| 1 | To teach The variety of methodological approaches being used and extended for the 21st century literature, and the importance of comparative literary and theoretical vocabularies in reading contemporary literature. |
| 2 | To Develop discursive skills through essay writing, oral skills through seminar and roundtable participation, and analytical skills through close textual reading. |
| 3 | To Develop a familiarity with related critical terms, such as cosmopolitanism, realism, apocalypticism and messianism, new agencies such as the “multitude”, post-secularism, and the new atheism. |