REAL Curriculum
This minor fulfills the E and A areas of the REAL Curriculum. Students read and evaluate a range of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama that serve as models of the diverse ideas, methods, and expressive forms possible within writing as an artistic expression. Students create informed interpretations that evaluate and synthesize the ways that political, economic, sociocultural, ecological, technological, demographic, and other forces affect the diversity of writing types, styles, and traditions, including specific elements such as narrative point of view, characterization, dramatic structure, setting, and theme. Students also describe how social and cultural behaviors, beliefs, social institutions, and/or environments affect literary genres, periods, and traditions. Students make connections between texts and the cultures that produce and consume them. Specifically, the minor will help students understand and describe the ways that genres are socially, culturally, and historically situated entities that evolve and change over time. Students need majors and/or minors to fulfill the R and L areas to complete the REAL Curriculum requirements.
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