在比较背景下进行文学和文化研究，为培养具有洞察力，全面的读者，作家和思想家提供了丰富的环境。CLT学生学习以多种语言和非母语来解释和评估文学和文化产品。他们受过训练，能够提出说服力的论据，掌握和使用不同的理论和方法论工具，并在比较文学领域和其他现代（和古典）语言领域中以学术声音参与对话。CLT学生从事多种语言传统的大量写作和原创研究项目，为学院内外的职业做准备。比较文学致力于在语言，文化间和跨学科的最广泛框架内研究文学。广义上讲，它是没有墙的文学研究。因此，它涉及在各种文学和文化领域之间进行比较和联系。比
The study of literature and culture in a comparative context provides a rich environment for the development of a perceptive, well-rounded reader, writer, and thinker. CLT students learn to interpret and evaluate literary and cultural products from multiple origins and in languages other than their own. They are trained to present persuasive arguments, to master and use different theoretical and methodological tools, and to engage in dialog with scholarly voices both within the field of Comparative Literature and in other modern (and classical) language fields. CLT students undertake substantial writing and original research projects in multiple linguistic traditions in preparation for careers both within the academy and beyond. Comparative Literature is dedicated to the study of literature in the broadest possible framework interlinguistic, intercultural, and interdisciplinary. Defined broadly, it is the study of literature without walls. So its about making comparisons and connections between all sorts of literary and cultural realms.A major or concentration in Comparative Literature is an excellent foundation for further work at the graduate level in almost any field. It also prepares students to work in any field where critical thinking, strong writing skills and foreign-language competence and a sophisticated understanding of cultural difference and diversity are called for. CLT also works very well as a double major.