The Literature Minor
The Minor in Literature aims to be a humanities-based interdisciplinary meeting place for Duke undergraduates. It offers students majoring in other disciplines a systematic exposure to the Literature Program's unique approach to literature, film, and cultural forms. This minor is particularly suitable for majors in the social or natural sciences who wish to concentrate on film or be conversant with contemporary cultural and intellectual debates. It also enables majors in other languages and literatures to explore theoretical and interdisciplinary issues of broad relevance to the humanities in general. Students taking the Literature Minor can choose to explore both broad cross-cultural analysis and critical investigation of questions relating to race, class, gender, and sexuality; or they may choose to focus on a particular area, such as film studies or image studies.
Requirements of the Minor
The minor is comprised of five courses, four of which must be at the 100 level or higher. All students must take Literature 90, a general introduction to the methods and concepts that define the interdisciplinary nature of the minor. Students must also take one of the three core courses: Literature 100, Introduction to Cultural Studies, Literature 101, Introduction to the Art of Reading, or Literature 110, Introduction to Film.
The remaining three courses must be taken in the Undergraduate Program in Literature (excluding courses in film production or video production).
For further information, contact:
Grant Farred
Director of Undergraduate Studies
(919) 668-1754
or Sandy Swanson
Assistant to the Director of Undergraduate Studies
(919) 681-7446
The Literature Program
01B Art Museum
Box 90670
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina 27708-0670