COM LIT

Comparative Literature

39 courses on record · 5 with sections in Fall 2026

Live section data currently covers GE courses; the rest is filled in by a nightly pass, so this department is likely running more than is listed here.

39 courses

Lower division 16

Lower division courses in Comparative Literature
Course	Title	Predicted GPA	This term
1A	World Literature: Antiquity to Middle Ages GE	no grade history	—
1B	World Literature: Middle Ages to 17th Century GE	3.58 n=61	—
1C	World Literature: Age of Enlightenment to 20th Century GE	no grade history	—
1D	Great Books from World at Large GE	no grade history	—
1E	Social Media and Storytelling: Comparing Cultures GE	3.79 n=239	—
1H	Introduction to Health Humanities GE	3.80 n=134	1 section
2AW	Survey of Literature: Antiquity to Middle Ages GE	no grade history	—
2BW	Survey of Literature: Middle Ages to 17th Century GE	3.57 n=400	1 section
2CW	Survey of Literature: Age of Enlightenment to 20th Century GE	3.57 n=687	1 section
2DW	Survey of Literature: Great Books from World at Large GE	3.56 n=287	1 section
4AW	Literature and Writing: Antiquity to Middle Ages GE	no grade history	—
4BW	Literature and Writing: Middle Ages to 17th Century GE	no grade history	—
4CW	Literature and Writing: Age of Enlightenment to 20th Century GE	3.56 n=39	—
4DW	Literature and Writing: Great Books from World at Large: Writing Exile and Alienation GE	3.66 n=328	1 section
19	Fiat Lux Freshman Seminars	no letter grades	—
98TW	Narrative Violence: Civil War Literature and Film from Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria	3.63 n=16 small sample	—

Upper division 18

Upper division courses in Comparative Literature
Course	Title	Predicted GPA	This term
100	Introduction to Literary and Critical Theory	3.69 n=213	—
M101	Hebrew Literature in English: Literary Traditions of Ancient Israel--Bible and Apocrypha	3.44 n=46	—
104	Art of Film Adaptation	3.71 n=37	—
107	Film on Brain	3.70 n=18 small sample	—
M110	One Thousand and One Nights/Alf Layla Wa-Layla	3.59 n=12 small sample	—
112	Poetics of Hip-Hop	3.68 n=61	—
M142	Travel Narratives, Testimony, Autobiography: Travel, Migration and Exile in Brazil	no grade history	—
M148	Contemporary Arab Film and Song	3.79 n=26	—
C153	Post-Symbolist Poetry and Poetics	3.78 n=14 small sample	—
C163	Crisis of Consciousness in Modern Literature	3.79 n=68	—
169	Continental African Authors	3.70 n=48	—
C178	India Ink: Literature and Culture of Modern South Asia	no grade history	—
180	Variable Topics: Health Humanities in Comparative Contexts: Who, When, and Why of Test Subjects	3.76 n=18 small sample	—
182	Balancing Act: Comparative Approaches to Wellness, Health, and Medical Practice	no grade history	—
184	Moving Images: Mental Health on Film	no grade history	—
188SA	Individual Studies for USIE Facilitators	no grade history	—
191	Variable Topics in Comparative Literature	3.76 n=167	—
M191P	Careers in Humanities	3.60 n=55	—

Graduate 5

Graduate courses in Comparative Literature
Course	Title	Predicted GPA	This term
200A	Proseminar in Comparative Literature I	no grade history	—
250	Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory	3.87 n=17 small sample	—
C253	Post-Symbolist Poetry and Poetics	no grade history	—
284	Theories of Translation	3.82 n=9 small sample	—
290	Contemporary Theories of Criticism	3.85 n=43	—

“Predicted” is shrunk toward the department average, so a course taught once to a dozen students sits near the department mean rather than at whatever those twelve happened to get. The figure is always shown — small sample marks where it rests mostly on that prior.