Course Listing
*Courses marked with an asterisk (*) are not counted toward the requirement of no fewer than 33 credits in advanced courses for majors in this department.
§Independent work means not less than three additional hours each week of conference, research, independent reading, and writing as assigned by the instructor. The student's grade is determined in part by the successful completion of this independent work.
In 2010, the college transitioned to a new course numbering system in preparation for the migration to the CUNYfirst platform. Old course numbers - if available - are provided in the parenthesis after the "/" symbol.
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Genre courses
- From Epic Tradition to Epic Vision (CMLT 3601 / CMPLT 18.1)
- Makings of Pastoral Myth (CMLT 3602 / CMPLT 18.5)
- Tragedy (CMLT 3603 / CMPLT 18.2)
- Comedy (CMLT 3604 / CMPLT 18.3)
- Romance (CMLT 3605 / CMPLT 18.4)
- European Novel of the Nineteenth Century (CMLT 3606 / CMPLT 14.2)
- Modern European Novel (CMLT 3607 / CMPLT 14.3)
- Modern Short Story and Novella (CMLT 3608 / CMPLT 13.1)
- Modern European Drama (CMLT 3610 / CMPLT 16.3)
- Literature of Fantasy (CMLT 3612 / CMPLT 19.1)
- Folk Literature and Fairy Tale (CMLT 3613 / CMPLT 19.5)
- African Oral Literature (CMLT 3632)
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Period courses
- Medieval Literature (CMLT 3614 / CMPLT 21)
- Literature of the Renaissance (CMLT 3615 / CMPLT 23)
- European Literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (CMLT 3616 / CMPLT 24)
- European Romanticism (CMLT 3617 / CMPLT 26)
- Modernist Movements in Twentieth-Century Literature (CMLT 3618 / CMPLT 29)
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Postmodernism and contemporary discourses
- Contemporary European Novel (CMLT 3609 / CMPLT 14.4)
- Contemporary European Drama (CMLT 3611 / CMPLT 16.4)
- African Literature (CMLT 3619 / CMPLT 32.2)
- Caribbean Sexualities (CMLT 3620)
- Indian Literature (CMLT 3621 / CMPLT 36.1)
- New Literature of Latin America (CMLT 3622 / CMPLT 38.1)
- Caribbean Literature (CMLT 3623 / CMPLT 38.3)
- Yiddish Short Stories and Poetry in Translation (CMLT 3624 / CMPLT 14.5)
- Holocaust Literature (CMLT 3625 / CMPLT 14.6)
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Interdisciplinary & thematic studies
- Contemporary Literary Criticism and Theory (CMLT 3626 / CMPLT 50.12)
- Introduction to Postcolonial Literature and Theory (CMLT 3627 / CMPLT 50.13)
- Literature and Psychology (CMLT 3628 / CMPLT 45)
- Special Topics (CMLT 3629 / CMPLT 40.2)
- Introduction to Israeli Literature in Translation (CMLT 3631)
