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Aug 14, 2024
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Course Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Comparative Literature Minor
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Note(s) on Requirements
- No more than two of the courses required for the minor can also be counted toward requirements for another major or minor.
- Of the four courses required for the minor (aside from CMPL 200 ), three should have some clear thread of connection: they might be from the same century in different literatures, study the same genre (tragedy, fiction), pursue a single theme or topic, etc.
- The advanced foreign literature course must be taught in a language other than English. For certain languages, the minimum course level is 300, while for other languages the minimum level is 400; see detailed requirement below.
Declaring the Minor
Under normal circumstances, a minor must be declared by the beginning of the second semester of the junior year.
Transfer of Credit Toward the Minor
At least three courses counted toward the minor must be earned at Oberlin College.
Detailed Minor Requirements
Comparative Literature Minor Course Lists
Advanced Foreign Literature Courses
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Note: Students must take at least one 400-level literature course in a foreign language taught in a language other than English. For the following four languages, the required minimum level is 300: Greek, Latin, Chinese, or Japanese.
Comparative Literature Minor Elective Courses
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The minor elective courses comprise courses in literature, theory, criticism, cultural studies, and related disciplines, chosen to include comparative study within or among courses.
Comparative Literature Courses
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- CMPL 207 - Refugee Odysseys
- CMPL 208 - Queer Beginnings: 1990
- CMPL 220 - Travel and the Idea of Home
- CMPL 222 - Ovid in the Middle Ages
- CMPL 225 - The Existentialist Imagination in Russia and Europe
- CMPL 227 - Film and Comics in Translation
- CMPL 230 - Introduction to Literature and the Visual Arts
- CMPL 234 - The Postcolonial Trajectories
- CMPL 237 - The Art of Revolution
- CMPL 239 - Word and Image across Middle East and Asia
- CMPL 242 - From Pushkin to Pussy Riot: Literature Meets Music in Russia and Beyond
- CMPL 245 - Manga and Anime in Cross-Cultural Contexts
- CMPL 246 - Sex under Socialism: Narratives of Sexuality and Ideology
- CMPL 250 - Introduction to Literary Translation: Theory, History, Practice
- CMPL 251 - Gone Writing: Travel and Literature
- CMPL 252 - Art as Witness in Eastern Europe and Russia
- CMPL 265 - Anglophone Postcolonial Literatures
- CMPL 271 - Italian Literature in Translation
- CMPL 277 - Israel/Palestine in Literature and Film
- CMPL 278 - Jewish/Jew-ish Literatures
- CMPL 279 - Poetry and Political Activism
- CMPL 280 - World Gothic
- CMPL 287 - “Bollywood“‘s India: An Introduction to Indian Cinema
- CMPL 301 - Representations of Trauma in Film and Literature
- CMPL 302 - Femmes Fatales: Narratives of Feminine Evil, Sexuality, and Perversity
- CMPL 303 - Imagined Community: Literature and Nationhood
- CMPL 304 - Shakespeare and Metamorphosis
- CMPL 305 - The Global Phenomenon of Elena Ferrante
- CMPL 306 - Literature and the Scientific Revolution
- CMPL 308 - Visuality, Materiality, and Renaissance Literature
- CMPL 310 - Visions of the Nuclear Future
- CMPL 319 - Charting Globalization in Diaspora Films and Novels
- CMPL 327 - Surrealism Narrative from Center to Margins
- CMPL 347 - Sophistications: Queer Postwar New York-Paris Connections
- CMPL 350 - Advanced Translation Workshop: Poetry
- CMPL 351 - Advanced Translation Workshop: Prose and Drama
- CMPL 356 - Latin America in Verse: Poetry, Voice and History
- CMPL 365 - Love and Death: Jewish Literature and Culture of the Americas
- CMPL 372 - Contemporary Literary Theory: Post-Modernity and Imagination
- CMPL 375 - Franco-Arab Encounters
- CMPL 376 - Realism, 1800 to the Present: The Mirror Up to Nature
- CMPL 380 - Middle Eastern Prison Literature
- CMPL 385 - Women in/and “Bollywood”
- CMPL 415 - Surréalisme et francophonie
- CMPL 419 - Big Old Funny Books: Cervantes, Rabelais, Sterne
- CMPL 430 - Literature and Music of Heartbreak
- CMPL 441 - Plague Narratives: Narratology and Immunology
- CMPL 460 - Repeating Islands: Literatures of the Caribbean
- CMPL 471 - Medicine, Literature, Biopower LXC
- CMPL 472 - Medicine, Literature, Biopower
English Courses
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- ENGL 203 - Early British Literature: Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton
- ENGL 206 - Shakespearean Tragedy
- ENGL 207 - Lovers, Philosophers, and Revolutionaries: A Survey of Renaissance Literature
- ENGL 209 - Ovid in the Middle Ages
- ENGL 218 - Shakespeare and the Limits of Genre: Problem Comedy and Romance
- ENGL 227 - Jane Austen and Company: Romantic Revolutions
- ENGL 238 - Contemporary American Fiction
- ENGL 260 - Black Humor and Irony: Modern Literary Experiments
- ENGL 265 - Anglophone Postcolonial Literatures
- ENGL 282 - Shifting Scenes: Drama Survey
- ENGL 289 - Shakespeare in Italy
- ENGL 290 - Shakespearean Comedy and Social Justice
- ENGL 299 - What is Literature: Introduction to the Advanced Study of Literature
- ENGL 304 - Shakespeare and Metamorphosis
- ENGL 306 - Literature and the Scientific Revolution
- ENGL 308 - Visuality, Materiality, and Renaissance Literature
- ENGL 309 - The Poetry of Love and Seduction in the Renaissance
- ENGL 310 - Early Medieval European Literature: From Virgil to Dante
- ENGL 322 - Imagining Immanence
- ENGL 328 - Modern Drama II: Brecht to Pinter
- ENGL 330 - Modernist Chicago: Urban Literature and Sociology
- ENGL 343 - American Gothic
- ENGL 349 - Contemporary Drama: 1980 to the Present
- ENGL 357 - Inventing America: Histories of the Book, Archive, and Empire
- ENGL 360 - The End: Globalization and Literature
- ENGL 363 - Gaines, Morrison, Wideman: Textualizing Orality and Literacy
- ENGL 372 - Contemporary Literary Theory: Post-Modernity and Imagination
- ENGL 379 - Welfare Queens and Tiger Moms: Narratives of the Maternal
- ENGL 400 - Senior Tutorial
- ENGL 428 - Seminar: Virginia Woolf and Zadie Smith
- ENGL 437 - Seminar: Ars Poetica
- ENGL 438 - Seminar: Literary Cognitive Linguistics
- ENGL 448 - Seminar: Words and Things
- ENGL 452 - English Honors I
- ENGL 453 - English Honors II
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