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Program Requirements
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Core Courses | ||
| ENGL 506 | Seminar in Literary Research | 3 |
| ENGL 507 | Theoretical Approaches to Literature 1 | 3 |
| Masters Thesis | ||
| ENGL 698 | Master's Thesis | 3 |
| 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. 2 | 24 | |
| Total Credits | 33 | |
- 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
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ENGL 501 | Seminar in American Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 502 | Seminar in British Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 503 | Graduate Writing Seminar | 3 |
| ENGL 504 | Seminar in Teaching Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 508 | Shakespeare Studies: Tragedies | 3 |
| ENGL 509 | Shakespeare Studies: Comedies | 3 |
| ENGL 510 | Shakespeare Studies: Histories | 3 |
| ENGL 511 | Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama | 3 |
| ENGL 513 | The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament as Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 517 | Ancient Epic | 3 |
| ENGL 518 | Milton | 3 |
| ENGL 532 | Victorian Studies II: Novel | 3 |
| ENGL 533 | Victorian Studies III: Poetry | 3 |
| ENGL 535 | Turn-of-the-Century British Writers | 3 |
| ENGL 536 | The Romantic Movement | 3 |
| ENGL 540 | The Modern British Novel | 3 |
| ENGL 541 | Modern British and Irish Poetry | 3 |
| ENGL 550 | Studies in Early American Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 555 | American Romanticism | 3 |
| ENGL 556 | Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville | 3 |
| ENGL 557 | American Realism | 3 |
| ENGL 559 | Seminar in International Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 560 | Modern American Fiction | 3 |
| ENGL 561 | Modern American Poetry | 3 |
| ENGL 563 | Recent American Fiction | 3 |
| ENGL 565 | Black American Women Writers | 3 |
| ENGL 566 | Trends in the Contemporary Novel | 3 |
| ENGL 568 | Studies in Nonfiction Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 570 | Teaching Literature through the Critical Essay | 3 |
| ENGL 572 | Modernism | 3 |
| ENGL 577 | Special Topics in Film Studies | 3 |
| ENGL 578 | Science Fiction | 3 |
| ENGL 597 | Independent Study in British Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 695 | English Graduate Internship | 3 |
| ENLT 535 | The Enlightenment in Europe | 3 |
| ENLT 565 | Ibsen, Strindberg, and Shaw | 3 |