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.
Program Requirements
Course List
Course
Title
Credits
Four classes from the required and elective list of Humanities major Literature courses.
16
Total Credits
16
Policies
Minor Policies
Students may minor in subjects outside of their major. A minor in a secondary subject enables a student to acquire a useful understanding of concepts and analysis without the same degree of coverage as would be obtained in a major. A grade of C or better is required for a course to be counted toward a minor. If a student fails a course required for the minor, the course must be retaken at NYU; a course taken outside the University will not normally be allowed to substitute for a minor requirement. No course for the minor may be taken as pass/fail. Students may use Core Curriculum classes to fill minor requirements but at least 12 credits of the minor must be unique to the minor, meaning that it is not double-counted with any other major, minor, or core requirement.
Additionally, no single course may be used to meet more than two requirements.