Master

In Gurjaani (Georgia)

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Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Gurjaani (Georgia)

  • Duration

    Flexible

  • Start date

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The Master of Arts degree in English is designed for students who desire the challenge of an intense study of literature. Graduates of the program will have a critical appreciation of literature, a thorough knowledge of scholarly tools, and the preparation necessary to become competent writers and teachers of writing. The degree requires a total of 36 semester hours of graduate-level courses in English.



Students in the program receive substantial individual attention from faculty. There are opportunities for students to do research and publish on their own or with faculty and for meeting important scholars and writers at both on-campus and off-campus conferences and events. In addition, graduate assistants gain valuable professional experience as editors, scholars, or instructors.

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About this course

The program will prepare the student for doctoral work in English or for careers demanding advanced skills in critical reading and writing. The degree can make one eligible for teaching at a two-year college, and certified teachers who complete the degree can extend their certification to the fifth-year level. The degree is also useful for anyone interested in a career in professional writing, administration, entertainment, or public service. Whatever the career plans of students, the program requires a serious commitment to literary scholarship. Through this commitment, students will be rewarded with the intellectual company of the world’s finest writers.

a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution;
a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher (4.0 scale) on all undergraduate work;
a score of 156 or higher on the Verbal section of the revised GRE (or a score of 550 or higher on the Verbal section of the previous version of the GRE), and a score of 4.5 or higher on the GRE Analytical Writing test; and
an undergraduate major in English.

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Subjects

  • English
  • Writing
  • Prescribed
  • Research
  • Methods
  • Variable Topics
  • Crit Appr
  • Graduate
  • Literary criticism
  • Language
  • English Language

Course programme

Program of Study

The student must complete 36 semester hours in English (ENGL) at the graduate level with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher. With the approval of the Coordinator of Graduate Studies in English, a student may transfer graduate hours from another accredited institution, but no more than 9 semester hours will be accepted. All credit applied to the Master of Arts degree in English must be earned within the prescribed period of five years before graduation. Students may select either the Thesis or the Non-Thesis Option.

I. Core Courses/Both Options (12 semester hours)
  • Methods of Research
  • Grad Seminar in Studies in Lit
  • Grad Sem in Crit Appr to Lit
  • Variable Topics

All students should take ENGL 6601 as soon as possible, preferably in the first term of graduate work. ENGL 6601 is a prerequisite for ENGL 6970 Thesis.

Please note that whereas 6000-level courses are graduate seminars, 5000-level courses are cross-listed at the 4000-level and therefore include graduate and undergraduate students.

II. Major Area Courses

Students who choose the thesis option take 15 semester hours of Major Area Courses from the following list and 9 semester hours of ENGL 6970 Thesis.

Students who choose the Non-Thesis option take 24 semester hours of Major Area Courses.

  • Literary Criticism
  • Hist of the English Language
  • Structure of Present-Day Eng
  • Medieval English Literature
  • Chaucer
  • English Renaissance Literature
  • Shakespeare
  • Milton
  • Development of English Drama
  • Restoration & 18th Cent Lit
  • Eighteenth-Cent English Novel
  • English Romanticism
  • Victorian Literature
  • Nineteenth-Cent English Novel
  • Modern Drama
  • Twentieth-Cent British Fiction
  • Literary Women
  • Modern Poetry
  • Comparative Literature
  • Adolescent Literature
  • Great Books of the Western Wrl
  • African Literature
  • African Women Writers
  • American Literature to 1865
  • American Realism
  • Southern Literature
  • Flannery O'Connor
  • Am Lit from 1920 to the Presen
  • African-American Literature
  • Multi-Cultural Amer Literature
  • Studies in Native American Lit
  • Studies in Folklore
  • Special Topics: Single Author
  • Independent Study
  • Special Topics
  • Special Topics in Intern'l Lit
  • Study Abroad
  • Theories of Composition & Lit
  • Internship
III. Capstone Project

THESIS OPTION

Requirements: 9 semester hours of ENGL 6970 and an oral defense of thesis
  • Thesis
  • Completion of a thesis and an oral defense
NON-THESIS OPTION

9 semester hours of additional Major Area Courses required in lieu of 9 semester hours of ENGL 6970.
  • Revision of three course research papers for a writing portfolio
  • Composition of a reflective essay to introduce the writing portfolio

English M.A.

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