Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-gbm5v Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-22T14:05:30.906Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Why Major in Literature—What Do We Tell Our Students?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Randolph D. Pope
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The progression from language instruction or composition to the higher discipline of literature is no longer the only or even preferred path everywhere. For example, MIT stresses that its literature program goes beyond the traditional:

The program in Literature leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Literature is equivalent to the curricula in English (or literary studies) of the major liberal arts universities. The Literature curriculum is notable also for its inclusion, along with traditional literary themes and topics, of materials drawn from film and media, from popular culture, and from minority and ethnic culture. (“Major”)

Type
The Changing Profession
Information
PMLA , Volume 117 , Issue 3 , May 2002 , pp. 503 - 506
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2002

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Works Cited

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. From My Life: Poetry and Truth, Parts One to Three. Trans. Robert R. Heitner. Ed. Thomas P. Saine and Jeffrey L. Sammons. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994.Google Scholar
“Major in Literature.” Literature at MIT. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology. 12 Nov. 2001 <http://web.mit.edu/lit/www/majlit.html>..>Google Scholar
Plato. Theaetetus. The Collected Dialogues of Plato. Ed. Hamilton, Edith and Cairns, Huntington. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994. 845–919.Google Scholar
“Undergraduate Majors: English (B.A.).” Welcome to the Department of English. Oregon State U, Corvallis. 12 Nov. 2001 <http://www.orst.edu/dept/english/major.htm>..>Google Scholar