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.


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.



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.

            : 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)

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)

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)

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)

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.


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.


CMLIT 499R : Honors Thesis. (.5-6:ARR:ARR) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

CMLIT 499R : Honors Thesis. (.5-6:ARR:ARR) (Credit Hours:Lecture Hours:Lab Hours)

Graduate Courses

For 500- and 600-level courses, see the BYU 2009–2010 Graduate Catalog.

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