博士学位 与比较文学委员会共同提供《中国比较文学》。该课程的重点是在熟悉文学的文化背景和历史背景的前提下，比较中国文学与第二种文学（西方或非西方）的内容，理论基础和方法论。现代文学研究的批判和历史方法论。
A Ph.D. in Chinese and Comparative Literature is offered jointly with the Committee on Comparative Literature. The focus of this program is comparison of the contents, theoretical bases, and methodologies of Chinese literature and a second literature (Western or non-Western), within the context of a familiarity of the cultural context and historical background of the literatures, and the critical and historical methodology of modern literary study.