Course Catalog 2005-2007.pdf - The American University of Paris

Catalog 2005-07
THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPARATIVE
LITERATURE AND ENGLISH
RESEARCH BY PERIOD (Select one course from each of the following)
3 Ancient
CL 313 Classical Hellenic Antiquity or
CL 315 Death and Desire in Imperial Rome or
CL/PL 317 Plato and Cicero or
CL/GS 318 Sex, Politics, and Culture I
3 Medieval
CL 257 The Rise of the Hero and the Poet in French Literature or
CL 322 European Arts of Love or
CL 323 Chaucer and Medieval Culture or
CL 325 Dante and Medieval Culture or
CL 327 Historians of Medieval Culture
3 Renaissance
CL 253 The Golden Age in Spain and Europe or
CL 255 Saints and Sinners in the Renaissance or
CL 258 Loves Sacred and Profane in French Lyric or
CL 329 In Praise of Love, Honor and Folly or
CL/HI 333 Discovery and Conquest: Creation of the New World or
CL 336 Cervantes and the Modern Novel or
CL/DR 338 Shakespeare in Context or
CL/GS 318 Sex, Politics, and Culture I
3 18th and 19th Centuries
CL 351 The Romantic Novel of Revolution or
CL 352 European Romantic Poetry or
CL/HI 353 In 1871…: Case Study in Comparative Literature and History or
CL/ES 354 The 18th Century Divide Between Philosophy and Literature or
CL 356 Dostoevsky and the 19th Century Novel or
CL/GS 357 19th Century Women Writers or
CL 358 The Realist Novel or
CL 359 Baudelaire and Flaubert or
CL 360 Literature and the Political Imagination in the Nineteenth Century or
CL 362 Conquering Colonies or
CL 368 Varieties of Russian Fiction
THE HONORS MAJOR
To the requirements for
the BA degree with a
major in Comparative
Literature add:
Intermediate-level
proficiency in a third
language (4 semesters of
study) or successful
completion of a literature
course in that language;
one course taught in the
second language; Senior
Thesis of about forty
typewritten pages
demonstrating critical
ability in at least two
literatures.
SUGGESTED MINORS
American Studies
Medieval Studies
Philosophy
Theater and Performance
Classical Civilization
3 20th Century
CL 254 Modern Latin American and Spanish Literature or
CL 256 French and American Exchanges or
CL 302 Word and Image: Literature and the Visual Arts or
CL/ES 343 The Attraction of Paris: Modernist Experiments in Migration or
CL/GS 363 Writing Women: Feminism, Freud, and Literary Inscriptions of Femininity or
CL 364 Contemporary Latin American Fiction or
CL 365 Post-War European Literature or
CL/FM 369 The Aesthetics of Crime Fiction or
CL 371 20th Century Latin American Writers or
CL 373 Ulysses and British Modernism or
CL 374 Russian Modernism or
CL 376 Modern Sexuality and the Process of Writing or
CL 377 The Experience of Time in Early 20th Century Writing or
CL 379 Proust and Beckett or
CL/GS 384 Writing from the Margins
SENIOR FIELD
3 An additional 300-level CL course or
CL 495 Senior Project: Critical or Creative Paper
3 CL 490 Senior Seminar: Special Studies in Comparative Literature
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 120 Credits
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