University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Course Catalog (as of Mar 2001)
C LIT: Comparative Literature

Unit Name:   Comparative Literature
Acting Director of Program:   Jean-Philippe Mathy
Program Office:   3080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 South Mathews, Urbana, 333-4987

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C LIT 111.   The Bible as Literature
C LIT 115.   Russian Masterpieces in Translation, I
C LIT 116.   Russian Masterpieces in Translation, II
C LIT 117.   Russian and East European Science Fiction
C LIT 118.   Ukrainian Literature in Translation
C LIT 119.   The Literature of Fantasy
C LIT 120.   Origins of Western Literature
C LIT 121.   Jewish Storytelling: From the Russian Shtetl to New York
C LIT 141.   Masterpieces of Western Culture, I
C LIT 142.   Masterpieces of Western Culture, II
C LIT 151.   Cross-Cultural Thematics
C LIT 155.   French Masterpieces in Translation
C LIT 175.   Masterpieces of East Asian Literature
C LIT 189.   Classic Masterpieces of Non-Western Cultures
C LIT 190.   Modern Masterpieces of Non-Western Cultures
C LIT 191.   Freshman Honors Tutorial
C LIT 199.   Undergraduate Open Seminar
C LIT 201.   Comparative Literary Studies, I
C LIT 202.   Literature and Ideas
C LIT 203.   Introduction to Persian Culture and Literature, I
C LIT 204.   Introduction to Persian Culture and Literature, II
C LIT 207.   Classical Chinese Literature
C LIT 210.   Introduction to Modern African Literature
C LIT 211.   Japanese Literature in Translation, I
C LIT 212.   Japanese Literature in Translation, II
C LIT 213.   African Oral Literature
C LIT 215.   The Scandinavian Novel: Masterpieces in English Translation
C LIT 218.   Japanese Hero Types
C LIT 219.   Women in Japanese Literature
C LIT 221.   Jewish Literary Responses to the Holocaust
C LIT 222.   Introduction to Francophone Literature
C LIT 223.   The Qur'an (Koran) and Its Interpreters
C LIT 224.   German Literature in Translation
C LIT 225.   Gods and Man in Modern Japanese Drama
C LIT 228.   Special Topics in German Literature
C LIT 240.   Italian Civilization of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
C LIT 244.   Hispanic Literature and Culture
C LIT 248.   Dostoevsky and Tolstoy
C LIT 249.   Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian Literature
C LIT 250.   Grimms' Fairy Tales in Their European Context
C LIT 251.   Viking Mythology
C LIT 252.   Viking Sagas in Translation
C LIT 253.   Medieval Literature and Culture
C LIT 255.   Renaissance Literature and Culture
C LIT 257.   Literature and Culture of the Enlightenment
C LIT 262.   Sex and Gender in Classical Antiquity
C LIT 263.   The Heroic Tradition
C LIT 264.   The Tragic Spirit
C LIT 265.   Development of the Modern Drama
C LIT 266.   Development of the Modern Drama
C LIT 267.   The Short Story
C LIT 268.   The Short Story
C LIT 269.   Modern British and American Fiction in Relation to Continental Fiction
C LIT 271.   The Holocaust in Context
C LIT 283.   Jewish Sacred Literature
C LIT 284.   Modern Jewish Literature
C LIT 293.   Senior Thesis and Honors
C LIT 295.   Special Topics: Colloquium on Interdisciplinary Subjects
C LIT 305.   Literary Criticism from 1800 to the Present
C LIT 307.   Topics in Classical Literature
C LIT 310.   Modern African Fiction
C LIT 311.   The Chinese Novel
C LIT 312.   Modern Chinese Literature in Translation
C LIT 313.   Dante
C LIT 314.   Petrarch and Boccaccio: Literature of the Italian Middle Ages
C LIT 315.   Modern Japanese Fiction in Translation
C LIT 320.   Masterpieces of Italian Renaissance Literature
C LIT 321.   Jewish Life-Writing: From Enlightenment to Post-Holocaust
C LIT 328.   Japan at War and Peace
C LIT 334.   Studies in Francophonie
C LIT 335.   Polish Literature in Translation, I
C LIT 336.   Polish Literature in Translation, II
C LIT 337.   Nineteenth-Century Literature in Translation
C LIT 338.   Twentieth-Century Literature in Translation
C LIT 340.   Studies in Russian Literature and Society
C LIT 341.   Themes and Types in Western and Non-Western Narratives
C LIT 344.   Pushkin and Russian Romanticism
C LIT 345.   Nineteenth Century Russian Realism
C LIT 353.   Topics in Russian Literature and Slavic Literature
C LIT 354.   Russian Short Fiction
C LIT 355.   Russian Long Fiction
C LIT 357.   Russian Modernism
C LIT 361.   International Literary Genres and Forms
C LIT 362.   Modern Japanese Drama
C LIT 363.   Ibsen in Translation
C LIT 364.   Strindberg in Translation
C LIT 365.   Comedy
C LIT 368.   Russian Drama
C LIT 370.   Drama in Premodern Japan
C LIT 371.   International Literary Relations
C LIT 375.   Women and Society in Scandinavian Literature
C LIT 376.   Russian Literary Criticism and Theory
C LIT 377.   East European Literatures
C LIT 388.   French and Comparative Cinema, I
C LIT 389.   French and Comparative Cinema, II
C LIT 396.   Special Topics in Comparative Literature
C LIT 401.   Theory of Literature
C LIT 402.   Cross-cultural Comparison
C LIT 411.   Studies in Critical Theory
C LIT 451.   Seminar in Literary Movements and Periods
C LIT 461.   Seminar in Literary Genres and Forms
C LIT 471.   Seminar in Literary Relations
C LIT 472.   Studies in French and Comparative Cinema
C LIT 478.   Seminar in Twentieth-Century French Literature
C LIT 480.   Teaching Comparative Literature
C LIT 481.   Seminar in Literary Themes and Types
C LIT 490.   Seminar in Contemporary Criticism, Methods and Theory
C LIT 493.   Special Studies
C LIT 499.   Thesis Research