比较文学与文化研究文学士

比较文学与文化研究专业提供跨学科的文学学士学位，第二主修和辅修文学学士学位以及文学硕士和研究生辅修学位。学生在完成文化和文学研究以及整个大学的参与系和课程提供的批判理论的核心课程时定义自己的研究领域。该计划的学生定义了广泛的研究领域，包括希腊悲剧中的母亲形象，弗拉门戈移民到新墨西哥州，怪物理论，海地妇女写作的记忆地点，中国建筑的后现代性，环境正义以及硅芯片产业以及死刑辩论的文化政治。本科和研究生课程都为学生提供了一个绝佳的机会来制定自己的学习课程，并与教职顾问紧密合作。学士学位学生可以从文化研究和比较文学
The Program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies offers an interdisciplinary B.A., second major and minor, and both an M.A. and a graduate minor. Students define their own field of study as they complete core courses in cultural and literary studies and critical theory offered by participating departments and programs across the university.<br><br>How do language, literature, film and other media operate What allows us to understand (or misunderstand) meaning Where do stories come from and what purposes do they serve How do racial, sexual, national and class identities come to seem normal What happens when different cultural traditions collide or collaborate Are we born or do we become women or men Where does taste come from Does the medium in which an idea is expressed matter Is literature merely a reflection of society or is it an agent of change The Program in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies provides students with a framework for responding to these kinds of questions.<br><br>Students in the program have defined a wide variety of fields of study, including, images of motherhood in Greek tragedy, the migration of Flamenco to New Mexico, theories of monsters, sites of Memory in Haitian women's writing, postmodernity in Chinese architecture, environmental justice and the silicon chip industry, and the cultural politics of the debate on capital punishment.<br><br>Both the undergraduate and graduate programs offer students an exceptional opportunity to devise their own program of study and to work in close collaboration with faculty advisors. B.A. students may choose from two concentrations, the cultural studies concentration and the comparative literature concentration. M.A. students may choose a concentration in cultural studies, comparative literature or classics.