Course Descriptions

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Comparative and World Literature Discipline Courses

Course ID Title Latest Offering
CWL 214 Second Year Written Composition: World Literature (3) Spring 2008
CWL 230 World Literature (3) Fall 2009
CWL 250 Fables and Tales (3) Spring 2009
CWL 260 Myths of the World (3) Fall 2009
CWL 400 Approaches to Comparative Literature (3) Fall 2009
CWL 420 Studies in Comparative Literature (3) Effective Fall 2002
CWL 420 Variable topics:
  CWL 420 Imagining the Constructed Body: From Statues to Cyborgs (3) Spring 2008
  CWL 420 Love Letters: Desire and the Novel (3) Effective Spring 2009
  CWL 420 Major Continental Writers: Modernism and Desire (3) Spring 2007
  CWL 420 Modern Prose of the Americas (3) Fall 2009
  CWL 420 Psychoanalytic Approaches to Literature (3) Effective Summer 2009
CWL 420 Ethics, Alterity, and the Novel (3) Effective Spring 2010
CWL 421 Celtic Literature (3) Fall 2009
CWL 423 Comparative Medieval European Literature (3) Effective Spring 2008
CWL 424 Multicultural Middle Ages (3) Fall 2008
CWL 425 Individual Authors (3) Effective Fall 2002
CWL 430 Heroic Tales of the Mediterranean (3) Fall 2009
CWL 437 Holocaust and Literature (3) Fall 2009
CWL 440 Typical American: Narratives of Multiculturalism in the Americas from 1492 to the Present (3) Spring 2009
CWL 451 Jewish Literature of the Americas (3) Spring 2009
CWL 465 Modern Greek Poetry in Comparative Perspective (3) Fall 2009
CWL 690 Editing and Publishing the Comparative Literature Journal (1-3) Effective Fall 2002
CWL 690 Variable topics:
  CWL 690 Editing and Publishing the Comparative Literature Journal (1) Fall 2009
  CWL 690 Editing and Publishing the Comparative Literature Journal (2) Fall 2009
  CWL 690 Editing and Publishing the Comparative Literature Journal (3) Fall 2009
CWL 697 Honor's Thesis (3) Fall 2009
CWL 699 Special Study (3) Effective Spring 2006
CWL 699 Variable topics:
  CWL 699 Special Study (3) Fall 2009
CWL 800 Introduction to Graduate Study in Comparative Literature (3) Fall 2009
CWL 815 Seminar: Topics in Critical Theory (3) Effective Fall 2002
CWL 815 Variable topics:
  CWL 815 Literary Value (3) Spring 2008
  CWL 815 Narrative Theory in Comparative Literature (3) Spring 2009
  CWL 815 Theory at the Border (3) Spring 2007
CWL 820 Topics in Comparative Literature (3) Effective Fall 2002
CWL 820 Variable topics:
  CWL 820 20th Century Comparative American Literary Studies (3) Spring 2009
  CWL 820 Autobiographical Narrative in Modern European Literature: In Search of the Lost Self (3) Spring 2008
  CWL 820 Medieval Encounters (3) Spring 2006
CWL 825 Advanced Study in Comparative Literature (3) Fall 2009
CWL 890 Editing and Publishing the Comparative Literature Journal (1-3) Effective Fall 2002
CWL 890 Variable topics:
  CWL 890 Editing and Publishing the Comparative Literature Journal (1) Fall 2009
  CWL 890 Editing and Publishing the Comparative Literature Journal (2) Fall 2009
  CWL 890 Editing and Publishing the Comparative Literature Journal (3) Fall 2009
CWL 896 Directed Reading in Comparative Literature (3) Fall 2009
CWL 898 Master's Thesis (3) Fall 2009
CWL 899 Special Study (1-3) Effective Spring 2006
CWL 899 Variable topics:
  CWL 899 Special Study (1) Fall 2009
  CWL 899 Special Study (2) Fall 2009
  CWL 899 Special Study (3) Fall 2009
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