Approved CL&T Electives From Other Departments
About CL&T Electives
Comparative Literature & Thought embraces a multidisciplinary approach to spark intellectual curiosity within our students. As such, we encourage students to take humanities courses offered by other departments in addition to the ones home-based in Comparative Literature & Thought.
Note: This page is updated a few weeks before each registration period.
Approved Electives for Fall 2026
Literature Courses
| CHINA 3420-01 - Modern and Contemporary Chinese Literature | Chen, Letty | Tue/Thu | 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM |
| CHST 3005-01 - Childrens Picture Books: Culture and Content | Ridolfi, Danielle Renee | Tue/Thu | 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM |
| CLASSICS 3010-01 - Greek Mythology | Wilson, Kathryn Dorothy | Mon/Wed | 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM |
| CLASSICS 3830-01 - Magicians, Healers, and Holy Men | Jenott, Lance Warren | Mon/Wed | 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM |
| CLASSICS 3890-01 - The Ancient Novel | Keane, Catherine C. | Mon/Wed | 2:30 PM - 3:50 PM |
| CLASSICS 4640-01 - Ancient Madness | Purchase, Philip H | Mon/Wed | 4:00 PM - 5:20 PM |
| ELIT 3147-01 - The Art of Reading Poetry | Sherry, Vincent B. | Tue/Thu | 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM |
| ELIT 3152-01 - The Bible as Literature | Thomas, Victoria K | Mon/Wed | 8:30 AM - 9:50 AM |
| ELIT 3504-01 - Literature and Medicine | Arch, Jennifer | Tue/Thu | 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM |
| FRENCH 4192-01 - Dark Humor: Francophone Literature From West Africa | Graebner, Seth R | Tue | 3:00 PM - 4:50 PM |
Thought Courses
| AFAS 3255-01 - Black Masculinities | Manditch-Prottas, Zachary Daniel | Mon/Wed | 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM |
| AFAS 4104-01 - Black Decolonial Thought: Conceptualizing Epistemic Violence From Frantz Fanon to Achille Mbembe | Diallo, El Hadji Samba | Tue/Thu | 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM |
| HISTORY 3614-01 - Artificial Intelligence: The Mind and the Machine | Kuzuoglu, Ulug | Tue/Thu | 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM |
| HISTORY 3931-01 - Medieval Christianity | Bornstein, Daniel E | Tue/Thu | 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM |
| PHIL 3200-01 - Social and Political Philosophy | Wellmon, Kit | Mon/Wed | 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM |
| PHIL 3230-01 - Philosophy of Law | Bell, William L | Mon/Wed | 2:30 PM - 3:50 PM |
| PHIL 4321-01 - Advanced Social and Political Philosophy | Watson, Lori | Mon/Wed | 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM |
| SOC 3000-01 - Social Theory | Coenders, Yannick | Mon/Wed | 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM |
| SOC 3290-01 - Sociology of Religion | Moore, Rick | Tue/Thu | 4:00 PM - 5:20 PM |
Arts Courses
| AFAS 3040-01 - A History of African-American Theater | Himes, Ronald J. | Mon/Wed | 4:00 PM - 5:20 PM |
AFAS 3320-01 - Visualizing Blackness: Histories of the African Diaspora Through Film | Mustakeem, Sowande | Tue/Thu | 2:30 PM - 3:50 PM |
| ARTARCH 3100-01 - Greek Art and Archaeology | Jones, Nathaniel Barrett | Tue/Thu | 2:30 PM - 3:50 PM |
ARTARCH 3705-01 - Caricature, Comic Strips, and Beyond: Humor in the Art and Visual Culture in the Modern Age | Dunbar, Maxwell D | Tue/Thu | 4:00 PM - 5:20 PM |
ARTARCH 3741-01 - The Ancient Kingdoms of Africa: Archaeology and Arts of an Urban Past | Evans, Tomos | Mon/Wed | 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM |
ARTARCH 4428-01 - EMPIRE: Cultural Consumption in the Age of European Expansion | Gabel, Esther Elliott Brummer | Tue/Thu | 10:00 AM - 11:20 AM |
ARTARCH 4977-01 - Mapping Art, Race, & Community in The US-Mexico Borderlands | Sheren, Ila Nicole | Tue | 10:00 AM - 12:50 PM |
CHINA 3210-01 - Contemporary Chinese Popular Culture | Chen, Jianqing | Tue/Thu | 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM |
DANCE 3090-01 - Histories of Theatrical and Concert Dance | Das, Joanna Dee | Tue/Thu | 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM |
DRAMA 3021-01 - Social Identity and Dramatic Character in Historical Practice | Henke, Robert K. | Tue/Thu | 2:30 PM - 3:50 PM |
FILM 3053-01 - Classic Movie Music!: The Hollywood Sound, and Where It Came From | Decker, Todd Ryan | Mon/Wed | 2:30 PM - 3:50 PM |
FILM 3490-01 - Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Popular Media | Hilu, Reem Ghattas | Mon/Wed | 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM |
| FILM 4230-01 - Histories of Media Convergence | Moralde, Oscar | Mon/Wed | 4:00 PM - 5:20 PM |
| GLOBAL 3811-01 - Global Asian Pop Culture | Gao-Miles, Linling | Tue/Thu | 1:00 PM - 2:20 PM |
JIMES 4043-01 - Race and Ethnicity in the Middle East and North Africa | Husain, Mona Kareem | Tue/Thu | 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM |