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Our programs are designed around the premise that the study of literature provides an avenue into a deeper and more discerning understanding of culture. At the undergraduate level, courses on literary periods, genres, and cultural studies topics emphasize analytic reading, thinking, and writing skills. At the graduate level, students focus more heavily on how literary and cultural theories open up understandings of a text, and how to use advanced research and theory to discern how such perspectives take shape.
Our goal in our programs is not merely to produce scholars of literature, but to give students a sense of the power of the humanities to reflect and shape culture, and to provide them with the types of critical skills that will equip them for a variety of professions, including fields such as publishing, the law, teaching, and communications.
