Junior Year Writing is an advanced composition class, designed specifically to improve the research and writing skills of students majoring in Comparative Literature. Through library sessions and hands-on experience, students will learn how to do library research for an academic paper. In addition, they will learn how to do close readings of texts spanning over a variety of literary genres and media (e.g. poems, short stories, novels, films, comic books, etc.). Finally, the class will provide a brief overview of the most significant literary theories and their application in text analysis.