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Comparative Literature (CmLit)


Undergraduate Courses


    200-Level Courses

    CMLIT 201 : Civilization: Literature 1. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    CMLIT 201 : Civilization: Literature 1. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    OFFERED: Honors also.
    DESCRIPTION: Major world civilizations from antiquity to early Italian Renaissance, emphasizing socioeconomic, political, intellectual, and aesthetic developments, with primary focus on literary texts.

                : Honors Civilization: Literature 1.

    CMLIT 202 : Civilization: Literature 2. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    CMLIT 202 : Civilization: Literature 2. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    DESCRIPTION: Major world civilizations from Europe's High Renaissance to modern times, emphasizing socioenonomic, political, intellectual, and aesthetic developments, with primary focus on literary texts.
    NOTE: Honors also.

                : Honors Civilization: Literature 2.


    300-Level Courses

    CMLIT 310 : Introduction to Literary Analysis and Comparative Literature. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    CMLIT 310 : Introduction to Literary Analysis and Comparative Literature. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    PREREQUISITE: Reading knowledge of at least one foreign language.
    DESCRIPTION: Methods of literary analysis, emphasizing basic issues of comparative literature and prosody and other problems related to foreign language texts.

    CMLIT 342 : Asian Literary Traditions. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    CMLIT 342 : Asian Literary Traditions. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    DESCRIPTION: Comparative analysis of Asian literary works spanning several traditions.


    400-Level Courses

    CMLIT 420R : Studies in Periods and Movements. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    CMLIT 420R : Studies in Periods and Movements. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    PREREQUISITE: CmLit 310 or Hum 350 or concurrent enrollment.
    DESCRIPTION: Topics vary.

                 : 12th-Century Renaissance.
                 : 17th-Century Literature.
                 : 18th-Century Literature.
                 : 20th-Century Literature.
                 : Classics and Early America.
                 : Medieval Literature.
                 : Modernism.
                 : Neoclassicism.
                 : Postmodernism.
                 : Realism.
                 : Renaissance Literature.
                 : Romanticism.
                 : Symbolism.

    CMLIT 430R : Studies in Literary Genres. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    CMLIT 430R : Studies in Literary Genres. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    PREREQUISITE: CmLit 310 or concurrent enrollment.
    DESCRIPTION: Various genres (e.g., novel, epic, tragedy) and problems of genre. Topics vary.

                 : Comedy.
                 : Lyric.
                 : Novel.
                 : Poetry and Poetics.
                 : The Romance.
                 : Tragedy.

    CMLIT 440R : Studies in Themes and Types. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    CMLIT 440R : Studies in Themes and Types. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    PREREQUISITE: CmLit 310 or concurrent enrollment.
    DESCRIPTION: Major literary themes (e.g., Faust, Don Juan, Ulysses, Arthur), types, motifs, and problems of literary typology. Topics vary.

                 : Arthurian Literature.
                 : Don Juan Theme.
                 : Faust Theme.
                 : Ulysses Theme.

    CMLIT 450R : Studies in Literary Relations. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    CMLIT 450R : Studies in Literary Relations. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    PREREQUISITE: CmLit 310 or concurrent enrollment.
    DESCRIPTION: Interrelations of national literatures and figures and of literature with other areas of knowledge (art, history, law, psychology, music, etc.). Topics vary.

                 : Asian Literature Traditions.
                 : East-West Relations.
                 : Literature and Cinema.
                 : Literature and History.
                 : Literature and Music.
                 : Literature and Myth.
                 : Literature and Politics.
                 : Literature of Sensibility.
                 : Philosophy and Literature.
                 : Symbolism.
                 : U.S. and Carribean Literature.
                 : Vergil, Augustine, and Dante.
                 : Wagner and Wagnerism.

    CMLIT 460R : Studies in Literary Theory. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    CMLIT 460R : Studies in Literary Theory. (3:3:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    PREREQUISITE: CmLit 310 or concurrent enrollment.
    DESCRIPTION: Topics vary.

                 : Classical Rhetoric and Criticism.
                 : Contemporary Theory.
                 : Historical Literary Theory.
                 : Practical Criticism.

    CMLIT 495R : Directed Readings. (.5-3:0:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    CMLIT 495R : Directed Readings. (.5-3:0:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

    CMLIT 497 : Reading List Examination. (1:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    CMLIT 497 : Reading List Examination. (1:1:0)(Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)
    PREREQUISITE: CmLit 310, 342, and three 400-level seminars.

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