<p>Do you know if there is any way of combining both the field of sociology to a literary component, preferably comparative literature? Because while I’m deeply inspired by culture and social relationships themselves, I am also interested in the literature produced by those cultures. Anyone know of a humanities program available that is geared towards this combination? Would UChicago ever allow for its creation, if I were to propose this outlandish idea… I’m asking this because I would like room in my schedule.</p>
<p>Literary studies are almost always open to importing ideas from other fields. To a large extent, that’s what literary studies IS. Although there is also a countervailing tradition of searching for a pure, autochthonous analytic method, in the end that authochthonous method consists of writing novels and poetry, not scholarship. So there is always an interest in combining fields.</p>
<p>That said, I am having trouble imagining exactly what you are talking about. Are you talking about a sort of sociology of literature, with literary texts as the data for social scientific analysis? Are you talking about using literary texts as evidence of cultural differences? You would have to be pretty careful there, because the producers of literary texts – especially when they come from cultures that don’t generally produce a lot of literary texts – tend to be hybrids themselves.</p>
<p>Anyway, I strongly doubt that you are going to get a whole program created to accommodate you. But it would be easy as pie to pursue your interests through a double major or a major-minor combination, or through a single major like comparative literature, interdisciplinary studies in the humanities, or (perhaps, depending on what you mean) Fundamentals.</p>
<p>and yes, you can create your own major in a variety of ways (for you, probably either Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities or Tutorial Studies)</p>