The program offers graduate assistantships to all admitted students, providing both funding and a variety of professional development and teach opportunities.Learning Outcomes

The Masters degree in English builds upon the skills acquired as an undergraduate:

• Read, interpret, and write about a diverse range of texts in English, for example literature, film, digital media, and popular culture.
• Understand those texts analytically and critically.
• Understand those texts on the basis of careful close reading.
• Understand those texts through past and current literary theory.
• Understand that those texts are culturally constructed in time, place, and tradition.
• Understand how those texts inform culture.
• Participate in the critical and cultural discourses of English.
• Participate clearly and appropriately through multiple spoken and written forms.