37 courses with the subject CMLT, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
CMLT 3601From Epic Tradition to Epic Vision
4 hours; 4 credits Western literature illustrating developments in the epic genre from the Middle Ages to the present. Adjustment of the epic tradition to differing cultural values through a continual process of translation, imitation, adaptation, and transformation of epic form and content which has led to expressions of the modern "epic vision." This course is the same as English 3181. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature [55].)
3 hours; 3 credits Pastoral, a powerful mode of mythic imagination, studied in its roots and transformations: plots and themes (herdsmen as lovers, rulers, and poets; kings as herdsmen and poets) originating in ancient Mediterranean cultures and still at work in imagination today. Return and change of basic mythemes to meet the challenges of new times and worlds. This course is the same as Classics 3224 and English 3188. instructor.
4 hours; 4 credits The tragic mode in dramatic and nondramatic forms of literature. Aesthetic, philosophical, and psychological theories of tragedy. This course is the same as English 3185. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature [56].)
4 hours; 4 credits The comic mode in dramatic and nondramatic forms of literature. Aesthetic, philosophical, and psychological theories of comedy. This course is the same as English 3184. (Not open to students who have completed English [58].)
4 hours; 4 credits An examination of romance as a literary genre: the historical development of its conventions, narrative formulas, and characteristic themes; its relationships with and contributions to other forms of literature. This course is the same as English 3186. (Not open to students who completed English 3192 [59] or Comparative Literature 3629 [40.2] in spring, 1991, or spring, English 245 1993.)
4 hours; 4 credits Works of authors such as Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Manzoni, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, and Tolstoy in the context of 19th-century history, philosophy, art, fashion, and music. Topics may include: realism, social and political climate, provincial life and cityscapes, father-son relationships, the new woman, the prostitute, the peasant and the worker, food, martyrdom, stylistic techniques, the bildungsroman.
4 hours; 4 credits European novel from 1900 to 1935. Representative works of such authors as Proust, Gide; Thomas Mann, Kafka, Hesse; Unamuno. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 51.) This course is the same as ENGL 3607.
4 hours; 4 credits Comparative study of the shorter forms of prose fiction. Reading and discussion of such works as Gogol's The Overcoat, Dostoevski's Notes from the Underground, Flaubert's A Simple Heart, Mann's Death in Venice, and Kafka's The Metamorphosis. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 5 or 13.) This course is the same as ENGL 3608.
4 hours; 4 credits Development of the drama from 1870 to 1935. Ibsen to the post-World War I period. Plays by such authors as Ibsen, Strindberg; Hauptmann, Schnitzler, Hofmannsthal, Wedekind, Kaiser, Brecht; Maeterlinck, Claudel, Cocteau; Chekhov, Gorky; Pirandello; Lorca. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 70.). This course is the same as ENGL 3610.
4 hours; 4 credits Development of the drama from 1935 to the present. Plays by such authors as Brecht, Durrenmatt, Weiss; Anouilh, Sartre, Camus, Genet, Ghelderode, Beckett, Ionesco, Arrabal; Betti; Lagerkvist; Mrozek. Contemporary theater theory and practice in the work of such writers as Brecht, Artaud, and Grotowski and by such groups as the Living Theater. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 71.) This course is the same as ENGL 3611.
4 hours; 4 credits Fantasy and its many modes, including the gothic tale, the literary fairy tale, the animal tale, surrealism and the absurd, time and space travel, and futuristic fiction. This course is the same as English 3190.
4 hours; 4 credits Themes, patterns, and structures of folk literature in literate societies of Europe and Asia from the Middle Ages to the present. Literary application of folklore and legendry. Such narrative forms as the fairy tale, the fable, and fabliaux.This course is the same as ENGL 3613.
4 hours; 4 credits Readings in medieval literature with emphasis on literature in translation and on cross-cultural genres. Original languages may include Arabic, Old and Middle English, French, Ge'ez, German, Italian, Old Norse, Persian, and Spanish. Epic. Lyrics. Chivalric narrative. Life writing. Allegory. Mysticism. Drama. Fables. This course is the same as ENGL 3614.
4 hours; 4 credits Such topics as the beginnings of humanism; Petrarch and Boccaccio, Florentine Platonism; the High Renaissance: Machiavelli, Ariosto, Tasso; the northern Renaissance: Erasmus, Rabelais, Ronsard and The Pleiade, Montaigne. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 25.) This course is the same as ENGL 3615. Prerequisite or corequisite: English 1010 [1] or 1.7.
4 hours; 4 credits Survey of the main currents of European literature in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 31. This course is the same as ENGL 3616.
4 hours; 4 credits Origins, development, and characteristics of the Romantic movement. Seminal ideas of the German Romantik. Readings from such authors as Novalis, Kleist, Hoffmann, Pushkin, Gogol, Leopardi, Chateaubriand, Hugo, Musset. This course is the same as ENGL 3617. Prerequisite or corequisite: English 1010 [1] or 1.7.
4 hours; 4 credits Survey of twentieth-century fiction, drama, poetry of sub- Saharan Africa. Works by such authors as Achebe, Ekwensi, Emecheta, Ngugi, Oyono, Laye, Dadie, Clark, Sembene, Senghor, Soyinka. This course is the same as Africana Studies 3205 and ENGL 3619.
4 hours; 4 credits Sex and sexuality in the Caribbean and its diaspora; exploration of how sexuality intersects with and diverges from culture and nationalism, notions of gender, race, and ethnicity. Social science and literary texts explore a range of experiences from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, including heterosexuality, interracial relationships, homosexuality, love, violence, and desire; critical and theoretical texts examine the structures of gender and sexual relations, and relationships between sex and race.This course is the same as AFST 3246, CAST 3118, ENGL 3620 and WGST 3118.
4 hours; 4 credits Representative works in the context of Buddhism and Hinduism. Readings from the Vedas, epics, the Bhagavad Gita, Dhammapada, classical drama, Panchatantra, Bhakti poetry, and Tagore and other modern authors. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 75.) This course is the same as ENGL 3621. Core Studies 9.
4 hours; 4 credits Black culture and writing in the Caribbean. Reflections on alienation and independence. Literary liberation movements, Negrism, Indigenism, and Negritude as the first step towards emancipation from a European cultural vision. Writers from the English-, French-, and Spanish-speaking countries will be examined. All readings will be in English. This course is the same as AFST 3240, PRLS 3315W, and ENGL 3623. (Not open to students who have completed Puerto Rican and Latino Studies [54].)
3 hours ; 3 credits Literary responses to the Destruction of European Jewry, 1933– 1945. Reading diaries, letters, poetry, fiction, reportages, and other contemporaneous documents. Examination of postwar Holocaust literature, including memoirs, fiction, and testimonies Contrasting contemporaneous works with postwar literary works. All readings are in English or English translation. This course is the same as ENGL 3625 and JUST 3535. Interdisciplinary & thematic studies
CMLT 3626Contemporary Literary Criticism and Theory
4 hours; 4 credits Major approaches to literature since 1960. Topics may include semiotics, structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, narratology, new historicism, feminist theory, psychoanalytic criticism, Marxism, and social constructionism. This course is the same as English 3193.
4 hours; 4 credits Relationship of literature to psychological theories in specific readings. Freudian, Jungian, and/or other psychological techniques applied, compared, and evaluated as tools of literary criticism. This course is the same as English 3191.
3 hours; 3 credits Topics vary from term to term. Course description may be obtained in the department office before registration. Students may take this course for credit twice, but may not repeat topics. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 48 for credit twice.) This course is the same as ENGL 3629. chairperson.
4 hours, 4 credits The course explores the oral tradition in Africa. It gives specifi attention to its interpretations, its compositions, and its transformation. It introduces the student to poetry, prose, epics, folktales, sagas storytelling, folk drama, drum language praise and freedom songs, contemporary styles of oral literature and the performers who shape these forms. This course is the same as AFST 3201 and ENGL 3632.
4 hours; 4 credits An author, period of literature, literary movement affecting two or more countries or cultures, or a literary problem of international scope with emphasis on intensive writing, critical analysis, and research methodologies. Topic is selected by the instructor. Course description may be obtained in the department before registration. This course is the same as ENGL 4601. English 2120 [51], English 2121 [52], and one advanced elective in the major field, or permission of the chairperson.
Minimum of 9 hours independent work; 3 credits Independent research supervised by a faculty member. Approved topic. Periodic conferences. Report or term paper or written final examination. This course is the same as ENGL 5600. or higher in a program, approved by a department counselor, of advanced comparative literature courses, and permission of the chairperson. English as a second language
45 hours; 3 credits Comparative analysis of Renaissance, Early Modern, or Eighteenth Century materials originally composed in languages other than English but available in translation, or of materials of this period that were originally composed in English from different countries and literary traditions. Focus on developing students’ critical reading and analytical writing skills.
45 hours; 3 credits Comparative analysis of Nineteenth Century materials originally composed in languages other than English but available in translation, or of materials of this period that were originally composed in English from different countries and literary traditions. Focus on developing students’ critical reading and analytical writing skills.
45 hours; 3 credits Comparative analysis of Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century materials originally composed in languages other than English but available in translation, or of materials of this period that were originally composed in English from different countries and literary traditions. Focus on developing students’ critical reading and analytical writing skills. rams and Courses of Instruction
