program Contact:

Dr. Meghan Sweeney
E-mail: sweeneym@uncw.edu
Phone: 910-962-3054

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Master of Arts (MA) in

English

Goal of Program:

Students in the English program encounter high academic expectations leavened by mentoring from world-class scholars. Graduate students go on to Ph.D. programs, find teaching jobs with community colleges and major universities, and continue to successful careers in administration, education, and business.

Program Audience:

• Students, in consultation with their advisor, tailor their course schedules to their own career objectives and interests, selecting a variety of courses in literature, linguistics, rhetoric and composition, literary theory, cultural studies and professional writing.

Program Highlights:

• Some courses in the program:
  • Literary Theory
  • Practice of Teaching Composition
  • Age of Chaucer, Elizabeth, and Milton
  • Studies in Short Fiction and Nonfiction
  • Topics in Literature
  • Theory and Practice of Cultural Studies
  • Studies in the Novel, Poetry, Drama and Linguistics
  • English Grammar for ESL Teaching
  • Rhetoric and Culture
  • Language, Meaning and Culture
  • Qualitative Research in English Studies
  • Theory and Practice of Technical Communications
  • Pedagogies of Reading and Writing
  • Studies in British and American Literature
  • Studies in Children's/Young Adult Literature
  • Studies in Literary Criticism