专业描述

Students begin the major by taking a seminar that introduces them to literary analysis and a selection of literary genres. They then complete a series of requirements that familiarize them with a broad range of English and American literature and expose them to important new thinking about the relation of gender and ethnicity to representation, as well as to how literature matters outside the classroom. Students also may elect to study postcolonial literature and film and visual culture. Courses may focus on literary periods, such as Medieval, Renaissance, Eighteenth Century, Colonial American, Romantic Victorian, 19th Century American, 19th Century African-American, Modern and Contemporary, 20th Century African-American; genres such as the dream vision, the Gothic novel, or horror film; areas such as Asian-American, Chicano-Latino or postcolonial literature, gender and sexuality in literature, film and visual culture, or cultural studies; authors such as Chaucer, Austen, Dickinson, Wilde; major works such as Hamlet , Ulysses , or Beloved ; critical theory; the history of the English language; and creative writing. Combining tradition with innovation, structure with flexibility, the program allows students considerable freedom within the major to select courses according to their own interests.