The Literature emphasis is a strong liberal arts major with courses spanning the long history of literature, culture, and meaning-making in America, Britain, and beyond. Courses in the Literature emphasis introduce students to the pleasures of serious reading and interpretation, the value of seeing through other eyes, the chance to sharpen analytic skills to engage the material and symbolic world, the dynamism of a written world long in flux, the satisfaction of producing enlightened, inventive, compelling writing. Students gain practical experience through coursework, mentorship, experiential learning to prepare for graduate and professional programs as well as an ever-expanding variety of careers.
Emphasis Requirements
REQUIRED CORE AND COGNATE COURSES (29 Total Credits)
Complete the B.A. English Core and Cognate requirements.
Minimum 29 credits
REQUIRED COURSES (21 Total Credits)
Course(s):
ELIT338 - Modernist Writers (IN-10) (W) (3)
ELIT463 - Literary Criticism (3)
Select 6 credit(s):
ELIT332 - Studies in Medieval Literature (IN-10) (W) (3)
ELIT333 - Poets and Other Radicals of the English Renaissance (1485-1608) (IN-10) (W) (3)
ELIT335 - The Bible as Literature (IN-10) (W) (3)
ELIT346 - Shakespeare (IN-10) (W) (3)
ELIT444 - Restoration, Revolution, and Reason: British Classics of the Eighteenth Century (1660-1800) (IN-10) (W) (3)
ELIT445 - Ancient Classics (IN-10) (W) (3)
ELIT468 - Milton Seminar (IN-10) (W) (3)
Select 6 credit(s):
ELIT323 - A Destiny in Reserve: American Classics of the Nineteenth Century (IN-10) (W) (3)
ELIT337 - A Beautiful Empire: British Classics of the Nineteenth Century (IN-10) (W) (3)
ELIT340 - C. S. Lewis (IN-10) (W) (3)
ELIT342 - African American Literature (IN-10) (W) (3)
ELIT417 - Intercultural Contexts: Literatures of Power, Place, and People (IN-10) (W) (3)
ELIT425 - Literature of the South (IN-10) (W) (3)
ELIT431 - Young Adult Literature (3)
ELIT450 - You, Me, We: Identity, Society, Culture, and Politics in Contemporary Literature (W) (3)
ELIT216 - Approaches to Literature (IN-10) (3)
Select 3 credit(s):
ENGL220 - Creative Writing: Tools of the Craft (IN-10) (3)