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Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Students will demonstrate knowledge of relevant literary, social, cultural, and historical  traditions and the continuing influence of those traditions on world cultures.
2. Students will develop skills in writing and comparative analysis.
3. Students will interpret and criticize texts and/or material culture within social, cultural, and historical contexts.
4. Students will produce synthesizing analyses of the relationship between literary or other cultural production and the identity formation of individuals and their communities.

Mission Statement:

In CWL we focus on world literature in comparative contexts. Comparative literature is the place where various disciplines meet. We look at the dialogue between cultures, and in so doing, we always underscore the sociohistorical contexts behind texts in the broader acceptance of the meaning of text. Our classes often are organized around cross-disciplinary topics, such as Film and Novel, Art and Literature, Music and Literature, Literature and Medicine, Science Fiction and Technology, and challenge students to be perceptive readers, thinkers, and writers. Faculty strengths include literary theory, cultural studies, diaspora studies, visual studies, disability studies, and health humanities. Our mission is to produce students who are culturally sensitive and critical readers and writers, skilled at constructing persuasive arguments, and dedicated to leaving no page unturned! 

Classics as a discipline focuses primarily on the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean. By that we mean the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, but these peoples were constantly interacting with others in Eastern Europe, North Africa, Egypt and the Middle East, and the Roman Empire spanned portions of three continents (Europe, Asia, and Africa). Classics, therefore, has broad scope, both geographically and temporally. Classics is an interdisciplinary field, meaning that we cross the boundaries of literature, philosophy, material and visual culture, history, and religion and apply the tools from these fields to the study of the ancient Mediterranean. To that end, Classicists (as we sometimes call ourselves) study topics like archaeology, architecture, mythology, ancient math and science, economics, philosophy, linguistics, politics, and history, as well as broad themes like race and ethnicity, sex, gender, and sexuality, and disability. Our mission is to produce students who are culturally sensitive and critical readers and writers, skilled at constructing persuasive arguments, and dedicated to leaving no stone unturned!