Master of Arts in English

University of Maine

Students who seek a learning environment that supports them even as it challenges them to enhance their knowledge, explore new ideas, and gain experience in literary analysis, research, writing, and teaching will find themselves at home with us. Our critical strength is our diversity of approaches and the kinds of experiences we offer. MA candidates can expect to grow in different and sometimes unexpected directions as they explore many different facets of English studies. While deepening and widening their knowledge of literature, our MA candidates find themselves preparing technical documentation, editing a short story, writing an innovative assignment sequence or grant application, and/or taking up the challenges of poetics, empirical field-research on writing, and literary and rhetorical theory.The Master of Arts in English is normally a 31-credit degree (ten seminars including a one-credit orientation to graduate studies in English). The degree may include six credits of thesis work and involves a course of study that leads to these program outcomes. Students whose undergraduate major was not in English may be asked to complete 39 credits. Students wishing to transfer a graduate course from another institution, to take a graduate course from another department, or (under certain circumstances), to arrange for a graduate-level seminar experience at the 400 level, may do so with prior approval from the graduate coordinator (or their thesis director) and department chair.

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences