Comparative Literature
2026-2027
120 courses
- COM 001— Major Works of the Ancient World
- COM 002— Major Works of the Medieval & Early Modern World
- COM 003— Major Works of the Modern World
- COM 004— Major Works of the Contemporary World
- COM 005— Fairy Tales, Fables, & Parables
- COM 006— Myths & Legends
- COM 006V— Myths & Legends
- COM 007— Literature of Fantasy & the Supernatural
- COM 007V— Literature of Fantasy & the Supernatural
- COM 008— Utopias & Their Transformations
- COM 009— The Short Story & Novella
- COM 010A— Master Authors in World Literature: Gilgamesh, Ramayana, Beowulf, Nibelungenlied
- COM 010B— Master Authors in World Literature: Metamorphoses, Decameron, Arabian Nights, Canterbury Tales
- COM 010C— Master Authors in World Literature: Chanson de Roland, El Cid, Igor’s Campaign, Morte D’Arthur
- COM 010D— Master Authors in World Literature: Sakuntala, Tristan & Isolde, Aucassin & Nicolette, Gawain
- COM 010E— Master Authors in World Literature: Swift, Rabelais, La Celestina, Simplicissimus
- COM 010F— Master Authors in World Literature: Cervantes, Saikaku, Fielding, Voltaire
- COM 010G— Master Authors in World Literature: Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Calderón, Racine, Schiller
- COM 010H— Master Authors in World Literature: Goethe, Byron, Stendhal, Pushkin, Lermontov
- COM 010I— Master Authors in World Literature: Hoffmann, Gogol, Poe, Hawthorne, Maupassant, Chekhov, Melville
- COM 010J— Master Authors in World Literature: Flaubert, Twain, Turgenev, Galdós, Ibsen
- COM 010K— Master Authors in World Literature: Balzac, Dostoevski/Tolstoi, Hardy, Shaw, Strindberg
- COM 010L— Master Authors in World Literature: Unamuno, Svevo, Conrad, Gide, Kafka, Faulkner
- COM 010M— Master Authors in World Literature: Yeats, Woolf, Céline, Tanizaki, Brecht, Pirandello
- COM 010N— Master Authors in World Literature: Camus, Márquez, Borges, Bellow, Beckett, Genet
- COM 011— Travel & the Modern World
- COM 012— Introduction to Women Writers
- COM 013— Dramatic Literature
- COM 014— Introduction to Poetry
- COM 020— Humans & the Natural World
- COM 022— Literature of the Abnormal Psyche
- COM 024— Animals in Literature
- COM 025— Ethnic Minority Writers in World Literature
- COM 053A— Literature of East Asia
- COM 053B— Literature of South Asia
- COM 053C— Literatures of the Islamic World
- COM 090X— Lower Division Seminar
- COM 098— Directed Group Study
- COM 098F— Student Facilitated Course
- COM 099— Special Study for Undergraduates
- COM 100— World Cinema
- COM 110— Hong Kong Cinema
- COM 112— Japanese Cinema
- COM 120— Writing Nature: 1750 to the Present
- COM 135— Women Writers
- COM 138— Gender & Interpretation in the Renaissance
- COM 139— Shakespeare & the Classical World
- COM 140— Thematic & Structural Study of Literature
- COM 141— Introduction to Critical Theoretical Approaches to Literature & Culture
- COM 142— Critical Reading & Analysis
- COM 144— The Grotesque
- COM 145— Representations of the City
- COM 146— Myth in Literature
- COM 147— Modern Jewish Writers
- COM 148— Mystical Literatures of South Asia & the Middle East
- COM 151— Colonial & Postcolonial Experience in Literature
- COM 152— Literature of the Americas
- COM 152S— Literature of the Americas (Taught in Latin America)
- COM 153— The Forms of Asian Literature
- COM 154— African Literature
- COM 155— Classical Literatures of the Islamic World 600-1900
- COM 156— The Ramayana
- COM 157— War & Peace in Literature
- COM 158— The Detective Story as Literature
- COM 159— Women in Literature
- COM 160A— The Modern Novel
- COM 160B— The Modern Drama
- COM 161A— Tragedy
- COM 161B— Comedy
- COM 162— Writing Love & War in South Asia
- COM 163— Biography & Autobiography
- COM 164A— The European Middle Ages
- COM 164B— The Renaissance
- COM 164C— Baroque & Neoclassicism
- COM 164D— The Enlightenment
- COM 165— Caribbean Literatures
- COM 165S— Caribbean Literatures
- COM 166— Literatures of the Modern Middle East
- COM 166A— The Epic
- COM 166B— The Novel
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