Literatures and Cultures offers a program of study that will develop in students the critical skills most necessary to understand how culture shapes and is shaped by the production, dispersal, and consumption of literary and cultural texts; it seeks to ensure that students understand the basic notion of cultural production, and that they are, through a variety of courses, familiarized with the inherent relationship between society and literature, between reading and thinking, and between individual and societal forms of expression. In keeping with the campus’ primary directive of interdisciplinarity, the Literatures and Cultures major situates itself at a disciplinary crossroads, both inviting collaboration with the other schools and disciplines within the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts and across the campus, and illustrating, within its own precepts, a wide ranging set of disciplinary approaches and interests.

Concentrations

• Literatures of the English Speaking World
• Literatures of the Spanish Speaking World

Transfer Students

Transfer information, including preparation for the Literatures and Cultures major, general education preparation and eligibility requirements is available at the Transfer Admission site.

Additional Information

For more information on the Literatures and Cultures major, please visit the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts web site