Literature (Minor)

Program Description

Stories captivate us. Literature opens up a world of people, places, and experiences, demands our empathetic engagement and carries an infinite richness of human lives and emotions into the present. Classes bring together poetry, novels, essays, visual art, sound, film and the moving image to deepen a conventional understanding of how we read the world. A minor in Literature will enable you to build and refine your skills at textual and visual analysis, critical thinking and rhetorical strategies. Courses will empower you to interpret not only words but also images, numbers and even symbols in order to understand how literary works are produced and consumed, translated and received, comprehended and critiqued.