Comparative and World Literature
Minor
About this program
The Minor in Comparative and World Literature invites you to explore literature across cultures and languages. You complete 18 units, including a core course like Approaches to Comparative and World Literature and electives chosen with an advisor. You must include at least 9 upper-division units, and keep a minimum 2.0 GPA. Reading in a language beyond English is strongly encouraged. You also meet with your advisor each year to plan your path.
Program Curriculum and Requirements
Program Learning Outcomes
- Analyze and express how comics uniquely convey meaning as a distinct medium, identifying significant formal features in their development and speaking to their purpose and contribution to storytelling;
- Articulate a broad understanding of the history and evolution of the comics medium, an awareness of existing and emerging genres and styles of comics across the globe;
- Articulate an awareness of historically significant creators, and the place of individual works in relation to larger contexts;
- Effectively communicate a narrative or idea through the comics form utilizing a variety of different approaches;
- Recognize the ways that they can employ the comics form to speak to real-world situations including an awareness and sensitivity of the way in which working with visual images can provoke different effects than working solely with text;
- Use comics form as a means of self-discovery and expression.