Courses
Courses
*Courses in Comparative Literature are designed to meet the needs of students whose literary interests are broader than those that can be met by the curriculum of any single department. Below are the courses offered in Comparative Literature by term. Please check back often for up-to-date information on course meeting times and availability, as these can change. Course descriptions can be found on the Registrar's ORC site.
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COLT 79: Independent Study - ARR
Independent Study (COLT 79)
Independent studies require approval of the chair & a syllabus that has been worked on by the student and advisor. This proposal should be sent to the chair for approval the steering committee. An independent study should be on a topic that will not be the subject of a COLT class in the running academic year.
Minor in Translation Studies
Spring 2026
- COLT 001: Read the World - Parati - 2
- COLT 07.24: Utopia - Morsi - 3B
- COLT 10.16: Modernist Literature - McGillen - 12
- COLT 19.07*/ASCL 70.25: Translating East Asian Languages - Dorsey - 10
- COLT 19.08: Social Justice and Translation - Richter-Nilsson - 12
- COLT 50.01/EEER 38.28: Literature and Ideology in Eastern Europe - Kolomiyets - 11
- COLT 53.06/MES 19.03/WGSS 24.01: Arab Feminisms - Morsi - 3A
- COLT 61.01/ARTH 28.07: Outsiders: Artists and Art in Text and Film - O'Rourke, 3A
- COLT 66.03/JWST 51*/GERM 42.06/WGSS 67.01: Psychoanalysis, Jews and Gender - Fuechtner - 6B
- COLT 67.07/WGSS 66.01*/INTS 17.16: Times of Crisis - Martin - 11
- COLT 70.03/JWST 26/INTS 17.14: European Jewish Intellectuals - Kritzman - 10A
- COLT 70.08/SPAN 65.17/LACS 35.17: Media and Environment - Broner - 11
- COLT 87: honors thesis - Fuechtner - ARR
Summer 2026
- COLT 19.06: Decolonizing Translation - Kolomiyets - 10A
- COLT 50.02/JWST 12.03*: Irish and Jewish Identities - Beatty - 11
- COLT 62.02: Shades of Noir - Hollister - 2A
- COLT 62.04/ENG 52.06: Media & Monstrosity - McCann - 10A
- COLT 67.08/FRIT 37.30/WGSS 50.01 FQZ - Feminist queer zones - elhariry - 12
- COLT 70.09: Approaching Sounds through Literature - Dist: LIT - Zheng - 2A
Fall 2026
- COLT 01: Read the World - LaGuardia - 12
- COLT 10.21: Coming to America - Gemünden - 10
- COLT 18.03/GERM 42.04*/FILM 50.05: Modern Media Theory - McGillen - 2A
- COLT 19.09: Introduction to Literary Translation - Lewis - 6B
- COLT 40.07: Video Games & the Meaning of Life - Cheng - 10A
- COLT 46.01/JWST 27.01: The Jewish Family - Kritzman - 3A
- COLT 52.09*/AAAS 83.10/LACS 25.13: Childhood, Memory, and the Caribbean - Larose - 10A
Winter 2027
- COLT 07.xx: Humanities and Human Rights: Thoughts on Community - Martin - 10
- COLT 10.31: FFFF Fluid Feminist French Fictions - elhariry -TBD
- COLT 19.01: Translation: Theory and Practice - Wyatt -TBD
- COLT 40.01/ENG 50.15: History of the Book - Beckman - 2A
- COLT 49.12*/GERM xx/INTS 19.xx: Languages at War - Komska - 3A
- COLT 51.01/AAAS 51/ENGL 53.16 :Masterpieces of African Literature - Coly - 12
- COLT 51.05/AAAS*Africa-Asian Encounters in Literature and Film - Coly - 2
- COLT 70.07/AAAS 45.01: Environmental Crises and Human Rights - Obiono - TBD
- COLT 85: Senior Seminar - chair - TBD
Spring 2027
- COLT 01: Read the World - Biron - TBD
- COLT 07.09: Literature of the Colonial Encounter - Coly - 12
- COLT 10.11: Male Friendship - Kritzman - 3A
- COLT 19.01: Translation: Theory and Practice - Canepa
- COLT 19.05/CRWT 40.17*: Workshop in Translation - Tanoukhi - 3A
- COLT 39.07: Living in the City - LaGuardia - 2
- COLT 50.01/EEER 38.28: Ideology of Eastern Europe - Kolomiyets - 11
- COLT 70.05: Environmental Imagination - Gilebbi - 2
- COLT 72.01: Global Literary Theory - Kolb - 2A