About the Minor
Coordinator: Ada Ortúzar-Young, Professor of Spanish
Comparative literature broadens literary experience by pushing beyond fixed boundaries of single-nation and single-language literatures while still respecting national literary identities. Comparative literary studies produce a multilinguistic experience of authors, texts, and forms, and situate literary production within wider cultural, historical, and political contexts.
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Requirements for the Minor (24 Credits)
Students minoring in comparative literature must complete 24 credits, of which at least eight (8) must be at the upper level. These courses must represent two different literary traditions, one of which may be English. Students must demonstrate competence in a foreign language representing one of the two traditions chosen for the minor by completing four (4) credits at the upper level in that language. The 24 credits must be distributed as follows:
I. ENGL 9/Literary Analysis (4)
II. 16 credits in literature courses, eight credits in each of the two literary traditions.
The readings may be in the original language or in translation; English may be one of the traditions selected. Appropriate courses may be selected from classics, English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, and courses designated literature in translation. These courses are listed under World Literature Courses in Translation (pg. 243 in the print catalog). For this program, written work in literature courses taught in languages other than English may be submitted in English.
III. INST 150/Independent Study (4)
A project, involving the two traditions the student selects, directed by faculty from the two disciplines.
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