Language is the common base on which all knowledge is conceptualized, organized, and expressed. Literature is the primary means through which we transmit human values, ideals, and visions. As part of this program, students have the option to complete courses in American Literature, Canadian Literature, Contemporary British and Irish Drama, Creative Writing, Literary Theory, Old and Middle English, Renaissance Non-Dramatic Literature, Rhetoric, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature, Romanticism, Shakespeare, and Victorian Literature.