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MA Concentration Options
This concentration's flexible curriculum includes a course in composition theory and pedagogy as well as various special topics courses. Recent courses have focused on genre theory, grammar instruction, visual rhetoric and multimodal composition, and the evaluation of writing. This concentration is ideal for professional educators or students preparing for careers in such fields as grant writing, public relations, technical writing, and publishing.
Requirements: 33 credits
Mentored by faculty who are working, publishing writers and editors, students in the creative writing concentration hone their craft in poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and drama through a combination of genre-specific graduate workshops, literature courses, and a professional course that prepares them to send out their first submissions, take on editorial duties at a literary magazine, make applications to M.F.A. and PhD programs in creative writing, and seek out and apply to writing-related jobs.
Requirements: 34 credits
Literary & Cultural Studies
Coursework in the literary and cultural studies concentration allows students to focus on a diverse range of topics, periods, genres, media, and theoretical perspectives. Faculty research informs graduate seminars and introduces students to cutting-edge conversations about literary and cultural texts--their historical and social contexts, and the evolving networks of production and consumption in which they circulate.
Requirements: 33 credits