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 is an international, translinguistic, and transdisciplinary major offering a B.A., a B.A. second major, a minor, and both an M.A. and a graduate minor. The program fosters intellectually engaged, self-motivated, and creative thinkers who are willing to take risks and pursue unexpected and critically sophisticated projects. Students in the program design their field of study based on the broad array of courses in languages and cultures offered by Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies as well as Foreign Languages and Literatures, in which CL/CS is housed. Further, with a legitimate intellectual rationale provided by the student (with the help of the major adviser), virtually any course might be considered as part of the major. In addition, 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.