Pursue the advancement of human culture, the promotion of dialogue between faith and reason and formation in the intellectual and moral virtues. In this program, you’ll dive into the greatest writers of Western tradition and explore life’s biggest questions: man’s purpose, the foundations of his knowledge, the basis of human community and man’s relationship with God.
1. Sharpen your intellect. Read insightfully, appreciate deeply, understand clearly and appreciate the complexity and richness of human experience.
2. Refine your expression. Learn to write skillfully to express, explain and argue your ideas clearly and thoroughly, and to persuade your listeners.
3. Discover a more complete perspective. Learn to better understand yourself and the world by reading what the best authors have thought about the most important questions.
Assistant Professor of Literature and Modern Languages (Italian)
Email:
deana.kelly@avemaria.edu
Phone:
(239) 304-7188
Office:
Canizaro Library 254
Chair of the Humanities Department; Professor of Humanities & Literature; Director of Shakespeare in Performance
Email:
travis.curtright@avemaria.edu
Phone:
(239) 280-1612
Office:
Canizaro Library 219
Assistant Professor of Literature
Email:
william.gonch@avemaria.edu
Phone:
(239) 304-7035
Office:
Henkels 3038
Associate Professor of Communications and Literature; Director of the Writing Program
Email:
Gavin.Hurley@avemaria.edu
Phone:
(239) 280-1662
Office:
Henkels 2052
Chair of the Communications And Literature Departments; Associate Professor of Communications
Email:
john.jasso@avemaria.edu
Phone:
(239) 304-7936
Office:
Henkels 2054
Assistant Professor of Literature
Email:
jessica.schnepp@avemaria.edu
Phone:
(239) 304-7072
Office:
Canizaro Library 250
Literature is a great program for those who love the classics and want to spend their college years studying great works of literature and the language behind them. Students who have earned a degree in Literature might end up working in many different careers, from writing to teaching to academia.
Literature Majors and Minors understand life and express themselves clearly so others will understand. These abilities come from confronting the literary efforts of the best human minds from across the centuries. No Major or Minor other than Literature brings the full range of human experience so clearly into focus. In every field of endeavor, these qualities of understanding and expression bring Literature Majors and Minors to the front where they can be heard.
Examples of career possibilities include the professions where understanding and expression are most useful, such as business, law, teaching, and many others.
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LITR 206 Shakespeare
LITR 223 Studies in Genre I
LITR 224 Studies in Genre II
LITR 230 Survey of American Literature
LITR 360 Survey of English Literature
LITR 491 Capstone in Literature
Three electives (including at least one elective in Medieval or Renaissance Literature and one elective in 18th-Century orModern Literature)
To earn the minor in Literature, students must complete LITR 223 Studies in Genre I and four Literature electives
The Literature Department seeks the advancement of human culture, the promotion of dialogue between faith and reason, the formation of men and women in the intellectual and moral virtues of the Catholic faith. The Department seeks to aid in the formation of men and women who can read insightfully, appreciate deeply, understand clearly, and write skillfully to express, explain, argue, and persuade.
The University courses in literature introduce students to the classics of the West so that they may better understand themselves and their world by reading what the best authors have thought about the most important questions—questions about human purpose, the relationship between God and the human person and between man and woman, the foundations of knowledge, and the basis of human community.“One writes only half the book; the other half is with the reader.”
-Joseph Conrad
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