True to the spirit of Brown's New Curriculum, a concentration in Comparative Literature affords great academic freedom. Although the Comparative Literature concentration requirements that follow give shape and rigor to the major, they allow advanced courses in any literature department at Brown to count for concentration credit. Courses in related fields, when vitally relevant to an individual's Comparative Literature studies, may also receive concentration credit. In other words, by no means are our concentrators limited to courses in the Comparative Literature department, though all are encouraged to take our courses because they generally enact cross-cultural work. Complete prerequisite(s) for taking 1000-level courses in your two languages by Semester V (students working in non-European languages may be allowed more latitude, be sure to consult a concentration advisor about constructing an individualized plan). Comparative Literature 1210, Introduction to the Theory of Literature. Ten advanced literature courses (generally 1000-level courses), including Comparative Literature 1210 and At least two courses in the literature of each of your languages, and the remainder drawn chiefly from among the offerings of Comparative Literature and English and other national literature departments. In most cases, courses need to be taught in the language of the literature. One course chiefly devoted to EACH of the three major literary genres: poetry, drama and narrative. One literature course chiefly devoted to each of three of the following five historical periods: (a) Antiquity, (b) Middle Ages, (c) Renaissance/Early Modern, (d) Enlightenment, (e) Modern. Please note that the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries count as one period, the Modern Period.