English, M.A.

Degree Requirements

• Credit Hours: Students are required to complete a minimum of 30 graduate credit hours in English (ENGL) at the 500 level or above.

• Grade Point Average: Students must earn a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75. Students must also earn a minimum GPA of 2.75 and a minimum grade of B- in all courses applied to the degree.  

• Graduation Requirements: Students have the option of completing the M.A. through either (1) 30 credits of coursework, or (2)  24 credits of coursework with an M.A. thesis.  The M.A. thesis must be defended satisfactorily before the student's thesis committee.

Curriculum Requirements

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
FOUNDATION COURSES:		6
ENGL 609	College Composition Pedagogy *
ENGL 680	Introduction to Literary Research
or ENGL 682	Recent Literary Criticism
CORE COURSES: *		18
Select a minimum of 2 courses from the following list of seminar courses:
ENGL 701	Seminar in Rhetoric
ENGL 741	Seminar in American Studies
ENGL 764	Seminar in Renaissance Studies, 1550-1660
ENGL 766	Seminar in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Studies
ENGL 768	Seminar in British Romanticism
ENGL 771	Seminar in Twentieth-Century British Studies
ENGL 782	Current Directions in Literary Study
Any ENGL course at the 500 level or above
COMPLETION REQUIREMENT:		6
Select one option
Thesis option:
ENGL 698	Thesis or Dissertation
Coursework option:
2 additional ENGL courses at the 500 level or above **
Total Hours		30

*

Students must take ENGL 609 in their first semester of teaching.

**

 ENGL 690/790, 698/798, 697/797 should be excluded from any graduate program requirements. 

Major Learning Outcomes

English

Upon completion of the M.A. program, students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of the literary and linguistic histories of English-speaking communities
2. Apply the critical and professional discourses of literary and cultural study
3. Compose persuasive analytical arguments about cultural and literary topics
4. Teach writing in English at the post-secondary level