A program that focuses on two or more literary traditions in the original languages or in translation. Includes instruction in comparative linguistics; applicable foreign languages; English/French language and literature; literary criticism; and applications to genre, period, national, and textual studies as well as literary forms such as poetry, prose, and drama.
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Top 50
U.S.
Colleges with the
highest percentage
of
Comparative Literature among the 2007-2008
graduating class.
| | Bard College at Simon's Rock
Great Barrington, MA | 7
(15.2%) | |  | |
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| | American Jewish University
Los Angeles, CA | 4
(13.3%) | |  | |
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| | Ramapo College of New Jersey
Mahwah, NJ | 82
(6.6%) |  | | |
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| | University of California-Merced
Merced, CA | 3
(4.1%) |  |  | |
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| | The University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX | 55
(2.3%) |  | | |
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| | Brown University
Providence, RI | 31
(2.0%) |  | | |
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| | Haverford College
Haverford, PA | 6
(2.0%) | | | |
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| | Princeton University
Princeton, NJ | 22
(1.9%) | | | |
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| | Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, PA | 6
(1.9%) | | | |
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| | Hamilton College
Clinton, NY | 8
(1.8%) | | | |
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