Literary and Visual Arts

Courses in this concentration feature active engagement with a range of literary, visual, musical, and creative arts. These courses challenge students to think and write with increased depth, independence, and creativity about how the arts express and shape individual as well as cultural experiences and identities.

They also explore how the arts inspire joy while educating and enriching us. Students may expect to study formal, aesthetic concerns, as well as the artistic process as a dynamic and strategic series of expressive choices.

Sponsored by: Arts and Humanities and History and Society Divisions

Faculty Contact: Julie Levinson

Faculty contacts serve as advisers to those students who have an interest in the given concentration. You should feel free to contact these faculty with questions.

Required Courses

Students must choose four (4) courses from the following distribution list. Note: Of these four (4) courses, students must take courses from at least two (2) disciplines. 

• CVA 2458 After the Dictator
• ENG 3600 Expository Writing
• ENG 3604 Writing Poetry
• ENG 3605 Writing Fiction
• FLM 3600 Documentary, Experimental, and Animated Film
• FLM 3671 American Film Comedy FLM 3672 American Independent Film
• LIT 3600 Modern Drama
• LIT 3601 Shakespeare
• LIT 3610 Gender & Economics in Three 19th Century Novels
• LIT 3620 Literature and the Ascent of Money
• LIT 3661 American Autobiography
• LIT 3663 Limit Cases: International Lit, Film, and Economic Rights
• LIT 3681 Literature of World War I
• LIT 3682 Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights
• LIT 3686 Love, Sex and the Family in Mid-Twentieth-Century American Literature
• LIT 3689 Poetic Elegy
• LIT 3693 Play, Performance, Perspective: The London Stage in Winter
• LVA 2407 International Cinema
• LVA 2432 Foundations in Western Art
• LVA 2439 Curiosity in Literature
• LVA 2447 The Stranger in Literature
• LVA 2448 Sports and Literature
• LVA 2453 Business in American Drama
• LVA 2458 Magical American Stories
• LVA 2461 Mad, Bad: Rebels and Anti-Heroes
• LVA 2462 Suburban America in Literature and Culture
• LVA 2463 Outsides and Adventure in British Fiction
• LVA 2467 Film and the City
• LVA 2468 Monsters and Monstrous Evil in Literature
• MUS 3610 Sociological and Cultural Study of Music
• VSA 3600 Art, Religion, and Politics of Ancient Egypt
• VSA 3601 Greek and Roman Art
• VSA 3602 19th Century European Art
• VSA 3610 Art in the Early 20th Century
• VSA 3670 Arts of the Renaissance
• LIT 3695 (2 credits): The Play's the Thing (This is a 2-credit winter course that may count as one-half of a unit toward a concentration. Four total units are required to fulfill a concentration (one, 4-credit course equals one unit). Two, 2-credit courses (course or preapproved independent research project may equal one unit).