2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Literature/Culture Track, English, BA
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The Literature/Culture Track enables students to design a course of study in
the history, meaning, function, and aesthetics of texts of all kinds. A student
who completes this major will be able to identify the unique material,
symbolic, formal, and aesthetic qualities of texts; apply the analytical skills
and methods best suited to comprehend the significance of texts; analyze
the ways that texts interact with audience, culture, medium, and ideology;
evaluate the role of theory—its methods, history, politics, and functions—in
textual analysis; and examine the ways in which questions of race, gender,
sexual orientation, and identity affect interactions with both traditional
and nontraditional texts and theory. The Literature/Culture Track prepares
students for any profession that requires strong analytic, communication,
cultural, and aesthetic skills, and for academic study in literary and cultural
studies.
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