Department of English

The department offers programs leading to the Master of Arts in English; the Master of Arts in teaching English to speakers of other languages (Applied Linguistics/TESOL); the Master of Fine Arts in creative writing; and MA and PhD degrees with focused areas of studies in literature, Composition and Rhetoric, and early modern British literature and culture through the Hudson Strode Program.

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Programs

Time Limit for All Degrees

All requirements for the MA, MA in Applied Linguistics/ESL, and MFA degrees must be completed within six years. The PhD degree must be completed within seven years from the time of admission to the doctoral program. Students enrolling in the BA to PhD program have eight years in which to complete their degrees.

Faculty

Chair
  • David Deutsch
Director of Graduate Studies
  • Lauren Cardon
Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing
  • John Estes
Director of the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies
  • Michelle Dowd
CRES Program Coordinator
  • Amber Buck
TESOL Program Coordinator
  • Dorothy Worden

Courses

Graduate Credit for 500-Level Courses

Graduate students enrolled in 500-level courses that are also offered at the 400 level are expected to perform extra work of an appropriate nature. Graduate credit will not be granted at the 400 level.

English Courses

EN
512
Hours
3
Computers And Writing

Seminar focused on the use of technology to help students improve their writing and to help teachers improve their writing instruction. CRES core course.

EN
523
Hours
3
History English Language

An introduction to the external history of the English language along with the study of the accompanying internal changes in structure. A desirable prerequisite for this course is EN 320 or EN 321.

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