Master of the Arts Degree in English
Requirements

I. Distribution of course work

A. Required core courses (6 Semester Hours)

ENGL 605, Seminar in Literary Research, 3 credits (to be taken near the beginning of the program)
ENLT 514, Theoretical Approaches to Literature, 3 credits
ENGL 606, Thesis Writing (to be taken at the end of the program), 3 credits

B. Courses in one of four areas of study (12 Semester Hours)

1. British Literature

ENGL 505, Chaucer, 3 credits
ENGL 508, Shakespeare Studies: Tragedies, 3 credits
ENGL 509, Shakespeare Studies: Comedies, 3 credits
ENGL 510, Shakespeare Studies: Histories, 3 credits
ENGL 511, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama, 3 credits
ENGL 515, Seventeenth Century Literature: Poetry, 3 credits
ENGL 516, Seventeenth Century Literature: Prose, 3 credits
ENGL 518, Milton, 3 credits
ENGL 521, The Augustan Age, 3 credits
ENGL 529, British Romanticism I: Wordsworth and Coleridge, 3 credits
ENGL 530, British Romanticism II: Byron, Shelley, and Keats, 3 credits
ENGL 532, Victorian Studies II:  Novel, 3 credits
ENGL 533, Victorian Studies III: Poetry, 3 credits
ENGL 535, Turn-of-the-Century British Writers, 3 credits
ENGL 540, The Modern British Novel, 3 credits
ENGL 542, The Irish Renaissance, 3 credits
ENGL 597, Independent Study in British Literature, 3 credits
ENGL 600, Seminar in British Literature, 3 credits

2. American Literature

ENGL 550, Studies in Early American Literature, 3 credits
ENGL 555, American Romanticism, 3 credits
ENGL 556, Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville, 3 credits
ENGL 557, American Realism, 3 credits
ENGL 560, Modern American Fiction, 3 credits
EMGL 561, Modern American Poetry, 3 credits
ENGL 563, Recent American Fiction, 3 credits
ENGL 564, American Drama, 3 credits
ENGL 565, Black American Women Writers, 3 credits
ENGL 598, Independent Study in American Literature, 3 credits
ENGL 601, Seminar in American Literature, 3 credits

3. International Literature

ENLT 513, Literary Criticism from 1800 to the Present, 3 credits
ENLT 515, Ancient Tragedy, 3 credits
ENLT 565, Ibsen, Strindberg, and Shaw, 3 credits
ENLT 569, Major Writers of Africa and the African Diaspora, 3 credits
ENLT 570, The Modern Novel, 3 credits
ENLT 571, Trends in the Contemporary Novel, 3 credits
ENLT 572, Modern Movements in the Arts, 3 credits
ENLT 577, Film Studies, 3 credits
ENLT 599, Independent Study in International Literature, 3 credits
ENLT 602, Seminar in International Literature, 3 credits

4. Writing Studies

ENGL 586, Teaching Writing and the Basic Writer, 3 credits
ENGL 588, Research in Writing Studies, 3 credits
ENGL 590, Rhetorical Theories and the Teaching of Writing, 3 credits
ENWR 590, Graduate Writing Seminar, 3 credits

C. Electives (12 Semester Hours)

Any ENGL, ENLT, or ENWR graduate courses not used to fulfill requirements in "B." Six credits may be taken outside the English Department with prior permission of the English Graduate Program Coordinator.

II. Foreign Language Requirement

Students are not required to demonstrate a reading knowledge of a foreign language; however, the department provides students with the opportunity to demonstrate such competency by examination in case they wish to present this credential when they apply for admission to doctoral programs. Examinations may normally be given in French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish.  Other languages may be offered with the approval of the department. Testing arrangements should be made with the Graduate Program Coordinator.

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