University Catalog 2026-2027

Comparative Literature (COLT)

COLT 1810  Special Topics  (1-4)  

For description, consult the department. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours under separate title.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLT 1940  Transfer Coursework  (0-20)  

Transfer Coursework at the 1000 level.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLT 2010  Introduction to Comparative Literature  (3)  

An introduction to the discipline of Comparative Literature. Reading texts from multiple regions, traditions, genres and histories around the globe, the course provides students with a set of critical skills, concepts and approaches that will hone their comparative thinking and broaden their horizons of literary and cultural knowledge. Topics include the nature and purpose of literary comparison across linguistic and national frontiers, especially through the concepts of influence and affinity; the impact made by translation studies and postcolonialism on comparative literature, through case studies from Arabic, British and African literatures; comparison between the arts via case studies from world literature and cinema; the concept/discourse of world literature and the role of exiles, migrants and refugees in the making of global literatures in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

COLT 2810  Special Topics  (3)  

For description, consult the department. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours under separate title.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLT 2940  Transfer Coursework  (0-20)  

Transfer Coursework at the 2000 level.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLT 3010  Global Forms  (3)  

COLT 3010 is the second Core Course in the Comparative Literature program and will be taught with a variable subtitle by rotating faculty, under the short title of "Global Forms." The course will focus on the circulation, translation, and reception of forms across medias, histories and cultures.

Prerequisite(s): COLT 2010*.
* May be taken concurrently.
A minimum grade of D- is required in COLT 2010.

COLT 3810  Special Topics  (3-4)  

For description, consult the department. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours under separate title.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLT 3811  Special Topics  (3-4)  

For description, consult the department. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours under separate title.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLT 3812  Special Topics  (3,4)  

For description, consult the department. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours under separate title.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLT 3813  Special Topics  (3,4)  

For description, consult the department. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours under separate title.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLT 3940  Transfer Coursework  (0-20)  

Transfer Coursework at the 3000 level.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLT 4560  Internship Studies  (3)  

An experiential learning process coupled with pertinent academic course work. Open only to juniors and seniors in good standing. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLT 4570  Internship Studies  (3)  

An experiential learning process coupled with pertinent academic course work. Open only to juniors and seniors in good standing. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLT 4810  Special Topics  (3,4)  

For description, consult the department. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours under separate title.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLT 4811  Special Topics  (3,4)  

For description, consult the department. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours under separate title.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLT 4812  Special Topics  (3,4)  

For description, consult the department. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours under separate title.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLT 4910  Independent Study  (1-3)  

Independent Study.

COLT 4920  Independent Study  (1-3)  

Independent Study.

COLT 4940  Transfer Coursework  (0-20)  

Transfer Coursework at the 4000 level.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLT 5010  Senior Seminar  (3)  

The Senior Seminar caps the Core courses for the Comparative Literature Major and Minor and will be taught annually by rotating faculty, under a variable title. Seminars are organized around a major genre, concept or form and respond to current questions in the Humanities as specifically articulated in comparative approaches. Senior Seminars, with a comparative focus, propose to student majors a deep dive into any of the contributing subfields of research of our core and affiliate faculty: Literary and Cultural Studies, Media Studies & Visual Culture, Public Discourse and Performance including sound and music, Medicine and the Humanities, Environmental Studies, Digital Humanities. Comp Lit core faculty and affiliates propose Senior Seminars on the travel narrative, the philosophical novel, the writing of revolution, Global Environmental Literature, AI and Digital Humanities etc.

Prerequisite(s): COLT 3010*.
* May be taken concurrently.
A minimum grade of D- is required in COLT 3010.

COLT 5810  Special Topics  (3,4)  

For description, consult the department. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours under separate title.


Maximum Hours: 99

COLT 6810  Special Topics  (3)  

For description, consult the department. Course may be repeated up to unlimited credit hours under separate title.


Maximum Hours: 99