Major Requirements

Students may earn a BA in Comparative Literature (40 units/10 courses) by pursing one of two tracks (all courses offered 4 units unless otherwise indicated):

Literature/Media/Critical Thought Track Foreign Language Track

This track offers students the opportunity to pursue a major that is broadly based in the liberal arts by allowing students to concrete in one area (example, emphasis in critical thought) while taking courses in the other areas.

This track incorporates the study of at least one literature in a foreign language into the comparative perspective. Students who intend to pursue a graduate degree in either comparative literature or a foreign literature are strongly advised to choose this track, as are students who already process advanced skills in a language other than English.

Literature/Media/Critical Thought Track

• Required courses:

□ COLT-302 Introduction to Literary Theory □ COLT-303 Globalization: Culture, Change, Resistance

• At least four courses in one of the three concentrations:

LITERATURE TRACK Literature considered comparatively and transnationally

□ COLT 101gMasterpieces andMasterminds

□ COLT 311Epic

□ COLT 346Fictions of the FirstPerson

□ COLT 382gwZen and Taosim inAsian Literature

□ COLT 445Europe and theWritings of Others

□ COLT 476Narrative and theLaw

□ COLT 102gOn Location: ThePlace of Literature inGlobal Cultures

□ COLT 312Heroes, Myths andLegends in Literatureand the Arts

□ COLT 348Modernist Fiction

□ COLT 420The Fantastic

□ COLT 448MultilingualEncounters

□ COLT 485The Shoah(Holocaust) inLiterature and theArts

□ COLT 250gCultures of LatinAmerica

□ COLT 324Women in Medievaland RenaissanceEurope

□ COLT 351Modern andContemporaryDrama

□ COLT 426Utopias

□ COLT 472Los Angeles CrimeFiction

□ EALC 454Bildungsroman inModern East Asia

□ COLT 251gModern Literatureand Thought of theWest Since 1800

□ COLT 335Decadence andModernity

□ COLT 374gmWomen Writers inEurope and America

□ COLT 435Poetry and Poeticsof the Everyday

□ COLT 475Politics and theNovel

□ EALC 460Love, Self andGender in JapaneseLiterature

□ COLT 264gpAsian Aesthetic andLiterary Traditions

□COLT 345Realist Fiction

MEDIA TRACK The media of other arts and modes of communication including but not limited to photography, film, music, painting and digital media

□ COLT 354Revolutions in Theater

□ COLT 365Literature and PopularCulture

□ COLT 379Nationalism andPostcolonialism inSoutheast Asian Cinema

□ COLT 452Representation andCognition inPhotography

□ COLT 470Literature and Media inLatin America

□ COLT 357The Avant-Garde

□ COLT 373Literature and Film

□ COLT 451Opera and CulturalTheory

□ COLT 462Soundtracks of OurLives

□ COLT 480Dada and Surrealism

CRITICAL THOUGHT TRACK Examination of various approaches of critical though that inform and shape theoretical reflection on the arts and society

□ CLAS 370 Leaders and Communities: Classical Models

□ COLT 377 Literature, Theory, Gender

□ COLT 385 Literature and Justice

□ COLT 454 Aesthetic Philosophy and Theory

□ COLT 474 Desire, Literature, Technology

□ COLT 478 Family in Theory and Literature

□ COLT 375 Latin American Cultural and Literary Theory

□ COLT 381 Psychoanalysis and the Arts

□ COLT 391 Literary Criticism from Plato to Postmodernism

□ COLT 471 Literature, Theory, History

□ COLT 476 Narrative and the Law

□ COLT 486 Deconstructive Thought

□ COLT 487 Critical Image

Foreign Language Track

• Required courses:

□ COLT-302 Introduction to Literary Theory □ COLT-303 Globalization: Culture, Change, Resistance

• Five COLT Courses, no more than two may be at the 100 or 200 level: Course number Semester Taken Amount of Units COLT COLT COLT COLT COLT

• At least three upper-division courses in the literature or culture of one or more foreign languages (other than English), with all readings in that language:

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