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For Undergraduates: Overview
Can literature help us to know ourselves?
Why do we care about literary characters?
Can fictions be morally improving?
Why is tragedy pleasurable?
Curious? Intrigued? Philosophy + Literature courses and majors will help you discover the answers. The undergraduate program of study gives you access to critics specializing in the full range of national literatures and to philosophers working on theories of language, mind, action, aesthetics, ethics, and political thought. Our aim is to train students in the full range of philosophical tools and traditions (both “continental” and “analytic”), as well as a wide array of critical traditions.