比较文学文学硕士课程结合了外语和文学研究生学习的目标，并着重于文学的跨文化和国际方面。该计划的目标是为不止一种国家文学的共同学科提供研究生培训。该程序的研究工作针对文学理论和分析，体裁研究和文学史等问题。
The Master of Arts in Comparative Literature combines the objectives of graduate study in foreign languages and literature with an emphasis on the intercultural and international aspects of literature. The goal of the program is to provide graduate training in subjects common to more than one national literature. Research work in the program is directed toward the problems of literary theory and analysis, genre studies, and literary history.<br>Program Learning Outcomes<br>Students will develop an understanding of the scope and goals of the field of Comparative Literature. <br>Students will become familiar with various traditions of literary theory.<br>Students will explore one particular body of literary theory or criticism in depth.<br>Students will learn to analyze, in oral form, texts from multiple literary traditions, at a level appropriate to someone newly entering the profession.<br>Students will learn to analyze, in written form, texts from multiple literary traditions, at a level appropriate to someone newly entering the profession.<br>Students will achieve the ability to read and analyze literature in at least one foreign, i.e., non-native, language at the graduate level.<br>Students will explore the relation of a single national literature to other literatures.<br>Students will participate in the larger community of comparatists.