Department Of Comparative Literature

Department of Comparative Literature

Concentration Requirements Checklist

Track 1: Literature in Two Languages

Track 2: Literature in Three Languages

Please fill out and hand in this form when declaring your concentration. Subsequently, you’ll need to update the form at least at the start of each fall; email it to .

1. Your name: Today’s date:

2. Expected graduation date (indicate month and year):

3. Your concentration track and languages:

4. Name of your specific concentration advisor:

5. When and how are you fulfilling the prerequisites for advanced literature courses in each of your languages? e.g., HISP 0730 or 740 or 760; FREN 0500, etc.

6. What advanced literature courses did you¾or will you¾take so as to fulfill the concentration’s language requirements? (Generally 1000-level courses; minimum of two courses per language; courses usually need to be taught in the language of the literature; if English is one of your languages, plan to take 2 advanced courses chiefly devoted to literature originally written in English). Specify each course’s number, brief title, semester, and calendar year¾e.g., ITAL 1620, Divina Commedia, Spring '09).

Language 1:

Language 2:

Language 3 (for Track 2 concentrators):

6.a. **As part of your advanced literature course selections, when did you¾or will you¾take COLT 1210 (Introduction to the Theory of Literature, a mandatory course for all tracks of the concentration, offered every fall)?

6.b. Within your advanced literature course selections, how will you fulfill the “three periods” requirement? Choose and list three of the following five periods: (a) Antiquity, (b) Middle Ages, (c) Renaissance/Early Modern, (d) Enlightenment, (e) Modern. Next to each period chosen list at least one advanced course chiefly devoted to it, specifying the courses’s number, brief title, semester, and calendar year. Please note that the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries count as one period, the modern period.

Period: Course(s):

Period: Course(s):

Period: Course(s):

6.c. Within your advanced literature course selections, how will you fulfill the “major literary genres” requirement? For each major genre (or literary mode) list at least one advanced course chiefly devoted to it, specifying the courses’s number, brief title, semester, and calendar year. Please note that one course may, though it needn’t necessarily, fulfill both period and genre requirements. For example, an upper-level Shakespeare course may fulfill both the Renaissance (period) and drama (genre) requirements.

Poetry:

Drama:

Narrative:

6.d. What further advanced literature courses IN ADDITION TO THOSE LISTED ABOVE will round out and complete your ten-course program course requirement for Track 1 or Track 2? Specify course numbers, brief titles, semesters and calendar years.

SENIORS ONLY: In sum, exactly which concentration requirements do you still need to fulfill this year in order to graduate, and how do you plan to fulfill them? List the requirement and the course’s number, brief title, and semester.