Department of English
College of Arts and Sciences
113-G Satterfield Hall
E-mail: english@kent.edu
Tel: 330-672-2676
Fax: 330-672-3152
Web: http://www.kent.edu/english
Susanna Fein, Coordinator, 302-E Satterfield Hall
Comparative Literature Minor
The comparative literature minor allows students to combine coursework in the literatures of several cultures with interdisciplinary courses that support and clarify the relations between these literatures.
Course requirements for comparative literature minor (26 credits):
| Prerequisites | |||
| ENG | 11011 | College Writing I |
3 |
| 21011 | College Writing II |
3 | |
| Appropriate language courses (14) | |||
| or equivalent in established proficiency | |||
| Comparative Literature Core: |
8 | ||
| AS | 30891 | Introductory Seminar in Comparative Literature |
4 |
| 40897 | Colloquium in Comparative Literature |
4 | |
| National Literature |
6 | ||
| Choose from one national literature (other than major): | |||
| ENG | 33001 | U.S. Literature to 1865 (3) | |
| 33002 | U.S. Literature from 1865-1945 (3) | ||
| 33003 | U.S. Literature from 1945 to Present (3) | ||
| 34001 | Medieval English Literature (3) | ||
| 34002 | British Literature, 1500-1660 (3) | ||
| 34003 | British Literature, 1660-1800 (3) | ||
| 34004 | British Literature, 1800-1900 (3) | ||
| 34005 | British and Irish Literature, 1900-Present | ||
| 34055 | Shakespeare (3) | ||
| 34065 | Chaucer (3) | ||
| 35101 | Literature and Other Disciplines (3) | ||
| 39195 | Topics in Drama (3) | ||
| 39295 | Topics in Poetry (3) | ||
| 39395 | Topics in Fiction (3) | ||
| FR | 33335 | Introduction to French Theatre (3) | |
| 33336 | Introduction to French Poetry (3) | ||
| 33337 | Introduction to French Novel (3) | ||
| 43366 | Studies in 19th-Century French Literature (3) | ||
| 43368 | 20th-Century French Novel (3) | ||
| 43370 | 20th-Centruy French Theatre (3) | ||
| GER | 31303 | Introduction to German Literature | |
| Choose one from the following: | |||
| GER | 41331 | History of German Literature (4) | |
| 41334 | The German Novella (3) | ||
| GRE | 34350 | Advanced Prose Authors (3) | |
| 34370 | Plato: Apology and Phaedo (3) | ||
| 34371 | Homer (3) | ||
| 44352 | Greek Drama (3) | ||
| ITAL | 35331 | Early Italian Literature (3) | |
| 35332 | Recent Italian Literature (3) | ||
| 35421 | Italian Civilization (3) | ||
| 35597 | Colloquium in Italian Literature (3) | ||
| LAT | 36170 | Cicero (3) | |
| 36171 | Vergil (3) | ||
| 46095 | Selected Topics in Latin (2-3) | ||
| 46351 | Latin Comedy (3) | ||
| 46352 | Elegiac Poets (3) | ||
| 46373 | Advanced Prose Authors (3) | ||
| 46374 | Juvenal's Satires and Martial's Epigrams (3) | ||
| 46375 | Lucretius (3) | ||
| PORT | 37330 | Early Brazilian Literature (3) | |
| 37331 | Recent Brazilian Literature (3) | ||
| 37421 | Luso-Brazilian Civilization (3) | ||
| 47095 | Selected Topics (3) | ||
| RUSS | 32303 | Modern Writers (3) | |
| Choose one from the following: | |||
| RUSS | 32325 | Russian Poetry and Folklore (3) | |
| 32350 | Russian Prose (3) | ||
| 32354 | Russian Drama (3) | ||
| 42351 | Survey of Russian Soviet Literature (4) | ||
| appropriate "survey" course strongly recommended | |||
| SPAN | 38330 | Early Spanish Literature (3) | |
| 38331 | Recent Spanish Literature (3) | ||
| 38334 | Early Spanish-American Literature (3) | ||
| 38335 | Recent Spanish-American Literature (3) | ||
| 48350 | Don Quixote (3) | ||
| 48354 | Neoclassicism and Romanticism (3) | ||
| 48356 | Golden Age Prose (3) | ||
| 48358 | 19th-Century Novel (3) | ||
| 48366 | Novel of the Mexican Revolution (2) | ||
| 48370 | Modernismo in Spanish-America (3) | ||
| 48372 | Spanish-American Novel I (3) | ||
| 48373 | Spanish-American Novel II (3) | ||
| 48374 | Modern Spanish-American Drama (3) | ||
| 48376 | Contemporary Spanish-American Short Story (3) | ||
| Literature Electives | 12 | ||
| Electives are chosen from junior and senior (30000- and 40000-level) courses in literature (including courses offered in translation) other than the major from either the English department or the Modern and Classical Language Studies department. Electives may also be chosen from related disciplines such as history, philosophy, art history and music, provided the courses are related and not in the student’s major field; each substitution must be approved by the coordinator for the comparative literature program. |
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Total |
26 | ||
Minimum cumulative 2.00 GPA required for graduation.