Department of Comparative Literature
Concentration Requirements Checklist
Track 3: Literary Translation
Please fill out and hand in this form when declaring your concentration. Subsequently, you’ll need to update the form at least at the start of each fall; email it to .
Please note that completion of the Literary Translation track involves a minimum of 10 courses, at times distributed according to your choices (hence the imprecision in number of courses in some areas below), plus a thesis.
1. Your name: Today’s date:
2. Expected graduation date (indicate month and year):
3. Your languages:
4. Name of your specific concentration advisor:
5. When and how are you fulfilling the prerequisites for advanced literature courses in each of your languages? e.g., HISP 0730 or 0740 or 760; FREN 0500, etc.
6. When did you¾or will you¾take COLT 1710 (Introduction to Literary Translation, a mandatory course for the translation track)?
7. How are you fulfilling the requirement for two (or more) creative writing workshops? Note: A translation workshop course in a national literature department at Brown or abroad may count as one of your creative writing courses (COLT 1710 is still required). Specify each course’s number, brief title, semester, and calendar year.
8. How are you fulfilling the requirement for one (or more) linguistics course? (Options include ANTH 0800, CLPS 0030, ENGL 1210, FREN 1020, and HISP 1210, or an acceptable substitute.) Specify the course number, brief title, semester, and calendar year.
9. What 5-6 advanced literature courses did you¾or will you¾take? Please list at least 2 courses for each of your languages plus others that will bring the total of literature courses to 5-6. (Generally 1000-level courses; courses usually need to be taught in the language of the literature; if English is one of your languages, plan to take 2 advanced courses chiefly devoted to literature originally written in English.) Specify each course’s number, brief title, semester, and calendar year [cont’d]:
Language 1:
Language 2:
Other:
9.a. **As part of your advanced literature course selections, when did you¾or will you¾take COLT 1210 (Introduction to the Theory of Literature, a mandatory course for all tracks of the concentration, offered every fall)?
9.b. Within your advanced literature course selections, how will you fulfill the “three periods” requirement? Choose and list three of the following five periods: (a) Antiquity, (b) Middle Ages, (c) Renaissance/Early Modern, (d) Enlightenment, (e) Modern. Next to each period chosen list at least one advanced course chiefly devoted to it, specifying the courses’s number, brief title, semester, and calendar year. Please note that the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries count as one period, the modern period.
Period: Course(s):
Period: Course(s):
Period: Course(s):
9.c. Within your advanced literature course selections, how will you fulfill the “major literary genres” requirement? For each major genre (or literary mode) list at least one advanced course chiefly devoted to it, specifying the courses’s number, brief title, semester, and calendar year. Please note that one course may, though it needn’t necessarily, fulfill both period and genre requirements. For example, an upper-level Shakespeare course may fulfill both the Renaissance (period) and drama (genre) requirements.
Poetry:
Drama:
Narrative:
SENIORS ONLY: In sum, exactly which concentration requirements do you still need to fulfill this year in order to graduate, and how do you plan to fulfill them? List the requirement and the course’s number, brief title, and semester.