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LITERATURE AND WRITING CONCENTRATION PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (33 credits)
Course Title Credits
ENG 61000 Introduction to Research and Pedagogy in Critical Reading 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 65012 Reading and Interpreting Research on Writing (3)  
ENG 65044 Research Design (3)  
    Literary Traditions courses (6)  
    Literary Criticism and Theory (3)  
    Elective (3)  
Choose from the following (12):  
ENG 65022 Rhetorical Theory: Greek and Roman (3)  
ENG 65023 Rhetorical Theory: 18th, 19th and 20th Centuries (3)  
ENG 65027 Role of Composition (3)  
ENG 65035 Linguistics for Rhetoricians (3)  
ENG 65051 Literacy: Functions, Practices and History (3)  
ENG 65052 Writing Activity as Social Practice (3)  
ENG 65053 Writing Technologies (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.