REAL Curriculum
This minor fulfills the A area of the REAL Curriculum. Students 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 analyze the intersection of historical and cultural concerns within culture by analyzing the relationship, for example, between specific literary traditions (African American, Native American, Appalachian, and LGBTQ+ texts) and conventionally canonical literary traditions. Finally, students analyze the contexts (including behaviors, beliefs, cultures, social institutions, and/or environments) for the works of an author or period and examine the ways writing affects audiences’ perceptions of authors, cultures, and/or ideas. Students need majors and/or minors to fulfill the R, E, and L areas to complete the REAL Curriculum requirements.
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