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With a faculty composed of renowned scholars and dedicated teachers, the MIT Literature section offers a wide range of courses across time periods, international cultures, and languages. Literature courses at MIT examine how multiple expressive forms, such as novels, poems, plays, films, and visual art, not only make imaginative and critical sense of history and the present but also project us into a range of possible futures.
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The Literature concentration takes about three approved subjects to complete. Lit concentrators often go on to minoring or majoring in Literature!
During a 1998 talk at MIT titled, “Devil Girl From Mars’: Why I Write Science Fiction” Octavia Butler explained how media inspired her to start writing.
Literature minors can choose to focus their studies on specific literary complexes as well as film, ancient & medieval studies, and more!
William Carlos Williams was an American poet, writer, and physician of pediatrics and general medicine.
