The graduate program requires fourteen courses, twelve of which are elected in years one and two. Six of the required courses are in Comparative Literature: a first-semester introduction to graduate studies, 600, a workshop on cooperative study in the fourth semester, 601, and four Comparative Literature seminars. The remaining eight courses may be distributed according to two or three "fields," depending on the student's choice. The number of fields and the number of courses defining each one should be determined in counsel with the Graduate Advisor and other faculty mentors. A field might be defined as a traditional national literature, but it might as easily be defined in terms of a specific period, intellectual interest, generic issue, area study, or discipline. "Cultural studies," "women's studies," "literature and other disciplines," "romanticism," "postcolonial studies," "gay and lesbian theory," "the lyric," and "Russian" are a few of the ways a field might be defined. For example, a Ph.D. could have emphases in women's studies and cultural studies as well as in French literature of the nineteenth century.

Language Requirements

Directed Readings

Third-Term Review

Examinations

Prospectus and Dissertation Committee

Graduate Student Instructors