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Bachelor of Arts in World Literature

Main Subject Area

Modern LanguagesMain Subject Area

Program overview

Main Subject

Modern Languages

Degree

Other

Study Level

Undergraduate

The World Literature Program offers a major leading to the Bachelor of Arts degree. World literature is a discipline that draws together literatures and cultures of a wide variety of countries and regions, including Western and non-Western ones. It emphasizes literatures and cultures of the past (ancient Greece and Rome, for example) as well as the present. It understands "minority" or "third world" literatures as being just as worthy of study as European literatures, and it recognizes the importance of the "classics" of both the West and the East. The World Literature Program offers comparative courses as well as courses on individual authors, periods, and literatures. The major in world literature requires study in a language other than English, thus emphasizing that literature and language are intimately related. Students learn to examine literature from a truly multi-cultural and multi-lingual standpoint, and they become conversant in the major schools of literary criticism and theory. In addition, students in the program take courses that investigate visual arts, film, and music. These courses reflect a belief that literature and the arts must be in permanent dialogue, and they provide students with an interdisciplinary perspective in which cultural history and aesthetic history necessarily coexist. The World Literature Program is associated with several departments in the College of Arts and Sciences, including classics, cognitive science, modern languages and literatures, philosophy, history, and religious studies.

Program overview

Main Subject

Modern Languages

Degree

Other

Study Level

Undergraduate

The World Literature Program offers a major leading to the Bachelor of Arts degree. World literature is a discipline that draws together literatures and cultures of a wide variety of countries and regions, including Western and non-Western ones. It emphasizes literatures and cultures of the past (ancient Greece and Rome, for example) as well as the present. It understands "minority" or "third world" literatures as being just as worthy of study as European literatures, and it recognizes the importance of the "classics" of both the West and the East. The World Literature Program offers comparative courses as well as courses on individual authors, periods, and literatures. The major in world literature requires study in a language other than English, thus emphasizing that literature and language are intimately related. Students learn to examine literature from a truly multi-cultural and multi-lingual standpoint, and they become conversant in the major schools of literary criticism and theory. In addition, students in the program take courses that investigate visual arts, film, and music. These courses reflect a belief that literature and the arts must be in permanent dialogue, and they provide students with an interdisciplinary perspective in which cultural history and aesthetic history necessarily coexist. The World Literature Program is associated with several departments in the College of Arts and Sciences, including classics, cognitive science, modern languages and literatures, philosophy, history, and religious studies.

Admission requirements

Undergraduate

7+

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