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LITERATURE AND WRITING CONCENTRATION PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (33 credits)
Course Title Credits
ENG 66706 Methods in the Study of Literature 3
Choose from one of the following: 30
Literary Traditions Focus (30)  
    Literary Traditions courses (12)  
    Rhetoric and Composition courses (3)  
    Literary Criticism and Theory (3)  
    Electives or Thesis (12)  
Theory and Criticism Focus (30)  
    Literary Criticism and Theory courses (12)  
    Rhetoric and Composition courses (3)  
    Literary Traditions courses (6)  
    Electives and/or Thesis (9)  
Rhetoric and Composition Focus (30)  
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)  
   
MINIMUM 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.