2001-2002 Undergraduate Calendar
	2001-2002 UNDERGRADUATE CALENDAR: COURSES
	Carleton University

Comparative Literary Studies Courses
Not all of the following courses are offered in a given year. For an up-to-date statement of course offerings for 2001-2002, please consult the Registration Instructions and Class Schedule booklet published in the summer.

First-Year Seminar in Comparative Literary Studies 01.150
The Literatures of Europe: Representative Texts
Study of major literary traditions in Europe and their interrelations from antiquity to the present. Authors, such as Homer, Sophocles, Vergil, Dante, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Cervantes, Molière, Goethe, Flaubert, Austen, Dostoevsky, Proust, Joyce, Pirandello, Kafka, Woolf, Calvino. All texts in English. Limited enrolment.
Prerequisite: Normally restricted to students entering the First year of a B.A. program.
Seminar three hours a week.

Comparative Literary Studies 17.100
The Literatures of Europe: Representative Texts
Study of major literary traditions in Europe and their interrelations from antiquity to the present. Authors, such as Homer, Sophocles, Vergil, Dante, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Cervantes, Molière, Goethe, Flaubert, Austen, Dostoevsky, Proust, Joyce, Pirandello, Kafka, Woolf, Calvino. All texts in English.
Lectures and seminar three hours a week.

Comparative Literary Studies 17.201
The Literatures of the Americas: Comparative Perspectives
Through the analysis of representative texts from the 19th and 20th centuries, the course will examine issues pertaining to the interrelation between the literatures of North and South America. All texts in English. Topics may vary from year to year.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing or permission of the Discipline.
Lectures and seminars three hours a week.

Comparative Literary Studies 17.207*
The Literatures of Asia: Comparative Perspectives
Issues arising from the literatures of the Asian continent. Topics may vary from year to year. Texts will be read in English, which is also the language of instruction.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing or permission of the Discipline.
Lectures and seminars three hours a week.

Comparative Literary Studies 17.208*
The Literatures of Africa and the Middle East: Comparative Perspectives
Issues arising from the literatures of the African continent and the Middle East. Topics may vary from year to year. All texts will be read in English, which is also the language of instruction.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing or permission of the Discipline.
Lectures and seminars three hours a week.

Comparative Literary Studies 17.300
Themes, Genres, Periods
The comparative study of a specific theme or genre through texts drawn from several historic periods. Topics may vary from year to year.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing or permission of the Discipline.
Seminar two hours a week, tutorials one hour a week.

Comparative Literary Studies 17.301
International Literary Movements
Comparative Study of primary and secondary sources which define international literary movements such as Renaissance, Romanticism, Realism, Modernism, and Post-modernism. Topics may vary from year to year.
Precludes additional credit for Comparative Literary Studies 17.200.
Prerequisite: Second-year standing or permission of the Discipline.
Seminar three hours a week.

Comparative Literary Studies 17.302
Gender and Literature
Study of autobiographical writing, novels, short stories, and poetry by women writing in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s in a variety of cultural settings. Cross-cultural point of view informed by poststructuralist feminist criticism. All texts available in English translation. (Also listed as Women's Studies 09.302).
Prerequisite: Second-year standing or permission of the Discipline.
Seminar three hours a week.

Comparative Literary Studies 17.401*
Foundations of Comparative Literature
The history of the discipline of comparative literature is studied, including its beginning in nineteenth-century France, its evolution, and its current status in Europe, the United States and Canada.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Discipline.
Seminar three hours a week.

Comparative Literary Studies 17.402*
Theories of Literature
Twentieth-century literary theories in the context of comparative studies. Over-all view of the theoretical discussion of literature from 1920 to the present: Russian Formalism; American New Criticism; structuralist, semiotic, socio-cultural and hermeneutic approaches.
Prerequisite: Permission of the Discipline.
Note: Students enrolling in this course under the cross-listed number Spanish 38.402* should note the requirements of Spanish.
Seminar three hours a week.

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2001-2002 Undergraduate Calendar
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