English

Danielle Glassmeyer
Graduate Advisor

The Master of Arts in English provides post-baccalaureate students with study in the theory and practice of English. It is intended to prepare students for professional advancement and for further study in either literature or writing. The program provides opportunity for the study of literary texts as well as related study and practice of writing, theory, and methods. A required internship offers students their choice for experiential learning within the context of an undergraduate literature course, or within the context of an undergraduate writing course; students may also identify an internship with an external employer. All students present a portfolio of written work, and complete a written comprehensive exam over selected work taken in the program. Additionally, students have the opportunity to practice modes of creative writing via intensive poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and screenwriting workshops.

Because the master’s program is predicated upon the complementary relationship between theory and practice in the study of English, the program requires ENG 500 Theory and Practice of English, a course in theory, two literature classes, and an internship. Students not only will become familiar with the aesthetic, formal, and theoretical underpinnings of the field, but also will learn how to address their audiences by means of professional discourse. In this way, the program enriches students’ professional lives and enhances their uses of the discipline in the classroom and the workplace.