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Objectives

Students who graduate with a BA in Comparative Literature should:

1. have acquired a thorough knowledge of two language traditions relevant to an individual program of study (one of these may be English for students who emphasize the Anglo-American literary tradition). Students who are planning advanced work in the discipline should have gained a reading knowledge of an additional foreign language.
2. have a solid general acquaintance with the Western literary tradition and some familiarity with the Asian tradition by completing a reading list, chosen in consultation with a faculty adviser.
3. possess strong critical reading and writing skills.
4. understand the basic concepts of literary analysis withincomparative literature, which include methods of literary analysis, emphasizing the basic issues of comparative literaterary history, prosody, and other problems related to foreign language texts as well as basic issues in contemporary critical and theoretical discussions.
5. understand the place of classical literature within the development of the Western literary tradition.
6. demonstrate facility in comparative analysis of Asian literary works spanning several traditions.