English: Literature Track

The bachelor's degree in English: Literature Track has an emphasis on multicultural approaches to literature within and beyond South Florida. Our definition of "literature" is vast: it includes not only novels, poems, and plays, but also comic books, films, oral traditions, and much else. This flexible definition allows us to study diverse authors. Our faculty are experts on classic figures such as Shakespeare, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Herman Melville, Virginia Woolf, and Toni Morrison. We also highlight marginalized authors such as Olaudah Equiano, an enslaved African writer, traveler, and abolitionist; indigenous groups dating from time immemorial; various immigrant, exile, or diasporic figures such as Jewish-American writer Anzia Yezierska; and queer artists of diverse sexual and gender identities. Overall, our students are respected as learners whose own diverse backgrounds and varied professional aspirations guide the program's aims and offerings.

Those who enjoy reading, discussing, and writing about literature will learn much in the literature track, available as a major or minor. Students study multiple time periods and genres, deeply engage with creative works, and learn to think theoretically about literature, language, and society. Our faculty harness online learning's strengths– including accessible course designs, flexible course schedules, and digital discussion tools– to maintain literature's humanistic spirit. Our majors build virtual communities alongside their peers as well as faculty dedicated to online learning. Our majors also craft their own varied texts, including research papers, multimedia presentations, and group projects that foster their understanding of global cultural traditions and diverse lived experiences. Undergraduate Certificate Programs in Exile Studies and Film Studies are housed in Literature, while our courses regularly satisfy requirements in Queer Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, Health Humanities, Environmental Studies, Law, Ethics, and Society, and many other FIU Certificate Programs. This specialized course of study provides the means to discover how literature offers a conduit for contemporary thought, historical narratives, and cultural movements.

Our students develop the language, communication, and cultural competency to work in a variety of fields. Employers across the country and around the world are looking for grads who can think critically, communicate effectively, understand diverse cultures, and write clearly–exactly the skills you learn from within the literature track.

• Fully Online Degree

• Program start date: Fall term only

• Become part of an exceptional community and make the most of your education. Join the Honors College.

• Specialized Literature Track

• Must have graduated from high school, or
• have taken college courses after graduating from high school, but have not earned a U.S. bachelor’s degree equivalent

Step 1: Go Online

Visit fiuonline.fiu.edu or internationaladmissions.fiu.edu .

Step 2: Click Apply Now

Look for the link that takes you to Apply Now and click it.

Step 3: Select a degree type

Click on ‘Begin Your Application’ under the ‘Undergraduate’ section.

Step 4: Create an account

While creating an account, create a username and password that only you will have access to.

Step 5: Fill out the application

Fill in required fields and submit the application by paying the $30 application fee. Please enter your SSN or ARN. Check numbers for accuracy before submission to avoid a delay in your admissions process. It is important that you submit your application as early as possible to be considered for your chosen start term.

Step 6: Submit documentation

After you submit your application, you will still need to submit any necessary documents to complete your application package and be considered for admission. These necessary documents should be submitted on the same portal where you created your application.

As an international student, it is important that you complete your application package as early as possible to be considered for your chosen start term. Below is a sample of additional documents that may be requested to complete your application package.

• High school transcripts* (if not in English, transcripts must have an official translation)
• College transcripts*
• 2 forms of residency documents
• TOEFL scores (if not from an exempt country)
• SAT/ACT test scores

*Each transcript will be subject to evaluation of equivalency. The evaluation will be completed upon receipt of official university/college transcripts.

Step 7: Await an admissions decision

Once your application package is completed, you will be notified as soon as an admission decision is made.