Total Minimum Units for the Minor: 24 Units (for Bulletin year 2015/2016 and earlier)
TOTAL MINIMUM UNITS FOR THE MINOR 18 units
All students in the Comparative and World Literature minor are urged to acquire reading competence in at least one language in addition to English.
Core Courses: 9 Units
- CWL 400, Approaches to Comparative Literature: 3 Units
- 2 CWL courses (must fulfill requirements below): 6 Units
These two courses must involve comparison of literary texts from more than one national/linguistic tradition. For example, CWL 420, Studies in Comparative Literature; CWL 430, Heroic Tales of the Mediterranean.
One of these courses may be an appropriate lower-division CWL course. For example, CWL 230, Introduction to World Literature; CWL 250, Fables and Tales; CWL 260, Myths of the World.
You are not required to learn a foreign language for the minor.
Program Electives: 15 units
In consultation with departmental advisers, students select upper-division literature courses that combine a sense of the historical, linguistic, and critical breadth of literary studies with a student-defined area of focus that fits within the general discipline of comparative literature.
Please note that up to 6 units maximum, in lower-division CWL courses only, may be used toward the total units. All other courses must be upper-division courses.