English (MA): Literature Concentration
Apply NowDegree Requirements
Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
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Research Component Courses | 6 | ||
Literature, Methods, and the Profession 1 | |||
Master's Project in English 2 | |||
Distribution Requirement Courses | 12 | ||
Select one course from each of the following four areas listed under "Distribution Requirement Courses" listed below | |||
Literature Elective Courses | 9 | ||
Select three literature courses approved in conjunction with the academic committee 3 | |||
Open Elective Courses | 6 | ||
Select two elective courses in English or complementary fields of study approved in conjunction with the academic committee 4 | |||
Global Perspective Requirement (Co-Requisite) | |||
See "Global Perspective Requirement" for details below | |||
Total Hours | 33 |
1 | ENG 669 is required in the first semester |
2 | ENG 676 is required in the final semester |
3 | Students may elect to explore broadly or to focus their coursework in an area of special interest. |
4 | Electives may be chosen from English or from complementary fields of study. TAs may count ENG 624 as an elective. |
Distribution Requirement Courses
Select one course from each of the following areas listed below:
British Literature before 1600
Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
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ENG 509 | Old English Literature | 3 | |
ENG 510 | Middle English Literature | 3 | |
ENG 529 | 16th-Century Non-Dramatic English Literature | 3 | |
ENG 551 | Chaucer | 3 | |
ENG 558 | Studies In Shakespeare | 3 | |
ENG 561 | Milton | 3 | |
ENG 578 | English Drama To 1642 | 3 | |
ENG 582 | Studies in Literature (when topic applies) | 3 |
British Literature after 1600
Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
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ENG 550 | British Romantic Period | 3 | |
ENG 560 | British Victorian Period | 3 | |
ENG 562 | 18TH-Century English Literature | 3 | |
ENG 563 | 18TH-Century English Novel | 3 | |
ENG 564 | Victorian Novel | 3 | |
ENG 570 | 20TH-Century British Prose | 3 | |
ENG 571 | 20TH-Century British Poetry | 3 | |
ENG 572 | Modern British Drama | 3 | |
ENG 579 | Restoration and 18th-Century Drama | 3 | |
ENG 582 | Studies in Literature | 3 |
American Literature
Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
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ENG 531 | American Colonial Literature | 3 | |
ENG 548 | African-American Literature | 3 | |
ENG 555 | American Romantic Period | 3 | |
ENG 565 | American Realism and Naturalism | 3 | |
ENG 573 | Modern American Drama | 3 | |
ENG 575 | Southern Writers | 3 | |
ENG 576 | 20TH-Century American Poetry | 3 | |
ENG 577 | 20th-Century American Prose | 3 | |
ENG 580 | Literary Postmodernism | 3 | |
ENG 582 | Studies in Literature | 3 |
Rhetoric, Linguistics, Composition, Film Studies, Criticism or Theory
Code | Title | Hours | Counts towards |
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ENG 505 | Writing Program Administration: Theory, Practice, and Research | 3 | |
ENG 511 | Theory and Research In Composition | 3 | |
ENG 513 | Empirical Research In Composition | 3 | |
ENG 514 | History Of Rhetoric | 3 | |
ENG 515 | Rhetoric Of Science and Technology | 3 | |
ENG 516 | Rhetorical Criticism: Theory and Practice | 3 | |
ENG 523 | Language Variation Research Seminar | 3 | |
ENG 524 | Introduction to Linguistics | 3 | |
ENG 525 | Variety In Language | 3 | |
ENG 528 | Sociophonetics | 3 | |
ENG 532 | Narrative Analysis | 3 | |
ENG 533 | Bilingualism and Language Contact | 3 | |
ENG 534 | Quantitative Analysis in Sociolinguistics | 3 | |
ENG 536 | Research Methods in Phonology | 3 | |
ENG 539 | Seminar In World Literature | 3 | |
ENG 540 | History Of Literary Criticism | 3 | |
ENG 541 | Literary and Cultural Theory | 3 | |
ENG 549 | Modern African Literature | 3 | |
ENG 554 | Contemporary Rhetorical Theory | 3 | |
ENG 580 | Literary Postmodernism | 3 | |
ENG 581 | Visual Rhetoric: Theory and Criticism | 3 | |
ENG 582 | Studies in Literature | 3 | |
ENG 583 | Studies In Rhetoric and Writing | 3 | |
ENG 584 | Studies In Linguistics | 3 | |
ENG 586 | Studies In Theory | 3 |
Global Perspective Requirement
The Global Perspectives requirement is intended to provide students with a greater understanding of language structure and a globalizing perspective on texts and culture. Student may fulfill this requirement in one of two ways:
- Demonstrate language proficiency (by meeting one of the following options):
- Taking a reading exam administered by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. The Foreign Language Department offers optional preparatory courses for students planning to take the reading exam: FLS 401 Spanish Graduate Reading, FLF 401 French Graduate Reading, FLG 401 German Graduate Reading.
- Enrolling in and passing with a C- or better a 300-400 level course taught in the language (not translation).*
- Having an undergraduate major or minor in a foreign language within the past five years.*
- Speaking a language other than English as your first language.*
- Take a World Literature course or an approved alternative. This course will typically count toward the degree as a literature or unrestricted elective, but there may be some instances in which the course can fulfill a core requirement.
If you’re considering doctoral work in literary study, we encourage you to consult with your advisor. In some cases, certifying language proficiency via reading exam may help satisfy a doctoral language requirement later on.
* | To document language proficiency via option B, C or D, contact the Graduate Services Coordinator. |
Faculty
- Christopher M. Anson
- William Wilton Barnhardt
- Barbara A. Bennett
- Belle McQuaide Boggs
- Eduardo C. Corral
- Huiling Ding
- Robin M. Dodsworth
- Marsha Gabrielle Gordon
- Hans Dodds Kellner
- Dorianne Louise Laux
- Leila S. May
- Jeffrey Ingle Mielke
- Jason Miller
- John D. Morillo
- James S. Mulholland
- Miriam E. Orr
- Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi
- Jeffrey Leo Reaser
- Laura Ruth Severin
- Jason Swarts
- Erik R. Thomas
- John N. Wall Jr.
- Walter A. Wolfram
- Anne Baker
- Agnes Bolonyai
- Helen Jane Burgess
- Christopher James Crosbie
- Marc K. Dudley
- Casie J. Fedukovich
- Paul Camm Fyfe
- Andrew Robert Johnston
- Jennifer Anne Nolan
- Stacey L. Pigg
- David M. Rieder
- Margaret Simon
- Timothy Linwood Stinson
- Douglas M. Walls
- Rebecca Ann Walsh
- Zachary Charles Beare
- Ronisha Witlee Browdy
- Sumita Chakraborty
- Maya L. Kapoor
- Michelle McMullin
- Cadwell Turnbull
- Josie Torres Barth
- Brian Blackley
- Anna Marie Gibson-Knowles
- John J. Kessel
- James Robert Knowles
- Jill Collins McCorkle
- Joseph H. Millar
- John Paul Stadler
- Barbara Joan Baines
- John Balaban
- James M. Grimwood
- Antony Howard Harrison
- Philip E. Blank Jr.
- Michael P. Carter
- David H. Covington
- Robert S. Dicks
- James W. Clark Jr.
- Angela Mackie Davis-Gardner
- Jack D. Durant
- Joseph A. Gomez
- Charlotte Gross
- Linda T. Holley
- Deborah Hooker
- Marvin Hunt
- Susan M. Katz
- John J. Kessel
- Margaret Fontaine King
- Robert C. Kochersberger
- Lucinda H. MacKethan
- Walter E. Meyers
- Carolyn Rae Miller
- Catherine E. Moore
- Devin A. Orgeron
- Ann M. Penrose
- Carmine A. Prioli
- Dick J. Reavis
- Sharon M. Setzer
- Judy Jo Small
- Lee Smith
- Jean J. Smoot
- Allen Frederick Stein
- Jon F. Thompson
- Mary Helen Thuente
- Robert V. Young Jr.
- Catherine A. Warren
- Harry C. West