Comparative Literature (Interdepartmental Program)

For more information regarding the GRADUATE PROGRAM, click here.  

The program offers the PhD in comparative literature. Required courses include:

• History of Literary Criticism: From Antiquity to the Enlightenment–CPLT 7010  
• Modern Literary Criticism and Theory–CPLT 7020  
• Topics in Theory of Criticism–CPLT 7120  
• Topics in Comparative Literature–CPLT 7130  
• Topics in the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature–CPLT 7140  

The program also offers a graduate minor in comparative literature, which requires 12 hours of CPLT courses and satisfaction of the language requirement.