Bachelor of Arts [B.A] [English - Literature] From Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis

A gateway course, Literary Interpretation? introduces students to the pleasures and rewards of close textual reading. We encourage students who want more background in the vocabulary of literary analysis to pursue our genre courses in drama, fiction, and poetry. The core courses in British and American literature focus on reading for critical and historical context. The literature capstone course is a senior seminar offered every term on variable topics that offer intensive study of single or multiple authors or a particular literary mode or genre. Upcoming senior seminars include the study of the epic, the Literature of Slavery, Southern Literature, and one on Hawthorne and Melville. In the past, the Department has offered senior seminars on William Faulkner and Toni Morrison, Jane Austen and Edith Wharton, Henry James, and Mark Twain.Along the way, students will study Shakespeare, learn the basics of editing, and become acquainted with the history of the English language through their choice of linguistics courses. They can also select from a wide array of interdisciplinary courses that create bridges to Africana Studies, Women?s Studies, American Studies, and the medical humanities, among others.For those interested in doing focused work on the intersections between race and literature, the Department offers a variety of options: Recent Writing by African Americans, Multicultural and Ethnic Literature, Post-colonial Literature, 20th-Century African Literature, Harlem Renaissance, Caribbean Literature, Black Masculinity, African-American Poets, 20th-Century African-American Writers, South African Literature and Society, and Native American Literature, among others.