The Literature Concentration explores the imaginative possibilities and transformative capacities of language across history. Our courses explore the relations between culture and literary production, giving students tools to appreciate and to interrogate its complicated richness. The curriculum is influenced and inspired by myriad critical lenses including new historicism, gender studies, queer theory, performance studies, Black studies, ethnic studies, postcolonial theory and more.

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Foundation Courses		30
ENGL 349	Critical Reading	3
Select two Literature Survey courses from the following:		6
ENGL 257	Global Anglophone Literary Survey
ENGL 258	American Literary Survey
ENGL 259	British Literary Survey
Select one Literary Intersections course from the following:		3
ENGL 256	African American Literature
ENGL 341	Hybrid Poetics
or ENGL 341H	Honors: Hybrid Poetics
ENGL 363	Travel Writing
ENGL 388	Visions and Voices: American Ethnic Literature and Art
ENGL 393	Faulkner and the Global South
ENGL 441	Special Topics in Literature
Select two 300-level Literature Electives from the following:		6
ENGL 340	Literature and Society
ENGL 341	Hybrid Poetics
or ENGL 341H	Honors: Hybrid Poetics
ENGL 351	The World of Shakespeare
ENGL 361	John Steinbeck
ENGL 363	Travel Writing
ENGL 368	The Age of Milton
or ENGL 368H	Honors: The Age of Milton
ENGL 371	The American Renaissance
ENGL 372	Arts of Medieval and Renaissance Britain
or ENGL 372H	Honors: Arts of Medieval and Renaissance Britain
ENGL 388	Visions and Voices: American Ethnic Literature and Art
ENGL 393	Faulkner and the Global South
ENGL 405	Creativity and Survival
or ENGL 405H	Honors: Creativity and Survival
ENGL 441	Special Topics in Literature
ENGL 493	Teaching Assistantship in English
ENGL 500	Independent Study
ENGL 540	Internship in English
Total Hours		48