Graduate Program

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Overview

M.A. Program Overview
The Department recommends that students interested in master's-level work consider applying to the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities (MAPH). Co-directed by a senior English Department faculty member, MAPH provides students with strong pedagogical support, including writing colloquia, a core course, and master's thesis workshops.

Ph.D. Program Overview
The program leading to the Ph.D. degree aims primarily to prepare students for independent work as teachers, scholars, and critics by developing their individual abilities to pose and investigate problems in the advanced study of literatures in English and in film. Departmental requirements are designed to lead to the doctorate in four to five years after the B.A. Course work, the preparation of oral fields examinations, workshops, teaching, and the dissertation introduce students to a variety of textual modes, critical methodologies, and historical/cultural problems; provide extensive practice in research, discussion, argument, and writing; and develop pedagogical skills through supervised teaching. While a student's progress will be carefully monitored and periodically evaluated by individual advisors and the Department, all students will be accepted into the program on the assumption that they will proceed to the Ph.D. Prospective applicants to the Ph.D. program who are uncertain whether they will ultimately want to proceed to the Ph.D. should consider the Master of Arts Program in the Humanities (MAPH) as a possible alternative. Co-directed by a senior English Department faculty member, MAPH provides students with strong pedagogical support, including writing colloquia, a core course, and master's thesis workshops.

For more information on graduate programs, please e-mail Melissa Gill.

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