English
Offered at IU South Bend by Graduate School
About
The Master of Arts (M.A.) in English is a 36-credit-hour program. The M.A. in English offers broadly based expertise in English studies, including creative writing, literary analysis, and rhetoric/composition. Full-time students may complete the program in two years. Adjusted courses of study are available to part-time students.
This advanced degree program offers a life-enriching continuation of intellectual study. It fosters the further development of skills valued by current employers, including writing and analytical skills, and provides specialized knowledge in areas such as textual analysis, computer-assisted writing, literacy studies, pedagogy, research, and editing.
The degree leads to teaching careers at both the high school and college levels, as well as to employment in the service and information industries, the news media, advertising, public relations, and in other corporations requiring writing specialists.
As a student in the English M.A. program, you can:
- Complete the 36-hour master's program in just two years through evening classes.
- Choose from two concentrations to focus your English graduate degree: creative writing or literary analysis.
- Study in intimate classes that allow professors to provide extensive one-on-one attention to students and their work.
- Study with educators who are all published authors and regular speakers at national and international conferences in their fields.
- Discover how the publishing process works and what it takes to get a work in print while developing your editorial skills through involvement with the department's 42 Miles Press and the annual 42 Miles Poetry Prize.
- Learn from accomplished, award-winning authors who visit class through our Visiting Authors Series.
- Apply to teach in the Writing Program in your second year.