Comparative literature is a wide-ranging, multicultural program of studies in poetry, prose, drama, film and related arts. Housed in the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department, the program is by nature interdisciplinary and has strong ties with other departments in the University. In addition to the courses offered by the department in comparative literature literatures in foreign languages, the student is encouraged to take courses in English,...
Why should I major in this subject? Faculty find Comparative Literature and Society fascinating because it provides an immensely fruitful context for cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural, and transnational dialogue, bringing together a variety of scholars and students from many different fields of inquiry such as literature, history, cultural studies, philosophy, film, architecture, art history, and anthropology, to name only a handful. You should consider...
Why should I major in this subject? Faculty find the discipline of English and Comparative Literature fascinating for remarkably diverse reasons, often originating in the particular pleasures afforded by literary texts, where the resources of a shared native language and the energies of idiosyncratic imaginations transform the familiar world into something rare and strange. As readers, Kenneth Koch observes, we "should put [a] work down puzzled, /...
The interdepartmental major in Comparative Literature leads to the Bachelor of Arts degree. Comparative Literature investigates literary works from the perspective of more than one national literature; works are often studied in conjunction with other intellectual disciplines such as anthropology, the arts, history, and philosophy. Traditionally, comparatists have focused on literary movements, genres, and historical periods, and on the history of...
The Comparative Literature Program includes courses taught by faculty from all the language and literature departments and from philosophy and anthropology. It offers students the opportunity to study literary texts in their historical, social, and cultural contexts. Courses frequently include works of philosophy, history, psychology, anthropology, and the cinema. They aim to help students learn to read and write critically, with greater pleasure...
With today's increased opportunity for exchange across language communities, the need for competence in other languages and the ability to think critically about how language constructs people's sense of reality have also increased.
Earlham's Comparative Languages and Linguistics major offers students the option of combining the study of two or more languages with their interest in linguistics and language-related content areas such as literature...
The Committee on Degrees Literature is designed to meet the needs of students interested in the study of literature, literary and cultural theory, and other forms of representation in more than one culture or language. The concentration offers these students an individually tailored but carefully structured program, centered around a core of special courses and tutorials.
The Literature concentration provides students with the opportunity to explore...
The Department of Comparative Literature invites students to approach literature from a broad, cross-cultural perspective. The curriculum encompasses both Western and non-Western languages and literatures, as well as interdisciplinary work of many types. While each student in the Department is expected to focus his or her studies on a particular foreign language and literature, an interest in the way different literatures illuminate one another, or...
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