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Students in the Literary & Cultural Studies track hone their skills as attentive readers of literature (poems, plays, literary fiction, and nonfiction) and other media (films, comics, television shows, songs, and websites, for example), and as writers engaged in literary analysis and cultural criticism. Our students gain knowledge of the literary language, form, genres, and histories through the study of national, ethnic, and world literature. They also sharpen their skills as critical thinkers by drawing on various literary, cultural, and interdisciplinary theories from psychoanalytic theory and post-structuralism to queer theory and the digital humanities—to analyze texts.
A language-focused university degree teaches skills that can be transferred to many work environments and used in a multitude of jobs.
Students can make impacts in several fields of media and communication, from publishing and media production to arts, entertainment, and beyond.
English students are sensitive to the effects of evolving media and the ways that social messages and cues to behavior operate within different media, whether print media, film, television or the internet.
