Academics
Graduate Programs
Graduate Programs
English, M.A.
About the Program
The M.A. in English program is designed to provide flexibility in meeting individual student interests while ensuring a broad understanding of the significant areas within the professional study of English. The program offers in-depth study while significantly broadening students’ knowledge. It also serves as an excellent preparatory program for doctoral-level study in English.
About the English Department
326 Ketchum Hall
1300 Elmwood Ave
Buffalo, NY 14222
Phone: (716) 878-5416
Fax: (716) 878-5700
www.buffalostate.edu/english/
Contact Faculty and Staff in the English Department
Admission Requirements
1. A bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 (4.0 scale) in English and 2.75 overall.
2. 36 credit hours in English, exclusive of freshman English.
In addition, all applicants should review the Admission to a Graduate Program section in this catalog.
Language Requirement:
Prior to the completion of 18 credit hours, students must demonstrate competence in one foreign language as well as written and oral English.
Advisement: Each student is assigned an academic adviser. All students must apply for candidacy after the completion of 6 credit hours and before the completion of 12 credit hours.
Program Requirements
Required Courses * (18–24 credits)
Selected from the following areas, so that the combined undergraduate and
graduate record includes at least one course from each area:
Linguistics or history of the English language
Chaucer or Milton
Shakespeare or Elizabethan writers
Seventeenth- or eighteenth-century English literature
Nineteenth-century English literature
American literature
World literature
Twentieth-century literature
Criticism
Research in literature and language
Elective Courses * (6 credits)
In English or other academic areas
Master’s Thesis, Master’s Project, or Comprehensive Examination * (0–6 credits)
Select one option:
ENG 690 Master’s Project
ENG 695 Master’s Thesis (6)
Comprehensive Examination (0)
Total Required Credit Hours (30 credits)
* Selected under advisement
All courses are 3 credit hours unless otherwise indicated.
