Bachelor [Literature] From Linfield College

In successfully completing a major in Literature, students will have:

• a clearer understanding of the ways literature at once articulates and reflects social, political, and cultural contexts;
• deeper aesthetic appreciation of poems, drama, fiction, nonfiction, and/or films as manifestations of imagination;
• familiarity with the methods, theories, and issues of literary criticism;
• the ability to advocate critical responses in classroom discussion and to listen to and consider the critical analyses of others;?
• the ability to analyze narrative and literary motifs and to present those understandings in critical papers.