English Major: Literature and Culture Concentration

The English Department's Literature and Culture concentration enables students to establish a solid foundation in the traditional canon of British and American literature while at the same time explore emerging contemporary approaches to literature as a social, cultural, and historical construct. Accordingly, courses in major authors, movements, approaches, and issues are offered regularly that promote a cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural focus, exploring visual and verbal expressions of how cultures create meaning. Within this view, the changing role of technology for the production and distribution of literary artifacts is also engaged.

Students concentrating their major on Literature/Cultural Studies take 15 credits from the following list of courses:

LITR 310 Modern Poetry
LITR 315 Modern Drama
LITR 320 Shakespeare
LITR 330 Survey of World Literature
LITR 331 Art of the Novel
LITR 332 Survey of Jewish Literature
LITR 340 The Black Writer in American Literature
LITR 341 20th-Century American Literature
LITR 342 19th-Century American Literature
LITR 410 Literature Seminar

For a preview of current Literature and Culture courses offered by the English Department, see our Course Offerings page.

In conjunction with this concentration, the English Department sponsors frequent readings and presentations by important scholars, critics, poets, and writers. The department is also home to Architrave, a literary journal that solicits creative writing nation-wide as well as provides a vehicle for student writing.

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