Comparative Literature

Description

Students majoring in Comparative Literature join a vibrant community of scholars, critics, and writers. They acquire broad and rigorous knowledge of literature from antiquity to the present in its historical and geographical contexts. The Major fosters close analysis of the details of literary production and well-informed attention to linguistic as well as cultural diversity and to recent movements in literary and critical theory.

Students are encouraged to shape their insights by exploring related work in other disciplines and to apply their critical skills in a professional internship experience. The flexible, interdisciplinary, student-centered curriculum of the Major in Comparative Literature facilitates combinations with other majors and minors.

Solid knowledge, critical praxis, and strong linguistic endeavor form the foundations of professional skills and creative production. Students are encouraged to acquire abilities and knowledge in three different language areas. Mentored by the department's faculty and their individual advisor, students develop and articulate a personal focus for their reading, which issues in a portfolio of work and a senior thesis in the final year.

The Honors Program

The department offers honors options to particularly motivated students; there is no GPA requirement. Students are nominated to honors by the department on the basis of a portfolio of work. Honors students in Comparative Literature must demonstrate intermediate proficiency in two languages other than English, and must have studied the primary texts for two of the major elective courses in the original (non-English) language. All honors students write a senior project, which may be an academic thesis or a piece of creative work, of around 40 pages or the equivalent.

Detailed Course Facts

Application deadline Fall Admission : Round 1 by 15 November; Round 2 by 1 February; Round 3 by 15 March; Round 4 by 1 June; Round 5 after 1 June; Spring Admission: Round 1 by 1 October; Round 2 by 15 November; Round 3 after 15 November Tuition fee

• EUR 26590 Year (EEA)
• EUR 26590 Year (Non-EEA)

Start date January,September 2015 Languages Take an IELTS test

• English

Delivery mode On Campus Educational variant Full-time More information Go To The Course Website

Course Content

Requirements for the Major in Comparative Literature

FirstBridge

• 8 FirstBridge courses change every year

General Education Requirements

• 8 EN 1010 College Writing, EN 2020 Writing and Criticism

• 8 French through FR 1200 Elementary French Language and Culture II

• 4 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings

• 4 Social Experience and Organization

• 4 from either of the above two categories

• Up to 8 Scientific and Mathematical Investigations

Core courses (17 credits)

• CL 1025 The World, the Text, and the Critic I

• CL 1050 The World, the Text, and the Critic II

• CL 2085 Literary Criticism and Theory

• CL 3020 Production, Translation, Creation, Publication

• CL 4075 Portfolio

Period Requirements

Among the survey and elective courses you take there must be at least one course from each of these three periods: Classical (Class), Medieval (Med) and Renaissance (Ren).

Surveys (8 credits)

Select at least two of the following survey courses.

• *CL 3113 Ancient Greek Literature (Class)

• *CL 3115 The Literature of Ancient Rome (Class)

• CL/EN 2051 English Literature before 1800

• CL/EN 2052 English Literature since 1800

• CL 2031 American Fiction (1845-1970): Studies in Compassion

• *CL 2057 The Rise of the Hero and Poet in French Literature (Med)

• *CL 2058 Loves Sacred and Profane in French Lyric (Ren)

• *CL 2055 Saints and Sinners in the Italian Renaissance (Ren )

• *CL 2056 French & American Exchanges in Modern Italian Literature

• *CL 2053 The Golden Age in Spain and Europe (Ren)

• *CL 2054 Modern Latin American and Spanish Literature

• *CL 3035 Contemporary World Literature

Elective courses (20 credits)

Select five more courses freely, either from the following lists or from the survey courses above, building a personal focus with the help of your advisor.

Author Focus

• *CL/ES 3025 Dante and Medieval Culture (Med)

• *CL 3029 Cervantes and Renaissance Comparative Literature (Ren )

• *CL 3056 Dostoevsky and the 19th Century Novel

• *CL/ES 3059 Flaubert & Baudelaire: The Birth of Modernity

• *CL 3063 Kafka and World Literature

• CL 3073 Ulysses and British Modernism

• *CL 3082 Proust and Beckett

Theater and Film

• CL/DR 3038 Shakespeare in Context (Ren)

• CL/FM 3048 Shakespeare and Film (Ren)

• CL/FM 3080 Brecht and Film

• *FR/CL 2075 Theater in Paris

• CL/PL 3030 Philosophy and the Theater

• CL/FM 3069 The Aesthetics of Crime Fiction

• FR/FM 3011 Issues in Contemporary French Film and Literature

Genres and Literary Movements

• FR/HI 3016 Histoire des Idées I

• FR/HI 3018 Histoire des Idées II

• CL3054 Gothic, the Literature of Excess

• *CL 3061 Radical Loneliness: Cultures of German Romanticism

• *CL 3058 The Realist Novel: Documents and Desires

• CL3002 Word & Image: Literature and the Visual Arts

• CL 3065 Post-War European Literature

• *CL 3071 20th Century Latin American Writers

• *FR/CL 2094 French Fiction Now: traduire le roman français contemporain

• CL 3100 Writing Poetry: An Introduction and Workshop

Cities, History and Geopolitics

• CL/UR 2010 Paris Through its Books

• CL/FM 3034 Paris Reel and Imagined: Perspectives on the City of Lights

• CL/ES 3043 The Attractions of Paris: Modernist Experiments in Migration

• *CL 3051 Paris as a Stage for Revolution

• *CL/HI 3053 In 1871…: Case Study in Comparative Literature and History

• *FR/ES 3040 La France au-delà des mers

• *CL/HI 3033 Discovery & Conquest: Creation of the New World (Ren)

• CL 3062 Conquering Colonies: America and European Literature

• ES/CL 3010 European Urban Culture: Edinburgh the City, Scotland the Kingdom

Theory and Gender

• CL/GS 2006 Contemporary Feminist Theory

• CL 3076 Modern Sexualities in the Process of Writing

• *FR/CL 3036 Issues in French Women’s Writing

• CL 3027 Law and Literature

• CL 3060 Literature and the Political Imagination

• CL 3081 Postcolonial Literatures and Theories

• *FR/PY 3090 Topics in Literature and Psychoanalysis

• FR/LI 2060 Introduction à la Linguistique/Introduction to Linguistics

Classical Antiquity

• *CL 2019 Socio-Political Space in Classical Antiquity (Class)

• *CL/ES 2018 Introduction to Ancient Greece and Rome (Class)

• *CL/PL 3017 Greek and Roman Key Texts (Class)

• LT/CL 3050 Intermediate Latin II (Class)

• LT/CL 4050 Advanced Study in Latin (Class)

• GK/CL 3070 Intermediate Ancient Greek II (Class)

• GK/CL 4070 Advanced Study in Ancient Greek (Class)

Changing topics

• CL 4091 Interdisciplinary Topics in Literature

• CL 4090 Senior Seminar (offered periodically according to student demand)

• CL 4095 Senior project (special application procedure: please consult your advisor)

Original language option

Students in courses marked with an asterisk may choose to read the texts in English translation or in the original non-English language.

Requirements

Application requirements - what you need to submit to us

An application to The American University of Paris requires several supporting documents and sometimes tests. Most requirements can be uploaded directly in your online application. We cannot provide you with a decision until we receive all of your documents.

• Online application form
• Personal statements
• Extracurricular activites and work experience
• Two letters of recommendation
• Official transcripts
• English language test
• SAT/ACT test scores (optional)

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

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