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LITERATURE AND WRITING CONCENTRATION PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (30 credits)
Course Title Credits
ENG 66706 Methods in the Study of Literature
 3
Literary Traditions Focus
  

  Literary Traditions courses
 12
    Rhetoric and Composition courses
 3
    Literary Criticism and Theory
 3
    Electives or Thesis
 12
Theory and Criticism Focus
  
    Literary Criticism and Theory courses
 12
    Rhetoric and Composition courses
 3
    Literary Traditions courses
 6
    Electives and/or Thesis
 12
Rhetoric and Composition Focus
  
ENG 65011 Introduction to the Field of Writing: Theory Research/Practice
 3
  65012 Reading and Interpreting Research on Writing
 3
  65044 Research Design
 3
    Literary Traditions courses
 6
    Literary Criticism and Theory
 3
Choose from the following:
 12
  65022 Rhetorical Theory: Greek and Roman (3)
  
  65023 Rhetorical Theory: 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries (3)
  
  65027 Role of Composition (3)
  
  65035 Linguistics for Rhetoricians (3)
  
  65051 Literacy: Functions, Practices and History (3)
  
  65052 Writing Activity as Social Practice (3)
  
  65053 Writing Technologies (3)
  
  65057 Semiotics (3)
  
    Elective 3
   
TOTAL 33

  

CONCENTRATION FOR TEACHERS PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (33 credits)
Course Title Credits
Choose 1 course in 3 of the following areas:
 9

  Literary Traditions
  
    Rhetoric and Composition
  
    Literary Criticism and Theory
  
    Creative Writing
  
    Electives*
 24
TOTAL 33

*May include 9 credit hours taken outside the English Department, 6 credit hours of graduate workshops, and 6 hours
  of Master's Project.