# Brown University
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The concentration in Comparative Literature enables students to study an illustrative range of literary topics and to develop a focused critical understanding of how cultures differ from one another and what those differences mean. Our courses provide opportunities to engage with literary works across linguistic and cultural boundaries, exploring the traditions and innovations of the literatures of the world.
In the spirit of Brown’s Open Curriculum, a concentration in Comparative Literature affords great academic freedom. Advanced literature courses from any literature department at Brown count for concentration credit. Any language —ancient or modern—supported at Brown may form part of a Comparative Literature concentration program. All students take a course in literary theory and have the opportunity to complete a senior essay.
There are three concentration tracks and requirements:
- Track 1: Comparative Literature in Two Languages
- Track 2: Comparative Literature in Three Languages
- Track 3: Literary Translation
Genre and Period Requirements for all concentrators:
- One course in each literary genre (poetry, narrative, and drama/film)
- Courses must cover at least three different historical periods (such as, Antiquity; Middle Ages; Renaissance/Early Modern; Enlightenment; Modern: 19th-21st centuries).
### **Prerequisites in languages:**
Students must demonstrate proficiency in the languages of their selected literatures. We recommend that prerequisite(s) for taking 1000-level courses in their languages be completed by Semester V.
Students working in non-European languages may be allowed more latitude; be sure to be sure to consult a concentration advisor about constructing an individualized plan.
### Selecting literature courses in your language areas:
Readings must normally be in the original language. If English is one of your languages, courses need to be devoted chiefly to literature originally written in English.
### **Transfer of Credits:**
Two courses per semester of study abroad may be applied to the concentration, up to a total of four courses (for two semesters abroad). A maximum of five courses from external venues (study abroad; transfer credits from other institutions, including summer study) may be applied to the concentration.
### **Joint or Double Concentration:**
Joint or double concentration programs may also be arranged. Students may also combine a concentration in Comparative Literature with a teaching certificate in English or a modern language. A student interested in such a program should consult the advisor in the [Education Department](http://www.brown.edu/academics/education/) and the advisor in Comparative Literature as early as possible (preferably by Semester V). In accordance with University policy, double concentrators are allowed a maximum overlap of two courses between concentrations.
### Track 1: Concentration in Comparative Literature in two languages
### Requirements
| | | |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [COLT 1210](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201210 "COLT 1210") | Introduction to the Theory of Literature | 1 |
| TWO literature courses taught above the 1000-level in the first chosen literature. (Courses may be taken in any literature department, and may fall under such courses codes as COLT, ENGL, FREN, HISP, CHIN, RUSS, GRMN, etc.) | | 2 |
| TWO literature courses taught above the 1000-level in the second chosen literature. (Courses may be taken in any literature department, and may fall under such courses codes as COLT, ENGL, FREN, HISP, CHIN, RUSS, GRMN, etc.) | | 2 |
| FIVE electives. Courses taught in Comparative Literature and other literature courses at any level (below or above 1000) may satisfy this requirement. | | 5 |
| Total Credits | | 10 |
| | | |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Examples of courses that may fulfill the requirements, above, include but are not limited to the following. Students are encouraged to discuss class choices with their advisor. | | |
| [COLT 0510C](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200510C "COLT 0510C") | The World of Lyric Poetry | |
| [COLT 0510F](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200510F "COLT 0510F") | Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, The Men and the Myths | |
| [COLT 0510K](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200510K "COLT 0510K") | The 1001 Nights | |
| [COLT 0510P](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200510P "COLT 0510P") | Reading the Renaissance | |
| [COLT 0610D](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200610D "COLT 0610D") | Rites of Passage | |
| [COLT 0610L](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200610L "COLT 0610L") | Murder Ink: Narratives of Crime, Discovery, and Identity | |
| [COLT 0610Q](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200610Q "COLT 0610Q") | Before Wikipedia | |
| [COLT 0710C](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200710C "COLT 0710C") | Introduction to Scandinavian Literature | |
| [COLT 0710I](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200710I "COLT 0710I") | New Worlds: Reading Spaces and Places in Colonial Latin America | |
| [COLT 0710N](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200710N "COLT 0710N") | A Comparative Introduction to the Literatures of the Americas | |
| [COLT 0710Q](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200710Q "COLT 0710Q") | The Odyssey in Literature and Film | |
| [COLT 0710X](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200710X "COLT 0710X") | Fan Fiction | |
| [COLT 0710Z](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200710Z "COLT 0710Z") | Comedy from Athens to Hollywood | |
| [COLT 0711H](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200711H "COLT 0711H") | The Arabic Novel | |
| [COLT 0711L](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200711L "COLT 0711L") | The Quran and its Readers | |
| [COLT 0711O](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200711O "COLT 0711O") | Off the Beaten Path: The Diversity of Modern Japanese Literature | |
| [COLT 0711Q](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200711Q "COLT 0711Q") | Writing Love in Korean Literature | |
| [COLT 0810H](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200810H "COLT 0810H") | How Not to Be a Hero | |
| [COLT 0810I](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200810I "COLT 0810I") | Tales and Talemakers of the Non-Western World | |
| [COLT 0810L](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200810L "COLT 0810L") | The Pursuit of Happiness | |
| [COLT 0810M](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200810M "COLT 0810M") | Uncanny Tales: Narratives of Repetition and Interruption | |
| [COLT 0811I](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200811I "COLT 0811I") | Classical Mythology and the Western Tradition | |
| [COLT 0811Z](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200811Z "COLT 0811Z") | Islands in the Western Imaginary: Paradise, Periphery, Prison | |
| [COLT 0812O](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200812O "COLT 0812O") | Reading Art in Literature | |
| [COLT 0812V](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200812V "COLT 0812V") | Troy: City, Legend, Literature | |
| [COLT 0812W](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200812W "COLT 0812W") | The Epic Tradition: from Homer to Milton | |
| [COLT 1210](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201210 "COLT 1210") | Introduction to the Theory of Literature | |
| [COLT 1310G](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201310G "COLT 1310G") | Silk Road Fictions | |
| [COLT 1310J](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201310J "COLT 1310J") | The Arab Renaissance | |
| [COLT 1310N](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201310N "COLT 1310N") | Global Modernism and Crisis | |
| [COLT 1410S](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201410S "COLT 1410S") | Classical Tragedy | |
| [COLT 1420B](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201420B "COLT 1420B") | A Mirror for the Romantic: *The Tale of Genji* and *The Story of the Stone* | |
| [COLT 1420F](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201420F "COLT 1420F") | Fantastic and Existentialist Literatures of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil | |
| [COLT 1420O](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201420O "COLT 1420O") | Proust, Joyce and Faulkner | |
| [COLT 1421V](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201421V "COLT 1421V") | Modernisms North and South: Ulysses in Dublin, Paris, and Buenos Aires | |
| [COLT 1422L](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201422L "COLT 1422L") | The Modernist Novel: Alienation and Narration | |
| [COLT 1422M](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201422M "COLT 1422M") | Reading the Short Story | |
| [COLT 1430B](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201430B "COLT 1430B") | Art and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature | |
| [COLT 1430D](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201430D "COLT 1430D") | Critical Approaches to Chinese Poetry | |
| [COLT 1430I](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201430I "COLT 1430I") | Poetry of Europe: Montale, Celan, Hill | |
| [COLT 1430L](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201430L "COLT 1430L") | Voices of Romanticism | |
| [COLT 1431B](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201431B "COLT 1431B") | Modern Arabic Poetry | |
| [COLT 1431C](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201431C "COLT 1431C") | Poets, Poetry, and Politics | |
| [COLT 1431F](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201431F "COLT 1431F") | Reading Modernist Poetry | |
| [COLT 1440P](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201440P "COLT 1440P") | Nationalism and Transnationalism in Film and Fiction | |
| [COLT 1440U](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201440U "COLT 1440U") | The Listener (Literature, Theory, Film) | |
| [COLT 1440X](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201440X "COLT 1440X") | Shéhérazades : Depicting the "Orientale" in Modern French Culture | |
| [COLT 1610B](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201610B "COLT 1610B") | Irony | |
| [COLT 1610V](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201610V "COLT 1610V") | The Promise of Being: Heidegger for Beginners | |
| [COLT 1710A](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201710A "COLT 1710A") | Introduction to Literary Translation | |
| [COLT 1710C](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201710C "COLT 1710C") | Literary Translation Workshop | |
| [COLT 1710D](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201710D "COLT 1710D") | Exercises in Literary Translation | |
| [COLT 1810G](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201810G "COLT 1810G") | Fiction and History | |
| [COLT 1810N](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201810N "COLT 1810N") | Freud: Writer and Reader | |
| [COLT 1810P](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201810P "COLT 1810P") | Literature and Medicine | |
| [COLT 1811L](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201811L "COLT 1811L") | Travel, Tourism, Trafficking through the Ages | |
| [COLT 1812A](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201812A "COLT 1812A") | Literatures of Immigration | |
| [COLT 1813M](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201813M "COLT 1813M") | Making a List | |
| [COLT 1813N](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201813N "COLT 1813N") | Early Modern Women's Writing | |
| [COLT 1813O](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201813O "COLT 1813O") | Adventures of the Avant-Garde | |
| [COLT 1814S](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201814S "COLT 1814S") | The Balkans, Europe's Other?: Literature, Film, History | |
| [COLT 1814U](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201814U "COLT 1814U") | Politics of Reading | |
| [COLT 1815F](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201815F "COLT 1815F") | Memory, Commemoration, Testimony | |
| [COLT 1815U](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201815U "COLT 1815U") | Encountering Monsters in Comparative Literature | |
| [COLT 2520F](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%202520F "COLT 2520F") | Theories of the Lyric | |
| [COLT 2720C](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%202720C "COLT 2720C") | Literary Translation | |
| [COLT 2720D](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%202720D "COLT 2720D") | Translation: Theory and Practice | |
| [COLT 2820A](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%202820A "COLT 2820A") | New Directions for Comparative Literature | |
| [COLT 2820M](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%202820M "COLT 2820M") | Discourses of the Senses | |
| [COLT 2821S](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%202821S "COLT 2821S") | Historical Form | |
| [COLT 2822A](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%202822A "COLT 2822A") | War | |
### Track 2: Concentration in Comparative Literature in three languages
### Requirements
| | | |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [COLT 1210](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201210 "COLT 1210") | Introduction to the Theory of Literature | 1 |
| TWO literature courses taught above the 1000-level in the first chosen literature. (Courses may be taken in any literature department, and may fall under such courses codes as COLT, ENGL, FREN, HISP, CHIN, RUSS, GRMN, etc.) | | 2 |
| TWO literature courses taught above the 1000-level in the second chosen literature. (Courses may be taken in any literature department, and may fall under such courses codes as COLT, ENGL, FREN, HISP, CHIN, RUSS, GRMN, etc.) | | 2 |
| TWO literature courses taught above the 1000-level in the third chosen literature. (Courses may be taken in any literature department, and may fall under such courses codes as COLT, ENGL, FREN, HISP, CHIN, RUSS, GRMN, etc.) | | 2 |
| THREE electives. Courses taught in Comparative Literature and other literature courses at any level (below or above 1000) may satisfy this requirement. | | 3 |
| Total Credits | | 10 |
| | | |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Examples of courses that may fulfill the requirements, above, include but are not limited to the following. Students are encouraged to discuss class choices with their advisor. | | |
| [COLT 0510C](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200510C "COLT 0510C") | The World of Lyric Poetry | |
| [COLT 0510F](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200510F "COLT 0510F") | Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, The Men and the Myths | |
| [COLT 0510K](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200510K "COLT 0510K") | The 1001 Nights | |
| [COLT 0510P](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200510P "COLT 0510P") | Reading the Renaissance | |
| [COLT 0610D](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200610D "COLT 0610D") | Rites of Passage | |
| [COLT 0610L](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200610L "COLT 0610L") | Murder Ink: Narratives of Crime, Discovery, and Identity | |
| [COLT 0610Q](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200610Q "COLT 0610Q") | Before Wikipedia | |
| [COLT 0710C](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200710C "COLT 0710C") | Introduction to Scandinavian Literature | |
| [COLT 0710I](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200710I "COLT 0710I") | New Worlds: Reading Spaces and Places in Colonial Latin America | |
| [COLT 0710N](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200710N "COLT 0710N") | A Comparative Introduction to the Literatures of the Americas | |
| [COLT 0710Q](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200710Q "COLT 0710Q") | The Odyssey in Literature and Film | |
| [COLT 0710X](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200710X "COLT 0710X") | Fan Fiction | |
| [COLT 0710Z](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200710Z "COLT 0710Z") | Comedy from Athens to Hollywood | |
| [COLT 0711H](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200711H "COLT 0711H") | The Arabic Novel | |
| [COLT 0711L](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200711L "COLT 0711L") | The Quran and its Readers | |
| [COLT 0711O](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200711O "COLT 0711O") | Off the Beaten Path: The Diversity of Modern Japanese Literature | |
| [COLT 0711Q](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200711Q "COLT 0711Q") | Writing Love in Korean Literature | |
| [COLT 0810H](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200810H "COLT 0810H") | How Not to Be a Hero | |
| [COLT 0810I](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200810I "COLT 0810I") | Tales and Talemakers of the Non-Western World | |
| [COLT 0810L](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200810L "COLT 0810L") | The Pursuit of Happiness | |
| [COLT 0810M](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200810M "COLT 0810M") | Uncanny Tales: Narratives of Repetition and Interruption | |
| [COLT 0811I](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200811I "COLT 0811I") | Classical Mythology and the Western Tradition | |
| [COLT 0811Z](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200811Z "COLT 0811Z") | Islands in the Western Imaginary: Paradise, Periphery, Prison | |
| [COLT 0812O](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200812O "COLT 0812O") | Reading Art in Literature | |
| [COLT 0812W](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200812W "COLT 0812W") | The Epic Tradition: from Homer to Milton | |
| [COLT 1210](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201210 "COLT 1210") | Introduction to the Theory of Literature | |
| [COLT 1310G](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201310G "COLT 1310G") | Silk Road Fictions | |
| [COLT 1310J](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201310J "COLT 1310J") | The Arab Renaissance | |
| [COLT 1310N](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201310N "COLT 1310N") | Global Modernism and Crisis | |
| [COLT 1410S](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201410S "COLT 1410S") | Classical Tragedy | |
| [COLT 1420B](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201420B "COLT 1420B") | A Mirror for the Romantic: *The Tale of Genji* and *The Story of the Stone* | |
| [COLT 1420F](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201420F "COLT 1420F") | Fantastic and Existentialist Literatures of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil | |
| [COLT 1420O](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201420O "COLT 1420O") | Proust, Joyce and Faulkner | |
| [COLT 1421V](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201421V "COLT 1421V") | Modernisms North and South: Ulysses in Dublin, Paris, and Buenos Aires | |
| [COLT 1422L](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201422L "COLT 1422L") | The Modernist Novel: Alienation and Narration | |
| [COLT 1422M](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201422M "COLT 1422M") | Reading the Short Story | |
| [COLT 1430B](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201430B "COLT 1430B") | Art and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature | |
| [COLT 1430D](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201430D "COLT 1430D") | Critical Approaches to Chinese Poetry | |
| [COLT 1430I](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201430I "COLT 1430I") | Poetry of Europe: Montale, Celan, Hill | |
| [COLT 1430L](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201430L "COLT 1430L") | Voices of Romanticism | |
| [COLT 1431B](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201431B "COLT 1431B") | Modern Arabic Poetry | |
| [COLT 1431C](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201431C "COLT 1431C") | Poets, Poetry, and Politics | |
| [COLT 1431F](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201431F "COLT 1431F") | Reading Modernist Poetry | |
| [COLT 1440P](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201440P "COLT 1440P") | Nationalism and Transnationalism in Film and Fiction | |
| [COLT 1440U](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201440U "COLT 1440U") | The Listener (Literature, Theory, Film) | |
| [COLT 1440X](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201440X "COLT 1440X") | Shéhérazades : Depicting the "Orientale" in Modern French Culture | |
| [COLT 1610B](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201610B "COLT 1610B") | Irony | |
| [COLT 1610V](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201610V "COLT 1610V") | The Promise of Being: Heidegger for Beginners | |
| [COLT 1710A](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201710A "COLT 1710A") | Introduction to Literary Translation | |
| [COLT 1710C](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201710C "COLT 1710C") | Literary Translation Workshop | |
| [COLT 1710D](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201710D "COLT 1710D") | Exercises in Literary Translation | |
| [COLT 1810G](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201810G "COLT 1810G") | Fiction and History | |
| [COLT 1810N](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201810N "COLT 1810N") | Freud: Writer and Reader | |
| [COLT 1810P](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201810P "COLT 1810P") | Literature and Medicine | |
| [COLT 1811L](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201811L "COLT 1811L") | Travel, Tourism, Trafficking through the Ages | |
| [COLT 1812A](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201812A "COLT 1812A") | Literatures of Immigration | |
| [COLT 1813M](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201813M "COLT 1813M") | Making a List | |
| [COLT 1813N](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201813N "COLT 1813N") | Early Modern Women's Writing | |
| [COLT 1813O](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201813O "COLT 1813O") | Adventures of the Avant-Garde | |
| [COLT 1814S](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201814S "COLT 1814S") | The Balkans, Europe's Other?: Literature, Film, History | |
| [COLT 1814U](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201814U "COLT 1814U") | Politics of Reading | |
| [COLT 1815F](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201815F "COLT 1815F") | Memory, Commemoration, Testimony | |
| [COLT 1815U](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201815U "COLT 1815U") | Encountering Monsters in Comparative Literature | |
| [COLT 2520F](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%202520F "COLT 2520F") | Theories of the Lyric | |
| [COLT 2720C](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%202720C "COLT 2720C") | Literary Translation | |
| [COLT 2720D](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%202720D "COLT 2720D") | Translation: Theory and Practice | |
| [COLT 2820A](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%202820A "COLT 2820A") | New Directions for Comparative Literature | |
| [COLT 2820M](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%202820M "COLT 2820M") | Discourses of the Senses | |
| [COLT 2821S](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%202821S "COLT 2821S") | Historical Form | |
| [COLT 2822A](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%202822A "COLT 2822A") | War | |
### Track 3: Concentration in Literary Translation
#### Requirements
| | | |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [COLT 1210](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201210 "COLT 1210") | Introduction to the Theory of Literature | 1 |
| Literary Translation (COLT 1710) | | 1 |
| At least one course in linguistics (including COLT 2720 Literary Translation and history of the language courses). This may be taken at any level. | | 1 |
| At least one workshop in Literary Arts. This may be taken at any level. | | 1 |
| TWO literature courses taught above the 1000-level in the first chosen literature. (Courses may be taken in any literature department, and may fall under such courses codes as COLT, ENGL, FREN, HISP, CHIN, RUSS, GRMN, etc.) | | 2 |
| TWO literature courses taught above the 1000-level in the second chosen literature. (Courses may be taken in any literature department, and may fall under such courses codes as COLT, ENGL, FREN, HISP, CHIN, RUSS, GRMN, etc.) | | 2 |
| TWO electives. Courses taught in Comparative Literature and other literature courses at any level (below or above 1000) may satisfy this requirement. | | 2 |
| A senior thesis, eligible for Honors, consisting of substantial work in translation with a critical introduction. Completing a thesis is required of all Track 3 students but does not guarantee departmental honors. | | |
| Total Credits | | 10 |
| | | |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Examples of courses that may fulfill the requirements, above, include but are not limited to the following. Students are encouraged to discuss class choices with their advisor. | | |
| [COLT 0510C](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200510C "COLT 0510C") | The World of Lyric Poetry | |
| [COLT 0510F](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200510F "COLT 0510F") | Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, The Men and the Myths | |
| [COLT 0510K](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200510K "COLT 0510K") | The 1001 Nights | |
| [COLT 0510P](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200510P "COLT 0510P") | Reading the Renaissance | |
| [COLT 0610D](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200610D "COLT 0610D") | Rites of Passage | |
| [COLT 0610L](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200610L "COLT 0610L") | Murder Ink: Narratives of Crime, Discovery, and Identity | |
| [COLT 0610Q](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200610Q "COLT 0610Q") | Before Wikipedia | |
| [COLT 0710C](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200710C "COLT 0710C") | Introduction to Scandinavian Literature | |
| [COLT 0710I](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200710I "COLT 0710I") | New Worlds: Reading Spaces and Places in Colonial Latin America | |
| [COLT 0710N](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200710N "COLT 0710N") | A Comparative Introduction to the Literatures of the Americas | |
| [COLT 0710Q](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200710Q "COLT 0710Q") | The Odyssey in Literature and Film | |
| [COLT 0710X](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200710X "COLT 0710X") | Fan Fiction | |
| [COLT 0710Z](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200710Z "COLT 0710Z") | Comedy from Athens to Hollywood | |
| [COLT 0711H](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200711H "COLT 0711H") | The Arabic Novel | |
| [COLT 0711L](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200711L "COLT 0711L") | The Quran and its Readers | |
| [COLT 0711O](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200711O "COLT 0711O") | Off the Beaten Path: The Diversity of Modern Japanese Literature | |
| [COLT 0711Q](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200711Q "COLT 0711Q") | Writing Love in Korean Literature | |
| [COLT 0810H](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200810H "COLT 0810H") | How Not to Be a Hero | |
| [COLT 0810I](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200810I "COLT 0810I") | Tales and Talemakers of the Non-Western World | |
| [COLT 0810L](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200810L "COLT 0810L") | The Pursuit of Happiness | |
| [COLT 0810M](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200810M "COLT 0810M") | Uncanny Tales: Narratives of Repetition and Interruption | |
| [COLT 0811I](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200811I "COLT 0811I") | Classical Mythology and the Western Tradition | |
| [COLT 0811Z](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200811Z "COLT 0811Z") | Islands in the Western Imaginary: Paradise, Periphery, Prison | |
| [COLT 0812O](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200812O "COLT 0812O") | Reading Art in Literature | |
| [COLT 0812V](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200812V "COLT 0812V") | Troy: City, Legend, Literature | |
| [COLT 0812W](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%200812W "COLT 0812W") | The Epic Tradition: from Homer to Milton | |
| [COLT 1210](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201210 "COLT 1210") | Introduction to the Theory of Literature | |
| [COLT 1310G](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201310G "COLT 1310G") | Silk Road Fictions | |
| [COLT 1310J](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201310J "COLT 1310J") | The Arab Renaissance | |
| [COLT 1310N](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201310N "COLT 1310N") | Global Modernism and Crisis | |
| [COLT 1410S](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201410S "COLT 1410S") | Classical Tragedy | |
| [COLT 1420B](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201420B "COLT 1420B") | A Mirror for the Romantic: *The Tale of Genji* and *The Story of the Stone* | |
| [COLT 1420F](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201420F "COLT 1420F") | Fantastic and Existentialist Literatures of Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil | |
| [COLT 1420O](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201420O "COLT 1420O") | Proust, Joyce and Faulkner | |
| [COLT 1421V](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201421V "COLT 1421V") | Modernisms North and South: Ulysses in Dublin, Paris, and Buenos Aires | |
| [COLT 1422L](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201422L "COLT 1422L") | The Modernist Novel: Alienation and Narration | |
| [COLT 1422M](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201422M "COLT 1422M") | Reading the Short Story | |
| [COLT 1430B](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201430B "COLT 1430B") | Art and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Literature | |
| [COLT 1430D](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201430D "COLT 1430D") | Critical Approaches to Chinese Poetry | |
| [COLT 1430I](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201430I "COLT 1430I") | Poetry of Europe: Montale, Celan, Hill | |
| [COLT 1430L](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201430L "COLT 1430L") | Voices of Romanticism | |
| [COLT 1431B](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201431B "COLT 1431B") | Modern Arabic Poetry | |
| [COLT 1431C](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201431C "COLT 1431C") | Poets, Poetry, and Politics | |
| [COLT 1431F](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201431F "COLT 1431F") | Reading Modernist Poetry | |
| [COLT 1440P](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201440P "COLT 1440P") | Nationalism and Transnationalism in Film and Fiction | |
| [COLT 1440U](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201440U "COLT 1440U") | The Listener (Literature, Theory, Film) | |
| [COLT 1440X](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201440X "COLT 1440X") | Shéhérazades : Depicting the "Orientale" in Modern French Culture | |
| [COLT 1610B](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201610B "COLT 1610B") | Irony | |
| [COLT 1610V](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201610V "COLT 1610V") | The Promise of Being: Heidegger for Beginners | |
| [COLT 1710A](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201710A "COLT 1710A") | Introduction to Literary Translation | |
| [COLT 1710C](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201710C "COLT 1710C") | Literary Translation Workshop | |
| [COLT 1710D](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201710D "COLT 1710D") | Exercises in Literary Translation | |
| [COLT 1810G](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201810G "COLT 1810G") | Fiction and History | |
| [COLT 1810N](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201810N "COLT 1810N") | Freud: Writer and Reader | |
| [COLT 1810P](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201810P "COLT 1810P") | Literature and Medicine | |
| [COLT 1811L](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201811L "COLT 1811L") | Travel, Tourism, Trafficking through the Ages | |
| [COLT 1812A](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201812A "COLT 1812A") | Literatures of Immigration | |
| [COLT 1813M](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201813M "COLT 1813M") | Making a List | |
| [COLT 1813N](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201813N "COLT 1813N") | Early Modern Women's Writing | |
| [COLT 1813O](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201813O "COLT 1813O") | Adventures of the Avant-Garde | |
| [COLT 1814S](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201814S "COLT 1814S") | The Balkans, Europe's Other?: Literature, Film, History | |
| [COLT 1814U](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201814U "COLT 1814U") | Politics of Reading | |
| [COLT 1815F](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201815F "COLT 1815F") | Memory, Commemoration, Testimony | |
| [COLT 1815U](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%201815U "COLT 1815U") | Encountering Monsters in Comparative Literature | |
| [COLT 2520F](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%202520F "COLT 2520F") | Theories of the Lyric | |
| [COLT 2720C](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%202720C "COLT 2720C") | Literary Translation | |
| [COLT 2720D](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%202720D "COLT 2720D") | Translation: Theory and Practice | |
| [COLT 2820A](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%202820A "COLT 2820A") | New Directions for Comparative Literature | |
| [COLT 2820M](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%202820M "COLT 2820M") | Discourses of the Senses | |
| [COLT 2821S](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%202821S "COLT 2821S") | Historical Form | |
| [COLT 2822A](https://bulletin.brown.edu/search/?P=COLT%202822A "COLT 2822A") | War | |
### Notes:
### **Honors in Comparative Literature**
Students in all tracks may earn honors in the concentration by successfully completing a thesis that is granted honors upon submission. Completing a thesis in any track does not guarantee departmental honors. Honors are granted upon the recommendation of the two thesis readers.
**Tracks 1 & 2.** Theses are analytical studies of literary topics, comparative in nature, based upon research, and usually between 50 and 100 pages. They are usually composed of 3 chapters, with an introduction and a conclusion. Students are expected to choose a topic that involves work in each of the literatures of their concentration in the original language.
**Track 3**. Theses consist of a substantial work in translation with a critical introduction outlining the method used and specific problems encountered, and commenting on the history of the original work together with other translations, if any.
(See detailed [Guidelines for Honors Theses](http://www.brown.edu/academics/comparative-literature/undergraduate-program/honors-thesis) in Comparative Literature on Departmental website).
### **Capstone option**
Students in Tracks 1 & 2 not taking Honors are urged, but not required, to complete a senior essay, which may be less extensive in scope and length than the Honors thesis but which should constitute an integration of some aspect of their study.