This is a list of all courses offered in the program. Visit the Upcoming Courses page for a list of courses offered for the current and next semester (when available).
- COMPLIT 133 Contemporary Imagination in Literature and the Arts
- 3 cr. Undergraduate.
Introduction to comparative literature, focusing on the study of world literatures and their relations to other arts, and to cultural and social currents. - Prerequisites: none.
- General Education Requirements: HU
- Last Taught: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023.
- COMPLIT 135 Experiencing Literature in the 21st Century:
- 3 cr. Undergraduate.
Critical study of literary forms (e.g. romance, comedy, short story) and their connections with other arts and media, such as cinema, TV, and music. - Prerequisites: none.
- General Education Requirements: HU
- Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 9 cr max.
- Last Taught: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Summer 2023.
- COMPLIT 199 Independent Study
- 1-6 cr. Undergraduate.
For further information, consult dept chair. - Prerequisites: 2.0 GPA and consent of instructor, department chair, and Assistant Dean for Student Academic Services.
- Course Rules: May be retaken to 6 cr max.
- Last Taught: Summer 2011, Spring 2011, Spring 2010, Fall 2004.
- COMPLIT 207 Global Literature from Antiquity to the 1600s:
- 3 cr. Undergraduate.
Literary analysis through a survey of world literature from antiquity through the 1600s. - Prerequisites: none.
- General Education Requirements: HU
- Course Rules: May not be retaken for cr.
- Last Taught: Fall 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021.
- COMPLIT 208 Global Literature from the 17th Century to the Present:
- 3 cr. Undergraduate.
Literary analysis through a survey of world literature from the 1600s to the present. - Prerequisites: none.
- General Education Requirements: HU
- Course Rules: May not be retaken for cr.
- Last Taught: Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021.
- COMPLIT 230 Literature and Society:
- 3 cr. Undergraduate.
Relationships between literature and aspects of society, e.g., philosophical movements; history; gender, race, class, or sexuality. - Prerequisites: none.
- General Education Requirements: HU
- Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 9 cr max.
- Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2020, Spring 2018, Summer 2017.
- COMPLIT 231 Literature and Religion:
- 3 cr. Undergraduate.
A close study of the interrelationship of literature and religion across a wide historical spectrum. - Prerequisites: none.
- General Education Requirements: HU
- Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 9 cr max.
- Last Taught: Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2021.
- COMPLIT 232 Literature and Politics:
- 3 cr. Undergraduate.
Multiple ways literature and politics shape and influence one another, with particular focus on links between literary and political representation. - Prerequisites: none.
- General Education Requirements: HU
- Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 9 cr max.
- Last Taught: Fall 2024, Fall 2013, Fall 2009, Spring 2008.
- COMPLIT 233 Literature and Film:
- 3 cr. Undergraduate.
Themes, styles, and ideology in cinematic and literary texts. - Prerequisites: none.
- General Education Requirements: HU
- Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 9 cr max.
- Last Taught: Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2022, Fall 2021.
- COMPLIT 289 Internship in Comparative Literature, Lower Division
- 1-6 cr. Undergraduate.
Application of basic principles of comparative literature in a business, organizational, educational, political, or other appropriate settings. - Prerequisites: 100- or 200-level COMPLIT course, 2.25 GPA, and consent of supervising faculty member.
- Course Rules: One cr earned for academic work based on 40 hours in internship. May be retaken to 6 cr max.
- COMPLIT 297 Study Abroad:
- 1-12 cr. Undergraduate.
Designed to enroll students in UWM sponsored program before course work level, content, and credits are determined and/or in specially prepared program course work. - Prerequisites: acceptance for Study Abroad Program.
- Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic.
- Last Taught: Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2019, Summer 2018.
- COMPLIT 299 Ad Hoc:
- 1-6 cr. Undergraduate.
Course created expressly for offering in a specified enrollment period. Requires only dept & assoc dean approval. In exceptional circumstances, can be offered in one add'l sem. - Prerequisites: none; add'l prereqs may be assigned to specific topic.
- Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic.
- Last Taught: Fall 1999.
- COMPLIT 309 Great Works of Modern Literature:
- 3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with emphasis on theme, movement, trend, genre, or mode. - Prerequisites: jr st; CompLit 207(R) or 208(R).
- General Education Requirements: HU
- Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 9 cr max.
- Last Taught: Fall 2023.
- COMPLIT 309G Great Works of Modern Literature:
- 3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with emphasis on theme, movement, trend, genre, or mode. - Prerequisites: jr st; CompLit 207(R) or 208(R).
- General Education Requirements: HU
- Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 9 cr max.
- Last Taught: Fall 2023.
- COMPLIT 316 World Cinema:
- 3 cr. Undergraduate.
National cinemas in first, second, and/or third world nations; relationships among representation, narrative, and social forms. - Prerequisites: jr. st or English 290(P); satisfaction of OWC-A.
- Course Rules: Retakable w/chg in topic to 9 cr max. CompLit 316, English 316 & FilmStd 316 are jointly offered; w/same topic, they count as repeats of one another.
- Last Taught: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2024, Spring 2023.
- COMPLIT 340 Studies in Literary Genres and Modes:
- 3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Literary genres and modes from at least one international cultural context. - Prerequisites: junior standing.
- Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 9 cr max.
- Last Taught: Spring 2025.
- COMPLIT 340G Studies in Literary Genres and Modes:
- 3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Literary genres and modes from at least one international cultural context. - Prerequisites: junior standing.
- Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 9 cr max.
- Last Taught: Spring 2025.
- COMPLIT 350 Topics in Comparative Literature:
- 3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
One or more areas of comparative literature across periods, genres, or regions. - Prerequisites: junior standing.
- Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 6 cr max.
- Last Taught: Spring 2024, Fall 2020.
- COMPLIT 350G Topics in Comparative Literature:
- 3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
One or more areas of comparative literature across periods, genres, or regions. - Prerequisites: junior standing.
- Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 6 cr max.
- Last Taught: Spring 2024, Fall 2020.
- COMPLIT 360 Seminar in Literature and Cultural Experience:
- 3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
How culture is expressed in literary works with specific emphasis on how dominant and marginalized groups are represented in literature. - Prerequisites: junior standing.
- Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 6 cr max.
- Last Taught: Fall 2022, Fall 2020.
- COMPLIT 360G Seminar in Literature and Cultural Experience:
- 3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
How culture is expressed in literary works with specific emphasis on how dominant and marginalized groups are represented in literature. - Prerequisites: junior standing.
- Course Rules: May be retaken w/chg in topic to 6 cr max.
- Last Taught: Fall 2022, Fall 2020.
- COMPLIT 365 Literatures and Cultures of the Americas:
- 3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Comparative study of the literatures and cultural expressions of three or more national, ethnic, or linguistic traditions within North and South America and the Caribbean. - Prerequisites: junior standing.
- Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 9 cr max.
- Last Taught: Fall 2024.
- COMPLIT 365G Literatures and Cultures of the Americas:
- 3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Comparative study of the literatures and cultural expressions of three or more national, ethnic, or linguistic traditions within North and South America and the Caribbean. - Prerequisites: junior standing.
- Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 9 cr max.
- Last Taught: Fall 2024.
- COMPLIT 381 Honors Seminar:
- 3 cr. Undergraduate.
Critical study of a problem in comparative literary relations. - Prerequisites: sophomore standing, HONORS 200(P), and consent of Honors College director.
- General Education Requirements: HU
- Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 9 cr max.
- Last Taught: Spring 2025, Fall 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2021.
- COMPLIT 457 Topics in French and Francophone Studies in Translation:
- 3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Critical reading, lectures, and discussion of important works on a topic, genre, or historical period, with particular emphasis on intellectual and cultural context. - Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor.
- Course Rules: COMPLIT 457 & FRENCH 457 are jointly offered; they count as repeats of one another. May be retaken with change in topic to 9 cr max.
- Last Taught: Summer 2020, Fall 2015.
- COMPLIT 457G Topics in French and Francophone Studies in Translation:
- 3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Critical reading, lectures, and discussion of important works on a topic, genre, or historical period, with particular emphasis on intellectual and cultural context. - Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor.
- Course Rules: COMPLIT 457 & FRENCH 457 are jointly offered; they count as repeats of one another. May be retaken with change in topic to 9 cr max.
- Last Taught: Summer 2020, Fall 2015.
- COMPLIT 461 Film-Fiction Interaction:
- 3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Growth and development of film in conjunction with literary devices (narrative, setting, etc.), novels, plays, biographies, and poetry. Mutual influences of literary and cinematic arts. - Prerequisites: junior standing.
- Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 9 cr max.
- Last Taught: Spring 2025, Fall 2021.
- COMPLIT 461G Film-Fiction Interaction:
- 3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Growth and development of film in conjunction with literary devices (narrative, setting, etc.), novels, plays, biographies, and poetry. Mutual influences of literary and cinematic arts. - Prerequisites: junior standing.
- Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic to 9 cr max.
- Last Taught: Spring 2025, Fall 2021.
- COMPLIT 463 Literary Criticism: Major Authors
- 3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
The development of critical theories from Plato to the present. - Prerequisites: junior standing.
- Last Taught: Spring 2014, Spring 2011.
- COMPLIT 463G Literary Criticism: Major Authors
- 3 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
The development of critical theories from Plato to the present. - Prerequisites: junior standing.
- Last Taught: Spring 2014, Spring 2011.
- COMPLIT 489 Internship in Comparative Literature, Upper Division
- 1-6 cr. Undergraduate.
Application of advanced principles of comparative literature in a business, organizational, educational, political, or other appropriate setting. - Prerequisites: jr st; 300-level or above course in CompLit; 2.25 gpa; cons supervising faculty member.
- Course Rules: One cr earned for academic work based on 40 hours in internship. May be retaken to 6 cr max.
- Last Taught: Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2008.
- COMPLIT 497 Study Abroad:
- 1-12 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Designed to enroll students in UWM sponsored program before course work level, content, and credits are determined and/or in specially prepared program course work. - Prerequisites: junior standing and acceptance for Study Abroad Program.
- Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic.
- Last Taught: Fall 2023, Fall 2017.
- COMPLIT 497G Study Abroad:
- 1-12 cr. Undergraduate/Graduate.
Designed to enroll students in UWM sponsored program before course work level, content, and credits are determined and/or in specially prepared program course work. - Prerequisites: junior standing and acceptance for Study Abroad Program.
- Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic.
- Last Taught: Fall 2023, Fall 2017.
- COMPLIT 499 Ad Hoc:
- 1-6 cr. Undergraduate.
Course created expressly for offering in a specified enrollment period. Requires only dept & assoc dean approval. In exceptional circumstances, can be offered in one additional semester. - Prerequisites: junior standing; additional prerequisites may be assigned to specific topic.
- Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic.
- COMPLIT 699 Advanced Independent Reading
- 1-3 cr. Undergraduate.
Advanced independent work under the supervision of a CompLit faculty or instructional academic staff member. For further information, consult CompLit prog coord. - Prerequisites: junior standing, 2.0 GPA, and consent of instructor, department chair, and Assistant Dean for Student Academic Services.
- Course Rules: May be retaken with change in topic.
- Last Taught: Spring 2024, Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Summer 2016.