COLT 301 offers an introduction to literary theory, with an emphasis on comparative study. Students learn the fundamental theories and methods of Comparative Literature, reading selections from a wide variety of theoretical schools including psychoanalysis, linguistics, French feminism, poststructuralism and postcolonial studies. While the texts for this class are challenging, we will be both reading in depth and considering how these texts relate to our everyday lives. To do this, students will contribute to a class website posting connections they find with the theoretical texts (images, films, fiction, news stories etc.). Our final project involves the student choosing an artifact (text, painting, film, digital artwork, graphic novel, etc.) to be analyzed within the critical framework of the course.

Satisfies General Education Requirements:

• Group-Satisfying: Arts and Letters
• Multicultural Courses: Identity, Pluralism, and Tolerance (IP)