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2012-2013 Academic Catalog

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2012-2013 Academic Catalog [Published Catalog]

English and Comparative Literature (B.A.)

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Bachelor of Arts

The program in English and Comparative Literature provides the undergraduate student with an understanding of the role which literature plays in presenting men and women with images of themselves, their society, and their culture and introduces them to the different questions and answers which literature has given to the central problems of human experience.

To major in English and Comparative Literature students must have taken at least one ECLT course with not less than a C grade and be registering for the required program of the major.

A total of 120 credits is required for the bachelor’s degree in English and comparative literature:

Core Curriculum (34-46 credits)

Concentration Requirements (42 credits)

ECLT 200 - Introduction to Literature (3 cr.)
OR
ECLT 202 - Global Literature in English (3 cr.)

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ECLT 201 - Survey of British Literature (3 cr.)

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ECLT 301 - Medieval Literature (3 cr.)
Or
ECLT 409 - Greek Classics in Translation (3 cr.)
Or
ECLT 410 - Classics of the Ancient World (3 cr.)

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ECLT 302 - Literature of the Renaissance (3 cr.)
Or
ECLT 303 - Seventeenth-Century Literature (3 cr.)
Or
ECLT 360 - Shakespeare (3 cr.)

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ECLT 304 - Eighteenth-Century Literature (3 cr.)
Or
ECLT 305 - Romanticism (3 cr.)
Or
ECLT 306 - Nineteenth-Century European Literature (3 cr.)

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ECLT 308 - Modern European and American Literature (3 cr.)
Or
ECLT 348 - Contemporary Literature (3 cr.)

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ECLT 310 - American Literature to 1900 (3 cr.)
Or
ECLT 311 - Modern American Literature (3 cr.)

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ECLT 411 - History of Literary Criticism (3 cr.)
ECLT 412 - Modern Literary Criticism (3 cr.)

Three additional courses to be chosen from the following courses (9 credits):

ECLT 209 - Introduction to American Studies (3 cr.)
/HIST 209
ECLT 330 - Literature and Cinema (3 cr.)
ECLT 332 - World Literature (3 cr.)
ECLT 333 - African Literature (3 cr.)
ECLT 344 - Literature and Philosophy (3 cr.)
ECLT 345 - Literature and Gender (3 cr.)
ECLT 346 - Third World Literature (3 cr.)
ECLT 347 - Selected Topics (3 cr.)
ECLT 352 - Recurrent Themes in Literature (3 cr.)
ECLT 353 - Modern Drama (3 cr.)
ECLT 370 - Creative Writing (3 cr.)
ECLT 447 - Capstone Seminar: Selected Topics (3 cr.)

Any two Additional ECLT courses (6 cr.)

Collateral Requirements (3 credits)

One course in 300- or 400-level Arabic Literature (in Arabic or in translation).

Electives (29-41 credits)

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