Comparative Literature (CmLit)
Undergraduate Courses
200-Level Courses
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. |
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. |
300-Level Courses
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. |
400-Level Courses
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. |
: Medieval Literature.
: Renaissance Literature.
: Neoclassicism.
: Romanticism.
: Realism.
: Symbolism.
: 20th-Century Literature.
: Classics and Early America.
: 17th-Century Literature.
: Modernism.
: 12th-Century Renaissance.
: 18th-Century Literature.
: Postmodernism.
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. |
: Lyric.
: Tragedy.
: Novel.
: Comedy.
: The Romance.
: Poetry and Poetics.
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. |
: Faust Theme.
: Ulysses Theme.
: Arthurian Literature.
: Don Juan Theme.
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. |
: Philosophy and Literature.
: Literature and History.
: Symbolism.
: Literature and Music.
: Wagner and Wagnerism.
: Literature and Myth.
: Vergil, Augustine, and Dante.
: Literature and Politics.
: Literature and Cinema.
: Literature of Sensibility.
: East-West Relations.
: Asian Literature Traditions.
: U.S. and Carribean Literature.
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.
: Practical Criticism.
: Historical Literary Theory.
: Contemporary Theory.
Graduate Courses