Through literary research, the Literature major aspires to teach critical thinking, to cultivate expressiveness, imagination, creativity, and to foster students who possess both logicality and sensitivity.

Through its unique language act, while mixing imagination and reality, literature endlessly creates and adds new meanings to the world and revolutionizes the way humans express themselves. This is an endeavor to reexamine shared values, which could be potential impediments for us, from an individual's viewpoint, and to create new values using the medium of words.

The mission of literary research in a Liberal Arts education is to confirm the semantic richness of humans and world through textual experiences. For this to be done, we must be able to critically read the world, to accept the emotional dimension, which is not necessarily explicable through logic, and to learn how to apply an integrative and intellectual approach. While the current trend is to prioritize rationality and practicality, a major mission for literary research is to appreciate and restore irrationality, which tends to be rejected as being troublesome, to understand and recognize the symbolism inherent in everyday life, and to recover this particular aspect of the world through the medium of words. These aspects of life tend to be disregarded because we are prone to be satisfied through the consumption of superficial phenomena.

The Literature major covers such broad themes as "the records of human activities", "the art of words" and "letters as expression", and deals with various literary forms, extending from Eastern and Western classical literature to the cutting edge forms of modern literary expressions.