The Department of Comparative Literature is a humanities-focused department a part of the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Initially begun as a program in the College, comparative literature became a full-fledged department in 1998, “emphaz[ing] an interdisciplinary, worldwide approach to literature.”
In the decades since its inception, the scope of inquiry has expanded to a variety of media, including film, visual arts, and theoretical thrust such including gender, plant studies, and animal studies.
Our undergraduate program attracts students with curious minds interested in media and the surrounding world, who learns skills to dissect the text in front of them and remain inquisitive, independent thinkers for their lifetime.