310 Introduction to Literary Criticism. 3-4 cr. Critical methodologies of comparative literature. General theories of literature and distinct approaches to literary texts. Required for the major. P: So st and 6 cr of intro lit or con reg. Lecture only: 3 cr; lecture and disc: 4 cr.
341 Women and Literature. 3-4 cr. Critical examination of the active and passive roles of women in the international literary tradition, with attention to women writers placed in historical, ideological, and cross-cultural perspectives. P: Jr st or completion of 2 semesters of lit. Lecture only: 3cr; lecture and disc: 4 cr.
358 Problems in Genre and Mode. 3-4 cr. Comparative study of the nature and substance of genre distinctions and the relations between mode and genre in literature; emphasis on the critical analysis of literary texts and the problems thereof. P: Jr st or completion of 2 semesters of lit. Lecture only: 3 cr; lecture and disc: 4 cr.
368 Literature and Ideas. 3-4 cr. Historical, analytical and theoretical study of the impact and relevance of seminal concepts and ideas. P: Jr st or completion of 2 sem of lit. Lecture only: 3 cr; lecture and disc: 4 cr.
371 Literary Criticism. 3-4 cr. Introduction to the basic trends and schools of literary criticism; in-depth study of representative critics from past centuries and from major contemporary schools. P: Six cr of literature or cons inst. Lecture only: 3 cr; lecture and disc: 4 cr.
372 Literary Movements and Trends. 3-4 cr. Comparative study of literary movements and trends to define the principles uniting literary texts in a coherent group, while accounting for the breadth of individual or national variations. Connections are developed with relevant debates in aesthetics, philosophy, and other disciplines. P: Jr st or completion of 2 sem of lit. Lecture only: 3 cr; lecture and disc: 4 cr.
374 Bilateral Literary Relations. 3-4 cr. Study of one national literature in relation to another national literature. Attention will be paid to the impact or influence each has had upon the other, usually during a specific historical period. P: Jr st or completion of 2 sem of lit. Lecture only: 3 cr; lecture and disc: 4 cr.
375 Literature and Related Disciplines. 3-4 cr. Critical, analytical and theoretical examination of the methodological and practical application of non-literary disciplines to the study of literature in an international context. P: Jr st or completion of 2 sem of lit. Lecture only: 3 cr; lecture and disc: 4 cr.
377 Literary Periods. 3-4 cr. Comparative study of the literature of well-defined historical epochs in terms of international and interlinguistic relations, the flux of ideas, forms, and styles. P: Jr st or completion of 2 sem of lit. Lecture only: 3 cr; lecture and disc: 4 cr.
378 Literary Backgrounds. 3-4 cr. Comparative study of literary, historical, political and philosophical articulations of notions and ideas underlying particular literary tendencies. P: Jr st or completion of 2 sem of lit. Lecture only: 3 cr; lecture and disc: 4 cr.
379 Literature and Ethnic Experience. 3-4 cr. Attempts to define through comparative analysis the ways in which ethnicity is constructed and problematized in literary texts. P: Jr st or completion of 2 sem of lit. Lecture only: 3 cr; lecture and disc: 4 cr.
466 Literature and the Other Arts. 3-4 cr. Comparative study of the theoretical and practical interaction of literature and/or music, visual and plastic arts, cinema, and forms of total art in a coherent intellectual framework. P: Jr st or completion of 2 sem of lit. Lecture only: 3 cr; lecture and disc: 4 cr.
473 Thematics. 3-4 cr. Comparative study of the creation and perpetuation of themes and motifs in different cultural contexts, and the problems of their analysis and interpretation in specific literary (and other) works. P: Jr st or completion of 2 sem of lit. Lecture only: 3 cr; lecture and disc: 4 cr.
475 Poetics and Literary Theory. 3-4 cr. Study of the changes and development of the systematics, theoretics, and mechanics of literary form and utterance. P: Six cr of lit or cons inst. Lecture only: 3 cr; lecture and disc: 4 cr.
698 Directed Study. 1-6 cr. P: Graded on a Cr/N basis; requires permission of dept chairman.
699 Directed Study. 1-6 cr. P: Graded on a lettered basis; requires permission of dept chrmn.
702 Problems in Comparative Studies. 3 cr. Comparative methods and the range of the discipline exposed through consideration of a variety of possible approaches. P: Grad st or cons inst.
731 Teaching in the Discipline. 1 cr. Seminar and practicum for teaching assistants in comparative literature and other graduate students in humanities interested in learning about comparative methodology and pedagogy. P: Grad st.
741 Women and Literature. 3 cr. Role of women in the international literary tradition, with attention to women writers, in historical and cross-cultural perspective. P: Grad st.
768 Literature and Ideas. 3 cr. The history and impact of seminal concepts. P: Grad st or cons inst.
771 Literary Criticism. 3 cr. History, theory, and practice. P: Grad st or cons inst.
772 Literary Movements and Trends. 3 cr. Stated movements and tendencies studied with a view to defining various national and historical manifestations as they relate to the central or core tendency or to generative principles or to the contribution of selected writers. P: Grad st or cons inst.
775 Literature and Related Disciplines. 3 cr. Attempts to answer the question: What can the methods and discoveries of other disciplines contribute to the study of literature?. P: Grad st or cons inst.
777 Literary Periods. 3 cr. Attempts to characterize the literature of well-defined historical epochs in terms of international and interlinguistic relations, the flux of ideas, forms, and styles. P: Grad st or cons inst.
778 Literary Backgrounds. 3 cr. Literary, historical, philosophical, political, and/or cultural roots of given tendencies. P: Grad st or cons inst.
779 Literature and the Group Experience. 3 cr. Attempts to define through illustration and analysis the ways in which a group or enclave defines itself through its literary utterance. P: Grad st.
822 Seminar-Translation. 3 cr. The theory and practice of translation. P: Grad st.
963 Seminar in Roots and Ramifications. 3 cr. Major sources and principal followers of a single figure, without regard to national or linguistic boundaries. P: Grad st.
966 Seminar-Literature and the Other Arts. 3 cr. The interaction of literature with arts such as music, cinema, the visual arts, etc. P: Grad st.
974 Seminar-Genre and Mode. 3 cr. The description, illustration, and definition of specific forms, conventions, and underlying principles in terms of diversity and interrelatedness, or historical development and internal consistency. P: Grad st.
975 Seminar-Poetics and Literary Theory. 3 cr. Systematics, theoretics, and mechanics of literary form. P: Grad st.
976 Seminar in Poetics (Polyseminar). 2 cr. Systematics, theoretics, and mechanics of literary form. P: Grad st.
990 Research and Thesis. 1-12 cr. Consult department chairperson. P: Grad st, cons advisor.
999 Independent Work. 1-3 cr. Consult department chairperson. P: Grad st; cons advisor.