Minor in Literature

 

The Department of Humanities and Social Sciencesoffers a minor in Literature. It gives students the opportunity to study a wide array of world literature and enhance their status as educated persons.

Students strengthen and enlarge capabilities that they began developing in Colloquy courses and are refining in their majors. They improve as readers, speakers, and writers of English. They sharpen their ability to think critically as they intellectually engage challenging texts.

Students minoring in Literature exercise their imaginations and expand their facility for research. They extend and deepen their understanding of historical forces, diverse cultures,and the human condition.

The minor in Literature comprises these sixcourses, normally offered in the semester noted parenthetically:

• HSS 282 Film and Literature (spring)
• HSS 293 Drama (spring)
• HSS 372 Modern and Contemporary Literature (spring)
• HSS 375 The Novel (fall)
• HSS 472 World Poetry (fall)
• HSS 479 World Fiction (spring)

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