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Combining Comp Lit with foreign language majors

Combining Comp Lit with foreign language majors

HOW DOES COMPARATIVE LITERATURE COMBINE WITH A FOREIGN LANGUAGE MAJOR?

If you have a major in another language with a literature focus, you may be able to add a CMLIT major with 12-18 credits.

CourseCredits
CMLIT 1003
CMLIT 0103
CMLIT 400Y3
CMLIT 4XX (any 400-level CMLIT course)3

NOTE: 12 of the credits below must be at the 400 level.

Supporting courses in comparative literature

Choose any TWO additional CMLIT courses6
OR take these Comparative Literature courses for your General Education Humanities requirement, in which case they are not 6 additional credits!

Foreign language 

Choose TWO foreign language courses beyond the 003 levelDouble 6
credits

Additional courses

Choose FOUR literature courses in the department of your foreign language major.
(These must be literature courses.) 
Double 12 
credits

Contact our honors adviser, Sydney Aboul-Hosn (), or our Academic Adviser, Julianna Chaszar (https://la.psu.edu/student-services/academic-advising/) to discuss how this double major may fit into your individual degree audit.