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Courses in Comparative Literature (Division 354)

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COMPLIT 140. First-Year Literary Seminar.: Only first-year students, including those with sophomore standing, may pre-register for First-Year Seminars. All others need permission of instructor. (3). (HU). May be repeated for a total of six credits.; A course in the LS&A First-Year Seminar Program. Led by a faculty member, this course is a study of selected topics in literature through classroom discussion and the writing of essays.
COMPLIT 240. Introduction to Comparative Literature.: (3; 2 in the half-term). (HU).; What is comparative literature? How and what do comparatists compare? We address these questions and indicate how comparative literature differs in scope and methodology from the study of a national literature. Readings come from Western and non-Western societies and are considered within a variety of contexts.
COMPLIT 241. Topics in Comparative Literature.: Comp. Lit. 240 recommended. (3; 2 in the half-term). (HU).; An introduction to the range of comparative literature through topics representative of the discipline. Subjects vary but might include literary periods or movements (e.g., symbolism), genres (e.g., comedy), themes (e.g., the Don Juan theme), influence across national boundaries, relations between literature and other disciplines.
COMPLIT 260. Europe and Its Others.: (3). (HU).; This course is designed to introduce students to the pan-European origins of literary study and alternatives to them, and to increase their cultural fluency.
COMPLIT 340 / MODGREEK 340. Travels to Greece.: (3). (HU).; The course examines the literature of modern travel to Greece and the issues it raises about antiquity, modernity, ethnography, otherness, exoticism, orientalism, and Western identity. Readings include works by British, French, German, American, and Greek authors. Art, film, and the media are also used to provide different measures of comparison.
COMPLIT 350. The Text and Its Cultural Context.: (3). (HU). May be repeated for a total of six credits.; A comparative study of literature and some expository writing from diverse, focussing on the interdependence of text and context.
COMPLIT 362. Comparative Studies in Form and Genre.: (3). (HU). May be repeated for a total of six credits.; This topics course provides a general introduction to comparative studies in form and genre. Subject matter might include comparative poetics or the study of the novel across national boundaries. It might include comparative studies of such literary forms as the epic, lyric, or sonnet. In each case, a basic understanding of the issues of form or genre would supplement the close examination of literary works.
COMPLIT 364. Comparative Literary Movements and Periods.: (3). (HU). May be repeated for a total of six credits.; This topics course proves an introduction to studies in literary movements and periods across national boundaries. Examples include the traditional literary periods such as Romanticism or Modernism as well as movements such as surrealism, dada, or futurism, to name only a few. In each case, a basic understanding of the issues concerning literary movement or period would supplement the close examination of literary works.
COMPLIT 372. Literature and Identity.: (3). (HU). May be elected twice, for a total of six credits.; This course explores the emergence of literary works in relation to identity, tracing how literary and human kind relate and how this relation changes.
COMPLIT 374. Literature and the Body.: (3). (HU). May be elected twice, for a total of six credits.; This course interrogates the corporeal context of literary creation and meaning. It focuses not only on the influence of gender, sex, ability, disability, and race within the world of the text but questions the relation between literary and bodily form.
COMPLIT 376. Literature and Ideas.: (3). (HU). May be elected twice, for a total of six credits.; This course offers a general consideration of the ways in which particular ideas have affected the creation and history of literature, whether considered in terms of the history of ideas or as the content of an individual work.
COMPLIT 382(422). Literature and the Other Arts.: (3). (HU). May be repeated for a total of nine credits.; This course focuses on a comparative study of at least two art forms, such as literature and painting, poetry and music, or drama and film.
COMPLIT 384(424). Literature and Other Disciplines.: One course in literary studies. (3; 2 in the half-term). (HU). May be repeated for a total of nine credits.; Introduces students to the study of literature and its relation to other disciplines, such as anthropology, history, law, linguistics, philosophy, political science, psychology, and others. It poses general questions about the concerns shared by different disciplines as well as arguments between them. Introduces students to basic ideas about how literature connects with fields of knowledge distinctly defined and broadly conceived, contributing to fundamental discussions about how knowledge is formed and dissmeninated.
COMPLIT 410. Major Authors.: Junior standing. (3). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of six credits.; A comparison of major authors from different languages of world literature.
COMPLIT 430. Comparative Studies in Fiction.: Upperclass standing. (3; 2 in the half-term). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of nine credits.; A cross-cultural study of the novel as narrative, social text, cultural document, etc.
COMPLIT 434. Comparative Studies in Poetry.: Junior standing. (3). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of six credits.; Advanced introduction to the comparative study of poetry.
COMPLIT 490. Comparative Cultural Studies.: Junior standing. (3). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of six credits.; An advanced introduction to comparative studies in culture and cultural theory.
COMPLIT 492. Comparative Literary Theory.: Junior standing. (3). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of six credits.; An advanced introduction to comparative studies in literary theory.
COMPLIT 495. Senior Seminar in Comparative Literature.: Senior standing and concentration in Comp. Lit. (3). (Excl).; The culmination of undergraduate work in comparative literature. Course consists of an overview of current literary theory; readings; and student presentations of seminar papers developed in a tutorial situation with the instructor.
COMPLIT 496. Honors Thesis.: Comp. Lit. 495 and Honors concentration in comparative literature. (3). (Excl). (INDEPENDENT).; Tutorial for writing the honors thesis, a paper usually begun in the Comparative Literature Senior Seminar taken in a previous term.
COMPLIT 498. Directed Reading.: Permission of instructor. (1-4). (Excl). (INDEPENDENT).; Intended for concentrators, this course is individually developed by a student in consultation with an instructor who may be any associate faculty member of the Program.

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