Students in Comparative Literature will:
1. demonstrate familiarity with a variety of world literatures, as well as methods of studying literature and culture across national and linguistic boundaries;
2. learn how to evaluate the nature, function, and value of literature from a global perspective;
3. practice, refine, and demonstrate advanced critical reasoning and research skills;
4. design and conduct research in an individual field of concentration, such as literary or critical theory, postcolonial or decolonial studies, film and media studies, translation studies, exile and migration, women’s writing, law and literature, etc.;
5. analyze, across various courses, specific bodies of work and write cohesive, well-developed, and well-researched projects about topics related to more than one literary or cultural tradition;
6. understand the history of Comparative Literature as a discipline, including its contemporary and current evolution.