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Literature Concentration

Students majoring in English Literature & Writing with a concentration in Literature will:

  • Acquire a sense of literary history that includes a timeline of literary movements and authors;

  • Identify the contemporary shifts in the canon of American, British and world literatures and what those shifts represent in literary studies; and

  • Critically investigate representations of identity, race, gender, nation, sexuality and class in literature.



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