Students will:
- Articulate in writing and discussions responses to literary texts in the context of their historical, cultural and/or aesthetic traditions
- Identify and compare ideas and formal features of an integrated body of literary or non-literary texts using the disciplinary convention and methodologies of literary and cultural analyses
- Analyze the main ideas of various cultural phenomena, such as literature, art, music, film and popular media
- Appreciate and explain the plurality of meanings and diversity of perspectives presented in literary and non-literary texts of one or more ethnic, racial, religious and culturally diverse groups, or their communities within the US