Department of Comparative Literature
Minor in Comparative Arts
Students on Summer 2024, Fall 2024, or Spring 2025 requirements CMPARTMIN
Requirements
The minor requires at least 15 credit hours*, including the requirements listed below.
- Comparative Arts. Two (2) courses:
- CMLT-C 151 Introduction to Popular Culture
- CMLT-C 155 Culture and the Modern Experience: An Interdisciplinary and International Approach
- CMLT-C 251
- CMLT-C 252 Literary and Television Genres
- CMLT-C 255 Modern Literature and Other Arts: An Introduction
- CMLT-C 256 Literature and Other Arts: 1870-1950
- CMLT-C 257 Asian Literature and Other Arts
- CMLT-C 291 Studies in Non-Western Film
- CMLT-C 310 Literature and Film
- CMLT-C 351
- CMLT-C 355 Literature, the Arts, and Their Interrelationship
- CMLT-C 357 The Arts Today: From 1950 to the Present
- CMLT-C 358 Literature and Music: Opera
- CMLT-C 361 African Literature and Other Arts
- CMLT-C 492 Comedy in Film and Literature
CMLT-C 151 Introduction to Popular Culture
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The serious study of entertainment for mass consumption, including popular theatre and vaudeville, bestsellers, mass circulation magazines, popular music, phonograph records, and popular aspects of radio, film, and television. Provides the basic background to other popular culture courses in comparative literature.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Summer 2025CASE DUScourseSpring 2025CASE DUScourseFall 2024CASE DUScourse
CMLT-C 155 Culture and the Modern Experience: An Interdisciplinary and International Approach
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- This course, which is interdisciplinary in method and international in scope, introduces students to an inclusive study of major cultural parallels, contrasts, and developments across the arts and beyond national and continental divides. Syllabi and selections of course materials will reflect the specialties of individual instructors.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Summer 2025CASE GCCcourseSpring 2025CASE GCCcourseFall 2024CASE GCCcourse
CMLT-C 252 Literary and Television Genres
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Comparative study of popular literary and television genres, such as farce, domestic comedy, melodrama, biography, mystery, adventure, western, the picaresque. Theoretical, technical, and ideological contrasts between the literary and television media.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
CMLT-C 255 Modern Literature and Other Arts: An Introduction
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The study of literature, painting, and music and the ways in which meaning is expressed in such forms. Investigates similarities and differences among the arts. Examples selected from the past 200 years. No previous knowledge of any art required.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
CMLT-C 256 Literature and Other Arts: 1870-1950
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Interaction of the arts in the development of Western literature, painting, and music in movements such as impressionism, symbolism, constructivism, expressionism, dada, and surrealism.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
CMLT-C 257 Asian Literature and Other Arts
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Explores selected literary texts of Asia in the context of the art forms and cultures of a particular country or region. Geographical regions covered vary each term.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated once with different topic.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
CMLT-C 291 Studies in Non-Western Film
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Emphasis on non-Western film in relation to literary and cultural texts. Films may be studied as adaptations of literary works, as reworkings of generic or ideological traditions, and in their engagement with the aesthetics of non-Western theater and Hollywood. Focus on one regional tradition (African, Asian, Middle Eastern) each time the course is offered.
- Repeatability
- May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
CMLT-C 310 Literature and Film
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: CMLT-C 205 or 3 credit hours of literature
- Description
- Analysis of the processes and problems involved in turning a literary work (novel, play, or poem) into a screenplay and then into a film. Close study of literary and film techniques and short exercises in adaptation.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
CMLT-C 355 Literature, the Arts, and Their Interrelationship
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: CMLT-C 255
- Description
- Discussion of theoretical foundations for study of the relationship of the arts; detailed analysis of specific works illustrating interaction of literature with other arts.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
CMLT-C 357 The Arts Today: From 1950 to the Present
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: CMLT-C 255 and CMLT-C 256
- Description
- Shared trends in literature, the visual arts, music, dance, and theatre. The heritage of dada and surrealism, the absurd, and constructivism; the new realism. Happenings, minimal art, conceptual art, antiart, participatory and environmental art. New materials, mixed media, multimedia and intermediality.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
CMLT-C 358 Literature and Music: Opera
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Selected opera libretti from various periods. Comparison of libretti with their literary sources; emphasis on specific problems connected with the adaptation of a literary work to the operatic medium. Evaluation of representative libretti as independent literary works.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
CMLT-C 361 African Literature and Other Arts
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: CMLT-C 205 or 3 credit hours of literature
- Description
- A focus on critical issues in the field of African letters, such as transnationalism, the question of orality, choice of language, the economics and politics of publishing--both within and outside the continent, and their impacts on cultural forms including new, non-literary media. Authors such as Achebe, Aidoo, Armah, Diop, Farah, Head, Kunene, Ngugi, p'Bitek, Sembene, and Soyinka.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
CMLT-C 492 Comedy in Film and Literature
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Evolution, styles, and techniques of film comedy in America and Europe from the beginnings of cinema to the present. Theories of comedy and humor; relationship of film comedy to comedy in fiction, drama, pantomime, circus, and vaudeville. Work of leading film comedians.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Advanced Electives. Three (3) courses:
- CMLT-C 310 Literature and Film
- CMLT-C 351
- CMLT-C 353 Popular Songs and the Singing Poets
- CMLT-C 355 Literature, the Arts, and Their Interrelationship
- CMLT-C 357 The Arts Today: From 1950 to the Present
- CMLT-C 358 Literature and Music: Opera
- CMLT-C 361 African Literature and Other Arts
- CMLT-C 457 Capitals, Crosscurrents and Borders
- CMLT-C 492 Comedy in Film and Literature
CMLT-C 310 Literature and Film
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: CMLT-C 205 or 3 credit hours of literature
- Description
- Analysis of the processes and problems involved in turning a literary work (novel, play, or poem) into a screenplay and then into a film. Close study of literary and film techniques and short exercises in adaptation.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
CMLT-C 353 Popular Songs and the Singing Poets
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Study of popular songwriters who wrote both words and music, including double-talents from the American Songbook period, country and western, folk music and the rock era. Selected singer-songwriters from France, Latin America and around the world.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
CMLT-C 355 Literature, the Arts, and Their Interrelationship
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: CMLT-C 255
- Description
- Discussion of theoretical foundations for study of the relationship of the arts; detailed analysis of specific works illustrating interaction of literature with other arts.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
CMLT-C 357 The Arts Today: From 1950 to the Present
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: CMLT-C 255 and CMLT-C 256
- Description
- Shared trends in literature, the visual arts, music, dance, and theatre. The heritage of dada and surrealism, the absurd, and constructivism; the new realism. Happenings, minimal art, conceptual art, antiart, participatory and environmental art. New materials, mixed media, multimedia and intermediality.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
CMLT-C 358 Literature and Music: Opera
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Selected opera libretti from various periods. Comparison of libretti with their literary sources; emphasis on specific problems connected with the adaptation of a literary work to the operatic medium. Evaluation of representative libretti as independent literary works.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
CMLT-C 361 African Literature and Other Arts
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Notes
- R: CMLT-C 205 or 3 credit hours of literature
- Description
- A focus on critical issues in the field of African letters, such as transnationalism, the question of orality, choice of language, the economics and politics of publishing--both within and outside the continent, and their impacts on cultural forms including new, non-literary media. Authors such as Achebe, Aidoo, Armah, Diop, Farah, Head, Kunene, Ngugi, p'Bitek, Sembene, and Soyinka.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
CMLT-C 457 Capitals, Crosscurrents and Borders
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- The role of capitals in the development of literary and artistic culture. Capitals as sites of cultural encounter, where immigrants and minorities interact with local populations and where such interaction shows the permeable nature of borders. Comparisons between cultural and political capitals. Examines three capitals per semester (e.g., Paris, New York, Rome).
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
CMLT-C 492 Comedy in Film and Literature
- Credits
- 3
- Prerequisites
- None
- Description
- Evolution, styles, and techniques of film comedy in America and Europe from the beginnings of cinema to the present. Theories of comedy and humor; relationship of film comedy to comedy in fiction, drama, pantomime, circus, and vaudeville. Work of leading film comedians.
- Summer 2025CASE AHcourseSpring 2025CASE AHcourseFall 2024CASE AHcourse
- Minor GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
- Minor GPA. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the minor—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
- Minor Minimum Grade. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the minor.
- Minor Upper Division Credit Hours. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed at the 300–499 level.
- Minor Residency. At least 9 credit hours in the minor must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
Notes
Minor Area Courses
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Unless otherwise noted below, the following courses are considered in the academic program and will count toward academic program requirements as appropriate:
- Any course contained on the course lists for the academic program requirements at the time the course is taken—as well as any other courses that are deemed functionally equivalent—except for those listed only under Addenda Requirements
- Any course directed to a non-Addenda requirement through an approved exception
This program of study cannot be combined with the following:
- Minor in Comparative Literature (CMLTMIN)
Exceptions to and substitutions for minor requirements may be made with the approval of the unit's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.