文学部的工作跨越了语言，国家和时期的界限。研究生课程旨在为学生提供最大的灵活性来构建他们的研究领域，并使他们能够接触到具有历史性和全球性的文化产物和理论著作。秉承该部门的创新历史，该部门是美国最早提供有关世界文学和文化研究以及近代和早期现代研究的文学部门之一。专注于创造性/批判性写作跨越了创造性作品和批评之间的界限。学生从计划中脱颖而出，具有独特的智力和教学灵活性。文学专业的研究生课程规模相对较小，学生在整个职业生涯中都与国际认可的教师紧密合作。研究生能够利用各种智力和文化活动，参加协作研究集群以及参加正
The Literature Department fosters innovative and experimental work across historical periods, languages, approaches, and media. Our graduate curriculum is designed to give students maximum flexibility in constructing their fields of research and to provide exposure to cultural production and theoretical work that is global in scope. True to the department's history of innovationit was among the first literature departments in the US to offer emphases in World Literature and Cultural Studies and Pre- and Early Modern Studiesthe department offers a Ph.D. concentration in Creative/Critical Writing that crosses the boundary between creative work and criticism.<br><br>Students emerge from the graduate program with a distinctive intellectual and pedagogical flexibility. Current departmental strengths include empire, race, and colonial/postcolonial studies, gender and sexuality studies, environmental humanities, Mediterranean studies, Jewish studies, transatlantic/oceanic studies, posthumanism and animal studies, speculative fiction, science/technology studies, creative practice, critical theory, and digital humanities/new media. The department offers a designated emphasis for graduate students from other departments, while individual Literature faculty lead several research clusters of faculty and graduate students, including: Making Sense of Memory, Memory of Forgotten Wars, and Speculatively Scientific Fictions of the Future.<br><br>Graduate study in Literature includes Ph.D. and free-standing M.A. programs. M.A. students typically take two years to complete the degree, pursuing coursework alongside Ph.D. students, and are well prepared to continue in a doctoral program elsewhere. Normative time for the Ph.D. is seven years, with graduates going on to teach at institutions of higher learning across the world. Ph.D. students are required to be able to read proficiently in at least two languages integral to their intellectual work, one of which may be English<br><br>The UC Santa Cruz doctoral program in literature offers an innovative multilingual and multidisciplinary approach to literary studies, involving the use of more than one language literature. The program is relatively small, and students work closely with faculty throughout their graduate careers. They are encouraged to take advantage of the rich array of intellectual and cultural events, research clusters, and lectures offered on campus.<br><br><br>The doctoral program combines critical and independent thought with global perspectives. Working across linguistic, national, and period boundaries, students blend critical approaches, literary traditions, and/or cultural archives in comparative and interdisciplinary projects.<br><br><br>A Creative/Critical Writing concentration within the Ph.D. program is available, for which prospective students apply during the admissions process. Creative/Critical applicants submit additional creative writing samples of poetry, prose fiction, creative nonfiction or hybrid/cross genre. Students in the Creative/Critical concentration complete all the requirements for the literature Ph.D. with the addition of a creative/critical degree component in the form of coursework, original creative work with a critical introduction and, if desired, work in poetics, translation, form and/or critical writing focused on creative practices.<br><br><br>Students may apply for a designated emphasis on the literature doctoral diploma in programs and departments such as Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Education, Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, Latin American and Latino Studies, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology, and the History of Art and Visual Culture. Applications and requirements are available at the respective department offices.