MA English

The Department of English offers a program of study leading to the Master of Arts degree in English. Specific goals of the program are: (1) to provide advanced research and educational opportunities in English studies; (2) to offer a broad-based graduate program that will provide students with opportunities to specialize in historical and contemporary critical approaches to literature, language and literacy, rhetoric and composition, cultural studies, pedagogy, and professional, technical, and electronic writing; and (3) to prepare students for further graduate work leading to the Ph.D.