FALL COURSES

COMP 104(F) Introduction to World Theatre and Performance (Same as Theatre 104) (D)

COMP 107(F) The Trojan War (Same as Classics 101)

COMP 111(F) The Nature of Narrative (Same as English 120) (W)

COMP 113(F) The Ancient Novel (Same as Classics 105)

COMP 139(F,S) Metafiction (Same as English 139) (W)

COMP 202(F) Modern Drama (Same as English 202 and Theatre 229)

COMP 204(F) Revolution and Its Aftermath: Russian Literature Since 1900 (Same as Russian 204)

COMP 225 (F) Wise Lady or Witchy Woman?  The History of Witches (Same as German 225 and Woman and Gender Studies 223)

COMP 230T(F) Violent States, Violent Subjects: Nation-Building and Atrocity in 19th-Century Latin America (Same as Spanish 230T) (W) (D)

COMP 240(F) Introduction to Literary Theory (Same as English 230) (W)

COMP 241(F) Performing Race: From Shakespeare to Spike Lee (Same as Africana Studies 241 and Theatre 241) (D)

COMP 248(F) The Modern Theatre: Plays and Performance (Same as English 234 and Theatre 248)

COMP 259T(F) Adultery in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Same as English 261T and Women's and Gender Studies 259T) (W)

COMP 260(F) Reading Reading: An Introduction to the Qur'an and Islam (Same as Religion 230) (W)

COMP 264(F) Japanese Literature and the End of the World (Same as Japanese 254)

COMP 275(F) Russian and Soviet Film in Retrospect (Same as Russian 275)

COMP 311(F) US-China Foreign Cultural Relations, 1900-1950 (Same as American Studies 311, Asian Studies 311 and English 334)

COMP 324(F) Auteur Cinema and the Very Long Film (Same as English 404)

COMP 329(F) Contemporary World Novel (Same as English 379)

COMP 369(F) Race, Gender, Space (Same as Africana Studies 400, English 365, and Women's and Gender Studies 400)

COMP 401(F) Senior Seminar. Sublime Confusion: A Survey of Critical Theory (Same as English 370)

COMP 397(F), 398(S) Independent Study

COMP 493(F)-W31-494(S) Senior Thesis-Comparative Literature

COMP 497(F), 498(S) Independent Study


SPRING COURSES

COMP 108(S) Roman Literature: Foundations and Empires (Same as Classics 102)

COMP 111(S) The Nature of Narrative (Same as English 120) (W)

COMP 111(S) The Gendered Nature of Narrative (Same as English 120 and Women's and Gender Studies 111) (W)

COMP 117(S) Introduction to Cultural Theory (Same as English 117) (W)

COMP 139(F,S) Metafiction (Same as English 139) (W)

COMP 212(S) Nordic Lights: Literary and Cultural Diversity in Modern Scandinavia (Same as Women's and Gender Studies 200) (D)

COMP 214(S) Defining the African Diaspora (Same as Africana Studies 160 and English 251)

COMP 216(S) Protest Literature: Arab Writing Across Three Continents (Same as Arabic 216)

COMP 218(S) Revolutionary African Literatures (Same as Africana Studies 140 and English 250)

COMP 231T(S) Postmodernism (Same as English 266T) (W) (D)

COMP 237(S) Gender and Desire 1200-1600 (Same as English 237 and Women's and Gender Studies 237) (W)

COMP 256T(S) Crises and Critiques: The Literature and Intellectual History of Early 20th Century China (Same as Chinese 251T and History 215T) (W) (D)

COMP 266(S) Confession and Deception in Japanese Literature (Same as Japanese 256)

COMP 278(S) Premodern Japanese Literature and Performance (Same as Japanese 276)

COMP 283(S) Great Big Books (Same as English 233) (W)

COMP 305(S) Dostoevsky and His Age (Same as Russian 305)
COMP 308(S)  Everyday Life in Literature and Film

COMP 309T(S) Exile, Homecoming and the Promised Land (Same as Jewish Studies 491T and Religion 289T) (W) (D)

COMP 313(S) Cervantes' Don Quixote (Same as English 308 and Spanish 303)

COMP 330(S) Aesthetics of Resistance: Contemporary Latin American Theatre and Performance (Same as American Studies 330, Latina/o Studies 330, Theatre 330 and Women's and Gender Studies 330)

COMP 343(S) Modern Critical Theory (Same as English 373)

COMP 355(S) Contemporary Drama and Performance (Same as English 349 and Theatre 345)

COMP 375(S) New Asian American, African American, Native American, and Latina/o Writing (Same as Africana Studies 403, American Studies 403, English 375 and Latina/o Studies 403) (D)

COMP 397(F), 398(S) Independent Study

COMP 493(F)-W31-494(S) Senior Thesis-Comparative Literature

COMP 497(F), 498(S) Independent Study

NOT OFFERED COURSES
COMP 134 Myth in Music (Same as Music 134) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010) (W)

COMP 201 The Hebrew Bible (Same as Jewish Studies 201 and Religion 201) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010)

COMP 203 Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature in Translation (Same as Russian 203) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010)

COMP 205 The Latin-American Novel in Translation (Same as Spanish 205) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010)

COMP 206 The Book of Job and Joban Literature (Same as Jewish Studies 206 and Religion 206) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010) (W)

COMP 208 Fatal Passions and Happy Fools: French Theater in the Age of Louis XIV (Same as French 208) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010)

COMP 209 The Legend of the Wandering Jew (Same as Jewish Studies 209 and Religion 209) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010)

COMP 210 Latina/o Language and Literature: Hybrid Voices in Contemporary Context (Same as American Studies 240, Latina/o Studies 240 and Linguistics 254) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010) (D)

COMP 211 From Voltaire to Nietzsche (Same as German 210) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010)

COMP 215 Reading Contemporary Drama, or Turn of This Century Drama (Same as Theatre 215) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010)

COMP 217 Ancient Wisdom Literature (Same as Classics 205, Jewish Studies 205 and Religion 205) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010)

COMP 220 Cultural Foundations: The Literature and History of Early China (Same as Chinese 224 and History 315) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010) (D)

COMP 223 Reading Films (Same as English 203) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010)

COMP 226 Comparative Drama: The Anti-Realist Impulse (Same as English 206 and Theatre 226) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010)

COMP 228 Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature in Translation(Same as Arabic 220) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010) (W) (D)

COMP 233 Introduction to Classical Arabic Literature (Same as Arabic 233) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010) (W)

COMP 234 Comedy/Tragedy (Same as English 235) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010) (W)

COMP 235 China on Screen (Same as Chinese 235) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010)

COMP 242T Reading and Writing the Body (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010) (W)

COMP 243 (formerly 252) Modern Women Writers and the City (Same as Women's and Gender Studies 252) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010)

COMP 244 Helen, Desire and Language (Same as Classics 224 and Women's and Gender Studies 224) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010) (W)

COMP 250 From Adam to Noah: Literary Imagination and the Primeval History in Genesis (Same as Jewish Studies 207 and Religion 207) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010)

COMP 252 The Masks of Japanese Literature (Same as Japanese 252) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010) (D)

COMP 253 Writing the City: Beirut and Cairo in Contemporary Arabic Literature (Same as Arabic 253) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010)

COMP 254 On the Outside Looking In (Same as Japanese 266) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010)

COMP 255 Love and Death in Modern Japanese Literature (Same as Japanese 255) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010) (D)

COMP 258 South African and American Intersections (Same as Africana Studies 260 and English 252) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010)

COMP 261 Japanese Theatre and its Contemporary Context (Same as Japanese 260) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010)

COMP 262 Outlaws and Underworlds: Arabic Literature of the Margins (Same as Arabic 262) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010) (W)

COMP 265 The Interaction of Three Religions and Cultures in Early Modern Spain (Same as Spanish 271) (Not offered 2008-2009)

COMP 268 Latina/o Theatre and Performance, 1950-2000 (Same as American Studies 235, Latina/or Studies 235, Theatre 235 and Women's and Gender Studies 235) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010) (D)

COMP 271 Religion and the Modern Literary Imagination (Same as English 271 and Religion 271) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010) (W)

COMP 272T Literature of the Americas: Dialogues in Historical Perspective (Same as American Studies 256) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010) (W) (D)

COMP 301 Word Virus: Cultural Theory after the Linguistic Turn (Same as Linguistics 301 and Religion 301) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010)

COMP 302T Latino Writing: Literature by U.S. Hispanics (Same as Spanish 306) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010) (W)

COMP 303 Cities of the Anglophone Chinese Imagination (Same as American Studies 305, Asian Studies 305 and English 374) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010) (D)

COMP 304 Dante (Same as English 304) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010)

COMP 306 Tolstoy and His Age (Same as Russian 306) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010)

COMP 338 Theorizing Popular Culture: Latinas/os and the Dynamics of the Everyday (Same as American Studies 339 and Latina/o Studies 338) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010) (W) (D)

COMP 340 Literature and Psychoanalysis (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010) (W)

COMP 344 From Hermeneutics to Post-Coloniality (Same as Religion 304) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010) (D)

COMP 346 Questioning the Cultural Self in Literature (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010) (W)

COMP 347 Imagining Africa: The Politics of Representation (Same as Africana Studies 377 and English 348) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010) (W)

COMP 352 Writing after the Disaster: The Literature of Exile (Same as Jewish Studies 352) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010)

COMP 359 Latinos/as and the Media: From Production to Consumption (Same as American Studies 346 and Latina/o Studies 346) (Not offered 2008-2009; to be offered 2009-2010) (D)