BA.EGLT - English Literature, B.A.

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Students in this program will:

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1. Engage in close reading: interpret textual details and ambiguities, employing a vocabulary of literary terms, theories and/or critical methods.

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2. Advance a proposition or thesis, supporting claims with explicit reasoning and textual evidence.

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3. Conduct research: find, evaluate and cite secondary sources, using accurate MLA style conventions

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4. Place an argument in conversation with the ideas of other critics and theorists.

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5. Formulate a research question and locate it within an interpretive context, such as aesthetic, cultural, ethico-political, historical, intertextual, or social.

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6. Compose analytical papers in cogent and coherent prose.