ADMISSIONS

Students applying to the MA program in English receive unconditional admission if they have:

• Completed at least 24 hours of undergraduate English, with at least 12 hours of advanced courses
• Maintained a 3.25 or higher GPA (4.0 scale) in undergraduate English courses
• Completed 6 hours (or equivalent ) of a foreign language.

Applicants who do not meet these requirements may be admitted conditionally pending departmental review of additional application materials, including a GRE score of at least 900 on the verbal and quantitative portions combined, two letters of recommendation, and a non-fiction writing sample, preferably literary analysis. In general, however, students must have at least a 2.9 GPA in English for conditional admission. Students lacking 24 hours of undergraduate English may be assigned advanced undergraduate courses as background.

Requirements:

Entering students are required to take the following 18 hours of literature in graduate courses in English:

• Literary Scholarship (ENG 5301)
  
• At least one course in medieval literature
  
• At least one course in Renaissance literature
  
• Three courses in literature after the Renaissance, including at least one British and one American

Degree Outlines:

Students in the English MA pursue a thesis or non-thesis track:

Students choose to enroll in an approved graduate minor or develop an area of emphasis (cognate). An area of emphasis comprises two or more graduate courses related by period, genre, or subject. Assuming that students meet prerequisites for courses, they may develop areas of emphasis from courses in departments outside English, additional graduate courses in English, or both.

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