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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Minor in Translation Studies
Fall 2026
- COLT 01: Read the World - LaGuardia - 1
- COLT 10.21: Coming to America - Gemünden - 10
- COLT 18.03/GERM 42.04*/FILM 50.05: From the Typewriter to Virtual Reality: Modern Media Theory (in English) - 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
COLT 53.03/MES 5: Identity and Representation in the Middle East: Narratives of Loss - El-Ariss - 6B
Winter 2027
- COLT 07: Haunted Texts: Ghosts and the Literary Imagination - Gómez - 11 (course description)
- COLT 10.31: Modern Divas: Beyoncé Britney Gaga Taylor - elhariry - 11 (syllabus)
- COLT 19.01: Translation: Theory and Practice - Wyatt - 10A - (sample syllabus)
- COLT 19.06/ASCL70.25*: Translating East Asian Languages: - Dorsey - 10
- COLT 40.01/ENG 54.15: History of the Book - Beckman - 2A
- COLT 49.12*/GERM 48.01/INTS 17.17: Languages at War - Komska - 3A
- COLT 51.01*/AAAS 51/ENGL 53.16 : Masterpieces of African Literature - Coly - 12
- COLT 51.06*/AAAS*51.01: Africa-Asian Encounters in Literature and Film - Coly - 2
- COLT 54.02/JWST 12.04*/GERM 44.09 : Inner Exile : Yiddish and Hebrew Literature - Schwartz - 2A
- COLT 70.07*/AAAS 45.01: Environmental Crises and Human Rights - Obiono - 11
- COLT 85: Senior Seminar - Warren - 3B
Spring 2027
- COLT 01: Read the World - Biron - 11
- COLT 07.09: Literature of the Colonial Encounter - Coly - 12 (course description)
- COLT 10.11: Male Friendship - Kritzman - 10A
- COLT 19.01: Translation: Theory and Practice - Canepa - 12
- COLT 39.03/FRIT 37.04*: European Fairy Tales - Canepa - 10
- COLT 42.06: Womenswear: Clothing, Gender, Commerce - Smolin - 10
- COLT 49.07: Living in the City - LaGuardia - 2
- COLT 50.01/EEER 38.28*: Ideology of Eastern Europe - Kolomiyets - 11
- COLT 53.07/JWST42.11**/MES 17.19/HUM 3.06: The Arab, The Jew and the Construction of Modernity - Heschel & El-Ariss - 6B
- COLT 62.05*/FILM 47.39: Love, Loneliness, Humans and the Machines Heidi Denzel -11
- COLT 70.05: Environmental Imagination - Gilebbi - 2
- COLT 72.01: Global Literary Theory - Kolb - 2A