Bachelor of Arts in Global and Comparative Literature

The Global and Comparative Literature major provides students the opportunity to study literatures and other media within their cultural contexts. Majors in Global and Comparative Literature focus on two different traditions through the study of literary works and cultural artifacts in their original languages. In addition, students in this interdisciplinary program are encouraged to explore the relationships between literature and philosophy, literature and politics, literature and the arts, or literature and film.

The Global and Comparative Literature major, part of the Faculty of Languages and Linguistics at Georgetown University, offers undergraduates the unique opportunity to acquire expertise in two or more linguistic, literary and cultural traditions, to examine their connections, and to develop strong analytical, critical and writing skills through a cogent yet flexible program tailored to the students individual academic interests. Global and Comparative Literature fosters the study of literary relations across national, linguistic, cultural, and temporal boundaries, and examines literature in its interaction with other cultural forms. Its ultimate goal is an understanding of literary and cultural productions as global phenomena. The comparative approach promotes an investigation of the nature and role of literature by exploring its multifaceted output, by focusing on connections, exchanges, analogies and differences between works, authors, periods or genres, and by engaging literature in a dialogue with other disciplines, from history and politics, sociology, linguistics and translation studies through philosophy, visual arts, music and film studies.

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