English (M.A.)

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Program Requirements

Core Courses
ENGL 506Seminar in Literary Research3
ENGL 507Theoretical Approaches to Literature 13
Masters Thesis
ENGL 698Master's Thesis3
Submit the completed thesis to the Graduate School. See English department website and Thesis Procedure Manual for details.
Electives
Complete 8 courses from the list below. 224
Total Credits33
1

Students in the combined B.A. English/M.A. English program complete this course as part of the undergraduate major.

2

Students in the combined B.A. English/M.A. English program complete three electives as part of the undergraduate major.

Elective Courses

ENGL 501Seminar in American Literature3
ENGL 502Seminar in British Literature3
ENGL 503Graduate Writing Seminar3
ENGL 504Seminar in Teaching Literature3
ENGL 508Shakespeare Studies: Tragedies3
ENGL 509Shakespeare Studies: Comedies3
ENGL 510Shakespeare Studies: Histories3
ENGL 511Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama3
ENGL 513The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament as Literature3
ENGL 517Ancient Epic3
ENGL 518Milton3
ENGL 532Victorian Studies II: Novel3
ENGL 533Victorian Studies III: Poetry3
ENGL 535Turn-of-the-Century British Writers3
ENGL 536The Romantic Movement3
ENGL 540The Modern British Novel3
ENGL 541Modern British and Irish Poetry3
ENGL 550Studies in Early American Literature3
ENGL 555American Romanticism3
ENGL 556Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville3
ENGL 557American Realism3
ENGL 559Seminar in International Literature3
ENGL 560Modern American Fiction3
ENGL 561Modern American Poetry3
ENGL 563Recent American Fiction3
ENGL 565Black American Women Writers3
ENGL 566Trends in the Contemporary Novel3
ENGL 568Studies in Nonfiction Literature3
ENGL 570Teaching Literature through the Critical Essay3
ENGL 572Modernism3
ENGL 577Special Topics in Film Studies3
ENGL 578Science Fiction3
ENGL 597Independent Study in British Literature3
ENGL 695English Graduate Internship3
ENLT 535The Enlightenment in Europe3
ENLT 565Ibsen, Strindberg, and Shaw3