Bachelor of Arts [B.A] [English - Literary Theory, Culture and Criticism] From Butler University

Literary Theory, Culture, and Criticism (LTCC) courses give students the opportunity to study the broad questions of humanities scholarship—what are the true, good, and beautiful—in a way that respects the evolving influences on that tradition. Using disciplinary methods for interpreting literary texts, LTCC students study cultural, literary, and aesthetic objects which may not fit into the traditional definition of English literature. LTCC students take additional courses in the department that focus on a broad array of cultural artifacts—novels, poems, and plays outside of the British and American tradition; philosophical, scientific or religious treatises; films; paintings; popular culture; television advertisements; the interstate freeway system, or the rhetoric of gender or sexuality—which occupy a nodal point in the larger system of social and historical patterns through which we make meaning in our culture. Engaging with a diverse set of theoretical, literary, and cultural sources, LTCC students examine how texts, ideas, and the practices of everyday life become situated in larger frameworks of desire and power, subjection and agency, or domination and resistance.