectator positioning and reader response).

Courses
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Title of Course	Course Number
Still Spaces–East Meets West: Contemplative Practice in the Classroom/Seminar	AS254
Human Rights and Literature	CMLT109
Fairy Tales of the World/Lecture, Discussion/First-Year Seminar	CMLT112
The Epic Journey/Lecture, Discussion	CMLT120
Shock of the New: Revolution in Hispanic Culture/First-Year Seminar	CMLT129
The National Imagination	CMLT130
Sexuality and Textuality	CMLT132
Latino Literature and Media Arts	CMLT134
Existentialism in Philosophy, Literature and The Human Sciences/Lecture, Discussion	CMLT136
Journeys with Hyphenated Americans: Emerging Identities, Evolving Cultures/First-Year Seminar	CMLT150
Studies in Italian Film: Neorealism/Lecture, Discussion	CMLT155
Islands in the Stream: Puerto Rico and the French Antilles	CMLT174
The Literature of Modern Spain in Translation/Lecture Discussion	CMLT181
Japanese Women Writers	CMLT190
Indigenous Peoples in Mexico	CMLT194
The Play and its Stages/Seminar, Workshop	CMLT205
Languages of Theater/Seminar, Discussion	CMLT206
Her Story: History and Fiction of Caribbean Women Writers/Seminar	CMLT208
Modernism in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts/Lecture, Discussion	CMLT210
Studies in Latin-American Cinema/ Lecture, Discussion	CMLT248
No More Classrooms, No More Books: Education in 20th Century French Novel and Film	CMLT256
Writing and Identity in the Francophone Caribbean	CMLT264
Art of the City: Paris and New York/ Discussion	CMLT288
A Culture of Dissent: Russian Radicalism in Historical Perspective/Seminar	CMLT294
Signs and Crossroads: Semiotic Theory and Practice/Seminar	COMM248
Introduction to Medieval Literature/Lecture, Discussion	ENG150
Medieval Literature/Seminar	ENG250
History of the English Language/ Seminar	ENG294
Francophone Literature and Film	FREN140
French Culture Seen Through Film: Jean Renoir/Lecture Discussion	FREN160
Spirited Rebellion: Adolescence French Novel and Film/Lecture, Discussion	FREN211
In the Shadow of World War II: Memory, Identity, and Nation in Japanese Fiction and Film/First Year Seminar	JAPN180
Reading the Narratives of the Hebrew Bible	JS117
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible II: Prophecy and Poetry/Lecture, Discussion	JS118
The Midrashic Tradition/Lecture, Discussion	JS123
History of International Cinema until 1960	SCRN121
Gender and Film	SCRN288
Latino Literature and Media Arts	SPAN134
Studies in Spanish Cinema/Lecture, Discussion	SPAN246
Studies in Hispanic Cinema/Lecture	SPAN249