COML 3001

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COML 3001
Methods of Comparison

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

What do comparatists do when we approach our objects of study? What enables or justifies comparison across different languages, different genres, different media, and different disciplines? Does all comparison assume a common ground of some kind (whether historical, formal, conceptual, or ideological), or is comparison inherently ungrounded, provocative, or political? We will explore these questions through examination of a wide range of comparative projects, from those often cited as foundational to the discipline and their most important critics to contemporary comparative projects that are reshaping the discipline and expanding it in new directions. 


Permission Note Intended for: current majors and minors and those who intend to declare. Non-majors are welcome if space allows.

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Distribution Category (ALC-AS) (CA-AG, LA-AG)

When Offered Fall.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  5807 COML 3001   SEM 101

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment limited to: Comparative Literature (COML) majors or students who intend to declare the major.