Program Overview
This literature program offers an extensive exploration of texts from various eras and cultures, fostering analytical and critical thinking skills. Graduates are well-prepared for careers in fields such as journalism, publishing, teaching, and law, where their ability to read attentively and engage with literature proves valuable. Those with a passion for language, imagination, and writing are drawn to this program, aspiring to make their mark in the literary world.
Program Outline
You’ll have the opportunity to read an extraordinary range of novels, stories, plays, poems, and nonfiction texts, drawn from the medieval period to the present, and from all over the English-speaking world. Your courses will cover writers from Chaucer through Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Walt Whitman, James Joyce, to Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, Junot Diaz, and on to forms such as graphic novels and science fiction. those analytical and critical skills will prepare you for careers in many fields from journalism and publishing to teaching and law.
Careers:
As a literature major, you’ll learn to read attentively and to think deeply about the questions literary texts raise and how literature engages with the world. those analytical and critical skills will prepare you for careers in many fields from journalism and publishing to teaching and law.
Other:
You love language, value imagination, want to emulate your literary idols. You dream of someday seeing your name on the spine of a book.
