CMLIT 101 - Great Books I
An introductory course that presents some of the major works forming a common source and reference for Western literature and culture. Readings will include works from among the following: the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Bible, Homer, Virgil, the Greek tragedies, the Bhagavad Gita, Plato, St. Augustine, Everyman, and Dante.

CMLIT 102 - Great Books II
Masterpieces of Western literature from the Renaissance to modern times. Readings include works from among the following: Rabelais, Shakespeare, Moliere, Candide, Gulliver's Travels, Goethe's Faust, and more recent works.

CMLIT 135 - Writing Workshop
This course works on writing that is integral to the subject matter of the main course.

CMLIT 203 - European Novel
Some major European novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; attention to the problems of the novel as a literary form during this period.

CMLIT 205 - Modern Poetry
Intensive readings in nineteenth- and twentieth-century lyric poetry of Europe and the Americas, with attention to one or more kinds of poetry (e.g. romantic, symbolist, surrealist) and interpretive approaches.

CMLIT 212 - The Literature of the Renaissance
Major European texts in a variety of forms and genres, studied in their historical, social, intellectual, and religious contexts.

CMLIT 213 - The Enlightenment
A comparative study of outstanding figures in the literature and philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including such writers as Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Vico, Hume, Gibbon, and Lessing.

CMLIT 214 - Romanticism
A study of the cultural revolution that took place throughout Europe during the early nineteenth century, setting a dominant pattern in the literature and culture for the nineteenth and much of the twentieth century.

CMLIT 215 - Topics in Modern Literature
This course will examine selected topics in modern literature and their relationship to nineteenth-and twentieth-century models of thought, society, and culture. We will consider, for instance, the influence of the naturalist Buffon on Balzac, of experimental medicine on Zola, of the philosopher Bergson on Proust, of technology on H. G. Wells, of physics on Pynchon, and of Freud on Kafka.

CMLIT 217 - Great Authors in Literature
Will focus on a number of important figures in Western literature ranging from Dante to Beckett.

CMLIT 218 - Russia and the West
Major nineteenth- and twentieth-century works illustrating the crosscurrents between Russian and Western literature.

CMLIT 220 - East Asian Literature I
Introduction to representative works of traditional Chinese and Japanese literature, from ancient times through the Yuan dynasty in China and from ancient times through the medieval period in Japan.

CMLIT 221 - East Asian Literature II
Introduction to representative works of Chinese and Japanese literature from the Sung dynasty through the twentieth century in China and from the Tokugawa period through the twentieth century in Japan.

CMLIT 228 - Themes in Literature
A topical course, depending on interests of the instructor. It may examine such problems as literary expression; the relation of literature to other arts, history, and philosophy; or the expression of a cultural theme in different national literatures.

CMLIT 229 - Women in Modern Literature
The representation of women in literary texts by female and male writers, with attention to the relationship between women's social and cultural status and their image in literature.

CMLIT 230 - African Literature
Study of canonical and non-canonical texts, from a variety of African cultures, in their social, political, and historical contexts, with particular attention to genres, themes, and styles.

CMLIT 240 - Representation, Photography and Literature
Comparison of photography and other visual arts to fiction, poetry, essay, and other forms of writing in order to raise questions about how stories are told by the visual arts and by literature, and how believability is established by these different arts. The course considers what readers and viewers expect from these different art forms and how, at times, visual and verbal arts are linked together in support of one another and, at others, kept separate or even in opposition.

CMLIT 241 - Literature and the Movies
A study of the ways in which literature and the movies have strongly influenced each other. The course will investigate problems arising from the relations and conflicts between these two different media.

CMLIT 334 - Mythology and Heroic Literature
Major heroic epics, with some attention to questions of genre.

CMLIT 336 - Forms and Fiction
The novel, novella, short story, and other forms of prose fiction, with special emphasis on questions and problems of genre.

CMLIT 340 - Literature and History
The study of literature as history and history as literature. Students will learn how to read literary texts in relation to other forms of discourse within a given historical context, how to contextualize a text through historical research, and how to analyze the rhetoric of history.

CLMIT 341 - Life Writing
A consideration of various forms of life writing - including autobiography, memoirs, diaries, journals, and testimonials - and the people who write them.

CMLIT 381/382 - Advanced Seminars
Exploration of important themes in literature, literary history, and criticism.