Literature | Academic Requirements | Minor in English and Comparative Literature | Courses: 1000–2999 | Courses: 3000–3999 | Courses: 4000–4999 | Faculty
Minor in English and Comparative Literature:
Course Sequences
Additional courses may be added to the lists below. To find out if a new or reinstated course falls into one of these categories, students should check with their faculty advisor. Comparative literature courses are indicated with an asterisk.
Sequence I: Before 1750
Sequence II 1750–1900
Sequence III: 1900–Present
Examples of Other Comparative Literature Courses
Sequence I: Before 1750
LIT 2080/The Ancient Epic*
HIS 2120/LIT 2121/Princes, Priests, and Peasants*
DRA 2200/Introduction to Shakespeare*
LIT 2530/The Bible (added 11/13/08)
DRA 2800/History of the Theatre*
LIT 3140/Medieval English Literature*
DRA 3140/Medieval and Renaissance English Drama*
LIT 3150/Chaucer
LIT 3155/Renaissance in England
LIT 3160/Literature of the High Middle Ages*
LIT 3220/Renaissance in Europe I*
SPA/LIT 3233/Literature of Utopia and Discovery
LIT 3250/Milton
SPA/LIT 3705/Cervantes
SPA 3710/Cervantes (taught in Spanish)
DRA 3800/Shakespeare’s Contemporaries:
English Drama to 1642*
LIT 3825/British Poetry I: Beginnings–1650
LIT 4180/Dante and Medieval Culture*
SPA/LIT 4020/Religion and Mysticism in Hispanic Culture*
DRA 4210/Shakespeare Seminar*
DRA 4450/LIT 4451/Advanced Shakespeare Workshop
Sequence II: 1750–1900
LIT 2375/Classics of European Fiction*
LIT 2560/Survey of U.S. Literature I*
LIT 2570/Survey of U.S. Literature II
DRA 2780/History of the Modern Theatre*
LIT 3003/Dostoevsky and Tolstoy*
LIT 3121/Comparative 19th-Century Novel*
LIT 3315/The 19th-Century Novel in the U.S.
LIT 3320/The 19th-Century British Novel
LIT 3323/Word and Image in the 19th Century*
LIT 3330/Romanticism I
LIT 3340/Romanticism II
LIT 3369/Victorian Poetry
LIT 3441/Dostoevsky and His Heirs*
LIT 3491/Goethe to Kundera*
LIT 3497/Gothic
LIT 3540/Emerson
LIT 3541/Reinventing the American Renaissance
LIT 3581/Realism and Naturalism in U.S. Literature
DRA 3770/Pioneers of Modern Drama*
LIT 3827/British Poetry II: 1660–1940
LIT 4685/Whitman and Dickinson
Sequence III: 1900–Present
LIT 2100/Introduction to African-American Literature
DRA 2600/American Drama: From O’Neill to Albee
LIT 2680/The Beat Generation
CIN 2760/Cinematic Expression I
CIN 2770/Cinematic Expression II
LIT 2825/Modernism and the Metropolis* (added Spring 2009)
LIT 2855/Israeli Literature
LIT 2872/The Golden Land: American Jewish Literature and Film
LIT 3065/Caribbean Writers
LIT 3090/Wright, Ellison, Baldwin
LIT 3180/British Culture and Society in the 20th Century
LIT 3215/South Asian Literature*
LIT 3265/Kafka
LIT 3305/Politics and Writing:
Intellectuals in an Age of Crisis 1918 Present
LIT 3310/Modern Poetry in the U.S. and Latin America*
LIT 3335/Cold War Romantics*
LIT 3380/Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
HIS/FRE/LIT 3424/Modern and Postcolonial France*
DRA 3460/Contemporary British Drama*
LIT 3490/James Joyce
DRA/LIT 3495/Black American Drama (moved from “other comparative
literature courses” category to Sequence III, not comparative,
and LIT crosslisting reinstated Spring 2009)
SPA 3610/Modern Spanish Literature*
FRE 3620/LIT 3621/Francophone Literature*
LIT 3625/U.S. Poetry in the Jazz Age
SPA 3630/The Modern Latin American Novel*
LIT 3645/The American Dream
DRA 3670/Contemporary French Theatre
LIT 3680/Surrealism and Its Legacy
SPA/LIT 3685/Modern Novel of Latin America (in English)*
DRA 3690/American Theatre in Our Time
LIT 3695/Contemporary U.S. Literature
LIT 3696/Contemporary Literatures in English:
Multicultural Britain and Postcolonial Global Culture*
FRE 3710/LIT 3711/Classics of French Literature on Film*
LIT 3715/Jewish Texts, Global Contexts:
Multiple Voices in Diaspora*
JST/LIT 3725/Literature of the Holocaust
DRA 3750/European Drama in Our Time*
LIT 3839/The Modern Novel*
LIT 3855/Politics and Literature in Central Africa*
LIT 4100/Exile and Nomadism*
LIT 4190/Williams and Faulkner
LIT 4200/FRE 4201/Marcel Proust (added Spring 2009)
LIT 4690/Contemporary U.S. Poetry
LIT 4860/Contemporary European Literature*
Examples of Other Comparative Literature Courses
Additional courses may be added to the list below. To find out if a new or reinstated course falls into one of these categories, students should check with their faculty advisor. Please note that these courses do not fulfill the sequence requirement.
LIT 2175/The Faust Legends in Literature
LIT 2385/African Literature
LIT/CIN/GND 3025/Women and Film
LIT 3065/Caribbean Writers
LIT 3105/Literature of the Middle Passage
DRA 3250/Theories of Drama and Performance
DRA 3520/Gay and Lesbian Theatre
DRA 3530/France on Stage
DRA 3600/Women and Drama
DRA 3620/Shakespeare and Film
LIT 3655/Feminism and Culture
DRA 3700/Theatre and Revolutions
LIT 3700/Literature and Empire
DRA 3740/Non-Western Theatre History and Practice
Updated Nov. 13, 2008
