Department website: http://liberalarts.utexas.edu/complit/

Comparative Literature offers a core of courses in the discipline and draws on the teaching and scholarly resources of faculty members in more than 20 programs in language, literature, culture, and area studies.

Students seeking the Master of Arts degree are expected to develop a broad knowledge of the theory and practice of comparative literature, both through coursework and through the completion of a report or thesis. In addition, they expand their acquaintance with a single world-language literature by studying it at the graduate level.

Work toward the Master of Arts is offered in collaboration with the Departments of Asian Studies, Classics, English, French and Italian, Germanic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Slavic and Eurasian Studies, and Spanish and Portuguese, as well as many area-studies centers within the College of Liberal Arts.  Additionally, students may undertake relevant coursework in anthropology, history, linguistics, philosophy, LGBTQ studies, women's and gender studies, African and African diaspora studies, Asian American studies, Mexican-American and Latina/o studies, art and art history, music, radio-television-film, and other units approved by the graduate advisor in comparative literature.

Graduate Handbook

Graduate handbook information is updated and maintained by each program. Graduate handbooks are available within each program's office and online. Please contact the program with concerns or questions.

Total hours required: 31

Thesis: 31

Report: 34

Requirements

To earn the Master of Arts degree with a major in comparative literature, the student must complete either 31 semester hours of coursework, including the six-hour thesis course, or 34 hours of coursework, including the three-hour report course. The student must also demonstrate a high degree of competence in one world language and sufficient competence in a second world language. Additional information about these requirements is available from the graduate advisor.

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
All students must also follow the requirements and policies below:
Graduate Liberal Arts Requirements
Graduate University Requirements