DEPTH CONCENTRATIONS

4) LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES CONCENTRATION

This concentration offers an intensive, interdisciplinary preparation in the study of literature and culture. Building on knowledge students have already acquired by fulfilling HCOM MLOs, the concentration contextualizes the readings of literature in social, cultural and historical settings and introduces students to critical literary and cultural theories.

Through this concentration, students have the opportunity to develop:

• An understanding of literature as creative, artistic, social, and cultural expressions which not only appeal to the aesthetic sense but also reveal power structures and portray different power relations.
• A knowledge of literary and cultural history of at least one social group (race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality, disability, age and/or nationality).
• A basic knowledge of the major literary and cultural theories such as New Criticism, Marxist theories, structuralist and poststructuralist theories, feminist theories, and postmodernist and postcolonial theories.
• The ability to take students' own experience and use it to engage the discourses of historical, cultural, and literary analysis.
• The ability to place the analysis of literature and culture in a social and historical context.
• The ability to apply literary and cultural theories in analyzing literary texts.
  
  

Prerequisites:

Non-transfer students:

Creative and Artistic Expression ULR
Culture/Equity ULR
ENGCOM ULR
History ULR
Literature/Popular Culture ULR
MLO 5
MLO 6

Transfer students:

Culture/Equity ULR (Which can be satisfied by fulfilling HCOM MLO 5)
MLO 5
MLO 6

Literary and Cultural Studies Concentration Courses:

Take one course from each of the following groups:

1. Literary and Cultural History Courses
   HCOM 327: Survey of American Literature
   HCOM 335: American Ethnic Literature and Cultures
   HCOM 356: Multicultural U.S. History in the New Media Classroom
   HCOM 427: Survey of British Literature
   
2. Theory Courses
   HCOM 342: Feminist Theories and Methods
   HCOM 437: Shakespeare and Post-Colonial Interpretations
   HCOM 443: Womanist Theory
3. Monographic Courses in Genre, Writer, or One Cultural Tradition
   HCOM 322: Asian American Literature
   HCOM 323: American Drama
   HCOM 324: African American Narratives
   HCOM 325: 20th Century Narratives of American Immigration
   HCOM 328: Latina Life Stories
   HCOM 329: Auto/biografias
   HCOM 336: Poetry and Gender: Voices of Our Time
   HCOM 337: Women's Literature
   HCOM 338: Multicultural Adolescent Literature
   HCOM 344: Chicana/Latina Experiences
   HCOM 345: Chicano Life and History
   HCOM 350 or 350 S: Oral History and Community Memory
   HCOM 426: Travel Narratives
   

Advisor:

Qun Wang