Overview
The Literature minor provides students with the opportunity to read and reflect on literary texts from different historical periods and places, exploring how those texts variously engage with aesthetic, cultural, and ethical questions. Students also develop critical skills in the analysis of different genres, and in communicating their ideas clearly, … For more content click the Read More button below.
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Structure
12 credit points
Minor12 credit points
Admission requirements
Special requirements
Learning outcomes
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Have critical knowledge of and familiarity with a broad range of texts – literary, public, performative – from the Renaissance to the present day.
2.
Understand that texts function aesthetically, socially and politically in everyday life, and recognize the role and value of literature and other text-based genres, and of diverse reading and writing practices in specific historical, cultural and political contexts.
3.
Develop the writing techniques to research, plan and write analytically, creatively and persuasively in a range of critical and creative genres and styles.
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Be able to communicate, both orally and in writing, ideas and arguments suited to a range of different genres and audiences.