Catalog Year: 2022-2023
Banner Code: LA-MA-ENGL-PTW
The Master of Arts in English at Mason offers students the opportunity to enhance their skills of reading, writing, research and teaching with courses that encompass the wide range of contemporary English studies. Students can work in and across concentrations in literature, professional writing, rhetoric, cultural studies, film, folklore, linguistics, and the teaching of writing and literature. It offers the MA in field-specific concentrations as well as the opportunity to combine a concentration in one field with a certificate from another one. Many students use the MA for professional enhancement, or as an entry into teaching, professional writing, or doctoral study.
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Total credits: 30
Students should be aware of the specific policies associated with this program, located on the Admissions & Policies tab.
Students pursuing this degree must successfully complete 30 credits in one concentration as specified below.
Students in the concentrations of cultural studies, linguistics, literature, and teaching of writing and literature must demonstrate intermediate proficiency in a foreign language in one of the following ways: submitting an undergraduate (or continuing education) transcript that includes courses corresponding to intermediate proficiency; completing a Mason foreign language course numbered 202 or higher; passing a proficiency exam administered by the English department.
| Code | Title | Credits |
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| Required Courses | ||
| ENGH 501 | Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing 1 | 3 |
| ENGH 502 | Research Methods in Professional and Technical Writing | 3 |
| ENGH 503 | Theory and Practice of Editing | 3 |
| ENGH 505 | Document Design | 3 |
| Professional Writing | ||
| Select 9 credits from the following: | 9 | |
| Internship | ||
| Research for Narrative Writing | ||
| Web Authoring and Design | ||
| Digital Rhetoric | ||
| Proposal Writing and Development | ||
| Online Writing | ||
| Studies in Rhetoric | ||
| Cultures of Professional Writing | ||
| Technical Communication | ||
| Proseminar in Composition Instruction | ||
| Advanced Proposal Writing | ||
| Special Topics in Writing and Rhetoric | ||
| Northern Virginia Writing Project Teacher/Research Seminar | ||
| Composition Theory | ||
| Theory | ||
| Select 3 credits from the following: | 3 | |
| Digital Rhetoric | ||
| Introduction to Literary Theory | ||
| Studies in Rhetoric | ||
| Feminist Theory and Criticism | ||
| Introduction to Cultural Studies | ||
| Electives in English | ||
| Select 0-3 credits of electives in English | 0-3 | |
| Project or Thesis | ||
| Select 3-6 credits of a project or thesis | 3-6 | |
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Project: 2
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| Projects in Professional and Technical Writing (3 credits) | ||
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Thesis:
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| Thesis (6 credits) | ||
| Total Credits | 30 | |
| 1 |
ENGH 501 Introduction to Professional and Technical Writing should be taken in the first semester of study, if possible. |
| 2 |
Students who choose a project take one additional elective of 3 credits. |