Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies (CLCS)

Major Requirements (27 Credits)

Foundation courses (6 Credits)

Two of the following courses:

CLCS 100The Stories We Live By

3

CLCS 110Reading Cultures: Approaches to Cultural Studies

3

CLCS 120Introduction to Creative Writing

3

CLCS 150TReading Film (Spain)

3

Major Requirements (15 Credits)

Five of the following, at least two of which must be at the 300-level.

CLCS 200Gender and Sexuality in a Global Context

3

CLCS 220TInventing the Past: The Uses of Memory in a Changing World

3

CLCS 225Music and Popular Culture from the 1950s to the 1990s

3

CLCS 230Science / Fiction: Envisioning the Possible

3

CLCS 236TPrague on the Page

3

CLCS 238TReading the Postcolonial City: Berlin and Hamburg

3

CLCS 241Forbidden Acts: Queer Studies and Performance

3

CLCS 242Representations of Poverty in Literature

3

CLCS 243The Cultural Politics of Sports

3

CLCS 247TFrench Cultural Institutions: Power and Representation

3

CLCS 248TEuropean Food Systems: You Are Where You Eat

3

CLCS 250Ecocritical Approaches to Film

3

CLCS 251TReading Moroccan Culture

3

CLCS 253TOn Refugees: Representations, Politics and Realities of Forced Migration: Greece

3

CLCS 254Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures and Theories

3

CLCS 300Masculinities in Literature and Film

3

CLCS 310TThe Culture of Cities: From Roman Garrisons to Industrial Chic

3

CLCS 315Slavery and Its Cultural Legacies

3

CLCS 320Culture, Class, Cuisine: Questions of Taste

3

CLCS 325Advanced Creative Writing Workshop

3

CLCS 330The Politics of Mobility: Exile and Immigration

3

CLCS 335Hauntings

3

CLCS 340Fashion and Visual Culture

3

CLCS 350Culture and Human Rights

3

CLCS 360Critical Race Studies in a Global Context

3

CLCS 370
Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies

3

CLCS 371Law and Culture

3

CLCS 372Tales of Catastrophe

3

 

Capstone Requirement (6 Credits)

The CLCS capstone includes a first semester of research in preparation for the second semester of thesis or internship work.

CLCS 497Capstone: Comprehensive Readings in CLCS

3

One of the following:

CLCS 498Capstone: Internship in CLCS

3

CLCS 499Capstone: Thesis in CLCS

3

A thesis is recommended for students interested in pursuing graduate studies. In the case of a combined major, please decide which discipline you wish to emphasize, and choose your first reader accordingly. An internship is recommended for students interested in entering a professional field. Students should take the first capstone course in their penultimate semester or in the second semester of their junior year.

It is strongly recommended that CLCS combined majors take at least one Academic Travel course with a CLCS.