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- AMST - American Studies
- ARAB - Arabic
- ARTH - Art History
- ARTS - Studio Art
- ASN - Asian Studies
- BICH - Biochemistry
- BIO - Biology
- BLST - Black Studies
- BOSP - Barack Obama Scholars Program
- CHEM - Chemistry
- CHIN - Chinese Studies
- COGS - Cognitive Science
- CWP - College Writing Program
- COMP - Computer Science
- CORE - Core Program
- CSLC - Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
- CTSJ - Critical Theory and Social Justice
- DWA - Diplomacy & World Affairs
- ECON - Economics
- EDUC - Education
- ENGL - English
- FREN - French
- FYS - First Year Seminars
- GEO - Geology
- GERM - German
- GRK - Greek
- GWSS - Gender Women and Sexuality Studies
- HIST - History
- INT - Internships
- JAPN - Japanese Studies
- KINE - Kinesiology
- LANG - Language
- LATN - Latin
- LING - Linguistics
- LLAS - Latino/a and Latin American Studies
- MAC - Media Arts and Culture
- MATH - Mathematics
- MUSA - Music Applied Study
- MUSC - Music
- PHAC - Physical Activities
- PHIL - Philosophy
- PHYS - Physics
- POLS - Politics
- PSYC - Psychology
- PUBH - Public Health
- RELS - Religious Studies
- RUSN - Russian
- SOC - Sociology
- SPAN - Spanish
- THEA - Theater
- UEP - Urban & Environmental Policy
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2026-2027 Catalog > Course Descriptions > CSLC - Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture > 100

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CSLC 106 You Must Change Your Life: Rilke, Brecht, German Modernism
CSLC 107 Marx, Nietzsche, Freud
CSLC 108 Art, Nature, Self: German Romanticism
CSLC 109 From Kafka to Twitter: Small Forms of the Literary
CSLC 112 The Sickness unto Death: Selfhood and Despair in Literature and Philosophy
CSLC 113 Grim Tales: The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
CSLC 114 Goethe and the Art of Living
CSLC 115 Kleist, Kafka, and the Poetics of Madness
CSLC 116 Heidegger and the Ecstasy of Being
CSLC 118 What Was the Enlightenment?
CSLC 120 Metamorphic Bodies: Fluid Forms from Ovid to Kafka
CSLC 122 Rage, Rave, and Revolution: German Literature and Philosophy Post-45
CSLC 130 Truth, Trust, and Propaganda: Postmodern Theory and the Practice of Dissent
CSLC 131 Slavic Pagan Culture and its Legacy
CSLC 132 Russian Science Fiction and Fantasy
CSLC 133 Eastern European Myth and Folklore
CSLC 134 Exploding Tongues: Language Art & Russian Avangard
CSLC 135 Tolstoy's "War and Peace"
CSLC 136 The Russian Novel: Idiots, Atheists, and Nihilists
CSLC 138 Russian Literature: Dreamers, Realists, and The In-Between
CSLC 139 The Demonic in Eastern European Literature and Film
CSLC 140 Sex in the Satyricon: Romance in the Ancient Novel
CSLC 142 Prostitutes, Prophets, Soldiers, and Slaves: Non-elite Culture in Ancient Rome
CSLC 145 Meaning in a Material World: Lucretius On the Nature of Things
CSLC 146 Libertas or Licentia? Free Speech and Literature from Antiquity to Now
CSLC 147 From Emperor to Antichrist: Rome in the Age of Nero
CSLC 150 The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons: Masterpieces of Classical Chinese Literature
CSLC 161 Modern Japanese Literature
CSLC 165 From Jomon to Pokemon: Japan’s Cultural History
CSLC 181 Violent Femmes: Drama in the Polis
CSLC 182 Love's Song: A Poetic-Philosophic History
CSLC 186 The Tragic in Iranian Literature and Culture
CSLC 187 Prometheus: Agonies of the Absolute
CSLC 188 The Political Imaginary: What Follows Postcolonialism?
CSLC 190 The Hero vs. Death and God (The Early Years)
CSLC 195 Topics in Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture
CSLC 197 Independent Study

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