Influence of Literature Classes on the Cultivation of Students’ Attitude toward the University’s Program on Culture and the Arts

The purpose of the study was to determine the influence of literature classes on the cultivation of the students’ attitude toward the University’s program for culture and the arts. The study focused on the students’ attitude toward the University’s program for culture and the arts before enrolling in and after completing a literature class, the quality of the literature classes in terms of the following: 1) quality of teaching, 2) literary quality, and 3) literary form, and the significant difference in the students’ attitude before enrolling in and after completing a literature class. In answering the problems, the study used the descriptive research design and employed a researcher-made survey questionnaire for gathering the data, which were analyzed and interpreted using T-test. The findings revealed that the quality of teaching in literature classes does not affect the students’ attitude toward the University’s program for culture and the arts while the literary quality and the literary form discussed in literature classes highly affected the students’ attitude toward the University’s program for culture and the arts.  The study suggests that there is a significant difference in the students’ attitude before enrolling in and after completing a literature class when it comes to literary quality and literary form.

Keywords: Quality of Teaching, Literary Quality, Literary Form, Culture and the Arts