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World Literature
WLIT2503 Introduction to Comparative Literature 3 ch
This course is an introduction to the discipline of Comparative Literature. Students will
read representative works in a variety of genres from different cultures and historical
periods.
WLIT3314 European Romanticism
3 ch (3C)
A study of the literature, art, and music of the period 1770-1850 in Europe. Major themes
may include individualism, Romantic heroism, revolution, folklore, childhood and nature.
WLIT3315 Nineteenth-Century Literature
3 ch (3C)
The development of Western literature, philosophy, and aesthetics during the second half
of the nineteenth century, in the context of literary, philosophical, aesthetic, and social
movements. Authors studied may include: Baudelaire, Sand, Mallarmé, Rachilde, Marx,
Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Ibsen, Dostoevsky, Strindberg, Freud.
WLIT3725 Literature and/as Philosophy
3 ch (3C)
Through the study of specific authors, this course will be an examination of the manner in
which these two humanities disciplines interact, enhance and mutually inform dialectical,
analytic, and imaginative forms of thought. Authors and their texts may include de
Beauvoir, Camus, Dostoevsky, Kundera, de Sade, Sartre, Tolstoy, Wollstonecraft.
WLIT3901 Studies in Comparative Literature 3 ch (3S)
An upper-level seminar on a specified topic. Please consult the discipline.