East/West Cluster

The East/West cluster encourages students to gain familiarity with significant aspects of the different Western and Oriental (Asian and/or Near Eastern) cultures. Courses focus on questions of identity, the concept of home, exile and displacement, various secular traditions and ritual observances, and other themes.

To complete the cluster, students are required to take one course from each of two categories (see list below), and one additional course from either category, for a total of three courses. The first category includes courses that address both Eastern and Western traditions, or Eastern only. The second category covers Western literature.

Category I:
CL 211: World Literature
CL 390: Lyrics of Mystical Love, East and West

Category II:
CL 204: Crossing Borders: Introduction to Comparative Literature
CL 213E: From Romanticism to Modernism: Literature and the Arts in 19th-Century Europe
CL 306: Modern Jewish Writers
CL 331C: Tragedy
CL 334: Love in the Novel/Love of the Novel
CL 4901: Capital Lives
CL 495: The 19th-Century European Novel
CL 4690: Europe, An Imagined Community: Essays on Identity since 1750;
Literature, Thought, Art, Politics