Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of literature in English

This learning outcome hits on the significance of literature as a practice across disciplines – in my diverse but interconnected medley of majors and minors (english, political science, writing, and gender, women, and sexuality studies) this outcome is incredibly important as it highlights how literature becomes a capsule of history, of social concerns of a given time, of cultural norms and practices, of power and agency, and of a shared human condition that throughout history wishes to meditate on the state of being and interacting with others.