Comparative Literature, Ph.D.

Learning Outcomes

• Students will demonstrate basic mastery of the history of literary theory.
• Students will develop advanced linguistic competence in at least one foreign language.
• Students will demonstrate reading competence in a second foreign language.
• Students will demonstrate a mastery of three literatures, or two literatures and one outside area.
• Students will demonstrate an understanding of a broad literary culture.
• Students will comprehensively evaluate previous scholarship in their field.
• Students will produce a piece of original research and write at a professional level.
• Students will analyze texts.