Comparative Literature, B.A.

CURRICULUM COMMITTEE:
Thomas Prendergast (English), Chair
Mary Addis (Spanish)
Laura Burch (French)
Monica Florence (Classics)
Beth Muellner (German and Russian)

The discipline of Comparative Literature promotes the study of intercultural relations across linguistic and cultural boundaries. Appealing to the desire to transcend a merely national point of view, it enables the student to develop a uniquely transnational perspective on imaginative works from antiquity to post modernity. The program at The College of Wooster is interdepartmental in character and includes both explicitly comparative courses and courses that focus on a particular national literature, both in the original and in translation.

Major in Comparative Literature

Consists of fifteen courses:

ENGL 12000 -ENGL 12019
Two courses from Group I
Four courses beyond the 10200-level in a foreign language department. (One of the four courses may be in translation. When department offerings allow, at least two should be from Group II or III.)
Two courses from national literatures other than the four courses beyond the 102 level above. (These may be selected from Groups II and III.)
Three electives, selected from Groups I, II, and III and/or from beyond the 102 level in a foreign language.
CMLT 40100 - Junior Independent Study
CMLT 45100 - Senior Independent Study - Semester One
CMLT 45200 - Senior Independent Study - Semester Two

Special Notes

CMLT 40100 , CMLT 45100 , and CMLT 45200 will all involve projects of a comparative character; the student may select an adviser from any of the departments that participate in the program; the project must be approved by the chair of the Comparative Literature Curriculum Committee by the end of the second week of the semester in which the student is enrolled in CMLT 40100 and CMLT 45100 .
Courses applied toward a Comparative Literature major may not be taken on an S/NC basis.
Only grades of C- or better are accepted for the major or minor.