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 (51 credits)

(List of courses subject to change due to revisions)

ECLT 200 - Introduction to Literature (3 cr.)
OR
ECLT 201 - Approaches to Literature (3 cr.)
ECLT 202 - Close Reading of Literary Texts (3 cr.)
ECLT 301 - Medieval Literature (3 cr.)
ECLT 302 - Literature of the Renaissance (3 cr.)
OR
ECLT 303 - Seventeenth-Century Literature (3 cr.)
ECLT 304 - Eighteenth-Century Literature (3 cr.)
OR
ECLT 305 - Romanticism (3 cr.)
ECLT 306 - The Nineteenth-Century Novel (3 cr.)
OR
ECLT 307 - Nineteenth-Century Poetry (3 cr.)
ECLT 308 - Modern European and American Literature (3 cr.)
ECLT 309 - Early Literatures of the Americas (3 cr.)
OR
ECLT 310 - Nineteenth-Century American Literature (3 cr.)
OR
ECLT 311 - Modern American Literature (3 cr.)
ECLT 409 - Greek Classics in Translation (3 cr.)
ECLT 410 - Classics of the Ancient World (3 cr.)
ECLT 411 - History of Literary Criticism (3 cr.)
ECLT 412 - Modern Literary Criticism (3 cr.)

Additional Requirements

Five additional courses in the department to be chosen from among the following courses:

ECLT 209 - Introduction to American Studies (3 cr.)
ECLT 220 - Introduction to Film (3 cr.)
ECLT 330 - Film Theory and Criticism (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 348 - Contemporary Literature (3 cr.)
ECLT 352 - Recurrent Themes in Drama (3 cr.)
ECLT 353 - Modern Drama (3 cr.)
ECLT 360 - Shakespeare (3 cr.)
ECLT 370 - Creative Writing (3 cr.)

Collateral Requirements (12 credits)

Two courses in European or American history
Two courses in 300- or 400-level Arabic literature

AUC New Cairo Campus

AUC Tahrir Square Campus