|
|
|
May 25, 2025
|
|
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Literature Minor (LIT)
|
|
 Return to: Academic Programs by Department
The Literature minor offers students an exploration of literary traditions, critical analysis, and the cultural contexts of texts across genres and periods. Students take at least six literature courses in areas that interest them. This minor enhances skills in close reading, analytical writing, and critical thinking, making it an excellent complement to nearly any other major.
Benefits of a literature minor:
- Strengthens interpretive and writing skills valuable in academic research and professional work.
- Prepares students for careers in education, law, publishing, marketing, and other fields requiring advanced communication and analysis. • Cultivates cultural literacy and intellectual versatility essential for leadership and innovation.
Upon completion of this minor, students will:
- Develop a broad knowledge of literature and literary traditions through the lenses of cultural, historical, and aesthetic critical approaches.
- Develop sophisticated and active reading, speaking, and writing skills to understand, appreciate, and work with a wide variety of everyday and complex texts (both in and after college.)
- Identify and appreciate the diversity of cultural and/or ethnic perspectives, in literature and through writing.
- Conduct inquiry by researching, synthesizing, and documenting the voice(s) and ideas of others to produce engaging, insightful, and persuasive texts.
- Develop the analytical, interpretive, and communicative skills that are valuable for careers in the private sector or in government, as well as graduate study or teaching English.
|
Requirements for the minor (18 credits)
Take 18 credits from the following courses, at least 6 credits of which must be at the 3000 or 4000 level: Total credits required: 18
|
Return to: Academic Programs by Department
|
|
|
