Graduate Program General Course Descriptions

Registration in the following courses requires admission to Classified standing in the English M.A. program or consent of the instructor. Graduate seminars offer intensive study of selected authors, works, and topics. Emphasis in a given seminar may vary from term to term. Detailed descriptions of each term's offerings are available here.

ENGL 201 - Materials and Methods of Literary Research 

ENGL 202 - Poetic Craft and Theory

ENGL 203 - Narrative Craft and Theory

ENGL 204 - Seminar in Modern Approaches to Literature

ENGL 207 - Global Anglophone Literatures

ENGL 208 - Seminar in Comparative Literature

ENGL 211 - Seminar in Twentieth-Century Poetry

ENGL 215 - Seminar in Myth and Symbolism

ENGL 216 - Seminar in Medieval English Literature

ENGL 224 - Studies in English Early Modern Literature

ENGL 225 - Seminar in Shakespeare

ENGL 228 - Seminar in Genre Studies

ENGL 230 - Seminar in Thematic Studies in British Literature

ENGL 232 - Seminar in Form and Genre Studies in British Literature

ENGL 233 - Seminar in Period Studies of British Literature

ENGL 240 - Poetry Writing Workshop

ENGL 241 - Fiction Writing Workshop

ENGL 242 - Nonfiction Writing Workshop

ENGL 253 - Seminar in Period Studies of American Literature

ENGL 254 - Seminar in Genre Studies of American Literature

ENGL 255 - Seminar in Thematic Studies in American Literature

ENGL 256 - Seminar in Twentieth-Century British Literature

ENGL 257 - Seminar in the History of Rhetoric

ENGL 259 - Seminar in Composition Studies

ENGL 291 - Literary Practicum

ENGL 297 - MA Comprehensive Exam Preparation

ENGL 298 - Special Study

ENGL 299 - University Thesis

ENGL 299D - Departmental Thesis