This subject helps students build the analytical skills necessary to interpret and evaluate literature. The focus is not on historical context or authorship, but on reading comprehension, stylistic and rhetorical interpretation, and recognition of literary elements across a wide range of genres and periods.

• Poetry Analysis and Interpretation
• Prose: Fiction and Nonfiction
• Drama: Structure and Meaning
• British and Postcolonial Traditions
• American Literature and Voices
• World Literature in Translation
• Classical to Renaissance Literature
• 18th and 19th Century Literature
• 20th and 21st Century Literature
• Literary Terms and Devices