Our graduates have received degrees from the nation's best universities. Literature graduates are competent to teach elementary, middle and high school classes. Publishing, journalism and teaching are obvious possibilities for a literature major. Writing, theater and television are further considerations. Literature majors do well in science, government and business, and are actively recruited where these endeavors require an articulate and creative explanation of their actions.
Literature also provides impressive training for law, diplomacy, and academic administration.
Literature, in a sense, offers students an account of the world of the past, written by the very people who lived it. When one reads about other cultures, it is a record composed by the very people and in the very idiom of the culture in question. Literature offers students an insight into the self and into others which is analytical and inspiring, challenging and enlightening. A large percentage of the Ramapo literature faculty have degrees from the major universities of Latin America and Europe and speak fluently the major European languages. This focus on universal languages and literature is unique, enriching, and vital.