English, M.A. (230101)

Program Admission

All applicants for admission to the Master of Arts degree program in English must meet the following criteria:

• Meet Graduate School Minimum Requirements for Regular Admission                                     
• 18 hours of undergraduate English courses (12 upper level, 6 lower level) with a 3.0 grade point average.
  (Highly qualified applicants from other disciplines will be considered with the submission of a 10-page writing sample)

For regular admission to the Master of Arts in English degree program, international students must submit a minimum score of 500 on the TOEFL or a minimum score of 85 on the Michigan Test.

Applicants who fail to meet the above standards may be admitted on conditional status as recommended by the Graduate Coordinator in English and the Director of the School of Humanities in concert with the Dean of the Graduate School.

Program Requirements

Undergraduate requirements: 30 semester hours of English; credit in six semester hours on the sophomore level or a reading knowledge of a foreign language.  Applicants who have not satisfied this requirement will be conditionally admitted until deficencies are completed. 

Requirements for a major (Thesis): 33 semester hours of English including ENGL 5007  or ENGL 5008 , ENGL 5027  or ENGL 5028 , and ENGL 5099 .

Download the Degree Plan for the 21/22 Catalog Year   

Requirements for a major (Non-thesis): 33 semester hours of English including English 5007  or ENGL 5008 , and ENGL 5027  or ENGL 5028 .

Download the Degree Plan for the 21/22 Catalog Year   

Additional requirements: ENGL 5014  for students specializing in literary studies; nine hours in creative writing workshops (at least three of which should be either ENGL 5030  or ENGL 5031 ) and ENGL 5032  for students specializing in creative writing; ENGL 5019  for graduate teaching assistants.

With their major professor’s guidance and approval, students may take up to one-half of study of topics under the direction of a senior faculty member. Prerequisites: 21 graduate hours of English and approval of the student’s adviser and of the Graduate Coordinator.
 

• Creative Writing | Professional Writing Courses:

• ENGL 5030 - Poetry Writing Seminar
• ENGL 5031 - Fiction Writing Seminar
• ENGL 5032 - Special Topics: Forms and Theories of Creative Writing
• ENGL 5033 - Creative Writing for Teachers
• ENGL 5040 - The Rhetoric of Scientific and Technical Discourse
• ENGL 5044 - Writing in the Sciences
• ENGL 5045 - Writing for the Web
• ENGL 5046 - Advanced Professional Writing and Communication
• ENGL 5066 - Graphic Presentation in Technical Communication
• ENGL 5080 - Internship in Technical and Professional Communication
• ENGL 5081 - Expository Writing
• ENGL 5090 - Advanced Poetry Writing
• ENGL 5099 - Thesis
• ENGL 5191 - Advance Fiction Writing

• Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion:

• ENGL 5022 - Special Topics in English
• ENGL 5051 - Advanced Multicultural Literature
• ENGL 5064 - Multicultural Literature

• Literary Studies:

• ENGL 5004 - Studies in Shakespeare
• ENGL 5005 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
• ENGL 5006 - Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century
• ENGL 5007 - English Literature Before 1800
• ENGL 5008 - English Literature from 1800 to the Present
• ENGL 5009 - Modern Poetry
• ENGL 5010 - Modern Drama
• ENGL 5014 - Bibliography

• ENGL 5015 - Grammar for Teachers

  ENGL 5016 - Composition for Teachers 

  ENGL 5019 - Practicum in College Composition

  ENGL 5022 - Special Topics in English

• ENGL 5026 - E-Seminar
• ENGL 5027 - American Prose
• ENGL 5028 - American Poetry
• ENGL 5036 - Chaucer
• ENGL 5037 - Shakespeare’s Tragedies
• ENGL 5038 - Shakespeare’s Comedies and Histories
• ENGL 5039 - Milton
• ENGL 5060 - English Novel to 1800
• ENGL 5061 - Nineteenth Century English Novel
• ENGL 5062 - Twentieth Century English Novel
• ENGL 5063 - Modern European Fiction
• ENGL 5065 - Literature of the South
• ENGL 5071 - Medieval Literature
• ENGL 5072 - Renaissance
• ENGL 5073 - Seventeenth Century
• ENGL 5074 - Eighteenth Century
• ENGL 5075 - Romantic Movement
• ENGL 5076 - Victorian Period
• ENGL 5078 - American Literary Studies I
• ENGL 5079 - American Literary Studies Ii
• ENGL 5121 - The Literature of the Bible

• Theoretical | Interdisciplinary | Pedagogical:

• ENGL 5015 - Grammar for Teachers
• ENGL 5016 - Composition for Teachers
• ENGL 5019 - Practicum in College Composition
• ENGL 5021 - Writing Project Seminar for Teachers
• ENGL 5025 - Literary Criticism
• ENGL 5082 - Linguistics
• ENGL 5083 - History of the English Language
• ENGL 5050 - Advanced Literary Theory
• ENGL 5091 - Directed Research

Graduate Courses

Note: To receive graduate credit for a 4000-level course designated “For Undergraduate and Graduates,” a student must be in graduate admission status at the time credit is earned in the course. Credit earned in undergraduate admission status cannot be changed to graduate credit.