{"id":466,"date":"2020-06-29T17:19:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T16:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/fhe-lll\/literatures-in-english\/"},"modified":"2025-05-29T23:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T22:44:14","slug":"literatures-in-english","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/fhe-lll\/programmes\/disciplines\/literatures-in-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Literatures in English"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<div class=\"container-fluid page-wrapper site-font\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div editable=\"rich\">\n<h1 class=\"page-header\">Literatures in English<\/h1>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lc-block\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Book Bible Study African - Free photo on Pixabay\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.pixabay.com\/photo\/2017\/10\/02\/19\/50\/book-2809967_960_720.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"lc-block\" editable=\"rich\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tWhile many other institutions offer programmes in \u201cEnglish\u201d, at The UWI, we call our Discipline \u201cLiteratures in English\u201d, to emphasise that we are devoted to both the teaching of and research on a wide variety of Anglophone literatures. Undergraduate courses in <strong>West Indian<\/strong>, <strong>African<\/strong>, and <strong>African American literatures<\/strong> are taught alongside courses in canonical British and American literature for comparative purposes.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tA graduate of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/fhe-lll\/programmes\/disciplines\/linguistics\/\">BA in Literatures in English<\/a> comes out of the programme with:<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A deep knowledge of literature from Black societies around the world and the tradition of Anglophone writing that precedes and co-exists with this literature<\/li>\n<li>The requisite interpretive tools for rigorous analysis and research, both in literature and beyond,<\/li>\n<li>An education that meets international standards in our discipline and reflects our own special perspectives as Caribbean-based and Caribbean-centred people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tThese are enhanced at the postgraduate level, with our innovative MA in Caribbean Studies (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/fhe-lll\/programme\/ma-in-caribbean-studies-literatures\/\">Literature<\/a>&nbsp;and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/fhe-lll\/programme\/ma-in-caribbean-studies-languages\/\">Languages<\/a>) and with our excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/fhe-lll\/programme\/mphil-phd-literatures-in-english\/\">MPhil\/PhD&nbsp;<\/a>programmes.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tIf you want to learn more about the study of Literatures in English at Cave Hill, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/fhe-lll\/programmes\/disciplines\/literatures-in-english\/literatures-research\/\">click here<\/a>.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><script>\n\/\/ Set the date we're counting down to\nvar countDownDate = new Date(\"Jun 15, 2022 15:37:25\").getTime();<\/p>\n<p>\/\/ Update the count down every 1 second\nvar x = setInterval(function() {<\/p>\n<p>  \/\/ Get today's date and time\n  var now = new Date().getTime();<\/p>\n<p>  \/\/ Find the distance between now and the count down date\n  var distance = countDownDate - now;<\/p>\n<p>  \/\/ Time calculations for days, hours, minutes and seconds\n  var days = Math.floor(distance \/ (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24));\n  var hours = Math.floor((distance % (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24)) \/ (1000 * 60 * 60));\n  var minutes = Math.floor((distance % (1000 * 60 * 60)) \/ (1000 * 60));\n  var seconds = Math.floor((distance % (1000 * 60)) \/ 1000);<\/p>\n<p>  \/\/ Output the result in an element with id=\"counter\"\n  document.getElementById(\"counter\").innerHTML = days + \"d \" + hours + \"h \" + minutes + \"m \" + seconds + \"s \";<\/p>\n<p>  \/\/ If the count down is over, write some text \n  if (distance < 0) {\n    clearInterval(x);\n    document.getElementById(\"counter\").innerHTML = \"EXPIRED\";\n  }\n}, 1000);\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Literatures in English While many other institutions offer programmes in \u201cEnglish\u201d, at The UWI, we call our Discipline \u201cLiteratures in English\u201d, to emphasise that we are devoted to both the teaching of and research on a wide variety of Anglophone literatures. 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