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Program Information

The Department of English offers a MFA in Creative Writing and a PhD degree in English with the specializations listed below. Complete descriptions of the minimum requirements for the MFA and PhD degrees are provided in the Graduate Degrees section of this catalog. Specific areas of specialization for the PhD include American, African-American, and British literature; American studies; critical theory and cultural studies; film and media studies; feminisms, genders and sexualities; postcolonial studies; composition and rhetoric; comics and visual rhetoric; and children’s literature.

New graduate students should have completed an undergraduate English major of at least 24 semester hours. The PhD program accepts students with BA and MA degrees. Full information concerning courses of study is available from the graduate coordinator.

Degrees Offered with a Major in English

  • Doctor of Philosophy
  • Master of Arts

Requirements for these degrees are given in the Graduate Degrees section of this catalog.

English Departmental Courses

Course List by Depts
Code Title Credits
AML 6017Studies in American Literature Before 19003
AML 6027Studies in 20th-Century American Literature3
CRW 6130Fiction Writing3
CRW 6166Studies in Literary Form3
CRW 6331Verse Writing3
CRW 6906Individual Work1-3
ENC 5236Advanced Business Writing for Accounting4
ENC 6428Digital English3
ENC 7760From Paper to Publication: The Peer-Reviewed Journal Article in English Studies and Related Fields3
ENG 6016Psychological Approaches to Literature3
ENG 6075Literary Theory: Issues3
ENG 6077Literary Theory: Forms3
ENG 6137The Language of Film3
ENG 6138Studies in the Movies3
ENG 6824Proseminar in Graduate Studies in English: Research, Writing, and the Profession3
ENG 6906Individual Work1-3
ENG 6910Supervised Research1-5
ENG 6932Film and Video Production3
ENG 6971Research for Master's Thesis1-15
ENG 7979Advanced Research1-12
ENG 7980Research for Doctoral Dissertation1-15
ENL 6246Studies in Romantic Literature3
ENL 6256Studies in Victorian Literature3
ENL 6276Studies in 20th-Century British Literature3
LAE 6940Supervised Teaching1-5
LAE 6947Writing Theories & Practices3
LIT 6047Studies in Drama3
LIT 6236Postcolonial Studies3
LIT 6357African-Amer. or African Diaspora Lit./Cultures3
LIT 6358Theoretical Approaches to Black Cultural Studies3
LIT 6855Issues in Cultural Studies3
LIT 6856Cultural Studies: Interventions3
LIT 6934Variable Topics1-5

English (PHD)

SLO 1     Skills     
Students teach an entry-level college writing course and/or a lower-division course in their field in a professional manner, organizing and delivering content in a mode appropriate to audience

SLO 2     Professional Behavior   
Students engage in professional research and writing activity at the PhD level, for example, conference-ready papers and/or materials appropriate for publication

English (MA)     

SLO 1     Knowledge        
Students will identify and discuss a problem or gap in scholarship in their specialization

SLO 2     Skills     
Students teach an entry-level college writing course and/or a lower-division course in their field in a professional manner, organizing and delivering content in a mode appropriate to audience

SLO 3     Professional Behavior   
Students engage in professional research and writing activity at the MA level, for example, conference-ready papers

English (MFA)

SLO 1     Knowledge        
Students write an extended draft of an original complete work in their genre.  All third-year MFA students completed their theses by the required deadline and exceeded minimum requirements

SLO 2     Skills     
Students learn to teach an entry-level creative writing course and/or an entry-level writing course in a professional manner, organizing and delivering content in a mode appropriate to audience

SLO 3     Professional Behavior   
Students perform public readings of their original work

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