The AB Literature Program aims to train and educate well-rounded and holistic but focused Lit Major graduates. It envisions a citizenry that possesses skills, values, & imagination. It involves training in a range of skills including advanced communicative competence, effective strategies in rhetoric & research, & modes of literary types that provide access to macro/micro-skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening, interpretation & critical thinking) & integrated/integrative competencies (problem-solving, independent study, research, creativity/innovation, teamwork, appreciation of different perspectives, intellectual flexibility, and intercultural/linguistic adaptability. It provides the tools for interdisciplinary professions through exposure in the orientation & methodologies of both the humanities & the social sciences across national & international languages, careers, & vocations. It develops in the students the use of their imagination through various types of creative writing, presentations, & productions from poetry to copywriting. Careers that open up widely to the students trained in the study of lit that includes the legal, business, media, diplomacy, health & medical service-oriented professions, requiring the skills & knowledge which are highly employable nationally & internationally.