COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

2026-2027

143 courses

CMPL 120Great Books I: Epic and Lyric Traditions
CMPL 121Great Books I: Romancing the World
CMPL 122Great Books I: Visual Arts and Literature from Antiquity to 1750
CMPL 123Great Books I: Politics and Literature from Antiquity to 1750
CMPL 124Great Books I: Science and Literature from Antiquity to 1750
CMPL 130Great Books II
CMPL 131Great Books II: Savage, Native, Stranger, Other
CMPL 132Great Books II: Performance and Cultural Identity in the African Diaspora
CMPL 133Great Books II: Imaging the Americas from the Late 18th Century to the Present
CMPL 134Great Books II: Travel and Identity
CMPL 142Visual Culture II
CMPL 143History of Global Cinema
CMPL 144Engaging Film and Media
CMPL 150Critical Theory: Fear, Love, Laughter, and Loss - Film Genres and Spectatorship
CMPL 180Race and Ethnicity in Hollywood Productions and Beyond
CMPL 198HLiterature in Eastern Europe
CMPL 212The Cinematic City
CMPL 220Global Authors: Jane Austen
CMPL 223Global Authors: Cervantes
CMPL 225Global Authors: The Worlds of Shakespeare
CMPL 227Global Authors: The Middle Ages in World Cinema
CMPL 230Global Crusoe: The Desert-Island Idea in Film and Fiction
CMPL 232Imagining the City in Modern Korea: Text, Image, Space
CMPL 237Rebel, Lover, Martyr: Gender and Sexuality in North and South Korean Screen Cultures
CMPL 238From Martial Arts to Street Dance: Rebellion with Chinese Characteristics
CMPL 240Introduction to Film Theory
CMPL 246Body Politics in Modern Korean Literature
CMPL 247Indigenous Spiritualities in Literatures of China and Taiwan
CMPL 250Approaches to Comparative Literature
CMPL 251Introduction to Literary Theory
CMPL 254Horror and the Global Gothic: Film, Literature, Theory
CMPL 255The Feast in Film, Fiction, and Philosophy
CMPL 256Love in Classical Persian Poetry
CMPL 257The Crisis of Modernity in World Cinema
CMPL 258Iranian Prison Literature
CMPL 259Ideology and Aesthetics: Marxism and Literature
CMPL 260Landscape: Re-Imagining the Natural World
CMPL 261India and Orientalism
CMPL 262Film and Politics
CMPL 263European Exile Cinema
CMPL 266Weimar Cinema
CMPL 268Auteur Cinema
CMPL 269Springtime for Hitler: Jews on Stage from Shakespeare to Mel Brooks
CMPL 270German Culture and the Jewish Question
CMPL 271Women in German Cinema
CMPL 272History of German Cinema
CMPL 275Literature of Pilgrimage
CMPL 277HMyth, Fable, Novella: The Long History of the Short Story
CMPL 279Once Upon A Fairy Tale: Fairy Tales and Childhood, Then and Now
CMPL 280Film Genres
CMPL 281Holocaust Cinema in Eastern Europe
CMPL 282Russian Literature in World Cinema
CMPL 283The Film Factory: A History of Russian/Soviet Cinema
CMPL 288Graphic Medicine: The Intersection of Health and Comics
CMPL 317Myth, Fable, Novella: The Long History of the Short Story
CMPL 332Old, Queer, and Poor: Bad-Aging in Chinese-Speaking Worlds
CMPL 359Literary Diasporas of the Middle East
CMPL 360Palestine/Israel in Literature and Film
CMPL 364The Classical Background of English Poetry
CMPL 374Modern Women Writers
CMPL 375New Wave Cinema: Its Sources and Its Legacies
CMPL 377The World of the Beat Generation: Transcultural Connections
CMPL 379Cowboys, Samurai, and Rebels in Film and Fiction
CMPL 380Almost Despicable Heroines in Japanese and Western Literature
CMPL 382Film and Nature
CMPL 383Literature and Medicine
CMPL 385Modernist and Postmodernist Narrative
CMPL 386Adolescence in 20th- and 21st-Century Literature
CMPL 387French New Wave Cinema
CMPL 388History of French Cinema I: 1895-1950
CMPL 389History of French Cinema II: 1950 to the Present
CMPL 390Special Topics in Comparative Literature
CMPL 395Research, Creativity, and Innovation in the Humanities
CMPL 411Critical Theory
CMPL 420Film, Photography, and the Digital Image
CMPL 421Avant-Garde Cinema and Experimental Film
CMPL 442Postcolonial Literature of the Middle East
CMPL 450Major Works of 20th-Century Literary Theory
CMPL 452The Middle Ages
CMPL 453The Erotic Middle Ages