The English Department, in collaboration with Department of Foreign Languages, offers as one of its options the Comparative Literature Option to our students. The chief purpose of this option is to facilitate the study of literature from an international and global perspective as well as to increase in our students the sensitivity and awareness of cultural diversity that our geo-cultural circumstances increasingly demand. The option would expose our students to the study of various national literatures, the varied cultures from which these literatures emerge, foreign languages, and the comparative mode which orders and guides this wide–ranging and challenging endeavor.

• the demonstration of the critical skills needed to read, study, research and write about a variety of world literature with coherence and the requisite critical vocabulary;
• the formation in the students of a diverse and truly global perspective of texts, historical periods, genres, styles, authors, and larger cultural considerations;
• the development of a multi-cultural sensitivity and appreciation; and
• a deepening and broadening of the students' knowledge of language and the various texts that express and shape it.