Undergraduate Studies

• Courses
• Majors & Minors
• Advising
• Undergraduate Resources

Home // Undergraduate Studies // Majors & Minors //

Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature

Courses in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature (CSCL) pursue questions and ways of knowing that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. Here you will study culture as a set of complex connections and interrelations: between texts and everyday life, ideas and the material world, discourse and power. CSCL courses strive for a broad, international scope, ranging widely across history and geography. The central focus is on the cultural mechanisms through which a society’s ways of knowing, value systems, and individual and collective identities are generated, disseminated, challenged, and reinvented. Our goal is to produce critical and self-critical readers prepared to actively participate in the intellectual conversations and social struggles that shape global culture in our time.