Tech's M.A. in English is a flexible program designed to prepare students for doctoral-level study or for careers in post-secondary teaching and to provide secondary teachers with a content-specific program to enhance their credentials. Students who are interested in concetrating their study on the teaching of English as Second Language can complete a M.A. in English with a TESL option.

High on quality and low on prescription, Tech's M.A. in English includes only one required course: Introduction to English Graduate Study. Students select the remaining nine courses of their 30-semester-hour degree program from a challenging variety of literary, cultural, interdisciplinary, linguistic, creative, and rthetorical seminars.

The M.A. degree program complements the M.Ed. and M.L.A. degrees that are also offered through the Department of English.

Engl 6003: Introduction to Graduate English Study

English Electives

Any 5000- or 6000- English course

Thesis

Engl 6993 or Engl 6996: Thesis Research

Total

* Non-thesis students must include at least 12 hours of 6000-level electives. Thesis students must include at least 6 hours of 6000-level electives.