English

English Graduate Program

MA

Ten courses, 30 credits:

• ENG500 English Proseminar

One course in Literary Criticism

• ENG550 Literary Criticism
• ENG555 Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
• ENG585 Studies in Contemporary Criticism

Three courses in literature before 1800, including at least one in the pre-Early Modern period and at least one in Shakespeare

• ENG501 Introduction to Old English
• ENG502 Introduction to Middle English
• ENG503 Chaucer
• ENG504 English Literature of the Sixteenth
• ENG505 Shakespeare
• ENG506 English Drama through the Jacobean Period
• ENG507 English Literature of the Seventeenth Century
• ENG508 Milton
• ENG509 Eighteenth Century English Literature
• ENG510 Early English Novels
• ENG511 Restoration and Eighteenth Century English Drama
• ENG527 Development of Modern English
• ENG572 Studies in Middle English Literature
• ENG573 Studies in Sixteenth Century English Literature
• ENG574 Studies in Shakespeare
• ENG575 Studies in Seventeenth Century English Literature
• ENG576 Studies in Eighteenth Century English Literature

Three courses in literature after 1800

• ENG517 English Romantic Literature
• ENG518 The English Novel of the Nineteenth Century
• ENG519 English Literature of the Victorian Period
• ENG521 Modern British Drama
• ENG522 British Literature of the Twentieth Century to 1945
• ENG523 Joyce
• ENG524 Virginia Woolf
• ENG525 Contemporary British and American Literature Since 1945
• ENG527 The Development of Modern English
• ENG529 Ballad Revivals
• ENG532 The American Renaissance
• ENG533 American Fiction in the Nineteenth Century
• ENG534 American Poetry in the Nineteenth Century
• ENG535 Realism and Naturalism in American
• ENG536 American Fiction in the Twentieth Century to 1945
• ENG537 American Poetry in the Twentieth Century to 1945
• ENG538 Modern American Drama
• ENG539 American Fiction After 1945
• ENG541 Seminar in Creative Writing
• ENG556 Literature and Lore of the Catskill Mountains and the Hudson Valley
• ENG560 Forms of Autobiography
• ENG576 Studies in Eighteenth Century English Literature
• ENG577 Studies in English Romanticism
• ENG578 Studies in Victorian Literature
• ENG579 Studies in Nineteenth Century American Literature
• ENG580 Studies in Twentieth Century American Poetry to 1945
• ENG581 Studies in Twentieth Century American Fiction to 1945
• ENG582 Studies in Twentieth Century British Poetry to 1945
• ENG583 Studies in Twentieth Century British Fiction
• ENG584 Studies in Contemporary British Literature
• ENG585 Studies in Contemporary Criticism
• ENG586 Studies in Contemporary American Literature
• ENG587 Studies in Contemporary British and American Drama
• ENG588 Studies in Comparative Literature

Two electives to be chosen from all the courses listed above plus

• ENG515 Modern Theories of Writing
• ENG590 Thesis in English
• ENG593 Special Topics
• ENG595 Independent Study English

Foreign language requirement: Intermediate-level competence as demonstrated by three undergraduate credits at the intermediate level, or nine undergraduate credits at the beginning and intermediate levels, or passing grade on a translation exam. The foreign language requirement must be fulfilled within three semesters after matriculation.

Comprehensive exam: Satisfactory performance on a comprehensive exam taken after completion of no fewer than 24 credits.

MAT

Four English courses, 12 credits:

• ENG500 English Proseminar
• One courses in literature before 1800 (see list above)
• One course in literature after 1800 (see list above)
• ENG590 is not available to MAT students

Comprehensive exam: Satisfactory performance on a comprehensive exam taken in the semester before student teaching.

MSEd

Five English courses, 15 credits:

• ENG500 English Proseminar
• One course in literature before 1800 (see list above)
• One course in literature after 1800 (see list above)
• ENG590 is not available to MSEd students

Comprehensive exam: Satisfactory performance on a comprehensive exam taken after completion of no fewer than 12 credits.