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The Discipline of Comparative Studies
The Department of Humanities, Classics, and Comparative Literature offers an MA in Comparative Studies. This program admits ten to twelve students per year. The MA in Comparative Studies is designed as a two-year program, and most full-time students are able to complete the MA within two years, usually defending the thesis during spring or summer term of the second year. The interdisciplinary humanistic fields that the program comprises—humanities, classics, and comparative literature—offer students unusual latitude in pursuing graduate education in the humanities, disciplined by insistence on substantial foreign language skills, competence in critical theory and practice, and the development of scholarly discipline.